45 Games That Defined the AMIGA 500

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Here's a small list of just 45 games from a huge library that defined the Commodore Amiga 500. And don't be surprised if the odd classic is missing! Also, tell me, how many of these did you played? Please, leave your thoughts in the comments section below.
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00:00 - Intro
02:22 - International Karate + (1988)
03:08 - Carrier Command (1988)
03:49 - Shadow of the Beast (1989)
04:18 - Batman: The Movie (1989)
04:55 - Stunt Car Racer (1989)
05:37 - It Came From the Desert (1989)
06:15 - Blood Money (1989)
06:51 - Populous (1989)
07:20 - Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (1990)
07:54 - Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (1990)
08:32 - The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)
09:19 - Supremacy (1990)
09:50 - Midwinter (1990)
10:34 - Pang (1990)
11:15 - F-19 Stealth Fighter (1990)
11:50 - Rainbow Islands (1990)
12:24 - Captive (1990)
12:50 - Wings (1990)
13:22 - Super Cars II (1991)
13:53 - Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker (1991)
14:23 - Another World (1991)
15:03 - Formula One Grand Prix (1991)
15:40 - Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight (1991)
16:14 - Lemmings (1991)
16:52 - Turrican II: The Final Fight (1991)
17:34 - Eye of the Beholder II (1992)
18:20 - Wizkid (1992)
18:53 - Civilization (1992)
19:21 - Pinball Fantasies (1992)
19:58 - Flashback (1992)
20:25 - Dune II (1993)
20:56 - Syndicate (1993)
21:25 - Cannon Fodder (1993)
22:06 - The Settlers (1993)
22:42 - Frontier: Elite II (1993)
23:13 - The Chaos Engine (1993)
23:47 - Ruff 'n' Tumble (1994)
24:20 - King's Quest VI (1994)
24:55 - Benefactor (1994)
25:33 - Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
26:09 - Theme Park (1994)
26:43 - Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad (1994)
27:19 - Worms (1995)
27:55 - UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994/5)
28:31 - Sensible World of Soccer 95/96: European Championship Edition (1995)
29:09 - Outro
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@itsaPIXELthing Год назад

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@tony22990 Год назад

80s and 90s were the best decades to be a kid. So many beautiful memories.

@itsaPIXELthing Год назад

Thanks for watching ;)

@MisterBuffers Год назад

Every generation says that.

@HollowRick Год назад

@@MisterBuffers accept what he said is true

@EddAteMyBacon 10 месяцев назад

True

@V3ntilator 10 месяцев назад

Gaming industry started to go downhill when 1990's ended and now it's worse than ever in 2023. I experienced gaming from 1980's to 1990's too. The two best decades for AMIGA / C64. 1990's were great for PC.

@jurassicmatt2796 Год назад

Glad to hear Moonstone recognised as a masterpiece. Never forgot this game.

@WorthABuyreviews 2 года назад

Sensible Soccer has never been beaten imo

@Kreln1221 2 года назад

But what words did the _Sensible Soccer_ developers write about it?... 🤔

@viktorianas 2 года назад

@@Kreln1221 Lets read the words the words of the developers.

@richard7645 Год назад

Best football game ever, stod fifa 😄

@savedfaves Год назад

Yes, after Sensible what happened is games got better graphics but the AI did a lot of work for you. I once put down my controller playing FIFA and as I walked toward the door my team scored a goal on my friend. That’s just silly. If you did that in SS your team would just stand there. I also liked the way you had to turn with the ball in a joystick swoop motion, otherwise the ball would run off your leg. A stroke of genius

@Tech-geeky 3 месяца назад

Compiling a list of Amiga games here. but i think Sensible Soccer either got 'doubled-up' ??? or with the same name as a Euro. championship.. The adverting on the barriers either side of the net was `94-`96 and it looks exactly identical to the original, but i know they did an international version.. Perhaps that's the one i'm thinking off because technically there would be no name change.

@ripxkid 3 года назад

So many classics left out... Project X Pinball Dreams Lost Patrol Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis Body Blows Thunderhawk Wing Commander Laser Squad Indianapolis 500 Arcade Pool TV Sports Basketball North & South Pirates! Alien Breed Hybris Uridium II Desert Strike Xenon II: Megablast Assassin Fire & Ice James Pond II: Robocod Magic Pockets The Lost Vikings Myth Rick Dangerous Superfrog

@marvinmartian8746 2 года назад

Yeah Pirates ruled! I also enjoyed Ballistix and Shadow of the Beast II.

@MegaSantaclaude 2 года назад

Its almost criminal that Rick Dangerous and Superfrog arent on the list

@philwhatever3903 2 года назад

You missed a few, Zool, Prince of Persia was epic on the Amiga 500,……and of course the big one!………The original “Street Fighter!”

@ripxkid 2 года назад

@@philwhatever3903 Out Run >> Street Fighter !!!

@philwhatever3903 2 года назад

@@ripxkid Road Rash was good too!

@gallan671 2 года назад

Some great games mentioned here - only thing I think I would add would be Defender of the Crown + Great Giana Sisters

@terrypankhurst7601 7 месяцев назад

100% both great games.

@Peter_Cetera 7 месяцев назад

100%! And does anyone know "Kaiser"?

@mariopsmt 2 месяца назад

Frankly there is too many brilliant titles to count them all... would have to make video ''most of the games on Amiga are brilliant''. It was a time where you needed actually sound product to get it to the market and people cared.

@jimenycricket8431 2 года назад

There were so many, not surprising you could leave out a few: -Dungeon Master -Kickoff -F16 Falcon -Hollywood Strip Poker -Silkworm/SWIV

@b.9772 2 года назад

You missed out a lot of the Best and Amiga unique! Where Ambermoon - where Battle Isle or History Line - where Burntime - where MAD TV - where Goblins??? Criminal!

@senaoutofspace Год назад

@Mr. B. History Line is epic game. Love it.

@jonny_kung 2 года назад

No Rick Dangerous?! Eye of the Beholder 2 takes the cake for me. I remember my grandad buying this in our local store and me and him up for hours playing this. So many great memories and the game itself was absolutely fantastic and ahead of it's time.

@rustyrob 2 года назад

Yeah loved this game,rock hard too.

@jonho7 2 года назад

Rick Dangerous was spectacular! Great shout!

@StarskyBuba 2 года назад

Your grandad was cool.

@itsaPIXELthing 10 месяцев назад

Don't forget to check my Rick Dangerous video ;) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SB_jM6vtlmU.html&pp=ugMICgJlbhABGAHKBRRyaWNrIGRhbmdlcm91cyBwL3hlbA%3D%3D

@kaasmeester5903 7 месяцев назад

Great game, that. I was in college at the time, me and my flatmates would play until our eyes bled, then we'd catch some sleep, and wake to continue the playthrough. No regard for night and day.

@Blake00001 2 года назад

I am amazed at how beautiful those games were. I had an incredible childhood/early teenage years.

@vgaportauthority9932 2 года назад

I remember my stomach tingling the first time I drove the Ski Jump track in Stunt Car Racer. That game was great.

@robertdaone 2 года назад

Everything that CinemaWare made really showcased the Amiga's campabilities!

@OllyKilo 2 года назад

Watched this with my daughter to show her how things used to be. She was actually impressed with some of the graphics.

@itsaPIXELthing 2 года назад

So awesome! Thanks for sharing that moment!

@stephenparkes8950 2 года назад

Dune 2, turrican 2, beneath a steel sky. So many great hours spent during high school. The Amiga will always have my favourite memories

@carlosfandango2419 3 года назад

Great selection but a few I would have included - No Second Prize, Nitro, Knights of the Sky, Robocop III, Indy 500, Buggy Boy, SWIV, Pinball Dreams (Knightmare Table), Skidmarks, Alien Breed, Epic, Super Hangon, Silent Service..........

@Teeb2023 2 года назад

No Second Prize was great. The physics "felt" really accurate, and the mouse control was so natural.

@xoen6 2 года назад

Nitroooooo.

@chrisperry132 2 года назад

This is my childhood!!! Id give anything to play these games again

@MegaGasek 2 года назад

You don't have to. If you still have the original games, I think it is fair to play the equivalent of these titles on emulators. Unfortunately when I moved I had to leave my Amiga, 3DO and Super Nintendo behind. Sold them for very little money...

@shanethepain1000 2 года назад

@@MegaGasek ouch !

@Channel-wx6mk Год назад

It gaves Amiga Emulators Software for free.

@MarkOakleyComics 2 года назад

For me the Amiga's most amazing game was the original *Dungeon Master.* Half the fun was just being in thrall of the state of the art; no other platform had a game anywhere nearly as cool or advanced as Dungeon Master. It revolutionized the 3D adventure genre with design ideas nobody had thought of before. The seamless game play, solid level design and the stereo sound effects made it feel like you were actually deep underground. I'd never experienced anything like that before! I can understand why you left it off the list; there were some good rip-offs which came later and pushed the envelope further, but for me, nothing beats the romance of the first time.

@bravo478bl 2 года назад

I owned the Amiga 500/600 and 1200 and I had more fun on games than I do with my PS5 & PS4, Shadow of the Beast/ Cadaver/ Prince of Persia/Lemmings/ Speedball/ Sensible Soccer and PP Hammer. Would play these games now without a doubt. I had more fun with my mates on Sensible Soccer than any Fifa game on my PS5 and I think games in the 90s weren't over thought like they are now, just pick a team and play😊 remember PGA Golf🥰

@litjellyfish Месяц назад

Maybe because you were young then? :) I mean come on shadow of the best plays terrible.

@hansolo9119 2 года назад

Thank you for that walk down memory lane. I loved playing Amiga as a child/ young teen in the early 90s, and Moonstone was maybe my favourite. - It was so brutal and fun to play!

@itsaPIXELthing 2 года назад

My pleasure! Thanks for the support!

@georgeslucas3389 2 года назад

This was a so great period, so much sensation with so simple games. I still remember the unpackage of my first Attari in 1990 ^^ Spent so much hours on Lotus Esprit Challenge :=D

@naviamiga 3 года назад

Simply too many great games to call out here, a real joy of a machine.

@Stella-ri5ex 2 года назад

not really..have you played arcade games conversions by US GOLD? lol

@AnonyMooseUK 2 года назад

This brings back so many memories. So many hours spent on these.

@maniacsatwork 3 года назад

Great Video. I would definitely add Defender of the Crown to this list as it's a game I still play to this day. And also Toki for its fun gameplay and arcade conversion accuracy.

@RichardMoot 2 года назад

I loved both Defender of the Crown and It Came from the Desert, but Rocket Ranger was another favorite

@bielefeldundmehr2461 2 года назад

Toki had also great graphics and music.

@luxdico 2 года назад

the amiga was just so superior to my C64, I remember watchin' the juggler demo again and again, playin' defender of the crown or shanghai and then Sidewinder, Buggy Boy, Marble Madness, Interceptor ... so many gr8 gems, the amiga was such an amazin' machine. I still can't believe that Amiga lost the race, when it was so ahead of all the other computers.

@stijnvandamme76 2 года назад

Well off course it was superior.. Amiga the successor Vic20>c64>C128>Amiga If they had somehow managed to not make it superior, nobody would have remembered it by now

@Justforvisit 10 месяцев назад

They lost it because, despite having the absolute power house, especially later with AGA, their marketing department consisted of people who had absolutely zero clue in how to market their biggest strengths....

@blacknapalm2131 2 года назад

05:38 *I swear my first crush as a kid was with the girls of 'It Came From The Desert'

@trinsan 2 года назад

Probably one of the best walkthroughs of Amiga 500 games. This walkthrough remembers all the genres, be it IK+, Populous, Super Cars, Rainbow Island and Pinball Dreams. And even pays tribute to Shadow the Beast that introduced so many graphiic innovations. So many games in this video that I’ve enjoyed. Perfect!

@itsaPIXELthing 2 года назад

Appreciate it, Kenny! Glad you enjoyed it!

@waskus 2 года назад

Best flight sim was f/a 18 interceptor. Man I loved that game and the gfx where insane for its time.

@chrisicotec7652 2 года назад

The Amiga 500 changed my life and kickstarted a 30 year (so far) career

@JLastauskas 2 года назад

Ah Moonstone, so many memories, so many hours...

@mjmobile 3 года назад

Excellent video! It is interesting that many folks, especially younger and over the pond, don't realize that the system had over 2k games in it's fantastic library. Pure love for the Amiga. I would add Walker, Qwak, Superfrog, PP Hammer and Fury of the Furries to the definitive list as well 🙂

@SuperTinnTinn 2 года назад

Ooh, PP Hammer..the memories🤩

@BrawndoQC Год назад

It was pretty popular in Quebec, Canada.

@Sundaydish1 3 года назад

Ah, that moment when you could afford the 1/2 meg expansion and could open that trap door. A pointless list of my favourite Amiga games will follow. Gods, Hunter, Speedball 2, F/A-18 Interceptor, Deuteros, Wings Of Fury, Frontier: Elite II, Flashback, Turrican II, Populous II, S.W.I.V, Desert Strike, Space Crusade, SWOS, Mega-Lo-Mania

@krashd 2 года назад

Ever play Zeewolf? One of the last Amiga games, it was S.W.I.V. meets Virus. Or a 3D Desert Strike.

@Sundaydish1 2 года назад

@@krashd I remember the game, can't remember playing it. You have reminded me about Thunderhawk and Gunship 2000 though.

@chrisperry132 2 года назад

Turrican 2 love that game

@krashd 2 года назад

@@Sundaydish1 Never played Thunderhawk but I loved Gunship 2000. Can't say that I have ever taken to a flight sim as much as I took to Gunship 2000. I'm not sure if medals were a common theme in flight sims back then but I adored finding out what medals I had won after each mission. You would finish an Apache mission where you had to eliminate SAM launchers and then suddenly you are on a search and rescue mission where you had to make three checkpoints in a Blackhawk. I couldn't fly the Blackhawk for shit so by the end of the mission I would be a smoking wreck travelling 50 feet off the ground and diverting all power to my one fucked up engine just to stay aloft. Then I'd slam onto the landing zone and earn my 35th Purple Heart, hahah.

@Sundaydish1 2 года назад

@@krashd You had to NOE (Nap Of The Earth) pretty much all the time. The keyboard overlay helped lol

@beachlife2968 2 года назад

Having owned a zx spectrum 48k i used to buy the gaming magazines each month and they would show screen shots of a game on various computers and I used to drool at how nice the Amiga graphics were compared to the monochrome speccy graphics. Was so happy when i got an amiga but had great fun on both computers.

@danieljones7856 2 года назад

Same here My first computer was a spectrum 128k I then won an Amiga in a newspaper competition which got delivered a few days before Christmas Best day ever

@edz 2 года назад

Sounds like I wrote that comment! Are you getting TheAmiga500 mini and do you own a ZX Spectrum Next?

@sk1nney 2 года назад

If I remember rightly I used to get crash magazine for the specy games and c&vg for a nosey at the other platforms. Finally got the Amiga from my mums catalog when I started work. Paid well over the odds but loved that machine. Still gaming at 50yrs old. And although I’m more than happy with my series X. I do miss a lot of the old Amiga games. Went the pc route once. But really couldn’t be arsed with the constant upgrading. So went the console route. And must of tried them all. Happy times. 😊

@beachlife2968 2 года назад

@@sk1nney I would literally be counting the days down for these magazines to come out as these were the only source of gaming information, no internet back in the day haha. So C&vg amiga action, zero etc would have been the ones i went for. I moved onto a snes after the Amiga and while the games were graphically amazing like super contra, super Mario they didn't have the depth that Amiga games had. I would be engrossed in an Amiga game for hours but probably only about 20 mins for a snes game. Two games i wish i had completed more on the Amiga were Stunt car racer and powermonger. I always had them on the back burner but never came back to them.

@sk1nney 2 года назад

@@beachlife2968 stunt car racer would always be in my all time top5. The rest I would struggle with. Probably the original destiny would be there. Bad company two. And a long queue for the last two slots. At a push speed ball or chaos engine (purely based on hours put in). Destruction derby or wipeout. As I said there’s a strong queue ( maybe ocarina of time/ff7)

@LurkingCrassZero 2 года назад

Pretty comprehensive list of Amiga gems. A few I'd add are, Hunter, Nebulus, Z-Out, Corporation, Indy 500, Hired Guns and F/A- 18 Interceptor.

@spdmaniac2 2 года назад

Great work. I was born several years after Amiga but is great to see the influence it had on gaming. And your view is always a nice way to learn about these games. Man, such a quality video. Thank you so much for it!

@MO-hq4iz 2 года назад

Defender of the Crown should have been on the list

@wisecat. 2 года назад

I have played maybe 15 titles from this list. Only once I reached the end of Pang. What a memory. I miss Rick Dangerous, Lure of the Temptress, Golden Axe, Kick Off 2: Return to Europe, Superfrog, Curse of Enchantia, Goblins, Full Contact, Double Dragon. Maybe these are not all Amiga Originals but at least they have an Amiga version

@danyoutube7491 11 месяцев назад

Kick Off surely has a strong claim as an Amiga-defining game, it was a revolution in the playability of computer football games and a huge hit.

@dogbadger 3 года назад

The reputation of the amiga (and Commodore's C64 for that matter) owes an incredible dept to British game developers, making up the vast majority in this list. It's remarkable that - largely unaffected by the videogames crash of the early 80s - Uk programmers went on to arguably dominate the industry well into the 90s with so many fantastic and often genre defining titles. BTW - I know you acknowledge there are other good titles you left out, but I think from a system defining standpoint I think you should could have found room for team 17's Project X and Alien Breed (in particular), as well as Corporation which was one of the earliest FPS/RTS hybrids.

@techtonikshyft 2 года назад

Alien Breed, such a great shout!

@onilaw6253 2 года назад

holding up was buying game magazines and definitely cause of that I was buying games like Shadow of thbeasst Turican2 Alienbree etc, awarded top games then

@tomp7203 2 года назад

Amazing list, so happy to see the A500 get so much love. Others that I would say helped to define the A500 were the Champ Manager series (especially "Italia" version of the game), also Magic Pockets, so much so I remember it being featured as part of a phone in game on Saturday morning children's tv in the UK (Think it was on Motormouth or something), where callers would call in and control the character by pressing the numbers on their dial tone phone.

@anakondase 3 года назад

How I miss those days when games were original and innovative. Today games are just versions of the same basic theme.

@TheLordbal 2 года назад

and worked right out of the box ;)

@anakondase 2 года назад

@Roc Towerhug I doubt it. There are still original games, just very far apart. I think it's more of developers going with what they know will sell and just try to make it prettier.

@madspaniel4271 2 года назад

In those days, with the limitations of the machines, 'playability' was an absolutely vital ingredient. These days, with powerful machines and fancy graphics cards with 10 fans on them that require their own nuclear power plant to run them, the emphasis seems to have shifted to 'looking good' rather that 'playing good'. I've always wondered why hardly any of the great games from the Amiga 500 era were never re-made. Stunt Car Racer - with "Flat Out 2" graphics would be flippin' awesome don't you think?. I think todays devs need to look back at the age of the great computer game, and get developing some decent games! :)

@TheLordbal 2 года назад

@@madspaniel4271 👍

@madspaniel4271 2 года назад

@Roc Towerhug You're absolutely right there. The Amiga 500 days were brilliant because people (and companies) were pushing the boundaries of what the machine could do. I'm not a business man by any stretch of the imagination, but if i were, I'd like to start a company that looked to the future as far as computer tech goes, BUT......looked to the past for game ideas. From the early days, when the Spectrum 48k hit the market, there was a sudden flood of absolutely brilliant games, and of course, when the Amiga 500 came along, it only got better. I see nothing wrong with looking back to the early days of home computer gaming and can't for the life of me understand why devs don't look back either. Maybe i'm completely wrong? - i dunno - but i think there would be a huge market for 'resurrected old games' ?

@markg155 2 года назад

Great video and thank you very much for the reliving some of the nostalgic moments of back. I played many of those games over the years, making the Amiga period a memorable one.

@GotchaPine007 7 месяцев назад

What impressed me the most is the skill of the gamer showing those games! Never fails

@simretroracer7368 3 года назад

Stones n Bones from Pinball Fantasies is my favourite of all time. I’ve put it on my Virtual Pinball table. Great video.

@rafabartosik9870 2 года назад

I love the Nightmare table from Pinball Dreams. It was IMHO much better. :) From Pinball Fantasies I liked the Speed Devils the most.

@michaelwhite6461 2 года назад

Brilliant list, well put together video - I had a large number of the games listed, but the standouts were Speedball 2, Pinball Fantasies and superfrog (all of which I am still playing on the PS Vita when I travel). The only titles I really felt were missing were maybe a couple of the Team 17 games (Project X and Alien Breed)

@eldante4139 2 года назад

Agree with the games that you have listed. I liked Brutal Sports football too and Championship Manager

@bigmaxy07 2 года назад

1988 to 1991 I was hooked on the Amiga and all those games. Great times with the extra DF1: disk drive, the proper monitor, the extra memory and a big disk box !!!

@kuldipxxxpanesar 7 месяцев назад

I think I played at least 90% of the games in this list, thank you for reminding me of my childhood. I'm off to get an Amiga emulator now.

@itsaPIXELthing 7 месяцев назад

My pleasure! Thanks for stopping by! Have fun :)

@Paras123Shah 2 года назад

Can't believe Superfrog or Zool did not make it to the list!

@tricordertransmissions1442 2 года назад

Awesome trip down memory lane! I played so many of those games on my 500. I have to put in a plug for Psygnosis' "The Killing Game Show" though... incredible game with an insanely cool soundtrack for it's day.

@Cesar-zo6fe 3 года назад

Superb. You bring me back beautiful memories. Thank you!

@993ti 2 года назад

I played most of those titles as a kid, love the video. I still have the same Amiga from back then.

@Reelreactions999 2 года назад

Every time I think of the Amiga I'm reminded of the time I watched a friend play a game that blew my 13 year old mind. The game came on four (maybe 4) disks. That game was Dragon's Lair.

@tahirahmed33 Год назад

Space ace , dragon's lair 2 , space ace 2

@GreenPawelito 2 года назад

Omg the feeling! Thank you kindly for this video. This was my begginings as a gamer, played almost every game from the list. I got chills. World seemd brighter at that time, life was simple and great. I was outdoors playing soccer, climbing trees I was truely free and back home Amiga 500 was waiting for me. I think there is something wrong with me because I hate being an adult. These times are overwhelming I wanna travel back in time and be a kid, young teenager again. I was very happy back then I am not happy right now :(

@arch3nemy849 2 года назад

This

@Farold_Haltermeyer 2 года назад

Great vid! So tough to choose but you’ve done amazingly, thanks for reminding me of many lost hours

@michaelkoch6863 2 года назад

I miss that time and the lifestyle of those decades. It will never come again.

@MakoyUnggoy 2 года назад

I always remember scanning the back of the game box before I bought anything to make sure it would run because the 500+ and 600 games weren't always compatible with the better selling 500!

@hplovecraft1402 2 года назад

I remember that problem :)

@leftieloosers 2 года назад

Some really great games there. Takes me back to better times.

@petetherealrelentless6542 2 года назад

Amazing video.. thanks for this nostalgic trip down memory lane. 👍🏼

@dep1001 2 года назад

Awesome! Still have my Amiga and most of these games... I have great memories of playing the A500 and getting it all those years ago.

@TurboLazer007 2 года назад

Awesome video. I remember at a time Another World, Flashback and Lemmings were my favourite games. However there was also Walker and Superfrog that defined the Amiga for me.

@grenzelucano 2 года назад

Walker ❤️

@rincemind8369 2 года назад

The Amiga was 16-bit heaven!

@clarku4 Год назад

Thank you for this video. I had an Amiga when I was very young and I've been rediscovering the system recently with the Amiga Mini. This video was fantastic to get an idea of what the essential games are for the system, many of which I've never seen before. Great work.

@itsaPIXELthing Год назад

Thanks for your feedback! Cheers!

@rhinojelvis1 2 года назад

Fantastically nostalgic video. I played most of these. ❤️

@smalon75 3 года назад

What a great video, possibly the best list of iconic Amiga games on RU-vid. There will always be some games missing that people would have added but that is because there were so many good games released for the Amiga.

@spaceape9606 2 года назад

So many games I had forgotten. Alien Breed was a good one too.

@ChristopherFortin Год назад

The games were so colorful, beautiful and atmospheric

@jasonnisbet3766 2 года назад

Supercars 2 and Worms were my favourite games on the Amiga, great to see them here. I still used my Amiga 500 up until around 2002 when it finally expired. Great Video...

@1whu965 3 года назад

Early to mid 90,s we used to go to the markets and get any game on copy for about 3-5 pound

@madspaniel4271 2 года назад

There was a HUGE car boot sale held at Cross Green in Leeds back in those days. You could get any game (often there were more than 1 game on a CD) for about £1. Of course it didn't last long, as it was raided several times and eventually shut down.

@sepsism138 2 года назад

Lots of good ones here. Some other favorites of mine not mentioned (played on Amiga 500) were Golden Axe, Afterburner, Alien Syndrome, Aquatic Games, Battle Chess, Blues Brothers, Body Blows, California Games, Desert Strike, Fire & Ice, Great Giana Sisters, Hunter, Gods, James Pond 1 & 2, Jungle Strike, Kick Off, Motor Massacre, New York Warriors, Obliterator, Paperboy 2, Persian Gulf Inferno, Prince of Persia, all 3 Robocop games, Sidewinder, Shadow of the Beast 3, Test Drive, Terminator 2, some Simpsons games (bart vs space mutants and maybe bart vs the world), Weird Dreams, Winter Games, Zool and many others I'm sure I can't remember.

@simonspoke 2 года назад

My nostalgia chip just overloaded! Loved the Amiga, and had most of these games. I lost a lot of my youth to it! lol

@Concorde4711 2 года назад

Great choices, most people focusing on just one or two genre, here you see the whole palette of amiga games. Miss the old times.

@Loenne555 2 года назад

Amazing how many of the early and mid 90s groundbreaking games were still released or even developed on the Amiga. I played most of these on MS DOS at the time. (The end of the Amiga (and Commodore in general) was already on the horizon unfortunately)...

@peterbelanger4094 2 года назад

But ultimately, it was the games that brought down the Amiga. It became known just as a gaming machine. But Nintendo was rapidly rising at the time and took most of that market. Commodore should have focused more professional graphics applications and marketed more to compete with the Macintosh. But because the Amiga was known for mostly games, it didn't get the respect it deserved.

@tomtom34b 2 года назад

I would have NEVER stopped playing on my AMIGA 500, but then in 1993, a game called "X-Wing" appeared...

@berbekzed8100 2 года назад

miss take em out, dogs of war and dungeon master

@patrikstenberg34 2 года назад

@@tomtom34b yeah..for me it was Tie Fighter in '94. Once I saw it, I knew my A1200's days were numbered..

@jez76 2 года назад

The Scandinavians was also quite active, doing demos stuff. And of course pinball dreams by Digital Illusions. Later known as DICE which has had some slight successes lately with their Battlefield games.

@MaximumRD 2 года назад

Honestly, fantastic games not to mention all the fantastic PD and sharware, my AMIGA 500 got me by for a long time I never even craved gaming consoles because I could play games and do so much more, paint, animation, I even output my composite (using the a520 modulator) to my VCR and make crude and basic yet fun titles for my own home movie videos. It was nothing fancy but of all my friends and family I was the only one doing it so they were pretty impressed 😀😎

@JimmyOlsson 2 года назад

Played close to half of these games on my AMIGA 500 using a RF Modulator and a 14" TV. I could never have imagined watching the games on a 34" curved ultra wide 3440x1440, 144 Hz monitor in 2021!

@dnsmi98 2 года назад

Loved this! Brought back so many memories. Was great to grow up as a gamer during this time as each generation seemed like such a step up, going from an Atari 2600 to c64 then to the Amiga was so exciting as a kid!! Good times :)

@raggeragnar 3 года назад

Fantastic season opener ! 27 of these games are on my favourite list. If I can add a few of my own most played games , it would be : Black crypt , Alien breed special edition , Wing commander , Legends of valour , Escape from Colditz , Space hulk , Lost patrol , Heimdall , Dune , Perihelion , Persian gulf inferno , Dylan dog - the murderers , Ranx , Murder & D-generation. We all have different preferences , but everytime I watch one of your Amiga videos , I need to play a few games on mine , Hahaha. A500 is my favourite game machine of all time , alongside my Nes and my PsOne. Great video , as always. Stay safe.

@IsaacKuo 3 года назад

I love your list, because I have played none of them! That's the thing. There were so many Amiga games that it's entirely possible to have a completely non-overlapping gaming experience.

@raggeragnar 3 года назад

@@IsaacKuo : I STILL learn about great games on the A500 that I have’nt tried. Just to ease my mind , I’d like to list the rest of my favourites. We’ve got to help each other to keep great games alive : Knights of the sky , syndicate+datadisk space crusade+ expansion , hero quest+expansion , Pirates , dungeon master+Chaos strikes back , golden axe , prince of persia , ishar trilogy , sim city , speedball2 , superfrog , hired guns , Battlehawks 1942 , their finest hour , pirates , dynablaster , alfred chicken , zool , lethal weapon , team yankee trilogy , advanced destroyer simulator , M4 Abrams , dragon strike. Please , feel free to list any games you think I might have missed.

@IsaacKuo 3 года назад

@@raggeragnar My list would actually include a lot of freeware/shareware games. I didn't have a lot of money to spare, and I didn't know anyone else with an Amiga to pirate software from. So my gaming experience tilted heavily toward freeware/shareware games that I could mail order cheap copies or in some cases download from ftp site. Oh, and there were cover disks from Amiga Format etc which some magazine shops imported. That's how I got to experience demo versions of games like Gods and The Chaos Engine. Not everything worked 100% on my NTSC Amiga, of course.

@raggeragnar 3 года назад

@@IsaacKuo : I loooove share/freeware games. My best is ”Extreme violence” , ”Zombi” and ”Hydrozone”. I got most of mine from cover disks with The One Amiga , Amiga action & Amiga format. Those were the most available british magazines here in Sweden.

@IsaacKuo 3 года назад

@@raggeragnar See this is awesome - again, I haven't even _heard_ of any of those three! I think there are a lot of "lost" treasures because freeware/shareware Amiga games don't get much attention on RU-vid. My favorites were Amiga Space War, which had very different dynamics and tactics than other versions of Space War, and Charr - a scrolling Scorched Earth clone that solved the biggest problem with Scorched Earth. In Charr, you bought your weapons as you went along, rather than during a long boring shopping phase. There were also a couple really slick HIRES INTERLACE asteroids type games. Unfortunately I don't remember the names of them. I think one was Bounceroids, and it was great because it loaded the graphics from a standard IFF bitmap. So, I fired up Deluxe Paint 2 and customized my own graphics for it! The other used pure vector graphics, but it had a lot of cool weapon powerups and varied enemies. Oh, I also loved Llamatron, but that game is actually well known thanks to it being one of the most popular Jeff Minter games. Another one which seems criminally obscure is "Vic Blitz", which is actually a much deeper and interesting game than the original Vic-20 Blitz. It had horrible graphics but the gameplay was sublime. I think the grid was only 8x8 tiles, but your bombs would only take out a single tile. You had to get a deep understanding of how to combine deep bombing with bombing of the highest peaks. If you only bombed the highest peaks, you would not be able to clear out the lower tiles in time before crashing into them. A VERY difficult game, but very interesting. Another game I really loved I wrote myself - a Tetris clone that fit in 12K. Obviously, I could play around with all parameters, and the most fun variant was "Welltris", where the width was only 5 blocks. Sadly, I think this is lost to time. I didn't really know anyone else with an Amiga, and my old hard drive died ages ago.

@NicoleConcha 3 года назад

Adorei a lista!!! Fiquei a conhecer imensos títulos! Esse IK+ logo no início tenho a versão de GBA, jogava tanto! O Pang e o Cannon Fodder também adoro mesmo!!! E as piadas do Mokey Island são um clássico ahahah XD

@Teeb2023 2 года назад

Great list... most of these formed my mid twenties.

@DrMacca 2 года назад

What a brilliant trip down memory lane!!! Fantastic stuff!! 👍👍👍

@kuro68000 3 года назад

I love Dune II. You can cheese with Harkkonen though, the missile launcher things have ridiculous range!

@stephenparkes8950 2 года назад

Acknowledge

@realtsarbomba 2 года назад

Anyone remember Utopia? Played it for days and days until Civilization. Wing Commander was also incredible on Amiga and defined the space shooter genre for forever. Also Monkey Island 2 with 12 disc and constant disc swapping has forever etched into my mind. P.s. Honorable mention goes to Persian Gulf Inferno.

@azer66 Год назад

Yes utopia was awesome. Almost forgot that game until i saw your comment

@JJ-pi4zj 6 месяцев назад

Yep, Powermonger was good too.

@JohnDoe-vo4bk 2 года назад

Fantastic list. Brings back wonderful memories. Thank you

@itsaPIXELthing 2 года назад

My pleasure ;)

@xlausen221276 Год назад

Thanks for making THIS list. Took me back. Played most of them

@itsaPIXELthing Год назад

My pleasure ;)

@GuitarAnthony 3 года назад

Dungeon Master was the first game I ever got for my Amiga 500. Speedball II Brutal Deluxe is still my favorite game of all time and the only one that made me violent (albeit it was the Sega Genesis version) but I got scored on in the finals at the last second so I put my fist through my wall. I then covered up said hole with a poster.

@bigstackD 3 года назад

Perfect timing👊🏻😁🍻🍻🍻

@mcjdubpower 2 года назад

Metal melting and Amiga , I marry ye.

@mcjdubpower 2 года назад

All that's missing is vw golfs.

@clementine2001 2 года назад

I started with the Pong etc! And then ZX Spectrum 16K. I feel like games went 3D too early. My opinion.

@RetroRaider 3 года назад

Always fun to find out more about the Amiga on your channel :) cheers Pixel

@IsaacKuo 3 года назад

What a great list! I can't argue with any of your choices. My experience was a bit different - I had a hard drive from the start (and an Amiga 2000). I might bump one of them for Battle Squadron, because the list lacks any vertical shooters. But maybe Battle Squadron is more fondly remembered here in the USA than in Europe. Standards for "affordability" were different here in the USA. The Amiga 1000 was half the price of the Macintosh, even if it was a bit more expensive than the Atari ST. A lot more of us had hard drives, also, so hard drive installation was pretty standard for games developed here in the USA. In contrast, NTSC ports of games developed in Europe - including SEUCK games - were often floppy only. Very frustrating! So, game developers here in the USA were okay with sticking a game on 15 floppies. They could assume the customer would install onto a hard drive, whether it was the Amiga version or PC version or Mac version or whatever.

@rafabartosik9870 2 года назад

Oh man, I've spent countless hours playing original Civilization. This franchise is my all-time classic (my favourite instalment is the second one, for PC, with amazing videos playing when you complete one of the Wonders).

@bielefeldundmehr2461 2 года назад

On my Amiga it took about 30 minutes to create the world when you started a new game.

@malcolmvella9306 2 года назад

These where amazing games with great stories and hours of fun. Today’s games are more beautiful and sophisticated but the real feel was the Amiga

@itsaPIXELthing 2 года назад

No doubt :)

@Justforvisit 10 месяцев назад

One of these feels though was "Guru Meditation" 🤣

@danieljones7856 2 года назад

Wow this has brought back so many great memories of my childhood and many games I'd forgotten about 👍🏻

@frazzleboy 2 года назад

Great video pal and a lovely selection of games

@CN.23 2 года назад

Back in the day Amiga absolutely crushed PC gaming for graphics and was even used to do the graphics for Babylon 5 the tv series. I wonder if the insides of this could be switched over to an older Amiga for more storage and upgrade space?

@BrawndoQC Год назад

Yeah, especially sound tracks. Compare Maniac Mansion intro theme to PC.

@raf590 Год назад

Wasn't Amiga a PC too?

@fulgenzio1973 2 года назад

I would have added Defender of The Crown, the first "killer application"

@brutaltooth3900 2 года назад

Great retro trip down memory lane, loved the Amiga. Used to crack games with a reset cartridge and send them in to Amiga Format.

@robyoung3 2 года назад

Great video, loved this list. Some games I know and some never played but now will

@itsaPIXELthing 2 года назад

Thanks, Rob!

@Harp00nX 3 года назад

Can't agree Fantasies is the best of the 3, just like Dreams it gets boring quickly due to lack of modes on the tables, Illusions is much more entertaining (then there's Slamtilt on another level). I loved Swos but the 20 season career limit was a poor choice and really there was no reason for it, taking lower league teams all the way had to be done in Premier Manager games instead.

@krashd 2 года назад

I loved the Premier Manager games, I was always Stalybridge Celtic or Halifax Town :D

@Harp00nX 2 года назад

@@krashd Stalybridge is the serious challenge in Prem 3 lol what a dreadful starting squad haha

@jmsaguas77 2 года назад

Great video, excellent choices of games. :)

@The2realistic 3 года назад

So many old favorites of mine in this list! IK+, Carrier Command, It Came From The Desert, Blood Money, Populous, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Speedball 2, Monkey Island, Rainbow Islands, Super Cars II, Pinball Fantasies, Theme Park... Wonderful!

@WhatHoSnorkers 3 года назад

What an EXCELLENT video! I've played a number of these, on other platforms. It seems like the Amiga 500 was the place to be!

@julien1 2 года назад

It was ahead of its time for sure. Had they carried on it would be the numero uno today Im sure.

@Kreln1221 2 года назад

*I would have included either **_Dark Queen of Krynn_** or **_Pools of Darkness..._** How could the venerable SSI Gold Box Series be overlooked? Hell..., it was **_Pool of Radiance_** that made me go out and buy an A500 in the first place, just so I could play it...*

@tiborkote 2 года назад

Tried to play with Dark Queen, but only died at first encounter. Not sure if I was bad or game was cracked and that is why.

@pauljackson9624 2 года назад

what an amazing list, you literally pulled all my faves

@itsaPIXELthing 2 года назад

Thanks for watching, Paul! Take care!

@richsmart321 2 года назад

Formula One Grand Prix - absolutely awesome game on the A500 - really amazing at the time. Crammond did a wonderful job of bringing F1 to the home gamer