Hello, I have this game on my Amiga 1200, and I wonder what controller You use to play? I have a simple Sega Megadrive controller and I can't go so far in the game with it.
As an old geezer gamer this is one of my favorites. But I have to give kudos and two hands full of love to the player! This was an epic playthrough! I love to play on hard but I cant get through it without loosing 2 lives! I have to work harder but on June 18th I will get 50. No more youngblood reflexes... Well at least I can come here and watch this glory of a playthrough. Thanx for this. Woke some memories and brought me to tears! Greetings from germany!!!
Really plays to the Amiga's strengths. Small sprites, subtle parallax, copper list rainbow backgrounds, 50 fps, amazing music and high resolution. I love it more than any megadrive or SNES shmup. Also, the best 16 bit techno videogame music this side of streets of rage.
@@nebularain3338 erm...level 4's music is literally called 'techno party'. So don't want split hairs here but I was talking about that music in particular.
I love the Amiga (never played much on it, it was an audiovisual tool for me), but compared to console shmups like ThunderForce IV...it feels really underwhelming.
And Thunder Force VI looks underwhelming compared to In The Hunt, or Blazing Star... etc. Thunder Force VI ran on 1988 hardware, this is running on 1985 hardware.
This game had an amazing soundtrack. I remember you could listen to all the tracks from a menu..so I practised drums on the tunes. No drumns..I just played out the beats with my hands on my legs. When I went back to school I was SO much better on the actual drums
"Apidya all started with a tech demo for a smooth scrolling shoot 'em up with 32 colours. We were all big fans of R-Type, Gradius etc. but we didn't want to do the umpteenth space shooter - and when we saw the Insector X coin-op one day, we finally knew what to do: an insect-inspired shooter with unique, naturalistic graphics matched with the gameplay from our favourite Japanese games. The inspiration for the first two levels definitely came from a stack of books about plants and insects I had on my desk but we abandoned that idea for the second half of the game. Back then we thought it was what a Japanese team might have done to shake things up." -- Frank Matzke (graphic artist - Apidya, Amiga)
Apidya is one of the best Amiga games!I used to play it often in the early 90s and even nowadays! Super soundtrack by Chris Hülsbeck! This is also the first game where I read the term" simultaneously" (options) :) My fav level is The Pond, the music brings tears of joy to my eyes! I remade and remixed several Apidya songs, thanks for listening guys! Greetings out there to all Apidya fans!
Omg, I loved this game as a kid. And for the life of me, I couldn't remember the title! The graphics suffered a smidge, but damn, what a blast from the past. Thank you for doing this!
Absolute pure brilliance of a game... This game can’t be beat on ratio of graphics, story, playability and music.... I want the whole music to this game played at my funeral.......
I heard a folk tale that the reason a lot of old bosses are so disturbing is because the developers were actually under huge amounts of pressure during the process of creating the game so they naturally tended to manifest darker designs for the enemies as a result of their messed-up mental state at the time (and copious amounts of late night drinking to deal with the stress).
@@CopiousDoinksLLCyeah that‘s not it, otherwise pokeballs would be able to create human slaves, Mario would have a machine gun and link would have usurped the lands of Hyrule and govern with an iron fist as a bloody tyrant by now, because devs these days don’t have it easy either. 😅
Great game! This was actually the first Amiga game I owned, and remained one of my favourites. I especially like the early levels with lots of nature. Of course the best part of the game is the soundtrack from Chris Hulsbeck :)
@@DynamicThreads pretty much all of huelsbeck's music is on Spotify both in the original 16 bit form and arranged versions, the apidya soundtrack is particularly awesome, enjoy my friend!
@@stephenhall2980 I watched the whole playthrough of Apidya, too! Haha, it was excellent. I even used Shazam on it just for kicks and a bunch of obscure electronic music came up, confused the algorithm a couple times.
They thought it might be a cool idea to introduce this (novel back then) aesthetic in the west. Wonky and wacky from todays pov, but that‘s what those days were! 😅 Wizard magic-poison bees in a medieval-Style land, and also sewers with packs of ciggies, toy soldiers and coke cans, as well as futuristic cyberspace realms - those were the days! 😁
What a fantastic game, masterful playthrough and legendary music. Even the credits are fantastic. So many thanks given to the massive group of (not all) people that contributed to this game. One goof nitpick though: the katakana "HI" Character should have a circle, not a double quote next to it. The way it's spelled on the Title Screen, it would be pronounced as Abidya, or Avidya instead of Apidya.
I love this game! Easily one of the best shooters on the Amiga. Smooth, fast and very playable. Must revisit this again! Great soundtrack too. Love to see some of the levels I never managed to get to. It takes so much from other games such as Gradius and R-Type but does it in a great way.
I've just discovered this today. This game is on the same quality level as the Gradius/Parodius series with an amazing soundtrack, but it has never been ported anywhere or got any sequels and it remains terribly obscure, that's a real injustice.
I'm shocked this Amiga game never got released in the arcades or even on the Neo Geo as it would have done well. Still, though, i would like to see this hidden gem one day get re-released for modern consoles and PC or even a remake that includes the original computer game. 🐝
With this game so many questions come to mind. Which drugs do you have to take to get such an idea? How do you pitch such a game and even get the green light?
Back then you didn't need to pitch anyone, many programmers made games on their bedrooms, showed to a publisher and got published. This game not only was made by some really experienced guys, most of them had connections with Factor 5 and Rainbow Arts. I am 100% sure they had no trouble getting a publisher (Even more when the game is so fucking great. It's one of the finest games on the system).
32 years later I am realizing that the game's name is pronounced "A-bi-dsha" and not "A-pi-dee-yah" as I always said it. This was the only side-scroller game which I ever finished.
Nice game and longplay. Very nice music also, from Chris Hülsbeck. I didn't know this game but I like the genre. Some familiar parts in it, specially from Project X and R-type.
That ending music... they listed an audio mixing console as part of the gear, something that would be next to useless if all the other gear was for making samples and sound-bytes to make instruments in their advanced Amiga music playback engine (was it 6 or 8 voices?!)... So was the last song somehow streamed from disk or something? That always confused me. It certainly sounded and still does sound like a studio production!
The audio routine is TFMX Pro and has 7 voices/channels. The Amiga has 4 hardware audio channels, each with it's own DMA channel, they are fully independent to each other. IIRC by disabling 1 of the DMA channels they could internally split the attached audio channel into 4 separate software mixed channels and still keep the other 3 audio channels as normal giving it now 7 channels to play with at the cost of some CPU cycles. Only the "Title" screen with its sub-songs and "Game Complete" and it's sub-songs in Apidya are 7 channel, the rest are 4 channel. The ending credits music is sub-song 2 of 4 from the mod "Game Complete" within Apidya, sub-songs 1, 3 and 4 are for the game complete ending sequence from 36:56 to 38:50. All 4 sub-songs in the mod Game Complete share the same samples and is a total of 214kb, is fully loaded into Amiga memory, no music is streaming from the disk.
Some folk criticise Amiga music for being lazy as the Paula sound chip uses sequenced samples as opposed to generating it's own sound like the megadrive FM synthesis or ym2149 psg on the Atari st and 8 bit systems. I REALLY disagree however, the Amiga sounds awesome.
It was a good game with great graphics, and the insect theme for sure made it special, yet it felt kind of boring to me. Well, probably I'm just not the 'horizontal-shooter-type'. Liked Battle Squadron, Xenon II, Wings of Death, Lethal Xcess and so on much more :)
how do you play this ? or the game is impossible to play because of invisibles sprites, or the game crash (in practice mode at the middle of the second stage).
This definitely reminds me of bio hazard battle with same sound effects and enemy bullets/animations. That said one the most unique and strange shooters I ever seen. A stuffed doll in the sewars that shoots lasers from its eyes! :[ okay then
37:36 I wonder if this is the first ever typo to make it into a video game, although Lemmings is also a possibility for inroducing typos in the level Inroducing Superlemming
Anime was virtually unknown in the west when this game was released. It was an incredibly niche style that not many people knew about, bar a small group of enthusiasts, so the fact that any game outside of Japan actually uses at that time it is incredibly unique.
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