I was on a mag when the second wave ones came out on PS3. They never sat right in my craw, and were promptly forgotten about. Have been tempted by the mobile OG remake though...
Enigma776 ... I think they've been "desperate" for about the last 15 years, if the sheer number of Worms remakes is anything to go by. But it's high time some of their pre-PC works got a fresh airing.
My first Amiga was an A500 in 1988...and it was an amazing machine. It was much more expensive than a console with 1mb of ram, but with blank Kao disks and...ahem...XCopy it was an astounding piece of tech. I have recently been purchasing some upgrades such as the ACA 500 Plus, so that I can relive some of this again. Sure the games are not 4K Xbox One X titles, but many of my Amiga favorites are just as fun to play today as it was back in the day. Also, there is something that many games today do not offer that made Amiga titles so addictive...the audio. Even today, running Amiga game intro's sounds simply astounding over a decent stereo amplifier. Also, you are correct about titles such as International Karate Championship, Z wolf, etc. It is titles such as these that has motivated me to return to this console...the ACA 500 Plus I hope will make titles like Z wolf run more like they were supposed to in the beginning, yet back in the day accelerator upgrades on the Amiga literally cost a full liver and kidney.
I personally liked Kick Off 2 more than Sensible Soccer, but each to their own. Shout out for Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter too! It was so satisfying to complete those primary and secondary missions, although the Congessional Medal of Honour could only be achieved in the first couple of flights.
I remember trying Syndicate on a 486 PC (around the time of Xcom and Worms, no less) and it seemed like something that had leaked back from five years into the future on *that*...
Sensible soccer was not the best soccer game on the Amiga. It was the best on any system back then and now. I never liked soccer games and today I still don't like games like fifa and pes but Sensible soccer was different. You could pick it up and actually have fun. And if you could invite 5 or 6 friends to play Sensible, it was awesome. Still play it once in a while. Miss the old days. Thanks for the video.
Here in Denmark soccer-enthusiasts made tournaments, where they filled a building with Amigas, television sets and joysticks, and then kids and teenagers were invited to beat each other in Sensible Soccer. None of the computers were connected at that time. It was just two people playing against each other on each screen, and then two others taking their place once a winner had been found. It was very nice.
To be fair I'd say Civilization was the Amiga's Civilization - I spent so many years playing that.. Settlers was cool though but then you had Colonization, Powermonger, Megalomania!
You can thank RU-vid for actually putting a video I wanted to watch in front of me for once. There's plenty of these videos around but taking the time to put a voiceover on there makes a huge difference. And Settlers, man. Settlers.
The A500 was not my first computer, but my first Commodore machine and my 3rd Jay Miner machine. 1st Atari 2600, 2nd Atari 8 bit computer...I loved this machine and still do...there are times, when my Xbox One X and PS4 sits idly, while I am playing this 7.2 MHz machine. Great video...thank you.
Absolutely on the money that some kids learned things from The Settlers. I was playing it age about 12, and when my geography teacher started talking about the process of finding and mining ores, it was *exactly* as if she started talking about how to beat Dr Robotnik. I was over the moon that suddenly one of the most tedious subjects that existed *even at school* was suddenly interesting, all because a game completely fooled me into learning something. Amazing. (plug plug, I did a video about it called Learning To Settle that some people might like, plug, sorry bye)
I don't think there's anything wrong with us having learned quite a lot from games in our childhood. That's how children are supposed to learn a lot of stuff; by playing, so it's all good.
Settlers was probably my favourite game on the Amiga, though Settlers 2 on the PC was my favourite Settlers game of all time. I do miss the Prospector's excited backflip and "yahoo" when he found some ore. Also hi Dave! (Edit: Settlers 2, not 3)
You sir, are very very good at this. Genuinely funny and informative. Always a great but rare combination. Subbed. In other news I will never forgive a younger and (slightly) more foolish version of myself for deciding to use Commodore's exchange program to exchange my A500 in for a CDTV. It was only a matter of hours before I found it was not only incapable of playing most of my A500 games, but also utter shite. To the point where I got my dad to demand we un-exchange(?) it back for the A500. However...through some cruel twist of fate, the Commodore Gods advised us that they could only replace it with an A600. My A500 long since vanished into the ether. The A600 as some people may well know, was also sadly incapable of playing many A500 games. GAME OVER young fool. I'm not bitter though. Nuh. (Edited extra blank spaces that RU-vid has started mysteriously adding for me. Maybe that have an excess they're trying to use up?)
I never understood that A600 incompatibility nonsense. Felt bad for friends who got them, even though we only had a lowly A500 (1MB RAM, natch). Appreciate the kind words!
The Amiga helped my parents believe I was doing my homework so that was definitely a positive. Annoyed the hell out my sister who had nothing to entertain her when she was sent to her room after tea!
8:38 the bloke on the right looks like he REALLY likes cars!... Ah, IK+! The memories of making the little feller's pants fall down! I hope that Project X is going to show up in a later episoce.
Nostalgia kick in the arse there. I also forget what year I got my Amiga, yet it was an early batman pack running workbench 1,3. I had almost all of those games. Yes I picked myself up a 2nd hand Amiga just last year, a boxed cartoons classic pact in beautiful condition with all pack in titles and books (running workbench 2.?) For all of £140. Next to my smart TV in the sitting room I have a Super Console XPro, I know it isn't an Amiga, yet it has over 4000 Amiga games on it in a little package and the controller is wireless. Let the gaming continue.... PS, one of my all time favourite Amiga games us "Flood" by bullfrog, simple yet entertaining fun.
It takes me back to my childhood and those long weekends that i didnt saw the sun. Me and my friends were in another world and time just living in a paradise of the mind. So many joysticks broken... lol Amiga 500 u will be always there in that final flash of my life in the last smile of goodbye. My 1st love was spectrum and now im married to PlayStation but Amiga i will love u and remember u forever cause it was with you that i realized in my conscience the masterpiece of video games. Red Dead Redemption now carries the soul of that... more than a book, song or a film all combined in a journey of fusion between our eyes, heart and mind. Long live the king Amiga.
I remember having a Spectrum and then going around to my friends who had just got an Amiga for his birthday, and I couldn't believe how good the games looked. So I spent the next eight month pestering my dad to get me one for Christmas. The Amiga is my fondest gaming memory. Especially Monkey Island 2 with all the disc swapping. :)
In my opinion Goal! (the real Kick Off 3) was the best soccer on Amiga. The perfect mix of Sensible Soccer and Kick Off 2. But I still remember the afternoon when I played the first demo of SS (floppy included in a magazine) and...wow...amazing. A little mention is for Sierra Soccer. Very nice videos (also part 2 & 3), very good selection, you know what you're talking about.
so where is the "tunnel section" of Super Stardust!? ;) Amiga rulez anyway :) - so much creative things began on this wonderful, revolutionary computer - including >half of modern 3d software, which began its life on Amiga - like Lightwave3d, Blender, Cinema 4D, Realsoft 3D ... and... what's surprising (hmmm, earlier not ;) - even today such systems like "M$ Windows" are still missing few features AmigaOS had 30 years ago !!! (!!!) - examples? - except perfect multitasking, also things like DYNAMIC Ram Disk (!).... which is still, in year 2018 not possible on Windoze (!). Thanks for reminding of those few really important games in human history! ;)
I enjoyed watching that Video I can tell you have true love for the Amiga ......... I agree with you with you on Street Fighter 2 for the Amiga that port was bad But tbh I love fighting games and I actually liked Body Blows at that time. I loved my Amiga so I was pleased it actually had it's own fighting game. Not as good as others fighting games. But it was alright for an Amiga fighting game with 1 Button. I liked Team 17 they tried to give us Console style games on the Amiga and I loved them for it. I completely agree with you on IK+ The fighting in that game is fluid and timeless I used to play those games on my C64 as well. Good Selection of Games you really picked out some key must own titles. I think I 1st played StarDust because of a Cover Disk with Amiga Power or Format (I used o buy them both) ...... I'll Happily watch the rest :D
Before I watch the video I'm going to guess that Monkey Island HAS to be here. It was one of the best games for the Amiga. The Amiga was so ahead of it's time graphically. We all had Commodore 64's and Apple II's back then, then Amiga comes out and blows it out of the water. Add on a 20mb HDD to it, and could get Monkey Island to load so fast, because it sucked switching disks every 5 minutes with 20second load times.
I honestly enjoy the original Settlers game more than the second one, which everyone else seems to prefer. I understand Settlers 2 is a better game, in terms of refinement and added features. But... I've always kind of preferred the original. I even went so far as to play the Amiga music (on a mod/tracker) while playing the game on a PC with the added resolution. I know it is, in part, a nostalgia sensation; but I would also argue it is much more about the enjoyment of original art at it's core, when it first hits you and draws you towards every aspect. I see - and have been subjected to - the old "you're just a nostalgia freak, trying to reclaim your youth" idiocy. Well, maybe in some cases. For the vast part, I see diminishing returns for me on any sequel, second edition, reboot, off-shoot etc... I can see that in almost any form of creative art: Might be better, but you almost always lose something in the process. Sometimes the refinement of an idea can do more damage than good. It tends to be about money, which I can fully understand. Hey-ho, each to their own. I'd just like the "you nostalgic tw**" to ease off a little. Err... apologies for the long comment. I have issues. Maybe. What?
Xenon 2 megablaaast and Speedball 2. I can also remember getting dodgy disks from Europe that had strip poker on them.... watching the flop reveal a big busted Dutch lady in 1993 was the best thing to every happen to me as a child since completing Manic Miner on the Speccy. Afterburner was pretty good too
Good collection so far. Will be interesting to see what comes up next. I've just pulled my A4000T-060 out of storage so will be playing an arseload of old games again soon. Seriously tempted to swap the HDD that's in it with a Compact Flash adapter though. Still have my Captive 2: Liberation save file so that will be installed and sworn at again and again.
I can't believe they actually made a Captive 2, because the original game was pretty hard (especially on the last level), and then it just started all over, and you hadn't even unlocked all the weapons and armors the first time you got to the fake ending. Crazy stuff.
I had an A500+, second hand of course, with a box of unlabeled floppy disks... My dad sent off a cheque for £25 to add the extra 1MB RAM card lol Ah those were the days, going through all the games with no instructions. Best game = Gunship 2000
*I had the A500, 1500, 2000, the 600 and the 1200. Killing Cloiud was my favourite game, along with Syndicate Wars and F1* ... I miss ""Agnus, Denise, and Paula""
LOL, far from it... I worked my Ass off, sold one system... Put money to that, and bought the upgrade. I was 20 Years old, when the 500 came out... Before that i had computers going back to the ZX81 I purchased my self, my Mother had a new Boyfreind... And i was old Hardware, getting in the way. I looked after my self, i had no other choice growing up.
Crazy Cars 3! Now that's a game i forgotten completly, and after seeing it in this video memories of playing it flooded my brain. Thanks for reminding me this lil gem!
Nice Video. Me wasnt a fan from sensible soccer,me was a kick-off fan ;) Cause kick-off has some chaotic elements in gameplay and so its more fun for me. And kick-off 1990(worldcup)was like a prophecy. I played this game 2-3 months before worldcup started. And kick-off simulate Argentinia vs Kamerun = 0-1 and me was laughing cause this result was hilarious ;) Then the world cup start and Argentinia lost vs Kamerun 0-1 i was confused ;)
Eh.. I'm only half way through and I'm pretty sure we have the exact same childhood and opinions. Freaking me out. :O I'd completely forgotten about Zeewolf!
Up until 1991 or so the amiga version would almost certainly be better than the PC version of almost any game. The big thing was hardware sound and the BLIT. By 1992 tthe PC was so poserful, anything the BLIT of an amiga could do in hardware the PC could do in software; PC had somewhat descent sound (sound blaster), but still worse than an Amiga. Gravis Ultra Sound could beat an Amiga into the ground, but nobody used the damned thing and Adlib and OPL3 FM synth became standard. Harddrives were standard on PC so you didn’t have the nightmare of a game like monkey island 2 that had about 12 diskettes. CDROMs were also quickly becoming standard. Ultima underworld, ultima 7 and wolfenstein 3D is when I started taking the PC seriously. For games released before then, don’t bother with the PC version. Before 1990 is PC speaker hell and often enough the games were made for CGA.
Completely agree with your comments on Alien Breed. I really wanted to like it (and tried for... what? A couple of decades? Jeez) but it's just too damn hard.
At this stage, it's no more about difficulty but just plain bad game design. Alien Breed is as annoying as Gauntlet was fun, despite sharing pretty much the same formula. The game is technically impressive and super atmospheric. Its style really stood the test of time. But the gameplay and level design are just fubar, which is a bit head-scratching considering how polished the game is technically and artistically. But then, a lot of its contemporaries shared the same traits. Game designers were coders first and foremost and game design was not a very well documented discipline at the time. Anyways, Alien Breed 2 was not much better than its predecessor, if not worse, but Alien Breed Tower Assault was a lot more enjoyable. The exploration element made it a lot more interesting and less punishing than the other AB games, especially when playing co-op. I would recommend that one.
Zeewolf on the Amiga 500 - "Just imagine this, but at about 8 frames per week" Too true. Didn't we love it though, amazing what rose-coloured glasses will do
I'm so glad youtube recommended this video for me. Such a nostalgia bomb. Only game on that list that I didn't like was sensible soccer, because it was...soccer. Amiga had so many great games. Zool, superfrog, captive, hired guns, project x, pretty much all bitmap brothers games like xenon 2 and speedball 2. One of the last great games was ruff 'n' tumble. It looks great even today.
i never liked sensible soccer because the ball couldn't stick to your feet and because the cpu cheated so bad that it was almost impossible to score..while they were 10x faster than you and scored every second
valkosilmapeura - In some cases it's not even just nostalgia. If for example you like screwy humor, you could technically still sit down and enjoy 'The Secret of Monkey Island', as those point-and-click type adventures still hold up rather well in my opinion.
Aaaaaaaaaand subbed! Kind of a coincidence I was playing Alien Breed Impact only yesterday. Thankfully the difficulty from the Amiga days isn't present but it still feels a bit...odd. Having a waypoint to follow all the time doesn't help.
Oh yeah I LOVED the music in Turrican II... I sat through the introduction comic images so many times primarily to listen to that music. One of my favorites for sure
Soooooo many great games on that fantastic machine. I was 24 when I got mine , and the excitement over a really good Amiga game dosen’t appear with the games of today. My wife agrees. I had to download an emulator for our PC so she can play Dynablaster , pinball fantasies-billion dollar game show , Tetrix and Silly putty. I , myself , still plays Grand prix , Legends of valour , Wing commander , ALL 4 alien breed games , Moonstone , Syndicate , Eob 1 & 2 , Black crypt and Dungeon master.
oh my thank you. everyone i knew growing up slated the amiga and i loved it. i smiled from ear to ear when you talked about turrican 2 and its epic music
If you're a fan of the original games, you should scale the videos so they're 4:3 with black bars. Otherwise they look squished and wrong. Everyone looks stocky. Shields, planets, and other round things, look like ovals instead of circles.
Never knew anything about the Amiga being a Nintendo fanboy, with a few Sega friends. Great stuff as always though and looking forward to the next one!
The big difference between any of the home computers (including Amiga, C64, PC and so on) and the consoles is the nature of the controls and of the game. The consoles had very immediate, very arcadey gameplay; there were games like that on home computers but many were much slower and more deliberate/strategic types. The difference was mainly down to RAM with the NES having a pitiful 2 kB and even the original C64 having 64 kB. The computers loaded the data in from diskettes, tape drives etc. so some of the RAM would be used to store graphics, where as on the NES graphics lived in ROM memory that could not be altered. So a home computer game could choose to fill RAM with premade assets, or it could use much of that RAM for storing the game state. That's why on for instance the NES, if you even could scroll the screen backwards, most of the enemies would re-appear. The Amiga also had a BLIT, not just hardware sprites and character graphics, so it could do a lot of cool graphical effects that the consoles weren't really able to match until the super nintendo and sega megadrive/genesis. Games like RTS, strategy, whatever the hell you call lemmings (puzzle?) lent themselves to using a mouse and keyboard. The joystick however was a far inferior input device to even a master system or NES controller. With the pad being both faster and better than a joystick and there being two actual buttons that actually worked + select and start. On amiga the lack of a second button (often joysticks had two, but they mapped to the same thing, one was just for left handed people) made it so that in arcadey type games you had to jump with up; which just sucks unbelievably much. Over time the distinction between home computers and consoles disappeared; but still today the PC /console difference is mostly generality. Yes, consoles are weaker and for some inane reason insist that 30 FPS is good enough, but mostly the difference is that consoles have a generally OK input device that is almost never the best choice and on PC you choose whatever input you want but there is more tinkering. E.g. for rally I'd always go for VR (if the game supports it) and a racing wheel. For arcade emulation I'd play with a fight stick, because I have one and it's pretty close to what most arcades actually used. For a fighting game, again fight stick. For an FPS, TPS, strategy game, RTS etc a mouse and keyboard is essential. For a platformer I would use a controller, but for emulating old games I'd use their actual controller, like a NES pad for the NES with an adapter and so on.
I'll never forget "Faery Tale adventure"...1st Amiga game I saw thru a store window while walking down the street in Toowoomba Australia.... HAD to have the machine.... and picked one up a week later. The game had a manual with copy protection that asked you words out of the manual.. lol... how many years later now!!!... I can still remember all the codes... Just bought a C64 mini.... NOW>>>>. I WANT AN AMIGA MINI !!!!... Hurry up and invent one damnit :P
The wonderful Dungeon Master on the Atari STE is what got me into gaming, Some other great games at the time were Xenon 2 Megablast, Arkanoid, Bubble Bobble , Space Harrier , Golden Axe , Rainbow Islands, Double Dragon, R-Type , Ghouls'n'Ghosts, Gauntlet , Ikari Warriors , Boulder Dash, Altered Beast, Paperboy and Rampage, damn Gaming was fkin amazing back then.
I would like to know why the Amiga (and some other systems) is subject to being stuck in a time freeze. Syndicate, Zeewolf, The Settlers all released after the A3000/A1200/A4000 had been released, and all worked better on them. But yet we had to have the now at least 6 years old hardware (A500) compared on the latest games (I realize what was shown was on an A1200 but then compared also on the A500) . Who played The Settlers or Syndicate on an IBM 5150?? I just don't see this when doing retro gaming on the PC and Mac in fact it's almost always the opposite with the games running on hardware that is vastly more powerful then was available for the platform of the time.
We did complete alien breed more than once, back in the day, the first time you will never forget, the disappointed of completing any games back then :) you did it, now go do it again. but yes it is a brilliant game. Like dogs of war
I remember going to computer markets (they were held on Saturdays in one of local school gyms), there were hundreds of people, lots of pirates with massive tables full of discs and there were Atari STs and Amigas. Many people were playing LOTUS and it is wonderful memory, being there :) Smell of burning chipsets, sound of LOTUS. Amazing :)
Really good video showing me some classic games I used to play, some I had forgotten about. Unfortunately I had and Atari 1040 STe. So I don't know all these, but I'm sure there were many good crossovers. How about a random nod to Grand Monster Slam, It Came from the Desert and Magic Pockets (if only for the theme tune).
I wish the Amiga also had some Japanese game developers. We mighthave gotten some of the Sharp X68000's game library. The Amiga 1200's and CD32's AGA chipsets would have really shined.
Many of those were good but were mostly ports of other systems like the inferior ST. Some of the other decent Amiga games were Sword of Sodan, Battle Squadron, Faerie Tale Adventure (an action RPG), Blood Money, Data Storm, Garrison (Gauntlet clone).
Lemmings, the game to gone mad in one day. Sensible soccer, the best football game ever. Fifa today in bullshit. The Settlers one of the best strategy game ever. Another great hit. Alien breed. Another gme from the last days of the amiga.
Kick Off 2 was light years ahead of Sensible Soccer.. and Zeewolf, despite what this commentator says, was just a re-hash of Zarch on the Acorn (later Virus on other machines) from about 6 years earlier., lol so no, it wasn't a "last hooray for what old hardware could do" and that "you just wouldn't get elsewhere" - in fact it was the opposite, it was old news.
Buddakan was a pretty good fighting game, except if you played as a kendo player and your mate didn't; you always had the advantage! Similar to playing Goro on Mortal Kombat, OP AF!
If we talk serious business other than Deluxe Paint, the Amiga was known mostly for the Video Toaster, and for Scala. Also mentioning Lightwave and Photon Paint, the latter was later ported to Mac and renamed Photoshop..
it cost me around $1100 aussie dollars,played so many games then this little title called fast break,i enjoyed and played this basketball game on my amiga 500 so much over a courde of 2 years,then all of a sudden that's enough I say.at the time the sega game gear was available,a flop but a got it,spiderman one game was really great,then several years later the first release of the consoles,my path was sony ps1,ps2,ps3,ps4,not because brand but because of controller style
Loving your video, couldn't believe the first game was Syndicate (loved that game, didn't know you could drug them up) top notch narrating as well. Subbed.
Was an ST owner myself but had many of these including Kick Off 2 - simply brilliant but st version had no centre circle or nets. Loved Turricane 2 was great as well.
My most played Amiga games were Elite 2 : Frontier and Eye of the Beholder. ?dozens of other favourites too) Also loved the Settlers.... Fantastic music there as well
Settlers came first for me, I've never forgotten that game and found it hard to find a near satisfaction. I've never been able to get a modern settlers cd game working, and "townsmen" comes very close, probably only missing the aspect of invading the enemy territory and Castle, but does have raiders to fight. Lemmings came second for me :D
I don't remember playing any games on my Amiga 2000 or 1200. I used them to do modeling with Aladdin 4D and Real 3D and that for me was fun and interesting.
