What are your top 5 favorite Amiga games of all..um...time

Mine would have to be, in no particular order: -

• Gravity Power
• Cannon Fodder
• Speedball 2
• Sensible World of Soccer
• Dune 2

Others that are close: - Chaos Engine, Dune, Lure of the Temptress, Alien Breed Tower Assault and Skidmarks

any reason you particulary like those games, or are we just going to see another list?

In no particular order:

Chaos Engine: it's a fantastic shooter and I love the co-op mode.

SWOS: My favourite football game of all time. No nonsense, just pure fun.

Smash TV: It's appeared on other formats, but I had it for my humble Amiga 1200. Plus my joystick was great. Ahaha. Ahem.

Wiz 'n' Liz: Quirky platformer that featured great frantic action and great mini-games. I loved it. To bits.

Worms: First owned for the humble Amiga. Yay!


giant_frying_pan

i never really 'got' smash tv. but choas engine is lush.

Geoff Crammond's Formula One.

I never finished a race let alone a season. The combination of five car pile ups and action replays from multiple angles saw to that.

Lemmings and possibly Superfrog. That Heimdall whatsit wasnt bad. Hero Quest had a nice theme tune. Kid Chaos looked and played like a posh mega drive effort.
Hook for being ridiculously easy. And that Doom clone I cant recall the name of.

i really must dig out the old a500. it's starting to smell like it hasnt been used in ages.

You are all clearly mad, for you neglect the following:

Super Stardust, the finest shoot-em-up ever devised by man. You can play it to death, but you'll never grow bored of it.

Harlequin, the only Amiga platformer to get everything exactly right, and another game that still seems remarkably fresh 12 years later (it's got a lot to do with every level being completely unique, and the exhilarating oddness of it all. Speaking of which...)

Wizkid. It makes no sense, AND YET IT DOES. Surreal and funny, yes, but also hugely varied, imaginative and almost impossibly friendly to Johnny Gamesplayer. A work of genius.

The Settlers. Intricate, absorbing and lovely, and with those dear little piggies.

I'd certainly agree with Gravity Power, though. Firing dots at coloured triangles has never been so much fun.

Oh those four games you mentioned would fill my numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9 spots :P


giant_frying_pan

I'd forgooton about Hero Quest, that was a cool game, oh and Space Crusade.
Also I must be getting confused as I thought Settlers came out on PC. Although that said I remeber playing the first one for hours, and I dont own a copy for my PC so I guess I must have had it on the Amiga. Same goes for Worms aswell actually.

As for the First person shooter, you may be on about Hired Guns which I've just remembered, and was an absolutley fantastic game.

Oh no, they're all coming back to me now...

Space Hulk - Amazing, although stupidly difficult
Chain Rection - Really cool game, I've never found anything else quite like it :/
Defender of the Crown - Really fun, although way too easy
Blues Brothers - Loved the music, but I dont think I ever got further than the second level
Kickoff - Always good for a laugh even though it'd be a poor performance that saw me score less than 20 in a match

i played my old Amiga 600 last summer and realised that at least 75% of my games were annoying rubbish. except these gems...!


Lemmings 2, because I got it for £3 and it's great.
Push Over, but the disk messed up and I can't play it anymore
Shinobi, the music was great as was "Welcome to Bonus Stage!"
Worms, of course
Turrican - love that heroic music on the first level. i don't think there was an amiga game i played quite as much. could'nt play it today though, the controls are far too fiddly. plus the disk is broked, i think.

Strictly speaking it was actually a Dungeon Master clone, only with guns. I remember reading on some website (actually it was in an Amiga Games Database review) about how the author still has an unreleased AGA only version of Hired Guns that was finished but canned as they didn't think it would sell well enough. It apparently has even more sound effects, and hopefully improved graphics or something. The problem was (if I remember rightly) that the bloke has the hard disk with it on, but his actual Amiga is broken or something, and he didn't want to send the disk off to anyone else to retrieve the files as it had his personal/top secret stuffs or something. That said, they did release the level editor a couple of years ago, so maybe it's out and about now.

The FPS game was probably either Alien Breed 3D or Gloom, which were both notable for not being totally rubbish unlike all the other Doom But On The Amiga's.

(Oh, and I think Settlers 2 was eventually released literally only a year or two ago for the Amiga? Or possibly it was just another scam by the people who claimed to have the rights to the Amiga Holy Grail that is Putty Squad. They didn't.)

Some of the above, but also:

Rodland - arcade perfect (ish), and then with extra levels added on because it was so short. Awesome.

SWIV - so utterly ace that even after I dropped my A500 and broke the disk drive so that no other game would load, this one still did.

Populous - or "that game where you pile up dirt and then knock it all over again", as my mum used to call it. So good I can almost forgive Molyneaux for Black and White for being a bug-riddled cyberpet simulator with tediously tacked on town-managament. Also, I know the sequel was better, but little computer tribesmen in furs are funnier than little computer Greeks in togas, aren't they?

Speedball II - it's Brutal. It's Deluxe. It's Brutal and Deluxe. It's... *THUNK* Ow, gerroff.

SWOS, Skidmarks and ZeeWolf. 'nuff said.

• Elvira: Hang on, the camp te- AGH.
• Weird Dreams: That's an interesting id- JESUS.
• Deuteros: Oh I see, now I just- THE EYES.
• Theme Park Mystery: So it's a kind of platf- MOTHER.
• Captain Blood: .........WHAT?

Moral: The minds of disturbed Europeans should not be released onto small children.
Sub-Moral: Let French people develop everything.

Doom clone I was on about - dug disk out and it was called Deathmask.

Speedball TWO - Monkey Island ONE
Super Cars TWO - Wings TWO
AnotherWorld ONE - Test(Keep the car)Drive TWO

First Samurai I remember being quite good. Well I say good it looked good, I could never get very far in it though. By which I mean I couldn't actually get off level 1.

hmm

I liked turrican 2

speedball 2
Alien Breed Special Edition

SWOS

Monkey Islands 1 +2

probablly some other stuff like captain planet....... i am of course kidding
it was a great game
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And getting your amiga to say shit (shiart.) with it's speech program. That was the best game.

lies

Virocop (?) - great little shooter with platformy bits; lots of cool weapons to purchase with your hard-earned cash; weird levels with crazy themes
Probably A1200 only.

Dungeon Master: AAGH! SKELETONS! RUN AWAY! (ahem..sorry)

Robocod. Excellent platformer with hundreds of hidden bonuses.

Heimdall 2, The New Zealand Story, uh.... I can't think of any more! I had loads of faves... possibly because I was young in those days and loved every game ever.

My A500 was broken though, the sound didn't work. Trying to play Loom with no sound never got me anywhere...

*sigh*...

Second Samurai was pure gaming totty, it certainly shut up all my sns/genesis owning chums who had laughed so much when they'd seen Zool ""He's a ninja ant!" i'd squealed at them, "look!", so it many not have stood the test of time as well as say mario or sonic, but at the time it blew everything else around out of the water.

Super Cars
Great little top down car game once you could master the controls! Also the in between driving sections had you taking a driving test and gettign money from your dead grandfather in a multi-choice game!
Batman
Damn hard; but I managed to accidently discover the JAMMMMM cheat. Never completed any of the levels except for the make-up one!
Body Blows
Decent beat em up where me and my brother would always be the ninja guy and teleport all over the place.
Alien Breed
Cool top down shooter- good co-op.

Heimdall rocked

but my memory of it was slightly soured by the fact that i later bought the sequel only to discover the dumbass in the shop had given me the A1200 version and when i took it back there where no other copies left.

So i never ever got to play it ...sniff :(

The ISHAR series was also pretty good although they did have a bad tendancy to crash.

I once got my amiga to read out a lesbian sex scene from Seth Morgans book home boy. I put it on compalation cds all the time. Normaly between "She is suffering" by the Manics and "Sordid" by Amon Tobin

My list:

Settlers - Totally agree, this was excellent. I always watched the cute "knight strolling through village" intro too.

CREATURES - Clyde Radcliffe Exterminates All The Unpleasant, Repulsive E-something Slime. Best platform ever, bar none. None! (Or was this C64 only? Just a childhood haze to me.)

Deluxe Paint III - Making stupid South Parky animations (before South Park) and then adding a few more frames just to get it right and - OUT OF MEMORY ERROR. Aaargh, etc.

Chuck Rock - Well, I liked it.

Beneath a Steel Sky - "You've won tonight's star prize - Life imprisonment." Hurrah!

Others I loved - Ghouls n Ghosts, Hero Quest, Worms, Theme Park, Spy vs Spy 1-3, Rainbow Islands, Monkey Island, and on and on. Weren't Amigas great?

I think we all demand that MP3 right now.

Unfortently I don't know how to put things in mp3. I can put it in wav. I record though my line input I got fed with my computer doing all kinds of wierd shit every mother ("PRETTY FLOWER" - Ed)ing time I put an audio cd in. Email me a postal address and I'll do you a compalation cd with it on. And you can flip it on the misc section of your site if you like. I wonder if I can find my cover of motown junk I made with my agima speach thing. Damm Im gona look for that now. My topest amiga games. In no order.

Yo Joe! - Ah man it's just the bombmest. Design tigter than a nuns vigina. And tons of neat little touchs. My fave being the high score table. Which was graf on the side of a train moving along on the bottom of tittle screen.

Apdiya - aka the shoot em up where you were a lil bee. Ok the power ups arn't as good as say r-type. But the gameplay. And graphics (where you just didn't know what you were gona see next) I think were better. Plus it had the dead rat boss.

Stardust - Does to astoriods what smash tv did to robozone. Harder than Mike Tyson in a suit of armor with a bazooka(Train spotter prize for who can guess what reveiw I stole that line from). The boses, The between level tunnel things, The relaxed special missions that where a couplete contrast to the main game. All added up to your faces being set to stunned. And if that wasn't enough it only cost £17 and you didn't buy it you idiots.

Lamingtron - Robozone gone crazy. Unfortently I didn't get into this one until after the amiga was well dead. So I never did send jeff a fiver. And I would've loved a poster. I actully managed to get to heard heven. The action really does start to just get insane on later levers with you having to react to about a millions things at once.

Syndicate - My sinister mega global corparation will take over the world.

GemX - Even though I only played a demo. It's clear that it's one of the best one player puzzle games ever made.

Wizkid - Madness, microchips & hi-tech war. Ok there's no hi-tech war but there's maddness in your microchips in spades. And on a friend computer it once sang happy birthday and had wizkid blowing out some candels. To this day I don't know what made that hapen. Or got it to do it again.

E-motion - Kinda like playing snooker with the spaceship from asteriods. Could be frustating as ("PRETTY FLOWER" - Ed). But loads of oppertunety for pool style skillness but on the computer.

Shadow fighter - Body blows was shit, fact. And if you had it mate with a snes it was embarising. But this was a whole lota fun with a tone of neat stuff. The puperazz thing being my fave. The fact that my snes owning mate loved to play this when he came over and didn't take the piss out of it says it all. And it even had better animated behind men than street fighter!

Secound Samurai - For remembering that games are ment to be fun. The only platfromer I like better is Yoshi's story. Loads of inovation. You didn't have to jump on monsters heads to kill them. And some of fave bosses of all time(As I said in other thred). How ever the way you used you secound weapon was shit as was the two player mode. And the megadrive version stinks like Anne Widicome's beefcurtons. A real shame as this one deserved a wider audiance.

International Ruby challenge - Mind you I like genital torture.

Space Hulk rocked! I only had the PS version, but I imagine they were "similar". I loved the voices: "THIS IS FOR.... *voice changes* Mathius".

I never had an Amiga, although I played on my mates' a lot. We really like this Commandos game (might have been called that...I forget). All I can remember is it was kinda like Mercs on the Megadrive, and when you chuked grenades they did this funky zoom effect to make it look like they were flying through the air. Or something.

Also I seem to remeber playing the really hard Simpsons "spray can 'em up" a lot. Was that actually any good, or were we just odd children? Oh and drawing animated cocks on deluxe paint! Awesome to the max!!!

Couldn't you just convert the .wav to MP3? If you have real difficulty doing that, a long-hand way would be to burn your .wav to CD, then copy the track back onto your computer using iTunes, Windows Media, RealPlayer or whatever.

Although if your computer is messing up when you put audio CDs in that may be a problem.

Ok how do I convert my wave to mp3? Can I do that with winamp? I know I could do it with real if I payed a suscrition but ("PRETTY FLOWER" - Ed) them for stoping my cd player thing on the computer from working. Oh yeah I found my amiga version of motown junk. It's not as funny as the lesbian sex scene though.

simon the sorceror for my Amiga CD32

http://www.mp3-wav-converters.com/download.htm

ok the wav is now in mp3. Do you want me to email it you? Or can I somehow post it here? I think I found the site you found that ("PRETTY FLOWER" - Ed) off big folder with the lost mario game in it while looking for the twightzone rom. You sex pistals table is not half bad any plays for a pop will eat itslef one? or how about a jesus and mary chain one? or(hush tones) an ("("("("AMIGA POWER" - Ed)" - Ed)" - Ed)" - Ed) one. You could light team 17 and get idiotic strop bonus pionts. You could have a review the game multi ball where each target scores a a percentage piont but if the game gets 73 percent you lose your jackpot for giving a mark of satan. You could have a rise of the robots bonus where just pressing the left flipper scores pionts. Or a royal british legion sub game were you lock the ball while the ish is delayed. Then it shoots an inferea looking ball out at the last minute with out telling you. And when you lose the ball a vioce could shout you useless cretionus morron. Wow some one should do this. But not me cos' I can't be bothered. Oh yeah did you ever hear Pop will eat itself's version of love missile?

You can email it to aptwo@dial.pipex.com

Ok Ive sent it off. Hopefully it'll be with you shortly.

Thanks to the excellent Dr O, this can now be downloaded from

http://www.excellentcontent.com/misc/homeboy.zip

My favourite Amiga games:

Hunter- a work of untold genius and almost hypnotic beauty. In many ways, it plays like an early GTA3.

Lure of the Temptress- wonderful adventure game where the playing area itself is the star. Nice music.

Lemmings- it's just funny, isn't it?

Desert Strike- a gorgeous mix of action and strategy in the best Gulf War simulator there ever was/will be.

Flashback- worth playing just so you can make the main character draw his gun and sneak along like a sneaky secret agent.


The Amiga was great, wasn't it?



-Rowan