/vr/ - Retro Games

Does the Amiga have any game? Seems like they're all bad shmups or bad platformers.

>>8497461
>computer games, which we are talking about, were made for tech savvy people
>the only groups of people who owned or used computers at those times.
Let me guess - Nintendo saved video games, right?

>Projectyle – Eldritch the Cat, 1990
>It’s a three-player combination of air hockey and sumo wrestling. Holds up with two or three players, not with one. Almost as good as Hokra.

>Another World/Out Of This World – Eric Chahi, 1991
>Everyone knows and loves this action-adventure now, and Tim Rogers calls it the best game of all time even though he never owned an Amiga. But it belongs on an Amiga, where it was born.

>Spindizzy Worlds – Paul Shirley, 1990
>I know you like hard games, because you bought Dark Souls and Super Hexagon. And I know you like Marble Madness, because everyone does. Consider this game to be ‘difficult Marble Madness in a giant Fez-like hub world’.

>Paradroid ’90 – Andrew Braybrook, 1990
>The definitive version of the game that spawned a million clones, hold the fire button to attach your robo-brain to other robots and commandeer their abilities, while you explore and empty out a giant, hulking spaceship. Hard, spartan, and amazing.

>Biplane Duel – Peter Mason, 1989
>An amazing single-screen two-player freeware game that I once played for about twelve hours in a sitting. A lot of the games on this list are two-player single-screen e-sports, and this is one of the simplest and best among them.

>E-Motion – The Assembly Line, 1990
>The Assembly line worked out how to use the Amiga’s high-colour HAM video mode, and they also worked out how to raytrace spheres. And they built their games around these two pieces of knowledge. E-Motion is a wonderful physics-based puzzle game: bounce atoms into same-coloured atoms to annihilate them and clear the screen. Be prepared for a chain reaction if you make a mistake.

Other games that are interesting, but haven't aged well. I won't include Foddy's comments:
>Damocles – Novagen, 1990
>Ebonstar – Robert McNally
>Nebulus – John M. Phillips, 1988

Quick! Give me five must play Amiga titles. Bonus points if they're exclusive to the platform.

>>7805329
What is it about this little computer wunderkind that makes /vr/ seethe so much?

The world of gaming would be better if they won the computer race.

The Amiga now has a YM2151 and Z80 to go alongside it's Paula sound chip (the Z80 runs both sound chips) since day 1; What changes?

Why was the sound quality leaps and bounds better than the SNES? Both used samples, it had fewer sound channels, yet why was it so much better than the SNES?

Was there any saving it?

Why does /vr/ hate this thing so much?

Why the FUCK did the Amiger fail in the US? It was a better than anything else on the market.

Reminder that if you didn't own an amiga while growing up, your parents didn't love you.

So, Ahoy released a new video after a long and rigorous winter, and its the Rise and FALL of the Amiga computer and its games, and touching on Commodore US Incompetence.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_UZsJUbwQ

interesting though, he touches on the early raytracing part.

>>4897690
Okay, this is a game I've been trying to remember for years

>Amiga 500 game
>I think it was post apocalyptic
>you had a car that I remember being able to customize, it had spikes on the tires and mounted turrets and shit
>you could enter buildings and were able to walk around on foot inside of them
>I remember puddles of acid on the floor inside the buildings as well as generic enemies

I can't fucking find this game, no matter what I search for I always just get an endless sea of generic racing games, but this game didn't have racing elements as far as I remember, your car was just for getting around the world and fighting other cars

How does NTSC/PAL work on the Amiga? This computer is a bit of an interesting situation since most of the software is made to run in PAL even though the machine was developed by a US company. Will the game just run in their proper mode like on the PSX, or do you have to mod it or something if it isn't from the right region?

http://www.indieretronews.com/2017/03/time-gal-laserdisc-anime-gets-special.html

The Amiga never dies.

My friend is building a retro 90s Gaming Rig and needs a list of games to install. Any ideas?

Amiga 500 that I still have with a 1084S monitor, RAM and hard drive expansions.