/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9998710]

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

[Anonymous No.9998762]

>>9998710
No. Like you it has no game.
There's actually very little worth playing on it. For a few years in the later half of the 80's it was a cheap way to play a lot of mostly subpar ports. But today you generally do better to emulate those on the platform they're best on. There are few exclusives or even best on the platform.

[Anonymous No.9998791]

>>9998710
80s computer games were complete ass unless you lived in Japan, they got all the good ones

[Anonymous No.9998872]

>>9998710
Have a look at this, one of them has far more detail in the graphics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYfCTOZBMek

Terminator 2 the arcade game is far superior to the consoles in graphics. Kid Chaos is really good as well as Mr Nutz, I personally like Bionic Commando but its not an accurate port. Most Amiger enthusiasts are half into games and half into the demo scene. If you have a controller with up wired to a button it fixes a lot of controller issues. Basically play all team 17, microprose, gremlin and psycnosis games if you are having trouble finding what to play.
There are also a tun of games using the scorpion engine just recently, they look very promising.
If you have aga and an accelerator you also have a lot of pc classics like doom.

[Anonymous No.9998939]

>>9998710
>Does the Amiga have any game?
The Amiga and the Atari ST have great libraries and were the forefront of 16 bit gaming until the PS1 and PC took over. They are where companies like Psygnosis are and actually where a lot of the strategy and real time strategy genre trrops migrate to platform from 8 Bit by, syndicate Dune II theme park etc

[Anonymous No.9998943]

>>9998939
>>9998710
>Does the Amiga have any game? Seems like they're all bad shmups or bad platformers
Ever heard of a game called civilisation?

[Anonymous No.9998951]

>>9998710
>Does the Amiga have any game? Seems like they're all bad shmups or bad platformers.
>>9998939
>>9998943
sim city
civilisation
dune 2
theme park
populous
worms
Dune
Nuclear war
Cannon Fodder
Midwinter
Utopia etc etc
I mainly associate the Atari ST/amiga with music creation and strategy games. The consoles really were just midwit crap for that era. People who loved games and techy owned either an amiga or an ST. There were also still 8 bit 1ith 128K and diskdrives about as ell as appe, PCs with CPM. The libraries for the ST and Amiga crush consoles.

[Anonymous No.9999136]

>>9998710
Myth

[Anonymous No.9999206]

>>9998710
FastMemFirst looks pretty fun

[Anonymous No.9999226]

Games like The Pawn and Guild of Thieves is where the Amiga really shines

[Anonymous No.9999271]

>>9998951
Problem is, a lot of these games have pretty good, if not better; pc versions.

[Anonymous No.9999380]

I'm pretty sure the Amiga version of Elite 2 is supposed to be the best one.

[Anonymous No.9999414]

>>9999271
>Problem is, a lot of these games have pretty good, if not better; pc versions.
Possibly in the case of some but the PC was the price of a car in the mid 80s. All of them had inferior sounds on the PC too, it was released in 1985 and at that point sound cards in PCs were non existent or rar, the Amiga had such a powerful card it or the ST were picked up and used in the music industry. The Amiga and the ST were the kings and premiere place of 16 bit gaming until the 1990s and into the early 1990s. Great machines.

[Anonymous No.9999420]

>>9999271
Just checking randomly and populous game out on the amiga first, in 1989, so fucking good it was released on the PS1 nearly a decade later in 1998. Amiga kicked ass.
Love the populous music as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBSRXweG7E8

[Anonymous No.9999523]

>>9998951
Gold box D&D games too
Dungeon Master
Captive
Captive 2: Liberation

[Anonymous No.9999537]

>>9998710
Dungeon Master
Chaos Strikes Back
Personal Nightmare

[Anonymous No.9999553]

>>9999420
That video doesn't do justice - missing a number of tones. Try the ST intro version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2__6cCOWsA&ab_channel=SpiriTV

[Anonymous No.9999558]

>>9999553
Fair but if you really want populous music joy let's go to the ps1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs02P3Rhd0U

[Anonymous No.9999562]

>>9999553
The sound of the disc drive. kek. That's where cubasis got going on the ST I think

[Anonymous No.9999583]

>>9998710
All the best ones were ported to the Megadrive.

[Anonymous No.9999604]

>>9998710
Rise of the Dragon on an A500. Listen to that intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL0df56UV9k&ab_channel=JoeMac

[Anonymous No.9999809]

>>9998791
>80s computer games were complete ass unless you lived in Japan
This. I had many 80's computers, including 3 Amigas. By 1990 they were practically obsolete, certainly as far as gaming. But then I moved to Japan and they magically became good.
True story

[Anonymous No.9999841]

Meh. Mostly 2D games. Amiga is a highly overrated platform. Very expensive and most programs for it are garbage.

[Anonymous No.10001129]

>>9998939
There isn't a single Amiga exclusive that still holds up today.

[Anonymous No.10001238]

I'm a big Jetstrike fan, but it's an acquired taste. Extremely hard game

[Anonymous No.10001245]

>>9999809
larping faggot.

[Anonymous No.10001252]

>>9998710
Personally, I love Lemmings. Although later it got ports to other platforms

[Anonymous No.10001664]

>>9998710
Dis nigga never played Turrican or Turrican II. Go back to your rice computer, you weeaboo.

[Anonymous No.10001695]

Amiga isn't a platform, it's a way of life. ST fans get it, PC cucks will never understand they were gaming on overpriced calculators until 486/Doom, and they were still overpriced.

[Anonymous No.10001706]

New MegaAGS landed, feels good man.

[Anonymous No.10001732]

>>10001664
That's a poor mans Universal Soldier.

[Anonymous No.10001893]

A lot of the really good Amiga games (Worms, Another World) ended up on other systems, so people don't really associate them with the Amiga.

[Anonymous No.10002139]

>>10001245
Not a larp. For realsies. They magically became good. Just ask >>9998791

[Anonymous No.10002145]

>>9998710
Sensible Soccer, Shadow of the Beast. That's it.

[Anonymous No.10002185]

Hired Guns
Zeewolf 1/2
Exile (even got two different versions of this masterpiece to choose from)
Cannon Fodder 1/2
Hunter
Jetstrike CD32
Guardian CD32
Ruff'n'Tumble
Walker
Populous
Lemmings 1/2
No Second Prize
Stunt Car Racer
Carrier Command
Damocles
IK+
Speedball 2
The Chaos Engine
Midwinter 1/2
Odyssey
Qwak
Pinball Dreams/Illusions/Fantasies
Slam Tilt
Super Stardust
Utopia
Wizkid
Worms the Director's Cut
Laser Squad
Gods
Base Jumpers
Gravity Power
Megaolomania

If anyone starts going on about platform games ignore them, they don't know what they are talking about.

[Anonymous No.10002986]

>>10002145
>Shadow of the Beast
It's actually one of the worst Amiga games ever made. Sure, the gfx were nice at the time but it took them 2 more games to finally implement some gameplay.

[Anonymous No.10003127]

>>10002986
reeee!!! no. ur blasphem teh amiga god. how dare you

[Anonymous No.10003543]

>>9998762
>>9998791
>>9998710
>>10002986
> never owned an amiga
> doesn't know shit
when you livestream your suicides, which i assume will be any day now, please don't forget about us and post links to the streams here in this thread. don't forget to wear your atari and microsoft shirts so we know it's actually you dangling from the rope.

[Anonymous No.10003552]

>>10002185
don't even bother with threads like this, anon. it's the same low iq retard that hates amiga ,for some reason, that keeps creating the same threads over and over again.

[Anonymous No.10003570]

>>10003552
It's Nintendofags counter-trolling Amigafags because Amigafags like to shit on the Snezz for being an inferiour system with gay games.

[Anonymous No.10003578]

>>10003570
not surprising. nintentoddlers are bigger failures than apple fans.

[Anonymous No.10003595]

>>9998710
Shadow of the Beast is the only notable game I can think of that wasn't ported properly to any other contemporary platform like DOS.

[Anonymous No.10003680]

>>10003543
My real Amiga isn't good enough anymore for current demo scene releases. A1200 with a 20 MHz noname turbocard. For games, emulation is good enough.

[Anonymous No.10003686]

>>10002185
Cruise for a corpse is great. Best on Amiga.

[Anonymous No.10003692]

>>9998939
>the forefront of 16 bit gaming
I get that you like the systems, but come on.

[Anonymous No.10003694]

>>10003127
predicted >>10003543
like pottery

[Anonymous No.10004254]

>>10003543
>w-w-when u
Holy projections bat pronoun
>>10003680
http://signs-ur-in-a.cult
>>10003694
Many such cases.

[Anonymous No.10004818]

What are some of the most terrible Amiga games?
>Who Framed Roger Rabbit
>Total Recall
>First Samurai

[Anonymous No.10005041]

>>9998710
>Does the Amiga have any game?
Yes.

[Anonymous No.10005387]

A lot of Amiga games suffer from an early case of "graphics over gameplay". The tech was so far ahead of the 8-bit competition that devs could get away with making trash games that rode entirely on their amazing for the time graphics and sound.

[Anonymous No.10005701]

>>10004818
Castlevania
Shadow Of The Beast
Street Fighter 2

[Anonymous No.10005704]

>>10005041
>anals of rome
wow

[Anonymous No.10007397]

bumpo for Amigger

[Anonymous No.10008128]

I had an Amiga in the early 90's. Back then they had a very similar software library as PCs and Macs. But the action games on Amiga were generally a bit better, because it was originally designed to be a video game console (before they scraped those plans and made a computer instead), so there was dedicated graphics and sound hardware, which most games took advantage of. That said, not all games were well programmed. It basically suffered the same fate as all other 80's computers: some very shitty arcade ports were made for a quick buck. But also many good ones too.
Here's a pretty nice platform game.

[Anonymous No.10008145]

>>9999226
Yeah pretty good graphics there compared to the 8-bit versions. Same with Defender of the Crown. Also the earlier SSI Gold Box games were a bit better than the PC versions. And it's the same deal with some other earlier RPGs (Might & Magic II has a pretty ugly palette on the PC EGA version).
Anyway yeah, lots of nice games back then, and I do miss those simpler times when all you didn't even need a modem or hard drive.

[Anonymous No.10008146]

>>9999414
Yeah I'd say the turning point was the mid 90's. Until then the Amiga was definitely the better buy, especially given the much lower price and how you could just use a TV for display. But even the real 1084 monitors costed less than a VGA equivalent.

[Anonymous No.10008162]

>>10002986
There were better games in that genre, that's for sure. But I was still impressed by it at the time (1991 was the first time I touch an Amiga). Granted it was easy to die in that game, but I enjoyed exploring that strange world.
Later on I got better games such as Gods, Leander, Risky Woods, Lionheart, Flashback.
Pic was another one from 1990 that was kinda hard, but I still had a lot of fun with it.

[Anonymous No.10008165]

>>10003680
Pffff! If they call themselves demoscene and require more than a 1-meg A500, then they're lamers, simple as.

[Anonymous No.10008170]

>>10004818
I didn't have very much fun with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (arcade), but maybe I just sucked at it.

[Anonymous No.10008175]

>>10008146
Also one of the cool things is the computer used to come with BASIC on floppy disk (and full documentation, as you see those manuals in that other pic). So you could make games in BASIC, which back then most kids were already familiar with to some extent, because the computers at school all had a BASIC dialect of some sort.
But with the later OS releases, they dropped BASIC and replaced with a very boring language called AREXX, and that seems like a missed opportunity, when they could have bundled an even better BASIC instead (AMOS, Blitz, whatever).
After all this is a computer with nice graphics and sounds and was practically begging you to make stuff for it.

[Anonymous No.10008231]

>>9998791
MSX was shit too

[Anonymous No.10008237]

>>10008231
But muh Konami

[Anonymous No.10008285]

>>10008231
I played some of that stuff in emulator. Seems about on par with the western computers of the time. In the 80's I had an Amstrad, and enjoyed it a lot. The Amiga of course was much better, and quite a lot more expensive too, so I didn't get one until 1992.

[Anonymous No.10008348]

>>10001732
>That’s a poor man’s Univ…

[Anonymous No.10009335]

Was this on the amiga? By the time it released, I didnt have, nor could buy a HDD, so I never played the game (dad bought it for me). It's a mixture of tabletop and pc game, you need the board to play it.
Black Crown, by Topo.

[Anonymous No.10009342]

>>10009335

[Anonymous No.10009345]

>>10009342

[Anonymous No.10011247]

>>9998710
Kino system for men of culture. No one who owned one at the time dislikes Amigas, just weirdos on this site who feel threatened because they only owned a NES at the time. Because there wasn't some central power deciding what could and couldn't be published on the system it meant there were bad games as well as good, the former being what some people here focus on. But if you kept informed you could play loads of great games and even copy them off your friends for free. Also you could buy magazines and get playable demo disks every month which you couldn't do on consoles.

[Anonymous No.10011275]

>>10011247
>No one who owned one at the time dislikes Amigas, just weirdos on this site who feel threatened because they only owned a NES at the time
Anon, read what you just wrote a couple of times

[Anonymous No.10011315]

>>10009335
Anyone? I can only find pc version, when I search for an amiga version google shows me tennis rackets.

[Anonymous No.10011328]

>>10008170
This game got many ports but they are all the same shit.
It really needs more recognition for being a costant piece of shit in many formats.

[Anonymous No.10011370]

>>10008128
I had one and enjoyed a lot of games, it was a solid experience of computer games. I had a SNES as well so a pretty solid combo and still much cheaper than a PC.

[Anonymous No.10011402]

>>10005041
>AMC on there twice
What a fucked image. Repeating games even though there are more than enough to make an image three times as large?

[Anonymous No.10011446]

>>10011275
I just read what he wrote and it makes sense to me, *and* he's right.

[Anonymous No.10011689]

>>10001129
Turrican

[Anonymous No.10011725]

>>10008170
Oh yeah, that one sucked hard. I remember a similar Indy game on SNES that was miles better.

[Anonymous No.10011858]

>>9999271
I would not recommend almost any game on PC over Amiga if said game has sound or music.
Generally 3D vector games are the exception because those tend to run sluggish on Amiga but that's a moot point if you're using emulation.

[Anonymous No.10011864]

>>10011858
Monkey Island. MT-32.

[Anonymous No.10011881]

>>10005041
Oh yes... Bad Cat. *sip* Now that was a game.

[Anonymous No.10011890]

Bitches don't know about Top Banana.

[Anonymous No.10011918]

>>9998710
It's better than DOS for games that use a mouse, but also loads slower.

It was the home of many franchises, but they're just not spoken about or thought of as Atari games because consoles are much easier to emulate or play.

So brainlets think there's nothing on the system.

[Anonymous No.10012546]

>>10011689
>amiga exclusives
Turrican is a C64 game that was ported to some other systems.

[Anonymous No.10013078]

>>10009335
Never heard of it. But here's a very obscure RPG that I believe only was released on Amiga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpRPc2SkJww
If that video link doesn't work, just search for "Fate: Gates of Dawn"

[Anonymous No.10013082]

>>10011328
What's the most playable version? Maybe I'll try my hand at it again.

[Anonymous No.10013092]

>>10011725
Yeah makes sense. The console ports usually got better quality control when they did this kind of mass porting of a game to everything.

[Anonymous No.10013105]

>>10011858
There's a few cases where some Amiga games didn't have in-game music, but the PC version did. Pic related for example.

>>10011864
For me it's OPL (adlib or SB). Pic is a very good example of that, as is Dune.

[Anonymous No.10013249]

>>9998710
Yes, but they were ported everywhere and had music and sound effect working simultaneously

[Chud Anon No.10013259]

Furfag platform

[Anonymous No.10013481]

>>9998710
PC was a shit platform, fuck off headache to setup and a rip-off to buy. It was only when doom came out that it was with the effort to hold your nose and jump in that shitshow. Otherwise Amiga was the place to be.

[Anonymous No.10013715]

>>10001238
Loved that game and Wings of Fury

Zeewolf and Zeewolf 2: Wild Justice also do it for me (EA Strike games meets Virus)