For (former) Amiga users

[BethanyTeam17]

I think my most played demo was a split that had Brian the Lion and Bob's Bad Day on it!

[Squirminator2k]

I played the Holiday Lemmings demos to death!

[Clydos]

Hey, vackillers, I think, onEscapee was an AGA-only game, so no chance for A500/A600. :-) It was shipped just on CD, if I remember right. Have a look at the vid beth posted!

Yeeeaaaah, the political uncorrect Cannon Fodder. Had great luck to buy it in Germany. Only some weeks after release it was forbidden to sell. :-)

[vackillers]

Originally Posted by bethamari

Yeah we've got a few that I know of and I'm sure lots more as well


Just had a quick look at this video of onEscapee, the start of it reminds me of the start of Ghost Trick haha!

Never played that... damn, a game i missed and its exactly like another world... The Alien Breed games were amazing as well, supprised now one mentioned that already, used to spend countless hours on those with my buddy, the new ones are beyond the originals though graphic, so well done and so happy T17 did remake those old classics

[vackillers]

Did anyone here ever had the Amiga CD32? because at the time i didn't have the cash to buy back in the day, and it went extinct almost as fast the Atari Jaguar lol... I remember a few of the Cds that were vailable for it, the massive mutli collection of games stuff, but that was about it really for that platform that i can physically remember

[Squirminator2k]

I've owned two CD32s in my time. It was briefly, the most popular CD-ROM based gaming system in the UK, despite Commodore's best efforts. That is to say nothing of developers (including Team17, sadly) who released rather lazy drag-and-drop ports to the system (though Worms, Alien Breed: Tower Assault and Alien Breed 3D did get CD32 enhancements). The only games released for the system that were specifically developed with the CD32 in mind were Liberation: Captive II, a rather fantastic open-world scifi game which used a bizarre save file mechanism, and Microcosm, which was actually supposed to be an FMTowns exclusive before being ported to a number of different systems.

[vackillers]

I played Microcosm at a gaming event in london which was absolutely fantastic, loved the hell out of that game, at the time that was one of the only games available for it though. Its a shame in a way because i personally felt, the CD32 and the Atari Jaguar had so much potential and life in their systems but nothing was being developed for either systems, nothing of good quanity anyway, The Jaguar was the first EVER 64bit machine, PCs at the time weren't even 64bit which showed how much advanced the 2 platforms were, could even consider them ahead of their time, but were being out played by the masses of the nintento and saga megadrive which left no real desire (financially) to develop anything for the 2 systems, that, coupled with next to no advertisement on TV adds or anything like that meant the systems got tagged behind because no one really knew about them.

[Clydos]

I also had and have a CD32, together with an SX-1 expension.

Another enhanced version for CD32 was Pirates! Gold, which I played also a lot!

[Squirminator2k]

Yo had the SX-1 expansion? Lucky bugger! I always wanted one of those, and it's not something that can be properly emulated at the moment.

[Madmaxquinn]

Nobody's mentioned Police Quest or Skid Marks. Was it the SuperFrog demo I remember being able to cheat on buy sitting on the mouse (making sure both mouse buttons were pressed down) causing SuperFrog to essentially become invincible? And I loved the Soccer Kid demo despite hating football.

[Clydos]

@Squirminator2K: Yup, and I still have! :-) But wouldn't sell it for any money. :-D

@Madmaxquinn; Well, we mentioned Super Skidmarks above!

[Squirminator2k]

Originally Posted by Madmaxquinn

Nobody's mentioned Police Quest or Skid Marks. Was it the SuperFrog demo I remember being able to cheat on buy sitting on the mouse (making sure both mouse buttons were pressed down) causing SuperFrog to essentially become invincible? And I loved the Soccer Kid demo despite hating football.

To my shame, I've never played Police Quest. I don't remember being invulnerable in the Superfrog demo, but I do remember one interesting quirk:

The demo contained the entire third world of the game - Circus world - but if you entered a password on the Options screen, literaly any password, you could play the first world! Finishing it would "load" world two, which was actually just a scrambled mess of broken tiles.

I'll try to screengrab it this weekend, if I remember.

[vackillers]

lol thats pretty funny yeah do a screen grab i'd like to see that heh

[SupSuper]

Originally Posted by Clydos

Hey, vackillers, I think, onEscapee was an AGA-only game, so no chance for A500/A600. :-) It was shipped just on CD, if I remember right. Have a look at the vid beth posted!

There was also a PC version released some years later, and while it looks terrific for an Another-World/Flashback type game, I can safely say it is more frustratingly hard than both of them combined and it makes it very hard to actually enjoy it.

They also made an iPhone version but I haven't tried it.

[vackillers]

lol, there was a LOT of Amiga games that were like that anyway, cannon fodder definitely springs to mind, easy when you know how, but if you didn't know how, you could loose your entire supply of soldiers on some gay level that you should be doing first time! Hired guns was a really hard game, to me, the first of its kind ever, for a FPS genre type game.. music and soundFX kicked so much ass on that!!

interesting they made a PC version of that, the only did that with a few games actually, Cannon fodder, which was terrible, all the men were stretched and it just simply ran too fast haha, and the original settlers, which was a really good port.

[Squirminator2k]

Please don't use "gay" as a pejorative.

[LowTier]

Originally Posted by Clydos

Very cool, great to read! I think, e.g. at EA no one knows what an Amiga is anymore ... ;-)

Hahaha and It's a shame because back then ea made some pretty cool games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUPxxZu9E4Q

@bethamari Thanks for the look at OnEscapee... Back then, I heard in the pipeline that a sequel to Flashback was coming but I never saw it come to fruit. I waited eagerly for it with my A500/A1200's
yes! I can remember that Brian the Lion Demo

@MadMaxquinn... hahahaha, same thing here man. Hate football but loved that Soccer Kid Demo, I had to get involved that game had such a charm about it and was fun/interesting to play.

As for the Talk of the Monkey Islands, I'm pretty sure only Monkey 1 and 2 came to Amiga. Curse of Monkey(3) came to PC.
Escape from Monkey(4) Came out for PC and PS2.

Been playing the Monkey2 HD remake on 360 recently aswell...
V.Nice version of the game.

[SupSuper]

Originally Posted by LowTier

@bethamari Thanks for the look at OnEscapee... Back then, I heard in the pipeline that a sequel to Flashback was coming but I never saw it come to fruit. I waited eagerly for it with my A500/A1200's

There was a sequel to Flashback although it was fairly different, a 3D action-adventure called Fade to Black, it only made it to the PC/PS1.

[LowTier]

haha, yea I can remember that coming out but I never played it, in my eyes at the time it was kind of like taking streets of rage and turning it into fighting force...
Can't comment on the game itself tho', was it any good ?

[Madmaxquinn]

Originally Posted by Clydos

@Madmaxquinn; Well, we mentioned Super Skidmarks above!

doh, search typo fail!

[Dix-Neuf]

I love how the OP has no "I know what it is but I don't have one" option

[Bobyorange]

I loved my amiga 500+, shame it kicked the bucket. We had superfrog, Lemmings, captain planet, Silkworm and thanks to swapping disks at primary school (surprisingly was more popular in our year than panini stickers) of such crackers like Gunship, the great giana sisters and Desert Strike.

Was all well and good until the day we argued over the controller and the computer fell off the table. Green screen blues make a bobby sad.

Does anybody else think of their amiga and then remember that song by Zoe, sunshine on a rainy day? Or am I alone there?

[Madmaxquinn]

I miss Days of Thunder. Crap game but execellent theme tune.

[Worm Mad]

Days of Thunder was one of the first games I had for the Amiga (it came with the computer) and man, it was terrible. I don't even remember ever beating the first race.

Also with the machine (Amiga 500) were Shadow of the Beast 2, Night Breed and Deluxe Paint. I thought there was another game and Google suggests it was probably Back to the Future 2 (which I did have but thought I'd got later).

Anyway, Shadow of the Beast 2 was pretty naff but was the first Amiga title I played. I remember being in awe of the screen when you died thinking the graphics were incredible (before that we'd had a Vectrex).

Night Breed was horrible. It was creepy as hell (at least for a young kid) and the gameplay wasn't exactly enjoyable.

Deluxe Paint was the best product in the package. A smooth piece of art making kit that easily beats the risible Paint that comes with today's PCs.

And, since it may have been one of the originals, Back to the Future 2 wasn't great but was still fun. It always used to amuse us that the characters mouths moved open and shut in the animation sequences for far longer than it would realistically take them to say the dialogue.

"MARTY. WE'VE GOT TO GO BACK. BLA BLA BLA BLA"
"BACK WHERE? BLA BLA BLA"
"BACK... TO THE FUTURE. BLA BLA BLA"

[Madmaxquinn]

I got to the second race in DoT once.
Night Breed was a keyboard mashing game one bit and a poor point and click game the next. It was dog hard with no saving. BtF2 was again a bit random but we managed to get through most of it without cheating.
Shadow of the Beast, in the days before the Internet often left me scratching my head trying to figure out what to do next. I could usually break it by jumping through the floor in certain locations. I usually gave up and played Fighting Fantasy instead.

[BethanyTeam17]

Originally Posted by Madmaxquinn

I got to the second race in DoT once.

Got too excited thinking that said DotT then

[Worm Mad]

Originally Posted by Madmaxquinn

I got to the second race in DoT once.

Yeah, I think my brother did too once. I could never be bothered.

Originally Posted by Madmaxquinn

Shadow of the Beast, in the days before the Internet often left me scratching my head trying to figure out what to do next.

It was a pretty weird game. In fact, there were loads of really weird games on the Amiga. Nowadays, you'd never get them funded but I guess it was an age where games were made with far smaller teams (sometimes one or two people) and budgets than you get today. Still, sometimes you miss the insanity

Originally Posted by bethamari

Got too excited thinking that said DotT then

Day of the Tentacle? I don't think that came out on the Amiga (could be wrong).


Found myself humming this earlier - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFTsUQTBPZs (specifically the bit about 39 seconds in)

[Madmaxquinn]

Originally Posted by Worm Mad

there were loads of really weird games on the Amiga. Nowadays, you'd never get them funded but I guess it was an age where games were made with far smaller teams (sometimes one or two people) and budgets than you get today. Still, sometimes you miss the insanity

They were games based on movies and 99.9999999999999999999999% of those are, well basically, just cr*p.

[BethanyTeam17]

Originally Posted by Worm Mad

Day of the Tentacle? I don't think that came out on the Amiga (could be wrong).

I know I love old school point-and-clicks though!

[Worm Mad]

Originally Posted by Madmaxquinn

They were games based on movies and 99.9999999999999999999999% of those are, well basically, just cr*p.

Eh? All weird games on the Amiga were based on movies? Not sure I follow you there (pretty sure most of the games I'm thinking of weren't based on any movies I've ever seen).

Originally Posted by bethamari

I know I love old school point-and-clicks though!

Yeah, me too. In fact, adventure games are my favourite genre of videogames. I'm a sucker for good dialogue and stories