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RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

GNC — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:43:09 GMT

Games i played where mainly rpgs& Sims.Captive,knightmare,the Ultima Games,Knights of the Sky,Bloodwych,Dungeon Master...Civilization,Speedball1&2,SensibleSoccer,carrier command,elite,Lords Of Chaos.Plenty more i`ve forgotten :P

Never liked arcade sims on amiga,in general as i always owned consoles,which handled them better,Mortal Combat & Streetfighter2 games in particular.

Pogo? Golden axe & ghost N Gobblins where arcade conversions: golden axe was segas and Ghosts&Goblins & ghouls n ghosts where Capcoms.

Captain Blood? i loved that on ST...it was old hat for amiga though.

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

Pogo — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:35:32 GMT

There was nothing better after a hard ay at school than comming home to lemmings or captain planet, I miss my A500 :-(

and the there was a game called golden axe, i think thats what it was called which was quite good as well as ghots and goblins

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

RRich — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:11:53 GMT

Best for a scrap: MKII (extra disk drive(df1)helped) only had to insert other disk for certain players which me and my mate avoided to get on with next scrap asap!

Best for a laugh: Monkey Island, Guybrush Threepwood. The name alone is enough to make me smile. Still.

Best for a drive: Lotus turboII. Pea souper anybody?
Best for a drive: PGA tour golf. Four player fun for all.

Best for making you clean the mouse: Lemmings/Time Keepers.

I'm sure I had a lot more games than this but can't remember them, awesome they were though.

Was so impressed with Sonys Playstation (WIP3OUT TEKKEN SOULBLADE RIDGE RACER) I let my ex bird keep A500, Monitor, extra drive, memory, joysticks, mice, Games, utilities. Everything. Silly me.:cool:

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

chilli — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:49:59 GMT

1) Pinball erm Fantasies I think - there was a Party & a Graveyard table???

Hang on..... {fx: Rummage}

Wow - there is a wikipedia entry! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Fantasies

Partyland & Stones & Bones!

2) Wizball - just nothing else like it!

3) Diggers on the CD32 - the one and only computer game my wife has ever played

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

-Wiz!- — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:50:31 GMT

Ghouls n ghost.....you battled your way to the end only to magically palmed off back to the very beginning b4 you could fight the boss!!! What a cheap way of giving the game more longevity...lol :D

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

Alpha Channel — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:57:16 GMT

Ooo.. I remember Starglider (I think it was on the speccy as well either that or I had seen it in a multi-format mag), I remember a game called Captain Blood, never got round to playing that one and, of course, of F/A 18 Interceptor. That was one of the first games I played on the Miggy:). It was on my mates Amiga 500 and they were stuck on the mission that required you to intercept a cruise missile (having tried many times for a month), he gave me a go and sat back with a smug look spread across his face, I nailed it first go the look on his face was priceless.:hehe:

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

cardcrash — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:26:59 GMT

Nope, don't remember star glider I,m afraid.

Don't suppose you remember a little game called 'Rox', where you were a little ship that had to shoot/dodge increasing amounts of meteors coming down the screen. You had to have the joystick on rapid-fire to get anywhere! In school whatever your highest score was, was your 'Rox-factor'! ...Great!

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

oldboy — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:37:46 GMT

"stunt car racer" thats a game i remember well, loved it and while we are at it does anyone remember an early amiga game called star glider? it was released around late 87 early 88... i cant believe its nearly 20 years ago:ermm:, its nearly as bad as the thought of being forty in eight years:w00t:

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

shem — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:59:13 GMT

Hello All

Well that takes me back a little while back

i guess lotus esprit turbo challenge 2 cannon fodder stunt car racer and death mask woulb be there somewhere...

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

cardcrash — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:29:13 GMT

How could I forget, the Amiga was a major part of my childhood!!

Awwwww... I want to be 13 again!! Anyone have a time machine?!?!?

*edit: the other thing I'll never forget was the disk drive, it made the most amazing grinding noises!!

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

oldboy — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:42:41 GMT

Wow, you have a good memory cardcrash, forgot about many of those games although i remember another world... great game, what about the 1987-88 classic called defender of the crown?, as a young 13 year old i loved that game :D

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

cardcrash — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:01:28 GMT

Ahhhh, the good old Amiga days...... the most important topic ever discussed in high school (almost)!
Okay here's my list as suggested in the mag:

Most Memorable: [good]
Chuck Rock (for being silly, and my mum's friend thought it was soooo funny)
Xenon II (game was ok but the music was wicked, perhaps this'll bring back some memories: www.tinyurl.com/nzthw :w00t::D:w00t: cool!)
Project X (proved games could look really good with only 32 on screen colours)

Most Memorable: [bad]
Shadow of the Beast II (was literally to scary to play, gave me the heebie jeebies, I think it was the music. oh & remember the 'ten pints' cheat!)
Rise of the Robots ( I remember it as one of the first mega hyped games, that fell flat on it's ****)
Days of Thunder (for being totally unplayable, like 1fps, in fact any 3D game except Stunt Car Racer!)

Best Ever:
IK+ (Loved this, and got so good at it)
Speedball 2 (I soooo loved this game!)
Pinball Dreams (played this for hours on end. have the pc version of fantasies somewhere, still great!)

Worst Ever:
Kings Quest 5 (couldn't play it for the disk swaps, a waste of £25)
E-Motion (was bored within 10 seconds)
Bart vs the Space Mutants (what a load of rubbish)

My favourite games:
Another World (got really into this, but never completed it)
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge II (usually drove the Elan tho!)
Final Fight (despite amazing slow-down still liked it, & was impressed with the huge sprites)

Other games I liked:
Robocop 2 (was really impressed with the quality of graphics & character animation)
Magic Pockets (good fun and wasn't it on going live or one of those saturday kids shows)
First Samurai (only had the demo but played it lots)
Licence to Kill (got it off a mag and was the first game I played, never got past the first stage tho)
Pit Fighter (was kinda rubbish but I still liked it for some reason)
Total Recall (sprites had big heads)
Switchblade II (ace game. I took the mickey out of my mates ST version too)
Super Off-Road (have this for pc too, awesome!)

I may edit and add more, I so loved my Amiga!!!:hehe:

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

KW — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:52:36 GMT

Not really got any for the worst section as I tended to just buy stuff that either had great reviews or I knew I would like

Best
Pinball Fantasies
Monkey Island
Superfrog
Rodland
Shufflepuck Cafe

Most memorable
Rocket Ranger (more to running out of fuel a lot)
Project X (for being really difficult)
Indy and the Fate of Atlantis (for constant disk swapping with about 10 floppies)
Loom- hearing swan lake in a computer game

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

TheEditor — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:27:33 GMT

Synidcate! How could I forget the world-altering triumph that was Syndicate! That goes in my list, too. Might have to dig out my PC copy of Syndicate Wars again, now...:D

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

Maynards — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:51:00 GMT

BEST Game: Cannon Fodder + Syndicate + Mortal Kombat

Just nothing beats it. Have it on my PC on an Emulator it's that good.

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

Alpha Channel — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:20:44 GMT

Ahh the good ole Amiga :D, got four of the little bleeders (well, ones towered). A500 x1, CD32 (expanded with SX1 and 6Mb) x1, A1200 x2,one with a Viper Accel. (68030 and FPU) one towered with a 68040/250MHZ PPC accel. and Permedia graphics card (all in mint condition and working), aaannnyyway on to the games...

Personal favourites -

Syndicate

Dune 2

Historylines 1914-1918

(I've really too many to list but Hunter (still got an original copy somewhere) and Conqueror are joint third).

Most memorable -

Dune 2 (played it so much I started having dreams trying to work out strategies for map three).

Turrican (1,2 and 3)

RoboCod

(Once again I've others such as Super Cars 1 and 2, Lotus trilogy, UFO Enemy Unknown amongst many).

Best ever? Hmmm, depends on favoured genre,

X-out - best side scroller shooter

UFO - best strategy (a really difficult one this 'un, hard to choose but this one stands out as the one I played most).

Elite 2 Frontier

And if you want the worst three games -

Rise of the Robots

Microcosm

Captain Planet

There's hundreds of games that I've played and loved over the best part of 16 years, I could spend a small fortune at the retro stores if it wasn't for the fact I need new laptop and desktop machines for work.

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

Just Jon — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:10:10 GMT

My favourites were...

Super Frog
Pinball Dreams / Fantasies
Arabian Nights

Also a few others I enjoyed in no particular order...

The Killing Game Show
Goblins 2
Skidmarks
Desert / Gulf / Urban Strike
Syndicate
Archer Macleans Pool
Micro Machines
Cannon Fodder
A.T.R. (All Terrain Racing)

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

boombaxx — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:42:24 GMT

Multiplayer swos,Silent hunter 2, and Elite 2

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

TheEditor — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:21:00 GMT

[quote][b]Sven Harvey (06/09/2006)[/b][hr]It was my revenge for all those Match Day II slaughters....[/quote]

I'd forgotten about them....:D

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

Sven Harvey — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:35:09 GMT

It was my revenge for all those Match Day II slaughters....

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

TheEditor — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:24:08 GMT

Top three memorable for wrong reasons? Bah!

* The one time Sven beat me at Kick Off after I'd had seemingly half my team sent off. Bleedin' referee.
* Midwinter 2. Absolutely loved the first one, was really enthused by the reviews for the second, rushed out and bought it on day one, regretted it within a day or two
* The demise of Cinemaware. With perhaps one exception, I never thought they made *great* games, but they usually delivered something interesting.

I toyed with the idea of including some of the Bitmap Brothers games: Gods, Xenon II, Magic Pockets I thought were hideously overrated. But then I remembered Chaos Engine, Speedball and especially Speedball II, and the totally underrated Cadaver, so I left them in peace!

S

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

Sven Harvey — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:50:42 GMT

Hi

Simon - top three most memorable for good reasons is good, but also is a top three most memorable for bad reasons :)

Spedley - Hunter was outstanding - you try finding an original of that these days

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

Spedley — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:11:02 GMT

I didn't have an Amiga (I did have an 800XL - still do!) but my friend did so I can only remember two games, Alien Breed (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/xavnet/alienbreed/) which was amazing. It looked much better pre-VGA. The second one was X-out we played for hours but you always restarted from the begining which was very frustrating (plus we also called it 'ex-out' until we were a little older and realised our mistake).

P.S. I've just remembered a revelation. It was called Hunter and was the first game I ever played with 'absolute' freedom. You could get in cars, vans, boats etc. - a bit like GTA but commando style. It really inspired me at the time.

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

TheEditor — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:26:07 GMT

Best
Wings
Sensible World Of Soccer
Rainbow Islands

Most Memorable (but generally for the right reasons, which, er, breaks the rules a bit)
Any of the early Cinemaware stuff
Beating Sven at Kick Off
Midwinter
4-player Lotus 2
Pinball Fantasies

Worst
Epic
Shadow of the Beast 2
Worms

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

Sticky Mick — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:04:14 GMT

My 3x3s are:

[b]The Best[/b]
Falcon. (The first game I bought for my A500)
Tornado. (Please, please, PLEASE will somebody update that to todays PC standards)
Breathless. (A brilliant achievement, but too late to save the Amiga)

[b]Most Memorable[/b]
Doom. (It proved that anything the PC could do, the Amiga could do just as well, at the time)
Lords of The Rising Sun. (Played that for 9hrs sometimes. One of the best strategy games to grace the Amiga)
TFX. (Proved to developers that they should just stop whinging and get on with it)

[b]Favourite[/b]
Tornado. (Those airfield attacks were the best)
Breathless. (It left me just that)
Lords of The Rising Sun. (It's now called "Shogun-Total War" on the PC)

RE: The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

johnbarry — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:36:43 GMT

Sorry I can't say 3, if it's of any use to you I loved playing Donkey Kong / Crazy Kong on the Amiga. But I loved to play it on arcade games also. Sadly it's not released on PC so I miss my Amiga if only for playing Kong?

The best, most memorable and favourite games (and the opposite)

Sven Harvey — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:05:29 GMT

Hi all,

Put your thinking caps on - what are your top three most memorable games, top three favourite games and the top 3 games ever on the Amiga???

There is something on this in Amiga Mart soon - but start having a think :) I also wanna know what your least favourite games, worst games and most memorable games for the wrong reasons are... like you know Rise Of The Robots