Top 10 Amiga Games of All Time!
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- These are the best Amiga games ever made .... in my opinion! This is part 2 of my top 20 Amiga games, Part 1 is here: • The Best Amiga Games -...
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Ok, as I've had a few smart comments on this - Frontier came with two disks. Disk two was the game disk, disc one was the intro! and as for my pronunciation of 'TH' ... that's how Irish people pronounce it, a hard 'T', it's our accent :)
Bugger them if they can't understand an accent, who are they to talk? We all have an accent from where we hail from. Must be yanks...
CruachanKeith thanks for making this. Bitmap bro’s games always had good music
Reach for the skies used to always crash on me screen went all jittery .
CruachanKeith brutal sports football I enjoyed playing that 🤣
Oh yeah, I hadn't picked up on where you are from until you hit the hard "T". Irish all the way. :)
I think the greatest legacy of the Amiga is that everyone who played it would have a different 10.
Mike W - so true
@Simon Peter but there are 64 characters on screen, not 64,000 ... that's the point I was trying to make :-)
Yes this is one part of the great legacy of Amiga! The other is: It was a great and outstanding computer of his time. And: We can sit along with our lists, compare them combine them to a list of top 100 Amiga games and recognize that some of this games are still in the rankings for best computer games of all time. ;)
Oh yes. I am a proud owner of a Monkey Island box, signed by Ron Gilbert. So: I absoloutly knew what you mean.
The Settlers was known in Germany as "Die Siedler". It is ´till date a very popular franchise in Germany and had also a big sucsess as board game. But the old Amiga game is still the best one.
I used to love "SpeedBall" on the Amiga .
Speedball 2.... "Ice cream.... ice cream...."
@@gallan671 I loved Speedball but hated Speedball 2.. it had terrible gameplay but people seemed to like it.
@@darrenporter1850 are you mad!!
@@nprintheshit icecream. Icecream.. very annoying. Plus there is a reason when you watch a game of football there is not a machine at the side of the pitch to get extra points.. that was annoying and ruined the gameplay too! Original Speedball was great, so fast and just goals at end of the pitch!
Speedball 2! Great Game! No doubt about that! In the top 5 Amiga Games with Wings, Lost Patrol, Defender of the Crown and Moonstone!
I never owned an Amiga. The first time I ever played on one was in about 1990. I was blown away by the graphics and sound. They were so far ahead of their time.
Oh boy, that soundtrack from the Chaos Engine is such a blast even 30 years on. What a banger!
Chaos engine is a very juicy polished bitmap brothers game. I hope they return and make retros games
Oh yeah... Turrican II... Rick Dangerous... Star Wars... Desert Strike... North & South... Another World... Panza Kick Boxing... Manhattan Dealers... IK+... Shadow of the Beast...Barbarian...Test Drive... Carrier Command...Falcon...Flood...Pinball Dreams...Postman Pat...R-Type...Starglider...Sword of Sodan...Wing Commander...Wings of Fury... I admit that I really miss those old days of pure fun;-) Now I can feel the age creeping up my bones again *lol*
Rick dangerous! Yeah! So difficult but fun
@@g_geezer3277 Yeah, I could´ve gone on forever, but I wanted to point out the most rememberable ones for me... but I forgot to name F-18 Interceptor, that´s right ;-)
Oohh north and south !! I totaly forgot that was so cool
and indiana jones!!! but one of my favorites was...pac-mania...and bubble bobble
North and south what a brilliant game when appache throw tomahowk from the corner of screen brilliant
Loved my Amiga, out of every computer and console I have ever owned the Amiga is my no1. I’m 41 now so was playing the Amiga in my teens at home locked away in my bedroom in another world! Happy days...
you've described my life :-)
CruachanKeith it was a wonderful era of gaming, will never be matched in my eyes
Sid Plays yup never had a computer I’m as fond of as the Amiga. Maybe it’s just nostalgia but I don’t feel the same way about the other computers I had as a kid.
Same.
Ditto
The most overlooked amiga game has to be Hired Guns. Seriously deep, addictive multiplayer, level designer, huge. We used to build really complicated traps for eachother to figure out, all night sessions with teams of mates. Absolutely ahead of it's time.
Review it!
I absolutely agree with you. Great game.
Amazing game... Newer finish it couse some flopy error :( hope to find a way to play it now with 3 more people...
I played the shit out of the demo but could never find a copy of the full game. Loved Hired Guns...a top 10 Amiga game for me for sure.
I used to play hired guns with 3 other mates like the first multi player cod
Yes
Nice list! Bringing back some great Amiga memories there! Some of my favourites were.... Turrican II, Soccer Rivals, Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Illusions, Microprose F1 Grand Prix, Cannon Fodder, Arkanoid, Jimmy White's Worldwind Snooker, Hunter, Sensible Soccer, Turbo Challenge, International Karate +, The Secret of Monkey Island, Theme Park, Scorched Tanks. I'm probably missing loads of others I loved too. Jesus, I couldn't do a top 10 list! haha.
finally someone mentions turrican!!!
Yours is a list I recognise more! I can't believe so many were missed. Truly OPs bias but there were commonly loved games like the above & Gods, Moonstone, Alienbreed SE, Great Giana sisters (Mario rip off), Cadaver, Heimdall 2, crazy cars 2, Killing game show, desert strike, anotherworld & flashback, super pang, rick dangerous 2, speedball 2....
I always loved Syndicate.
me too, i have that in the first part
same here, i played it over and over... i managed to get through it using only a single agent, although that required glitching through a wall during the 'escort the doctor' mission (and probably elsewhere.) great game.
This Game rocked
Cannon Fodder!
classic
Am I the only one, who loved and still loves "Marble Madness"? 😘
that was one hell of a game!
Was great also
It was one of my first amiga games ever. I still remember ist very good, that´s amazing!
Checker "rolling madness", the remake on pc, amazingly good!
I must have had over 600 games on my amiga, going from an A500 to a CD32 and A4000/40, Marble madness was actually 1 of the first 3 games I got. Along with Brataccas and Phalanx.
Back in the 90s my favorite games were cannon fodder, sensible soccer, desert storm, speedball. Those were great years. What a nostalgia
My most played Amiga games:
1. Kick Off 2
2. Lotus Turbo Challenge
3. Speedball 2
4. Supercars 2
5. Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
A special mention must go to The New Zealand Story and Rainbow Islands, which were great arcade conversions.
New Zealand story literally impossible to complete
OH Speedball 2 my love
@@Khaos969 not if you type motherfuckingkiwibastard before you start ;)
No Wings? That game was 3-in-one! dogfights, topview bomber-missions, sidescrolling strafing missions... and boy, that campaign was long and awesome ! :D
And the original Dune, how amazing was that game? The final battle destroying the Harkonnen...
I remember playing that one while having Iron Maiden's To Tame a Land on repeat :D
several of my friends bought Amigas after seeing me playing Wings. brilliant game.
Those were two of my favorites too!! :)
Wings is one of my all time favourite games, hands down
Wings available on android
Yeah! Dune II was basically the Amigas Command and Conquer. Loved Wings! Anybody knows Wings of fury? One of the best and most fun side scrolling fighter bomber game! North vs south is my top 2 Player game along with International karate +.
I agree for Sensible Soccer and Chaos Engine. For me on my top list are: Another World, Flashback, Lotus II, Super Cars II, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island 1&2, Dune II etc
Flashback was brilliant.
AI love everything Amiga 500 related 👌🏻great upload matey👊🏻🍻🍻
I'm 42 now and still thinking about my Amiga games... I remember pretending to be sick to stay at home instead of going to school, to play all day long! :D
F29 Retaliator
Sherman M4
Lost patrol
Defender of the crown
Pirates
Lords of the rising sun
Prince of Persia
Wings
Moonstone
Panza kick boxing
Powermonger
Populous II
Centurion defender of Rome
Stunt car racer
R-Type
Monkey island
Operation Stealth (James Bond: The Stealth Affair)
Hunter
Cadaver
...
Oh my god, i can't stop! So many good games...
Greetings from France!
WTF I thought I was the only one who did that. Great minds think alike. :D
That's a bloody good list, I'd swap monkey for monkey 2 and moonstone for carrier command.
J'avoue que ta liste est bien sympa, que de bons souvenirs, je rajouterais Shadow of the beast 1 et 2, Nord et Sud, Lotus turbo esprit challenge, Lemmings, Rick Dangerous.
Aaah Cadaver, la fin était beugué si mes souvenirs sont bons mais ce jeu était excellent, Opération Stealth énorme, y'avait Flashback aussi et Prince of Persia, enfin bref y'en a trop
@@fredkalizero7453 Totalement d'accord! Rooo, Shadow of the beast, sa musique légendaire et son scrolling de malade, North & South, j'adorais de jeu jusqu'à ce que la disquette fatigue et que les "guru meditation" s'enchaînent ^^. Lotus Esprit, super beau! Lemmings évidemment! Rick Dangerous, son cri quand on perdait une vie est encore gravé dans ma mémoire, whaaaaaaa! Prince of Persia, l'animation, l'énigme du miroir à franchir, les pièges qui coupaient le perso en deux ^^ Flashback, j'étais passé à coté mais j'avais patiné Another World auparavant... Tiens du coup, j'ajoute :
Speedball II
The New Zealand story
Toki
Vroom
Croisière pour un cadavre
Loom
Iron Lord
Pinball dreams
...
Bon, je vais m'arrêter là, comme tu dis, y'en a trop!
Amigalement vôtre! ^^
@@edstar83 Can you imagine if the Covid appeared at that time?...
"Stay home"
"Ok buddy, no prob'
!"
;)
Hybris, cannon fodder, super frog, wizkid, xenon II, llamatron, dune, swiv, silkworm, lionheart, monkey island........there’s so many Amiga classics!
Cannon Fodder, Body Blows, Final Fight, Another World, yes, great memories.
Another world is my number 1.
I still play it on the ps4.
Giana Sisters
Four games that I played to death on my Amiga and that I think should be included in any top 10 Amiga list:
1. Llamatron 2112
2. Rock n Roll
3. Turbo Hang On
4. Archer McClean's Pool/ Jimmy White's Snooker
Llamatron 2112 is Jeff Minter at his crazy, psychedelic best. Sure, it's pretty much a revisited Williams Robotron 2084, but Jeff added so many extras, power ups, bizarre attackers and levels to make a fast, frenetic and thoroughly addictive game. I played it for months and destroyed a number of joysticks before managing to complete all 99 levels!
Rock n Roll has to be one of the most fiendishly addictive and compelling arcade puzzle games that I have ever played, easily on the same level as Lemmings. The objective is simply to guide a ball to the end of each level while navigating hazards, treacherous terrain and solving puzzles along the way. It had everything from precise and skilful control, puzzle solving/ logic as well as racing against the clock. All the while with some great music to keep you going. A very underrated game that should have got much more recognition.
Turbo Hang On is a port from the Sega arcade classic of the same name. On its release, the Amiga port was easily the best of all the conversions at the time. Faithful to the original, awesome graphics (showing what the Amiga was capable of) with fast and exhilarating game play.
Jimmy White's Snooker and Archer McClean's Pool (both programmed by Archer) were basically the same game play, with the snooker version licenced to use World snooker champion Jimmy White's name and the pool version released under Archer's own name. Both were incredibly good fun to play with unique gameplay cue control and excellent 3D graphics. Probably the best snooker and pool games ever in my opinion. Oh, and if no input is made to the game after a certain period of time, the balls start making faces at you!
Ah Jeff (Manic) Minter
The guy that did the side scrolling shooter 'Revenge of the mutant camels'
It's very refreshing too see videos like these; constituting actual personal experiences
There was something incredibly special about that era of gaming. Maybe it was the system itself, or the quality of the games, or how it was such a huge part of my younger years, but for me there are still some games that hold their own against some of the titles out today. Granted the graphics might not be quite as appealing, but the Monkey Island series, Sensible (World Of) Soccer, Batman: The Movie, Goblins, Lemmings, Worms amongst many others will forever stand the test of time.
Two games I can't believe aren't in this list:
1. Hired Guns
2. UFO: Enemy Unknown (the original XCOM game)
The second one in particular is not only one of the best games on the Amiga but one of the best games of all time.
Just your opinion, as it is his. We all have our own lists, each saying their game was the best of all.
I agree. Even though I have XCOM and XCOM 2 on Steam, I also have Enemy Unknown. It’s spookier than the more modern games, and tactics are more vital. The only edge the modern games have is better graphics and sound effects.
Agreed.... Hired guns AMAZING.... rember Sim? He did all our heavy lifting
The music to Hired Guns was good.
I forgot about Jagged Alliances 2 which definately rivals X-Com.
Really good list, agree with several of your choices. Though I would have put The Secret of Monkey Island first :)
Hm, my list would not have any of them. Monkey Island, Turrican, Xenon 2, Populous, North&South, The Bard's Tale, Battle Isle, Speedball 2, Laser Squad. And since he seems to favour aircraft simulators, my pick would have been Their Finest Hour: Air Battle of Britain. Even the runnerups don't contain any of these.
What an awesome top notch system the Amiga was. Picking a top 10 will always be a somewhat controversial topic, because there were tons of good games for the time created for it.
Yes, The Settlers is a classic, and is probably my all-time fav Amiga game.
As a kid I loved strategy games like megalomania and populous , I went all the way to the west end with my mum to buy this game … got it home it worked for 1 day and stopped working … went all the way back got a new copy the next weekend … same thing happened , I never found out why it only played once and never got a chance to really play this game 😢lol
I had an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 1200 , ahhh, the memories ! Favourite Amiga games... Gods , speedball 1&2 , civilisation 1 , colonisation , railroad tycoon , f19 Stealth fighter , stunt car racer, F1 grand Prix , panzer kick boxing, budokan ....and north and south.
Not many ppl know about panza kick boxing what a game! U could pick your punches and kicks… an option they still havent put into current boxing games…
I loved Theme Park. Especially making islands of Chicken Men
The chaos engine!!! I still think of this game to this day. I also remember going from the 500 to the CD32..and expanding it with sx1 module to add original amiga functions such as a keyboard etc etc....wow my kids were little then....now they've given me grandkids......where does technologicall time fly???
I had a CD32 too... Worst gamepad in history IMO!
Moonstone was my absolute favorite.
Best game of the era.
omg yes!
In my opinion one of the best games ever made.
Still can't believe I was allowed to play it as a kid
@@jurassicmatt2796 And speedball 2.
Chaos Engine, Cannon Fodder, Zeewolf, Swos, blade of destiny, UFO enemy unknown, secret of monkey island, battle of Britain, K240, megalomania, lemmings 2 the tribes, road rash, jungle strike. I could go on all day. So many great games.
Midwinter II - Flames of Freedom was like Far Cry for the Amiga 500. Came with like a 200 page book detailing all the enemies and vehicles.
I'm set on buying a good condition boxed Amiga. NEED this nostalgia in my life
Have fun ;-)
I regret junking my Amiga 500, with 512k expansion, box and all about 25 years ago...
As someone who mostly played platform games: Rainbow Islands, James Pond, Superfrog, Soccer Kid, Zool 1&2, Chuck Rock 2, Lotus Esprit 2, Sensible Soccer, Lemmings...and possibly not well known, but Rockstar Ate My Hamster was always fun, but I never managed to score a number 1 single/album.
Great list. I’d probably have Monkey Island(s), Megalomania, Speedball 2, Lotus 2, James Pond Robocod, Pinball Dreams up there somewhere too. Way too many to mention! Such good memories
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain is what got my interest in flying sims, probably WWII as well. It came with a great book containing a brief history of the BoB along with quotes by those that were there, manuals back then were a big part of the gaming experience.
I loved that game too, came to it after some of the games mentioned here so was a bit less than impressed with the graphics, didn't it use sprites like wing commander rather than 3d models?
@@cruachankeith No it was the voxel engine at the time, kind of a vector based engine with colour.
Populous+Pirates (Sid Mier..i think who later gave us Civilisation)
my 2 favorites was Silkworm and S.W.I.W
Most fun I had on the Amiga, was playing "turboraketti" against my friends :)
Last summer I saw that they have it running in the video game museum in Tampere in Finland. Super fun game to play split screen.
So many good games! I was lucky growing up back then. Love the video!
Ps. For me it would be to hard to chose only 10:)
SO many Amazing games. ...
Elvira
Wolfchild
F29 retaliator
Lost patrol
Superfrog
Lotus turbo challenge 2
Jaguar xj220
Shadow of the beast
Blues Brothers
Test drive
Stunt car Racer
Monkey Island 2
Curse of enchantia
Walker
Indiana jones and the fate of Atlantis
Deuteros
K23
Pinball Dreams
North and South
Last Samurai
Syndicate
And sooo many others...
I am proud that was a part of that era:) IT was Amazing time...
Who remembers also that epic demos? For example Spaceballs... :D
Best wishes Sir and thank you for your movie
Krzysztof Domagała Thank you! Yes the demos and the PD scene was awesome back then
I played Wolfchild for the first time at the age of 6 and the intro scared me so much: D greetings from Germany
I remember beeing SO frightent while playing elvira
@@OurLifeisaMiracle Yes! - but the Tits were nice :D :P
@@baui1337 fUUlly agree :D
My 10 favourite games without order:
Kick off 2
Another world
Silk worm
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Super cars 2
Pinball dreams
Settlers
IK+
Rick dangerous
Cannon fodder
ah super cars.. that was the one i was trying to remember! great game.
Another world was gsme changer
Rick Dangerous :)
Got into retro gaming when I was only ten, started off by emulating gbc games online and had tons of fun!
Ever since then I’ve looked into more and more retro consoles, but I just now found a way for me to play amiga games, so videos like these help me to find what’s actually good, thanks a lot!
What a fantastic video. Thank you. I have my own top 10 as I am sure so many do, but I loved watching every minute of this.
Thanks so much :-)
How good was the Amiga wow!
I agree for some of them. Never played The Settlers, I should try it! Here's my list :
Moonstone
Speedball 2
North & South
Flashback
Dune
Shufflepuck Cafe
Stunt Car Racer
International Karate +
Brutal Football
I have stunt car racer in my 20 - 11. Speedball 2 is another that I loved
North & South - best game I've seen mentioned so far, SCR and IK+ are both bad ass games too.
Moonstone, what a game!
Flashback is one of my all time favorite games. It's been remastered on the Switch actually, but only on the Switch. I might get one just to play it...
Moonstones. Oh god Moonstones. I played the hell out of that. I'm shocked the floppy didn't melt. I think only Frontier and Syndicate got more time out of me than Moonstones.
What I remember best: Super Cars 2, Kick Off 2, North & South, Pinball Dreams, Gobliiins (all parts), Another World, UFO Enemy Unknown, Eye Of Beholder, Wings of Fury.
Finally, a top 10 Amiga list that has The Settles at no.1, exactly where it should be. Love that game, completed it more than once and I even used to play it as a 2-player game back in the day.
Why old games were so nice and fun? Because developers instead of losing time and money on creating spectacular gfx they spent time and resource doing something that is really and simple FUN, that's it IMHO. (Great Amiga fan also here, proud owner of an a500+ and a1200 still on the desk ready to play)
LordPBA that comment shall be pinned to the top :-)
Also they were made by weirdos who loved doing what they were doing rather than hula-hoop eared hipsters going after the big bucks
I love the indie scene now days though.. Games like Terraria, Don't Starve Together, Space Station 13, Dungeon Defenders. They're like the old Amiga games, but with arguably even better design than most Amiga games.
Graphics and sound do affect gameplay though in all arcade style games. If Uridium 2 was not as fast and responsive as the original on the C64 the game would suffer. Jerky versions of arcade driving games are horrible to play compared to the silky smooth Lotus II game pushing the Amiga to it's limits neaning you can pull off pixel perfect overtakes round a bend at "150mph" etc. The most interesting game designs are indeed small groups or bedroom coders, but the best Amiga games have audio/visual programming that is top notch combined for that SNES and Megadrive version crushing release.
That trend has come back a little with mobile games and casual games. The best "sellers" on the app stores are the simple but fun time wasters.
The Theme to Chaos Engine was sick though!!
Great video kieth brings back a lot of memories
Jesus that Chaos engine music just brought me straight back!! I was crap at it but those beats always got me so psyched before kick-off! Cheers for that!
Dune 2. Best game ever.
I had a real addiction to it on the Mega Drive. What an amazing game.
I enjoyed it a lot on the Amiga
For The Baron!!!
8 levels right?
It was and still is a good game, but the best ever? No.
Dungeon Master???
true classic! Don't forget Chaos Strikes Back
Good choice, I'd go along with most of these, but I'd have to add another 30 or so. :) ...and thanks for including the whole Settlers intro music there at the end. That brought it all back.
Nice to see a list with a couple of surprises. Seeing Frontier and remembering how many hours I poured into that game makes me realise how weird it is that I haven't even bought the new version that's been out for pc for years...
Cannon Fodder 1&2, Shadow of the Beast trilogy, Civilization, Colonization, Dune 2, Cadaver, Wolfchild, Flashback, Another World, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Utopia, K240, Soccer Kid, Superfrog, North & South, Midnight Resistance, Lost Patrol, Sim City, Populous, Ishar, Perihelion.
Populus 1 and 2 were wonderful!
Michał P lost patrol!!! Fuck yes.
Massive Amiga fan here. Great list! I'd change a few but as you say it's your opinion. Subscibed :)
a friend down the street had the amiga 500 with Hybris …. really loved that game!
This is your first video what i've seen. And you know what?! Amiga.... top 10... I love you already :D Big up from Hungary :)
thank you :-D
I agree with your list mostly, but I can't believe you didn't have Cannon Fodder in there somewhere.
actually this video is part 2 of my top 20, cannon fodder is in 20 -11 somewhere, loved that game :-)
I was waiting for Cannon Fodder #1 Then it was Settlers... I forgot about that game, I loved it. XD
I forgot about canon fodder it was ace.
jeez, serious blast from the past. Ive still got saved games floppies for Frontier somewhere I think, I spent a shocking amount of time on it. cheers.
The classical music in that game was so addictive!
The Settlers is the best for me too- and the soundtrack is amazing, I even recorded it onto my MiniDisk recorder and listened to it anytime as a young 'un and it had delightful stereo too. Loved the video man- new subscriber here dude!!
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. Long live the Amiga!
Hey Irish Dude... thanks for the Amiga Videos... I agree with some but not all of your Amiga Favs... I just love the Amiga
You guys have a total different list than me:
1: Captive (Played that game soooo much !)
2: Black Crypt (better than Dungeon master, from which it's a kind of clone)
3: The Eye of the Beholder (great DM clone)
4: Bloodwych (graphicaly worse than all those dungeon master clones i loved, still i liked it a lot because it was so loong and interesting)
5: Chaos strikes back (I never had the original dungeon master, but i had this sequel to it)
6: Legends of valour (The only "half RPG" game i had on my Amiga that had 3D texture mapping)
I Don't remember many of the other games i had, so i preffer to give just my top 6, or it would probably not be much accurate.
eye of the beholder was awesome
Bloodwych would easily be in my top 10. Perhaps even top 3. You can play it online and it still holds up, although there is a bug that prevents progress after a certain point :(
Eye of the Beholder II - the Legend of Darkmoon is my personal favourite. Quite a bit better than EotB 1 I think.
Only just discovered this video, great to see Knights of the Sky in this list! I thought I was the only person who knew of it! Great video and I agree with every games placing!
First off greetings from the USA. 14:10 I totally agree with your comments about The Settlers. I was a kid when the game came out, I too loved the slower pace, the music, the strategy. I also did what you did, I issued a whole bunch of commands and let the computer run while I went out and did stuff. I remember coming back and hearing the sounds of my kingdom being attacked and rushing to save it. Cool video, thumbs up!
Thanks a million, such good times :)
Dune II, Space Crusade, Heroquest, Moonstone, Shadow of the Beast 1 and 2, Last Ninja 1 and 2, Leander, Desert Strike, Myth, Flashback, Afterburner, Chase HQ to name but a few
TV Sports Football.
loved hired guns
Oh Jesus forgot about that. That level in the temple with the serpent monsters that hatch out! You set up turrets and stuff, and bung grenades into the nests but they ALWAYS done me
I love them still.
My favorite Top ten for Amiga 500:
1. North& South
2.Secret of Monkey Island
3.Turrican II
4.Shadow of the Beast
5 Kick Off
6. Populous
7.It came from the dessert
8.Speedball 2
9.Sword of Sodan
10.Lotus 3
I spent so many happy hours playing Elite 2: Frontier. I still remember the moment when I reached "Elite" rank.
SWOS or SESO, Chaos Engine! Turrican, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Flashback, Jaguar, Pinball Dreams, Lion King, Golden Axe, and Star Trek by Tobias.
I loved some of the great AD&D titles from SSI, such as the Gold Box Series, the Eye of the Beholder series, and the killer for the time, Dragon Strike, a dragon riding themed flight and battle sim.
I never played any on the amiga but got into them on pc a few years later, menzoberranzan was one of the few that i played and completed :)
Ever play Black Crypt? It was only ever released for the Amiga but it was the dungeon crawler to end all dungeon crawlers and was made by Raven Software who would go on to make some of the best 90's FPS games on the PC. They were id Software's biggest rival until Epic released Unreal Tournament.
Amazing video. The nostalgia!
Subscribed instantly.
Favourite amiga games ever..
F/A 18 Interceptor and Syndicate.
Good call in the suicidal tendencies shirt. We're kindred spirits
Slim Denby - haha cheers, i have syndicate in part 1. what a game!!!
I played Frontier, loved the music, and Chaos engine and the settlers over and over again. Still have my Amiga 1200 to this day.
Settlers was great crashed a bit though. I also liked Gods, Turrican II, Another World and Shadow of the Beast 1. Plus Populous not sure why but I spent ages playing lol.
Gods and Populous were awesome!
Turrican was the best game on omega
Turrican is a 1990 video game programmed and designed by Manfred Trenz. It was developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, and was ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz personally programmed Turrican on the Commodore 64. Wikipedia
Buffalo Bills Western show
So many memories
Thanks for bringing back magic memories! I didn’t have an Amiga back in the day, but know a lot of these games anyway. Knights of the sky would’ve blown me away too! I’m currently playing Il 2 in VR which I highly recommend.
I remember playing north & South back in around 1993. My mates house. Loved the amiga. Loved every thing about the 90s computers
Finally some love for “knights of the sky”
FuZZbaLLbee one of my all time favourites. I spent hours on this.
My favourites were formula one grand Prix, both gunship games, speedball 2 and Realms. And Indy 500. I didn't play much else.
i liked indy 500 also. although none of my friends did!
There's an orchestra that lives rent free in my head, and they've played the Frontier intro music for me at least once a week for nearly two decades.
Great job Mr Keith. I subscribed PURELY because Settlers was Number !! Lol Great stuff all the best.
people compare it with modern games, but you have to compare it with what was before like mario bros or tetris
love the Settlers intro my best Amiga game is Hired Guns and the second is Arabian NIghts
Lotus turbo challenge , project x and cannon fodder ....loved it, ahh the memories....sensible soccer was a hoot...had it on a c64 too...1-2 kick and curl...was so fast..way more fun than any Fifa game. Apart from amazing graphics now, the games back them were ground breaking and they were the OG
Great list and video. Thanks!
Settlers, Frontier and Lemmings I liked a lot.
Other games I loved:
Batman the Movie - 2nd best feel driving game I found for the Amiga.
Xenon2 - the music was so good it was in the UK charts. Bomb the Base!
Weird Dreams - a bit old for some but had good graphics and was surreal.
Battle Squadron - knocked the pants off all other shootemups for graphics except Xenon2.
Another world - enough said. My Amiga died before I could complete it.
Stunt Car Racer - best driving game for the Amiga hands down.
Eye of the Beholder I and II - nothing after was half as good until I played Morrowind on the PC.
Paradroid - great top down thinking game with tactics, sidegames and great graphics.
FA18 Interceptor - my favourite flight sim programmed by a real fighter pilot (on his own for 3 years before anyone else).
PGA Tour Golf - hours of fun trying to be no.1
Datastorm - unique sideview shooter, great music and manic play. I also used to play this on the BBC Micro in the early 80s. It was called Gravity on the Micro (I think). Not Thrust. I could list some games for the BBC Micro lol. Chuckie Egg yay!
Desert Strike - never completed this game but tried damn hard to.
North & South - funny as f*** risk style board game with sidegames.
There were some terrible games on the Amiga I remember but still enjoyed:
Hell Bent - hard as f***.
Blood Money - R Type clone.
Hostages - a good game but a bit old.
Rampage - for mindless fun.
Captain Blood - I never could get very far and learning an alien language was hardcore.
Archipelagos - creepy strategy game. Very surreal. Reminds me of Sentinel.
Hacker - released in 1985. Probably what inspired Paradroid. Atmospheric.
Flood - strategic platformer where the aim was to avoid drowning.
Barbarian - had fatal death finishing moves wayyy before Mortal Combat.
Some of these games are very difficult to find these days. Some are impossible to find anywhere.
totally agree with stunt car racer, i have that in the other video i did (top 20 this vid is from no 10 to no 1). FA 18 Interceptor was amazing actually, also loved combat air patrol. i haven't played literally any of the terrible games you mentioned :-)
I don't get why so many thought Blood Money was terrible. I thought it was absolutely awesome fun 2 players. Possibly the best 2 player side-scroller on the Amiga. It was like the rogue-like of side-scrollers, slow and thoughtful but deadly. There was nothing more satisfying then dodging a hail of bullets in order to duck into a shop and get some cool bombs or triple shoot.
Rajie Music Compared to a game like Xenon2 where I could learn incrementally, with Blood Money I couldn't even get 1 minute into the game. For some reason this game was immune to my joystick lol. Can't win them all...
I was utterly obsessed with a game called "Virus" (Zarch on the Archimides) - if you got a handle of the mouse control it was awesome - also conqueror - the tank version. Never seen a flight control system like that again unfortunately.
Virus was an awesome game
I never could get used to the mouse controls so I just used the keyboard. I love that game. I never figured out what to do with the "competition code" you would get if you scored enough points. My first 3 games were Virus, Interceptor and Dungeon Master. Such a big leap coming from the c64.
Hey man! Stumbled upon this video and glad I did! Some really great choices for your top 10. Happily subbed!
Back In My Day Reviews! - thanks so much
loved The Settlers. I still play Settlers 2 almost every year. Settlers 1 could be played 2 player vs if you had another mouse
SHADOW OF THE BEAST !
Looks great, but the gameplay is a bit crap. It’s a big bit crap sadly.
posted to part 1.
In regards to your top 10 or 20 list, here are mine and that's what makes video game so great!
Archipelagos, The Bard's Tale, Carrier Command, Dark Seed, Déjà Vu, Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, Marble Madness, Captive, Qix, Shadowgate, Turrican.
Like books, video games are responsive to individual taste and interest and like literature, the are evolving in style and content. Who would ever thought that Minecraft would surpass Skyrim?
Larkinchance great list. I never had a chance to get into eye of the beholder back in the day though it was something i always wanted to play
Dungeon Master was the precursor to Eye of the Beholder.. Both were the foundation for the future FPS's that lead to Doom ect ect
I know. Also ultima underworld on pc was pretty important too. A full 3d world way before doom
Archipelagos - the music was creepy!
Dungeon Master was the Daddy though!
Awesome video office the Amiga games. The Settlers is absolutely the best of all Amiga games, i have ever played. I'm still playing it on my Amiga 500. Thanx, CruachanKeith! 😸😺🐈
Have the fondest memories playing SWOS. The editability was fantastic for the time.
My top ten in no particular order:
- The Chaos Engine
- Moonstone
- Populous II
- Speedball II
- Pinball Fantasies
- Burntime (really not that great but I loved the concept and ideas)
- The Patrician (1!)
- Worms (I only had the demo with two levels from a cover disk, but I played it over and over)
- Death or Glory (love it but the controls are awful)
- Wings
I would agree more to your favorites than to the RUclipsrs favorites. But instead of Pinball Fantasies i would put Pinball Dreams. Didnt try Burntime nor Patrician nor Death or Glory.
I have to ask! Did you ever try Agony, Banshee, Another World, Flashback, Ruff n Tumble, Super Cars II, Jim Power, Brian the Lion and last and not least Lionheart? I do agree with some of the games in your list though! ;-)
Yes a lot of them. Actually I have a lets play from not too long ago of Banshee. Another World and Flashback I played in the mega drive, never on the amiga.
I see! For me Another World, Flashback and Banshee really blew me away...also Lionheart and Agony are on my top list! :-D
God I hated top down scrollers but Banshee was fantastic! It left SWIV in the dust!
The level of diversity and innovation in the early 1990s was to games what the 1960s were to popular music. The Amiga library... So bloody good!
Cant believe i never played The Settlers, looks like one of my favourites Meglomania, great video and all the graphics are still amazing. Personally my fav's are Sensi, Wings and Moonstone...."I had to take off my Suicidal Tendencies T-shirt!!" Hahahaha you rock my man, great video and a like and sub from me sir!...god i love Amiga.