Yeah, the Amiga did a lot better in the UK than the US, and given how well the C64 performed in the States, this kinda surprised and didn't surprise me at the same time.
I remember getting into Eric's art and Sabrina Online at the tail-end of the 1990's. At the time I had no clue what an Amiga was. I have Eric, Amy, and Sabrina to thank for getting me somewhat interested in it.
19:04 I mean if there's one thing that's a major factor in the Amiga's legacy, it's the heavy amounts of sick ass music people made for its games and keygens.
In case you didn't know, _Surf Ninjas_ was a movie before it was a game (I would've said the game was 'based on' the movie, but it... wasn't). Don't worry, though; the movie is _way_ radder than the game - in fact, it's probably the greatest film ever made. Did for the Game Gear what _The Wizard_ did for... the Power Glove.
If you liked this, I would highly recommend Ahoy's video on the Amiga for more background and technical specs on the machine, damn interesting history it had.
>Space Hulk >Mech Game .....Somebody clearly has never checked out Warhammer 40,000 before, because those are anything but "mechs", Stu. LMAO Those are just Space Marines in Tactical Dreadnought Armor; More commonly known as "Terminator Armor". You'd probably like Warhammer 40,000, Stu. It's one of the greatest sci-fi franchises of all time. It's not as nerdy as one might think.
I really like the animation in that Superfrog game. While it does at times appear to be ripping of some Looney Tunes gags, there's a lot of charm to it especially given it was done on the Amiga. The game's probably just average at best though, but that's one element I was impressed by even if it's nothing mind blowing. I actually thought of drawing Superfrog a while ago when I heard of that game, because I'm a fan of cartoon frogs and the like. The animation at least gives me some inspiration in that. Anyways, this was a great series of Amiga game reviews. Like the C64 and many other home computers of the time, the abundance of software and games developed provides tons of material for reviews. Definitely works better in a format like this though since unfortunately a lot of the content doesn't provide much worthwhile commentary alone. Would be great to see a second installment of these Amiga game reviews in the future. Keep up the great work, Stu.
The Amiga is a lovely bit of kit and it's amazing Schwartz was able to animate so well on it. Great video! Recently bought an A500 myself, kind of regret it but I'm sure I'll find something fun to do with it. Have found a disk with a Flip the Frog animation, comes with the software too!
Oh wow the nostalgia in this video was amazing :D I forgot how much of a big player Team17 was back then! Awesome work Stuart! Can't wait for more Amiga in the future
Great review Stu, you summerized the Amiga pretty well, the system had a lot of gems and turds in its libary and its fascinating to see what devlopers did with the system. If you ever cover more games on the Amiga you should cover Jim Power (Hard but pretty good platformer), The James Pond series (The most generic and overrated Euro-Platformer series), and most Factor 5 games on the Amiga (Which were very impressive). Also a correction about the Turrican games and the console ports, The Turrican 1& 2 ports were handled by an outside studio and suck ass compared to the Amiga originals hell the Turrican 2 console ports were turned into Universal Solder to tie into a movie. After Factor 5 got the rights back to publish console games they released Mega Turrican on Genesis (later Backported to Amiga as Turrican 3 on Amiga), and Super Turrican 1 & 2 on SNES which are original games and sequels to the first 2 games. Also a better way to experiecne Turrican now is Turrican Flashback/Turrican Anthology on Switch and PS4 which released last year.
Ah man, I love that Conclusion music at the end of the video. Pure ZOOLOGIC nostalgia. (For those who don’t know, that’s a Windows 3.1 game made with Macromedia in 1994.)
Your videos are seriously underrated for how funny and high-quality they are! I hope you get more attention in the future! (Before anyone tells me, yes, I know who this guy is. He was popular in the YTP community, but he isn't popular in the game reviewing community. I hope he gets more attention within _that_ community.)
Do you ever have an out of body experience where you suddenly feel like you're remembering things from another person's life? Like one where you're suddenly remembering living in years where you weren't born? That's what I suddenly experienced during the section of this video where Stu went over the history of the Amiga. I feel like I have a memory of personally buying and owning an Amiga computer.
Oh heck! I thought the animation for SuperFrog looked familiar but I didn't know they were actually made by Eric himself xD I didn't actually discover Sabrina Online until like 5 years ago when I was looking through some old Amiga Format magazines and got all hooked. Then I was like. I wonder how long it ran for and looked it up online only to find out that the original black'n white strips had literally just wrapped up a few weeks ago and the creator had just started to do more traditional colored comics that continued the escapades. I spent a little chunk of that summer trading through the entire archived collection of Sabrina stripe. Good times. As for the Amiga itself, I didn't really grow up on it. I was all about consoles that actually had more than 1 button and didn't map jump to UP. Okay, a bit harsh but I still think it was a pretty cool piece of technology
Great video, tho I'm kinda disappointed you didn't play Hunter any further, considering that was the Game that inspired Grand Theft Auto, Far Cry, and lots of other Open World Games.
Fun Fact, ddi interactive wanted to make a zul reboot, they where rejected and then they reused the engine to make ninja bread man and other low quality bad platformers before going out of business.
You know, there is a game I think it would be cool if Stew review. Has anyone else heard of "The Guardian Legend?" It was a NES game that plays kinda like old style Zelda mixed with a space shooter. Never sold too well partially thanks to the box art in the US being mostly unrelated to the game (I thought it looked epic) and being released near the end of the NES' life cycle if I'm not mistaken. However, it has been considered by some to be one of the most underrated games of its time and I personally think that the soundtrack is the definition of old-school/NES gaming. Now it does live up to the term 'NES hard' and the password system is unnecessarily long, but the level up system and power ups were pretty good. The story surprisingly was one of the best parts for me. I won't spoil it, and it was nothing big, but it gave the game atmosphere and purpose in a way similar to Metroid.
Moon Stone was Great it was pretty much a Take it in Turns multiplayer version of Dark Souls if it was a single screen Beat Em Up. It was also super Violent for its time and was made pre Mortal Kombat. Comanys like Rockstar Games called DMA designs back then started on the Amiga with Titles like The Lemmings Series and the Battlefeild series devs made some od the best Pinball games in the 90s on it. Core design who ended up becoming huge thanks to Tomb Raider made alot on the Amiga most big game studios and teams that came from Europe alot worked on the Amiga.
Never heard of Lotus 2 but I need to get that for Genesis. It's CIB for only $15. The Amiga is still a mystery to me, as an American, besides the basics I know of it and the few ports we got over here like Shadow of the Beast which was on everything for some reason. But I'd enjoy a part 2. I know Dune that was ported to the Sega CD was an Amiga game as well as Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold. So there's definitely a lot more to explore. As for Turrican yeah that first game is straight up F-You hard! I tried it a few times and never got past the first stage. I skipped 2 entirely and just went straight to Mega Turrican for Genesis which has quite possibly the best Sega Genesis cover art ever made. And also my vote for best soundtrack for any Sega game, and easily top 5 16-bit soundtrack period.
The original Zool for the OCS/ECS machines (aka A500/A600/A2000/A3000) actually had cleaner backgrounds but this "enhanced" edition you played is what happens when companies need to release "remasters" on the cheap - the AGA (A1200/A4000) version was the result, just because they could use more colors now they put in those awful backgrounds that actually hurt the playability of the game...
Data Design Interactive would pitch a Remake of Zool for the Wii, they didn't get the license because the game was shit. They would use what was already made to make Ninjabread Man, and reuse it again to make other mediocre platformers like Anubis II. The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
Hey man Sabrina has one zero zero zero zero subs on RUclips! How about you? One ONE zero zero zero oh my gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
Amiga port of Street fighter II yeah this port is not really good at all it's one of the worst versions of the game ever next to the Master system version and especially the c64 version and it's funny because this port was made at the time Capcom was milking the street fighter brand at the time.
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Yeah, the Amiga did a lot better in the UK than the US, and given how well the C64 performed in the States, this kinda surprised and didn't surprise me at the same time.
7:03 The Spacehulk game is an adaption of the WH40K tabletop game called "Spacehulk". That's why you thought it was a trimmed down multiplayer game.
Can't do an Amiga video without talking about Sabrina and the works of Eric Schwartz! Good shit, my dude. 😎🤟
I remember getting into Eric's art and Sabrina Online at the tail-end of the 1990's. At the time I had no clue what an Amiga was. I have Eric, Amy, and Sabrina to thank for getting me somewhat interested in it.
This guy lives in the Louisiana swamps making high quality videos, God bless.
18:56 The "Molly Hatchet" logo on the Turrican title screen was definitely fitting. A great bunch of southern rockers with overtly badass album art. 🤘
I actually grew up with an Amiga computer. This was quite nostalgic, as I know more than half the games :)
Nice 👍 I also recommend the video *Echa Ekranu* 👍
Amazing work as always!
My fellow Dayton boi Eric Schwartz is a fkn legend...
Well James and Stu BOTH did Surf Ninjas on an Amiga system, so let's all cross our fingers and hope Stu plays Kang Fu and The Town with No Name
Ohoo~
This certainly was a long time coming, with those classic Amiga animations you helped bring into the public's eye.
9:10
19:04 I mean if there's one thing that's a major factor in the Amiga's legacy, it's the heavy amounts of sick ass music people made for its games and keygens.
Space Hulk is an adaptation of the Warhammer 40K board game, which is why there are multiple mechs.
In case you didn't know, _Surf Ninjas_ was a movie before it was a game (I would've said the game was 'based on' the movie, but it... wasn't). Don't worry, though; the movie is _way_ radder than the game - in fact, it's probably the greatest film ever made. Did for the Game Gear what _The Wizard_ did for... the Power Glove.
If you liked this, I would highly recommend Ahoy's video on the Amiga for more background and technical specs on the machine, damn interesting history it had.
>Space Hulk
>Mech Game
.....Somebody clearly has never checked out Warhammer 40,000 before, because those are anything but "mechs", Stu. LMAO
Those are just Space Marines in Tactical Dreadnought Armor; More commonly known as "Terminator Armor".
You'd probably like Warhammer 40,000, Stu. It's one of the greatest sci-fi franchises of all time. It's not as nerdy as one might think.
To quote Uamee: "Warhammer 40K is for everyone, except if your poor."
@@Muster_Muckee_II
That's when you whip out TableTop Simulator. lol
10:17 Anyone who looked up Doug Winger...you have my sympathy and confusion.
"My GPU from 2012 can't do ray tracing, all it can do is spin it's little fans the little bitch"
Wow, that hit too close to home xD
2:25 Now THAT is how you get people psyched for your game, there!
I really like the animation in that Superfrog game. While it does at times appear to be ripping of some Looney Tunes gags, there's a lot of charm to it especially given it was done on the Amiga. The game's probably just average at best though, but that's one element I was impressed by even if it's nothing mind blowing. I actually thought of drawing Superfrog a while ago when I heard of that game, because I'm a fan of cartoon frogs and the like. The animation at least gives me some inspiration in that.
Anyways, this was a great series of Amiga game reviews. Like the C64 and many other home computers of the time, the abundance of software and games developed provides tons of material for reviews. Definitely works better in a format like this though since unfortunately a lot of the content doesn't provide much worthwhile commentary alone. Would be great to see a second installment of these Amiga game reviews in the future. Keep up the great work, Stu.
The Amiga is a lovely bit of kit and it's amazing Schwartz was able to animate so well on it. Great video!
Recently bought an A500 myself, kind of regret it but I'm sure I'll find something fun to do with it. Have found a disk with a Flip the Frog animation, comes with the software too!
Thanks for featuring the Lotus III soundtrack Stu, the main theme is one of my favourite vgm tracks
Oh wow the nostalgia in this video was amazing :D I forgot how much of a big player Team17 was back then! Awesome work Stuart! Can't wait for more Amiga in the future
9:32 This is my favorite part of the video, editing the teams and giving them all funny names
Second video of yours I have ever watched. You have yourself a fan. This Corgi lends you his support.
Just now found these videos and im binhe watching them now!! Seriously funny and cool stugf
Hey, I know Teckworks. Cool mention.
BTW love your videos.
Great review Stu, you summerized the Amiga pretty well, the system had a lot of gems and turds in its libary and its fascinating to see what devlopers did with the system. If you ever cover more games on the Amiga you should cover Jim Power (Hard but pretty good platformer), The James Pond series (The most generic and overrated Euro-Platformer series), and most Factor 5 games on the Amiga (Which were very impressive).
Also a correction about the Turrican games and the console ports, The Turrican 1& 2 ports were handled by an outside studio and suck ass compared to the Amiga originals hell the Turrican 2 console ports were turned into Universal Solder to tie into a movie. After Factor 5 got the rights back to publish console games they released Mega Turrican on Genesis (later Backported to Amiga as Turrican 3 on Amiga), and Super Turrican 1 & 2 on SNES which are original games and sequels to the first 2 games. Also a better way to experiecne Turrican now is Turrican Flashback/Turrican Anthology on Switch and PS4 which released last year.
Now this is something I've been looking forward to
excellent content as always
Man, I remember when Eric Schwartz was MAKING this stuff!...God I'm old ;^;
Ah man, I love that Conclusion music at the end of the video. Pure ZOOLOGIC nostalgia.
(For those who don’t know, that’s a Windows 3.1 game made with Macromedia in 1994.)
Your videos are seriously underrated for how funny and high-quality they are! I hope you get more attention in the future!
(Before anyone tells me, yes, I know who this guy is. He was popular in the YTP community, but he isn't popular in the game reviewing community. I hope he gets more attention within _that_ community.)
I'm honored to be on the Working Men team.
Do you ever have an out of body experience where you suddenly feel like you're remembering things from another person's life? Like one where you're suddenly remembering living in years where you weren't born? That's what I suddenly experienced during the section of this video where Stu went over the history of the Amiga. I feel like I have a memory of personally buying and owning an Amiga computer.
I like the way you set your videos, has a weird kinda early feel to it, something id watch when I was like, 7 and not understand what was going on
9:54 Snatcher protag is called Gillian Seed
Fun Turrican fact: Universal Soldier (Megadrive/Genesis) Is just a reskinned Turrican II.
I'm too young to say I've played the Amiga, but I am intrigued by these relics of the past. Let's see some more Amiga titles!
Holy crap new episode how did my inbox not tell me about it
The "I'm sorry I'm sorry" gag was comedy gold.
Oh heck!
I thought the animation for SuperFrog looked familiar but I didn't know they were actually made by Eric himself xD
I didn't actually discover Sabrina Online until like 5 years ago when I was looking through some old Amiga Format magazines and got all hooked.
Then I was like. I wonder how long it ran for and looked it up online only to find out that the original black'n white strips had literally just wrapped up a few weeks ago and the creator had just started to do more traditional colored comics that continued the escapades.
I spent a little chunk of that summer trading through the entire archived collection of Sabrina stripe.
Good times.
As for the Amiga itself, I didn't really grow up on it.
I was all about consoles that actually had more than 1 button and didn't map jump to UP.
Okay, a bit harsh but I still think it was a pretty cool piece of technology
plz do more amiga games your the only person to do it right
Love the Thumbnail :3
I love getting to see these early
Some of these look identical to some Atari ST games I played, esp that soccer game.
I wanna see more episodes about old computers games ! :D
I need a PeeeCee!
Well, I've got an Amiga.
Eric, I'm a Mac
oh good I'm not the only one who remembers that YTP
16:28 - 16.33
Funny you mention them, because I've been playing some of their PS1 games for a week now. Nearly completed Croc 2.
My boy Teck getting a shoutout.
Great video, tho I'm kinda disappointed you didn't play Hunter any further, considering that was the Game that inspired Grand Theft Auto, Far Cry, and lots of other Open World Games.
Please someone get this man a a500 mini!
I'm gonna get Sensible Soccer just to recreate Furst Response in it.
1:50 I only just used that song recently in the intro for the "Midsommer Fish Fart" video I edited for Whang.
You know I once pulled a leg muscle playing soccer in middle school. 💦
10:24 Of this video came out later, he would’ve included Diane Foxington.
Fun Fact, ddi interactive wanted to make a zul reboot, they where rejected and then they reused the engine to make ninja bread man and other low quality bad platformers before going out of business.
I see Amiga and Sabrina, I click like.
This post is for everyone who cried as he called space marines from warhammer 40k mechs.
You know, there is a game I think it would be cool if Stew review. Has anyone else heard of "The Guardian Legend?" It was a NES game that plays kinda like old style Zelda mixed with a space shooter. Never sold too well partially thanks to the box art in the US being mostly unrelated to the game (I thought it looked epic) and being released near the end of the NES' life cycle if I'm not mistaken. However, it has been considered by some to be one of the most underrated games of its time and I personally think that the soundtrack is the definition of old-school/NES gaming. Now it does live up to the term 'NES hard' and the password system is unnecessarily long, but the level up system and power ups were pretty good. The story surprisingly was one of the best parts for me. I won't spoil it, and it was nothing big, but it gave the game atmosphere and purpose in a way similar to Metroid.
Surf ninjas is the name of a movie but I think that's a coincidence
Moon Stone was Great it was pretty much a Take it in Turns multiplayer version of Dark Souls if it was a single screen Beat Em Up. It was also super Violent for its time and was made pre Mortal Kombat.
Comanys like Rockstar Games called DMA designs back then started on the Amiga with Titles like The Lemmings Series and the Battlefeild series devs made some od the best Pinball games in the 90s on it. Core design who ended up becoming huge thanks to Tomb Raider made alot on the Amiga most big game studios and teams that came from Europe alot worked on the Amiga.
"..But what is this flag?"
England: "(Enraged screaming)"
Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland: "lol."
18:52 Duuuude... they literally just traced the album art of _Kings of Metal_ by Manowar. Seriously, it's exactly the same.
3:30 Wait, so the game came out before the movie in the 90's?
Whats that song playing at the end of the video?
Never heard of Lotus 2 but I need to get that for Genesis. It's CIB for only $15. The Amiga is still a mystery to me, as an American, besides the basics I know of it and the few ports we got over here like Shadow of the Beast which was on everything for some reason. But I'd enjoy a part 2. I know Dune that was ported to the Sega CD was an Amiga game as well as Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold. So there's definitely a lot more to explore.
As for Turrican yeah that first game is straight up F-You hard! I tried it a few times and never got past the first stage. I skipped 2 entirely and just went straight to Mega Turrican for Genesis which has quite possibly the best Sega Genesis cover art ever made. And also my vote for best soundtrack for any Sega game, and easily top 5 16-bit soundtrack period.
There was a movie called surf ninjas
I had a MS Dos back in the day
The original Zool for the OCS/ECS machines (aka A500/A600/A2000/A3000) actually had cleaner backgrounds but this "enhanced" edition you played is what happens when companies need to release "remasters" on the cheap - the AGA (A1200/A4000) version was the result, just because they could use more colors now they put in those awful backgrounds that actually hurt the playability of the game...
with the amount of Amiga games around? hell yeah we got ourselves some content
10:23 You have great taste.
It still holds up though
do more amiga games!
Also, why does SF2 amiga play the wrong music?
I would not call Amiga "short-lived". The computer family was produced for more than a decade.
Ah yes another working man games time to enjoy myself
Data Design Interactive would pitch a Remake of Zool for the Wii, they didn't get the license because the game was shit. They would use what was already made to make Ninjabread Man, and reuse it again to make other mediocre platformers like Anubis II. The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
If I recall, Data Design only had one good game under their belt. It was Lego Rock Raiders. The PC one, not the PS1 version, which was garbage.
I got to be number 8 on the team LETS FUCKING GOOOO
4:06 This scene is funny but it doesn’t top AVGN’s reaction.
Amiga games? I'm down with that.
But next time you have to show off Eric Schwartz' "Still Alive" music video.
I'm pretty sure Super and Mega Turrican are different games.
9:06 the flag is the actual flag of England.
Lel I woulda put SaberSpark in the furst responders
hahaha i have the same sapphire but mine has 2gbs of vram lol
Are you sure this version of SF2 looks normal to you? Shit looks like a bootleg
Anyway, good vid!
9:03 England flag!
Savage was made for amstrad cpc not amiga
Bugs Bunny in Drag? really bro? xD
Hey man Sabrina has one zero zero zero zero subs on RUclips!
How about you?
One ONE zero zero zero oh my gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
Amiga port of Street fighter II yeah this port is not really good at all it's one of the worst versions of the game ever next to the Master system version and especially the c64 version and it's funny because this port was made at the time Capcom was milking the street fighter brand at the time.
Eh, still cheaper than RTX 4090.
Boy doesn't know England's flag
Furry
The Amiga was budget PC from back in the 80s that actually outperformed the offerings from "serious, professional" vendors like IBM, Compaq, etc.