Think that one Amiga mag might have been the last one I bought, remember Ruff and tumble what amazing looking game and on the 500 too, if all developers put the same love in, we might have got some better arcade ports… cheers
This must be the demo of putty squad I must have played, as when the putty squad was in the news about finally getting released for the Amiga I knew I had played a version of it at some point back on my friends A1200.
100% agree with your choices. CD32 Gamer had some great content, in spite of the jank, although the others put in an OK showing but a Pinball Fantasies table & a couple of solid PD games did just push it over the top. Not a terrible showing all around. I love this series, you always show stuff that’s new to me that should be sought out & some that should be avoided via the content of these disks, thanks.
Given Commodore's demise in early 1994, it's surprising how there were still three dedicated Amiga magazines still going to have a comparison like this for. I suppose with the existence of Commodore UK (and I think Commodore Germany was still about) still around, there was hope for a survival and reason to stick around. 1:07 - I think I've played a bit of the original Impossible Mission. This sequel seems easier from the outset; more room to evade. 2:36 - Huh, you'd think by 1994 that Bomberman would be well known enough that you wouldn't be able to get away with blatantly reusing the characters. A quick search shows there were enough Bomberman clones on the Amiga to be called a subgenre... and the actual Hudson Soft Bomberman wasn't even called Bomberman on the Amiga. 3:53 - This is a bit of a shame. That start seems unfairly difficult with the indestructible enemies, which brings down an impressively looking and sounding game here. 6:10 - Multiple player Lode Runner sounds pretty entertaining. 6:44 - I like that One Amiga goes for a distinctive yellow for it's floppy disks. An Ruff N Tumble as the Demo Disk game immediately puts this way ahead of the pack in terms of demo disk games. 8:07 - I was wondering why people kept saying with the modern releases of Putty Squad that it was a lost Amiga game... because I had sworn I'd seen it playable before. It's existence as cover disc demos explains that misconception. 10:47 - Interesting seems the best way to describe Dragon Stone here. It seems like you'd need a bit more time to explore it's potential depth. 13:40 - Good of you to throw up the correction there. A demo of Super Stardust would be a nice inclusion but a non-interactive demo seems a strange choice. 17:17 - A single table of Pinball Fantasies provides a ton of content for a demo, so yeah, real surprising this wasn't one of the demo disk main pushes. 18:32 - Okay, really liking Billy Burglar here. It's simple looking but brimming with charm. 21:22 - Yeah, an interesting pacifist game here. I'm surprised the concept hasn't been explored more, sounds like it has potential. 22:12 - If it weren't for the Pinball Fantasies demo table, I'd have swapped One Amiga and CD32 Gamer around, but as it is, I agree with your placements here.
Amazingly the main Amiga mags in the UK kept going until 1996, with the likes of Amiga Format lasting up to the 2000s! I guess even with Commodore being dead, Amiga owners were still buying games and magazines. As the PD games tended to be free and limited to the home micro's they didn't tend to get hit with issues. We see so many cloned games, with copied graphics and sounds each month! Putty Squad was one of the bigger games that got reviewed and demos and then got the released pulled during the heyday of the Amiga.
1996 I could understand but 2000? That's incredible! I thought the last official Amiga game was around 1997, so that's quite a surprise.@@GouldFishOnGames
FLEUSCH (Amiga) looks as awesome as THRUST (Commodore 64). I still have THRUST for my Commodore 64 as a tape version 😺👍🕹️. MINE RUNNER looks awesome 😺👍. I even still love LODE RUNNER 😹👍🕹️. I still have a finnish 🇫🇮 space shoot 'em up classic STARDUST - CiB - for my Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. HYVÄ SUOMI 🇫🇮! PINBALL FANTASIES is one of the best swedish 🇸🇪 pinball classic games, I have ever played on my Amiga 500 😺👍. BILLY BURGLAR reminds me of Sega's BONANZA BROS. 😹👍🕹️. That reminds me: I still have that copy of THE ONE FOR AMIGA 😺👍🕹️. Sadly, some of the pages are missing 😹.
I'd stick with Thrust as its the better game, but the others were fun. Bonanza Bros is a link I didn't make. and awesome that you still have that copy of the one!
Jet Strike is my fav cd32 game. Turn sticky throttle off (this actually puts it on as the menu is wrong, in full version any way) then you'll get on a lot better. Also use the shoulder buttons for your speed not left and right, ( maybe demo didn't have same controls as full game.
I bought that PD Doctor Who remake back in the day from PD Underground via mail order and played it a lot, most of the games i got in that batch were a bit naff but Doctor Who and "Neighbours" were alright. Theres actually 2 PD Doctor Who games on the Amiga. The Accursed Toys one and an 80s one thats monochrome. The newer is a sort of colour remake with extra monsters. The gameplay is identical. The AC Doctor Who adf floating around online is buggy though because The Doctor doesn't regenerate into the second when he dies, just stays as the First till all the lives are used up. Ill have to fish that version off the demo disk and have a go again, I used to kill him 3 times so i could play as the 4th Doctor, which i dont think was the devs original intention, but thats what you get when you cant pick for yourself.
A very lack luster month it seems. The CD mag defo had the edge (even if a pound more) But, who had a CD32 in Sept 94 ? I think most of us would be emulating a CD32 via Pcmcia/Atapi drives.
Well CD32 Game kept going until mid 1996 and this was just its 4th issue. So it must have still been popular. And while adding a CD drive to an Amiga was a talked about thing, I think the CD32 was still more common then those devices.
The Billy Burglar game seems to have been inspired by the bonus level from Bonanza Bros.
Damn, I love those old gaming mags
Yay, another CDFO. Brilliant!
I hope you enjoy your monthly fix!
Think that one Amiga mag might have been the last one I bought, remember Ruff and tumble what amazing looking game and on the 500 too, if all developers put the same love in, we might have got some better arcade ports… cheers
Ruff N Tumble is a lovely game, shows what the Amiga could do if the developer was giving the time.
that Dragon Stone RPG thing looks quality!
The CD-era of Amiga Magazines was an interesting time. I loved how much random crap they would throw on the CDs.
This must be the demo of putty squad I must have played, as when the putty squad was in the news about finally getting released for the Amiga I knew I had played a version of it at some point back on my friends A1200.
Yeah a few of the magazines had a demo for the game, for a while it was all we had!
100% agree with your choices. CD32 Gamer had some great content, in spite of the jank, although the others put in an OK showing but a Pinball Fantasies table & a couple of solid PD games did just push it over the top.
Not a terrible showing all around. I love this series, you always show stuff that’s new to me that should be sought out & some that should be avoided via the content of these disks, thanks.
Given Commodore's demise in early 1994, it's surprising how there were still three dedicated Amiga magazines still going to have a comparison like this for. I suppose with the existence of Commodore UK (and I think Commodore Germany was still about) still around, there was hope for a survival and reason to stick around.
1:07 - I think I've played a bit of the original Impossible Mission. This sequel seems easier from the outset; more room to evade.
2:36 - Huh, you'd think by 1994 that Bomberman would be well known enough that you wouldn't be able to get away with blatantly reusing the characters. A quick search shows there were enough Bomberman clones on the Amiga to be called a subgenre... and the actual Hudson Soft Bomberman wasn't even called Bomberman on the Amiga.
3:53 - This is a bit of a shame. That start seems unfairly difficult with the indestructible enemies, which brings down an impressively looking and sounding game here.
6:10 - Multiple player Lode Runner sounds pretty entertaining.
6:44 - I like that One Amiga goes for a distinctive yellow for it's floppy disks. An Ruff N Tumble as the Demo Disk game immediately puts this way ahead of the pack in terms of demo disk games.
8:07 - I was wondering why people kept saying with the modern releases of Putty Squad that it was a lost Amiga game... because I had sworn I'd seen it playable before. It's existence as cover disc demos explains that misconception.
10:47 - Interesting seems the best way to describe Dragon Stone here. It seems like you'd need a bit more time to explore it's potential depth.
13:40 - Good of you to throw up the correction there. A demo of Super Stardust would be a nice inclusion but a non-interactive demo seems a strange choice.
17:17 - A single table of Pinball Fantasies provides a ton of content for a demo, so yeah, real surprising this wasn't one of the demo disk main pushes.
18:32 - Okay, really liking Billy Burglar here. It's simple looking but brimming with charm.
21:22 - Yeah, an interesting pacifist game here. I'm surprised the concept hasn't been explored more, sounds like it has potential.
22:12 - If it weren't for the Pinball Fantasies demo table, I'd have swapped One Amiga and CD32 Gamer around, but as it is, I agree with your placements here.
Amazingly the main Amiga mags in the UK kept going until 1996, with the likes of Amiga Format lasting up to the 2000s!
I guess even with Commodore being dead, Amiga owners were still buying games and magazines.
As the PD games tended to be free and limited to the home micro's they didn't tend to get hit with issues.
We see so many cloned games, with copied graphics and sounds each month!
Putty Squad was one of the bigger games that got reviewed and demos and then got the released pulled during the heyday of the Amiga.
1996 I could understand but 2000? That's incredible! I thought the last official Amiga game was around 1997, so that's quite a surprise.@@GouldFishOnGames
FLEUSCH (Amiga) looks as awesome as THRUST (Commodore 64).
I still have THRUST for my
Commodore 64 as a tape version 😺👍🕹️.
MINE RUNNER looks awesome 😺👍.
I even still love LODE RUNNER 😹👍🕹️.
I still have a finnish 🇫🇮 space shoot 'em up classic STARDUST - CiB - for my Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️.
HYVÄ SUOMI 🇫🇮!
PINBALL FANTASIES is one of the best swedish 🇸🇪 pinball classic games,
I have ever played on my Amiga 500 😺👍.
BILLY BURGLAR reminds me of Sega's
BONANZA BROS. 😹👍🕹️.
That reminds me:
I still have that copy of THE ONE FOR AMIGA 😺👍🕹️.
Sadly, some of the pages are missing 😹.
I'd stick with Thrust as its the better game, but the others were fun.
Bonanza Bros is a link I didn't make.
and awesome that you still have that copy of the one!
Someone must have slipped a heaping of psychoactive substances into that Fruit Salad 😂
I'm sure the Mine Runner dev is th e same one who did the cracking Berzerk clone for the Amiga. I think it was called Zerberk?
Jet Strike is my fav cd32 game. Turn sticky throttle off (this actually puts it on as the menu is wrong, in full version any way) then you'll get on a lot better. Also use the shoulder buttons for your speed not left and right, ( maybe demo didn't have same controls as full game.
I bought that PD Doctor Who remake back in the day from PD Underground via mail order and played it a lot, most of the games i got in that batch were a bit naff but Doctor Who and "Neighbours" were alright.
Theres actually 2 PD Doctor Who games on the Amiga. The Accursed Toys one and an 80s one thats monochrome. The newer is a sort of colour remake with extra monsters. The gameplay is identical.
The AC Doctor Who adf floating around online is buggy though because The Doctor doesn't regenerate into the second when he dies, just stays as the First till all the lives are used up.
Ill have to fish that version off the demo disk and have a go again, I used to kill him 3 times so i could play as the 4th Doctor, which i dont think was the devs original intention, but thats what you get when you cant pick for yourself.
A very lack luster month it seems.
The CD mag defo had the edge (even if a pound more)
But, who had a CD32 in Sept 94 ? I think most of us would be emulating a CD32 via Pcmcia/Atapi drives.
Well CD32 Game kept going until mid 1996 and this was just its 4th issue.
So it must have still been popular. And while adding a CD drive to an Amiga was a talked about thing, I think the CD32 was still more common then those devices.