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Flashback? The ScummVm games? RoboCop? Another World? Rainbow Islands and or New Zealand Story? James Pond 2: RoboCod? The Adams Family? UFO: Enemy Unknown? Mate...
It’s pretty well respected actually ... I was lucky enough to have one as my first computer in 1995 , in retrospect, I’m very lucky we couldn’t afford an IBM 486 cause the Amiga is and always will be king !!
Amiga is very popular on retro scene. Just look how many FPGA recreations and Amiga accessories, expansions are available now. There are even projects that turn Raspberry Pi into Amiga accelerators and RGB to HDMI converters. You can also get new cases in many colors, including transparent one. And original hardware is expensive as hell. The new games are being released every year and there are many projects to get a complete Amiga experience on a PC, Rasberry Pi like FS-UAE, Amiga Forever, PiMiga etc. The most interesting projects are UnAmiga, MiSter and Vampire Standalone boards that can replace original hardware adding all the modern features to get rid of all the hassle.
I actually never liked it as I think I was too young. I have since however gone back and looked at it numerous times and only then, realised what it was. Far ahead of its time for sure.
That is more of a personal favorites list, than top 100 of all time. There are some clear ommisions like UFO: Enemy Unknown, Pirates, Railroad Tycoon, Dune 2, Superfrog (top 10 Amiga game for me), Flashback, Another World, Body Blows Galactic, MK2, North & South... Also complete lack of classic point-and-click adventure games like both Monkey Island games, Simon the Sorcerer, Beneath a Steel Sky, Indiana Jones and Fate of the Atlantis, Lure of Temptress, Curse of Enchantia, Hook, Legend of Kyrandia, Gobliiiins games, Darkseed and Cruise for a Corpse. I personally would add games like Traps & Treasures, Lords of the Realm (one of the best strategy games on Amiga), Desert Strike, Zeewolf, Super Galaga, Colonization, Moonshine Racers, Genesia, Hired Guns or Eye of the Beholder series. I respect the choice of the author, it’s cool to see what games other people value. I just hope that if someone will look for cool Amiga games, he will also look in the comments section.
I love the Amiga and it's always interesting to see what others would list in their top 100 games. I personally would have included - Flashback Another World K240 UFO Enemy Unknown Dune 2 North & South Monkey Island 1 & 2 The Adventures of Robin Hood Sid Meier's Pirates! F1GP Defender of the Crown Gunship 2000 Knights of the Sky Hunter
Awesome... and there's still so many other games out there that could easily make a top 100 list... UFO, Kick Off 2, Champ Manager, A-Train, Colonization, Railroad Tycoon, Guardian, Gloom, Rainbow Islands, New Zealand Story, Hired Guns, Captive, Liberation, Micro Machines, Gods, Frontier, North & South, Monkey Island 1 & 2, Fate of Atlantis, Beneath a Steel Sky, Flashback, F1GP... wow we were spoiled...
@@AmigaFreak77 well why would you watch a list with the same top 100 as everyone else End of the day this is kims list of her favorite amiga games not yours, and it would be a pretty boring video if you have all the obvious ones on it I mean i could also put all of those games in my personal top 100 but the simple fact of the matter is ....its not usually the Amiga versions of them i am playing when i go back to them these days And i would much rather that Wings (a game i love that i cant play on anything else) was on here rather than seing Monkey fecking Island for the 100th time (a game that had a better known and ...just better all round pc port)
Hunter, Laser Sqaud, Paradroid 90, Gravity Force or Gravity Power - surprised not to see these feature. Otherwise awesome as I've come to expect from Kim Justice!
A great video for my favourite computer. Some surprising choices and some even more surprising omissions but then that's the thing with the Amiga, there are so many great games to choose from. I don't think I would have had both Sensible Soccer and Sensible World Of Soccer on the list, just pick one (SWOS) and go with it. Glaring omissions for me are Rainbow Islands, Hired Guns, Eye Of The Beholder 2, Flashback, Kick Off 2, UFO: Enemy Unknown, James Pond 2, Midwinter, F29 Retaliator, Monkey Island 2, North & South, F/A18 Interceptor, Battle Isle, Supremacy, MegaTraveller, Carrier Command, Simon The Sorcerer, Railroad Tycoon. Still its nice to see Flood make the list, love that game.
The Amiga will always be the pinnacle of my gaming life! I started out with handhelds then on to Atari then speccy right through to Xbox-one X. Did the whole pc thing from 486 to modern day too, but nothing has ever come close to being there when the Amiga/St arrived. The state of wonder and excitement of those years will never be surpassed. Amiga has no peers, but you had to be a part of it at the time to in anyway understand :) Anyone who's in there 50s who loved these computers knows exactly where I'm coming from I'm sure :)
My brothers had an amiga and I played a lot of games on it, but I was too young to get secret of monkey island for instance. Stunt car 3D, lemmings and gravity force were big favourites I remember. The game that truly awed me was Ultima underworld on the early 90's PC. It was so bizzarely ahead of its time and came from seemingly of nowhere that it's as surprising as finding rabbit skulls in pre-cambrian rock. It's not just the graphics, that's kind of understandable, if impressive; but you played as yourself, not as a party, you could jump and swim and solve these puzzles in multiple different ways, and the enemies where not pure evil but these warring factions that you could befriend or try and stay out of the conflict, sneaking was a thing, you could take notes on the ingame automap without having to use pen and paper.
Even in their early 60s! I had a Commodore 128 in the 80s but the Amiga was a revelation when I got mine in 1990 and had such a loyal, enthusiastic fan base. It was way ahead of its time and there was so much you could do with it on top of gaming. I made a fair bit of music and art on it too. Even used it for maths.
I grew up with an amiga, 500 first and then 2000. I remember the feeling of the disks and the smell and sounds of the computer. The satisfying clicks of the keys. The music was better than pcs that came later
Highlander My first game was Defender of the Crown.. As soon as my dad ordered it I watched Sword & the Sorcerer in celebration! I’m surprised they made a movie in ode to It Came From the Desert
It's interesting that Kim finds Amiga something like ZX Spectrum, only better. Because I have the same opinion - I believe the reason is because both computers relied on the mandatory hires (bitmap) graphics! Unlike C64! And with some well known games ZX tried to compete with Amiga, so there were decent ports to ZX after all. C64 had it much differently, and hires mode was avoided. ZX games sometimes had really nice monochrome graphics, and its BOBs could move decently smooth if coded well. Scroll was the problem also, but some games had smooth and fast scrolling too. Everything was done in purely software way. Sprites/blitter objects too. But those ZX games never shunned from moving nice looking graphics around, same as Amiga, despite being jerky and all. When Amiga appeared, some features of the hardware reminded on C64 (sprites, raster control via copper), but some were similar to Speccy - bitmap mode, and blitter objects. Crucial thing - Amiga did it with ease, using chipset, full of colors and without attributes. I like to think Amiga actually represented the synergy of C64 and ZX, raised on completely different level. It was ultimate 16 bit computer&console wonder in one package.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. I was an ST kid so only ever played on my mate's Amiga(s) and nostalgia makes me root for the former and gives me some of my warmest memories - but the Amiga's are some of my most beloved systems of all time and I recall fondly being obsessed with "It Came from the Desert" and "Lost Patrol" and both the RTS and point and click Dune games. Also the Amiga is responsible for a shocking amount of my first purchases when I got my first PC such as the Eye of the Beholder games, Syndicate and so on. Indeed a quick look at my GOG library confirms this - a good 70-80% of my games on there I came to by way of the Amiga or having played similar on same. It also indirectly got me into the UFO/Xcom games as my love for Syndicate saw me pick up a bundle box set that included both. I suppose I also would never have got into Warcraft 2 and Command & COnqquer etc if it weren't for Dune, and the Dig made me pick up Broken Sword and a lasting love of Lucasarts adventures. So I will forever love the Amiga if for no other reason than it gave me loads of fun and more importantly informed my opinion and choices going forward and very much along with my first consoles made me the gamer I am today - not bad for a system I never even bloody owned!
I remember going to Makro as a kid and just watching Shadow of the Beast demoing in the store and wondering how I'd be able to get one ....£399 in 1990 (that's £1,000 today). My mate had one and every time I went round I'd be sick with jealousy. It seemed like he'd had it for years before I got mine, his was the batman pack which was out in 1989. The Xmas I got my Amiga (1990 Flight of Fantasy pack) was like pure magic, I paid half towards it with some money that id inherited and I damn well got my money out of it. Xmas day I opened it and booted up Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters and revelled in the graphics. At lunch time my Nan came round and gave me Kick Off 2 which I probably clocked up years of playing time and my Aunt gave me Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road. What a great time, take me the fuck back.
Absolutely amazing video, had to watch it over the course of 3 days because life gets in the way, but as someone from North America who has never known the pleasure of collecting for or even playing the Amiga, this gives me a lot of great info on what to look for.
Same here. Being from North America and born after the Amiga was discontinued, I'd never even heard about this computer until quite recently, but wow! It has some great games and wonderful music
Great video from Kim once again ! There were so many good games on A500 that u can't put all those great games in one list. I would also recommend playing one of these : - Monkey island - Hired guns - F1GP - Utopia - Operation stealth - Lure of the temptress - Another world - Dune 2 - Defender of the crown - Antheads - Prince of Persia - ATR - Lost vikings - Eye Of The Beholder 2 - Aquatic games - Magic pockets - Elvira I & II - Voyages of discovery
Or really anything else on Amiga... Where are: Defender of the crown? The Myth? Monkey Islands 1 and 2? Universe? Fire Force? North&South? Another World and Flashback? Heimdall's One and Two? Dragonstone? Gotta think that Kim wasn't the true Amiga fan, more like a transitional one to consoles.
Considering Amiga Power magazine gave 'Rainbow Islands' no.1 in the 'top 100 amiga games of all time' in '91 I'm absolutely astounded it's not in top 100.
Games missing: Starglider2, Midwinter, Breach, possibly Carrier Command, F117A Stealth Fighter, Rocket Ranger. Also, there was a brilliant scifi version of Dungeon Master, where you were this guy trapped in a prison or something but you have a laptop that lets you remotely connect with four robots, which you then have to guide around dungeons, planets and prisons, to free you.
With the A500 mini system coming out soon this list is much appreciated! I never owned or even played an Amiga but I've always wanted one and now I will be able to get the mini console so I can try out some of the Amiga's huge library of software for a reasonable price. And when I do get one I will be going through this list and trying out all the games that look fun. So thank you Kim for making it and also including gameplay footage and a description of every single game!
Top 10 in random order: Megalomania(slightly bugged), Moonstone(slightly bugged), Cannon Fodder; Lemmings; worms; super frog, the settlers, civilisation syndicate, north&south
Only a couple of days ago I was wondering where this list was and now it's appeared. Exactly the Kim Justice content I was looking for. Good work, thanks.
31:06 I'm noticing a recurring trend in Amiga games so far: it's apparently completely fucking impossible--IMPOSSIBLE--to hit an enemy without BEING hit by said enemy.
Hey Kim, just so you now Leander was developed by Traveller's Tales (Tt games) and published Psygnosis. I should know this because I work at TT games. LOL. Love the videos, keep up the good work.
Got to love hearing the Battle Squadron sound track at the start of video. I've always loved that game and really loved the music, it's a masterpiece imo
Lots of interesting choices there. The Amiga really was an absolute gaming powerhouse, with literally thousands of amazing games. A couple I would recommend for you to check out, based upon your selections (if you haven't played them already) : Captive & Captive II: Liberation, Harlequin, Frontier: Elite 2, Arabian Nights, Exile, Wing Commander, UFO Enemy Unknown and Genesia.
@@leegsy Well.... It's a cut down version of a pc game,, The amiga version isn't the best way to exsperiance the game. (I had an amiga 500 back in the day,,, I wasn't spending 30 quid on something that would not work very well on my machine.
@@infesticon Yes not really the best way to play the game but a lot of people didn't have an IBM PC back then so it was the next best thing. I myself never owned an Amiga but I did have a loan of my friends on a few occasions but I never played Frontier on Amiga, I played it on PC in the late 90s as I had been playing some of the Wing Commander games and that series made me think of Elite.
I never had an Amiga (Or Spectrum) growing up as I came into gaming during Sega's rise but I love watching your videos about them, Always fascinated with consoles I missed out on.
Another great Kim Justice vid; my only niggle (micro niggle that is) - I would have loved to hear some of that awesome Amiga music, especially as you include it as part of your reviews. Love your videos, hope you keep them coming- Cheers and thanks!
Really, really enjoyed this video, Kim! I like the attention you give to each video. You clearly spent time with each game and your massive knowledge of the developers and publishers really adds to my enjoyment. Thank you!!
Interesting to get a sense of what was good on the Amiga... Sometimes I get the feeling gaming on the Amiga was held back by still using single-button joysticks by default, And Commodore's weird expectation that games support that. Obviously it's a platform where keyboard+mouse is also viable, but still... It really is easy to underestimate how much the control scheme for consoles and computers influences the complexity of the games that result. There was nothing stopping the C64 or Atari 8 bit computers from getting games comparable to the most complex titles for the NES... But having a 1 button controller instead of 4 buttons really makes that so much harder to implement. For that matter, NES and SNES games vary in complexity as much because of the controller as anything else about the systems... And the n64 definitely taught us how painful 3d games are when you don't have any analogue controls... (as most early Playstation and Saturn games did not. Although the dual analogue controller showed up to the playstation surprisingly early, it took a long time for games to catch up) Controls dictate plausible complexity. And the Amiga shows us how bad this can get, given it could easily keep up with later 16 bit systems in most regards, but still the games tended to often be more simplistic. (except of course that went the opposite way and took the same approach PC gaming did; where the only thing you could rely on anyone owning was a keyboard, and later on a mouse...)
C64 and Amiga games were at times infinitely more complex than the most complex 8 and 16bit console games. They have writable media, keyboards and a mouse. Why would a computer restrict itself to the simple input methods of a console when they have much more variety in options? Not to mention the fact you can use joysticks or joypads withmultiple buttons if you want to anyway.
That similarity to the C64 I had was what put me off wanting an Amiga. After years on the C64, I was so envious of my mates and their consoles, with their cool graphics, control pads and instant load times that I asked for a Megadrive for Christmas instead. In retrospect, I think I'd have preferred what the Amiga had to offer, but the allure of console land was way too much at the time.
The default assumptions of the platform DO matter. Multi-button joysticks and joypads don't matter if nobody supports it. Same with other unusual input devices. I have very high quality motion controllers for PC - Razer Hydra - at the time what they were capable of easily beat what the consoles were doing. But... It didn't matter, because... How many games properly supported this? Basically none. Motion controls on the Wii vs PS Move are the same issue. PS move is technically superior, yet nobody used it. Amiga games to me demonstrate two extremes - PC like complexity with mouse + keyboard or extremely simplified logic owing to Commodore's demand that a Single-button joystick is usable. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground, which is what the consoles occupied. The control OPTIONS a platform provides, are considerably less significant in practice than the control DEFAULTS. How many PC games properly supported joysticks? Why were almost all of them built around the use of a mouse + keyboard combo even when this clearly wasn't the best choice for the given genre? Defaults matter. And they matter more than what's technically possible. (Did you know the Famicom has a keyboard accessory? And the Wii, PS2, PS3, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS4, and switch ALL support the use of keyboards? - how many games do you know of on these systems that make effective use of this fact, hmmh? Yeah... exactly.)
Always interesting to see people's favourites lists for games. I like the list although as a former Amiga owner myself I found myself nodding to some of your list and shaking my head at the omission of other games, but thats the fun of these lists. brought back lots of memories though for sure.
One thing I will never forget about SWOS was a player called Diego Fuser. I think he played at either Lazio or Napoli and as a starting player he was crap, but if you bring him on as a sub he is like the best player in the game. The ball almost sticks to his foot, he's super fast. Once I figured that out (by accident) I had him in every team I player managed. Brilliant game. I actually owned the Amiga 600 and for whatever reason it couldn't do certain colours. Like I could never played certain weather pitches in SWOS as the screen would freak out and go all blue. Surprised to not see any Lucas Arts point & click games in there or were they not your cup o' tea?
So good to see love for Bill's Tomato Game and Lost Patrol. Both games I played when they first came out. I've spoken to very few folks who have heard of either. Amazing games. And, yes, that Lost Patrol music is one of the best. Great work Kim.
Amiga Power championed Virocop at the time. Also, for Base Jumpers, you remember Amiga Format as having a demo on the coverdisk -- Amiga Power definitely had one and I played it a hundred times with my siblings, but it might have been on the cover of an AF issue too, so you might be right.
I'm reading scans of Amiga Power right now, I'm on around issue 9, and Stuart Campbell rated Scooby and Scrappy highly also. It's nice that licensed games can sometimes end up to be actually great.
@@tomkrawec Amiga power definatly had a base jumpers demo, That's how I played it back in the day, But didn't have friends to play it with so the exsperiance was a bit lost on me.
My top 10: 1. Dino Dini's Goal! 2. Sensible World of Soccer 3. Championship Manager 4. Archer McLean's pool 5. Jimmy White's snooker 6. Deluxe Paint 7. Striker 8. Sim City 9. Theme Park 10. Worms
I thought there would have been a Championship Manger in there some where as I preferred them to Premier Manager. Not sure if you’ve heard of Escape From Colditz but that is a a game. Spent so many hours on that. You really need to try it.
I should make a note about the Gold Box games: Whilst the PC versions did catch up eventually, it took 'til Dark Queen of Krynn to get mouse controls on PC, which Pool of Radiance had on Amiga.
I suppose it says a lot about my Amiga history that I didn't have a single game in the list until Pinball Fantasies. But then I also had SWOS, The Settlers, Cannon Fodder, Syndicate and The Chaos Engine.
Again another brilliant video. Kim Justice should be liked and subscribed to at once. Any british person should relate to all the games being shown. We had computer games. We didn't have a video game crash.
Doesn't tend to get mentioned much, but I also really liked Historyline 1914-1918, by BlueByte software. A great game and a history lesson, all in one. Worth a look if you like turn based strategy games (based on the Battle Isle engine).
I agree. Not including The Secret of Monkey Island is a CRIME. Also miss great classics like North & South, Wolfenstein, Persian Gulf Inferno, A Rockstar ate my Hamster, Super Cars 2.
I'm a little confused ... How can you have a top Amiga 100 without the following: Frontier Starglider 2 North & South Midwinter 2 I know that top 100s are subjective but even so...
I bought a handheld emulator for less than 40$ to play playstation 1 and GBA games but i found out i can also play Amiga and anything that is under 64-bits. Thanks a lot for this video, so many games to try now!!!!
I would have thought R-Type would have placed in there somewhere. Did I miss it? The Amiga port was spot on. Also noticed by their absence was the Sierra adventure games, and PowerMonger.
I had an Amiga 500 back in the day. I remember playing a sort of top down tank game that totally engrossed me for some time but for the life of me I cant remember its name. For the time it was a very capable machine.
Interesting subjective list, but the criminal absence of Monkey Island, Pirates, Another World, Flashback and Stunt Car Racer makes it seem rather trivial imo (especially regarding some curious lower entries and the unnecessary double dipping of Speedball, Lotus, Populous, Cannon Fodder and Sensi).
I have a copy of Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker I brought at a computer show in '91. I queued up to have my box autoghraphed by the man himself, Jimmy in the flesh, who was there promoting the games release. Good times.
It's a true sign of the versatility of the Amiga in that most people's top 10 will be slightly different. Mine: Monkey Island 1& 2, Indiana Jones & Fate of Atlantis, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Syndicate, Sensible Soccer (and SOWS!), Dune II, Knights of the Sky, Chaos Engine, UFO: Enemy Unknown. Special mention to Cannon Fodder, Adventures of Robin Hood, Loom, Gobliiins, and Populous II. :)
@@UselessHumansMusic I barely got anywhere with that game! Respect to you, I was marginally too young is my excuse... Same for Shadow of the beast... I think it was called.
Love these vids they are thouroughly enjoyable i think for anyone that grew up and lived at the golden age of gaming.So many amazing games on the Legendary Amiga.
If anyone wants help with Robocop 3, I sent a walkthrough into Amiga Power. It's in one of the later issues, as in literally one of the last handful. Thank me by saving Detroit.
Cheers for putting the time in Kim, i totally forgot about Ultimate Football Manager and Premier Manager. Where was Barbarian, Panza Kick Boxing and Championship Manager chap?
Mercenary/Damocles were pretty good on the Amiga. IIRC Dungeon Master required a memory upgrade on the standard A500, even so on my personal list that would be a top 5 due to it still being highly playable today and so impactful. I personally preferred Chaos Strikes back though. Captive by Anthony Crowther was also a great DM game on the Amiga. Not sure why but I found Backlash (By Novagen) a kind of fast arcade Battlezone really fun to play at the time... so worth a quick go if you've never played it but unsure if its held up over the years?.
Great video, a very nostalgic watch. Maybe they don't count as original amiga games (?) , but I played a lot of: xenon 2 megablast, Hunter, escape from colditz, another world, flashback and james pond, so I was a little surprised not to see any of them. :)
I never had an Amiga in the day, my time line was . Spectrum, Atari 800XL, Atari ST and 486DX 66. Bought an un opened Amiga about 10 years ago and later given a used one. There is no doubt the Amiga shone where games are concerned, but I used my Atari ST mainly for typing out reports and a little gaming. My son wanted to play sonic or Zelda, so no point in moving to an Amiga. I think being seen as a gaming machine eventually damaged the Amiga as it could not compete against the consoles. I played a few of the games shown here on the ST, I don't think I enjoyed the games any less. Great video!!!
Some games I loved which didn't make your 100, from what I watched was Eye of the Dragon, an amazing Blade Runner type adventure came on 10 discs. Conqueror - kinda like Virus (used the same engine), was a fun tank game. Supremacy - Space Management type game, with terraforming etc. Kinda gave birth later on to the Space Empires games. Pirates! - So SO SO SO SOOOOOO Good - Microprose's best game they developed in my opinion also... Gunship 2000 - Another Microprose title, similar to Gunship on the 8 Bit machines (Played the original to death on the Speccy) Another World - Was blown away at how smooth the animation was in that game, also quite hard later on in the game. Dune 2 - was the RTS that was created by the same devs who went on to make Command and Conquer. Enjoyable.
er, dude: Ruff n' Tumble is so NOT done by Rainbow Arts. Glad you liked it but the game was put together by two people; Jason Perkins (Coder- ex Gremlin and would go on to head up Curve Entertainment) and me, Art and level designs. Released by Renegade, one of the best publishers I've ever worked for.
Some interesting choices next to the obvious ones. From the top of my head I would definitely add - Wings of Fury - Hostages - Dogs of War - Oil Imperium and a couple of other german business simulations...
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and still no popeye 3 wrestlecrazy.... also stop smoking so funny...
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Nice video. I am watching it in 30-minute intervals. Some games I have never seen before. Thanks Kim.
Flashback? The ScummVm games? RoboCop? Another World? Rainbow Islands and or New Zealand Story? James Pond 2: RoboCod? The Adams Family? UFO: Enemy Unknown?
Mate...
Amiga deserves so much more credit in the global retro gaming scene.
My buddy had one back in the day and i was fascinated with it.
It’s pretty well respected actually ... I was lucky enough to have one as my first computer in 1995 , in retrospect, I’m very lucky we couldn’t afford an IBM 486 cause the Amiga is and always will be king !!
Amiga is very popular on retro scene. Just look how many FPGA recreations and Amiga accessories, expansions are available now. There are even projects that turn Raspberry Pi into Amiga accelerators and RGB to HDMI converters. You can also get new cases in many colors, including transparent one. And original hardware is expensive as hell. The new games are being released every year and there are many projects to get a complete Amiga experience on a PC, Rasberry Pi like FS-UAE, Amiga Forever, PiMiga etc. The most interesting projects are UnAmiga, MiSter and Vampire Standalone boards that can replace original hardware adding all the modern features to get rid of all the hassle.
@@mattx5499 it just gets barely any coverage on RUclips, or other media.
@@drunkensailor112 Like retro computers in general. Most people go crazy over consoles.
Hunter was one of my favs, it was like early GTA where you were in an open world, so many vehicle types available as well.
Same here. Loved the hovercraft when I found it on the map
It was so crazily ahead of it's time.. very tough for a kid but a true masterpiece for sure.
a modern version a bit like arma could be good, midwinters as well.
I actually never liked it as I think I was too young. I have since however gone back and looked at it numerous times and only then, realised what it was. Far ahead of its time for sure.
This video is like a Christmass for me. 💖
Amiga games has defined my childchood so much. 🤖
kim justice and xmas just feels right.
Syndicate was years and years ahead. What an awesome game.
That is more of a personal favorites list, than top 100 of all time. There are some clear ommisions like UFO: Enemy Unknown, Pirates, Railroad Tycoon, Dune 2, Superfrog (top 10 Amiga game for me), Flashback, Another World, Body Blows Galactic, MK2, North & South... Also complete lack of classic point-and-click adventure games like both Monkey Island games, Simon the Sorcerer, Beneath a Steel Sky, Indiana Jones and Fate of the Atlantis, Lure of Temptress, Curse of Enchantia, Hook, Legend of Kyrandia, Gobliiiins games, Darkseed and Cruise for a Corpse. I personally would add games like Traps & Treasures, Lords of the Realm (one of the best strategy games on Amiga), Desert Strike, Zeewolf, Super Galaga, Colonization, Moonshine Racers, Genesia, Hired Guns or Eye of the Beholder series. I respect the choice of the author, it’s cool to see what games other people value. I just hope that if someone will look for cool Amiga games, he will also look in the comments section.
I love the Amiga and it's always interesting to see what others would list in their top 100 games. I personally would have included -
Flashback
Another World
K240
UFO Enemy Unknown
Dune 2
North & South
Monkey Island 1 & 2
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Sid Meier's Pirates!
F1GP
Defender of the Crown
Gunship 2000
Knights of the Sky
Hunter
Agreed. Lure of the temptress, beneath a steel sky, champ manager, robocod
K240 was brilliant
Hunter, yes!
Brutal Sports Football
Awesome... and there's still so many other games out there that could easily make a top 100 list... UFO, Kick Off 2, Champ Manager, A-Train, Colonization, Railroad Tycoon, Guardian, Gloom, Rainbow Islands, New Zealand Story, Hired Guns, Captive, Liberation, Micro Machines, Gods, Frontier, North & South, Monkey Island 1 & 2, Fate of Atlantis, Beneath a Steel Sky, Flashback, F1GP... wow we were spoiled...
Exactly I mean games like boring looking balance of power is better than any of those games you mentioned 🙄😂 so many other great games missed out
@@AmigaFreak77 well why would you watch a list with the same top 100 as everyone else
End of the day this is kims list of her favorite amiga games not yours, and it would be a pretty boring video if you have all the obvious ones on it
I mean i could also put all of those games in my personal top 100 but the simple fact of the matter is ....its not usually the Amiga versions of them i am playing when i go back to them these days
And i would much rather that Wings (a game i love that i cant play on anything else) was on here rather than seing Monkey fecking Island for the 100th time (a game that had a better known and ...just better all round pc port)
Hunter, Laser Sqaud, Paradroid 90, Gravity Force or Gravity Power - surprised not to see these feature. Otherwise awesome as I've come to expect from Kim Justice!
I'm glad you mentioned Dune 1's amazing soundtrack. Truly is one of the best and most advanced use of Amiga's soundchip.
A great video for my favourite computer. Some surprising choices and some even more surprising omissions but then that's the thing with the Amiga, there are so many great games to choose from.
I don't think I would have had both Sensible Soccer and Sensible World Of Soccer on the list, just pick one (SWOS) and go with it.
Glaring omissions for me are Rainbow Islands, Hired Guns, Eye Of The Beholder 2, Flashback, Kick Off 2, UFO: Enemy Unknown, James Pond 2, Midwinter, F29 Retaliator, Monkey Island 2, North & South, F/A18 Interceptor, Battle Isle, Supremacy, MegaTraveller, Carrier Command, Simon The Sorcerer, Railroad Tycoon.
Still its nice to see Flood make the list, love that game.
Now THIS is the kim 100 I've been waiting for!
The Amiga will always be the pinnacle of my gaming life!
I started out with handhelds then on to Atari then speccy right through to Xbox-one X.
Did the whole pc thing from 486 to modern day too, but nothing has ever come close to being there when the Amiga/St arrived. The state of wonder and excitement of those years will never be surpassed. Amiga has no peers, but you had to be a part of it at the time to in anyway understand :) Anyone who's in there 50s who loved these computers knows exactly where I'm coming from I'm sure :)
My brothers had an amiga and I played a lot of games on it, but I was too young to get secret of monkey island for instance. Stunt car 3D, lemmings and gravity force were big favourites I remember. The game that truly awed me was Ultima underworld on the early 90's PC. It was so bizzarely ahead of its time and came from seemingly of nowhere that it's as surprising as finding rabbit skulls in pre-cambrian rock. It's not just the graphics, that's kind of understandable, if impressive; but you played as yourself, not as a party, you could jump and swim and solve these puzzles in multiple different ways, and the enemies where not pure evil but these warring factions that you could befriend or try and stay out of the conflict, sneaking was a thing, you could take notes on the ingame automap without having to use pen and paper.
Cool well said...I have had a similar gameing life....I still have my Amiga 2000....
50s? :)
Even in their early 60s! I had a Commodore 128 in the 80s but the Amiga was a revelation when I got mine in 1990 and had such a loyal, enthusiastic fan base. It was way ahead of its time and there was so much you could do with it on top of gaming. I made a fair bit of music and art on it too. Even used it for maths.
I grew up with an amiga, 500 first and then 2000. I remember the feeling of the disks and the smell and sounds of the computer. The satisfying clicks of the keys.
The music was better than pcs that came later
The Amiga 500 was my first machine. Fond memories. It’s still the best format I’ve owned.
Highlander My first game was Defender of the Crown.. As soon as my dad ordered it I watched Sword & the Sorcerer in celebration! I’m surprised they made a movie in ode to It Came From the Desert
It's interesting that Kim finds Amiga something like ZX Spectrum, only better. Because I have the same opinion - I believe the reason is because both computers relied on the mandatory hires (bitmap) graphics! Unlike C64! And with some well known games ZX tried to compete with Amiga, so there were decent ports to ZX after all. C64 had it much differently, and hires mode was avoided. ZX games sometimes had really nice monochrome graphics, and its BOBs could move decently smooth if coded well. Scroll was the problem also, but some games had smooth and fast scrolling too. Everything was done in purely software way. Sprites/blitter objects too. But those ZX games never shunned from moving nice looking graphics around, same as Amiga, despite being jerky and all.
When Amiga appeared, some features of the hardware reminded on C64 (sprites, raster control via copper), but some were similar to Speccy - bitmap mode, and blitter objects. Crucial thing - Amiga did it with ease, using chipset, full of colors and without attributes.
I like to think Amiga actually represented the synergy of C64 and ZX, raised on completely different level. It was ultimate 16 bit computer&console wonder in one package.
Wow...530 a.m. just called in sick and heres a 2hr kim vid!
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. I was an ST kid so only ever played on my mate's Amiga(s) and nostalgia makes me root for the former and gives me some of my warmest memories - but the Amiga's are some of my most beloved systems of all time and I recall fondly being obsessed with "It Came from the Desert" and "Lost Patrol" and both the RTS and point and click Dune games. Also the Amiga is responsible for a shocking amount of my first purchases when I got my first PC such as the Eye of the Beholder games, Syndicate and so on. Indeed a quick look at my GOG library confirms this - a good 70-80% of my games on there I came to by way of the Amiga or having played similar on same. It also indirectly got me into the UFO/Xcom games as my love for Syndicate saw me pick up a bundle box set that included both. I suppose I also would never have got into Warcraft 2 and Command & COnqquer etc if it weren't for Dune, and the Dig made me pick up Broken Sword and a lasting love of Lucasarts adventures.
So I will forever love the Amiga if for no other reason than it gave me loads of fun and more importantly informed my opinion and choices going forward and very much along with my first consoles made me the gamer I am today - not bad for a system I never even bloody owned!
I remember going to Makro as a kid and just watching Shadow of the Beast demoing in the store and wondering how I'd be able to get one ....£399 in 1990 (that's £1,000 today). My mate had one and every time I went round I'd be sick with jealousy. It seemed like he'd had it for years before I got mine, his was the batman pack which was out in 1989. The Xmas I got my Amiga (1990 Flight of Fantasy pack) was like pure magic, I paid half towards it with some money that id inherited and I damn well got my money out of it. Xmas day I opened it and booted up Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters and revelled in the graphics. At lunch time my Nan came round and gave me Kick Off 2 which I probably clocked up years of playing time and my Aunt gave me Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road.
What a great time, take me the fuck back.
Absolutely amazing video, had to watch it over the course of 3 days because life gets in the way, but as someone from North America who has never known the pleasure of collecting for or even playing the Amiga, this gives me a lot of great info on what to look for.
Same here. Being from North America and born after the Amiga was discontinued, I'd never even heard about this computer until quite recently, but wow! It has some great games and wonderful music
been looking forward to this one Kim. 10/10
Great video from Kim once again ! There were so many good games on A500 that u can't put all those great games in one list.
I would also recommend playing one of these :
- Monkey island
- Hired guns
- F1GP
- Utopia
- Operation stealth
- Lure of the temptress
- Another world
- Dune 2
- Defender of the crown
- Antheads
- Prince of Persia
- ATR
- Lost vikings
- Eye Of The Beholder 2
- Aquatic games
- Magic pockets
- Elvira I & II
- Voyages of discovery
Great to see love for Benefactor! A game that still holds up today, I replay it every few years.
Kim clearly doesn’t like graphic adventures.
Or really anything else on Amiga...
Where are:
Defender of the crown?
The Myth?
Monkey Islands 1 and 2?
Universe?
Fire Force?
North&South?
Another World and Flashback?
Heimdall's One and Two?
Dragonstone?
Gotta think that Kim wasn't the true Amiga fan, more like a transitional one to consoles.
@@urosmarjanovic663 It's just Myth, not The Myth. Defender of the Crown was far better on the ST though. Just saying
Considering he loves Flash back why is it not on this list
Let's be honest these videos would become boring if Kim just kept putting the same games on each list
Ah, the ubiquitous gatekeeper. @@urosmarjanovic663
Can't believe PP Hammer never rated a mention in this list!
No Rainbow Islands or Secret of Monkey Island? What do you have against Islands? 😁
Yeah strange that , it must be some sort of hate crime😋
I totally don't understand how Monkey can't be in ANY top 100 list... no matter how subjective your list is.
Considering Amiga Power magazine gave 'Rainbow Islands' no.1 in the 'top 100 amiga games of all time' in '91 I'm absolutely astounded it's not in top 100.
She probably didnt play it on the Amiga, that simple
Rainbow Islands is my No.1 game on the Amiga. A close to perfect arcade conversation
Syndicate was so atmospheric. Man I loved playing through that game, it was like 20+ hours of Bladerunner.
Brilliant top 100 Kim!
Games missing: Starglider2, Midwinter, Breach, possibly Carrier Command, F117A Stealth Fighter, Rocket Ranger.
Also, there was a brilliant scifi version of Dungeon Master, where you were this guy trapped in a prison or something but you have a laptop that lets you remotely connect with four robots, which you then have to guide around dungeons, planets and prisons, to free you.
That'd be Captive. I watched my older brother complete it as a kid!
@@Amanojaku8 Brilliant - that's the one! 😊 Never completed it myself.
With the A500 mini system coming out soon this list is much appreciated! I never owned or even played an Amiga but I've always wanted one and now I will be able to get the mini console so I can try out some of the Amiga's huge library of software for a reasonable price. And when I do get one I will be going through this list and trying out all the games that look fun. So thank you Kim for making it and also including gameplay footage and a description of every single game!
Turrican I & II are chock full of secret areas & extra lives. It's worth exploring them all.
Top 10 in random order: Megalomania(slightly bugged), Moonstone(slightly bugged), Cannon Fodder; Lemmings; worms; super frog, the settlers, civilisation syndicate, north&south
Only a couple of days ago I was wondering where this list was and now it's appeared. Exactly the Kim Justice content I was looking for. Good work, thanks.
31:06 I'm noticing a recurring trend in Amiga games so far: it's apparently completely fucking impossible--IMPOSSIBLE--to hit an enemy without BEING hit by said enemy.
Ruff n Tumble is not a Rainbow Arts Title. Its made by Wunderkind ( Jason Perkins
, Robin Levy and Jason Page) and published by Renegade Software.
Thanks Kim, this is therapy after a very very stressful day! your work always appreciated :)
Hey Kim, just so you now Leander was developed by Traveller's Tales (Tt games) and published Psygnosis. I should know this because I work at TT games. LOL. Love the videos, keep up the good work.
Respect for Leander - that was awesome (I completed it without cheating at all!)
Now this I have been waiting for. Thanks a bunch Kim. I love this series.
I'm really enjoying these retro top 100 videos lately, keep up the great work
Syndicate and colonisation my top two Amiga games
Got to love hearing the Battle Squadron sound track at the start of video. I've always loved that game and really loved the music, it's a masterpiece imo
Love it when Deuteros gets a mention. One of my all time favourites, and worth sticking with.
Gets tasty once you explore new star systems.
Thanks for taking the time to actually comment on the games. It made a much more fun watch than most of these lists
No Monkey Island is a huge omission to me.
Lots of interesting choices there. The Amiga really was an absolute gaming powerhouse, with literally thousands of amazing games.
A couple I would recommend for you to check out, based upon your selections (if you haven't played them already) : Captive & Captive II: Liberation, Harlequin, Frontier: Elite 2, Arabian Nights, Exile, Wing Commander, UFO Enemy Unknown and Genesia.
Yeah criminal that Frontier, Wing Commander and UFO didn't make it!
Anyone who hasn't played Frontier on Amiga doesn't deserve to have an Amiga.
@@leegsy Well.... It's a cut down version of a pc game,, The amiga version isn't the best way to exsperiance the game. (I had an amiga 500 back in the day,,, I wasn't spending 30 quid on something that would not work very well on my machine.
@@infesticon Yes not really the best way to play the game but a lot of people didn't have an IBM PC back then so it was the next best thing.
I myself never owned an Amiga but I did have a loan of my friends on a few occasions but I never played Frontier on Amiga, I played it on PC in the late 90s as I had been playing some of the Wing Commander games and that series made me think of Elite.
The Amiga had a couple hundred great games and thousands of pieces of shovelware. My facts don't care about nostalgia.
Pleasantly surprised to see Rod Land mentioned.
I never had an Amiga (Or Spectrum) growing up as I came into gaming during Sega's rise but I love watching your videos about them, Always fascinated with consoles I missed out on.
Another great Kim Justice vid; my only niggle (micro niggle that is) - I would have loved to hear some of that awesome Amiga music, especially as you include it as part of your reviews. Love your videos, hope you keep them coming- Cheers and thanks!
Really, really enjoyed this video, Kim! I like the attention you give to each video. You clearly spent time with each game and your massive knowledge of the developers and publishers really adds to my enjoyment. Thank you!!
I love your videos! My dad brought home an Amiga 1000 in the early 90s and being in Canada, had no friends to share my adventures with. :D
Brilliant video. There's a lot on there I've never played. Looking forward to seeing weekend action.
Interesting to get a sense of what was good on the Amiga...
Sometimes I get the feeling gaming on the Amiga was held back by still using single-button joysticks by default, And Commodore's weird expectation that games support that.
Obviously it's a platform where keyboard+mouse is also viable, but still...
It really is easy to underestimate how much the control scheme for consoles and computers influences the complexity of the games that result.
There was nothing stopping the C64 or Atari 8 bit computers from getting games comparable to the most complex titles for the NES...
But having a 1 button controller instead of 4 buttons really makes that so much harder to implement.
For that matter, NES and SNES games vary in complexity as much because of the controller as anything else about the systems...
And the n64 definitely taught us how painful 3d games are when you don't have any analogue controls... (as most early Playstation and Saturn games did not. Although the dual analogue controller showed up to the playstation surprisingly early, it took a long time for games to catch up)
Controls dictate plausible complexity.
And the Amiga shows us how bad this can get, given it could easily keep up with later 16 bit systems in most regards, but still the games tended to often be more simplistic.
(except of course that went the opposite way and took the same approach PC gaming did; where the only thing you could rely on anyone owning was a keyboard, and later on a mouse...)
C64 and Amiga games were at times infinitely more complex than the most complex 8 and 16bit console games. They have writable media, keyboards and a mouse.
Why would a computer restrict itself to the simple input methods of a console when they have much more variety in options?
Not to mention the fact you can use joysticks or joypads withmultiple buttons if you want to anyway.
That similarity to the C64 I had was what put me off wanting an Amiga. After years on the C64, I was so envious of my mates and their consoles, with their cool graphics, control pads and instant load times that I asked for a Megadrive for Christmas instead. In retrospect, I think I'd have preferred what the Amiga had to offer, but the allure of console land was way too much at the time.
The default assumptions of the platform DO matter.
Multi-button joysticks and joypads don't matter if nobody supports it.
Same with other unusual input devices.
I have very high quality motion controllers for PC - Razer Hydra - at the time what they were capable of easily beat what the consoles were doing.
But... It didn't matter, because... How many games properly supported this? Basically none.
Motion controls on the Wii vs PS Move are the same issue. PS move is technically superior, yet nobody used it.
Amiga games to me demonstrate two extremes - PC like complexity with mouse + keyboard
or extremely simplified logic owing to Commodore's demand that a Single-button joystick is usable.
There doesn't seem to be much middle ground, which is what the consoles occupied.
The control OPTIONS a platform provides, are considerably less significant in practice than the control DEFAULTS.
How many PC games properly supported joysticks?
Why were almost all of them built around the use of a mouse + keyboard combo even when this clearly wasn't the best choice for the given genre?
Defaults matter. And they matter more than what's technically possible.
(Did you know the Famicom has a keyboard accessory? And the Wii, PS2, PS3, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS4, and switch ALL support the use of keyboards? - how many games do you know of on these systems that make effective use of this fact, hmmh? Yeah... exactly.)
Great video. Glad to see Stunt Racer getting some love!
Always interesting to see people's favourites lists for games. I like the list although as a former Amiga owner myself I found myself nodding to some of your list and shaking my head at the omission of other games, but thats the fun of these lists. brought back lots of memories though for sure.
One thing I will never forget about SWOS was a player called Diego Fuser. I think he played at either Lazio or Napoli and as a starting player he was crap, but if you bring him on as a sub he is like the best player in the game. The ball almost sticks to his foot, he's super fast. Once I figured that out (by accident) I had him in every team I player managed. Brilliant game.
I actually owned the Amiga 600 and for whatever reason it couldn't do certain colours. Like I could never played certain weather pitches in SWOS as the screen would freak out and go all blue. Surprised to not see any Lucas Arts point & click games in there or were they not your cup o' tea?
Which swos version?
So good to see love for Bill's Tomato Game and Lost Patrol. Both games I played when they first came out. I've spoken to very few folks who have heard of either. Amazing games. And, yes, that Lost Patrol music is one of the best. Great work Kim.
Kim Justice attacks with NOSTALGIA.
It is SUPER EFFECTIVE.
Amiga Power championed Virocop at the time. Also, for Base Jumpers, you remember Amiga Format as having a demo on the coverdisk -- Amiga Power definitely had one and I played it a hundred times with my siblings, but it might have been on the cover of an AF issue too, so you might be right.
I'm reading scans of Amiga Power right now, I'm on around issue 9, and Stuart Campbell rated Scooby and Scrappy highly also. It's nice that licensed games can sometimes end up to be actually great.
SHADOW FIGHTER! Paraponzipopo.
Regarding modern pinball games, I can personally recommend Demon's Tilt on Steam. It's especially great in tate mode.
@@tomkrawec Amiga power definatly had a base jumpers demo, That's how I played it back in the day, But didn't have friends to play it with so the exsperiance was a bit lost on me.
My top 10:
1. Dino Dini's Goal!
2. Sensible World of Soccer
3. Championship Manager
4. Archer McLean's pool
5. Jimmy White's snooker
6. Deluxe Paint
7. Striker
8. Sim City
9. Theme Park
10. Worms
I thought there would have been a Championship Manger in there some where as I preferred them to Premier Manager. Not sure if you’ve heard of Escape From Colditz but that is a a game. Spent so many hours on that. You really need to try it.
I should make a note about the Gold Box games: Whilst the PC versions did catch up eventually, it took 'til Dark Queen of Krynn to get mouse controls on PC, which Pool of Radiance had on Amiga.
Moonstone is amazing, especially when playing a few friends...there was so many great games on the amiga.
I suppose it says a lot about my Amiga history that I didn't have a single game in the list until Pinball Fantasies. But then I also had SWOS, The Settlers, Cannon Fodder, Syndicate and The Chaos Engine.
Nice to see Dune here, it's a great game, and the Amiga version of the soundtrack is very good, even with only three tracks !
Again another brilliant video. Kim Justice should be liked and subscribed to at once. Any british person should relate to all the games being shown. We had computer games. We didn't have a video game crash.
Doesn't tend to get mentioned much, but I also really liked Historyline 1914-1918, by BlueByte software.
A great game and a history lesson, all in one.
Worth a look if you like turn based strategy games (based on the Battle Isle engine).
History Line was a great game. I spent hours and hours with it...my old love.
Difficult to play
Why does every "best amiga games" video on RUclips never include Black
Crypt, Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, Captive or any RPG?
Some of them include EOTB2.
The story of Geoff Crammond needs the Kim Justice treatment
So many classic games. But Syndicate - wow I'd forgotten about that one. What an awesome game that was!
that yacht dude Maxwell, what a life
Pretty much spot on as usual, this is why you are one of my favourite youtubers!
Spot on, with the info given? Too many inaccuracies as far as I'm concerned.
I agree. Not including The Secret of Monkey Island is a CRIME. Also miss great classics like North & South, Wolfenstein, Persian Gulf Inferno, A Rockstar ate my Hamster, Super Cars 2.
I'm a little confused ...
How can you have a top Amiga 100 without the following:
Frontier
Starglider 2
North & South
Midwinter 2
I know that top 100s are subjective but even so...
I bought a handheld emulator for less than 40$ to play playstation 1 and GBA games but i found out i can also play Amiga and anything that is under 64-bits. Thanks a lot for this video, so many games to try now!!!!
I would have thought R-Type would have placed in there somewhere. Did I miss it? The Amiga port was spot on. Also noticed by their absence was the Sierra adventure games, and PowerMonger.
Music was brilliant too.
I had an Amiga 500 back in the day. I remember playing a sort of top down tank game that totally engrossed me for some time but for the life of me I cant remember its name. For the time it was a very capable machine.
I was a Atari ST user back in the days but even I truly enjoyed this video, good work. A little light on adventure games but hey it is your list :-)
Interesting subjective list, but the criminal absence of Monkey Island, Pirates, Another World, Flashback and Stunt Car Racer makes it seem rather trivial imo (especially regarding some curious lower entries and the unnecessary double dipping of Speedball, Lotus, Populous, Cannon Fodder and Sensi).
I agree entirely (Zool 1 & 2 included as well), but in Kim’s defence Stunt Car Racer was in the video.
I wish I owned Amiga when I was younger so I could appreciate it much more today.
(Owned C64 & C128)
I have a copy of Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker I brought at a computer show in '91. I queued up to have my box autoghraphed by the man himself, Jimmy in the flesh, who was there promoting the games release. Good times.
QUACK!, forgot about that one. Had it on my Amiga, LOVED it. It was in those mini-type boxes that some Team17 games came in for a bit.
It's a true sign of the versatility of the Amiga in that most people's top 10 will be slightly different.
Mine: Monkey Island 1& 2, Indiana Jones & Fate of Atlantis, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Syndicate, Sensible Soccer (and SOWS!), Dune II, Knights of the Sky, Chaos Engine, UFO: Enemy Unknown. Special mention to Cannon Fodder, Adventures of Robin Hood, Loom, Gobliiins, and Populous II. :)
Did you complete Indiana Jones?
@@dfoster2513 I did; it gets very tough when you get to Atlantis
@@UselessHumansMusic I barely got anywhere with that game! Respect to you, I was marginally too young is my excuse... Same for Shadow of the beast... I think it was called.
@@dfoster2513 I could never get into Shadow! I definitely wasn't one for platformers! :)
Love these vids they are thouroughly enjoyable i think for anyone that grew up and lived at the golden age of gaming.So many amazing games on the Legendary Amiga.
Some serious omissions like Another World, Flashback and Paperboy but I enjoyed watching, especially great to be reminded of Walker!
If anyone wants help with Robocop 3, I sent a walkthrough into Amiga Power. It's in one of the later issues, as in literally one of the last handful. Thank me by saving Detroit.
Can you make the movie watchable?
@@Cuzjudd There's no drug on the planet that is capable of doing that.
Great list but am I mistaken here - sure I didn't see a single Point 'n' Click?
Cheers for putting the time in Kim, i totally forgot about Ultimate Football Manager and Premier Manager.
Where was Barbarian, Panza Kick Boxing and Championship Manager chap?
No Barbarian? Tsk tsk
Mercenary/Damocles were pretty good on the Amiga. IIRC Dungeon Master required a memory upgrade on the standard A500, even so on my personal list that would be a top 5 due to it still being highly playable today and so impactful. I personally preferred Chaos Strikes back though. Captive by Anthony Crowther was also a great DM game on the Amiga.
Not sure why but I found Backlash (By Novagen) a kind of fast arcade Battlezone really fun to play at the time... so worth a quick go if you've never played it but unsure if its held up over the years?.
that intro releases a tiny little dopamine hit everytime is plays - just glorious
Great video, a very nostalgic watch. Maybe they don't count as original amiga games (?) , but I played a lot of: xenon 2 megablast, Hunter, escape from colditz, another world, flashback and james pond, so I was a little surprised not to see any of them. :)
I would like to mention Sid Meier's Pirates. It's still a good game in 2021.
I never had an Amiga in the day, my time line was . Spectrum, Atari 800XL, Atari ST and 486DX 66.
Bought an un opened Amiga about 10 years ago and later given a used one.
There is no doubt the Amiga shone where games are concerned, but I used my Atari ST mainly for typing out reports and a little gaming. My son wanted to play sonic or Zelda, so no point in moving to an Amiga. I think being seen as a gaming machine eventually damaged the Amiga as it could not compete against the consoles.
I played a few of the games shown here on the ST, I don't think I enjoyed the games any less.
Great video!!!
Absolutely brilliant great work Kim
Some games I loved which didn't make your 100, from what I watched was Eye of the Dragon, an amazing Blade Runner type adventure came on 10 discs.
Conqueror - kinda like Virus (used the same engine), was a fun tank game.
Supremacy - Space Management type game, with terraforming etc. Kinda gave birth later on to the Space Empires games.
Pirates! - So SO SO SO SOOOOOO Good - Microprose's best game they developed in my opinion also...
Gunship 2000 - Another Microprose title, similar to Gunship on the 8 Bit machines (Played the original to death on the Speccy)
Another World - Was blown away at how smooth the animation was in that game, also quite hard later on in the game.
Dune 2 - was the RTS that was created by the same devs who went on to make Command and Conquer. Enjoyable.
AnotherWorld?
Notable mentions for me TV Sports basketball, Wanted, Commando, Dogs of War were some of my favs
The amiga was kinda like the Speccy... only not a piece of crap! :D
er, dude: Ruff n' Tumble is so NOT done by Rainbow Arts.
Glad you liked it but the game was put together by two people; Jason Perkins (Coder- ex Gremlin and would go on to head up Curve Entertainment) and me, Art and level designs.
Released by Renegade, one of the best publishers I've ever worked for.
Sorry, I messed up on that one. Disadvantage of going unscripted.
Great work. A very enjoyable game.
Some interesting choices next to the obvious ones. From the top of my head I would definitely add
- Wings of Fury
- Hostages
- Dogs of War
- Oil Imperium and a couple of other german business simulations...
The Amiga had excellent versions of Flashback and Desert Strike. I remember my friend showing me those two games specifically.
You could probably have made this a top 200. I'll add one you omitted. Magic Pockets by the Bitmaps. Another omission would be Dune 2.
Man I love these videos. also this man has a fantastic voice very entertaining personality well done!!:D
Fantastic video Kim and some incredible choices here!
Warhead was another cool Amiga game.
As was the silly(+hilarious) Pong game ..'Wet Beaver'
Between all those platforms magic pockets and best of best Gods missed