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Author Topic: Ye not-quite-as -olde Amiga Games  (Read 9376 times)

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on: April 14, 2020, 02:45:24 PM
After the C-64, we graduated to an Amiga 500, and eventually to an Amiga 600HD.

Lots of good games for these machines, so lets have yer thoughts. I would expect the Bitmap Brothers to feature here. Chaos Engine was a good 'un.
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Reply #1 on: April 14, 2020, 02:55:12 PM
* Amiga  ;)



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Reply #2 on: April 14, 2020, 02:59:47 PM
Or if he shops at the same store Homer Simpson does.  :hehe:


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Reply #3 on: April 14, 2020, 03:02:43 PM
* Amiga  ;)



(unless that's a British speulling  :hehe:  )

oops

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Reply #4 on: April 14, 2020, 03:04:05 PM
Incubation was another great game.

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Reply #5 on: April 14, 2020, 04:09:51 PM
The first game I ever saw on an Amiga was Rocket Ranger. A friend of mine that I worked with at Babbage's at the time had me over and I checked out his setup. I was incredibly jealous because these graphics were amazing back then.


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Reply #6 on: April 14, 2020, 04:57:43 PM
I’m out - post c64 I went sideways to the mega drive



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Reply #7 on: April 14, 2020, 05:36:56 PM
We'll let you off then, 'geek.

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Reply #8 on: April 14, 2020, 05:49:13 PM
Yep we graduated to Amiga too.  Here's a classic straight from ye olde memory vault: Starglider 2!




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Reply #9 on: April 14, 2020, 06:44:52 PM
I’m out - post c64 I went sideways to the mega drive

Me too. I went from C64 to 8086 PC.

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Reply #10 on: April 14, 2020, 06:46:23 PM
Me three. C64 to 8088.

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Reply #11 on: April 14, 2020, 06:48:20 PM
My favorite Amiga game: Their Finest Hour, Lucasarts' Battle of Britain game. Obviously dated today but a real looker back then.

Complete with authentic Amiga disk drive sounds: 


Cannon Fodder, F-29 Retaliator, Falcon AT, Beneath a Steel Sky, and Shadow of the Beast (or was it SotB2?) were some others I enjoyed.

I know there were a few more but I got my Amiga used around '93. When Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe came out on DOS only I switch to a barebones 486 and added sound/joystick ports, better graphics, and also a math co-processor. Then came Falcon 3 and the poor Miggie got shelved.  :-[


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Reply #12 on: April 15, 2020, 03:20:39 AM
Their Finest Hour had the most glorious manual!



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Reply #13 on: April 15, 2020, 07:25:50 AM
Yes, and I have two copies!

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Reply #14 on: April 15, 2020, 07:31:58 AM
F-16 Combat Pilot, and European Air War.

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