Top 10 Amiga Arcade Ports
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2024
- There were a lot of ports from the arcades to Commodore's 16Bit flagship. Flagship being A500 - while not the most powerful, definitely the most popular and wide spread. :) And these games spawned from the very beginnings of arcades to titles ported when both Amiga and arcades themself were on their last legs. In means that in the top 10, even with few honorable mentions, not all titles favored by everyone could be fitted. So, this is the top 10 as I feel it should look like. Not all games here are games I actually liked or even play anymore, but I believe all have their fair spots on it. So, have a look and let me know what you think!
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0:00 Introduction
0:37 Honorable Mentions
2:40 Marble Madness
3:21 Super Hang-On
4:02 Golden Axe
4:41 Pac-Mania
5:23 Arkanoid
6:01 Silk Worm
6:49 Mortal Kombat I & II
7:36 Pang
8:24 Bubble Bobble
9:12 Rodland
For the purpose of creating this video I've used WinUAE emulator which I recommend to anyone at least semi-interested in Amiga gaming and not willing to spend money on real hardware. All that is required to play the games is:
- The WinUAE emulator (winuae.net)
- Amiga's kickstart file
- ADF files with games
ADF files are disk images corresponding to floppy disks used for Amiga games. You can easily find them with a bit of googling usually by typing something akin to "game title adf amiga download". Same could be said about kickstart files but these can also be purchased via Amiga Forever website with one of their packs (www.amigaforever.com) or even cheaper (last time I checked it was $0.99) on Android as a part of Amiga Forever Essentials. And these files can be easily moved to PC.
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Rainbow Islands and Golden Axe were fantastic on the Amiga, as were Super Hang On & Arkanoid, so I’m glad they got mentioned. I love R-Type & R-Type II but yes, they are damn hard. The Bubble Bobble music gives me a massive wave of nostalgia every time I hear it, taking me back to the 80’s playing 2 player with my mates.
There are so many great arcade conversions on the Amiga (& some absolute train wrecks) that you couldn’t reasonably cover them all here but for anyone just discovering or rediscovering the Amiga all of the games in this video are worth playing.
Great video, thanks.
Thanks buddy! :)
Bubble Bobble's music is probably the most iconic out of all on this list. And I really wanted it here but two previous attempts with that game on my channel ended up with copyright claim.
And I'm sure that even if someone doesn't know it's from this game, they would recognise the tune and be able to tell that they heard it before. It's so great!
IMO the Amiga port of Silkworm was even better than the arcade. Still worth picking up and playing today.
I actually does play great to this day. And I don't feel as overwhelmed by the difficulty as I do in both R-Type games.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames 👍
I played "Rainbow Islands" through many sleepless nights back in the day.
"Bubble Bobble" as well, but more together with friends.
The kids of today aren't able to understand the pure fascination this era brought to the youth in those years. ❤
Back then most games were all about skill. Sometime about showing that skill off (highscores). They rarely had any plot, and only relied on addictive gameplay loop. At least those that originated from arcades. Today, there's hardly any arcades left anywhere. So, games moved on to more story-based adventures. Regardless of the genre the games themself are.
I played Arkanoid a few times, but never really got into it, you (or whoever controlled it) played it nicely! I am missing new Arcade conversions from the last years like: Bombjack, Rygar, Pacman (original version) and a some more. There are also a few in the making. Nice Video thanks.
There are actually no official Pacman conversions to the Amiga. And it was me playing it for the video. That said, it's much easier with modern gaming mice than it was back in the day with original one that came with the system.
I played Krakout (? - the one with the crazy music) on the C64. That was enough for me when it came to that genre. I played Arkanoid too but also never got into it.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Well played. I don't know how "official" that is, but Jotd released Pacman 500 in 2021 which AFAIK is a true Arcade port. It's quite cool and runs with 50 fps on a basic A500. (I think he converted the game from asm to asm and so also enemy AI should be true to the original.)
@@SammYLightfooD That sounds interesting but from a player's point of view. Meaning a player in me is interested but still it's not for this one video in particular. Official meaning made by original company or by a licensee. Don't worry about it, I'm kinda considering a follow up with best versions of arcade games and not ports per se.
Nice! Thank you very much for the key. :)
You're welcome! Glad someone found one, they've been in quite a few videos actually and until now I don't think anyone grabbed any. :)
I can see the code, but what for is it?
@@StefanEdek Steam game. I've been placing them in videos in random spots recently. But it's one code per video, so with this one, if null Delimiter grabbed it, it's gone. Maybe you'll be the first with the next video, or will grab some of the older ones. AFAIK not all have been picked up yet.
Rodland.. now that brings back fun memories :)
It does, doesn't it? I even had a dodgy tape version of it on my C64, where each "game" on the tape would be a subset of full game's levels. I still played it to death.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It was my disk number 198 apparently (just checked on my disk list). Sadly most of those disks are gone now :(
@@ltdrak I know the feeling. Though mainly on Amiga. On C64 I mostly played from tapes.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames My computer history was Vic-20, PC XT, then Amiga. Vic-20 was tapes. Slow, but with only 4k RAM, the memory was still full very quickly :)
@@ltdrak For me it was C64, Amiga and then PC. With some consoles here and there from then until today.
Really great list. Wish there were links to where to find some of these titles.
planetemu.net
Here you go :) If you go through my videos there's one there on how to play Amiga games on PC. It explains how and where to get what to get you going.
Golden Axe sometimes would totally freeze at later stages, both on Amiga and DOS version from what I played. Don't know if the Amiga version froze only in the pirate copy and original floppy played fine.
Personally never had the issue but I can believe it was happening as games back then never really received update they do these days. So the only way the bugs got fixed was either in re-release or (rarely) crackers.
I had it on proper disk, it never froze on me. Perhaps it was a fault on the cracked version.
There's an arcade perfect port of Ms. Pac-Man on Amiga now!
Thanks! That's good to know for the unofficial arcade ports video if I'll make one. And I might at some point.
3:55 - Perfect example of the computer riders intentionally trying to hit you.
Arkanoid - The Amiga version looked arcade perfect and had a second set of levels, but I actually preferred playing the C64 version for one simple fact: You could play it with a set of Atari paddle controllers. I never really liked using a mouse in place of a paddle. I was really disappointed when the C64 version of Arkanoid II removed the paddle option!
Mortal Kombat - It's not unusual today, but back then, I had a copy of this game that was hacked to run from a hard drive, so no disk swapping required. I used to do fairly well, but I could never beat Goro. It always seemed like he could grab me from halfway across the screen. As soon as I even got close to him, he'd grab me and take off a big chunk of my health.
Rodland - It's a good port of the arcade, but they left out the whole second part. If you completed all the levels in the arcade version, it would start a whole new set of levels with different enemies. Unfortunately, this was left out of all the home versions. Not that I'm good enough to get that far without cheating...
Mortal Kombat was great, I didn't have a harddrive but I had cracked version that used only 2 disks so it was tad less swapping too. In general first MK was fair, other than Goro, I agree that he cheesed his way out of some attacks but same happened in the arcades so can't really blame Probe for that. MK2 was a hot garbage when played alone because the game down right cheated all the way through. But it was amazing with a friend.
Rodland - is an was my most favorite single screen arcade platformer. And yeah, even if there was another set of levels, I too never completed it so wouldn't seen it anyway. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames But then again, arcade MK2 is (in)famously known for its AI cheapness, so I'd say thats not to blame on amiga's port. (i.e. Input reading, damage handicaping, no charge time for special moves)
Also, I'd very much wish I had those cracked versions of both MK. I Remember swapping through 3 disks on MK1 and 4 on MK2 using a single drive. 😅
@@andrealves3104 Funny enough cracked MK1 was only on 2 disks. :)
Nice video, but you forgot some good pieces.
Like Saint Dragon, or Dragon Breath. It's definitely worth mentioning that there are new ports of games like Tiny Bobble, Tiny Invaders, Pacman 500, Ms. Pacman 500. (Rygar and Bomb Jack have been mentioned before)
They're worth mentioning but these were official arcade ports in this video only. I may make another one with often better unofficial ones too. That said, new upload tomorrow, a completely new mini-series. Maybe that'll be more interesting as it's not stating that what's featured there is "top" or "best". :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames You're absolutely right. It would be worth making a video just about PD games (homebrew), I'm sure you could make a nice video about it:)
@@tomaskonvicka4135 And I might. For now though I'm focusing on my new 10-part mini series. 10 Years of Amiga Gaming 1986 to 1995, a video per each year. First one's out already, second having nearly twice as many titles in it, is coming end of this week.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I'm looking forward to it. The first few years weren't very fruitful.
With a few exceptions it started to take off in 87, but the biggest boom was in 89 (I think).
@@tomaskonvicka4135 I haven't planned that far ahead cause I'm still working on my list for the second video (so 1987) but I always thought of 1993 as a best year for Amiga games. It was not based on any research just my personal gut feeling. Well, I suppose when the series are done, we'll know. :)
Good list but what about Midnight Resistance, which was a very good game, Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters or APB?
Thanks! I've made the list the best I could.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Thank you for your good work! Back in the late 80's and early 90's I had many friends who had an Amiga 500. Most of them had a C64 before too. And so there always were most of the new games available. Also games were sold at flea markets back then and no one cared. So I had the plvilege to play 80- or 90% of the Amiga games until 92 or 93.
We even sometimes played Warlords with four people. When someone made his move all others left the room ;-). Yeah, good old times when I was 12 to 15 years old and played on the Amiga 500... .
I bought many games too. Even on the 64. Some were great like Airborne Ranger or Zak Mc Kracken on the C64. Or later some great games (which I later played on my Amiga 1200 with a hard drive) like Dune 2, History Line, Monkey Island 1 & 2, Ambermoon, Gunship 2000, Wing Commander (which had a good playability back then on my Amiga 1200), Alien Breed 3D, Lost Patrol and so on. I invested most of my money in games back then.
My first two games I bought (- got the money for christmas) were Batman The Movie and Moonwalker for the C64.
But soon after this (I think in 1990 or 1991 I got an Amiga for christmas). I always played at friends homes the years before I had my first own computer, which was an old C16.
I think the first C64-game I played was Yie Ar Kung Fu in 1985 or 1986. And the "Games"-series by Epyx. Or Spy vs. Spy, Cauldron, Falcon Patrol, Zaxxon, Blue Max and so on. Very impressive back then for a machine at ones home.
I grew up with the very old black and white games you could play on a tv, called tennis or football, which didn't have real sprites. It was on a type of console but I only know the german name ("Telespiel").
Then the Atari 2600 at a friends home and some arcade games like Galaga on holiday trips with my parents.
Those were good days to grow up back in the 80s.
@@DerDude1977 I see that we had quite similar upbringing with a slight difference that I went C64 -> Amiga 500 -> PC and then consoles. First game I even legally bought was Fist Fighter on C64. I so wanted Street Fighter game like at home and it was supposed to be it. The first one I purchased on Amiga was polish beat 'em up Franko The Crazy Revenge. I just loved that it was so bloody and brutal. But I suppose that's why we played Mortal Kombat, right? Anyway, First games I remember on both would probably be either Jumpan Junior or Gyruss (the second of the two actually being an excellent port) on C64 and PP Hammer on the Amiga.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah, I still remember PP Hammer ;-). A friend liked it very much but it wasn't really "my cup of tea".
I was working the whole summer holidays to afford an Amiga 1200 in 93 I think in the construction industry as a schoolboy.
I often thought that buying a PC back then would have been better, but I never regretted buying the Amiga 1200. A very good machine. But sadly the Amiga died soon after more or less.
Then in 97 I bought an old and cheap PS1 and a year later my first PC.
The only other consoles I bought were a Game Boy in the early 90s and then 2015 a PS4. I wish you a great weekend! Cheers!
@@DerDude1977 Yeah, PP Hammer was not my jam either. I mean it was fun for what it was but Amiga had so many so much better games that it just paled in comparison. I always wanted A1200, it seemed like a demon of speed compared to my A500. Now, I know better, but, and that's probably the funny part, I want one still. The prices are jsut so high that I can't justify this expense in this economy and uncertainty in the World.
If all goes well, I should finish my next video tomorrow for Patreon and a day later for UA-cam. If not, there will be a day slide on that. But it might be a game that you knew well and had on your Amiga. :)
Street Fighter 2 deserves to be on this top. Countless hours of pure fun, smooth animations and gorgeous colours.
I don't know what to say here really. I loved it, played it for hours but objectively speaking Amiga's Street Fighter 2 port was rather bad. The animation was choppy, and lacked frames, it took a while to load... Super Street Fighter 2 The New Challengers (the one without Turbo in the title) was pretty amazing though. Even if it sported tiny sprites.
Mortal kombat was a great port in my opinion.
I totally agree. Both were amazing. And they both played incredibly well against a friend.
Pity that the disk swapping was so annoying when playing though. It didn't bother me as much back then though.
Gradius/Nemesis is on the Amiga now. I'd like Green Beret and a better GnG / GnG also..
Note: Marble Madness supports the mouse and is MUCH better that way. The only way to play it, IMHO...
I see, thanks! :)
Toki is best conversion for me, with even better game mechanics than arcade. Double Dragon II is good conversion but suffers from one button control. Same goes for Wonderboy in Monster land. Double Dragon 3 is great conversion of a crapy game with smoother animation than chopy original. And Shadow Dancer is realy excellent conversion, very playable. Pang is also excellent! There is got to be a place for Dragon breed, an excellent conversion or Saint Dragon, depending on you preferences. Final fight is bad conversion but I played it to the death. So doeas the Street Fighter II! Hey, it was Final Fight and SFII on the Amiga! I learned gameplay mechanics and beat both games!
I destroyed Final Fight and Super Street Fighter 2 The New Challengers back then too. I preferred SSF2TNC over SF2 as even though it run is a smaller window it featured more players and was much much smoother.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames i saw new challengers on the Amiga a said "this is not SFII"? Nevermind faster gameplay or more animation ftames, small sprites are not SFII. Not on Amiga, at least but some alternate version to fit on NES, maybe. Big part of appeal of SFII is presentation and obssesion with frame rates, animation frame numbers, disk swaping and parallax scroling and animated background are new thing of internet age. Although game undoubtly looks and plays better on SNES, on Amiga sprites are beautifuly drawn and gameplay mechanics will never be even close to the arcade with one button. Buy then, SNES gameplay mechanics has nothing to do with arcade also. And Final fight on SNES, although much more beautiful to look at then Amiga, has only 3 enemies on screen at the time, no 2 player co-op, that awfuly drawn punk sprite instead of Poison and play area extremly small. But why they screwed on Amiga enemy placements and round kick (doesnt loose you energy) and lack of music beats me. In my oppinion, these are main drawbacks of Amiga version. If those were fixed, game would be proper Final fight. But, Tiertex...
@@dusanpiscevic6213 Most likely the issue were either time or money. Meaning they either had very little time contracted to complete the games or just wanted to quickly grab some money and finish the titles without any polish.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames just place enemies o right places! That is not that hard!
Fun fact: Amiga rodland was actually better port than arcade! Yes, weaker graphics, but they did game mechanic better
When I first saw it at my friend's, I dismissed it. It was overly colourful and too cute. And then I tried it, it was amazing. It's my most favourite single screen platformer of all time!
The Amiga port even fixed some of the arcade's bugs.
@@gumdeo "Only Amiga... can make it possible! Only Amiga..." Remember the ads? There was something in them...
it had some missed character animation
I think super hang on was better on the Amiga, at least the arcade content, than the MD. Plays much better with actual amazing analogue controls if you go with mouse, has better sounds and all the stages. The biggest thing with the md version was the career mode. That being said, you really should try Ghosts'n'Goblins on the Amiga. It is by far the best arcade conversion on the system, the best conversion of the game on any system (well apart from Sharp x68000, but that was a different beast altogether), arcade perfect (apart from the fact that you cannot turn and face the other direction while jumping). As for newer releases, Rygar is awesome, tiny bubble (bubble bobble revamped) and snow bros which was developed back in the day but never saw the light until well into the 2000's
I'll take a look at those. Especially the Snow Bros, this was quite fun if I remember correctly.
X68000 is a machine I always wanted but never could afford and most likely given the current prices of retro hardware still wont be able to. ;) AFAIR it was japanese only system that had arcade perfect ports, literally...
@@OldAndNewVideoGames X68000 isn't as good as some would have you believe.
MD wasn't much, if any. upgrade over the Amiga. Sound & music capabilities were much worse on MD. In terms of graphics, I can see the MD was superior in some areas, but it was very close.
@@arthurdaly3497 well x68000 is as good if not better than most would have you believe. Whether its games were your cup of tea is another thing, 90% of them being arcade ports, or arcade style games anyway, so if you were into it for strategy, or point and clicks or the flight sims, you're out of luck, but that doesn't make it a less capable system from what it actually was. It could chew and spit every system that was out at the time (and systems that came out later actually).
@@jimkrom Yes because it cost the equivalent of $7000 at the time and was only available in Japan. Amiga was $700 or less. That is why x68000 is largely irrelevant. Paying that price in the late 1980s, I would have expected hardware sprite scaling and rotation. It could not remotely do arcade perfect games of the time, only older games. Obviously the Amiga was worse but it was not 10 times worse
there's an even better port of bubble bobble made in the last few years for the amiga! tinybobble
I know, but I wanted official games only in the list. I might do a separate video in the future regarding either new games in general or new ports to the system. We'll see. Next one's already in the making.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames awesome, just sticking to official old releases makes sense :) i wrote the comment for people who see the video :) like the channel mate!
@@ameriscm7351 Thanks, appreciate your comments and viewing! :)
Not really sure why Super Hang-on Amiga is on here, ZZKJ was a clueless ST coder who did even worse Amiga games. Batman the Movie on ST had a better framerate lol
Well, Super Hang-On is here cause it's a banging port. Great playing and not far off from arcade original. Given the Amiga's capabilities.
Still pretty good for his first try coding an Amiga and was originally not meant to be released, was just for personal coding practice.
@@off1k If that was his first game, it was stellar!