The 20 Greatest Commodore Amiga Games Of All-Time
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2023
- In this video we countdown the 20 Greatest Commodore Amiga Games of All-Time as voted for by you - the retro gaming community!
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50 - Kick Off 2
49 - Marble Madness
48 - Rocket Ranger
47 - Frontier: Elite 2
46 - Super Cars 2
45 - Colonization
44 - Syndicate
43 - Power Monger
42 - Flashback
41 - Championship Manager '93
40 - Bubble Bobble
39 - It Came From the Desert
38 - Jaguar XJ220
37 - Rick Dangerous
36 - Sim City
35 - Impossible Mission II
34 - Turrican
33 - Gods
32 - UFO
31 - Xenon 2
30 - Desert Strike
29 - Rainbow Islands
28 - Last Ninja 2
27 - Xenon
26 - Rod-Land
25 - The Settlers
24 - Gauntlet II
23 - Dungeon Master
22 - Theme Park
21 - Moonstone
20 - Populous
19 - Pinball Fantasies
18 - Sensible Soccer
17 - Hunter
16 - Lotus 2
15 - Blood Money
14 - Civilization
13 - Turrican 2
12 - Alien Breed
11 - Wings
10 - Another World
9 - Chaos Engine
8 - Worms
7 - Stunt Car Racer
6 - Cannon Fodder
5 - Shadow of the Beast
4 - Sensible World of Soccer
3 - The Secret of Monkey Island
2 - Speedball 2
1 - Lemmings
I had an Amiga A500,A500+ and an A600, I loved every moment of them, I was surprised that 'Swiv ' wasn't in the top 20,such a brilliant shoot em up! 🙂
Completing SWIV was probably my greatest achievement in video gaming.
@@Britonbear not sure i completed it but always fun to play with the music
Ah, the Amiga. The greatest computer of the 16-bit era.
no doubt
For sure
Glad to see Wings on the list, but i thought Defender of the Crown would've been in here somewhere.
Really surprised Xenon2 didn’t make the top 20. But glad to see Alien Breed, Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer, Monkey Island and Lemmings where all in there. I also liked a lot of MicroProse combat sims like F-15,F19, Gunship and Falcon 4.0. Some of my other favourites were The Lost Vikings, North & South & Mega lo Mania.
I still have my Amiga 1200 in the loft. The games I loved were Gunship 2000, Chaos Engine, Alien Breed 2, Genesia and Zeewolf. Still got loads of games too including Cannon fodder and The Great War 1914 - 1918 etc...... No doubt I will remember more later.
Look after it. It's worth hundreds; I doubt you'll sell it though.
I love The Great wat 1914-1918. My game was called History line 1914-1918. Maybe it was called that in the U.S.
I still have all my games, like 300 of them sitting in a box all taped up on my wardrobe!!!
As always, every Amiga owner has own favourite list in the heart... For me memorable members of this list are (in random order): a) Civilisation - we were playing this as a group game, each of us got one settler and then established own City. So we could spend time playing "together", b) Ports of Call - I was blown away by the graphics. And still remember bad things which could happen around Cape Town, c) Galaga - don't know but my friends and I spent sooo many hours playing this, d) Hired Guns - oh, it was so scary and dark
There are some games that have not aged well on many devices but I feel many of the Amiga titles still hold their own. I still regularly play SWOS, It Came From the Desert, the settlers and Populous 2
I still have 3 amiga500s in their boxes and stored up..i tend to emulate these days but can't beat a real amiga for the true experience...disk grinding and guru meditation screens lol.
Biggest missing game for me is Crammond’s F1GP. It was the reason I bought an Amiga if I’m honest.
I played them through to the 4th in the series (which I still play) on PC and they inspired my continuing focus on sim racing today.
When I pulled the A1200 out of the loft last yearF1GP was still resident on the hard drive. 🙂
It's strange, because it only got a few votes but since I posted the video loads of people have been expressing their surprise at its exclusion!
@@TheLairdsLair I guess the sim nature of the title made it a bit more niche even though it was bundled with the A600 at one point.
I was I little surprised too, as it was one of my favourites.
Was thinking this too (plus a few other games).
With my brothers we played this, 4 of us, 2 teams. We would run a full race on a Sunday afternoon, with the Saturday prior used for tuning cars.
Teamed with my brother who was a sparky and mechanically minded, he managed to tune our cars to go 20-30mph faster than the rest, come race day we didn't as well as expected, kept burning out the tyres. Fascinating sim for it's time.
Also loved the way multi player worked with that game, it did seem to somewhat replicate the players skill when the computer took over, if doing well then it might gain a few places before coming round to your next turn.
We use to aim for 2.5 laps played before the next person took over, meaning we got around 4 or 5 turns each per race, with the computer driving the rest.
OK enough said, as you can see I enjoyed that game.
My personal Top 10:
10. D-Generation
9. Syndicate
8. Monkey Island 1& 2
7. Project X
6. Dyna Blaster
5. Rainbow Islands
4. Turrican 2
3. Alien Breed: Special Edition
2. Speedball 2
1. Sensible World of Soccer
A bit unexpected to not see The Settlers on the list, it was way ahead of its time.
If you look at the pinned post you'll see that it was 25th.
What I’m personally missing would be Katakis, R-Type or Apidaya and I tend to like Jaguar XJ220 more than Lotus. Regarding Sid Meier I like his Pirates game more than Civilization.
What I absolutely enjoyed on the Amiga been the RPGs from SSI taking Place in the Forgotten Realms or Krynn
I don't know how i lived through my childhood in the 80's and didn't have a clue about the Amiga. It really seems more like a machine released in the early 90's.
Not having It came from the desert in this list is unfair. It sold the Amiga to me after I saw it running somewhere. Cinemawares masterpiece imo..
Agreed. It belongs on any Top 5 lists, and had a decent sequel too. Original game was a 1989 smash hit game. And unlike many other games like dune 2 and lucasart games it was not culturally a pc game.
All Cinemaware games were great: It came from the desert, Wings, King of Chicago, TV sports, but especially: Lord of the rising sun.
Had an Amiga 500 from ‘87 to ‘97 & played more than 1000 games.
Here’s my own little top 5 of games I didn’t see in this list
1. Eye of the beholder 2: temple of Darkmoon (taught me D & D rules before I ever played any 😂)
2. Zak McKraken (my favorite adventure game of all time)
3. Dune 2
4. Dark seed
5. Moonstone (the reason I got the 512kb ram expansion 😂)
Those were some good times 👍
Moonstone needs to be in ANY top 10/20 list out there...
Moonstone is amazing man. I grew up like 20 minutes from Stonehenge so the intro used to give me chills as a kid. Defo a couple times walking in the woods at night I got shook thinking I’d be dragged under by a big skeleton monster… to be a kid again!
LOL the sequel to Chaos Engine is not 'equally good' - it's an abysmal game :D - easily the worst Bitmap Bros effort.
I like to think he was taking the piss when he said this…..surely ;)
It took me ages to save up the £399 to buy an Amiga
....I also got the 512k expansion card taking it up to a massive 1Mb!
Would have loved a HDD but couldn't afford one
I remember I wanted my Amiga after playing 'Super Cars II' at my cousin's on his Amiga 500, that Christmas my parents got a second hand Amiga from the newspaper for Christmas and I lost my mind when it was an Amiga 1200 😄, problem was I found out Super Cars II didn't work on the A1200 😭
Ah well it still became my favourite computer/console and I've had many, I still have it with such great games as the 'Monkey Island' games, 'The Settlers' & 'The Shepherd' (which where my Populus type stratergy favourites), 'Bubble and Squeek', 'Desert Strike' and just so many more creative fun options. What a machine
Inherited an Amiga 500+ from my stepbrother and played it a lot in 95-96. Some games of interest:
- Lemmings
- Civilization
- Sensible Soccer
- Prince of Persia
- Falcon 2
- K240 (known as Fragile Allegiance in PC world)
- TItus the Fox
Dune 2, Football glory (swos with streakers) Putty Squad (but was actually unreleased) Rick Dangerous, Syndicate, Zool, The Settlers, Skidmarks, Benefactor, Beneath a Steel Sky, Walker... to name a few, but so many amazing games. I guess it's what you have the most fond memories of
Putty Squad were released for free on Amiga 20-25 years later when they released the HD version on consoles.
Chuck Rock was probably the one I spent most of my time on back in the day. Good times!
I didn't voted because It would be impossible to me to choose the best. There were SO MANY great games on the Amiga.
I could make a top 20 list featuring NONE of those games! Lol
HUNTER! Thanks for mentioning that game. I remembered that, but forgot its title.
Great list! but notable missing games for me are Crammonds F1GP series, Syndicate, The Settlers and Supercars 2!
Wings was one of my favourite Amiga games. I really enjoyed the story in it.
A remake of it is available on Steam.
I still have bags full of Amiga games in the attic. Pure nostalgia.
Loads of games I loved back in the day. Still play several now
So many legendary classic games for the Amiga 😺👍🕹️.
I believe, i still have POPULOUS for my
Amiga 500.
AGONY and SHADOW OF THE BEAST inspire me to draw my own furry comic arts 🖋️🖊️✏️🖍️.
Me and my friends should SWOS again this year 😹👍🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️.
Thank you 😸😺👍.
Nice list, I enjoyed Super Cars I and II very much as well as Stunt car racer.
Moonstone and lure of the temptress were my favourite
I loved my Amiga that I brought as a teen for myself I think it might been one of best purchases, the music on the games is just incredible if you hook up to a good sound system and whack the sound up just makes it better, I did love bitmap bros games the sound there was stunning, I had a 500 back in the 90's these days I have a 1200.
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I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. I never owned an Amiga. Closest thing I grew up to one (because of the processor) was of a Macintosh Quadra 605. A friend of mine had the OG Worms for Macintosh and I had Lemmings. I have very fond memories playing both.
Definitely a great list.
Games which I used to love playing but didn't make this list at least, in no particular order are;
Dungeon Master & DM Chaos strikes back
Hired Guns
Eye of the Beholder 1 & 2
Black Crypt
Captive
Elvira Mistress of the Dark
F19
F15 strike Eagle
Damocles
Starglider II
Armour Geddon
Geoff Crammond's F1 Grand Prix
Cybercon III
Superfrog
Fire & Ice
Castle Master
Frontier
Heroes Quest
Conquest of Camelot
Warmonger
Cadaver
In all honesty I can't think of a single game I didn't enjoy on the A500. It was so ahead of its time.
My personal Top 10 :
10 - Battlechess
9 - Bard's tale
8 - Gauntlet
7 - Port of call
6 - Sensible soccer
5 - Fairy Tales
4 - Stunt cars
3 - Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis
2 - Defender of the crown
1 - Day of the tentacle
No Second Prize not being on there surprises me
your intro music is the best !
Awesome vid mate. Thoroughly enjoyed it, really took me back to th late 80's n early 90's wen my cousin would visit from Sydney n bring his 500 with 1 meg chip with him.
Huge fun but I was surprised that game's like Barbarian 2, Lost Dutchman's mine, It came from the desert and RoboCop 3D weren't mentioned! 🤔👍
Carrier Command and Dark Crypt were two favourites of mine not mentioned.
Putty Squad full game were released for free on Amiga a few years ago and requires AGA.
Hired Guns by Psynosis is my all time favourite, I used to jump out of my skin when a skeleton suddenly appeared to my side and started to attack me, the music and sound effects were awesome and quite a few of them ripped off from the Aliens movie. I finally completed the game last year, 30 years later! Lol
After all these years I still remember overwhelming and dark atmosphere of this game... And crazy amount of disks with even more crazy algorithm of swapping them through the game...
Xenon2 was awesome
Also.....
Mega-lo-mania
Rainbow Islands
Silkworm and SWIV
Populus, Civilization, Pirates, Microprose Stealth Fighter(F19?), Lemmings, Settlers, and F15 were some of my favorite games.
F19 was an F117 simulator that caused an awful lot of intense discussion in the Pentagon - due to the number of similarities to an (at the time) aircraft that did not officially exist. I always preferred ‘Fighter Bomber’
Going to have to push back hard on The Chaos Engine having a great follow-up. Chaos Engine 2 was pants.
Fair enough, I enjoyed it.
About time Alien Breed got a modern re-release/remake from Team 17.
Enjoyed the list and it helps me discover Amiga games I missed back in the day. I am kicking myself for forgetting to include Earl Weaver Baseball when I voted. It would have been my #2 choice after Wings. Maybe others have remembered it and perhaps it will show up in the top 40. As someone in the U.S. whose favorite team sport is baseball, Earl Weaver was the best computer baseball sim to date. Included many firsts such as the ability to play an entire season, the inclusion of different ballparks whose dimensions affected the gameplay and speech synthesis for announcing the players. Loved the managerial advice that Earl would provide as well.
I've never even heard of it and nobody else mentioned it either!
@@TheLairdsLairit’s understandable that you wouldn’t have heard of it outside the U.S. It was an Electronic Arts game and a passion project for those involved including Trip Hawkins who is a big baseball fan.
The design-a-ballpark feature was so advanced.
How Blood Money got in rather than something like Silkworm is baffling. Blood Money looked and sounded great but was a very difficult game, whereas Silkworm was an absolute joy to play. Populous 2 was also a much superior game to Populous
Thanks for putting my long comment about The Secret of Monkey Island on the video...! Hahahaha... Yes, I truly missed Flashback on the list, but I believe that there are two reasons why it isn't in the Top 20: 1 - the Mega Drive version makes you feel that the game belongs there; 2 - Another World begins with intensity and excitement... but with an amount of difficult that makes you think, "yeah, it should be easy to get rid of the blood-sucking stuff!"... After all, you begin almost dying! This is GENIUS! Whereas in Flashback the most intense moments in the beginning are reserved in the cutscenes, not on the real beginning of the game, that may drag those with ADHD down...
Also, I knew that The Chaos Engine would made the Top 20, it's an awesome game, best performed on the Amiga really! Not regretting not putting in my Top 5 really... 😅
1. Kick-off 2
2. Xenon 2
3. Player Manager
4. Civilisation
5. SWIV
6. F1GP
7. Lemmings
8. Stunt Car Racer
9. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
10. F/A 18 Interceptor
KO2 was waaaay better than Sensible Soccer!
Some great games on there, some of my favourites, although I preferred alien breed 2 if I’m being honest. I think syndicate was a brilliant game, as was SWIV, and settlers and settlers 2. I also loved Leander and Uridium 2.
Settlers 2 came out for Amiga?
I never knew that.
Kick off 2? Dune? Gods? Monkey island 2? Moonstone? For me, kick off 2 would make top spot for the best game on any system i have played i think. Of the games in this video, wings would absolutely make my list. Lotus esprit challenge too, speedball 2, monkey island and maybe pinball fantasies.
Loom ! Maniac Mansion and Day of The Tentacle!
Speedball 2 was my favourite
Jimmy Whites snooker! or Rick Dangerous. Class of 89-93.
#15 blood money intro muaic is the ring tone on my phone. Love that intro. Always answer the phone a few rings later just to enjoy the tune
Yeah, such a good tune!
Can't believe Flashback didn't make it. Amazing game.
Um dungeon Maste is my fave as is, Bomber/Scramble, Wings though it fails as the game is corrupt, or my legagl version is, Apprentice and the little known FLOOD - superb!!!
One of my most favorite games that doesn't get enough credit is Warlords. I loved that game!!!
I definitely can’t remember the names of plenty of titles but
-Heroes Quest: So you want to be a hero
-The Uninvited
-Dungeon Master
-Faery Tale adventures
-Risk
-Blood Money
-G.B. Air Ralley
are definitely some of my favorites that I still can name.
I've never owned an Amiga but the Atari ST version of Sensible Soccer was a good game I spent a lot of time playing. However, there was an exploit that allowed you to rack up big scores. This was simply position your player perpendicular to the extreme edges of the goals. Because there was no "slicing" or miscues of the ball, as there is in FIFA, a straight shot from there always resulted in a goal. Blood Money is a game I owned on the ST. Never completed it.
Yeah I was an ST guy and had those games also, I quickly worked out the Sensi technique too.
Huh, surprised by some games on the list, and by the absence of others. It's good to not see Xenon 2 because truth be told: If you take away the Bomb the Bass intro song that we all remember, it's just an average shooter. Surprised to see Shadow of the Beast though, because it's IMHO also just an okay game, but it is undoubtedly an Amiga classic. For me, the top 5 would be The Settlers, SWOS, Syndicate, Dune 2, and Fate of Atlantis - but I had to think a lot about what's on 4 and 5 because there are so many great games for the system.
This is a great video, but please could I offer some constructive feedback? The text quotes would be far better transposed over the poster/art-work than the over the gameplay footage. As we want to watch the gameplay footage whereas the artwork is static.
The only game I had on this list was Lemmings.
My favorite games were, Rockford, Aunt Arctic Adventure, Nuclear War, Sky Chase, ball, mega ball, tetris, Elf, Duck Tales, Atomino, Huey, Arkanoid, FA/18 interceptor, Great Giana Sisters, Llamatron, And one game that I can't remember the name of.
Space travel missions to different planets. If you completed all the missions you could submit it to the company and they would send you a framed certificate.
edit I remember the name now, The Halley Project.
Shadow of the Beast is still the masterclass in copper list programming.
Some of these games still have an almost "homebrew" look to them, despite being both professionally-made and appearing on an all-time top twenty.
Wonderful machine , indeed. Still play mine from time to time. Never liked any form of side scrolling games though. They were all played out for me on the arcade machines the years before. You know; climbers , shooters and fighters.
Had hours of fun with Stunt Car Racer.
I remember buying Shadow of the Beast. (Yes, some games I actually paid for.. lol) I got a awesome t-shirt included in the box. Used it at the picture day at school when I was about 14 😀
I bought it. Loved the music. Couldn't play it worth a damn.
This is an awesome list even though I didn't vote for alot of them❤❤❤. The way I voted was which games did I keep coming back to play or kept at it till I finished it. I did not vote Xenon2 because even though it had the best graphics and music I found the playability and controls to be terrible.
The Cannon Fodder OST is good. I never knew half of those had lyrics until like last year
How is Apydia not made the list? Insanely good game
Like most 10 lists only a couple of of mine make the cut.
1 frontier:elite 2
2 civilization
3 sensible wos
4 theme park
5 syndicate
Kind of surprising result at number 1 position Lemmings. An array of custum hardware in an Amiga. And top spot is a video game that could have easily been done on an 8 bit machine.
And it was ported to loads of 8-bit machines, even the ZX Spectrum got a version!
'easily have been done on an 8 bit', you think? They did have 8-bit conversions but I've just looked at a couple and they were clearly very limited in various ways compared to the 16-bit versions. The 16-bit machines is what it was made for, where the hardware was good enough to do it justice. Street Fighter 2 was ported to 8-bits as well!
Did you watch the video after you made it? Maybe it's because i watch UA-cam on a huge tv but the text goes away too fast. It's the same speed whether it's a single line or a paragraph lol
I did, I always do, and I had no problem reading any of it, perhaps I just read too fast.
played all those but we played multiplayer Settlers 2 more than any other
my favorites
1. World of sensible soccer. we held whole neighbourhood competitions.
2. On the ball (football manager)
3. Beneath a steel sky (cd32 version)
4. alien breed 3
5. cannon fodder
6. Flashback
7. Bonk junior. unbelievable fun to play.
8. Octamed
9. Prince of persia
10. Monkey island.
i also want to point out.
Amiga had alot of awesome arcade titles wich are forgotten.
strider
wonderboy in monsterland
Final fight
I couldn't make a top 20, many of the games that were groundbreaking in their day havnt held up against time, many others I played to death in my childhood don't hold the same appeal when I load them now. It also depends what kind of games you like, strategy games were and still are my favourite type, some games like that in the amuga I still play. I loved the adventure games but they are no fun to play after you have completed them. Honestly I could do a top 100 games and still miss many titles out that deserve to be there. I love the amiga and the way it's games were presented and played. I was heartbroken when commodore went bust. The amiga was ahead of its time in so many ways.
I will add that the Amiga 500 could be connected to another Amiga 500 via a self-made cable and played not only against the computer, but also against another player. This is how my son and I played Wings for example.
You can link an Amiga to an Atari ST too, I've played both Lotus 2 and Stunt Car Racer that way.
Monkey Island should have definitely been top of this list.
No Syndicate, North and South or MI2???
My all time top 3 Amiga games...
1 - The Settlers
2 - Cannon Fodder
3 - The Chaos Engine
4 - Alien Breed 2
5 - Gunship 2000
Fantastic to see the results of your community question so soon. I'm curious to see if any of the games I mentioned will make the list and hoping so.
0:32 - Huh, I didn't know the Atari 8-Bit was so popular. When you said 8-bit computers, my thoughts immediately turned to the battle of Commodore 64 vs ZX Spectrum so Atari 8-Bit was a surprise.
3:05 - Not my type of game but gosh darn do I love Populous' style. The open book to the side is an amazing presentation touch. An interesting start but an understandable choice given how genre defining I've heard it is.
3:43 - Love the DICE joke here; incredible the roots of the company. I don't believe I've ever played Pinball Fantasies before, but given I voted for and adored Pinball Dreams, I imagine I'd love the sequel here. Glad to see some pinball presence on this list.
6:04 - Really; the only shoot em up? They seemed to common on the older systems that I expected more to appear here. I've not played Blood Money but the orange helicopter is a wonderful stand-out choice of vehicle.
10:26 - Oh wow; I'm featured in this video. Thank you so much! It's no surprise that Worms made it onto this list; one of the Amiga games still going strong to this day.
10:51 - I only played Stunt Car Racer recently thanks to the A500 Mini and tried it out of curiosity. I never expected it to be as fun as it was.
12:01 - People tend to be a bit more critical about Shadow of the Beast these days, so I'm surprised it made it so high up on this list and with neither of it's sequels in sight. I believe there was a PS4 remake a little while back; how did that turn out?
15:43 - Off the top of my head, no Zool was quite the surprise, alongside the general lack of shoot em ups.
Glad you enjoyed it!
BOUGHT MY Amiga 1200 had it for three months then sold it as soon as i heard Doom was not being converted for it i knew it was the end of the Amiga
1. The Settlers
2. Lemmings
3. Another World
4. Syndicate
5. Oil Imperium
6. Warlords
7. Dune 2
8. Elite II
9. UFO Enemy Unknown
10. Gauntlet II
11. Prince of Persia
12. DuckTales: The Quest for Gold
13. Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper
Some bang average games on that list in my humble opinion, but each to their own. Elite 2, Fate of Atlantis, Cruise for a Corpse and Settlers would have been on mine.
Many of those are in the full list, which is in a pinned post at the top.
Miss my Amiga!
And of course Speed Ball 2, and of course Turrican, all versions...
I still love Harpoon.
Had the Amstrad 128 Great machine bought the amiga then sold it after three months and bought second hand PC 468 dx55 had Doom installed never looked back
Looks like I was wasting my time playing F/A 18 Interceptor, Hostages, Geoff Crammonds F1 and Player Manager then…
Turrican is on Switch now :)
I miss Dune2 on this list wich is the first really good RTS-game I played. The game must have surely inspired coming greats as Command & Conquer and Star craft.
Gods and Magic pockets blows me away its not there!
...and "Eye of the Beholder", "Elvira ", "Dune II", "Legend of Kyrandia" and "Lure of the Temptress"...
Very surprised that The Killing Game show didn't make the list. One of my all time favorites on the Amiga.
Didn't get a single vote.
Quite surprised at the list.
Why would the response be less than the other previous polls? I’ll provide one reason, as a part of perhaps several, but this one is based on my history.
So the C64 and Atari 800/XL/XE had many more responses. I think that is due to the times. Arcades were bigger in the early 80s. Even as the crash happened in the USA, not all of the market (us gen-x kids) knew it was happening. Computers were everywhere in tv and film and in stores. We were bombarded with how it’s the way of the future. And they played great games too! Well, that depends on the computer. But the price war made the 64 cheap and the Atari 8bits got cheaper (the 800 was $1000? The 800XL only a few hundred as I recall. The 130XE I got as a follow up a for $150?). For many of us, this was our first computer. And of course we played games.
Lots of games. And maybe wrote and printed out school reports with the rudimentary word processors. Good enough. Some of us even had a modem and a CompuServe or Delphi or GEnie account. BBS’s! All in all, very formative years. Very memorable. World changing.
And what parent could say no to those prices? The parents didn’t know a bit from a byte and us kids didn’t think about 8-bit vs 16-bit especially when we didn’t know what was in a 5150 IBM PC or that it was an 8088 with 8 bits external and 16 internal. It had a green screen with smeary persistence and only went “beep”. No fun! The best upgrade to our 2600 consoles were 64s and XL/XE’s. And the occasional Apple ][ fan but seriously why?
So the top 10 for those systems really strikes a chord. Some of us got an NES but I feel it was mostly the next wave of kids who were in our shoes when we had our 2600s. And they may have gone to the 386 clones a few years later once PC gaming was starting to get slightly decent and. respectable. That leaves out the PC Jr and Tandy 1000 but let’s keep it simple and not get into that rabbit hole.
So who had an ST or Amiga? I say we did! Not in 1985-1987. For me it was a used A1000 in 1988. Now we had after school jobs and could save up for a 68000 based computer system and the requisite RGB monitor. To be honest, I used the color composite output of the 1000 for a few months and got a 1084 (not the new stereo version) for Christmas. The 16/32 systems simply cost more. Harder to justify. Especially for just games. But if you wanted cool new games, these systems had them! But in high school (secondary school as called in places outside of USA) there really were other cool things you could do. WYSIWYG word processing for our longer and more serious papers we had to write. The graphics and music software for the artistic of us was so much better than what the 8bits could do (not to disrespect the Koala pad - it had its day). C compilers for those of us that were so into our computers we took whatever computer science classes we could before hitting the college level.
Yes, there were games. But it turns out we discovered other things too. And driving once we got our license. And .. um .. going places in the car with someone special .. those years saw the lessons biology class played out. Parents didn’t ask and the young adults didn’t tell. Do I really have to explain??
On an objective level, the games were better as was the hardware. In a subjective level, the early period when we had 8-bits and didn’t know better we’re bliss. We got driven everywhere and the opposite gender gave you cooties and the posters on your bedroom wall came from car magazines (Ferrari or Lambo? It was like CBM vs Atari vs Apple etc). You knew the movie TRON was bs but you could still pretend something like that was happening in your 6602. Your folks bought the computer but it was mostly yours. Vs saving for the 68k system while also saving for a car and having money for a date.
To those of us that grew up on Episodes 4, 5, and 6 of a a science fiction/fantasy franchise that I hear was at least mildly popular 😆(can’t type that with a straight face) : are those movies better or episodes 1, 2, and 3? Objectively seeing a little green cgi dude you talks in inverted sentences doing backflips with his laser sword is better than what we saw in 1977 where an old hermit battles bucket head at a glacial pace. While I have come to appreciate 1999-2005 more, 1977-1983 is still where it’s at.
1977 had the trinity of Trash80, Pet, and A][. And in 1987 we had Mac II in color, PS/2 with VGA, an expanding ST and Amiga line up. But 1983 is where it’s at! I’ll take Yub Nub over Howard the Duck any day 😛
I get your reasoning, although it's a little America-centric as the landscape was very different in Europe, but as I said to another person the Amiga got a record number of votes when it was included in one of my Amazing Facts polls and the resulting video did very well too. So that would suggest the Amiga has a big following, yet that didn't transfer over to the voting for this video.
I just want to play pga golf I played as a kid on my Amiga 500+
I looked at emulators and the Amiga mini , but it all looks to complicated and destined to not work for me lol, so looking at the easiest way of just buying a used Amiga 500+ and a copy of pga off eBay
BUT just wondering if I could buy a 600 or 1200….. if there is any extra benefits ? I know nothing about them really .
Would the copy of pga golf that works on 500+ work on the 600 or 1200 ?
Get the WIN UAE emulator on your PC and download the disk image for PGA, it's really really simple and there are plenty of UA-cam tutorials out there if you somehow get stuck.
@@TheLairdsLair thanks mate
Populous... Hunter....Fodder😍
Come on! Where’s SuperCars II, best Amige game ever with one of the best music
If you look at the pinned post you'll see that Super Cars 2 was in 46th place.
Alien Breed came out in 91, not 85... It would have been the game of the century in 1985!