The 20 Greatest Commodore Amiga Games Of All-Time

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  • 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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  • @TheLairdsLair
    @TheLairdsLair  5 місяців тому +4

    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

  • @gumdeo
    @gumdeo Рік тому +15

    Ah, the Amiga. The greatest computer of the 16-bit era.

    • @1nicelad
      @1nicelad 5 місяців тому +3

      no doubt

    • @morten1
      @morten1 3 місяці тому +1

      For sure

    • @FatHead1979
      @FatHead1979 Місяць тому +1

      Playing the Lotus Esprit Challenge 2 soundtrack, one of, if not THE Amiga soundtrack!

  • @perer005
    @perer005 5 місяців тому +5

    A bit unexpected to not see The Settlers on the list, it was way ahead of its time.

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  5 місяців тому

      If you look at the pinned post you'll see that it was 25th.

    • @TheRoggan123
      @TheRoggan123 Місяць тому

      Settlers was for me one of the absolutely best games of that era, still know all the music by heart. Also UFO was up there at the very top of all time!

  • @deanholt2135
    @deanholt2135 Рік тому +9

    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.

  • @WilliamFisk-nf9qy
    @WilliamFisk-nf9qy 5 місяців тому +5

    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

    • @roboticbaboon3125
      @roboticbaboon3125 3 місяці тому

      DynaBlaster! It was so addictive and fun! I thought it was almost as innovative and geoundbreaking as Tetris, Boulder Dash, Pacman or even Snake :)

  • @001lessie
    @001lessie Рік тому +9

    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..

    • @thecappeningchannel515
      @thecappeningchannel515 Рік тому

      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.

    • @illkickyouinthenuts
      @illkickyouinthenuts 11 місяців тому +1

      All Cinemaware games were great: It came from the desert, Wings, King of Chicago, TV sports, but especially: Lord of the rising sun.

  • @naviamiga
    @naviamiga Місяць тому

    Chaos Engine, Worms, Stunt Racer, Cannon Fodder, all amazing games. Great seeing all the different games that people loved on the Amiga.

  • @karlos1256
    @karlos1256 Рік тому +25

    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! 🙂

    • @Britonbear
      @Britonbear 6 місяців тому +1

      Completing SWIV was probably my greatest achievement in video gaming.

    • @1nicelad
      @1nicelad 5 місяців тому +2

      @@Britonbear not sure i completed it but always fun to play with the music

  • @phil9533
    @phil9533 Рік тому +5

    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

    • @V3ntilator
      @V3ntilator Рік тому +1

      Putty Squad were released for free on Amiga 20-25 years later when they released the HD version on consoles.

  • @urbannestrealestateteam307
    @urbannestrealestateteam307 2 місяці тому +1

    What was amazing about Lotus Turbo Esprit is that you could have two Amiga's connected together and play 4 players at the same time. As well, Gauntlet (or perhaps something similar) could have 4 players with two on the keyboard.

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  2 місяці тому

      You could also link an Amiga to an Atari ST to play it too!

  • @f.k.b.16
    @f.k.b.16 Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @paulwilson9807
    @paulwilson9807 8 місяців тому +3

    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!

  • @Chobbito
    @Chobbito Рік тому +3

    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

  • @MichaelSalo
    @MichaelSalo 4 дні тому +1

    My experiences were much more on the fantasy RPG side. Defender of the Crown, Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, D&D gold box games, Sierra adventures, and Ultima part VI (last one on Amiga).

  • @andykay8949
    @andykay8949 3 місяці тому +2

    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

  • @RubberDuckHarry
    @RubberDuckHarry Рік тому +2

    Chuck Rock was probably the one I spent most of my time on back in the day. Good times!

  • @shinyagami8843
    @shinyagami8843 Рік тому +12

    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 👍

    • @PureWickedAU
      @PureWickedAU Рік тому +3

      Moonstone needs to be in ANY top 10/20 list out there...

    • @awfullife2407
      @awfullife2407 Рік тому +2

      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!

  • @GandaMelgao
    @GandaMelgao Рік тому +4

    I didn't voted because It would be impossible to me to choose the best. There were SO MANY great games on the Amiga.

    • @benjaminshiels1824
      @benjaminshiels1824 Рік тому +1

      I could make a top 20 list featuring NONE of those games! Lol

  • @simon8864
    @simon8864 Рік тому +2

    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

  • @martyarrowsmith1615
    @martyarrowsmith1615 9 днів тому +1

    Turrican 2, best title music ever made on 64.

  • @paulbanting6615
    @paulbanting6615 Рік тому +3

    Great list! but notable missing games for me are Crammonds F1GP series, Syndicate, The Settlers and Supercars 2!

  • @ArttuTheCat
    @ArttuTheCat Рік тому +5

    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 😸😺👍.

  • @steven-vn9ui
    @steven-vn9ui Рік тому +4

    Nice list, I enjoyed Super Cars I and II very much as well as Stunt car racer.

  • @simon8864
    @simon8864 Рік тому +3

    Xenon2 was awesome
    Also.....
    Mega-lo-mania
    Rainbow Islands
    Silkworm and SWIV

  • @harryproctor3046
    @harryproctor3046 5 місяців тому +1

    About time Alien Breed got a modern re-release/remake from Team 17.

  • @henriklarsson7770
    @henriklarsson7770 Рік тому +4

    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.

  • @walmartcartpusher
    @walmartcartpusher Рік тому +2

    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.

  • @paulvincent9773
    @paulvincent9773 Рік тому +3

    your intro music is the best !

  • @benjaminshiels1824
    @benjaminshiels1824 Рік тому +3

    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! 🤔👍

  • @blackhat4968
    @blackhat4968 9 місяців тому +2

    Populus, Civilization, Pirates, Microprose Stealth Fighter(F19?), Lemmings, Settlers, and F15 were some of my favorite games.

    • @andrewbrown6786
      @andrewbrown6786 9 місяців тому

      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’

  • @andisadler2897
    @andisadler2897 Рік тому +1

    Jimmy Whites snooker! or Rick Dangerous. Class of 89-93.

  • @BigBoyJudge
    @BigBoyJudge 2 місяці тому

    I’m looking for an old game I had the chance to play when I was a kid on my parents computer at the time. (Between 1998-2005) It was a game where you had to answer 100 random questions of various topics ( math, science, geography, ect) and the visuals where WILD! Like imagine taking a blank face and then adding two different eyes a nose and mouth and all those features looked like they were snipped images made to look animated by taking a different eye that looked closed closed but it was different from the original and no feature was symmetrical with another. Sometimes they still had a white outline around each image of the eye or nose to emphasize it didn’t belong to the face it was animating. Well that’s the best description of what the animation looked like, but all the questions asked where random so you were never guaranteed that you would run into all the same questions each time you tried to complete a run. At the end it gave ya a score at the end depending on how many answers ya got right and a special animation associated with how well ya did. I wish I knew the name of the animation I’m trying to describe but the closest example I can give is an old show on nickelodeon called angela anaconda.

  • @kalsolarUK
    @kalsolarUK 7 місяців тому +1

    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

  • @xxnoxx-xp5bl
    @xxnoxx-xp5bl Рік тому +2

    Going to have to push back hard on The Chaos Engine having a great follow-up. Chaos Engine 2 was pants.

  • @NibblyPig
    @NibblyPig 3 місяці тому +1

    Gravity Force II / Gravity Power not even in the top 50 :(
    IIRC Amiga Power rated SWOS and GF2/GP their two best games of all time. It was probably the game that we played the most.

  • @disdroid
    @disdroid 11 місяців тому +1

    Speedball 2 was my favourite

  • @GCSoundArtifacts
    @GCSoundArtifacts Рік тому +2

    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... 😅

  • @rayrecordings
    @rayrecordings 4 місяці тому +1

    Loom ! Maniac Mansion and Day of The Tentacle!

  • @RetroPaolo
    @RetroPaolo 8 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @bioshock6935
    @bioshock6935 26 днів тому +1

    MY 5 game list for top Amiga games hybris battle squadron star wars Xenon 2 Menace

  • @stevenross-watt8640
    @stevenross-watt8640 Рік тому +1

    #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

  • @FatNorthernBigot
    @FatNorthernBigot Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @StuartHollingsead
    @StuartHollingsead 9 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @daviddavies3637
    @daviddavies3637 Рік тому +3

    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.

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  Рік тому

      Yeah I was an ST guy and had those games also, I quickly worked out the Sensi technique too.

  • @davidbarth80
    @davidbarth80 5 місяців тому +1

    How is Apydia not made the list? Insanely good game

  • @Iowcatalyst
    @Iowcatalyst Рік тому +1

    The Settlers is number 1 for me. Colonisation number 2

  • @johnsmyth3281
    @johnsmyth3281 6 місяців тому +1

    And of course Speed Ball 2, and of course Turrican, all versions...

  • @ledsvik
    @ledsvik 8 місяців тому +1

    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 😀

    • @KILRtv
      @KILRtv 7 місяців тому

      I bought it. Loved the music. Couldn't play it worth a damn.

  • @raggeragnar
    @raggeragnar Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @chrissmith7669
    @chrissmith7669 9 місяців тому +1

    I still love Harpoon.

  • @sambranton3346
    @sambranton3346 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @lelyline74
    @lelyline74 Рік тому +1

    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

  • @dovpauzner5093
    @dovpauzner5093 Рік тому +1

    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.

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  Рік тому

      You can link an Amiga to an Atari ST too, I've played both Lotus 2 and Stunt Car Racer that way.

  • @digitizer3627
    @digitizer3627 Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @morbidsnails1913
    @morbidsnails1913 4 місяці тому

    My all time top 3 Amiga games...
    1 - The Settlers
    2 - Cannon Fodder
    3 - The Chaos Engine
    4 - Alien Breed 2
    5 - Gunship 2000

  • @justice4g
    @justice4g Рік тому +1

    played all those but we played multiplayer Settlers 2 more than any other

  • @Mightyguybrush2
    @Mightyguybrush2 9 місяців тому +1

    Monkey Island should have definitely been top of this list.
    No Syndicate, North and South or MI2???

  • @kontiuka
    @kontiuka Рік тому +1

    Had hours of fun with Stunt Car Racer.

  • @gezzly72
    @gezzly72 2 місяці тому +1

    The New Zealand story
    Super cars 2
    Operation stealth

  • @Karl-Benny
    @Karl-Benny 11 місяців тому +1

    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

  • @drazangagula7633
    @drazangagula7633 4 місяці тому

    My list:
    1. Civilization
    2. Worms
    3. The Settlers
    4. Cannon Fodder
    5. F-117
    6. Wing Commander
    7. Sensible World of Soccer
    8. Superfrog
    9. Desert Srtike
    10. Lotus 2
    11. Lemmings
    12. Test Drive
    13. Seek & Destroy
    14. Princ of Persia
    15. Pinball Fantasies
    16. Mortal Kombat
    17. Ruff 'n' Tumble
    18. Turrican 2
    19. Alien Breed
    20. Stardust

  • @adam_skinner
    @adam_skinner Рік тому +1

    Turrican is on Switch now :)

  • @ReneBerwein
    @ReneBerwein Рік тому +1

    ...and "Eye of the Beholder", "Elvira ", "Dune II", "Legend of Kyrandia" and "Lure of the Temptress"...

  • @justincase5124
    @justincase5124 9 місяців тому +1

    Dungeon Master
    Grand Prix 2
    Eye of the Beholder

  • @Karl-Benny
    @Karl-Benny 11 місяців тому +1

    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

  • @HeliBenj
    @HeliBenj 7 місяців тому +1

    Come on! Where’s SuperCars II, best Amige game ever with one of the best music

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  5 місяців тому

      If you look at the pinned post you'll see that Super Cars 2 was in 46th place.

  • @christophclear1438
    @christophclear1438 Рік тому +1

    Alien Breed came out in 91, not 85... It would have been the game of the century in 1985!

  • @williamhozie5651
    @williamhozie5651 Рік тому

    Very surprised that The Killing Game show didn't make the list. One of my all time favorites on the Amiga.

  • @nickpalance3622
    @nickpalance3622 Рік тому +2

    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 😛

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  Рік тому

      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.

  • @ZxSpectrumplus
    @ZxSpectrumplus 6 місяців тому

    Populous needs a modern day remake.

  • @pnvgordinho
    @pnvgordinho Рік тому +1

    Missing Ruff N Tumble, Yo JOe, rick dangerous, lionheart, etc.
    You can't make a top 20, minimal, 50.
    Here's some of the ones I loved to play: Hired guns, chaos engine, sensible soccer, switchblade, ruff n tumble, yo Joe , doodle bug, captain Dinamo, dizzy, Arabian nights, traps n treasures, speedball, monkey island, magic pockets, cannon fodder, super frog, rainbow islands, Simon the sorcerer, flashback, another world, zool, megalomania, populous, beneath a steal sky, syndicate, prince of Persia, Turrican, Jim power, eye of the beholder, rick dangerous, guardian, battle squadron, final fight, fighting spirit, James pond, shadow dancer, toki, Leander, lionheart, pang, cabal, Rolland, banshee, alien breed, north and south, pinball fantasies, pinball illusions, lemmings, Virocop, odyssey, Toki, New Zealand story, Lotus, Jaguar XJ220, crazy cars 3, Slamtilt, Ambermoon, Wings, Civilization, UFO: enemy unknown, Pinball dreams, Worms, Chuck rock, Moonstone, Genetic species, Dana blaster, Stunt car racer, Indiana Jones and the last crusade, Dune, IK+, Rodland, D generation, carvup,vroom, seek and destroy, walker.

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  Рік тому +1

      I did a top 40, with the other half exclusive to my Patrons, certainly a lot of great games to choose from.

    • @kutchemes
      @kutchemes Рік тому

      Great List but you missing Darkmere, Risky Woods, Deliverance, Damocles, Hero Quest I-II and Space Crusade, Ben e factor, Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back

  • @niklasohman5021
    @niklasohman5021 10 місяців тому

    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.

  • @cruiseylee
    @cruiseylee 9 місяців тому

    How is championship manager not on this list? Greatest game of all time. Now football manager. Tank platoon was great. And stealth fighter.

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  9 місяців тому +1

      I was surprised too, I thought it would be top 10 easy.

  • @vinceely2906
    @vinceely2906 Рік тому +1

    Looks like I was wasting my time playing F/A 18 Interceptor, Hostages, Geoff Crammonds F1 and Player Manager then…

  • @ourclarioncall
    @ourclarioncall 7 місяців тому +1

    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 ?

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  7 місяців тому +1

      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.

    • @ourclarioncall
      @ourclarioncall 7 місяців тому

      @@TheLairdsLair thanks mate

  • @keyalpha1
    @keyalpha1 9 місяців тому

    Y'all wrong. Hired Guns. Meeting adjourned.

  • @patrickw.2887
    @patrickw.2887 Рік тому +2

    Populous... Hunter....Fodder😍

  • @R0YB0T
    @R0YB0T Рік тому

    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

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  Рік тому

      I did, I always do, and I had no problem reading any of it, perhaps I just read too fast.

  • @nasirian8473
    @nasirian8473 Рік тому

    Some of the guys who are responsible for this toplist never really became a Amiga500 Gamer ;)My Top 3 are Place 1:Super Cars 2 and Goal PLace 2 Tv Sports Basketball.For Goal and Tv Sportsbasketball you need time to learn,so i think this si reason why nowhere in this toplist.

  • @samuelsamenstrang6069
    @samuelsamenstrang6069 5 місяців тому +2

    Ice cream. ice cream....

  • @stephenwatson2806
    @stephenwatson2806 Рік тому

    Cant believe no micropose games are mentioned.

  • @Joe-ot5bo
    @Joe-ot5bo 4 місяці тому

    I believe Alien Breed released in 1991

  • @koolkleekai9387
    @koolkleekai9387 9 місяців тому +2

    Skid Marks ? Madam 😅

    • @koolkleekai9387
      @koolkleekai9387 9 місяців тому +2

      And although it was a Nintendo port , Micro Machines ! Alas , so many hours that i will never get back !
      Thanks for this . Made me smile 😃

  • @gamoviede3460
    @gamoviede3460 Рік тому +2

    Pirates?

  • @Schwurbelwachtmeister
    @Schwurbelwachtmeister 23 дні тому

    Great list! But I never will understand how people find sensible soccer better than kick off! Kick off is in my opinion the best birds eye view 2D soccer game of all time;-)

  • @laz001
    @laz001 3 місяці тому

    How on earth was sim city, a train, frontier elite ii, desert strike and champ manager not higher?!?

  • @JimmyBackbeat
    @JimmyBackbeat Рік тому +1

    People are strange...
    Where is Elite II?
    Where is Moonstone?
    Settlers?
    Pirates?
    Defender of the crown?

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  Рік тому +1

      Most of those made the top 40, but I was very surprised by the lack of votes for Frontier: Elite II

  • @neilmiller6214
    @neilmiller6214 Рік тому +1

    Loads of good ones missing

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  Рік тому

      Agreed, but can only go on what people voted for!

  • @Shabba2023
    @Shabba2023 Рік тому +2

    Beneath a Steel Sky, Champ Manager Italia 94, Monkey Island 2, StarDust and Galaga Deluxe. But I do have to admit, Sensi was my fave!

  • @nufe
    @nufe Рік тому +3

    Silkworm didn't make the cut? WTF?

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  Рік тому +1

      Didn't get a single vote.

    • @McRcFly
      @McRcFly Рік тому

      I like silkworm too.
      The sounds on the amiga version were crazy.
      The explosions...

    • @fritzgibbon
      @fritzgibbon Рік тому +1

      @@TheLairdsLair silkworm, syndicate, k240, so many missed ones! :)

  • @HighwayUK
    @HighwayUK 9 місяців тому +1

    how did Starglider 2 not get in there...? or near arcade perfect ports of Newzealand story and Bubble bobble. Can't see why populous 2 wasnt pushed instead Populous 1, was a far better game.

  • @paulroundandroundandround
    @paulroundandroundandround 8 місяців тому

    Wot! No Killing Game Show or Battle Squadron?

  • @francescosorci5595
    @francescosorci5595 4 місяці тому

    Zool??? Captain Planet and the Planeteers??????

  • @sbirchsbirch6232
    @sbirchsbirch6232 Рік тому +1

    Shadow of the Beast was a rather poor game, but a great tech demo and I couldn't stand it. I'm missing Datastorm, a magnificent Defender inspired sideway scrolling schmup. And I would loved to have seen Xenomorph there as well, or Dungeon Master. They are aged today yes, but I still love both of them.

  • @phoenixmotorsport647
    @phoenixmotorsport647 4 місяці тому

    How is Starglider not there!!

  • @ellnic
    @ellnic Рік тому

    Rise Of The Robots and Sleepwalker where my Favourites

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  Рік тому

      You liked Rise of the Robots? :-O

    • @ellnic
      @ellnic Рік тому

      @@TheLairdsLair I was a simple child

    • @mehallica666
      @mehallica666 Рік тому

      Rise of the Robots was pants! I was so hyped for it, complete let down. Sleepwalker was good though.

  • @fredfredrickson5436
    @fredfredrickson5436 3 місяці тому

    What about Supercars 2!?

  • @garyposnett7788
    @garyposnett7788 7 місяців тому

    What about Dungeon Master, Moonstone, Powermonger???

    • @TheLairdsLair
      @TheLairdsLair  7 місяців тому

      They didn't make, although Moonstone only just missed out.

  • @russellflemister393
    @russellflemister393 7 місяців тому

    battle squadron and lemmings

  • @RussGreeno
    @RussGreeno Рік тому

    I want to shout-out Valhalla by Vulcan Software