For native hardware, the closest to Hombre chipset's PA-RISC 7150 based RISC CPU with 64-bit integer SIMD is Apollo's AC68080 with 64bit integer aMMX SIMD or A1222's e500v2 with custom 64bit SIMD INT/FP. A1222's e500v2 is a dual-core PowerPC Book E CPU with 1.2 Ghz clock speed and out-of-order processing which is more than 10X over Hombre chipset's PA-RISC 7150 based RISC CPU's expected 100 Mhz clock speed.
@@tHeWasTeDYouTh Voodoo Graphics has 30 million bilinear filtered textured pixels per second. Hombre has 30 million 3D rendered pixels per second. I do not know Hombre has texture filtering. Voodoo Graphics can do Quake GL at 640x480, 65,536 displayed colors, and 30 fps www.vintage3d.org/images/voodoo/glquake.jpg Both Voodoo and Hombre has a triangle polygon system. Hombre supports SGI's OpenGL. NV1 has a quad polygon system which is a failure and does not support OpenGL. Microsoft refuses to support NV1 's quad polygon system for Direct3D.
The Amiga was woefully underappreciated here in North America. Commodore USA had no idea what to do with the machine here, and didn't know how to market it. As such, I can't help but feel a twinge of jealousy over all of the great games that the U.K. and Europe received.
Lucky you never had to experience it. Home console sales withered and died practically overnight, once the crash was in full swing. As I understand, game consoles weren't that big in the UK, with the aforementioned prevalence of the home computer market. At least, until the Master System and Mega Drive came around, thanks in part to Nintendo's botched handling of distribution and sale of the NES in the PAL territories. Here in North America, our home computers during the latter half of the '80s were primarily IBM PCs and PC-compatibles, as the Commodore 64 started losing steam. And even then, the home computer install base in North America was small when compared to the UK's!
@@onaretrotip It wasn't so much that a videogame crash hurt the Amiga, more that the videogame crash caused the Amiga marketing team to try and directly compete with IBM PC format/MSDOS in the business realm which, given the difference of processors and the kinds of work being done weren't anything the Amiga could overcome. I think had they targeted the emerging color macs, especially with the video toaster and such for the Amiga which was seriously well above what the color macs were capable of, they could've taken over and maybe the Amiga could've been today's mac in the states. Just one take on it. The American computer history is hella strange compared to the very straight forward UK scene and the cultural approval of both games and computers in general. The US gov't dragged it's feet culturally on the computer front. Now we have a bunch of people that don't even know how to use their stupid cell phones which are just pocket computers. *sigh*
I had an Amiga 500. I remember the amount of disks that had "1MB Needed!" and I couldn't play until I got the upgrade. I was VERY young. My favourite games were Prehistorick, Chuck Rock, Captain Planet, Rolling Ronnie and Dizzy games. Oh and this Scooby one where the first level is on a ship.
Yes Pete! The best gaming system to date! So many good memories with this machine. Cannon fodder and sensible soccer merged into a great demo disk? Where else other than the amiga. Miss those days when devs were creative and fun
I would be hard-pressed to name a platform game other than Shadow of the Beast that was released for the Amiga in the U.S., and I would have an even harder time naming a good one. Judging from what I've seen in these videos showcasing European releases, I would say it looks like we didn't miss out on much.
“He looks like a topless flat chested Wonder Woman”. This is a very well-observed comment, I knew that disturbing Adam sprite was reminding me of something. This is a great video on a very interesting topic. I know plenty of cancelled games on the Amiga, but I didn’t know about most of these (with a few notable exceptions).
I'm surprised that you didn't mention the Amiga version of the original _Sonic the Hedgehog_ that had a couple of screenshots in a magazine before Sega apparently decided that the game would be more useful as a MegaDrive exclusive and took back the rights - I may be misremembering, but I _think_ that Larry Bundy Jr. mentioned it in a video…
Thanks for this video. Shame they were never released, look like they could be fun. My favourite one here is Flower (maybe because I really like Rodland). Anyways, would've loved to see Witchwood in this video as well.
That was 37 min!? I mean, personally I listen to most UA-cam vids at 1.25x speed anyway, so it was only like 28-30 min for me, _but still_ - the time flew by! I love this series; could listen to you talk about, and show off, these games all day - it's always fascinating. And you're totally right about 'Nobby the Aardvark' - I was just saying to myself, "Should've called it Ant-lantis" when you said it out loud, lol (^-^) Keep up the great work!
The Ultimate canceled Amiga Game was Jim Sachs (Graphic Artist on Defender of the Crown) 's own Game "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". A Computer Virus destroyed his works. On Jim Sachs his own Channel there is a Demo Real..called "20KL Late"..you 'll be amazed wat was possible in the early 90's with an Amiga..its like a movie.
Hello Onaretrotip, do you know anything about the seemingly cancelled Dennis n Gnasher game? It was previewed in the January 1994 issue of The One Amiga (issue 64) where they even printed some screen shots. These are available on Amiga Magazine rack btw.. It looked pretty interesting.Just wondered if you had any info on it or owt. Thanks :)
In 1989 I waited and waited and waited for "Broadsword" ua-cam.com/video/0GAx53UGL6w/v-deo.html to appear, but due to *someone* (pointing at you Mr Rainbird) messing things up, that one was never to be. 'Til this day I wonder if the sourcedisks are still around somewhere...
As an "Atarist" (yeah don't throw me rocks... at least the brand Amiga is still there... Atari is long gone....) , I was jealous of my mate's amiga. The graphics , the sound were very impressive... And yeah : those years were "crazy years"... tons of games in a box shoe (old players will know what I'm referring to...) ....:-) oh but wait... I was an "amigaist".. I had a CD 32 console ! good times.... thanks for this nice video ! a lot of cool "dead" games....
Maybe I misremember but there was a cancelled Amiga game featuring a technologically-evolved kingdom of Egypt which I was eager to play... It was similar to Ocean's Inferno I think, but I can't remember its name.
I suspect that Nobby the Aardvark was meant to be based on DePatie and Freleng's "The Ant and the Aardvark" cartoons from the late 1960s, e.g.: ua-cam.com/video/WPUvO7ircyU/v-deo.html
The final graphics in Stargunner were rendered in real3d on an amiga and the map editor was running on an amiga. We did the original graphics in deluxe paint and had the first level running on Amiga but it was late in the day and Amiga was losng too much ground to PC so the decision was made to just finish it on PC rather than spread our resources across 2 platforms. Pity we didn't save any videos of the Amiga version running. Would love to know how you found out about the Amiga version...
You got yours really late, 1992 was already the begining of the end of the Amigas. I got my Amiga 500 at Christmas 1987, and yes, it was an incredible computer for me then. The jump from my previous one (a C64) was gigantic ! Later i bought myself an Amiga 1200, must have been around 1992 or 1993. That one lasted much shorter, The PCs around that time were already Superior by then. But i still programmed on it till around 1999.
@@Notir072 That's true, but looking back I think 1991-1993 where the best years for Amiga and MS DOS gaming, the golden age of 16 pixels. Began with Turrican II on the Amiga and ended with Doom for the PC 😅. For my part, I had unfortunately never a C64, but played on my dads 286 Sierra adventures etc. when I was 10 years old...
So many potential games here. The Amiga was such a good platform to play games on . Reminds me of my childhood. Loved the Amiga 500 back then . Great video once again!
A cracking video as always Pete. I was eagerly awaiting the releases of Putty Squad, TFX & "The Big End" (Chuckles) for the Amiga before they all got cancelled. It was such a shame! I totally forgot that Where Time Stood Still didn't get an Amiga port, Doh!! I had that one on the ST.
Wanted to let you know that you can also get Stargunner free via the GOG.com website. Just setup an account (it's free) and you'll find it in your library.
Great to see the range of games that never quiet made it (although not surprised about that aardvark game never making it, lots of stuff nicked from other games there).
This is depressing. Normally I'd single out certain games that should have made it but nearly all of these looked great. Such a shame. This unfinished game is a video all onto itself: www.indieretronews.com/2015/08/unreleased-amiga-game-superhero-gets.html
Does anyone remember the games “ Mail order Monsters“ or another game which I believe was called Eyeballs, its actual name may not be eyeballs but I remember that when playing it there was av voice that would repeat the word eyeballs over and over in different tones and speeds.
@@onaretrotip I didn't really remember how much I miss that game until I found this thread and started thinking about. Commodore 64 128 or Amiga will always be the best in my book!
Excellent video, as usual. Amiga games had this unique style that you can unmistakably see through most of these games. Love this series. I'm still hoping to get a Speccy cancelled games episode, though!
If you ever want to sell your copy of Ultra Core, haha :) But seriously some nice looking Amiga games there, I was using my Amigas right up until 2000 or so but I can't remember any of these late games, I gues they weren't previewed widely.
Planetside was intended as, and will eventually be, a game, not a demo. It has been shunted aside for development of Microcosm and we should eventually side it -- possibly late in '93 or early in '94. " "Psygnosis seems to be generally comitted to Amiga CD, but most of the things its working on now are for other CD platforms first: Geny/SNES, 3DO, IBM MPC. Found out a bit more about the fate of Planetside. It's still alive, but now under the name Scavenger 4 (which will use the same engine), but there'sno clear indication yet which platform it will appear on." Source: Peter Niel Olafson In case it's in next video B-)
Damn it! Snow was one of my favorite arcades and it was an amazing port! Ofcourse we had Street Fighter, right? *pukes* P.S: A game in the video has stolen music from Bubble Bobble and a character from Looney Tunes.
Yeah, a shad me Snow Bros. didn't make it to the Amiga. Great arcade game. Are you referring to Nobby The Aardvark? I added the Bubble Bobble music as the demo has no sound.
These are mostly platformers, I have never been interested in such games. Their mechanics and appearance are associated mainly with older eight-bit computers such as C64, Spectrum, etc. When I bought my first AMIGA computer, I wasn't interested in games at all. I used music and graphic programs. Fortunately, I came across gems among games like Syndicate, Cannon Fodder, Speedball and decided that playing can be fun and I've been playing for 30 years :)))
My favorite first RPG - "Black Crypt" - literally looking for one pixel that opens a secret cache, or a great horror game "Elvira". Then "Dungeon Master". There were lots of great games :)
Not much was known on A Nightmare On Elm Street, except it was believed to be an arcade adventure game, with you attempting to avoid Freddy in his many dreamworlds According to Danielle Woodyatt, it was always something of an on/off project wirthin US Gold, by the time the licence had expired, she revealed the issue with basing a game on the film, was that the agr group of those old enough to see the film, differed from that of the age group the game was aimed at, so project was abandoned.
Super interesting and well made video. I've always been an Atari ST person, but have lots of love for Amiga game history as well. Thank you for the video!
Looking forward to some new Amiga styled hardware about to come to the light in the near future. Hopefully the Stand Alone Vampire units will soon become available & then these games be released down the road. As for me I’ll be investing in some upgrades very soon ... just trying to get my head around as to what exactly I need to do. I wish I had an old fashion Amiga Group to connect with in the USA. Not that I don’t trust EUROPEAN vendors! I am remembering the times many years ago when our local Commodore Amiga Dealer fostered a local user group held at a local community college meeting room ... was it in the mid 1980s or earlier? I still have my 3 Amigas, which have not been used in 10;plus yrs. thinking the on board batteries need attention, but I am afraid to look! One is in a tower. Guess it time to contact some folks? Where to start?
There are some great Amiga groups on Facebook, and I'm sure they have people all around the world. I bought my modified A1200 off a guy on there, and couldn't be happier with it.
it would be interesting to see a proper release of babalonyian twins. some interesting games, that unfortunately never got released. cannot wait to play hardcore when it is finally printed!
Really enjoyed this, shame most of them didn't really make the light of day. The Amiga game's certainly had a distinctive look and feel, I want to play on mine now 😁😍
Another fantastic video. Having grown up strictly a console gamer I always heard lore of the Amiga and how great it was. Dude dont worry, everyone missed out the MD Ultracore, I'm impressed your friend managed to score two, they like sold out instanously. It was inanity. I settle for a PS4 port of the game myself. Is it just me or does Nobby The Aardvark's music sound like Bubble Bobble's? And, no way!! They aired The Racoons in Great Britain? That's too funny, great to see some classic Canadian TV make it across the pond, hahaha Cheers brother!
Yeah, I heard that it was sold out in literally seconds! I've been really lucky to source one. Nobby The Aardvark didn't have music, so I actually added Bubble Bobble's music (which I did for a few games in this episode). Yeah, The Raccoons was one of my favourite cartoons growing up. Everyone loved it here :)
I would have said it was more Doctor Who than Bill and Ted... As would Bill and Ted been out in time for this when made? Oh I forgot how much time I spent on Bill's Tomato Game.
I didn't mean they based it on Bill & Ted, I was saying the way the machine works is like the phone booth in Bill & Ted (which is true). It's definitely more like that (or Day of the Tentacle) than Doctor Who.
The video is very good, I was wondering, some games look clearly that they are AGA, but others don't, do you mind to add subs in some corner for us to know witch games are AGA or OCS?
You ever played the Amiga game Alpha Waves? It’s one of my all time favorites, although the DOS port is better due to the amazing vapor wave music. It’s actually pretty much the first polygonal 3D platformer of all time, years before Mario 64 defined its control and camera. It has tank controls and jumping is controlled by walking over bounce pads on the ground. It’s really fun but there are barely any videos on it
I always (in Amiga times) had fantasies about games like ACSYS. It's a bit sad that it wasn't released back then! Pitty that Desolate World wasn't completed! Hardcore is great, I hope to find a ROM to play soon.
After the bankruptcy announcement it felt like everybody who'd been nursing their Amiga game babies, just disappeared from face of the planet. At the time, is seemed that every Amiga coder you spoke with, had a hand full of game prototypes in development, then within a year. most of us had facepalmed into retirement.. Awesome to see at least some of these projects make a release though !
JSF should had been mentioned, as it was a top dev game, that was supposed to be released for the amiga, and then was never released.. some amiga magazine released it years later though
@@onaretrotip First party game studios are owned by platform vendors which are a major advantage for Nintendo and Sony (learning from the Betamax lesson). Nintendo can survive despite inferior hardware specs. Microsoft also understood the importance of strong first-party game studios, hence buying ZeniMax Media. ZeniMax Medi's games are associated with gaming PC and both Sony and Google Stadia attempted to make ZeniMax Media's future games exclusive for their respective platforms which gimps MS's Xbox and Windows platforms. Sony's buying Psygnosis has gimped the Amiga platform. Amiga powered by powerful Hombre chipset in 1995 wouldn't be enough when Sony has strong exclusive games.
@@onaretrotip 1. The original Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One X has strong hardware specs, but it wasn't enough. 2. Xbox One's superior specs defeated by Nintendo's Switch is LOL 3. MS's Xbox leadership Phil Spencer has understood the Japanese game console's advantage.
@@onaretrotip yeah it had a mouse we can do a lot better than collecting gold coins. but the market is what it is. Lemmings prob explains this, and cannon fodder,
I remember playing putty squad on my 1200 back in the late 90's. A friend donated the computer and all of his pirated software. I never knew this was a canceled game! I also remember a crash test dummy game that wasn't a platformer but rather a point and click physics game where you would put the dummies through tests like firing them out of cannons and crashing a car.
@@onaretrotip there was a game called crash test dummies, it released on consoles too. It doesn't seem to be the game I remember though. Unless I had some Amiga demo of the game with different levels?
30:11 What music is playing during Nobby The Aardvark game?, i recognise it from another game but cant pinpoint it, i know its bloody obvious as well lol
RIP Amiga
really wanted to see the power of the AAA chipset and the Hombre chip!!
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For native hardware, the closest to Hombre chipset's PA-RISC 7150 based RISC CPU with 64-bit integer SIMD is Apollo's AC68080 with 64bit integer aMMX SIMD or A1222's e500v2 with custom 64bit SIMD INT/FP.
A1222's e500v2 is a dual-core PowerPC Book E CPU with 1.2 Ghz clock speed and out-of-order processing which is more than 10X over Hombre chipset's PA-RISC 7150 based RISC CPU's expected 100 Mhz clock speed.
@@valenrn8657 thanks. would the graphics chip come even close to the NV1 from Nvidia or the Voodoo Graphics?
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Voodoo Graphics has 30 million bilinear filtered textured pixels per second.
Hombre has 30 million 3D rendered pixels per second. I do not know Hombre has texture filtering.
Voodoo Graphics can do Quake GL at 640x480, 65,536 displayed colors, and 30 fps www.vintage3d.org/images/voodoo/glquake.jpg
Both Voodoo and Hombre has a triangle polygon system. Hombre supports SGI's OpenGL.
NV1 has a quad polygon system which is a failure and does not support OpenGL.
Microsoft refuses to support NV1 's quad polygon system for Direct3D.
@@valenrn8657 thanks for the reply. very interesting of what could have been
The Amiga was woefully underappreciated here in North America. Commodore USA had no idea what to do with the machine here, and didn't know how to market it. As such, I can't help but feel a twinge of jealousy over all of the great games that the U.K. and Europe received.
That's a great shame. We didn't experience the "video game crash" at all over here, with the prevalence of home computers.
Lucky you never had to experience it. Home console sales withered and died practically overnight, once the crash was in full swing. As I understand, game consoles weren't that big in the UK, with the aforementioned prevalence of the home computer market. At least, until the Master System and Mega Drive came around, thanks in part to Nintendo's botched handling of distribution and sale of the NES in the PAL territories.
Here in North America, our home computers during the latter half of the '80s were primarily IBM PCs and PC-compatibles, as the Commodore 64 started losing steam. And even then, the home computer install base in North America was small when compared to the UK's!
@@ilexgarodan Very different indeed!
@@onaretrotip It wasn't so much that a videogame crash hurt the Amiga, more that the videogame crash caused the Amiga marketing team to try and directly compete with IBM PC format/MSDOS in the business realm which, given the difference of processors and the kinds of work being done weren't anything the Amiga could overcome. I think had they targeted the emerging color macs, especially with the video toaster and such for the Amiga which was seriously well above what the color macs were capable of, they could've taken over and maybe the Amiga could've been today's mac in the states. Just one take on it. The American computer history is hella strange compared to the very straight forward UK scene and the cultural approval of both games and computers in general. The US gov't dragged it's feet culturally on the computer front. Now we have a bunch of people that don't even know how to use their stupid cell phones which are just pocket computers. *sigh*
@@heavysystemsinc. the IBM pc just did first person shooters, better, the graphics were made for it.
I had an Amiga 500. I remember the amount of disks that had "1MB Needed!" and I couldn't play until I got the upgrade. I was VERY young.
My favourite games were Prehistorick, Chuck Rock, Captain Planet, Rolling Ronnie and Dizzy games. Oh and this Scooby one where the first level is on a ship.
Prehistorik was the shit. A classic game.
Ah, bet that was frustrating. Luckily I git an A500 with the 1MB upgrade (Screen Gems pack). Happy days 😀
Amiga 500 was a great machine that offered me lots of fun and service!
Absolutely.
Yes Pete! The best gaming system to date! So many good memories with this machine. Cannon fodder and sensible soccer merged into a great demo disk? Where else other than the amiga. Miss those days when devs were creative and fun
Absolutely! Amiga is no. 1. Hahaha, where else indeed.
so many psygnosis titles... i wish i grew up with an amiga, i like the graphics style of their titles...thanks for this vid, i enjoyed it very much
I count myself very lucky to have had an Amiga as a kid. It really was the pinnacle for gaming at the time. Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
I would be hard-pressed to name a platform game other than Shadow of the Beast that was released for the Amiga in the U.S., and I would have an even harder time naming a good one. Judging from what I've seen in these videos showcasing European releases, I would say it looks like we didn't miss out on much.
Oh wow, there were tons of really fantastic platform games on the Amiga. Don't take these cancelled games as a glimpse at what it had to offer.
Excellent video, I loved by Amiga 500 growing up
Thank you. Me too!
Amazing video Pete.
Very well put together as usual. Some decent games there.
Love the Amiga me.
Thanks, Jonny! Me too, can't beat the Amiga mate. Hope you're well.
Oh...why not finish... Everything looks very good. I want to buy it!!!
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“He looks like a topless flat chested Wonder Woman”. This is a very well-observed comment, I knew that disturbing Adam sprite was reminding me of something.
This is a great video on a very interesting topic. I know plenty of cancelled games on the Amiga, but I didn’t know about most of these (with a few notable exceptions).
Hahaha. First thing I thought of when I saw the sprite. Thanks! There are so many cancelled Amiga games, it's crazy.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention the Amiga version of the original _Sonic the Hedgehog_ that had a couple of screenshots in a magazine before Sega apparently decided that the game would be more useful as a MegaDrive exclusive and took back the rights - I may be misremembering, but I _think_ that Larry Bundy Jr. mentioned it in a video…
Oh yeah? Wow.
You should do a part 2 of this video, it was great!!!
Thank you!
Whoa baby, I better cancel the next 37 minutes of my life
LMAO
Babylonian Twins is a really good puzzle platformer similar to The Lost Vikings, played the Android apk version
Nice! Love The Lost Vikings.
This is great. Suggestion though: let us hear some of the music and effects that you rate.
Not always possible/practical I'm afraid, but I will where possible.
Amiga Cd32 list would be cool
Definitely.
Thanks for this video. Shame they were never released, look like they could be fun. My favourite one here is Flower (maybe because I really like Rodland).
Anyways, would've loved to see Witchwood in this video as well.
Thanks for watching! Flower looks really cool. Witchwood featured in another episode; I can't remember which, but it may have been Saturn.
That was 37 min!? I mean, personally I listen to most UA-cam vids at 1.25x speed anyway, so it was only like 28-30 min for me, _but still_ - the time flew by! I love this series; could listen to you talk about, and show off, these games all day - it's always fascinating. And you're totally right about 'Nobby the Aardvark' - I was just saying to myself, "Should've called it Ant-lantis" when you said it out loud, lol (^-^)
Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much, kind words indeed!
the cancelled game i remember is sonic the hedgehog it was planned for amiga but got cancelled i heard it just by U.S Gold
Sonic on Amiga would be weird haha.
Great video, looks like us Amiga fans missed out on some serious goodies.
Thank you, Douglas! Yes, looks like we did.
The Ultimate canceled Amiga Game was Jim Sachs (Graphic Artist on Defender of the Crown) 's own Game "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". A Computer Virus destroyed his works. On Jim Sachs his own Channel there is a Demo Real..called "20KL Late"..you 'll be amazed wat was possible in the early 90's with an Amiga..its like a movie.
Just watched it, wow that's impressive!!!
Hello Onaretrotip, do you know anything about the seemingly cancelled Dennis n Gnasher game? It was previewed in the January 1994 issue of The One Amiga (issue 64) where they even printed some screen shots. These are available on Amiga Magazine rack btw.. It looked pretty interesting.Just wondered if you had any info on it or owt. Thanks :)
I don't I'm afraid.
In 1989 I waited and waited and waited for "Broadsword" ua-cam.com/video/0GAx53UGL6w/v-deo.html to appear, but due to *someone* (pointing at you Mr Rainbird) messing things up, that one was never to be. 'Til this day I wonder if the sourcedisks are still around somewhere...
You never know!
As an "Atarist" (yeah don't throw me rocks... at least the brand Amiga is still there... Atari is long gone....) , I was jealous of my mate's amiga. The graphics , the sound were very impressive...
And yeah : those years were "crazy years"... tons of games in a box shoe (old players will know what I'm referring to...) ....:-)
oh but wait... I was an "amigaist".. I had a CD 32 console ! good times....
thanks for this nice video ! a lot of cool "dead" games....
I love my Amiga, but had a lot of good times on my friend's Atari ST too. Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video!
Haha crazy list! I remember playing Bureau 13 on DOS and at one point a monster goes topless. It was kinda a big deal back then lol
Hahahahaha
Maybe I misremember but there was a cancelled Amiga game featuring a technologically-evolved kingdom of Egypt which I was eager to play... It was similar to Ocean's Inferno I think, but I can't remember its name.
Hmm, doesn't ring a bell.
I suspect that Nobby the Aardvark was meant to be based on DePatie and Freleng's "The Ant and the Aardvark" cartoons from the late 1960s, e.g.: ua-cam.com/video/WPUvO7ircyU/v-deo.html
Oh shit, I remember watching that as a kid!
The final graphics in Stargunner were rendered in real3d on an amiga and the map editor was running on an amiga. We did the original graphics in deluxe paint and had the first level running on Amiga but it was late in the day and Amiga was losng too much ground to PC so the decision was made to just finish it on PC rather than spread our resources across 2 platforms. Pity we didn't save any videos of the Amiga version running.
Would love to know how you found out about the Amiga version...
Ah, thanks for the info. Honestly, I can't remember where I read about the Amiga version now.
Magic stuff my friend. I will never forget christmas 1992 when I've found an Amiga 500 under the tree -best system ever!
Thank you. I'll never forget getting my A500 either. Good times.
You got yours really late, 1992 was already the begining of the end of the Amigas.
I got my Amiga 500 at Christmas 1987, and yes, it was an incredible computer for me then. The jump from my previous one (a C64) was gigantic !
Later i bought myself an Amiga 1200, must have been around 1992 or 1993. That one lasted much shorter, The PCs around that time were already Superior by then.
But i still programmed on it till around 1999.
@@Notir072 That's true, but looking back I think 1991-1993 where the best years for Amiga and MS DOS gaming, the golden age of 16 pixels. Began with Turrican II on the Amiga and ended with Doom for the PC 😅. For my part, I had unfortunately never a C64, but played on my dads 286 Sierra adventures etc. when I was 10 years old...
So many potential games here. The Amiga was such a good platform to play games on . Reminds me of my childhood. Loved the Amiga 500 back then . Great video once again!
The Amiga is king!!! Thanks mate.
@@onaretrotip Completely agree!!
A cracking video as always Pete. I was eagerly awaiting the releases of Putty Squad, TFX & "The Big End" (Chuckles) for the Amiga before they all got cancelled. It was such a shame!
I totally forgot that Where Time Stood Still didn't get an Amiga port, Doh!! I had that one on the ST.
Thanks, Paul! Thought you'd like this one.
I would have LOVED to get some of these games back in the day... mi am STILL so mad at commodore stupidity...
Yeah, there are some promising ones here for sure.
Wanted to let you know that you can also get Stargunner free via the GOG.com website. Just setup an account (it's free) and you'll find it in your library.
Nice. Love GOG!
babalonian twins has a lost vikings feel to it
Indeed!
Nobby the ardvark looks very similar to the cartoon 'the ant and the ardvark' any relationship I wonder?
Hmm... 🤔
Great to see the range of games that never quiet made it (although not surprised about that aardvark game never making it, lots of stuff nicked from other games there).
Yes, quite a mix here. Thanks!
i really want to play nobby the ardvark for the amiga it looks fun
Yeah, looks like a fun little platformer, doesn't it!
i love Hostile Breed but it is REALLY HARD to get even a single corridor free of critters
Games were so much harder back then LOL
Should have been a lot more from ocean, so many great movies ocean translated into as many crappie games
LOL
I would play today some of those games.
I miss the Amiga.
Thanks for the video.
Thanks, Pedro! Glad you enjoyed it. I still absolutely love my Amiga.
As far as I am concerned. Commodore, Atari, Activision, Tengen, and Amiga are the same company by employee affiliation.
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Great video, excellent 👍
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Give me in shadow of time. fatal noise. Agricola. Acsys. Hardcore.
Some decent choices. Hardcore was since released on Mega Drive (as Ultracore). Very fun game!
Could you do a cancelled games episode for the unreleased games for the 3DO console?
It's in the pipeline 👍
Lovely video! Thank you! :)
Thank you for watching!
@@onaretrotip My pleasure! :)
i can see why the street fighter ripoff with ripped assets and the bomberman clone were cancelled
Yeah, a bit naughty.
Actually I have "no buddies land" for the Amiga :-/
Both disks and WHDLoad version.
Noice!
This is depressing. Normally I'd single out certain games that should have made it but nearly all of these looked great. Such a shame.
This unfinished game is a video all onto itself: www.indieretronews.com/2015/08/unreleased-amiga-game-superhero-gets.html
Yes, a lot of misery in this one. Haha he looks like a Superman/Batman hybrid. Always a shame to see a cancelled Psygnosis game.
@@onaretrotip A real tragedy that would got deleted. Stupid police.
mmm Rastan on Amiga is mistery....
🤔
Does anyone remember the games “ Mail order Monsters“ or another game which I believe was called Eyeballs, its actual name may not be eyeballs but I remember that when playing it there was av voice that would repeat the word eyeballs over and over in different tones and speeds.
Haha sounds weird. Don't remember that I'm afraid.
@@onaretrotip I didn't really remember how much I miss that game until I found this thread and started thinking about. Commodore 64 128 or Amiga will always be the best in my book!
@@jasont9824 Definitely!
There was a firebird game called i-ball on the c64/128
Excellent video, as usual. Amiga games had this unique style that you can unmistakably see through most of these games. Love this series. I'm still hoping to get a Speccy cancelled games episode, though!
Thank you! Oh, absolutely; the Amiga had a really distinctive style. Speccy episode will probably appear at some point depending on what I can dig up.
Great job!
Thank you very much!
If you ever want to sell your copy of Ultra Core, haha :) But seriously some nice looking Amiga games there, I was using my Amigas right up until 2000 or so but I can't remember any of these late games, I gues they weren't previewed widely.
Hahaha. Yeah, we missed out on some promising games here :(
13:15 damn look the colors, a game with such a pattern must be so cool !
Yes, very colourful indeed!
Loved this Pete, just shows the depth of the Amiga library really, you could probably make another few videos of canned Amiga titles too.
Thanks, Steve! Yeah, the list is endless mate.
Planetside was intended as, and will eventually be, a game, not a demo. It has been shunted aside for development of Microcosm
and we should eventually side it -- possibly late in '93 or early in '94. "
"Psygnosis seems to be generally comitted to Amiga CD, but most of the things its working on now are for other CD platforms first: Geny/SNES, 3DO, IBM MPC.
Found out a bit more about the fate of Planetside. It's still alive, but
now under the name Scavenger 4 (which will use the same engine), but there'sno clear indication yet which platform it will appear on."
Source: Peter Niel Olafson
In case it's in next video B-)
Damn it! Snow was one of my favorite arcades and it was an amazing port! Ofcourse we had Street Fighter, right? *pukes*
P.S: A game in the video has stolen music from Bubble Bobble and a character from Looney Tunes.
Yeah, a shad me Snow Bros. didn't make it to the Amiga. Great arcade game. Are you referring to Nobby The Aardvark? I added the Bubble Bobble music as the demo has no sound.
@@onaretrotip Ooh ok. And just because of that I watched a full Bubble Bobble longplay video (stage 1-100).
Now back to cat videos. lol
These are mostly platformers, I have never been interested in such games. Their mechanics and appearance are associated mainly with older eight-bit computers such as C64, Spectrum, etc. When I bought my first AMIGA computer, I wasn't interested in games at all. I used music and graphic programs. Fortunately, I came across gems among games like Syndicate, Cannon Fodder, Speedball and decided that playing can be fun and I've been playing for 30 years :)))
You obviously have great taste. Syndicate is my favourite Amiga game, and I still play it along with Speedball 2 and Cannon Fodder :)
My favorite first RPG - "Black Crypt" - literally looking for one pixel that opens a secret cache, or a great horror game "Elvira". Then "Dungeon Master". There were lots of great games :)
@@nexnexnex8261 I remember Elvira well.
30:34 More like the aardvark from The Ant and the Aardvark.
Never heard of it!
That's a lot time/effort for these videos & it's appreciated.
Oh, thank you very much. That's very nice to hear.
Not much was known on A Nightmare On Elm Street, except it was believed to be an arcade adventure game, with you attempting to avoid Freddy in his many dreamworlds
According to Danielle Woodyatt, it was always something of an on/off project wirthin US Gold, by the time the licence had expired, she revealed the issue with basing a game on the film, was that the agr group of those old enough to see the film, differed from that of the age group the game was aimed at, so project was abandoned.
Really interesting video. Have very found memories of the Amiga days.
Thanks, Michael! Me too :)
I meant to like the video. Not dislike. Hopefully it subtracts it
No problem mate. Thanks for watching!
Desolate World's looks more like a Gods reskin.
Absolutely. Did I not say that in the video?
I remember Putty. The cover disc that I had was very enjoyable.
Yeah, good little platformer.
Super interesting and well made video. I've always been an Atari ST person, but have lots of love for Amiga game history as well. Thank you for the video!
Thank you very much. My mate had an ST growing up, so I have fond memories of that too. First time I played SWIV was on an ST!
Looking forward to some new Amiga styled hardware about to come to the light in the near future. Hopefully the Stand Alone Vampire units will soon become available & then these games be released down the road. As for me I’ll be investing in some upgrades very soon ... just trying to get my head around as to what exactly I need to do. I wish I had an old fashion Amiga Group to connect with in the USA. Not that I don’t trust EUROPEAN vendors! I am remembering the times many years ago when our local Commodore Amiga Dealer fostered a local user group held at a local community college meeting room ... was it in the mid 1980s or earlier? I still have my 3 Amigas, which have not been used in 10;plus yrs. thinking the on board batteries need attention, but I am afraid to look! One is in a tower. Guess it time to contact some folks? Where to start?
There are some great Amiga groups on Facebook, and I'm sure they have people all around the world. I bought my modified A1200 off a guy on there, and couldn't be happier with it.
it would be interesting to see a proper release of babalonyian twins.
some interesting games, that unfortunately never got released.
cannot wait to play hardcore when it is finally printed!
Me too, Eddie. I can't wait to play it on the Mega Drive!
Wow never seen any of these. So many are simular to other games. Thanks for sharing this video. Was very interesting.
Yeah, a lot are very similar to established franchises, so maybe that contributed to a few cancellations. Thanks, Jamie! Glad you enjoyed it.
Really enjoyed this, shame most of them didn't really make the light of day.
The Amiga game's certainly had a distinctive look and feel, I want to play on mine now 😁😍
Thanks, David. Absolutely, the Amiga has such a signature style.
Another fantastic video. Having grown up strictly a console gamer I always heard lore of the Amiga and how great it was. Dude dont worry, everyone missed out the MD Ultracore, I'm impressed your friend managed to score two, they like sold out instanously. It was inanity. I settle for a PS4 port of the game myself. Is it just me or does Nobby The Aardvark's music sound like Bubble Bobble's?
And, no way!! They aired The Racoons in Great Britain? That's too funny, great to see some classic Canadian TV make it across the pond, hahaha
Cheers brother!
Yeah, I heard that it was sold out in literally seconds! I've been really lucky to source one. Nobby The Aardvark didn't have music, so I actually added Bubble Bobble's music (which I did for a few games in this episode). Yeah, The Raccoons was one of my favourite cartoons growing up. Everyone loved it here :)
I would have said it was more Doctor Who than Bill and Ted... As would Bill and Ted been out in time for this when made?
Oh I forgot how much time I spent on Bill's Tomato Game.
I didn't mean they based it on Bill & Ted, I was saying the way the machine works is like the phone booth in Bill & Ted (which is true). It's definitely more like that (or Day of the Tentacle) than Doctor Who.
The video is very good, I was wondering, some games look clearly that they are AGA, but others don't, do you mind to add subs in some corner for us to know witch games are AGA or OCS?
Thank you! I can't remember now I'm afraid, but noted for next time.
You ever played the Amiga game Alpha Waves? It’s one of my all time favorites, although the DOS port is better due to the amazing vapor wave music. It’s actually pretty much the first polygonal 3D platformer of all time, years before Mario 64 defined its control and camera. It has tank controls and jumping is controlled by walking over bounce pads on the ground. It’s really fun but there are barely any videos on it
No, not heard of that one. It will be on my Amiga's CF drive though, so I'll check it out. Sounds intriguing!
I always (in Amiga times) had fantasies about games like ACSYS. It's a bit sad that it wasn't released back then! Pitty that Desolate World wasn't completed! Hardcore is great, I hope to find a ROM to play soon.
Yeah, what a shame they never came out in some form. Can't wait to play Hardcore on my Mega Drive!
WHO THE HELL STARTS SUCH A NICE CHANNEL AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT?! SUBSCRIBED DAMN IT! European Amiga Masterrace!
Hahaha thanks mate!
After the bankruptcy announcement it felt like everybody who'd been nursing their Amiga game babies, just disappeared from face of the planet. At the time, is seemed that every Amiga coder you spoke with, had a hand full of game prototypes in development, then within a year. most of us had facepalmed into retirement.. Awesome to see at least some of these projects make a release though !
I know, right. It was a mass exodus from Amiga programming at one point in the 90s. Yes, at least a few have been found and completed.
Wow great video. 'Justice' remind me Alianator.. 'Indigo' just a rip off from Trolls. I regret 'Gore' the most. Amiga 4 ever!
Thank you, Marcin! Amiga forever indeed :)
No “The Big End” :/
For me, the one I missed the most.
😢
JSF should had been mentioned, as it was a top dev game, that was supposed to be released for the amiga, and then was never released.. some amiga magazine released it years later though
So many unreleased Amiga games out there!
No system should be left out from some Snow Bros. fun. Too bad neither the Amiga and the Atari ST ports were officially released... :(
Definitely! Love the arcade game, and it's perfect for the Amiga/ST.
Agricola looks like it was a rivisitation of Flimbo’s Quest ! Almost the same game
Oh yeah!
Guru Larry Bundy Jr said in a video why it was cancelled (putty squad) I think i had the demo from format or One?
Really miss demo disks :(
The amiga has always fascinated me
Amiga is the GOAT!
@@onaretrotip agreed
That nobby the ardvark music sounds familiar sound like it is from another game just cant put my finger on it
It's Bubble Bobble. I added it as the Nobby demo has no music.
all of them look great
Such a shame 😢
Hardcore / ultracore
Definitely one of the best on the list!
Without good first-party studios, Commodore couldn't survive like Nintendo.
First-party?
@@onaretrotip First party game studios are owned by platform vendors which are a major advantage for Nintendo and Sony (learning from the Betamax lesson). Nintendo can survive despite inferior hardware specs.
Microsoft also understood the importance of strong first-party game studios, hence buying ZeniMax Media.
ZeniMax Medi's games are associated with gaming PC and both Sony and Google Stadia attempted to make ZeniMax Media's future games exclusive for their respective platforms which gimps MS's Xbox and Windows platforms.
Sony's buying Psygnosis has gimped the Amiga platform.
Amiga powered by powerful Hombre chipset in 1995 wouldn't be enough when Sony has strong exclusive games.
@@valenrn8657 Oh, I know what it means, I was just trying to clarify what you meant. You don't think the quality third-party devs were enough then?
@@onaretrotip
1. The original Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One X has strong hardware specs, but it wasn't enough.
2. Xbox One's superior specs defeated by Nintendo's Switch is LOL
3. MS's Xbox leadership Phil Spencer has understood the Japanese game console's advantage.
@@valenrn8657 Yes, Nintendo have always had superb first-party studios.
Synidicate, Wing Commander , Wings and Hellfire was the best.
Syndicate is my number one!
love cancelled games
Me too!
Far too many platform games on the amiga that's for the consoles from Japan
Yes, they really had a thing for trying to create the Amiga's Sonic or Mario for some reason.
@@onaretrotip age thing i guess.
@@paulhunter123 Yeah I think that was just the "in thing" at the time, although the Amiga had strengths that were definitely not platformers.
@@onaretrotip yeah it had a mouse we can do a lot better than collecting gold coins. but the market is what it is. Lemmings prob explains this, and cannon fodder,
babylonian Twins reminds me of Arabian Nights.
Definitely.
I managed to get a Genesis/MD version of ultracore. Can't wait to play it!
Me too!
I remember playing putty squad on my 1200 back in the late 90's. A friend donated the computer and all of his pirated software. I never knew this was a canceled game!
I also remember a crash test dummy game that wasn't a platformer but rather a point and click physics game where you would put the dummies through tests like firing them out of cannons and crashing a car.
Ah cool, I wonder how he came across it. Wasn't there a game called Crash test Dummies?
@@onaretrotip there was a game called crash test dummies, it released on consoles too. It doesn't seem to be the game I remember though. Unless I had some Amiga demo of the game with different levels?
@@GanjsmostPrime Ah, god knows.
Stargunner looks awsome
Yeah, really cool! Free on Steam and GOG.
@@onaretrotip thanks ! ill try it :)
18:16 kinda like the syfy show... warehouse 13
LOVE that show :)
Thank You. TFX for AMIGA is missing
You're welcome! Hundreds more that aren't here.
30:11 What music is playing during Nobby The Aardvark game?, i recognise it from another game but cant pinpoint it, i know its bloody obvious as well lol
Bubble Bobble.
@@PJBonoVox of course duhhh
@@adamphillip5305 Happens to the best of us 😄
Oh man, I need that Gods clone. And Justice runs super smooth!
Yeah, the Gods clone looks awesome, albeit very similar.