As a developer at Sensible we managed for the most part to escape the ST to Amiga coding route. Phew! It's so refreshing seeing new stuff coming out that takes advantage of the Amiga hardware - and what superb hardware it is too! Great Video as always mate!
Wow, MVG... thank you ever so much for reviewing my games and the boxes, I'm so pleased you like them! As usual a fantastic video and of course your technical decision points about the Amiga are absolutely spot on. I'm considering doing a shooter next or Hyper Sports which is one of my favourite arcade sports games that I remember back in the day. Stay well and I hope you and your family have a great xmas and new year!
Excellent job on the games, professional quality across the board! I'm curious though, as I'm assuming that Rygar includes all of its hidden items throughout, how did you go about determining where those were? Did you have to parse through the original source code?
Question: I'm assuming this is done above-board, so I'm curious how you acquired permission to do these re-releases? Were the original publishers down with it?
"Authentic Arcade Port" awarded for the very first time ever. As kids we speculated, dreamed about them.. Discussed them in great lengths ...Not even ALTERED BEAST could be deemed AUTHENTIC.
I never really had access to Amigas growing up, but I remember the one time I got to use them. I saw one in a computer store that was running Lemmings and I was blown away by the graphics and even more so by the sound. I was used to MS-DOS PCs (and PCs without sound cards) and this was so far above and beyond anything I had experienced.
It's really pleasing to see what these machines were capable of, especially the OCS machines, not necessarily that much weaker but the color depth could make ports a challenge. Apparently the whole "ported to a weaker system, then to another micro" hampered the MSX too, with several ports from the *Spectrum* of all things.
Amiga had a few really good arcade conversions. Toki, Super Off Road ("can you feel it angels?"), Pang, New Zealand Story, Rodland & Rainbow Islands. All of them quality ports. Silkworm was one of the few games that actually improved on Amiga, upping the resolution from 256x240 to 320x200 made it feel so much better than the original. If you never played the arcade, try it in MAME, you will recoil in horror and appreciate the extra horizontal resolution.
Mortal Kombat was a staggering technical achievement, after the shocking port of Street Fighter 2 I wasn't expecting much, but it turned out to be one of the few times the Amiga left the consoles looking slightly embarrassed.
@@Darkuni There wasn't much in it but other than being limited to 2 buttons it was slightly closer to the arcade than the Genesis version, and quite far ahead of the turgid SNES version.
Thanks mate for your vids ,just realised I was watching you yrs ago and it just didn't click with me lol ,was on alot of painkillers and recently remembering alot ,big fan of obviously Sean and Nate and you just only recently starting interacting online socially again and of course I love spawncast,told Sean and Nate and Im not that egocentric to think that you would know but I gotta thankyou aswell for helping me,I been having night terrors etc and flashbacks since I was 4,so sleep is something I treasure even if it's 2 hrs straight that's incredible,usually wake up every 20 mins ,but since I decided to try something else ,I can't sleep without tv ,fan and I can't use beds -they trigger me,so I got my playlist of Sean vids ,the ones with you and Nate ,spawncast,aftershow and added yours in aswell especially love anything commodore or Amiga related ,big commodore 64 boy grew since 3 playing that and also had amstrad PC in 1991 good ms dosshell -kings quest ,conquests of Camelot and also longbow ,anything sierra adventure my dad and I would play ,great memories from a hard time ,may I ask you are a fellow Aussie which I'm proud to know and very happy that you are over there programming ,what state do you live in ? And where you working for a gaming company here? I may have seen vids where you mention it but just gradually getting recall of last 12 yrs ,I'm in northwest Sydney idk if you know the mean Fiddler -famous Irish pub? Well I'm like walking distance ,hadn't connected before so I apologize for long message,I'm just a very open and chatty guy when in a good mood haha ,so thanks again for your role in helping me sleep better no nightmares since I started watching the playlist whilst going to sleep so thanks heaps,have a great holidays!!
I love that the Rygar port has gamma correction baked into the graphics for a more authentic feel to the original presentation on a 15khz CRT. looks fantastic!
I just want to make one comment, I continue to support MVG, and many others because they DO NOT take a political stand in their videos. The moment you start to take a stance you lose me, if I wanted commentary I would check out channels that specialize in that. I come to UA-cam and watch content to get away from the back and forth of the current political environment, while I am on one side of the fence, I do not want to hear opinions on the other side. MVG always sticks to the topic of retro or modern and that's where he shines. Keep up the great work and Happy 2023!
Great video! The Amiga is indeed an astonishing machine for its time. Opening a big box game is always like opening a present at Christmas every time. Thank you for sharing this great games with us.
It's great to see people keeping the Amiga alive by developing quality games such as these. One game I'm looking forward to is Dread, an amazing-looking Doom clone!
Nice to see some things still coming out physically. Amazingly enough I have never used an Amiga. Everything else but never that one. Thanks for the video MVG
Great research and review, Geezer continues to create awesome games for the Amiga. So many other games need to be ported, fixed, updated. Thanks for shining a light towards the Amiga Scene MVG :)
The Amiga was ahead of its time, I had a close friend with one who lived nearby and not only was it good at professional workloads that his Dad would use for design work etc.. but the games were great and a lot of them were 2 player with joystick support. I remember being blown away with some of the racing games that had cars with headlights and some of the lighting and shading effects that were possible with this hardware.
Although not "new",Tiny Bubble is well worth a go for a full blooded Amiga version of Bubble Bobble!👍 Not so long ago was a great home-brew effort of Green Beret too! And a week or two ago an AGA port of Turrican 2 (based off the PC version),was released too...much like C64 home brew efforts of Ghosts'n'Goblins remastered & Commando,great to see these efforts that push the hardware to the full!😎
Great to see the homebrew community being so passionate about what its doing. Too bad I do not have an Amiga, otherwise I would have probably picked up Bombjack which I remember well from the GameBoy.
Bruh look up *Metro Siege* that got to be 1 of the koolest looking Amiga fan made game I ever seen ... it really impressive... if u own a Amiga don't sleep on Beats of Rage
Nice to see this. That Kung Fu Master Reboot looks great. I think the game we'd all like to see done properly on the Amiga is the one that we were all let down by the most, as kids.... Street Fighter 2. In fact, there was a guy called Pixel Shade on UA-cam that started the project. His work looked amazing. Defo worth a look.
While it's always awesome so see new games release on old hardware, and done well too!, I'm just praying that they got the official say so from the developers for the ports, especially since so many of them(developers/publishers) are still around. It would be sad to see their, the homebrew developers, having to do with any problems and might make new releases harder as well as discourage any other developer from doing ports. Still Great Job! :)
These remind me of Denpa games for the X68000, which is a huge compliment because those games were always close to arcade perfect if not better than the arcade.
I wasn't aware that there was an arcade version of Rygar, since my only experiences with it was the NES version and then later the PS2 version. So this video taught me something new! Thank you for the informative video and stay safe out there!
@@alexojideagu That is indeed interesting! I'll have to see about trying out the other versions of Rygar! Thank you for sharing this and stay safe my friend!
It is amazing to still see groups releasing software for both the Amiga as well as C64 decades after they lost general relevance and usability for daily tasks. Long live the Amiga. I am still building an A3000+ big box Amiga. Hopefully the motherboard will be done soon as I already have the checkmate case, board sheetmetal fitting kit, ZZ9000 GPU, PSU, drives, and OS’s.
i was still banking and using credit card sites on my A4000 csppc 060 Picasso IV Amiga well up to 2015 or so. The only think that stopped me was encryption improved and Amissl lagged behind for a while. Well everything going CSS didnt help ;)
I enjoy all your content, not interested in the Amiga these days but love to see what developers can achieve on older hardware and this certainly applies here. You have to be the only channel on UA-cam that can release a video and have it be up for days without any dislikes.
I remember I picked up Fighter Duel Pro (I think it was Pro, maybe not ?) back in the day for my Amiga. Not that I was a huge flight sim guy, but it could run in hir-res interlace mode, which was really rare for a game back then. So nice seeing Turbo Sprint using that mode!!!
Arcade conversions often looked like 8 bit versions. But there are definitely a lot of gems for the system for sure. If only they'd used Sharp X68000 ports as a source for the arcade games instead of Atari ST ports... 🤔
Bomb Jack was one of my favourite games on the Amiga. You are right about the original port being sluggish. Great to see an arcade near perfect conversion. Definitely going to check it out. Rygar you can get the arcade version to work on the Amiga mini with the PSP Capcom collections. New Kung Fu Master game. I’m thinking of purchasing next pay day. Got the NES version of Kung Fu Master working on Amiga mini. I think the C64 version of Kung Fu Master was amazing. Still need to add that to the Amiga mini.
Rygar si a real classic ... dropped serious coin in that cabinet as a kid ... still one of my favorites on mame... also Gyruss still does it for me, and Wonderboy in Monsterland (wonderboy2) was my absolute favorite as a kid :) Took me about 45 minutes back in the day to complete it... and the pub/café where i was every weekend with my parents, luckily had a WBML cabinet; i just played the game from start till end a few times, then we went home again :) ... (no not a good way of letting a kid grow up at that age, but at least i had my fun)
Very interesting, I was brought up coding Z80, 6502 and 68k , graduating in 1997 on real time systems. There is very much a place for me where I would still love to write and make games for the Amiga, seeing videos like this really helps me in that its not only something that I should do, but would really enjoy the Amiga renaissance and contributing to it. Whilst I would love to use a physical Amiga (the A1200 was my favourite!) would the UAE be a realstic place to start coding Assembler again ?? Am going to do some digging and see what I come up with but would love to hear comments/input.
I always loved the Amiga but couldn't afford one as a kid. I'm a huge arcade fan and now I'm enjoying the Amiga and this video is right up my alley. There are also some awesome recent arcade ports on the Megadrive like Paperboy, Double Dragon and Gauntlet. I didn't realise until recently that the Vigilante arcade game was a sequel of sorts to Kung fu master and Devils Temple looks very much in the same visual style as Vigilante. Cheers from New Zealand!
Thank you for the video! Very cool that new, good games and finally faithful arcade conversions are still being produced for the Amiga. Especially the newer arcade conversions help heal still open emotional wounds for me after more than 30 years and are an important salvation of honour for the Amiga. Now we can finally say to our friends from back then, who smiled at us with their Sega MegaDrive, PC Engine or Super NES consoles because of the embarrassing Amiga arcade ports: "In your face! We always told you that the Amiga could easily do something like that!" ;-) Regarding Rygar: Looks great! And impressive that the FM-like sound turned out so well on the good old Paula sound chip. BUT: I think this faithful Rygar port would also have been possible on OCS/ECS, at least with a memory expansion. Games like Turrican 2, Shadow of the Beast or Lionheart ran without any problems on OCS/ECS. And they were faster and more colourful than Rygar. But it was certainly much more comfortable to convert Rygar to AGA.
@@dlfrsilver Please don't get me wrong. It really is a great arcade conversion that is very close to the original. And it was undoubtedly for good reasons that you programmed it on AGA. Still, I'd be very interested to know what aspects of it are so hardware demanding that OCS can't handle it. Is the impressively faithful reproduction of FM music the reason? Because it doesn't sound Amiga-like at all, since it's not the usual tinny, lo-fi sample sound that we know from so many games. Perhaps the rear parallax scrolling layer is also too memory-intensive? I'm just curious. Otherwise, as already mentioned, there are some similar games on OCS that have more colours, more sprites/BOBs, faster scrolling and larger levels (e.g. Turrican 2, Lionheart, Shadow of the Beast). Of course, the OCS Amiga's bag of tricks was used heavily to achieve this (especially copper and blitter effects).
@@marmeladenfreund Hello, i'm not the programmer of Rygar. Rygar was coded by McGeezer. I did the GFX reverse engineering. Ok : The A500 has not enough memory chip, you can't do with it games with 64 colors palette at 50fps with 20 or more sprites on screen and a good screen size, and you can't have the parallax since the 500 can only do 8+8 colors. You can't compare a game with a real 64 colors palette with a game using 16 colors + copper raster like brian the lion, turrican 2, Lionheart or shadow of the beast. McGeezer knows very well the Amiga, and in order to get the most faithfull version of Rygar, the A1200 was the only way.
If I would've amiga i would've pickem up, this is a true labor of love, how many people in the world right now can write good legthy software for motorola 6800 assembly? Let alone games. Thanks for bringing them forward they truely deserve it.
Not just arcade conversions, but any games based on licensing of any kind including movies, conversions from other platforms, etc. One reason was the crazy short development times the companies gave the coders. This drove away some of the good coders from such companies so they could work on the projects they liked and take the time they needed to get the results they wanted. It was the same on the 8-bit platforms.
This is amazing!! I always dreamed of playing an arcade "good" version of Rygar! Sadly I don't have an Amiga, in my country is imposible, but I do have a SNES and other retro consoles. I always wonder why is that Sega Genesis and even niche old computers like the Amiga receive this wonderful new ports and yet the SNES does not get any love?? I think it about time the SNES get some love to. I would love to see a Rygar arcade faithful version on the SNES using the unique and amazing sound capabilities of the SNES!! And the same for any port on the SNES! And you have so many options like fastROM or even the FXChip. Honestly SNES should be the new homebrew king.
The Amiga had sprites, but they were limited in color and resolution. Useful for bullets and the like but made for compromised looking characters so a lot of games primarily used the blitter instead
It may surprise you but there actually weren't that many homecomputers with hardware sprites. Apart from the Amiga there basically only were - the TI 99/4a - and all machines that used the same TI graphics chip (TI happily sold it to others) -> MSX, Memotech, early Spectravideo SVI-series, Tatung Einstein and others - the Atari 400/800 and later 8-bit machines using Atari custom chips (same main chip designer as the Amiga: Jay Miner) - the C64, which was a major step up from the earlier machines (nearly half of the video chip was sprite hardware) - and the various MSX generations: MSX (using the TMS9918 graphics chip from TI), MSX2 (using the improved Yamaha V9938), MSX2+ and MSX turboR (using the even better Yamaha V9958) - the latter two only being marketed in Japan, AFAIK - the Sharp X68000 which was more of a cross between a graphics workstation and the best console available in Japan at the time (for a hefty price) - and the Fujitsu FM Towns, an early proprietary 386-based PC with a custom graphics chip by Fujitsu - also only marketed in Japan But many popular home computers didn't have sprite hardware (excluding non-color & more exotic machines): - the Apple II family was too old to have sprites (and had a different design philosphy anyway) - the VIC 20: they simply weren't as sophisticated with their first color computer, according to chip designer Al Charpentier - but they learned quickly... - the Tandy CoCo family (price reasons? the first two models used a rather simple Motorola standard off-the-shelf video controller without sprites) - the British Dragon-family (a CoCo "clone") - the Sinclair Spectrum: Sir Clive sold the cheapest, most primitive platform he could get away with (with shitty sound hardware, no less!) - the Amstrad CPC-family, used their own custom "ULA" chip w/o sprites but at least a decent off-the-shelf sound chip (and a decent keyboard) - the Atari ST, which used a blitter, too Yet many of those machines had more or less decent arcade ports - even if it meant to compromise on things.
Wow juat last night I was browsing the Internet Archives and was looking at At how to literatures on programing and developing games for the amiga, seeing this video makes me want to go for it
I'd never think Bomb Jack is a pac-man style game; and Devil's Temple may have kung fu master moves but the graphics and gameplay definitely resemble Vigilante
It's awesome seeing games which made use of amiga's hardware full capabilities. I always had a sympathy for it even thought I didn't have had the hardware.
Great video! It's great that people keep creating games for retro systems and I'm glad you are featuring them. I'm curious; These are ports from original arcade games, does Geezer Games needed to sign a deal with the original developers to sell physical copies?
All my life with the amiga I never knew games came in a box! we used to go to this place in Glasgow, Scotland called the Barrowland, it was a market of stalls and shops... completely legit of course haha think the place was raided every month!
As a C64 owner and then an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 owner back in the day, it’s a shame we are only now seeing games that push the Amigas limits. Great to see how much better games could have been with Bombjack being a prime example.
There's some so special about very old hardware getting new releases. Especially ones with physical versions. I just remembered how Crunchyroll is going to release a game about their Vtuber for GBC with a physical version via Limited Run Games.
I talked some buddies into going across town to a 7-11 which I knew had a SuperSprint and we each brought a $10 roll of quarters and had an epic Grand Prix, the 7-11 people were amused when we hung around there for an hour straight (plus Big Gulps and Slurpees). Have you checked out the amazing ARLASOFT library of arcade conversions? 24 (that's TWENTY-FOUR) C64 games written between Oct 2019 and Jan 2022. Including Donkey Kong Jr, Galaga, and Galaxian.
I used to own an A500, A1200, and a CD32, many moons ago. My software library was pretty big (games, animation, productivity, and CDs) and I loved the Cinemaware games. Those were the good old days! Too bad the Amiga got killed by the PC!😢
Wow! These look amazing! Used to love Kung Fu Master in the arcade, this new Amiga version look stunning! Hope the soundtrack is similar to the arcade version!
Back then I played a lot of text-adventures for Amiga, those from Magnetic Scrolls were the best ones IMHO. Nowadys I'd love to play some new ones possibly as good as the old ones (The Pawn and Fish my fav...)
Wow amazing new games and thanks for the reviews and inside information. Sadly my A4000 barely works anymore, so the digital version will have to do. Keep up the great work and Happy New Year!
Same problem with the Saturn as well, they were very complex designs and neither company put enough effort into making sure to provide a good development environment to help programmers take full advantage of the hardware capabilities. Sega learned their lesson and the dev tools they provided for the Dreamcast were WAY better. Atari, of course, never had the chance to learn anything because the Jaguar was pretty much the last gasp for the company.
Thx for the video MVG! Great as usual! I wonder if this video could help me finding out one of my favorite amiga 500 games of the time... As I was just a child, I can't remember the name, but I have fragmented memories on this game: We used to call it "Rambo", because you played a small soldier-like guy in a 2d side scroller. Running, shooting and climbing up obstacles. In my memories the gameplay was quiet fluid and the graphics look way better thay rygar for example... If anyone can help me out, I would really appreciate your help! Sry for the bad english, no native speaker here :-)
As a developer at Sensible we managed for the most part to escape the ST to Amiga coding route. Phew! It's so refreshing seeing new stuff coming out that takes advantage of the Amiga hardware - and what superb hardware it is too! Great Video as always mate!
oOoh did you do sensible soccer?
Oh now I remember the name, you were on the crew for cannon fodder right? always loved that game.
Honestly how did this man channel forget get about *Metro Siege* ????? 1 of the most impressive Homebrew games I seen this year ...
Oooh nm that why it isn't in this video.. 2022 think that game comes out next year
I loved Sensible Software
Wow, MVG... thank you ever so much for reviewing my games and the boxes, I'm so pleased you like them! As usual a fantastic video and of course your technical decision points about the Amiga are absolutely spot on. I'm considering doing a shooter next or Hyper Sports which is one of my favourite arcade sports games that I remember back in the day. Stay well and I hope you and your family have a great xmas and new year!
Excellent job on the games, professional quality across the board! I'm curious though, as I'm assuming that Rygar includes all of its hidden items throughout, how did you go about determining where those were? Did you have to parse through the original source code?
Question: I'm assuming this is done above-board, so I'm curious how you acquired permission to do these re-releases? Were the original publishers down with it?
Next games, Renegade and Target Renegade. :)
Great work buddy! Hyper sports was also a fav of mine, hope you get it done
@@ThePerfectKiosk my question exactly
"Authentic Arcade Port" awarded for the very first time ever. As kids we speculated, dreamed about them.. Discussed them in great lengths ...Not even ALTERED BEAST could be deemed AUTHENTIC.
The Amiga is still my fav computer of all time, I had so much fun with the amiga range of computers back in the day 🙃
I loved my Amiga so much. It's great to see people are still working to develop for it. These games look great.
I never really had access to Amigas growing up, but I remember the one time I got to use them. I saw one in a computer store that was running Lemmings and I was blown away by the graphics and even more so by the sound. I was used to MS-DOS PCs (and PCs without sound cards) and this was so far above and beyond anything I had experienced.
When all my friends had Segas, Nintendos & Commodore 64s - I felt so superior with the beast that was the Amiga
I love that these kinds of projects are STILL being done, and new life is being breathed into old PCs and consoles. Amazing work by Geyser Games!
It's really pleasing to see what these machines were capable of, especially the OCS machines, not necessarily that much weaker but the color depth could make ports a challenge. Apparently the whole "ported to a weaker system, then to another micro" hampered the MSX too, with several ports from the *Spectrum* of all things.
Hmm... I just bought a YAmaha MSX2 computer, never had one before...) Wonder what's good on it))
Yes, I'm far more interested in what can be achieved with the OCS Amiga.
Amiga had a few really good arcade conversions. Toki, Super Off Road ("can you feel it angels?"), Pang, New Zealand Story, Rodland & Rainbow Islands. All of them quality ports. Silkworm was one of the few games that actually improved on Amiga, upping the resolution from 256x240 to 320x200 made it feel so much better than the original. If you never played the arcade, try it in MAME, you will recoil in horror and appreciate the extra horizontal resolution.
I remember Silkworm. Had my Amiga connected to larger sound system, and I almost had to change my pants when using the smart bomb the first time ;)
Omg ... Angels indeed. I had to boot that game when my mom wasn't looking....
Mortal Kombat was a staggering technical achievement, after the shocking port of Street Fighter 2 I wasn't expecting much, but it turned out to be one of the few times the Amiga left the consoles looking slightly embarrassed.
@@memitim171 Probe did a great job with those. Felt like pretty close ports from the Genesis/Megadrive - esp. MK2.
@@Darkuni There wasn't much in it but other than being limited to 2 buttons it was slightly closer to the arcade than the Genesis version, and quite far ahead of the turgid SNES version.
I'm lucky enough to have spoken to mcgeezer on several occasions. Really friendly guy, and an absolutely amazing coder.
Thanks mate for your vids ,just realised I was watching you yrs ago and it just didn't click with me lol ,was on alot of painkillers and recently remembering alot ,big fan of obviously Sean and Nate and you just only recently starting interacting online socially again and of course I love spawncast,told Sean and Nate and Im not that egocentric to think that you would know but I gotta thankyou aswell for helping me,I been having night terrors etc and flashbacks since I was 4,so sleep is something I treasure even if it's 2 hrs straight that's incredible,usually wake up every 20 mins ,but since I decided to try something else ,I can't sleep without tv ,fan and I can't use beds -they trigger me,so I got my playlist of Sean vids ,the ones with you and Nate ,spawncast,aftershow and added yours in aswell especially love anything commodore or Amiga related ,big commodore 64 boy grew since 3 playing that and also had amstrad PC in 1991 good ms dosshell -kings quest ,conquests of Camelot and also longbow ,anything sierra adventure my dad and I would play ,great memories from a hard time ,may I ask you are a fellow Aussie which I'm proud to know and very happy that you are over there programming ,what state do you live in ? And where you working for a gaming company here? I may have seen vids where you mention it but just gradually getting recall of last 12 yrs ,I'm in northwest Sydney idk if you know the mean Fiddler -famous Irish pub? Well I'm like walking distance ,hadn't connected before so I apologize for long message,I'm just a very open and chatty guy when in a good mood haha ,so thanks again for your role in helping me sleep better no nightmares since I started watching the playlist whilst going to sleep so thanks heaps,have a great holidays!!
I had an Amiga 500 back in the day and loved every game I got for it. These games look absolutely stunning!
I love that the Rygar port has gamma correction baked into the graphics for a more authentic feel to the original presentation on a 15khz CRT. looks fantastic!
I just want to make one comment, I continue to support MVG, and many others because they DO NOT take a political stand in their videos. The moment you start to take a stance you lose me, if I wanted commentary I would check out channels that specialize in that. I come to UA-cam and watch content to get away from the back and forth of the current political environment, while I am on one side of the fence, I do not want to hear opinions on the other side. MVG always sticks to the topic of retro or modern and that's where he shines. Keep up the great work and Happy 2023!
Great video! The Amiga is indeed an astonishing machine for its time. Opening a big box game is always like opening a present at Christmas every time. Thank you for sharing this great games with us.
I hope to find time to bring some original games to Amiga as well, coded to the highest standard.
It's great to see people keeping the Amiga alive by developing quality games such as these. One game I'm looking forward to is Dread, an amazing-looking Doom clone!
Nice to see some things still coming out physically. Amazingly enough I have never used an Amiga. Everything else but never that one. Thanks for the video MVG
Very nice Video! Thank you for the update on my well beloved Amiga.
Ghosts 'n Goblins on the Amiga is a surprisingly good arcade port. Not arcade perfect, by any means, but very enjoyable.
Great research and review, Geezer continues to create awesome games for the Amiga. So many other games need to be ported, fixed, updated. Thanks for shining a light towards the Amiga Scene MVG :)
That Bombjack port is amazing. Happy memories in the arcade, less so at home. Cheers
The Amiga was ahead of its time, I had a close friend with one who lived nearby and not only was it good at professional workloads that his Dad would use for design work etc.. but the games were great and a lot of them were 2 player with joystick support. I remember being blown away with some of the racing games that had cars with headlights and some of the lighting and shading effects that were possible with this hardware.
Although not "new",Tiny Bubble is well worth a go for a full blooded Amiga version of Bubble Bobble!👍
Not so long ago was a great home-brew effort of Green Beret too! And a week or two ago an AGA port of Turrican 2 (based off the PC version),was released too...much like C64 home brew efforts of Ghosts'n'Goblins remastered & Commando,great to see these efforts that push the hardware to the full!😎
Great to see the homebrew community being so passionate about what its doing.
Too bad I do not have an Amiga, otherwise I would have probably picked up Bombjack which I remember well from the GameBoy.
Bruh look up *Metro Siege* that got to be 1 of the koolest looking Amiga fan made game I ever seen ... it really impressive... if u own a Amiga don't sleep on Beats of Rage
This is outstanding. They look like fantastic (re)creations. So much respect for the development effort here.
Great to see some arcades getting faithful ports. I always thought the port of Capcom's BlackTiger fell short of what the Amiga could do.
Nice to see this. That Kung Fu Master Reboot looks great. I think the game we'd all like to see done properly on the Amiga is the one that we were all let down by the most, as kids.... Street Fighter 2. In fact, there was a guy called Pixel Shade on UA-cam that started the project. His work looked amazing. Defo worth a look.
Nothing beats opening up boxes of games and playing them on the original hardware!
True, i remember the 12 disk ''Simon the Sorcerer'', sure it was 12, Cannon Fodder, Lionheart ...memories?
Even though I've never used one, I'm really getting tempted to get a Amiga/classic
thanks for reviewing our games.
This is really awesome keep up the good work!
Nice. Bomb Jack on the bog standard ST could have been much closer to the Arcade version though.
The initial bomb jack beer version had different music, glad to see they added the original music.
Always nice to see a revival of a much luved format, remember the A1200 with fond memories. Who ever thought Vinyl would come back like it did.
While it's always awesome so see new games release on old hardware, and done well too!, I'm just praying that they got the official say so from the developers for the ports, especially since so many of them(developers/publishers) are still around. It would be sad to see their, the homebrew developers, having to do with any problems and might make new releases harder as well as discourage any other developer from doing ports. Still Great Job! :)
Soo great!!! Please more if such stuff in the future! AMIGA FOREVER!
Greetings, Doc64!
These remind me of Denpa games for the X68000, which is a huge compliment because those games were always close to arcade perfect if not better than the arcade.
I wasn't aware that there was an arcade version of Rygar, since my only experiences with it was the NES version and then later the PS2 version. So this video taught me something new! Thank you for the informative video and stay safe out there!
It was one of the first games on the Atari Lynx
You might find this video interesting ua-cam.com/video/95eDegGCKi0/v-deo.html
@@alexojideagu That is indeed interesting! I'll have to see about trying out the other versions of Rygar! Thank you for sharing this and stay safe my friend!
Bomb Jack's NES follow - up, Mighty Bomb Jack, was one of the few games my mom ever got into along with Dr. Mario. That takes me back...
It is amazing to still see groups releasing software for both the Amiga as well as C64 decades after they lost general relevance and usability for daily tasks. Long live the Amiga. I am still building an A3000+ big box Amiga. Hopefully the motherboard will be done soon as I already have the checkmate case, board sheetmetal fitting kit, ZZ9000 GPU, PSU, drives, and OS’s.
i was still banking and using credit card sites on my A4000 csppc 060 Picasso IV Amiga well up to 2015 or so. The only think that stopped me was encryption improved and Amissl lagged behind for a while. Well everything going CSS didnt help ;)
This makes me happy to see the Amiga still getting games today. And great ports.
I love this! This would make a fantastic Evercade collection.
OMG That Rygar port!!!!!!!! Played and loved it in Arcades back then (and now of course), didn't like the ports. But this one... Looks INCREDIBLE. 💪
I enjoy all your content, not interested in the Amiga these days but love to see what developers can achieve on older hardware and this certainly applies here.
You have to be the only channel on UA-cam that can release a video and have it be up for days without any dislikes.
I remember I picked up Fighter Duel Pro (I think it was Pro, maybe not ?) back in the day for my Amiga. Not that I was a huge flight sim guy, but it could run in hir-res interlace mode, which was really rare for a game back then.
So nice seeing Turbo Sprint using that mode!!!
Arcade conversions often looked like 8 bit versions. But there are definitely a lot of gems for the system for sure. If only they'd used Sharp X68000 ports as a source for the arcade games instead of Atari ST ports... 🤔
Oh I remember my Amiga days very fondly.
Street Fighter 2 World Warrior recreate its my dream overkill for Amiga
Bomb Jack was one of my favourite games on the Amiga. You are right about the original port being sluggish. Great to see an arcade near perfect conversion. Definitely going to check it out. Rygar you can get the arcade version to work on the Amiga mini with the PSP Capcom collections. New Kung Fu Master game. I’m thinking of purchasing next pay day. Got the NES version of Kung Fu Master working on Amiga mini. I think the C64 version of Kung Fu Master was amazing. Still need to add that to the Amiga mini.
Amiga is without no doubt (i accept no other opinions as valid) the best gaming system ever. Great memories
Rygar si a real classic ... dropped serious coin in that cabinet as a kid ... still one of my favorites on mame...
also Gyruss still does it for me, and Wonderboy in Monsterland (wonderboy2) was my absolute favorite as a kid :) Took me about 45 minutes back in the day to complete it... and the pub/café where i was every weekend with my parents, luckily had a WBML cabinet; i just played the game from start till end a few times, then we went home again :) ... (no not a good way of letting a kid grow up at that age, but at least i had my fun)
Another great video. Both Modern and Vintage at the same time, as usual.
love the artwork on the posters in devil's temple. lots of ports from St to amiga was lazy
Glad to see the homebrew community is alive and thriving!
makes me so happy to see this
Exciting stuff! Amiga is soooo underappreciated!
Very interesting, I was brought up coding Z80, 6502 and 68k , graduating in 1997 on real time systems. There is very much a place for me where I would still love to write and make games for the Amiga, seeing videos like this really helps me in that its not only something that I should do, but would really enjoy the Amiga renaissance and contributing to it. Whilst I would love to use a physical Amiga (the A1200 was my favourite!) would the UAE be a realstic place to start coding Assembler again ?? Am going to do some digging and see what I come up with but would love to hear comments/input.
UAE for sure a valid dev platform
I use WinUAE and VASM on WIndows 10 to make these games.
I always loved the Amiga but couldn't afford one as a kid. I'm a huge arcade fan and now I'm enjoying the Amiga and this video is right up my alley. There are also some awesome recent arcade ports on the Megadrive like Paperboy, Double Dragon and Gauntlet. I didn't realise until recently that the Vigilante arcade game was a sequel of sorts to Kung fu master and Devils Temple looks very much in the same visual style as Vigilante. Cheers from New Zealand!
Love seeing something like Turbo Sprint using the abilities of the Amiga well.
Thank you for the video! Very cool that new, good games and finally faithful arcade conversions are still being produced for the Amiga. Especially the newer arcade conversions help heal still open emotional wounds for me after more than 30 years and are an important salvation of honour for the Amiga. Now we can finally say to our friends from back then, who smiled at us with their Sega MegaDrive, PC Engine or Super NES consoles because of the embarrassing Amiga arcade ports: "In your face! We always told you that the Amiga could easily do something like that!" ;-)
Regarding Rygar: Looks great! And impressive that the FM-like sound turned out so well on the good old Paula sound chip. BUT: I think this faithful Rygar port would also have been possible on OCS/ECS, at least with a memory expansion. Games like Turrican 2, Shadow of the Beast or Lionheart ran without any problems on OCS/ECS. And they were faster and more colourful than Rygar. But it was certainly much more comfortable to convert Rygar to AGA.
Rygar is way too demanding for OCS/ECS. otherwise we would have made it also on A500.
@@dlfrsilver Please don't get me wrong. It really is a great arcade conversion that is very close to the original. And it was undoubtedly for good reasons that you programmed it on AGA. Still, I'd be very interested to know what aspects of it are so hardware demanding that OCS can't handle it.
Is the impressively faithful reproduction of FM music the reason? Because it doesn't sound Amiga-like at all, since it's not the usual tinny, lo-fi sample sound that we know from so many games. Perhaps the rear parallax scrolling layer is also too memory-intensive? I'm just curious.
Otherwise, as already mentioned, there are some similar games on OCS that have more colours, more sprites/BOBs, faster scrolling and larger levels (e.g. Turrican 2, Lionheart, Shadow of the Beast). Of course, the OCS Amiga's bag of tricks was used heavily to achieve this (especially copper and blitter effects).
@@marmeladenfreund Hello, i'm not the programmer of Rygar. Rygar was coded by McGeezer. I did the GFX reverse engineering. Ok : The A500 has not enough memory chip, you can't do with it games with 64 colors palette at 50fps with 20 or more sprites on screen and a good screen size, and you can't have the parallax since the 500 can only do 8+8 colors. You can't compare a game with a real 64 colors palette with a game using 16 colors + copper raster like brian the lion, turrican 2, Lionheart or shadow of the beast. McGeezer knows very well the Amiga, and in order to get the most faithfull version of Rygar, the A1200 was the only way.
I absolutely loved super sprint in the arcade. Only cabinet I would ever consider buying.
If I would've amiga i would've pickem up, this is a true labor of love, how many people in the world right now can write good legthy software for motorola 6800 assembly? Let alone games. Thanks for bringing them forward they truely deserve it.
Devil's Temple looks a lot like Vigilante, which is another game that is known to be a spiritual successor of Kung-Fu Master!
Yeah, its like Vigilant with different graphics, moves are copycat
Always love the commitment from the community
Not just arcade conversions, but any games based on licensing of any kind including movies, conversions from other platforms, etc. One reason was the crazy short development times the companies gave the coders. This drove away some of the good coders from such companies so they could work on the projects they liked and take the time they needed to get the results they wanted. It was the same on the 8-bit platforms.
Love seeing these sorts of things :D
These videos make me wanna explore homebrew, this shit is so cool!
Didn't know, you're also a proud Amiga owner, MVG. 😉👍
We had a few good arcade ports. Toki, Pang, Rainbow Islands, New Zealand Story, Cabal, Rodland and even Super Hang on, Golden Axe and Final Fight.
This is amazing!! I always dreamed of playing an arcade "good" version of Rygar! Sadly I don't have an Amiga, in my country is imposible, but I do have a SNES and other retro consoles. I always wonder why is that Sega Genesis and even niche old computers like the Amiga receive this wonderful new ports and yet the SNES does not get any love?? I think it about time the SNES get some love to. I would love to see a Rygar arcade faithful version on the SNES using the unique and amazing sound capabilities of the SNES!! And the same for any port on the SNES! And you have so many options like fastROM or even the FXChip. Honestly SNES should be the new homebrew king.
I read that the reason it was hard to port arcade games because it doesn't use sprite to produce graphics. The Amiga was its own unique thing.
The Amiga had sprites, but they were limited in color and resolution. Useful for bullets and the like but made for compromised looking characters so a lot of games primarily used the blitter instead
It may surprise you but there actually weren't that many homecomputers with hardware sprites.
Apart from the Amiga there basically only were
- the TI 99/4a - and all machines that used the same TI graphics chip (TI happily sold it to others) -> MSX, Memotech, early Spectravideo SVI-series, Tatung Einstein and others
- the Atari 400/800 and later 8-bit machines using Atari custom chips (same main chip designer as the Amiga: Jay Miner)
- the C64, which was a major step up from the earlier machines (nearly half of the video chip was sprite hardware)
- and the various MSX generations: MSX (using the TMS9918 graphics chip from TI), MSX2 (using the improved Yamaha V9938), MSX2+ and MSX turboR (using the even better Yamaha V9958) - the latter two only being marketed in Japan, AFAIK
- the Sharp X68000 which was more of a cross between a graphics workstation and the best console available in Japan at the time (for a hefty price)
- and the Fujitsu FM Towns, an early proprietary 386-based PC with a custom graphics chip by Fujitsu - also only marketed in Japan
But many popular home computers didn't have sprite hardware (excluding non-color & more exotic machines):
- the Apple II family was too old to have sprites (and had a different design philosphy anyway)
- the VIC 20: they simply weren't as sophisticated with their first color computer, according to chip designer Al Charpentier - but they learned quickly...
- the Tandy CoCo family (price reasons? the first two models used a rather simple Motorola standard off-the-shelf video controller without sprites)
- the British Dragon-family (a CoCo "clone")
- the Sinclair Spectrum: Sir Clive sold the cheapest, most primitive platform he could get away with (with shitty sound hardware, no less!)
- the Amstrad CPC-family, used their own custom "ULA" chip w/o sprites but at least a decent off-the-shelf sound chip (and a decent keyboard)
- the Atari ST, which used a blitter, too
Yet many of those machines had more or less decent arcade ports - even if it meant to compromise on things.
Wow juat last night I was browsing the Internet Archives and was looking at At how to literatures on programing and developing games for the amiga, seeing this video makes me want to go for it
I remember playing Bomb Jack on the Atari ST back in the 80s, brings back some good memories.
I'd never think Bomb Jack is a pac-man style game; and Devil's Temple may have kung fu master moves but the graphics and gameplay definitely resemble Vigilante
It's awesome seeing games which made use of amiga's hardware full capabilities. I always had a sympathy for it even thought I didn't have had the hardware.
I play Bomb Jack Beer Edition on Amiga Forever. Thanks for the info, I'm going to have to check out the other games
Great video! It's great that people keep creating games for retro systems and I'm glad you are featuring them.
I'm curious; These are ports from original arcade games, does Geezer Games needed to sign a deal with the original developers to sell physical copies?
Wolfchild music in the intro
Excellent video MVG. Well done @Geezer Games.
All my life with the amiga I never knew games came in a box!
we used to go to this place in Glasgow, Scotland called the Barrowland, it was a market of stalls and shops... completely legit of course haha
think the place was raided every month!
Great coverage! I wish that Rygar worked on OCS/ECS!
As a big fan of Kung Fu/Master I was so happy to get my hands on Devils Temple. The gameplay and art blew me away. Great Great game.
As a C64 owner and then an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 owner back in the day, it’s a shame we are only now seeing games that push the Amigas limits. Great to see how much better games could have been with Bombjack being a prime example.
The opening tune is just lit. My fave amiga game ;)
'Devil's Temple' looks great - It could be the lovechild of Irem's 'Kung Fu Master' & Irem's 'Vigilante' from 1988,
There's some so special about very old hardware getting new releases. Especially ones with physical versions. I just remembered how Crunchyroll is going to release a game about their Vtuber for GBC with a physical version via Limited Run Games.
I talked some buddies into going across town to a 7-11 which I knew had a SuperSprint and we each brought a $10 roll of quarters and had an epic Grand Prix, the 7-11 people were amused when we hung around there for an hour straight (plus Big Gulps and Slurpees).
Have you checked out the amazing ARLASOFT library of arcade conversions? 24 (that's TWENTY-FOUR) C64 games written between Oct 2019 and Jan 2022. Including Donkey Kong Jr, Galaga, and Galaxian.
I really liked the 80s posters in the background of the kung fu game.
I used to own an A500, A1200, and a CD32, many moons ago. My software library was pretty big (games, animation, productivity, and CDs) and I loved the Cinemaware games. Those were the good old days! Too bad the Amiga got killed by the PC!😢
Wow! These look amazing! Used to love Kung Fu Master in the arcade, this new Amiga version look stunning! Hope the soundtrack is similar to the arcade version!
Back then I played a lot of text-adventures for Amiga, those from Magnetic Scrolls were the best ones IMHO.
Nowadys I'd love to play some new ones possibly as good as the old ones (The Pawn and Fish my fav...)
Wow amazing new games and thanks for the reviews and inside information. Sadly my A4000 barely works anymore, so the digital version will have to do.
Keep up the great work and Happy New Year!
4:23 are all those hidden power-ups from the arcade version available there as well? rygar is plenty of hidden power-ups!
The Amiga reminds me somewhat of the Atari Jaguar as far as ports. So many ports on the Jaguar never took advantage of the hardware. 😢
Appropriate, given that a lot of Jaguar games were Amiga ports
Same problem with the Saturn as well, they were very complex designs and neither company put enough effort into making sure to provide a good development environment to help programmers take full advantage of the hardware capabilities. Sega learned their lesson and the dev tools they provided for the Dreamcast were WAY better. Atari, of course, never had the chance to learn anything because the Jaguar was pretty much the last gasp for the company.
0:28 This might be the worst timing of showing Turrican 2 in the video as your saying implies it was a bad port. >.
Is there any way of speeding-up Turbo Sprint as it looks a bit tame and slow compared to the arcade version?
Thx for the video MVG! Great as usual!
I wonder if this video could help me finding out one of my favorite amiga 500 games of the time... As I was just a child, I can't remember the name, but I have fragmented memories on this game:
We used to call it "Rambo", because you played a small soldier-like guy in a 2d side scroller. Running, shooting and climbing up obstacles. In my memories the gameplay was quiet fluid and the graphics look way better thay rygar for example...
If anyone can help me out, I would really appreciate your help!
Sry for the bad english, no native speaker here :-)
Thank you for posting, enjoyed it 👍