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  • Опубліковано 18 гру 2022
  • We take a look at some new and updated homebrew physical Amiga games in 2022. Bomb Jack Beer Edition, Rygar, Turbo Sprint and Devils Temple are all high quality games for your Amiga and in this episode we take a closer look at all 4 releases including what you get with the physical games
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  • @StooCambridgeArtist
    @StooCambridgeArtist Рік тому +523

    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!

    • @matt.willoughby
      @matt.willoughby Рік тому +13

      oOoh did you do sensible soccer?

    • @wighar
      @wighar Рік тому +23

      Oh now I remember the name, you were on the crew for cannon fodder right? always loved that game.

    • @joe77andino
      @joe77andino Рік тому +2

      Honestly how did this man channel forget get about *Metro Siege* ????? 1 of the most impressive Homebrew games I seen this year ...

    • @joe77andino
      @joe77andino Рік тому +1

      Oooh nm that why it isn't in this video.. 2022 think that game comes out next year

    • @duncanself5111
      @duncanself5111 Рік тому +6

      I loved Sensible Software

  • @GeezerGamesRetro
    @GeezerGamesRetro Рік тому +392

    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!

    • @mikes333
      @mikes333 Рік тому +7

      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?

    • @ThePerfectKiosk
      @ThePerfectKiosk Рік тому +7

      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?

    • @pnvgordinho
      @pnvgordinho Рік тому +4

      Next games, Renegade and Target Renegade. :)

    • @pseudonayme7717
      @pseudonayme7717 Рік тому +1

      Great work buddy! Hyper sports was also a fav of mine, hope you get it done

    • @stevenbenson9976
      @stevenbenson9976 Рік тому +1

      @@ThePerfectKiosk my question exactly

  • @Reapergrim-kv2ps
    @Reapergrim-kv2ps Рік тому +11

    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 🙃

  • @TravisBHartwell
    @TravisBHartwell Рік тому +7

    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.

  • @wraithcadmus
    @wraithcadmus Рік тому +20

    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.

    • @yakovkhalip9714
      @yakovkhalip9714 Рік тому

      Hmm... I just bought a YAmaha MSX2 computer, never had one before...) Wonder what's good on it))

    • @Midwinter2
      @Midwinter2 Рік тому +1

      Yes, I'm far more interested in what can be achieved with the OCS Amiga.

  • @Holammer
    @Holammer Рік тому +43

    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.

    • @matsadona
      @matsadona Рік тому +1

      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 ;)

    • @Darkuni
      @Darkuni Рік тому +2

      Omg ... Angels indeed. I had to boot that game when my mom wasn't looking....

    • @memitim171
      @memitim171 Рік тому +3

      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
      @Darkuni Рік тому

      @@memitim171 Probe did a great job with those. Felt like pretty close ports from the Genesis/Megadrive - esp. MK2.

    • @memitim171
      @memitim171 Рік тому

      @@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.

  • @julespleeswoah859
    @julespleeswoah859 Рік тому +12

    When all my friends had Segas, Nintendos & Commodore 64s - I felt so superior with the beast that was the Amiga

  • @davidbanner9001
    @davidbanner9001 Рік тому +9

    I loved my Amiga so much. It's great to see people are still working to develop for it. These games look great.

  • @arcadesunday4592
    @arcadesunday4592 Рік тому +14

    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!

  • @Cyko..
    @Cyko.. Рік тому +4

    I had an Amiga 500 back in the day and loved every game I got for it. These games look absolutely stunning!

  • @bradallen8909
    @bradallen8909 Рік тому +8

    I'm lucky enough to have spoken to mcgeezer on several occasions. Really friendly guy, and an absolutely amazing coder.

  • @WalrusFPGA
    @WalrusFPGA Рік тому +4

    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!

  • @MegaManNeo
    @MegaManNeo Рік тому +9

    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.

    • @joe77andino
      @joe77andino Рік тому +2

      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

  • @KevinSaunders
    @KevinSaunders Рік тому +2

    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 :)

  • @GeorgesChannel
    @GeorgesChannel Рік тому +2

    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.

  • @PST101
    @PST101 Рік тому +4

    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.

  • @TravisStamper
    @TravisStamper Рік тому +7

    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

  • @gamingcrazy7013
    @gamingcrazy7013 Рік тому +2

    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!

  • @tomsorens4453
    @tomsorens4453 Рік тому +3

    Very nice Video! Thank you for the update on my well beloved Amiga.

  • @lactobacillusprime
    @lactobacillusprime Рік тому +12

    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... 🤔

  • @davidbrennan5
    @davidbrennan5 Рік тому

    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.

  • @vrakula
    @vrakula Рік тому +3

    Ghosts 'n Goblins on the Amiga is a surprisingly good arcade port. Not arcade perfect, by any means, but very enjoyable.

  • @michalgajdos7575
    @michalgajdos7575 Рік тому +1

    "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.

  • @stompreaper
    @stompreaper Рік тому +3

    This is outstanding. They look like fantastic (re)creations. So much respect for the development effort here.

  • @celynjones4958
    @celynjones4958 Рік тому +2

    That Bombjack port is amazing. Happy memories in the arcade, less so at home. Cheers

  • @CinemaStormz
    @CinemaStormz Рік тому +5

    This is really awesome keep up the good work!

  • @ultragoldenantchannel5648
    @ultragoldenantchannel5648 Рік тому +12

    Devil's Temple looks a lot like Vigilante, which is another game that is known to be a spiritual successor of Kung-Fu Master!

    • @psychopoison
      @psychopoison Рік тому +1

      Yeah, its like Vigilant with different graphics, moves are copycat

  • @10p6
    @10p6 Рік тому +3

    Nice. Bomb Jack on the bog standard ST could have been much closer to the Arcade version though.

  • @MichaelOglesby
    @MichaelOglesby Рік тому

    Excellent video MVG. Well done @Geezer Games.

  • @rtc3000
    @rtc3000 Рік тому +2

    Nothing beats opening up boxes of games and playing them on the original hardware!

    • @davewills6121
      @davewills6121 Рік тому

      True, i remember the 12 disk ''Simon the Sorcerer'', sure it was 12, Cannon Fodder, Lionheart ...memories?

  • @philipmurphy2
    @philipmurphy2 Рік тому

    Wonderful video MVG, Keep up the work.

  • @Ti-JAC
    @Ti-JAC Рік тому

    Thank you for posting, enjoyed it 👍

  • @trueakuma777
    @trueakuma777 Рік тому +3

    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
      @alexojideagu Рік тому +1

      It was one of the first games on the Atari Lynx

    • @alexojideagu
      @alexojideagu Рік тому +1

      You might find this video interesting ua-cam.com/video/95eDegGCKi0/v-deo.html

    • @trueakuma777
      @trueakuma777 Рік тому +1

      @@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!

  • @Evercade_Effect
    @Evercade_Effect Рік тому +3

    I love this! This would make a fantastic Evercade collection.

  • @gfdggdfgdgf
    @gfdggdfgdgf Рік тому +2

    The initial bomb jack beer version had different music, glad to see they added the original music.

  • @funstuffonthenet5573
    @funstuffonthenet5573 Рік тому +1

    Another great video. Both Modern and Vintage at the same time, as usual.

  • @zanmaru139
    @zanmaru139 Рік тому

    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...

  • @craigh5236
    @craigh5236 Рік тому +2

    Oh I remember my Amiga days very fondly.

  • @GYTCommnts
    @GYTCommnts Рік тому +2

    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. 💪

  • @naviamiga
    @naviamiga 3 місяці тому

    Love seeing something like Turbo Sprint using the abilities of the Amiga well.

  • @boydpukalo8980
    @boydpukalo8980 Рік тому +2

    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.

    • @a4000t
      @a4000t Рік тому

      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 ;)

  • @darenn-keller
    @darenn-keller Рік тому +3

    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?

  • @timmturner
    @timmturner Рік тому

    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.

  • @doktor6495
    @doktor6495 Рік тому +3

    Soo great!!! Please more if such stuff in the future! AMIGA FOREVER!
    Greetings, Doc64!

  • @markofmelb
    @markofmelb Рік тому

    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!

  • @JohnSmith-xq1pz
    @JohnSmith-xq1pz Рік тому +3

    Even though I've never used one, I'm really getting tempted to get a Amiga/classic

  • @DigitalCircus777
    @DigitalCircus777 Рік тому

    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!

  • @davewills6121
    @davewills6121 Рік тому

    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.

  • @murrayreid2748
    @murrayreid2748 Рік тому +1

    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!😎

  • @angusmclaren6257
    @angusmclaren6257 Рік тому +9

    This makes me happy to see the Amiga still getting games today. And great ports.

  • @ScoopexUs
    @ScoopexUs Рік тому +2

    I hope to find time to bring some original games to Amiga as well, coded to the highest standard.

  • @Vimame999
    @Vimame999 Рік тому

    I play Bomb Jack Beer Edition on Amiga Forever. Thanks for the info, I'm going to have to check out the other games

  • @tommylakindasorta3068
    @tommylakindasorta3068 Рік тому +2

    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.

  • @wimwiddershins
    @wimwiddershins Рік тому +2

    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.

    • @Midwinter2
      @Midwinter2 Рік тому +1

      Oh, God, yes. Black Tiger was appalling.

  • @ashleyggg123
    @ashleyggg123 Рік тому +2

    makes me so happy to see this

  • @kenh6096
    @kenh6096 Рік тому +1

    Love seeing these sorts of things :D

  • @glharlor
    @glharlor Рік тому

    I absolutely loved super sprint in the arcade. Only cabinet I would ever consider buying.

  • @ChadDoebelin
    @ChadDoebelin Рік тому +1

    Great coverage! I wish that Rygar worked on OCS/ECS!

  • @Nick_Nightingale
    @Nick_Nightingale Рік тому

    Those big game boxes take me back.

  • @dave24-73
    @dave24-73 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @RobsRetroGaming
    @RobsRetroGaming Рік тому +1

    Exciting stuff! Amiga is soooo underappreciated!

  • @desiv1170
    @desiv1170 Рік тому

    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!!!

  • @DeafOnAllFronts
    @DeafOnAllFronts Рік тому

    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

  • @buckvideo
    @buckvideo Рік тому

    Love seeing all the new games! When are we going to get a proper port of the dos version of syndicate?

  • @BurritoKingdom
    @BurritoKingdom Рік тому +4

    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.

    • @dyscotopia
      @dyscotopia Рік тому +1

      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

    • @oldguy9051
      @oldguy9051 Рік тому +3

      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.

  • @bobopro1628
    @bobopro1628 Рік тому +1

    Didn't know, you're also a proud Amiga owner, MVG. 😉👍

  • @gothakane
    @gothakane Рік тому

    Wolfchild music in the intro

  • @brandongunnarson7483
    @brandongunnarson7483 Рік тому +1

    These videos make me wanna explore homebrew, this shit is so cool!

  • @Heiach
    @Heiach Рік тому

    This is so good! Are there any more retro games but released in 2022 you can make more videos like this on?

  • @LyricsVideo4U
    @LyricsVideo4U Рік тому

    Great stuff!

  • @nimrodlevy
    @nimrodlevy Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @Reactivate100
    @Reactivate100 Рік тому

    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.

  • @mehere3013
    @mehere3013 Рік тому +1

    love the artwork on the posters in devil's temple. lots of ports from St to amiga was lazy

  • @ignacio6454
    @ignacio6454 Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @spongebobfan78
    @spongebobfan78 Рік тому

    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.

  • @pnvgordinho
    @pnvgordinho Рік тому

    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.

  • @dsmith4658
    @dsmith4658 Рік тому

    loved both amiga / pc big box games

  • @MarcoGPUtuber
    @MarcoGPUtuber Рік тому +4

    Always love the commitment from the community

  • @pagb666
    @pagb666 Рік тому

    The opening tune is just lit. My fave amiga game ;)

  • @Jeffcrocodile
    @Jeffcrocodile Рік тому +1

    Amiga is without no doubt (i accept no other opinions as valid) the best gaming system ever. Great memories

  • @PSNGormond
    @PSNGormond Рік тому

    I remember playing Bomb Jack on the Atari ST back in the 80s, brings back some good memories.

  • @pauljones8135
    @pauljones8135 Рік тому

    Alot of work and money gone into making these. Box and discs keep up the work

  • @BoGy1980
    @BoGy1980 Рік тому

    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)

  • @PixelGaming_2020
    @PixelGaming_2020 Рік тому

    Glad to see the homebrew community is alive and thriving!

  • @losttechwetlights7493
    @losttechwetlights7493 Рік тому

    Love these Flashback style Videos

  • @UltraKryptonian
    @UltraKryptonian Рік тому

    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!😢

  • @kroadster3249
    @kroadster3249 Рік тому

    Wow thank you so much

  • @marmeladenfreund
    @marmeladenfreund Рік тому +1

    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
      @dlfrsilver 10 місяців тому

      Rygar is way too demanding for OCS/ECS. otherwise we would have made it also on A500.

    • @marmeladenfreund
      @marmeladenfreund 10 місяців тому

      @@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).

    • @dlfrsilver
      @dlfrsilver 10 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @danialhughes830
    @danialhughes830 Рік тому

    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!

  • @loganjorgensen
    @loganjorgensen Рік тому +2

    I guess that's easier than original coding but amazing how often that happened, whether ST to Amiga, ZX to CPC, or Jaguar games that ignore Tom & Jerry chips entirely. Schedules and budgeting aside but how could anyone not want to dive into a hardware platform completely when you have something as cool as the Amiga ijs? :\
    That Rygar port is so beautiful and awesome I just want to buy a physical copy to honor it despite not having an AGA machine. :D Sprint is pretty sweet with the hi-res, that engine could do The Incredible Machine or Lode Runner:TLR too. Definitely could warrant a purchase of DT with OCS support, so GG should likely make more copies of that one.
    Speaking of Amiga controller support and people looking to develop games for Amiga, ignore the original controllers and go straight to the actual joystick pinout specs for the platform. The past had it's "reasons" for no Button-2 or more but it's all adapters, third party controllers, and 3D printing now so use more buttons please.

    • @JeremyLevi
      @JeremyLevi Рік тому +1

      Even back in the day there were games that supported 2+ buttons. Street Fighter 2 for the Amiga did. You're right that it seems silly for coders to not support it by default now.

    • @loganjorgensen
      @loganjorgensen Рік тому +1

      @@JeremyLevi Well that's what is weird about it, it was there but often not supported. In hindsight Commodore really should have launched the Amiga with a stock controller that two buttons on it.
      Not just them but I found so many platforms both PC & console that just ignored multiplexing chips as if they didn't exist. O_o???

    • @JeremyLevi
      @JeremyLevi Рік тому +1

      @@loganjorgensen In hindsight, yes absolutely they should have launched it with a 2 or 3 button controller (the Amiga supports 3 buttons right from the get go without any changes or hacks). I guess Commodore didn't really want to be in the controller distribution business though. Possibly because they wanted the Amiga to be taken seriously as a creatives' computer and not just a games machine.

    • @loganjorgensen
      @loganjorgensen Рік тому +1

      @@JeremyLevi Right 3 buttons, the 2600 can do that too through paddle based buttons.
      That's what is funny about the history, Commodore made controllers in the early days, but yeah they didn't think joystick companies should be taken seriously either lol. Just far too much past "business" mucky muck getting in the way of Commodore, IBM, and Sinclair gaming for the sake of brand image. :|

    • @dlfrsilver
      @dlfrsilver 10 місяців тому

      Thank you for the compliment on Rygar ;)

  • @alerey4363
    @alerey4363 Рік тому +1

    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

  • @bmwolgas
    @bmwolgas Рік тому

    If you ever do a Commodore 64 conversion episode, I have 4 recommended games: Super Mario Bros, Sonic the Hedgehog, Donkey Kong 2016, and Frogger Arcade 2016. The latter 2 are excellent ports that expand gameplay vertically into the top and bottom borders, and the first 2 are amazing technical achievements.

  • @mayamanign
    @mayamanign Рік тому +4

    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. 😢

    • @dyscotopia
      @dyscotopia Рік тому +2

      Appropriate, given that a lot of Jaguar games were Amiga ports

    • @JeremyLevi
      @JeremyLevi Рік тому

      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.

  • @geesterfunk
    @geesterfunk Рік тому

    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!

  • @crazyscrolly
    @crazyscrolly Рік тому

    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!!

  • @jatekforditok
    @jatekforditok Рік тому

    Not into these home PCs myself but very glad new physical releases are coming.

  • @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368

    My favourite Amiga games were Neuromancer, Ports of Call, Phantasie III: Wrath of Nikademous, Rocket Ranger, Secret of Monkey Island, Three Stooges.

  • @darkling84
    @darkling84 Рік тому

    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 :-)

  • @alzeNL
    @alzeNL Рік тому +2

    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.

    • @joejoseph00
      @joejoseph00 Рік тому +1

      UAE for sure a valid dev platform

    • @GeezerGamesRetro
      @GeezerGamesRetro Рік тому

      I use WinUAE and VASM on WIndows 10 to make these games.

  • @blacksunshine7485
    @blacksunshine7485 Рік тому +1

    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.