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I played monkey island for hours in the 90s, still play it now on ps4 today's kids will never know the pleasure of being Guybrush Threepwood and battling Le chuck lol
Great list, but I would add: Xenon II (for the music and walkman-listening-alien merchant, if nothing else), Powermonger, Populous, Kick Off 2/Sensible Soccer and (in the vein of ICFTD) I always enjoyed Rocket Ranger. I know it's very niche, but for me, a must-have is Balance of Power - such a detailed and mind-blowing strategy game. Thanks for all the work.
I not only have a amiga but a a1200 and not only a atari but a ste... I Have the standard models too. Imagine the pricetag if could had all at once not long after release. My amiga cost me 499.99
Well over 2000 im sure.. Doesn't sound much now but 2000 then would been brand new car.. U could get houses then for lord knows... I was only 15 when amiga was released in uk
Dune I , Indiana Jones 3 , Mega lo Mania. Alien Breed , Lionheart , Desert Strike , Populous , Shadow of the Beast, Future Wars Formula One Grand Prix, FA-18 Interceptor , Silkworm , Xenon 2 , Ports of Call , Black Gold , The Patrician 1989-1992 - Best Times for Commodore Amiga
I had mega lo mania in but had to compromise with Luke and Steve so it came out...I think elite took its place...funny thing is I did a best 75 games a while back and it had all of the games you mention in ... Its quite hard to break the catalogue down to just 30
It really was. Nothing gives me nostalgia like watching old C64 and Amiga videos. The excitement and anticipation at the time of getting a new game and then completely losing yourself in it for hours on end.
This is a great list. So many memories. Although I'm mostly a console gamer myself, my older brother had an Amiga when I was little, so some of my earliest gaming memories were of Amiga games. I still love revisiting the Amiga pretty often. It has a lot of games that don't really fit neatly into any single traditional genre and were really creative, and that's what makes this system especially fascinating to me. I'm always happy to see UA-cam channels putting out microcomputer content out there. It's a part of gaming legacy that definitely should not be forgotten.
Found this video 1.5years late, but some of the games that I really liked back in the 80s and 90s and wasn't in this video was "Phantasie III: Wrath of Nikademus, Kick off 2, Golden Axe, Pang, and my favorite when I was really young Mouse Trap. (probably forgot something) Awesome video.
Great list. I'm building a RetroPie with an Amiga, C64 and Mame emulator, so I'm watching all these videos to remember all the old games I used to play. Its nostalgia overload :D
Some classics there and although the graphic were brilliant for the time and what we see today is far superior, I just think they had the enjoyable gameplay nailed back then. Looking at your top 5, I must have played for games for absolutely hours. I loved my amiga.
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Double Dragon Midnight Resistance Walker Killing Game Show Capital Punishment F1GP Super Hang On F18 Interceptor F29 Retaliator Dune Golden Axe Shadow of the Beast Body Blows Galactic Ports of Call Sim City The Manager 4D Sports Driving Super Skidmarks AGA Carrier Command Hired Guns ...
Double Dragon was horrendously bad on the Amiga..capital punishment and body blows looked great but played terrible I thought...the rest of your suggestions are good especially walker I love that game :-)
Double Dragon was dogshit on the Amiga. Double Dragon 2 was really good though.
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@@oldstylegaming my friends were the team behind Capital Punishment, so I cannot be objective about that. As for Double Dragon - Out Run was also bad (especially compared to Lotus trilogy) but I played it a lot. The music still rings in my head.
Great list m8! some fantastic games on show here and apart from a couple I'd change personally this list is pretty much definitive imo. Obvs everyone will have a favorite that's not been included but I don't think many Amiga fans will argue with the top 10. That was great, what better than a showcase of the mighty Amiga on a lazy Sunday afternoon.... Hey! thanks for the shout out, happy to help :)
I never played on an Amiga computer back then. Here in Mexico was basically non existent but since I knew about it I always being intrigued. I think the first thing I knew about it was the awesome music those games had and how the are so different to what japanese consoles had at the time. Of course time passed and now I know more about this awesome computers from back then, played some games myself on emulator and have a love for those systems, specially the Amiga an C64. You guys had amazing games with great soundtracks. My fav Amiga games are Apydia, Turrican II and Another World. So glad channels like this one exist to learn more and more about those incredible games. I'm sharing some of my experiences with the games on a Facebook page I have, with some music, box art and gameplay of games I like from the Amiga. Great video as always!
Elite II is what I spent much of the 1990s playing. A whole galaxy on a single floppy disk, seamless space to planet surface landing with no loading screens. Still an awesome game and my top pick. Loved Civ 1 and UFO, two essential great games in every Amiga owner's collection, Colonization deserves a mention too. The Ishar series and Robinson's Requiem were wonderful RPGs, the Dungeon Master and Eye Of The Beholder series and Black Crypt had the dungeon crawlers covered. Best flight sim for me was F117A, although TFX pushed it very hard when CU Amiga gave it away for free. K240 was another great strategy game set in amongst asteroids. And to finish, Sim City 2000, the city builder, nothing, even today, can match it.
A man after my own heart, I liked thinking games more than action games. It's why I think Microprose was the best publisher back then, with Civilization, Darklands, The Phantom of the Opera, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Silent Service 1 and 2 and Gunship, to name a few!
Nice list. Other great Amiga games: Dungeon master Denaris Kick off 2 Nebulus Killing Game Show Alien breed James Pond: Robocod Formula one grand Prix Jimmy White's whirlwind snooker Blood money Carrier command
How i'd modify the list if i could - 16 to 1. Pinball fantasies, california games, arcade pool, SWOS, alien breed SE '93, wprms: director's cut, project x, paradroid, dragon's breath, monkey island, lemmings 2: the tribes, warlords, turrican 2, lotus esprit turbo challenge, chaos engine, and standing atop them all, Eye of the Beholder.
I think is great you cover these classic games. I've never seen a Amiga, or Commoder 64, because they didn't came to Brazil. It'd be me nice seeing a video showing the device and talking a little bit more about them. I know that they were very popular in Europe back in 80's.
In a way they were mid between consoles and PCs. The consoles were closed systems; it was difficult to get development hardware, you had to develop on different computers than the target system and it was all based on acceleration of special functions; very little was done in pure software. There was extremely little RAM on console, so all games ended up arcadey and immediate. The Amiga and the C64 were true home computers that you could program to do anything you were proficient enough to program; but they were also hardware accelerated like consoles were. The amiga had a BLIT (BLock Image Transfer) that accelerated the drawing of level graphics with effects like transparency and some hardware sprites. It also had a sound chip. The PC had a high resolution display, oodles of memory, a descent processor, cost more than a human kidney and didn't have any acceleration of anything; if you wanted to draw an image, the processor loaded each individual DWORD into memory and wrote it back to graphics memory. It took until 1992 before the PC had become so powerful in software as to obsolete hardware acceleration precent in the amiga 500.
I live in Brazil now, but grew up in the UK. I was lucky enough to progress through the Commodore computers. I had a C16, then a C64 then an Amiga 500 and then an Amiga 1200. I had a brilliant childhood playing all these games and back then it was more about fun than graphics. Today's game creators should learn something from this!!!
Dune 2 IS officially the grand-daddy of command & conquer considering they're both made by Westwood. Not sure why you'd prio listing the publisher over the developer in any of the cases, it's quite confusing. I realize publishers were more hands-on back then, but it's still the dev who puts the soul into any game.
Many of the ones you mention are great, but I would include Batman the movie, Shifle Puck caffe, into the Eagles Nest, Dangeon Dragons, The Adams Family, Marble Madness, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago. It's true that many were on other platform, but Amiga version were exceptional. Thanks for you video
@@ManolitoLink such a great level, if you made down that far... you're going all the way! The knights and Spiders on level 12 are the stuff of nightmares!
Interesting list with some games I’ve never seen or heard of. Glad you had The Chaos Engine, SWOS, Wings and of course Speedball 2 on your list but I would highly recommend you try the following: Roadkill AGA Project-X Wing Commander Worms Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top of Fun
Afterburner II deserved to have a place here, even the 29th. It was not so fast, not so a perfect port, but it still has a nice and captivating in game music and playability is good. I had my A500 in 1990 after watching Afterburner II, North & South, Xenon 2 and Speedball 2! Those were great!!!
It may be a European thing, but I haven't heard of half the games on this list. That said, it is a mortal sin to leave off Populous and Civilization. Both were groundbreaking and innovative, huge hits, and consumed countless hours of many gamers' time. I'd have to give Eye of the Beholder and Dragon's Lair honorable mentions, too.
@@trixstermillion2190 oh.... I understand that the Amiga wasnt so big over there ....we all had them over here so that's probably why we know more games ... You should play some of these though you won't be sorry
I'm late in catching up with your videos. Another great list and I agree having played most of these in my youth. It Came From The Desert is amazing. First time I got it was on copy from a lass at school but he wrote "It Come From The Dessert" on the disk so it stuck. Did you know they made an actual film with a few nods to the game in it?
Dungeon Master. Chaos Strikes Back. Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep. Eye of the Beholder. Eye of the Beholder 2. Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge. Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant. Wizardry 8. Faerytale Adventure.
Nobody rates S.W.I.V, used to love it. Must be just me!. Also although it's not a games as such but Deluxe Paint, to be able to paint something then animate it was fantastic. Again maybe just me, oh well.
Awesome, I never had a amiga, but had 2 friends that did, was cool having disk drive time instead of tape like on the C64, loved a game called Zool, was kinda like a sonic type of game but with chubba chubb sweats. Also speedball 2 amazing game, I hate sports games in general, but the manager/rpg type element made it so addictive!!!
Great list - certainly got the bulk of my faves there! Also, Rainbow Islands and Pang - for being both great fun and amazing arcade conversions. I also have a lot of fondness for Parasol Stars and Switchblade II.
Another great collections and hard to argue with many of the titles here. I would certainly have Populous II, Civilization, Speedball, Kick Off, Swiv, Walker and Silent Service II in my list at the expense of games like Flashback, Another World, Speedball II and the Cinemaware games....thats more down to me not really getting in to them than thinking they were bad games though
Defender of the Crown is one of the game I finished (but even playing it several times, I couldn't finished it every time). It has something particular which makes me like it (like Iron Lord) and even if there was Defender of the Crown 2 on CD32, this one hasn't captivated me like the first.
This list contains 5 of my most fondest and inspirational Amiga games ever. It came from the desert and Another world and Syndicate. Moonstone and Wings. I also loved Speedball 2 and Flashback, ( which up untill the last decade I thought was Another World sequel), Dune 2, lemmings, Turrican 2, Secret of monkey Island .Huge thumbs up from me :). Honourable mention goes to Kick off 2
I seem to recall having a massive obsession with superfrog for ages. Another world and Flashback were rock hard to play and Cannon Fodder was amazing, think it had a good soundtrack aswell from what I remember.
Although I never owned a amiga, it looked like great fun, however I am still gaming on my c64 to this day. My favorite computer of all time. There are still people releasing great games on it. The c64 even had a reboot system 2020.
This was like a love letter to the Amiga, very nice. I was surprised to find so many of my personal favourites on the list, cause after all it's mostly a matter of preference. I would add King of Chicago, Virus, and Rainbow Islands.
...please not a bunch of shooters... please not a bunch of shooters... please not... doh! Although my crew certainly played shooters on our Amigas, we never considered them what the home computers were *about*. Home machines couldn't touch arcade shooters, but had games and entire genres that didn't fit in an arcade format.
Loads of shooters were good on the Amiga.. silkworm is actually better on the Amiga than on Arcade i think...and Banshee is as good as any shooter on any system
Kick Off 2 all the way for me. I remember when you could save your best goals and send them into Amiga magazines and the top three were included on the “free” disk.
Can't believe that they are not in the list: Venus the Flytrap Wrath of the demon Shadow of the beast series Kick Off 2 Formula One Grand Prix (from microprose) Lure of the temptress Beneath a steel sky Loom ...OK I see the problem now. There can be no such thing as a "30 best amiga games list". They are simply too many - need a bigger list.
@@oldstylegaming hehe indeed, more than a problem. Almost an impossible task :) I know I couldn't make such a list, even as a current owner of an Amiga and having the entire game library available. They are thousands...
@@10MARC That's true about SOTB's gameplay. However, it's amiga's most iconic game due to its technical superiority, a real demo of the machine's capabilities e.g. every non-amiga user was drooling over it back in the days :) Commodore itself admitted they owed a big part of the amiga sales to this game - that alone is incredible. Regarding the gameplay itself, SOTB 3 was not that bad.
Toki is an amazing game. I used to play a lot on the amiga when I was little. I still play from time to time on my raspberry pi. Only has the mega drive, arcade and Atari lynx versions though. So hard. I can never finish it. I used to cheat on the amiga. I remember the level skip pass was KILLER I think. I can only do up to level 4 now
Great list! I agree with you on most of those classic Amiga games. Especially cool that Dune II is all the way up there! Personally, I also loved playing games like Phantasie III, Ghengis Khan, Panza Kickboxing, King’s Quest III, TV Sports Basketball, Rick Dangerous, James Pond and more.
Really like this list! This year (2023) I played for the very first time Civilisation and I loved it. Which strategy games from your list are the simplest to learn for a beginner?
Good list but I am feeling you are missing Indiana Jones The Fate of Atlantis, I also enjoyed Beneth a Steel Sky, Eye of the Beholder, Heimdal, Black Crypt, Elvira..
Great list! I'm surprised the Leisure Suit or Disagree Quest games didn't make it, I had an MT-32 hooked up to my Amiga which really added to the experience. Also Wing Commander, I didn't countless hours playing that. Midnight Residence was another favorite. But like you said, this isn't my top 20 :D
Always makes me a bit sad when I see those cutesy console-style platformers during late era C64 and Amiga. Just reminds me of how both machines were doomed once Nintendo and Sega took off 😔
great video, i am glad to see wings on the list, i spent many hours playing it and gunship 2000, but i just have to say WAR, never been so much fun, WAR, never been so much fun. glad you are monetized now, and if i can help you in anyway, just give me a shout, we are not far away so shouldn't be too hard
Too hard to write a list as I look down the comments and go "ohh yeah I remember that one, it was awesome also" every time I think I have a list I see another game pop up in comments... Amiga was awesome!! one game I haven't seen in the comments and its a classic is "nuclear war"
I liked Kick-Off more than Sensible, nobody talks about Kick-Off. Badlands was a good arcade conversation, Ninja Warriors and Swiv. Xenon 2, there where so many.
yes, i think slamtilt was better than Pinball Fantasies, but it came out late in the Amiga's lifetime, everyone had moved onto the PC and playstation. PF was the 1st pinball game on the amiga that was really good fun, plus it came out in the amiga's heydays, hence it was more memorable.
Just found your channel and it's like a nostalgia overload, thanks for the great videos! The Amiga and C64 are my favourite systems of all time. Loved Defender of the crown and all the Cinemaware games though Rocket Ranger was my favourite. I was actually lucky enough to get a work experience place at Mirrorsoft back in the day who published those games in the UK and got to play them all. Even met the Bitmap brothers, such great times. 🙂 Best Amiga games for me though are Dune 2, kickstarted my love for RTS, Stunt Car Racer and special mention to Alien Breed.
Wow meeting the Bitmap Brothers would be great. Thanks for coming to my channel..ive just had a recent clear out so only 20 odd videos on but im ramping back up now so watch out for more content ...C64 and Amiga are my favourite too but i cover them all :-)
Great looking games but I never did like the mechanics of wolfchild and lionheart ..deliverance is good but it's not as good as God's and even that didn't make the list
hell yeah GODS. Finishing it with 10 lives to spare. Never being able to hit that one switch at the top of a ladder (first area of the game).. never did find out what it did. I still remember being scared shitless by the Minotaur boss
Wonderful list and most of them are true gems. Supercars II apearing on screen put a big smile on my face. Still I would like to add a few of my favorites: - Alien Breed - Shadow of the beast - Hired Guns (4 friends behind a tiny TV having a fantastic times. Good old days) - Project X (no one seems to like it but I played it a lot) - Xenon 2 - Walker Of course it all boils down to personal preference and there are so many great games to choose from.
Hybris was one of the first Amiga games I ever played and it was arcade quality with the most incredible audio...it brings back so many fond memories. I have played the majority of these games, but personally would have listed them in a different order also I don't recall seeing Gods on the list at all.
No gods wasn't on. That doesn't mean I don't like it though but its not a game I'd think oh I want to play some gods...back in the day though I played it a lot
Great list! That really took me back. I'd also have had K-240 (asteroid colony builder), F-A 18 Intercepter and possibly Hunter. Now I need to get into the the loft and see what I've got up there :D
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I played monkey island for hours in the 90s, still play it now on ps4 today's kids will never know the pleasure of being Guybrush Threepwood and battling Le chuck lol
Great list, but I would add: Xenon II (for the music and walkman-listening-alien merchant, if nothing else), Powermonger, Populous, Kick Off 2/Sensible Soccer and (in the vein of ICFTD) I always enjoyed Rocket Ranger. I know it's very niche, but for me, a must-have is Balance of Power - such a detailed and mind-blowing strategy game. Thanks for all the work.
I was smiling for the whole 20 minutes. Use to have an Amiga. I'm 56 now and I have an Amiga again.
Good times there is something special about loading games up on the real thing
@@oldstylegaming Nothing beats that.
I not only have a amiga but a a1200 and not only a atari but a ste... I Have the standard models too. Imagine the pricetag if could had all at once not long after release. My amiga cost me 499.99
Well over 2000 im sure.. Doesn't sound much now but 2000 then would been brand new car.. U could get houses then for lord knows... I was only 15 when amiga was released in uk
@Bert Kielman So were you about 25 years old when you had your Amiga?
Dune I , Indiana Jones 3 , Mega lo Mania. Alien Breed , Lionheart , Desert Strike , Populous , Shadow of the Beast, Future Wars
Formula One Grand Prix, FA-18 Interceptor , Silkworm , Xenon 2 , Ports of Call , Black Gold , The Patrician
1989-1992 - Best Times for Commodore Amiga
I had mega lo mania in but had to compromise with Luke and Steve so it came out...I think elite took its place...funny thing is I did a best 75 games a while back and it had all of the games you mention in ... Its quite hard to break the catalogue down to just 30
Yes, i would also personly switched some games, but in all fairness those games in the list are very, very good and memorable! :-D
You mention some great games, I spent countless hours on Future Wars, top game!
I actually took F18 out of the list sorry
@@oldstylegaming
I take it out of the list and put this game in - Thunderhawk AH-73M (from Core Design, 1991)
One of the best times in my life
Good times...the best times ...simple times before worrying about bills etc
Not having to work and having your friends over an play for hours. Those where the days
It really was. Nothing gives me nostalgia like watching old C64 and Amiga videos. The excitement and anticipation at the time of getting a new game and then completely losing yourself in it for hours on end.
Meine too
I would add Black Crypt, Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Master to the list myself.
Eye of the beholder had a great intro :-)
Oh yes! Black Crypt was so good 👍
@@Krisisawake One of the only games I actually finished!
EOB 1 & 2. Not Dungeon Master. Never played Black Crypt.
Dungeon Master is better than Eye of the Beholder and without DM EOB wouldn't haven been made.
Amiga, the only machine you always had sound on and to the max!
This is a great list. So many memories. Although I'm mostly a console gamer myself, my older brother had an Amiga when I was little, so some of my earliest gaming memories were of Amiga games. I still love revisiting the Amiga pretty often. It has a lot of games that don't really fit neatly into any single traditional genre and were really creative, and that's what makes this system especially fascinating to me.
I'm always happy to see UA-cam channels putting out microcomputer content out there. It's a part of gaming legacy that definitely should not be forgotten.
Lovely stuff, so many classics. I've fond memories of Lost Patrol also, a Vietnam game.
here are MY favorite Amiga games:
- Monkey Island 1 & 2
- Turrican 1-3
- Cannon Fodder 1 & 2
- Giana Sisters
- Jim Power
- Apidya
- Dynablaster
- Super Hang-On
- Micro Machines
- Super Skidmarks
- Indy Heat
- Lemmings 1 & 2
- Alien Breed 1 & 2
- Winter Games
- Summer Games 1 & 2
- World Games
- R-Type 1 & 2
- Dragon Breed
- Blood Money
- Formula One Grand Prix
Lure of the temptress, Simon the sorcerer, legend of kyrandia were awesome point and click adventures.
Benefactor, Project X, Walker...
That Blood Money music was ear candy!
Xenon 2, Bombuzal, Lost Vikings
the open world game Hunter is among the best as well
Found this video 1.5years late, but some of the games that I really liked back in the 80s and 90s and wasn't in this video was "Phantasie III: Wrath of Nikademus, Kick off 2, Golden Axe, Pang, and my favorite when I was really young Mouse Trap. (probably forgot something) Awesome video.
The Phantasie games were excellent!
Moonstone was an incredibly original concept and I still play it once every few years. Would love to see an online remake of it.
39 Year old here. I grew up with the Atari ST and the Commodore 64.
My fave game of all time is the RPG *Bloodwych* for the Commodore 64. No contest.
Great list. I'm building a RetroPie with an Amiga, C64 and Mame emulator, so I'm watching all these videos to remember all the old games I used to play. Its nostalgia overload :D
Yeah retropies are great I'm sure you can get a great prebuilt image off arcade punks site with them on and it has an excellent c64 splash intro
Thats Great! I Was also into this Amiga, C64 and Mame - games!
Also Mario on Super Nintendo. 🙂
Good choices. I'd put in Dynablaster, Lionheart, Mr. Nutz, Tiny Bobble, Parasol Stars, Shufflepuck Café, Fightin' Spirit, Zeewolf 2, Desert Strike.
Lords of chaos, Warlords, Elvira, Laser squad, Dungeon Master, Eye of beholder, Dungeon and dragons series, Battle isle, History line, Pirates
sim city, civilization, loom, indiana jones 3 adventure game, secret of monkey island 2, ufo - enemy unknown
this is areally well list! I played 95% of your list and have to agree to the most!
Wings of Fury , The Settlers , Rainbow Islands , Lotus 3
Wings of fury is great
Yeah Wings of Fury was brilliant!
Some classics there and although the graphic were brilliant for the time and what we see today is far superior, I just think they had the enjoyable gameplay nailed back then. Looking at your top 5, I must have played for games for absolutely hours. I loved my amiga.
Double Dragon
Midnight Resistance
Walker
Killing Game Show
Capital Punishment
F1GP
Super Hang On
F18 Interceptor
F29 Retaliator
Dune
Golden Axe
Shadow of the Beast
Body Blows Galactic
Ports of Call
Sim City
The Manager
4D Sports Driving
Super Skidmarks AGA
Carrier Command
Hired Guns
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Double Dragon was horrendously bad on the Amiga..capital punishment and body blows looked great but played terrible I thought...the rest of your suggestions are good especially walker I love that game :-)
Double Dragon was dogshit on the Amiga. Double Dragon 2 was really good though.
@@oldstylegaming my friends were the team behind Capital Punishment, so I cannot be objective about that. As for Double Dragon - Out Run was also bad (especially compared to Lotus trilogy) but I played it a lot. The music still rings in my head.
Great list m8! some fantastic games on show here and apart from a couple I'd change personally this list is pretty much definitive imo. Obvs everyone will have a favorite that's not been included but I don't think many Amiga fans will argue with the top 10.
That was great, what better than a showcase of the mighty Amiga on a lazy Sunday afternoon....
Hey! thanks for the shout out, happy to help :)
Thanks for helping me mate I think it really made this list special
Haha I hacked that together last night in the editor lol
Fantastic list. So many great games. Some of my favorites not mentioned: Rogue, Seven Cities of Gold, and Faery Tale Adventure.
oh yeah The Faery Tale Adventure
I never played on an Amiga computer back then. Here in Mexico was basically non existent but since I knew about it I always being intrigued.
I think the first thing I knew about it was the awesome music those games had and how the are so different to what japanese consoles had at the time. Of course time passed and now I know more about this awesome computers from back then, played some games myself on emulator and have a love for those systems, specially the Amiga an C64. You guys had amazing games with great soundtracks. My fav Amiga games are Apydia, Turrican II and Another World. So glad channels like this one exist to learn more and more about those incredible games. I'm sharing some of my experiences with the games on a Facebook page I have, with some music, box art and gameplay of games I like from the Amiga. Great video as always!
Elite II is what I spent much of the 1990s playing. A whole galaxy on a single floppy disk, seamless space to planet surface landing with no loading screens. Still an awesome game and my top pick.
Loved Civ 1 and UFO, two essential great games in every Amiga owner's collection, Colonization deserves a mention too. The Ishar series and Robinson's Requiem were wonderful RPGs, the Dungeon Master and Eye Of The Beholder series and Black Crypt had the dungeon crawlers covered. Best flight sim for me was F117A, although TFX pushed it very hard when CU Amiga gave it away for free. K240 was another great strategy game set in amongst asteroids. And to finish, Sim City 2000, the city builder, nothing, even today, can match it.
Frontier: Elite II was an epic game back in the day
It was incredible
Civilization 1,Elite,Pirates and Battle Isle are my Personal Favourite Games on Amiga :-)
A man after my own heart, I liked thinking games more than action games. It's why I think Microprose was the best publisher back then, with Civilization, Darklands, The Phantom of the Opera, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Silent Service 1 and 2 and Gunship, to name a few!
That Hybris music is so dope! It will be stuck in my mind forever.
RIGHT??
As a kid I wasn't very good at it, but I kept coming back for the music!!
hybris has to be in the top 10 most underated / unknown games on the amiga with one of the best soundtracks, the title music was good too.
Fantastic list! Loved nearly all of these without hesitation during the days of Amiga.
Nice list. Other great Amiga games:
Dungeon master
Denaris
Kick off 2
Nebulus
Killing Game Show
Alien breed
James Pond: Robocod
Formula one grand Prix
Jimmy White's whirlwind snooker
Blood money
Carrier command
+1 for Dungeon Master.
Loved kick off. Amazin game. Dino dini =)
How i'd modify the list if i could - 16 to 1. Pinball fantasies, california games, arcade pool, SWOS, alien breed SE '93, wprms: director's cut, project x, paradroid, dragon's breath, monkey island, lemmings 2: the tribes, warlords, turrican 2, lotus esprit turbo challenge, chaos engine, and standing atop them all, Eye of the Beholder.
I think is great you cover these classic games. I've never seen a Amiga, or Commoder 64, because they didn't came to Brazil. It'd be me nice seeing a video showing the device and talking a little bit more about them. I know that they were very popular in Europe back in 80's.
In a way they were mid between consoles and PCs. The consoles were closed systems; it was difficult to get development hardware, you had to develop on different computers than the target system and it was all based on acceleration of special functions; very little was done in pure software. There was extremely little RAM on console, so all games ended up arcadey and immediate.
The Amiga and the C64 were true home computers that you could program to do anything you were proficient enough to program; but they were also hardware accelerated like consoles were. The amiga had a BLIT (BLock Image Transfer) that accelerated the drawing of level graphics with effects like transparency and some hardware sprites. It also had a sound chip.
The PC had a high resolution display, oodles of memory, a descent processor, cost more than a human kidney and didn't have any acceleration of anything; if you wanted to draw an image, the processor loaded each individual DWORD into memory and wrote it back to graphics memory. It took until 1992 before the PC had become so powerful in software as to obsolete hardware acceleration precent in the amiga 500.
@@soylentgreenb Pretty interesting. I love trivias of classic devices came from who knows them.
I live in Brazil now, but grew up in the UK. I was lucky enough to progress through the Commodore computers. I had a C16, then a C64 then an Amiga 500 and then an Amiga 1200. I had a brilliant childhood playing all these games and back then it was more about fun than graphics. Today's game creators should learn something from this!!!
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. My favorite game was Pinball Dreams and Afterburner and Gods.
Dune 2 IS officially the grand-daddy of command & conquer considering they're both made by Westwood. Not sure why you'd prio listing the publisher over the developer in any of the cases, it's quite confusing. I realize publishers were more hands-on back then, but it's still the dev who puts the soul into any game.
It's just the format I have always used sorry.
You're right, if any game was being made by Westwood or Bitmap Bros etc then you knew it would be good, the publisher didn't mean squat back then.
there were games like that before dune 2
Many of the ones you mention are great, but I would include Batman the movie, Shifle Puck caffe, into the Eagles Nest, Dangeon Dragons, The Adams Family, Marble Madness, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago. It's true that many were on other platform, but Amiga version were exceptional. Thanks for you video
Absolutely criminal that Dungeon Master is not on this list. 30 years later and the game STILL gives me nightmares!
The open floor with the ghosts and those thieves... öööhüühhööö...goodbye gear 😅
@@ManolitoLink such a great level, if you made down that far... you're going all the way! The knights and Spiders on level 12 are the stuff of nightmares!
Nothing compared to the spider levels of Eye of the Beholder where you hear them through the walls 😂
Interesting list with some games I’ve never seen or heard of. Glad you had The Chaos Engine, SWOS, Wings and of course Speedball 2 on your list but I would highly recommend you try the following:
Roadkill AGA
Project-X
Wing Commander
Worms
Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top of Fun
Afterburner II deserved to have a place here, even the 29th. It was not so fast, not so a perfect port, but it still has a nice and captivating in game music and playability is good. I had my A500 in 1990 after watching Afterburner II, North & South, Xenon 2 and Speedball 2! Those were great!!!
Winter Games was an an absolute gem
The Amiga is awesome, thanks for this, good to see Lotus Turbo Challenge
Thanks for watching :-)
It may be a European thing, but I haven't heard of half the games on this list. That said, it is a mortal sin to leave off Populous and Civilization. Both were groundbreaking and innovative, huge hits, and consumed countless hours of many gamers' time. I'd have to give Eye of the Beholder and Dragon's Lair honorable mentions, too.
Also, the first full-blown Real-Time Strategy game was Herzog Zwei, an early game for the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis).
Haven't heard of half of these? Where are you from ?
@@oldstylegaming USA
@@trixstermillion2190 oh.... I understand that the Amiga wasnt so big over there ....we all had them over here so that's probably why we know more games ... You should play some of these though you won't be sorry
Great list. So many memories... Also: Populous, Eye of the Beholder and Ports of Call.
I don’t think any machine had this amount of diversity and creativity before the steam era of the PC
No unfortunately 70% were stupid jump'n runs!
Not everything can be on this list, but I always considered Flood to be one of the best.
Yeah I remember flood
Your channel is a gold mine of lists of excellent games.
Awe thanks mate that means a lot to me
Oh, Apidya starting music? I'm sold already. :)
I love that music :-)
I couldn't place it. Thank for saying the name!
Samoin 🙂
Yup - only topped by Turrican2 music - which is no wonder as both got their score by legend Chris Hülsbeck :-)
I'm late in catching up with your videos. Another great list and I agree having played most of these in my youth. It Came From The Desert is amazing. First time I got it was on copy from a lass at school but he wrote "It Come From The Dessert" on the disk so it stuck. Did you know they made an actual film with a few nods to the game in it?
Check out the original B&W movie "Them!" from 1954, probably the best "B" Movie ever made!
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It was the time when I lived for games
All hail the Amiga
Thanks man :-)
great list - my personal favorite was lords of the rising sun, kick off2, elite, rtype, katakis, ... besides the one you mentioned.
Dungeon Master.
Chaos Strikes Back.
Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep.
Eye of the Beholder.
Eye of the Beholder 2.
Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge.
Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant.
Wizardry 8.
Faerytale Adventure.
I remember Faerytale Adventure. That was a great game. It had such an open-world feel for a game of that time.
Nobody rates S.W.I.V, used to love it. Must be just me!. Also although it's not a games as such but Deluxe Paint, to be able to paint something then animate it was fantastic. Again maybe just me, oh well.
Awesome, I never had a amiga, but had 2 friends that did, was cool having disk drive time instead of tape like on the C64, loved a game called Zool, was kinda like a sonic type of game but with chubba chubb sweats. Also speedball 2 amazing game, I hate sports games in general, but the manager/rpg type element made it so addictive!!!
I'm the type that I never cared much for shooters, but Hybris and Battle Squadron are among the few I really like.
I'm glad I got most of the games on this list and played them. My top 3 would be North and South, Lotus Turbo 2, and Turrican 2 at top spot.
Great games ... I love them all :-)...maybe I would just have a joint 1st place with about 10 games in that spot lol
@@oldstylegaming Yeah m8, the top 10 are all winners, so hard to put em in order.
Great list - certainly got the bulk of my faves there! Also, Rainbow Islands and Pang - for being both great fun and amazing arcade conversions. I also have a lot of fondness for Parasol Stars and Switchblade II.
Another great collections and hard to argue with many of the titles here. I would certainly have Populous II, Civilization, Speedball, Kick Off, Swiv, Walker and Silent Service II in my list at the expense of games like Flashback, Another World, Speedball II and the Cinemaware games....thats more down to me not really getting in to them than thinking they were bad games though
Defender of the Crown is one of the game I finished (but even playing it several times, I couldn't finished it every time). It has something particular which makes me like it (like Iron Lord) and even if there was Defender of the Crown 2 on CD32, this one hasn't captivated me like the first.
Hybris had a great atmosphere. Loved that game. Populous II was the game for me though.
Too bad The game's creator is such a fucking DICK these days. (Populous II I mean, not Hybris) LOL
Re-monetized ?? That's fantastic news mate... congrats! Nice job as always with the list. I was fully expecting Turrican 2 to be #1 lol.
I nearly put it there lol
How can you forget x-copy?
Oh, X-Copy. The unsung hero of the Amiga. When will you get your due respect?
Cinemawate were da bomb on the Amiga!
Imagine what they could do with modern technology - time for a Kickstarter?
This list contains 5 of my most fondest and inspirational Amiga games ever. It came from the desert and Another world and Syndicate. Moonstone and Wings. I also loved Speedball 2 and Flashback, ( which up untill the last decade I thought was Another World sequel), Dune 2, lemmings, Turrican 2, Secret of monkey Island .Huge thumbs up from me :).
Honourable mention goes to Kick off 2
Talking about Flashback being a sequel - can you remember the name of the sequel TO Flashback? A massively underappreciated game: Fade to Black.
Thanks a lot mate, all your input and effort is much much appreciated. Kudos!!!
I seem to recall having a massive obsession with superfrog for ages. Another world and Flashback were rock hard to play and Cannon Fodder was amazing, think it had a good soundtrack aswell from what I remember.
Although I never owned a amiga, it looked like great fun, however I am still gaming on my c64 to this day. My favorite computer of all time. There are still people releasing great games on it. The c64 even had a reboot system 2020.
This was like a love letter to the Amiga, very nice. I was surprised to find so many of my personal favourites on the list, cause after all it's mostly a matter of preference. I would add King of Chicago, Virus, and Rainbow Islands.
...please not a bunch of shooters... please not a bunch of shooters... please not... doh!
Although my crew certainly played shooters on our Amigas, we never considered them what the home computers were *about*. Home machines couldn't touch arcade shooters, but had games and entire genres that didn't fit in an arcade format.
Loads of shooters were good on the Amiga.. silkworm is actually better on the Amiga than on Arcade i think...and Banshee is as good as any shooter on any system
The amiga had everything. It's my introduction to gaming. We had it for years. Had so many games. Better than any console
Kick Off 2 all the way for me. I remember when you could save your best goals and send them into Amiga magazines and the top three were included on the “free” disk.
Footie classic. Used to play it in 2 player mode with my old mate back in the early 90's....epic.
Can't believe that they are not in the list:
Venus the Flytrap
Wrath of the demon
Shadow of the beast series
Kick Off 2
Formula One Grand Prix (from microprose)
Lure of the temptress
Beneath a steel sky
Loom
...OK I see the problem now. There can be no such thing as a "30 best amiga games list". They are simply too many - need a bigger list.
Them Microprose F1 games where great.
Yeah that is the problem....I did a top75 before but it's too much of a marathon to voice over ...all great games though that you mention
@@oldstylegaming hehe indeed, more than a problem. Almost an impossible task :) I know I couldn't make such a list, even as a current owner of an Amiga and having the entire game library available. They are thousands...
Shadow of the Beast is gorgeous and sounds incredible, but the gameplay is just not the world's best. I still love the games, though
@@10MARC That's true about SOTB's gameplay. However, it's amiga's most iconic game due to its technical superiority, a real demo of the machine's capabilities e.g. every non-amiga user was drooling over it back in the days :) Commodore itself admitted they owed a big part of the amiga sales to this game - that alone is incredible.
Regarding the gameplay itself, SOTB 3 was not that bad.
The music from the start raised sooooooooo much memories... Thanks for this great nostalgia trip!
Your welcome thanks for watching i appreciate it :-)
Loved the settlers, Toki, Ghouls an Ghosts
Toki is an amazing game. I used to play a lot on the amiga when I was little. I still play from time to time on my raspberry pi. Only has the mega drive, arcade and Atari lynx versions though. So hard. I can never finish it. I used to cheat on the amiga. I remember the level skip pass was KILLER I think. I can only do up to level 4 now
@@5786brian Yes Toki is an all time classic
Cannot argue with that mate, congrats getting you monetising control back mate!
Top Video and looking forward to more content👍
Thanks again Steve you and Luke have made this a pretty special list I think
old style gaming ha no probs mate, we could’ve been arguing for weeks lol
@@Sinisteve We could've done top 100 if we got our crusts together :)
I've got. Moonstone on my bookshelf in back room.. It's worth loads on ebay
sol cutta doubled in price in the last 2 years, around £200 now if it has the map👌🏼
Darkmere, Dragonstone, Ishar, Robinson's requiem, Bubba'n stix, Traps' treasures...
I remember back in the day I made a mix tape of the music of Amiga games and gave it to my then girlfriend. Now that is called being romantic ;)
True romance :-)
Ah a true player....sorry could not resist.
Wow, I would have been head over heels for you. :D (Especially if you included Turrican)
Got to add more games to my Hyperspin setup now. Great video mate, need loads of games up here in the North East as it's always bloody raining.
Settlers, spent many hours with my friend playing it.
Great list! I agree with you on most of those classic Amiga games. Especially cool that Dune II is all the way up there!
Personally, I also loved playing games like Phantasie III, Ghengis Khan, Panza Kickboxing, King’s Quest III, TV Sports Basketball, Rick Dangerous, James Pond and more.
A top list of the best Amiga PD games would be excellent.
I'll get that out together mate...I hear Luke is an expert on PD games lol
Really like this list! This year (2023) I played for the very first time Civilisation and I loved it. Which strategy games from your list are the simplest to learn for a beginner?
Good list but I am feeling you are missing Indiana Jones The Fate of Atlantis, I also enjoyed Beneth a Steel Sky, Eye of the Beholder, Heimdal, Black Crypt, Elvira..
Great list! I'm surprised the Leisure Suit or Disagree Quest games didn't make it, I had an MT-32 hooked up to my Amiga which really added to the experience. Also Wing Commander, I didn't countless hours playing that. Midnight Residence was another favorite. But like you said, this isn't my top 20 :D
Always makes me a bit sad when I see those cutesy console-style platformers during late era C64 and Amiga. Just reminds me of how both machines were doomed once Nintendo and Sega took off 😔
I agree I feel the same it such as shame cause they were initially heads and shoulders better than the competition when they premiered.
great video, i am glad to see wings on the list, i spent many hours playing it and gunship 2000, but i just have to say
WAR, never been so much fun, WAR, never been so much fun.
glad you are monetized now, and if i can help you in anyway, just give me a shout, we are not far away so shouldn't be too hard
Thanks mate :-)
UFO: Enemy Unknown
Eye of the Beholder
Beneath a Steel Sky
Populous II
Theme Hospital
Worms
I didn't know Theme Hospital was on Amiga!!!
battle isle definately also deserves a spot in the top 20-30 :)
@@RZPPAA It wasn't, Theme Park was though.
Steven Allen cheers sir!
Too hard to write a list as I look down the comments and go "ohh yeah I remember that one, it was awesome also" every time I think I have a list I see another game pop up in comments... Amiga was awesome!! one game I haven't seen in the comments and its a classic is "nuclear war"
I liked Kick-Off more than Sensible, nobody talks about Kick-Off. Badlands was a good arcade conversation, Ninja Warriors and Swiv. Xenon 2, there where so many.
Kick Off (I had KO2) took a lot more skill to play than Sensible Soccer.
Kick off was by far and away the best football game back then.
SWIV was the best top-down shoot-em-up on AMIGA without question
Indeed. A lot of people don't seem to realize that SWIV is short for Silk Worm IV in my experience.
No Battle Squadron is the best.
Slam Tilt was a pretty awesome pinball game too
yes, i think slamtilt was better than Pinball Fantasies, but it came out late in the Amiga's lifetime, everyone had moved onto the PC and playstation. PF was the 1st pinball game on the amiga that was really good fun, plus it came out in the amiga's heydays, hence it was more memorable.
Just found your channel and it's like a nostalgia overload, thanks for the great videos! The Amiga and C64 are my favourite systems of all time. Loved Defender of the crown and all the Cinemaware games though Rocket Ranger was my favourite. I was actually lucky enough to get a work experience place at Mirrorsoft back in the day who published those games in the UK and got to play them all. Even met the Bitmap brothers, such great times. 🙂
Best Amiga games for me though are Dune 2, kickstarted my love for RTS, Stunt Car Racer and special mention to Alien Breed.
Wow meeting the Bitmap Brothers would be great. Thanks for coming to my channel..ive just had a recent clear out so only 20 odd videos on but im ramping back up now so watch out for more content ...C64 and Amiga are my favourite too but i cover them all :-)
You miss Lionheart,wolfchild and deliverance.
Great looking games but I never did like the mechanics of wolfchild and lionheart ..deliverance is good but it's not as good as God's and even that didn't make the list
Amiga is where I first experienced gaming in my life and it was mind blowing.
Excellent breakdown! Gods anyone?
God's is a good game..but where would you put it in this top 30?
old style gaming probably quite close to The Chaos Engine I think.
Ok I would have replaced superfrog myself as I never really liked that game
old style gaming yep, never really did it for me either:)
hell yeah GODS.
Finishing it with 10 lives to spare.
Never being able to hit that one switch at the top of a ladder (first area of the game).. never did find out what it did.
I still remember being scared shitless by the Minotaur boss
Wonderful list and most of them are true gems. Supercars II apearing on screen put a big smile on my face. Still I would like to add a few of my favorites:
- Alien Breed
- Shadow of the beast
- Hired Guns (4 friends behind a tiny TV having a fantastic times. Good old days)
- Project X (no one seems to like it but I played it a lot)
- Xenon 2
- Walker
Of course it all boils down to personal preference and there are so many great games to choose from.
True... Walker is class by the way
Great list...but...you missed *“GODS“* !
I like God's but I'm not sure it's top 30 mate
into......the wonderful......into.......the wonderful
After a point I found Gods super hard though... ;-)
Gods was amazing
Hybris was one of the first Amiga games I ever played and it was arcade quality with the most incredible audio...it brings back so many fond memories. I have played the majority of these games, but personally would have listed them in a different order also I don't recall seeing Gods on the list at all.
No gods wasn't on. That doesn't mean I don't like it though but its not a game I'd think oh I want to play some gods...back in the day though I played it a lot
power monger, shadow of the best, and sword of sodan if anyone remembers those :)
Powermonger was very good. I still remember the sounds of a cannon being built interrupted by the sound of sheep.
Loved Sword Of Sodan,still got all Orig Game,etc
@@skideric Loved Sword if Sodan. I remember when I first started playing it I was blown away by the music and the huge sprites!
Close to being a perfect list. Great video buddy thanks.
Close is good enough for me :-) thanks for watching :-)
Favorite game : Shadow Of The Beast and Mercenary 3 (Damocles 3)
Great list! That really took me back. I'd also have had K-240 (asteroid colony builder), F-A 18 Intercepter and possibly Hunter.
Now I need to get into the the loft and see what I've got up there :D
Kick off 2
I absolutely love your videos man! , Awesome!
Thanks mate