Playing All Amiga Power's WORST RATED Games (At + Below 10%) | Kim Justice
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Legendary 90's computer magazine Amiga Power gave out some pretty low scores in their time -- they rated 38 games at 10% or less! This is a look at ALL of their worst reviewed games, ranging from well-known turkeys like Rise of the Robots and Dangerous Streets to some shockingly obscure titles. That and a certain Kick Off '96.
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0:00 Introduction to Amiga Power
3:11 Red Heat - 10%
4:23 Ruffian - 10%
5:59 Total Carnage - 10%
8:00 Leisure Suit Larry 3 - 9%
9:36 Maya - 9%
11:31 Street Fighter - 9%
12:57 Blade Warrior - 8%
14:18 Dennis - 8%
16:01 Fantasy Manager - 8%
18:28 Secret of the SIlver Blades - 8%
20:14 World Cricket - 8%
21:32 Eye of Horus - 7%
23:07 G-LOC R360 - 7%
24:23 Graeme Souness Soccer Manager - 7%
25:58 Battletoads - 6%
27:40 Deluxe Poker II/Cover Girl Poker - 7% and 6%
29:23 Flight Path 737 - 6%
31:16 Highway Patrol 2 - 6%
32:51 Protector - 6%
34:33 Geisha - 5%
36:23 Huckleberry Hound in Hollywood Capers - 5%
37:57 Out Run - 5%
39:21 Rise of the Robots - 5%
40:39 Treble Champions 2 - 5%
41:54 World of Soccer - 5%
43:40 Doofus - 4%
45:30 European Champions - 4%
47:25 Test Match Cricket/International One Day Cricket - 4% and 3%
49:18 4th & Inches - 3%
50:57 Big Game Fishing - 3%
52:41 Dangerous Streets - 3%
54:51 Edd the Duck 2: Back with a Quack - 3%
56:33 Last Action Hero - 3%
58:49 Touring Car Challenge - 3%
1:00:49 International Rugby Challenge - 2%
1:02:50 Kick Off '96 - 1%
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How many of these horrors have you experienced on the Amiga? What score would you have given them? Have a shout about it in the comments, and thanks for watching! :)
All, no thanks to you
I found a download for the Amiga version of Protector on a site called MyAbandonware, if you really want it. Screenshots are identical to the ST version though, so not sure if its worth the effort to get.
Because I got into the Amiga pretty late (93, I think) and read AP, I actually haven't played any of these terrible games. I did play more Doodlebug than was healthy, for some reason... and I don't even like platformers that much.
Found the same - unfortunately it's the Mastertronic game still
Your observation regarding Secret Of The Silver Blades - that Stuart Campbell was a bizarrely ill-judged choice of reviewer for that particular game - is an astute one. Because, originally, Stu wasn't assigned the task of reviewing the game at all. That job was *supposed* to be done by then-deputy editor (soon to be publisher) Colin Campbell (no relation); but as deadline day arrived, the review remained unwritten and Colin was conspicuous by his absence, having decided without telling his colleagues to go sightseeing in Bath. Stu, as most junior member of staff, thus ended up having to play and review the game in the space of about two hours, before the mag pages were due for sending to the printers. This goes some way to explaining the unusual-even-by-his-standards bad-temperedness of the write-up.
How can you not love a game about a duck who dies as soon as they touch water?
As a child growing up in England during the 80’s and 90’s…. God bless you and your channel Kim… It is throughly entertaining and incredibly knowledgeable.
Thank you for everything you do.
Utterly spiffing vid, this! Delighted to have made a small contribution to the proceedings. Many thanks indeed for having me along!
Have you released any audiobooks or podcasts? Your voice is incredible!
I haven't, but it's something I'd be interested in looking into. And thank you kindly!@@timtimtim848
@@timtimtim848 I haven't, but I'd certainly be interested in looking into that sort of thing. And thank you kindly!
A duck that dies when he falls into water, what an absolutely brilliant design choice. 😝
Still can't believe they gave Ruffian 10%, I think it's one of the Amiga's best platformers. It's super fast, smooth and responsive and the gameplay is fun and original. It does get very hard rather quickly with the time limits but there are passwords and lots of cheats if you need them. It's also exceptionally long as an Amiga game with 17 levels that would take over 3 hours to complete from start to finish. It's a shame it looks like Ruffian was developed by 1994 but not published until 1996 so didn't get the attention it deserved. It's also criminal that Amiga Power only gave it 10%, that's insane. Having played every Amiga platformer I would put it up as one of the best and if you're into that genre I highly recommend you give it a chance if you haven't. I would give it 90%.
It's a perfectly ok title, I'll likely give it stream time some day. 10% is right out
I thought I never played Dennis, then I heard the music. My brain was able to purge the visual trauma, but not the audio apparently.
I’m 51 now and collected every single Amiga Power issue. Worth a fair bit now! Unfortunately my mum threw them out because there was “too much clutter” in me and my brother’s bedroom. Still hurts…
My mum threw away my 1973 #1 of Ghost Rider because there was a thing at the time about Satanic influences of comics. Worth up to £500 now depending on condition.
@@Whalewraith 😩
😖 I feel your pain! Amiga Power was more than a magazine, it was life!
@@rebeccad8568 By far my favourite magazine of the time. Loved the irreverent tone and honest scoring even if you didn’t agree, at least you knew that’s what the reviewer really thought!
@@DEAJP10Totally! I got to meet Stuart Campbell briefly at some computer expo and I was just some nerdy 16 year old girl but it was the highlight of my year 😂 😂 😂 I used to look forward to that magazine so much because the writing was so good!
Blade Warrior definitely caught my attention. Such a striking aesthetic. If the video hadn't told me otherwise, I'd have guessed it was a modern retro-inspired indie title, rather than something legitimately from the 90s.
Visually it was distinctive enough for the time. Gameplay is not very enjoyable though.
I worked on Amiga Power many many moons ago! Good times.
Amazing! What was the lowest score you gave?
Absolutely loved Amiga Power. Great idea for a video.
I'd love a doc about the various Amiga magazines.
British game coverage is so charming, and it's so refreshingly foreign. It always feels like I'm sticking my head into an alternate universe. "There were more games for the Amiga than Shadow of the Beast and Lemmings!?"
Total Carnage looks and feels like it was created on Shoot Em Up Construction Kit
SEUCK beat em ups will never be beaten by KOREA KARATE......
Good stuff, good stuff. Ahh.. Those were the days.. Thanks for the video, it was funny and informative. Enjoyed it thoroughly.
Cheers!
I think I said this when you were streaming, but I feel like AP - whether it was through getting drunk on the sense of their own power to make or break a game, or whether it really was just a sense of being jaded and fed up - did start grading ridiculously harshly toward the end. Some games clearly didn't deserve it; Ruffian was a servicable if hardly standout platformer, Kick Off '96 was a fairly poor but basically functinal footy game knocked down to a ludicrous 1% by a 'game-breaking bug' AP experienced that I've never heard of anyone else suffering with.
I feel like they believed that in their final issue they needed to give a game the ultimate kicking, the 1% that even they had not yet dared to give a game. Something they'd be remembered for. And since they hated Kick Off anyway, that drew the short straw.
So yeah, I think their initial penchant for harsh review scores was a genuine concern for the consumer and their money, but by the end it had become their USP as a mag, and they loved playing up to their reputation as the bad boys of the Amiga scene who everyone was continually pissed off with.
They were bang on about Rise of the Robots though.
The gush reference has me chuckling. God bless jaaaaaaaaam
Kids gather round the camp fire, new Kim Justice just dropped
Love my Amiga. Once bought a bin bag full of disks from a dodgy kid at school for £50. There was maybe a couple of hundred games in there all with unintelligible scribbled writing on them but if you were playing one and it asked for the next disk you were completely F’d. Happy days
The funniest thing is how in total carnage the enemies carry rifles but they never shoot, they just charge at you to hit you with the back of the rifle.... maybe their army ran out of bullets.
Perhaps it should be renamed 'Modern British Army Simulator', and re-released by Codemasters.
And in this version, those same enemies take several shots when even the weakest gun in the arcade version would take them out in one shot IIRC. Then again, if you're going to remove half the enemies like the Amiga version, I suppose you have to make up for it with the basic enemies difficulty.
They deffo captured the humour of badiel and skinner perfecly in the game as far as im concerned
This comment tickled me, thank you.
More great content. I'm an American that never played the European pc's and consoles, so after years of ingesting everything snes/sega/dreamcast, etc., your channel and tge others like it are a whole extra lane of my favorite kind of youtube content. Keep it coming please!
I was a pc kid so it's fun to see the unique Amiga games and compare the ports of games I played in dos, great stuff.
Ha I just commented basically the same sentiment. I've seen countless Nintendo/Sega retrospectives over the years and find the UK computer scene so cool and unique.
@alfonzo9000 i really tbink you'd like Basement Brothers as a channel for similar content, but from japan, and in English.
Excellent stuff Kim thanks ever so much for doing this, as I greatly appreciate it.
Top vid as usual, Kim! Many of these I was never aware of before, and after seeing them I'm not surprised they scored that low, they looked *dire*, especially some of those super late ones.
A funny tidbit regarding the Last Action Hero one... the studio behind said Amiga version, The Dome, later did the DOS port of Cannon Fodder 2, a game that famously had Stuart Campbell amongst the dev team as the level designer, and apparently, allegedly, during the porting process they didn't talk to Campbell at all in large part due to his Last Action Hero review. I dunno how true that is (it's been mentioned on MobyGames' trivia page for CF2 for ages now), but considering other similar stories it's very plausible. lol
'Tis true! Stu himself confirms this in an AP feature near the end of the mag's life; specifically the one all about Amiga film licence games in issue 63, entitled Ready For Your Close-Up. In the intro to the piece, he recalls Psygnosis' less-than-thrilled reaction to AP's review of Last Action Hero, and notes the silent treatment he subsequently received from the dev team. To quote Mr Campbell directly: "The Dome sulked for months, and wouldn't even talk to me while they were employed by Virgin to convert CF2 onto the PC."
Still, One Of The Best Channels AND Second To None In True Detail To The Video You Review, Thank You, Mate, Brillant Channel :)
I loved Amiga Power, Bob the Hamster was my hamster! It was such a buzz for 11 year old me seeing people take her into their hearts ☺💞🐹 I used to ring the AP office now and again for a nervous chat 😅 They trashed my "In The Style Of..." entries though 😂
Core memory unlocked: The excitement of rushing home after school on a friday with the latest Amiga Power!
I'm an American who grew up primarily in the 2000's and I find all your videos fascinating.
I've never seen or played the vast majority of the games and computers you cover but really I enjoy the different perspective and find it very refreshing honestly. I really enjoy your work!
Absolutely loved the video Kim, thanks for taking the time to do it. Loved Amiga Power back in the day- always my magazine of choice.
Great video! As American, I unfortunately didn't get really to experience the Amiga and any of the mags that it inspired (even though i'd have been perfect age wise and would love loved it back then), but I absolutely love hearing/reading all about it and getting a glimpse of what it was like back then (I'd love a Amiga Power best rated video!). it's one of the big reasons why I love videos like this, it's like getting to go back in time and re-live something that I never got to "live" in the first place!
As long a time fan of you channel, I seriously without a even a smallest amount doubt can honestly you have the one of most entertaining, informative, channels that consistently puts out superb quality content on so many subjects that I'm honestly dumbfounded why your channel isn't as popular as it should it be!
Keep the great work, Kim! Cheers!
Amiga Power magazines were available in most suburban computer shops in the US that also sold Amiga hardware and software.
"You will be shunned by society, lose your job, and probably your home. You will become a sad, lonely alcoholic. Finally wasted and withered, lost and unloved, you will die in a cold gutter, of shame." that has got to hit close to home.
Bloody brilliant. I didn't own an Amiga, my sister did. I was always a PC man. I was so jealous of her - briefly, until I bought my first 3dfx video card for my PC. Thanks Kim. Fantastic content.
Ow 9%. I know Sierra Games could be a little obtuse and unfair at times, but they were well designed. Guess that reviewer didn't have a Hint Book on him perhaps?
Sierra's games IIRC were usually loved in some European countries like Italy, but I guess some British would've hated the typical American shmex humor their LSL games showed off.
Really enjoyed this Kim; wonderful video. I can almost recall the International Rugby review word for word!
I have only just discovered your channel. Absolutely loving this video. The reference to Ashens just boosts this video even further! 😊
An Amiga Power video!!! My weekend is made.
Ah, always nice to see another Kim video. Bit of nostalgia mixed with in depth research and insightful commentary.
Impressed at the consistency over the years. Always a worthy way to spent an hour or two. Keep it up Kim!
I was just thinking it would be great to see some Amiga reviews, and bang, here we go. Great video.
Damn, takes me back.
Thank you for your hard work, it's always a special treat to watch your videos.
It's nice getting to learn about games and consoles that I've never even heard of before, cool to think of all the crap out there I missed growing up in the 90's. Thanks for the video.
For fun, I decided to go down all of these games and rank them in a tierlist of "Actually good (would give >50%)", "Not as bad (30-49%)", "Pretty much there (29-10%)", "On the money (Basically agree with the review, 10% or lower)" and "Russia has joined the European Union(should've honestly been even lower)". It's fair to say I have some sort of different criteria as I find it hard to dip into the single digits unless the game is REALLY bad (I was surprised to see a fair few lame sports management games here which I would have to find some real faults in aside from just being utterly boring to dip that low) but I think it'll be interesting nonetheless.
Actually Good (What were AP thinking?) - Leisure Suit Larry 3, Blade Warrior, Eye of Horus
Not As Bad (I think they were a bit harsh) - Maya, Secret of the Silver Blades, Huckleberry Hound Hollywood Capers
Pretty Much There (Yeah, I mostly get it) - Ruffian, Total Carnage, Fantasy Manager, World Cricket, Graeme Souness Soccer Manager, Battletoads, Deluxe Poker 2/Cover Girl Poker, Edd the Duck 2, Touring Car Challenge, Kick Off '96
On The Money (Completely agree) - Red Heat, Dennis, GLOC R360, Highway Patrol 2, Protector, Geisha, Outrun, Rise of the Robots, Treble Champions 2, World of Soccer 2, Doofus, European Champions, Test Match Cricket, One Day Cricket, 4th & Inches, Last Action Hero
Russia Has Joined The European Union (Should've rated it negative percent frankly) - Street Fighter 1, Flight Path 737, Big Game Fishing, Dangerous Streets, International Rugby Challenge
Hi there Kim, just wanted to say that i really enjoy your videos and your commentary is to the point, informative and amusing in equal measure.
You should come back to Manchester soon for a retro arcade visit😊
Was not expecting G'Kar to make a guest appearance in the video:)
I am absolutely shocked to see Secret of the Silver Blades on this list! What the hell, Amiga Power!!?!
SFX magazine and Babylon 5 - two great things about the 90's!
It's the worst of gold box, but not that bad.
Amiga Power really wasn't that good. INFO was way more informative
Awesome vid. Always a delight to watch.
You had a key on the keyboard pressed down for the Protector ST game. The ST is famous for having, by default at least (it can be turned off), a beep every time a key is pressed on the keyboard and you must have had one stuck for that continuous high-pitched sound.
So brilliant, what a wonderful rush back through time!
a joy to watch,
and listen,
as always. Thank you!
Smashing video as always Kim. Very entertaining! I shamefully owned some of these lemons.. on TDK diskettes ;)
Excellent video, i never played the Amiga as i was a console gamer since birth pretty much so i love seeing vids about platforms i didn't play.
Would you ever do a reverse of this where you talk about games 80% and higher?
23:52 - I beg to differ. The arcade G-Loc had much more convincing landscapes with its Mode 7 texture mapping than Afterburner, which had to rely on scaled sprites to create the illusion of terrain zooming by.
Liking the bottom quotes sneaking in here 😂
Great video, I’d love to see a companion video with games in the top 10% of Amiga Power’s scale, I imagine there weren’t all that many.
Thanks Kim. Another fantastic video.
37:30 That's the trademark Dizzy flip!
Great start to the weekend Kim, ta 👍❤
Excellent content...love it
The quote with Robert Maxwell sleeping with the fishes, oh boi. Amiga Power was insane ^o^
I used to work for Prism Leisure back 97-98 (and again in 2001). Best job I ever had. Used to go to all the E3 type shows here and mainland Europe (well, 2 on the mainland) and got to test all the PS1, N64 and Saturn games and see demos of games coming. Not bad considering I only got the job to build CD, VHS, Game, fixtures to all the Makro stores around the country at first LOL. Company will always have a special place in my heart.
Nice Bottom reference in the 23rd minute, and might I say that's a smashing blouse you have on :)
I actually really liked "Eye of Horus" back in the day, as well as quite a few others on this list!
Great video bringing back memories! It’s amazing that I had better football manager games on the Commodore 16 than some of these Amiga ones! And with games like Sensible Soccer showing it’s not about graphics there was really no excuse for some being this bad!
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on outrun if it’s in here!
Great video, Kim. This took me back as a massive Amiga fan growing up.
Is there any chance you could do a video on the state of the Amiga in 2024?
Keep up the great work.
15m36s Looks more like Dennis is being chased by Saddam Hussein than Walter Matthau, or is there a level where Dennis is tasked with finding those elusive WMD's?
I was about to make a similar comment about the Matthau sprite but checked the comments first. I thought it was Joseph Stalin!
I thought it looked more like Joe Mantegna!
Love your channel. You have a real gift m8.
47:27 hillariously enough I remember back in the mid 90s reading a PC gamer worst PC games ever reviewed list and a similiar cricket game appeared.
From what i remember it was called Willow and Wicket and PC Gamer had very similiar complaints.
It was so bad I think it was in 2nd place. 1st place being the infamous Plumpers Don't Wear Ties.
Yes..cant wait. Great idea btw
This makes me so happy. I was lucky enough to have a to and fro positive email exchange with J Nash and Stu Campbell back when I was running the Lazarus website in 1997 based on the then embryonic AP2 chronicles website. Both gorgeously impeccable chaps looking out for the little guy
Amazing video. Thanks!
Haha! I just laughed out loud at the sound effects then "Howzat!" in that dire-looking cricket game.
Cheers Kim
In another reality this channel
Is named Jim Kustice 👀 Also I had a flat mate once that I gave £20 to get dinner with and all he brought back was a bag of sausages from Iceland.
I like how the "steering wheel" in HIghway Patrol 2 has no visible supports connecting it to a steering column, so your driver is just sitting there and hitting the gas while holding a hoop.
You know how a lot of people claim "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is the worst movie ever when in reality it's a masterpiece of cinema compared to what is ACTUALLY out there? That kinda seems like where a lot of these low scores are at and just not even realizing the REAL crap out there!
Excellent video! Thanks✌
I loved the Scooby and scrappy game. As I kid I loved the artwork in the “cassette” style case (it was that plastic case like a cd or cassette one) with the film strips displaying scenes from the game. That first level on the steamboat is iconic!
57:28 OH MY GOD THAT PUNCHING ANIMATION. SUBLIME.
I can’t believe both the Scooby Doo and the Huckleberry Hound game the fucking deadly water drops that everyone mocks european games for
Ah yes, I had a long day, and the YT algorithm, knowing I watch a lot of Kim's videos, sent me a jewel.
As a statesider, I would have commited several acts of wanton violence to have gotten either the Atari ST, or preferably an Amiga back then.
And 10:56, six games for 26 pounds?
Even as an Americian, I know exactly how much that is now, and was back then. Even for six games that seems a tad much.
Great list as usual Kim, thanks for the spirit lift, may your channel grow faster than the US debt total!
Worked at The Dome, and helped out with a few bits on Last Action Hero. I hide from society these days.
Actually have fond memories of watching my older brother play Flight Path 737 on the original C64 release circa 1984. So much so that when I commissioned someone to recreate my childhood bedroom in a painting as a 50th birthday present to myself, that was one of the boxes on the shelf next to the TV
Hi Kim, I massively enjoyed this and am a huge fan of your videos. Over the years, I've noticed that you commonly focus on 'bad games' and was wondering what appeals to you about this topic
Wow, it have been years that I not seen one your videos in UA-cam, I trough that you have stopped making videos, good thing that did not, wow, the Amiga really make me feel old, but I only played early 90' games in the Arcade.
Great vid. do one please for the worst rated games of any Sinclair magazine
I heard so many Bottom references during this video, and its made my day. Top stuff!
I was looking at fantasy manager and thinking: "I've played that. Why have I played that, I'd never have bought it, why have I played it...", and I was getting very confused (and genuinely a bit freaked out, because until I saw it here I had completely forgotten it existed).
And then you mentioned the Maverick One, and it all became clear. I'm still sad about that shit nearly 30 years later.
There was a bit of a story behind the Secret of the Silver Blades review, apparently Colin Campbell, the then Dep Editor & later publisher (no relation to Stuart) was due to review it but come deadline day he hadn't written the review and was nowhere to be found, so as the junior staffer at the time, SC was given the game to review in two hours.
This bit at 11:53 brought back to my head something i always wanted to ask the designers from that time and i hope i can get one answer: why in the world the worst games always have so many digits on the score. I can believe someone may play a good game for enough time to, at least, change the last number to 1. For my whole life i played a fair amount of games and i can say, without doubt, many of them dont even have enough gameplay to make most digits change at all. And dont get me started on putting your name/initials on a high score table that will be erased when you turn the game off.
Damn you David Edwards! Darken the doorway of this humble football club no longer! 40:47
1:00:44 - I couldn't swear to it, but to my eye Formula One Challenge itself looks heavily inspired by Formula One for the ZX Spectrum from 1985. Looking at what footage I can find, they have the same gameplay loop, same basic in-game view (a static camera pointed at the finishing line, with times at the top that only refresh after the cars finish driving past on the bottom), they even both have a pit-lane minigame.
They could give some of those games a professional review but that would be too much to ask
They must have killed a few careers with that attitude
You played all these Kim? you're one brave girl..........great video!
That music on Dennis is a remix of the soundtrack on The Addams Family
34:38 hahaha oh man. That's a great line
I had a lot of fun playing Secret Of The Silver Blades (on the C64) when I was a kid.
Blade Warrior looks like an early version of Limbo.
Same with SOTSB, but on amiga. Completed it several times, and POD. A couple of my favourite games!
Only got this off the newsstands a couple times here in the States but it meant hours of great reading!
My first job in the games industry in 1995 was working as a junior programmer at Anco. after helping get the pretty decent Player Manager 2 Extra out (With my commentary), i was tasked with making the 3d engine for Kick Off 96 on the PC. That is a whole video on its own, but suffice to say, I managed it and the PC version got around 60-80% and the engine was reused in Kick off 97.
The Amiga version, fortunately, I wasn't actually involved in, but i did sit opposite the guyr who did the engine, and sadly he wasn't the greatest coder. The actual AI and gameplay weren't terrible, but the Amiga implementation was pretty slapdash and he was also new to the industry.
I believe the reason it got 1% was that the reviewer's version crashed EVERY match at half time, which tbh, if true, was a fair score in my opinion :).
I've gone on to work on some huge blockbusters since then, but i still look back with fond memories of my first job at Anco, which was based out of a metal shed in Dartford, could certainly make a tv show about that place...
That's a great idea for a potential series of videos.
Wow, UA-cam hasn't suggested a Kim Justice video to me in (what seems like) years.
I like how Dennis can barely jump over the height of the enemies because their hit box isn't even remotely the same as their model
There was a full price version of formula 1 challenge called Formula 1 masters. We had all 3 games including an updated one with a loading screen message about Senna and Ratzenberger being removed following their deaths at Imola.
You'd pick Drivers, tyre and engine manufacturers. Then tyres and wing settings for each race. Me and my brother and a couple of mates really enjoyed a multi player game. Touring car challenge wasn't as good and no challenge once you learned to just pile all your cash into 1 car until you started winning. I still enjoyed a game of both on an emulator a couple of years back.
Currently putting loads of time into F1 manager 23 so I guess its just a genre I've aiways enjoyed.