Just come to this now, aw takes me back to staying at my cousins in Newcastle with a huge box of blank disks, spending days just copying games😂. Happy times.
Few ones I'd add to the list: Walker. Not among the best known games, but very good shooter, with interesting combination of mouse + joystick controls. Dungeon Master: No description needed. Hired Guns: Personal favorite, like Dungeon Master, but scifi themed, and supports 1-4 players. Super Skidmarks: Seriously... This just HAS to be included... X-Out: One of my favourite shooters on C64 & Amiga Disposable Hero: Just like this one Wizkid: Just so... wacky it can't be excluded.
Walker was a simultaneously stressful, cathartic stompathon, and turning hundreds of tiny soldiers into red mist with that meaty turret was outrageously satisfying..
A great list of games, I had all of them on my 500+ back in the day, I have been able to complete Moonstone many times when it came out, my mate had it so I got a copy and completed it at home.
I love what you said about Cannon Fodder transporting you back to simpler times, the good old days, it is so true mate, and I think that's why we all still love using our beautiful old vintage machines even now, it's mainly the nostalgia factor for most, and that wonderful warm fuzzy feeling we get that modern consoles just don't give us!! I definitely have some fond treasured memories of playing Wizball on my 64 with my brother back in the day, me playing as cat collecting the drops of colour, and my brother as Wiz...such happy times!! I also played 2 player Beach Head 2 a lot with my friends when I was a kid, and that was always a great laugh, especially the knife lobbing level with the speech.. "you can't hurt meeee" and the laughter too ha ha! But we're so lucky that, brilliant, clever, passionate and talented people, still keep creating lovely new games for us to play on our beloved vintage hardware, which makes the machines STILL relevant and not just for nostalgia!! I'd just like to add that I think it's bonkers that Cannon Fodder and also Lemmings were not included in the stock 25, but they've been added on mine now anyway so it's all good 😀 Keep up the great videos OSG and all the best!!
I’m so happy no one asked me which 25 games that should be pre-installed and which 10 should be added on. I would have landed between 45 to 60 games. This is NOT a joke. I’m completely serious. I couldn’t have narrowed it down further. These are 10 excellent add-ons. Good video !!
I spent most of my teenage years if not all of them on a commodore amiga..i am now 51 and i never grew up as i have 2 of them now lol...monkey island is just pure excellence...thank you for the video.
Lots of great suggestions in your video... Canon Fodder, MI, Sensi, Turrican and Lotus II are all essentials. However above all I'd have to choose Super Skidmarks - my favourite Amiga game of all time and one that didn't receive a PC port (just a sub-par Megadrive one). Your comment about Sensi's difficulty is spot on, I remember when it launched on X360 I really struggled to adjust to it again after 10+ years away from it!
Pirates!, Mega-lo-Mania and Theme Park would be on my list but when you go for a list of 10 there's no way you can fit all the Amiga greatness on. The Settlers, Cannon Fodder, SWOS and Monkey Island are definitely indispensable.
Lotus 2 two Amigas two screens is amazing my mate lived across the road bring he’s Amiga round nicked my sisters telly played Louts 2 all day along with stunt car racer. So many memories for these games and most have a story behind them. Great list Paul so many to choose, from a massive library
The story of why you love them is what makes the game great... like for example pro ski simulator on the c64 is a mediocre annoying game to most but me and my best mate lived it so its always gonna be one of my favourites forever
Great selection there. I got the A500 at launch, couldn't wait. The first game I added was SWOS 96/97... the muscle memory kicked in instantly and I was swerving in them goals like it was 1996 all over again hahah!!
That unstoppable goal you used to do virtually from kick-off resulted in a lot of shouting for us back in the day. Great game, and probably still my favourite football game. The current ones are just too much effort with all the controls...call me old...
@@SocietyIsCollapsing No, completely agree. I've lost interest in my PS4 at the moment, games are just to complex and expensive. What with microtransactions also being added... Buying the A500 is a breath of fresh air at the moment.
I hate adventure games but a guy in my local game shop suggested trying Monkey Island.This game hands down is the best Amiga game I ever played.Funny great graphics and very good puzzles made this game a classic.
Great list, difficult to choose. I've narrowed down my 'favourites' to about 500. The a500 mini is going to be a great way to introduce the Amiga to my kids, they don't care for faffing around in workbench and stuff like that, they just want to play games. Hoping that 4 player games will work with multiple pads but I've yet to have a chance to test,
I currently live in the USA, Amazon has a release date of May 31. I don’t remember what it was originally but it seems like it keeps getting pushed back. Anyhow, completely agree with Lotus 2, lots of good memories playing that split screen. Turrican 2 is a must have too.
The three games I want to play again are Dune II, Populous, and Ultima VI. I'd never played an RTS before Dune II and Populous. And, after Ultima III and IV on the C64, I was hooked on that series. VI on the Amiga was better than the PC versions that came after it, in my opinion.
Nice list, I'd put Harlequin and Jim Power in it and my all time fav Player manager, anyway it's not easy at all to choose only a few games and you're right, nostalgia plays a big role, bigger than quality.
Great list! though personally I couldn't get in to cannon fodder back in the day. I would exchange that for Elvira - mistress of the dark. Loved Moonstone to death, especially with 4 players. So much fun!
10 Amiga classics! You could've put em in a random order and it still would've worked imo. Glad you included Wings, what a calssic that is! I wou'd've included Damocles and Cruise for a Corpse in my list, I could name dozens! Looks great that Amiga Mini, the frontend looks nice, be better if the usb games could be shown on the frontend also, instead of just a list. No doubt it'll get modded soon enough? Great vid m8 ;)
Excellent list. It speaks volumes of the quality and depth of the Amiga games library that you could easily make 5 such lists of similar quality. Some must-haves for me include Utopia, IK+, Colonization, Pirates, D/Generation, Police Quest, It Came from the Desert, Lemmings, Desert Strike, Gunship 2000, Hunter, Flashback...and I'm really just scratching the surface.
Great video with lots of games that bring back that nostalgic feeling that made the late 80's early 90's so special to me.life was much simpler when I was 16 , spending hours playing the latest amiga games and eagerly waiting for the latest zzap or c& vg to come out I got my amiga mini last Friday and overall very happy bar the diagonals on the joypad are a bit of a knightmare Already added lots of games including several u mentioned Also added rocket ranger , r type , apidya, giana sisters , robocop 3 to name a few
Loved Cannon Fodder, Settlers & Turrican 2. Banshee I never had BITD but I will be adding it. Another game I have huge nostalgia for is Beneath A Steel Sky as I spent many hours playing that with my uncle.
Not going to lie i had over 600 (all paid for honest... cough cough Xcopy Pro) games on the Amiga back in the day and am going to get everything i can haha. Class video as always buddy and roll on the next one so until then take it easy buddy.
It's amazing how good and playable The Secret of Monkey Island is especially when compared to other old school point and clicks. All the puzzles are solvable and not too obscure. Well, I remember one puzzle that felt too obscure to me.
I don't remember having too much trouble with any of the puzzles...did the one where you had to blow up the dam on the island give you trouble, or maybe getting the banana picker out of the cannibals' hut, following the shopkeeper to the Sword Master, finding the treasure, melting the jail cell lock with the Grog, making the Voodoo Root Beer, or realizing you just had to pick up the weight to avoid drowning?
No way is it amazing stay well clear until the part 2 comes out like with the c64 or put another 200 down and buy a real one Its pants most of the 25 games have bad glitches some of the games you need a keyboard instead of a fake keyboard the pick off 2 pants should have been sensible soccer but that wouldn't of mattered because the leggy game pad .lost patrol is not a a whole game and when doing combat or sniping you can't move the bad dudes beat you and you can't even walk towards them also you dig in when you do that its meant to feed and rest you squad but they are always tired and always hungry pinball don't make me laugh so unrealistic and glitch. F16 you need a keyboard matter of fact all the games are as bad none truly catch what the smiga was and how the games felt ..save up another 200 quid and buy a good condition original. Like the mega drive and the other except PlayStation one because it was a play station one . I keep reading all these fake reviews people going for the number of likes and subs rather than keeping you straight. Especially the ones that get them for nothing never ever trust their reviews because they are basically paid agents getting stuff for free like the usb stick they get along with the emulator
Oh man I don’t think darkmere gets enough love, I remember playing it for hours,but never complete as my version always crashed. It’s definitely a must for me!
Nice list OSG and another good vid. There could only be one game in first place so you hit the nail on the head. My Cinemaware game of choice would have been It Came From The Desert rather than Wings just because it felt more ‘cinematic’ to me. I would also have had Populus or Populus 2 in there but each to their own. Too many great games to mention so whittling it down to 10 is a tough job!
Such a Nice list. I played all of theese when I was young. Such nostalgia. Especially Wings!! I think that I would add all of theese. Then of the top of my head I would like to add. It came from the desert. Shadow of the beast Some Sierra games like police quest etc James Pond Robocod Syndicate
Great list which I'm pleased to say were some of the very first games I added. Unfortunately I've not got Secret of Monkey Island and SWOS to work yet. Both use Amiberry to boot up and the setpatch cannot be found during boot up. Sadly it would seem Amiberry isn’t supported as yet on the A500 mini? 🤔
For me, it would include things like SWOS, Populous, Syndicate, Lemmings, Colonization, Pirates, Dune and Defender of the Crown. Don't recall seeing any of them on the official list, but they'll be going on mine when I buy it.
Great list but don't forget Shadow of the Beast, Jim Power, Gods, Vroom and Formula One Grand Prix ❤️. Amiga had so many great games and soundtracks 🤩.
Sometimes I think about how the conversions of Out Run, Chase HQ and all the 80's arcade racing games would have look if they had been made by the authors of the Lotus trilogy. I'll add Ruff 'n' Tumble, Battle Squadron, Mega lo Mania, Lords of the Rising Sun and Hybris
I just bought the House of the dead remake. Its pretty good but as far as I know it doesn't have the arcade release on it. You might like it? Although it's not very "old school" lol
Instant 👍 thumbs up, what a great top 10 list, all the games are well chosen, great co ops and so on. I also feel like the a500mini I missing mouse controlled games, settlers and cannon fodder would definitely have been a great choice. Great video brother 😊
Moonstone, Wings of fury, Fire Force, Flimbo's quest and Championship Manager 93 are some of my top games on the Amiga 500 :) Many good game on the Amiga 500 :)
Cracking. I would be adding Syndicate first - it would be SWOS but I play that on PC [with a dongle to let me use me ZipStik]. Question - is it possible to DELETE any of the pre-loaded games? I'd consider getting one if I could take Kick Off 2 OFF there as soon as I get it.
Some nice choices OSG. As I understand it there's no multi-disc option for the mini...yet. Until then I'm not interested and really not sure why it was released without that option. Odd.
Your list is really good, but the main issue with mini and your video is that even adding 10 games is really not enough for Amiga legacy. 500 had such a huge library of games, that is not comparable to any other system of that and even future eras, except for MS DOS/Windows, and then you got 1200/AGA games on top of that. You could easily add 100 more games and every single one would be good and playable even today 30 years later. That's was the key selling point of Amiga in the 90s. Here's what missing from mini and your list: Civilization, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Superfrog, Another World, Monkey Island 2, Frontier: Elite 2, Lemmings (multiple), Dune, Dune 2, Desert Strike, Pinball Fantasies, Dungeon Master I & II, Fury of the Furries, Syndicate, Theme Park, Mega lo Mania, Ruff'n'Tumble, Utopia, Populous, Pirates, Gunship 2000, Dark Seed, Fire and Ice, Agony, Kid Chaos, Prince of Persia, Chuck Rock 2, Test Drive II, Walker, R-Type, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2, and so on, so on, we're over 70 or so and you can't ignore those games, you can keep going till you reach hundreds, that was THE platform in that era.
Kinda disappointed with lack of RPG/Dungeon Crawlers games, I was hoping for at least one recommendation, for variety sake. Besides that, great video as always.
Lemmings? The Bard's Tale? Also definately need a good joystick to play SWOS. I am playing Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis at the moment, I would include that too.
North & South looks SO AMAZING on the Amiga compared to the NES version that I was stuck with here in the States growing up! At least I owned Cannon Fodder on the 3DO, that version was comparable if not better...
The recently announced Monkey Island game is perhaps one of the reasons it wasn't on the Amiga Mini. Turrican also had a recent rerelease. I do know there were several titles they tried to get but the publishers were asking for a lot of money.
Great list! I think I have lost more of my life to the settlers than any other game. I'll never agree on Turrican 2 however, I find it a boring reaction test as you are too close to the right or bottom of the screen as it scrolls
I'm a little conflicted. I've been using Amiga Emulation via RetroArch for the past few months now and it's great, should I still buy an Amiga Mini? Is it worth the asking price?
Most likely it’s NOT for you. If you're adept at emulating Amiga on either PC, Android, Pi 4 or 400, or Xbox Series S or X, then stick with it. You'll only be disappointed with the A500 mini in comparison - it's the easiest entry point for Amiga emulation, but it lacks the horsepower and customisation options of the aforementioned systems. For example, the A500 mini can’t play games in .adf format - it can only play prepackaged WHDLoad games.
@@txtworld Normally I would agree with you, but god darn it I've gone and bought one anyway lol 😂. Actually I believe .adf support is coming in a future update.
@@Matty112uk Hopefully it will - RG were good with f/w updates on the C64 Mini and Maxi, so hopefully they'll support the A500 Mini with the same level of dedication.
@@txtworld I hadn't bought one when I asked. I only got one today 15 April. I'm really glad it supports more controllers. Xbox One is no go, but 360 (wired) and PS4 work, as does my 8Bitdo SN30 Pro+
I can highly recommend Desert Strike, Jungle Strike and Sorcery + too. However where is the brilliant music of the Amstrad CPC version of Sorcery? . It played Sorcerers Apprentice in the title screen. I would also recommend finding a joystick for these 3 as the included controller is a bit naff when it comes to games where you have to change direction fast. i am really surprised that the graphics on the Amiga are worse than the Amstrad CPC for Sorcery Plus but it seems like a lazy port. However the game is still amazing regardless.
I was always annoyed that the C64 had better gameplay and more scenes than the Amiga version of Defender of the Crown. As for Cannon Fodder i am now humming that tune the past few days lol. Brilliant game.
I hope there's more than games available on the Amiga mini like to see one bit of software that gave the Amiga a graphic design feel that is D Paint and it was big back then something about it simple way of drawing and making it plain and simple well most of the time of course it wasn't the only thing but it sold the idea anyone can draw digital I hope they will bring it to the future vision of the Amiga A500 mini or Maxi and using basic it was possible to rewrite some software if you knew how? Looks so interesting and classic wonder if there's plans to bring out anymore Amiga classic consoles or software based things, games are brilliant but some software just as brilliant to?
Gosh how I would love to have them all running. Got the Amiga mini but as soon as I have two controller connected no game would start properly but the Mini reboots. Anybody else with the same issue and/or dome fixes?
I still thing that they should have done a mini cd32 first. If the A500 mini is small and the keyboard doesn't work, it would be more fun to have a mini cd32. And one more thing, Battle Squadron is the best shmup on the Amiga. :)
Looks like an amazingly accurate emulator but what about games like Elite or Frontier: Elite II? Chaos Engine? Alien Breed? The all-time great, Lemmings? Or even the lesser known Shufflepuck Café?
I really wish that someone could find the source code to the game Banshee and add some kickass ingame music. The soundeffects alone gets a bit annoying after awhile, especially the bombs dropped on the ground.
Can anyone remember a game were i think you wer a barbarian or warrior something like that and you had to click the action bar at the bottom of the screen to move, jump attack etc? It wasn't a arena game I played it with my friend as a kid and can't find it anywhere. Cheers
I just downloaded monkey Island for the mega cd, the only other similar game I've played is the brilliant broken sword for ps1, however monkey Island rips it a new one.
Just come to this now, aw takes me back to staying at my cousins in Newcastle with a huge box of blank disks, spending days just copying games😂. Happy times.
Few ones I'd add to the list:
Walker. Not among the best known games, but very good shooter, with interesting combination of mouse + joystick controls.
Dungeon Master: No description needed.
Hired Guns: Personal favorite, like Dungeon Master, but scifi themed, and supports 1-4 players.
Super Skidmarks: Seriously... This just HAS to be included...
X-Out: One of my favourite shooters on C64 & Amiga
Disposable Hero: Just like this one
Wizkid: Just so... wacky it can't be excluded.
Walker was a simultaneously stressful, cathartic stompathon, and turning hundreds of tiny soldiers into red mist with that meaty turret was outrageously satisfying..
Bravo for using the music for Cybernoid 2...a true favorite
A great list of games, I had all of them on my 500+ back in the day, I have been able to complete Moonstone many times when it came out, my mate had it so I got a copy and completed it at home.
I love what you said about Cannon Fodder transporting you back to simpler times, the good old days, it is so true mate, and I think that's why we all still love using our beautiful old vintage machines even now, it's mainly the nostalgia factor for most, and that wonderful warm fuzzy feeling we get that modern consoles just don't give us!!
I definitely have some fond treasured memories of playing Wizball on my 64 with my brother back in the day, me playing as cat collecting the drops of colour, and my brother as Wiz...such happy times!! I also played 2 player Beach Head 2 a lot with my friends when I was a kid, and that was always a great laugh, especially the knife lobbing level with the speech.. "you can't hurt meeee" and the laughter too ha ha!
But we're so lucky that, brilliant, clever, passionate and talented people, still keep creating lovely new games for us to play on our beloved vintage hardware, which makes the machines STILL relevant and not just for nostalgia!!
I'd just like to add that I think it's bonkers that Cannon Fodder and also Lemmings were not included in the stock 25, but they've been added on mine now anyway so it's all good 😀
Keep up the great videos OSG and all the best!!
Turrican II is most certainly essential!
I’m so happy no one asked me which 25 games that should be pre-installed and which 10 should be added on. I would have landed between 45 to 60 games. This is NOT a joke. I’m completely serious. I couldn’t have narrowed it down further. These are 10 excellent add-ons. Good video !!
@MY CAPS LOCK IS BROKEN : That’s a good way to do it.
Excellent list, I never agree 100% with lists but here I can't think of anything to change.
Everyone seems to forget Lemmings😳
I spent most of my teenage years if not all of them on a commodore amiga..i am now 51 and i never grew up as i have 2 of them now lol...monkey island is just pure excellence...thank you for the video.
Lots of great suggestions in your video... Canon Fodder, MI, Sensi, Turrican and Lotus II are all essentials. However above all I'd have to choose Super Skidmarks - my favourite Amiga game of all time and one that didn't receive a PC port (just a sub-par Megadrive one).
Your comment about Sensi's difficulty is spot on, I remember when it launched on X360 I really struggled to adjust to it again after 10+ years away from it!
Pirates!, Mega-lo-Mania and Theme Park would be on my list but when you go for a list of 10 there's no way you can fit all the Amiga greatness on. The Settlers, Cannon Fodder, SWOS and Monkey Island are definitely indispensable.
Lotus 2 two Amigas two screens is amazing my mate lived across the road bring he’s Amiga round nicked my sisters telly played Louts 2 all day along with stunt car racer.
So many memories for these games and most have a story behind them.
Great list Paul so many to choose, from a massive library
The story of why you love them is what makes the game great... like for example pro ski simulator on the c64 is a mediocre annoying game to most but me and my best mate lived it so its always gonna be one of my favourites forever
Great selection there. I got the A500 at launch, couldn't wait. The first game I added was SWOS 96/97... the muscle memory kicked in instantly and I was swerving in them goals like it was 1996 all over again hahah!!
That unstoppable goal you used to do virtually from kick-off resulted in a lot of shouting for us back in the day. Great game, and probably still my favourite football game. The current ones are just too much effort with all the controls...call me old...
@@SocietyIsCollapsing No, completely agree. I've lost interest in my PS4 at the moment, games are just to complex and expensive. What with microtransactions also being added... Buying the A500 is a breath of fresh air at the moment.
Your list plus Goblins, Rick Dangerous 2, Escape From The Planet Of Robot Monsters and one of those crappy Strip Poker games 😎
I created a folder of all games I had as a kid then an A-Z of 3000+ .lha files. Bliss!!!
I hate adventure games but a guy in my local game shop suggested trying Monkey Island.This game hands down is the best Amiga game I ever played.Funny great graphics and very good puzzles made this game a classic.
Great list, difficult to choose. I've narrowed down my 'favourites' to about 500. The a500 mini is going to be a great way to introduce the Amiga to my kids, they don't care for faffing around in workbench and stuff like that, they just want to play games. Hoping that 4 player games will work with multiple pads but I've yet to have a chance to test,
Great great list, myself I'd also add Operation Stealth from Delphine. One of my favourite point and clicks, couldn't stop playing.
I currently live in the USA, Amazon has a release date of May 31. I don’t remember what it was originally but it seems like it keeps getting pushed back.
Anyhow, completely agree with Lotus 2, lots of good memories playing that split screen. Turrican 2 is a must have too.
Just order it from the UK. Mine arrived today.
The three games I want to play again are Dune II, Populous, and Ultima VI. I'd never played an RTS before Dune II and Populous. And, after Ultima III and IV on the C64, I was hooked on that series. VI on the Amiga was better than the PC versions that came after it, in my opinion.
Hunter was my all time favourite, also cruise for a corpse, the Indian Jones games and operation stealth
Love your videos OSG - You've got excellent taste and an eye for a true classic!
That Settlers music isn't what I remember - curious!
Great list, totally agree. I would add Gods, Mega-Lo-Mania and F1GP.
Nice list, I'd put Harlequin and Jim Power in it and my all time fav Player manager, anyway it's not easy at all to choose only a few games and you're right, nostalgia plays a big role, bigger than quality.
That's a great list of games, makes me want to get an A500 mini and play though some of these gems again.
Great list! though personally I couldn't get in to cannon fodder back in the day. I would exchange that for Elvira - mistress of the dark.
Loved Moonstone to death, especially with 4 players. So much fun!
Moonstone is one of them games that all your mates could play with you, we spent so much time on it when I was younger
10 Amiga classics! You could've put em in a random order and it still would've worked imo. Glad you included Wings, what a calssic that is! I wou'd've included Damocles and Cruise for a Corpse in my list, I could name dozens! Looks great that Amiga Mini, the frontend looks nice, be better if the usb games could be shown on the frontend also, instead of just a list. No doubt it'll get modded soon enough? Great vid m8 ;)
Excellent list. It speaks volumes of the quality and depth of the Amiga games library that you could easily make 5 such lists of similar quality. Some must-haves for me include Utopia, IK+, Colonization, Pirates, D/Generation, Police Quest, It Came from the Desert, Lemmings, Desert Strike, Gunship 2000, Hunter, Flashback...and I'm really just scratching the surface.
Great video with lots of games that bring back that nostalgic feeling that made the late 80's early 90's so special to me.life was much simpler when I was 16 , spending hours playing the latest amiga games and eagerly waiting for the latest zzap or c& vg to come out
I got my amiga mini last Friday and overall very happy bar the diagonals on the joypad are a bit of a knightmare
Already added lots of games including several u mentioned
Also added rocket ranger , r type , apidya, giana sisters , robocop 3 to name a few
I really like the simple but perfectly formed pixel art in Sensible World of Soccer.
yeah its so simple its brilliant
Loved Cannon Fodder, Settlers & Turrican 2. Banshee I never had BITD but I will be adding it. Another game I have huge nostalgia for is Beneath A Steel Sky as I spent many hours playing that with my uncle.
Not going to lie i had over 600 (all paid for honest... cough cough Xcopy Pro) games on the Amiga back in the day and am going to get everything i can haha. Class video as always buddy and roll on the next one so until then take it easy buddy.
For a shoot em up with nostalgia on the amiga it would be battle squadron for me
Yes mate... im a huge fan of the side scrolling top down shooters, this is a classic.
A great list, but where's Superfrog 🤔 Watching, and mostly listening to, the SWOS bit gave me goosebumps 😎
Ive never been a superfrog fan tbh... great looking game though...just not for me
It's amazing how good and playable The Secret of Monkey Island is especially when compared to other old school point and clicks. All the puzzles are solvable and not too obscure. Well, I remember one puzzle that felt too obscure to me.
It's a bummer that there's no way to upgrade it to the Ultimate Talkie Edition like I did with my DOS version though...
I don't remember having too much trouble with any of the puzzles...did the one where you had to blow up the dam on the island give you trouble, or maybe getting the banana picker out of the cannibals' hut, following the shopkeeper to the Sword Master, finding the treasure, melting the jail cell lock with the Grog, making the Voodoo Root Beer, or realizing you just had to pick up the weight to avoid drowning?
No way is it amazing stay well clear until the part 2 comes out like with the c64 or put another 200 down and buy a real one Its pants most of the 25 games have bad glitches some of the games you need a keyboard instead of a fake keyboard the pick off 2 pants should have been sensible soccer but that wouldn't of mattered because the leggy game pad .lost patrol is not a a whole game and when doing combat or sniping you can't move the bad dudes beat you and you can't even walk towards them also you dig in when you do that its meant to feed and rest you squad but they are always tired and always hungry pinball don't make me laugh so unrealistic and glitch. F16 you need a keyboard matter of fact all the games are as bad none truly catch what the smiga was and how the games felt ..save up another 200 quid and buy a good condition original. Like the mega drive and the other except PlayStation one because it was a play station one . I keep reading all these fake reviews people going for the number of likes and subs rather than keeping you straight. Especially the ones that get them for nothing never ever trust their reviews because they are basically paid agents getting stuff for free like the usb stick they get along with the emulator
@@roguesheep1747 Hang in there, just remember that having a diagnosis of Down syndrome today is not the same as it was in the past. You can do it!
Well, now you can play the Ultimate Talkie Edition on the A500 Mini using the Pandory mod so it's all good! 👍
Never played Moonstone, so I will be giving it a go. Darkmere and The Clue are the first two I added to my Mini..
Oh man I don’t think darkmere gets enough love, I remember playing it for hours,but never complete as my version always crashed. It’s definitely a must for me!
Nice list OSG and another good vid. There could only be one game in first place so you hit the nail on the head. My Cinemaware game of choice would have been It Came From The Desert rather than Wings just because it felt more ‘cinematic’ to me. I would also have had Populus or Populus 2 in there but each to their own. Too many great games to mention so whittling it down to 10 is a tough job!
Such a Nice list. I played all of theese when I was young. Such nostalgia. Especially Wings!!
I think that I would add all of theese.
Then of the top of my head I would like to add.
It came from the desert.
Shadow of the beast
Some Sierra games like police quest etc
James Pond Robocod
Syndicate
Great list which I'm pleased to say were some of the very first games I added. Unfortunately I've not got Secret of Monkey Island and SWOS to work yet. Both use Amiberry to boot up and the setpatch cannot be found during boot up. Sadly it would seem Amiberry isn’t supported as yet on the A500 mini? 🤔
For me, it would include things like SWOS, Populous, Syndicate, Lemmings, Colonization, Pirates, Dune and Defender of the Crown. Don't recall seeing any of them on the official list, but they'll be going on mine when I buy it.
Great list. One totally underrated Amiga game was RVF Honda.
Link play too that with Atari ST
can you load games with full functionality? ..like the save feature etc
are you planning to make a video on that topic?
thank you
Great list especially Moonstone I will be adding escape from the planet of the Robot monsters and New Zealand story
Great list... Yeah I'm one of those who bought the A500 so I could play SWOS
Great list but don't forget Shadow of the Beast, Jim Power, Gods, Vroom and Formula One Grand Prix ❤️. Amiga had so many great games and soundtracks 🤩.
Just ordered a A500 mini as bored senseless with all the modern remasters, hoping it’s going to renew my love for video games.
Sometimes I think about how the conversions of Out Run, Chase HQ and all the 80's arcade racing games would have look if they had been made by the authors of the Lotus trilogy. I'll add Ruff 'n' Tumble, Battle Squadron, Mega lo Mania, Lords of the Rising Sun and Hybris
you forgot Blood Money and SWIV:)
@@zubazub66 Couldn't get past the first helicopter stage though:)
@MY CAPS LOCK IS BROKEN I can imagine that, like in the shape of an Owls head haha
I just bought the House of the dead remake. Its pretty good but as far as I know it doesn't have the arcade release on it. You might like it? Although it's not very "old school" lol
Great list! I made a few for my channel over the last few weeks and I think every single game you covered is on there! Great minds think alike!!
I'll check it out!
@@oldstylegaming that would be great
Solid gold on this list.
Instant 👍 thumbs up, what a great top 10 list, all the games are well chosen, great co ops and so on. I also feel like the a500mini I missing mouse controlled games, settlers and cannon fodder would definitely have been a great choice.
Great video brother 😊
great list waiting for mine to arrive fingers crossed tomorrow
Exciting times mate
Moonstone, Wings of fury, Fire Force, Flimbo's quest and Championship Manager 93 are some of my top games on the Amiga 500 :) Many good game on the Amiga 500 :)
I'm definitetly playing some of my Childhood games, I never beat Premiere as a kid and so many more? Robocod, Lemmings. etc. etc
Cracking. I would be adding Syndicate first - it would be SWOS but I play that on PC [with a dongle to let me use me ZipStik]. Question - is it possible to DELETE any of the pre-loaded games? I'd consider getting one if I could take Kick Off 2 OFF there as soon as I get it.
Cannon Fodder - Essential
Defo even just for the intro music
Some nice choices OSG. As I understand it there's no multi-disc option for the mini...yet. Until then I'm not interested and really not sure why it was released without that option. Odd.
NORTH & SOUTH!!!!! YES
Your list is really good, but the main issue with mini and your video is that even adding 10 games is really not enough for Amiga legacy. 500 had such a huge library of games, that is not comparable to any other system of that and even future eras, except for MS DOS/Windows, and then you got 1200/AGA games on top of that. You could easily add 100 more games and every single one would be good and playable even today 30 years later. That's was the key selling point of Amiga in the 90s. Here's what missing from mini and your list: Civilization, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Superfrog, Another World, Monkey Island 2, Frontier: Elite 2, Lemmings (multiple), Dune, Dune 2, Desert Strike, Pinball Fantasies, Dungeon Master I & II, Fury of the Furries, Syndicate, Theme Park, Mega lo Mania, Ruff'n'Tumble, Utopia, Populous, Pirates, Gunship 2000, Dark Seed, Fire and Ice, Agony, Kid Chaos, Prince of Persia, Chuck Rock 2, Test Drive II, Walker, R-Type, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2, and so on, so on, we're over 70 or so and you can't ignore those games, you can keep going till you reach hundreds, that was THE platform in that era.
Celestial list
Kinda disappointed with lack of RPG/Dungeon Crawlers games, I was hoping for at least one recommendation, for variety sake. Besides that, great video as always.
Hired Guns and I used to play a lot of SSI games on my Amiga in the late 80's.
Back then we were absolutely amazed by the awesome graphics and sound.
Lemmings? The Bard's Tale? Also definately need a good joystick to play SWOS. I am playing Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis at the moment, I would include that too.
Great game Fate of Atlantis
@@oldstylegaming It is a great game but parking the submarine was a nightmare (5 hours) and needed a walkthrough after that.
North & South looks SO AMAZING on the Amiga compared to the NES version that I was stuck with here in the States growing up! At least I owned Cannon Fodder on the 3DO, that version was comparable if not better...
Trying to figure out how to play north vs south never had it on my Amiga looks fun though
The recently announced Monkey Island game is perhaps one of the reasons it wasn't on the Amiga Mini. Turrican also had a recent rerelease. I do know there were several titles they tried to get but the publishers were asking for a lot of money.
Apparently someone has said they cant get monkey island to run on the mini? Im not sure though so will get this checked out
@@oldstylegaming I have had it running briefly, didn't play far into it. It can be down to the filename/version of the WHD file you are trying to run.
I think one game worth a mention is stunt car racer
Stunt Car Racer is already on the A500 mini as a stock game
@@oldstylegaming Ahh that I didn't realise thanks mate!
Aye this was definitely a blast from the past 👍
I feel that Zombi should be on this list, and also Inherit the Earth, Dark Seed, and Pirates! Gold...
Great list! I think I have lost more of my life to the settlers than any other game. I'll never agree on Turrican 2 however, I find it a boring reaction test as you are too close to the right or bottom of the screen as it scrolls
I'm a little conflicted. I've been using Amiga Emulation via RetroArch for the past few months now and it's great, should I still buy an Amiga Mini? Is it worth the asking price?
Most likely it’s NOT for you. If you're adept at emulating Amiga on either PC, Android, Pi 4 or 400, or Xbox Series S or X, then stick with it. You'll only be disappointed with the A500 mini in comparison - it's the easiest entry point for Amiga emulation, but it lacks the horsepower and customisation options of the aforementioned systems. For example, the A500 mini can’t play games in .adf format - it can only play prepackaged WHDLoad games.
@@txtworld Normally I would agree with you, but god darn it I've gone and bought one anyway lol 😂. Actually I believe .adf support is coming in a future update.
@@Matty112uk Hopefully it will - RG were good with f/w updates on the C64 Mini and Maxi, so hopefully they'll support the A500 Mini with the same level of dedication.
Matt, just curious - why did you ask this question - given you've already bought one?
@@txtworld I hadn't bought one when I asked. I only got one today 15 April. I'm really glad it supports more controllers. Xbox One is no go, but 360 (wired) and PS4 work, as does my 8Bitdo SN30 Pro+
I can highly recommend Desert Strike, Jungle Strike and Sorcery + too. However where is the brilliant music of the Amstrad CPC version of Sorcery? . It played Sorcerers Apprentice in the title screen. I would also recommend finding a joystick for these 3 as the included controller is a bit naff when it comes to games where you have to change direction fast. i am really surprised that the graphics on the Amiga are worse than the Amstrad CPC for Sorcery Plus but it seems like a lazy port. However the game is still amazing regardless.
I was always annoyed that the C64 had better gameplay and more scenes than the Amiga version of Defender of the Crown. As for Cannon Fodder i am now humming that tune the past few days lol. Brilliant game.
Just play Defender of The Crown 2 instead. It got it all and more.
Not all of the 4000 plus games work. Ive been going through quite a lot of them and maybe 80 percent work so far which is still amazing this early on.
Looking forward to Hostages, Persian Gulf Inferno, Wings of Fury and Midwinter
Hostages is awesome
I hope there's more than games available on the Amiga mini like to see one bit of software that gave the Amiga a graphic design feel that is D Paint and it was big back then something about it simple way of drawing and making it plain and simple well most of the time of course it wasn't the only thing but it sold the idea anyone can draw digital I hope they will bring it to the future vision of the Amiga A500 mini or Maxi and using basic it was possible to rewrite some software if you knew how? Looks so interesting and classic wonder if there's plans to bring out anymore Amiga classic consoles or software based things, games are brilliant but some software just as brilliant to?
I take it you've heard of Ron's announcement about Return to Monkey Island just the other day?
almost perfect list
I would add Pirates! and SpeedBall2
but since it's a top10 it's difficult because these all absolutely belong
Speedball 2 is already on the mini
@@oldstylegaming oh sorry, I missed that ;-)
@@anFy81 np mate :-)
Some good games here very nice 👍
Myth-History in the making, Elf (Ocean), desert strike, superfrog, pang, wings of fury, apidya, battle squadron, moonstone, shadow of the beast
Shadow of the beast is iconic like on the Amiga
Nice one. Hired Guns for me :)
I guess that Simon the Sorcerer was their substitute for Monkey Island...it's a good game, but I wish that they'd included the CD-32 talkie version.
A really solid list.
Apidya defo on my list and Agony 👍
Looked the Secret of Monkey Island wasn't particularly smooth. Was this captured on an A500 Mini?
No its on winuae 1200 with 4mb mem... i dont think it was not that smooth
Gosh how I would love to have them all running. Got the Amiga mini but as soon as I have two controller connected no game would start properly but the Mini reboots. Anybody else with the same issue and/or dome fixes?
I still thing that they should have done a mini cd32 first.
If the A500 mini is small and the keyboard doesn't work, it would be more fun to have a mini cd32.
And one more thing, Battle Squadron is the best shmup on the Amiga. :)
Im surprised that so many people miss Nitro from their lists. I know it's similar to super cars 2, but I thought it was excellent.
its a great game, so is road kill but i feel its to similar to super cars 2 and ATR which are already stock games
Nitro is a great game indeed. Bought that one back in the day.
I miss Rainbow Islands and Silkworm
Harlequin
Fuzzball
Superfrog
Grand prix
Bill's tomato game
First samurai
Pp hammer
Xennon 2
Blood money
are a few I would have liked on the mini
This list is aces!
Looks like an amazingly accurate emulator but what about games like Elite or Frontier: Elite II? Chaos Engine? Alien Breed? The all-time great, Lemmings? Or even the lesser known Shufflepuck Café?
Great list
I really wish that someone could find the source code to the game Banshee and add some kickass ingame music. The soundeffects alone gets a bit annoying after awhile, especially the bombs dropped on the ground.
I can’t get banshee to respond to controls?
On the mini?
Insta-like at the mention of Settlers!
Can anyone remember a game were i think you wer a barbarian or warrior something like that and you had to click the action bar at the bottom of the screen to move, jump attack etc? It wasn't a arena game I played it with my friend as a kid and can't find it anywhere. Cheers
Lotus 2 was amazing
I just downloaded monkey Island for the mega cd, the only other similar game I've played is the brilliant broken sword for ps1, however monkey Island rips it a new one.
110% agreed!