For (former) Amiga users [Archive]

vackillers

9 May 2012, 19:27

Another Amiga veteran - welcome! :)

Its always good to see some Amiga guys around, Used to have the amiga 600 and 1200 myself, used to play worms, sensible soccer, sensible golf, cannon fodder, hired guns, alien breed, switchblade, space quest III curse of monkey island, Dune and the settlers were my most played games :D

wow talk about a trip down memory lane just then!

Squirminator2k

9 May 2012, 19:43

Its always good to see some Amiga guys around, Used to have the amiga 600 and 1200 myself, used to play worms, sensible soccer, sensible golf, cannon fodder, hired guns, alien breed, switchblade, space quest III curse of monkey island, Dune and the settlers were my most played games :D

wow talk about a trip down memory lane just then!

All great games! Well, except for Sensible Golf. Never quite got into that one.

Were you one of the 5,000 people who managed to snag a copy of Worms The Directors Cut? I still have my copy somewhere. In fact I still play it via emulation from time to time...

Thurbo

9 May 2012, 19:57

I got one of those copies from a flea market almost a decade ago. Consider me lucky :)

Squirminator2k

9 May 2012, 20:02

Ha! I actually went into a store - an Electronics Boutique, of all things - and spent £14.99 on a copy. Then I started playing it, and I've never really stopped. It's the one game in my library that has remained consistently played, even as other Worms games have come and gone.

LowTier

9 May 2012, 23:02

Hi Thurbo, squirminator2k and vackillers thank you for the warm welcome :)

I still have my trusty amiga's (A500+ with dual kickstart) (and an A1200) but sadly they don't get any airtime these days...

Been playing Worms 2 Armageddon on xbox live for the last few years.
Got Alien Breed Ep1 and 2 also on XBLA.

God I do miss games like P-X, Superfrog, Lost Vikings, Fury of the furries, turrican and such... They were good times indeed !

Thanks again for the warm welcoming guys, I look forward to contributing here. ;)
Thanks for keeping worms alive T17 !

Worm Mad

10 May 2012, 10:50

Ooh, I don't remember it coming out on Amiga.

Yeah, I didn't think Curse came out on the Amiga either. Like you, I had Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2 on the Amiga then got Curse on the PC.

Oh, and to all you Amiga veterans, I had an Amiga 500 and the original Worms (no fancy Directors Cut for me ;)). Instant classic and I've been worming ever since.

LowTier

10 May 2012, 11:50

Yeah, I didn't think Curse came out on the Amiga either. Like you, I had Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2 on the Amiga then got Curse on the PC.

Oh, and to all you Amiga veterans, I had an Amiga 500 and the original Worms (no fancy Directors Cut for me ;)). Instant classic and I've been worming ever since.

Exactly the same thing here... :)

Clydos

10 May 2012, 14:20

Hi there!

In order to keep the "Beta" thread clean and to give all (former) Amiga users a place to chat about our favourite computer :-) and walk down memory lane for Worms and other games on the Amiga, I started this thread.

I think it is really cool to see so much Amiga people here. So, tell us your Amiga story! Remember when computing was fun? :-)

Cheers!

BethanyTeam17

10 May 2012, 14:27

When I say "I" still have one... I guess I am using it as in the royal we..... as in, the one I used growing up remains at my parents' house. I used to get it back out every now and again, though as much as I love the nostalgia trip - I'm just a bit impatient nowadays with loading times etc.

LowTier

10 May 2012, 15:20

Hi and yes good idea for a thread. I grew up on Amstrad cpc464 and moved into amiga while growing up. For me it was the best computer. I Loved the system in general and the games for it. That was where I first played greats such as worms and dynablaster now a.k.a. bomberman. Loved platformers and puzzlers on it aswell stuff like Lost Vikings, Toki, fury of the furries, Syndicate Pinball Fantasies and dreams, Lotus2... I also loved the amiga for music. What can I say really...?! The Amiga was rich :)

I still have mine but don't use it because of 1/space and 2/video output, I mostly play 360 in hd these days... Still I might grab UAE so I can play bodyblows and turrican again.

Madmaxquinn

10 May 2012, 15:37

I've two Amigas in the garage somewhere. I had to load Worms in a particular way otherwise I didn't get sound. Ah, the good ol' days of 0.5MB RAM and OSs than booted from single floppies.

BethanyTeam17

10 May 2012, 17:30

Squirminator2k

10 May 2012, 17:30

Curse of Monkey Island never made it to the Amiga, unfortunately - LucasArts abandoned the Amiga in, I think, 1992, so LeChuck's Revenge would've been their last game for the system. I remember that because most of the reviews for games like Beneath a Steel Sky and Simon the Sorcerer were very enthusiastically saying that Revolution and Adventure Soft had done a great job of filling the Lucas hole.

Erm.

BethanyTeam17

10 May 2012, 17:33

Squirminator2k

10 May 2012, 18:07

It seems it may have been released for Amiga OS4 - at least, Wikipedia lists it as such - but I'm not able to find any specific information regarding that. Which is weird.

It's worth noting that Curse of Monkey Island can be played on an Amiga via ScummVM, though I haven't tried it. ScummVM's compatibility chart (http://scummvm.org/compatibility/DEV/comi/) doesn't list an Amiga version of Curse, though.

vackillers

10 May 2012, 18:15

My favourite Amiga titles.... The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Lemmings, Simon the Sorcerer, The Chaos Engine, Indiana Jones and the Fat of Atlantis, Zool, Fire and Ice, Magic Pockets, Gods, Putty, Puffy's Saga, Titus the Fox, Wiz 'n' Liz.

some good ones in there, Puffys Saga, Chaos Engine nad of course how can ANYONE forget lemmings, though Lemmings 2: The Tribes was so much more amazing though, there was some crazy crazy stuff they did with that game back then, oh the HOURS!!! lost in lemmings........ -sighs-

Another one was Treasure Island Dizzy, , i absoutely LOVED that classical EGG adventure, that one was so involved, wow, for such a simple game, it worked so brilliantly!! even the music!!! wooooooooooo nothing beats 8bit midi sound :D

BethanyTeam17

10 May 2012, 18:15

BethanyTeam17

10 May 2012, 18:16

some good ones in there, Puffys Saga, Chaos Engine nad of course how can ANYONE forget lemmings, though Lemmings 2: The Tribes was so much more amazing though, there was some crazy crazy stuff they did with that game back then, oh the HOURS!!! lost in lemmings........ -sighs-

Another one was Treasure Island Dizzy, , i absoutely LOVED that classical EGG adventure, that one was so involved, wow, for such a simple game, it worked so brilliantly!! even the music!!! wooooooooooo nothing beats 8bit midi sound :D
I think I just liked getting them all to go through the exit at the same time to hear the unison of 'Yipee's :)

I'd forgotten to list Dizzy, d'oh :(

Squirminator2k

10 May 2012, 18:20

I loved Lemmings 2. Never finished it though, and what with being a busy adult I doubt I ever will.

Never finished any of the Dizzy games either, but blimey did I love those games.

LowTier

10 May 2012, 18:30

YES !, Chaos Engine, Zool, Lemmings:Tribes, TI Dizzy, Magic Pockets, Gods... They were all excellent class games :) :Nostalgia attack: o.O Can anyone remember Microprose F1, rainbow islands, pushover, putty, Flashback or shadow fighter ?

vackillers

10 May 2012, 18:48

Of course, flashback was amazing, that was one of the later games i ever got though for the amiga, If i remember right, that was one of the games i had some issues with, not sure if i just happen to get a bad floppy disk or not but sometimes it would through up that EVER-So-Anoying black screen with red writing mentioning something about a read/write error if my memory serves me well... but i prefered the original anyway, if anyone didn't know, flashback was the sequal to Another World, which i still think was one of the best adventures ever made, but holy crap, if you died, you had to start so far back and some of those puzzles were REALLY bloody hard!!!

Pushover even though i had, never really played it that much, same for shadow fighter... but common guys, you GOTTA REMEMBER IK+ ??? the best martial arts game EVER!!! with the flying heads and the kick to the balls!!!!! :D

vackillers

10 May 2012, 18:53

Double Dragon series was a good one too though as far as beat-em-ups went next to street fighter 2, but i think everyone who owned any sort of gaming machine back in the day owned that damn game :D

Some more games just to list a few of my 100's of games i had lol

Skidmarks 1 & 2, Super Skidmarks (AGA version), SWOS, Zanny Golf, Super cars 1 & 2, Altered Beast, Pandora, Arkanoid!!!! woooo, my fav was the 3rd one, i loved the ghost power-up you could cover the entire bottom n never loose a ball lol, Marble Madness, Hunter (the original battlefield) lol

Squirminator2k

10 May 2012, 19:07

I don't think there was an ECS/OCS version of Super Skidmarks, was there?

Super Skidmarks was interesting - the Amiga version supported LAN play, which wasn't uncommon for Amiga multiplayer games of the time (case in point: Team17's own Alien Breed 3D), but Acid were, for a time, actively working on a method of networking the Amiga and the Mega Drive so that the two versions could compete against each other, being as they were based on the same code. Unfortunately for whatever reason that didn't come to fruition. Possibly Sega complained, or something.

Edit: Also, worth noting that Flashback wasn't actually a sequel to Another World - it was just erroneously referred to as such by the gaming press at he time.

vackillers

10 May 2012, 19:25

yea i dont remember which one it was... it was the skidmarks that was available for the amiga1200, the last skidmarks they made, which took use of the AGA chipset which enabled you to have more cars on the strack, it was amazing that game, messing up all the strack as the more you went around it.. loved that game, one of my favs was driving around the track with caravans attached to the back of you, you could swing that thing into the other cars to gain an advantage on the corners lol

I actually thought it was, it might have been the pre-qual as well, its so hard to remember now...

edit: yes, it was super skidmarks

Squirminator2k

10 May 2012, 19:33

I [i]loved[i] Skidmarks. Both of 'em. The manual for Super Skidmarks included instructions on how to make a four-player adapter for the Amiga. I remember staying behind after school for three days soldering wires so I could build that thing and race with my friends. Worked beautifully too, though it looked like ****.

Clydos

10 May 2012, 19:55

Ha, Super Skidmarks, what a great game! Yeah, I also loved the Caravans thing - what a great fun!

Do you also know "onEscapee" which was some kind of successor of Another World and Flashback? Was released after the golden Amiga ages and it was beautiful!

Also, I know for sure, that there is no native OS4 version of "Curse for Monkey Island"! The must mean the way by ScummVM.

And like hanschke stated in the beta thread, I _loved_ the Worms beta, which was delivered on the cover disk of the magazine "Amiga Games" here in Germany. I never ever played a demo version such often as I did with that (I think it was even limited to 5 minutes play only). But after some months of playing I could finally afford the full version! :-)
Loved the cool copy protection book - black numbers on blach "shiny paper"!

@beth: I think it is most cool, that there are still Team 17 members which are/were Amiga users! What about the rest of the company?

BethanyTeam17

10 May 2012, 20:04

@beth: I think it is most cool, that there are still Team 17 members which are/were Amiga users! What about the rest of the company?
Yeah we've got a few that I know of and I'm sure lots more as well :)

Just had a quick look at this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E8VNfiPAaE) of onEscapee, the start of it reminds me of the start of Ghost Trick haha!

Squirminator2k

10 May 2012, 20:09

As far as I'm aware, Andy Davidson still has his Amiga knocking about. At least, he did a couple of years ago when I spoke to him about WormsDC.

Clydos

10 May 2012, 20:09

Yeah we've got a few that I know of and I'm sure lots more as well :)

Very cool, great to read! I think, e.g. at EA no one knows what an Amiga is anymore ... ;-)

This is another reason for me to support T17 - I think I have most of your games for PC/steam now. Really loving Worms Crazy Golf, e.g. Or the new Alien Breed is also top!

vackillers

10 May 2012, 20:11

hey Clydos, i sure dont remember that one, onEscapee, i may have played it and simply just dont remember the name, i had quite a few friends back in the day that owned either a A500/A500+ or the A600 so chances are high i played it, but im really sure i never owned it which is a shame, you make it sound good now :D

I could go on and on for litterly, hours now, on Demo Disks, wow, from the Cannon Fodder stuff to Sensible Moon Soccer, back in the day the demos were amazing, they would let you do a few levels of a game, or just purely designed as a one off thing to promote the game, the articles and everything were really awesome, i remember a 6 page spread in Amiga Format mag that covered one of the Leisure Suit Larry games, think it was Leisure suit larry 3 : amazon queen or something like that, distinctively remember the pictures even now haha!!

BethanyTeam17

10 May 2012, 20:12

I think my most played demo was a split that had Brian the Lion and Bob's Bad Day on it!

Squirminator2k

10 May 2012, 20:13

I played the Holiday Lemmings demos to death!

Clydos

10 May 2012, 20:14

Hey, vackillers, I think, onEscapee was an AGA-only game, so no chance for A500/A600. :-) It was shipped just on CD, if I remember right. Have a look at the vid beth posted!

Yeeeaaaah, the political uncorrect Cannon Fodder. Had great luck to buy it in Germany. Only some weeks after release it was forbidden to sell. :-)

vackillers

10 May 2012, 20:14

Yeah we've got a few that I know of and I'm sure lots more as well :)

Just had a quick look at this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E8VNfiPAaE) of onEscapee, the start of it reminds me of the start of Ghost Trick haha!

Never played that... damn, a game i missed and its exactly like another world... The Alien Breed games were amazing as well, supprised now one mentioned that already, used to spend countless hours on those with my buddy, the new ones are beyond the originals though graphic, so well done and so happy T17 did remake those old classics :D

vackillers

10 May 2012, 20:25

Did anyone here ever had the Amiga CD32? because at the time i didn't have the cash to buy back in the day, and it went extinct almost as fast the Atari Jaguar lol... I remember a few of the Cds that were vailable for it, the massive mutli collection of games stuff, but that was about it really for that platform that i can physically remember

Squirminator2k

10 May 2012, 20:30

I've owned two CD32s in my time. It was briefly, the most popular CD-ROM based gaming system in the UK, despite Commodore's best efforts. That is to say nothing of developers (including Team17, sadly) who released rather lazy drag-and-drop ports to the system (though Worms, Alien Breed: Tower Assault and Alien Breed 3D did get CD32 enhancements). The only games released for the system that were specifically developed with the CD32 in mind were Liberation: Captive II, a rather fantastic open-world scifi game which used a bizarre save file mechanism, and Microcosm, which was actually supposed to be an FMTowns exclusive before being ported to a number of different systems.

vackillers

10 May 2012, 20:39

I played Microcosm at a gaming event in london which was absolutely fantastic, loved the hell out of that game, at the time that was one of the only games available for it though. Its a shame in a way because i personally felt, the CD32 and the Atari Jaguar had so much potential and life in their systems but nothing was being developed for either systems, nothing of good quanity anyway, The Jaguar was the first EVER 64bit machine, PCs at the time weren't even 64bit which showed how much advanced the 2 platforms were, could even consider them ahead of their time, but were being out played by the masses of the nintento and saga megadrive which left no real desire (financially) to develop anything for the 2 systems, that, coupled with next to no advertisement on TV adds or anything like that meant the systems got tagged behind because no one really knew about them.

Clydos

10 May 2012, 21:10

I also had and have a CD32, together with an SX-1 expension.

Another enhanced version for CD32 was Pirates! Gold, which I played also a lot!

Squirminator2k

10 May 2012, 21:19

Yo had the SX-1 expansion? Lucky bugger! I always wanted one of those, and it's not something that can be properly emulated at the moment.

Madmaxquinn

10 May 2012, 21:37

Clydos

10 May 2012, 21:39

@Squirminator2K: Yup, and I still have! :-) But wouldn't sell it for any money. :-D

@Madmaxquinn; Well, we mentioned Super Skidmarks above!

Squirminator2k

10 May 2012, 21:49

Nobody's mentioned Police Quest or Skid Marks. Was it the SuperFrog demo I remember being able to cheat on buy sitting on the mouse (making sure both mouse buttons were pressed down) causing SuperFrog to essentially become invincible? And I loved the Soccer Kid demo despite hating football.

To my shame, I've never played Police Quest. I don't remember being invulnerable in the Superfrog demo, but I do remember one interesting quirk:

The demo contained the entire third world of the game - Circus world - but if you entered a password on the Options screen, literaly any password, you could play the first world! Finishing it would "load" world two, which was actually just a scrambled mess of broken tiles.

I'll try to screengrab it this weekend, if I remember.

vackillers

10 May 2012, 22:21

lol thats pretty funny yeah do a screen grab i'd like to see that heh

SupSuper

11 May 2012, 01:15

Hey, vackillers, I think, onEscapee was an AGA-only game, so no chance for A500/A600. :-) It was shipped just on CD, if I remember right. Have a look at the vid beth posted!There was also a PC version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6naM4Gr7o&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SPD830EF36129FD884) released some years later, and while it looks terrific for an Another-World/Flashback type game, I can safely say it is more frustratingly hard than both of them combined and it makes it very hard to actually enjoy it. :p

They also made an iPhone version (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-escapee/id339968310?mt=8) but I haven't tried it.

vackillers

11 May 2012, 03:18

lol, there was a LOT of Amiga games that were like that anyway, cannon fodder definitely springs to mind, easy when you know how, but if you didn't know how, you could loose your entire supply of soldiers on some gay level that you should be doing first time! Hired guns was a really hard game, to me, the first of its kind ever, for a FPS genre type game.. music and soundFX kicked so much ass on that!!

interesting they made a PC version of that, the only did that with a few games actually, Cannon fodder, which was terrible, all the men were stretched and it just simply ran too fast haha, and the original settlers, which was a really good port.

Squirminator2k

11 May 2012, 07:09

Please don't use "gay" as a pejorative.

LowTier

11 May 2012, 08:40

Very cool, great to read! I think, e.g. at EA no one knows what an Amiga is anymore ... ;-)

Hahaha and It's a shame because back then ea made some pretty cool games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUPxxZu9E4Q

@bethamari Thanks for the look at OnEscapee... Back then, I heard in the pipeline that a sequel to Flashback was coming but I never saw it come to fruit. I waited eagerly for it with my A500/A1200's
yes! I can remember that Brian the Lion Demo :)

@MadMaxquinn... hahahaha, same thing here man. Hate football but loved that Soccer Kid Demo, I had to get involved that game had such a charm about it and was fun/interesting to play.

As for the Talk of the Monkey Islands, I'm pretty sure only Monkey 1 and 2 came to Amiga. Curse of Monkey(3) came to PC.
Escape from Monkey(4) Came out for PC and PS2.

Been playing the Monkey2 HD remake on 360 recently aswell...
V.Nice version of the game.

SupSuper

11 May 2012, 10:06

@bethamari Thanks for the look at OnEscapee... Back then, I heard in the pipeline that a sequel to Flashback was coming but I never saw it come to fruit. I waited eagerly for it with my A500/A1200's
There was a sequel to Flashback although it was fairly different, a 3D action-adventure called Fade to Black (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fade_to_Black_(video_game)), it only made it to the PC/PS1.

LowTier

11 May 2012, 10:41

haha, yea I can remember that coming out but I never played it, in my eyes at the time it was kind of like taking streets of rage and turning it into fighting force...
Can't comment on the game itself tho', was it any good ?

Madmaxquinn

11 May 2012, 15:53

@Madmaxquinn; Well, we mentioned Super Skidmarks above!

doh, search typo fail!

Dix-Neuf

15 May 2012, 00:23

I love how the OP has no "I know what it is but I don't have one" option

Bobyorange

20 May 2012, 02:35

I loved my amiga 500+, shame it kicked the bucket. We had superfrog, Lemmings, captain planet, Silkworm and thanks to swapping disks at primary school (surprisingly was more popular in our year than panini stickers) of such crackers like Gunship, the great giana sisters and Desert Strike.

Was all well and good until the day we argued over the controller and the computer fell off the table. Green screen blues make a bobby sad.

Does anybody else think of their amiga and then remember that song by Zoe, sunshine on a rainy day? Or am I alone there? :)

Madmaxquinn

20 May 2012, 11:55

I miss Days of Thunder. Crap game but execellent theme tune.

Worm Mad

20 May 2012, 13:22

Days of Thunder was one of the first games I had for the Amiga (it came with the computer) and man, it was terrible. I don't even remember ever beating the first race.

Also with the machine (Amiga 500) were Shadow of the Beast 2, Night Breed and Deluxe Paint. I thought there was another game and Google suggests it was probably Back to the Future 2 (which I did have but thought I'd got later).

Anyway, Shadow of the Beast 2 was pretty naff but was the first Amiga title I played. I remember being in awe of the screen when you died thinking the graphics were incredible (before that we'd had a Vectrex).

Night Breed was horrible. It was creepy as hell (at least for a young kid) and the gameplay wasn't exactly enjoyable.

Deluxe Paint was the best product in the package. A smooth piece of art making kit that easily beats the risible Paint that comes with today's PCs.

And, since it may have been one of the originals, Back to the Future 2 wasn't great but was still fun. It always used to amuse us that the characters mouths moved open and shut in the animation sequences for far longer than it would realistically take them to say the dialogue.

"MARTY. WE'VE GOT TO GO BACK. BLA BLA BLA BLA"
"BACK WHERE? BLA BLA BLA"
"BACK... TO THE FUTURE. BLA BLA BLA"

Madmaxquinn

20 May 2012, 13:31

I got to the second race in DoT once.
Night Breed was a keyboard mashing game one bit and a poor point and click game the next. It was dog hard with no saving. BtF2 was again a bit random but we managed to get through most of it without cheating.
Shadow of the Beast, in the days before the Internet often left me scratching my head trying to figure out what to do next. I could usually break it by jumping through the floor in certain locations. I usually gave up and played Fighting Fantasy instead.

BethanyTeam17

21 May 2012, 10:09

I got to the second race in DoT once.

Got too excited thinking that said DotT then :(

Worm Mad

21 May 2012, 12:36

I got to the second race in DoT once.

Yeah, I think my brother did too once. I could never be bothered.

Shadow of the Beast, in the days before the Internet often left me scratching my head trying to figure out what to do next.

It was a pretty weird game. In fact, there were loads of really weird games on the Amiga. Nowadays, you'd never get them funded but I guess it was an age where games were made with far smaller teams (sometimes one or two people) and budgets than you get today. Still, sometimes you miss the insanity :o

Got too excited thinking that said DotT then

Day of the Tentacle? I don't think that came out on the Amiga (could be wrong).

Found myself humming this earlier - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFTsUQTBPZs (specifically the bit about 39 seconds in)

Madmaxquinn

21 May 2012, 13:36

there were loads of really weird games on the Amiga. Nowadays, you'd never get them funded but I guess it was an age where games were made with far smaller teams (sometimes one or two people) and budgets than you get today. Still, sometimes you miss the insanity :o

They were games based on movies and 99.9999999999999999999999% of those are, well basically, just cr*p.

BethanyTeam17

21 May 2012, 13:37

Day of the Tentacle? I don't think that came out on the Amiga (could be wrong).

I know :) I love old school point-and-clicks though!

Worm Mad

21 May 2012, 14:06

They were games based on movies and 99.9999999999999999999999% of those are, well basically, just cr*p.

Eh? All weird games on the Amiga were based on movies? Not sure I follow you there (pretty sure most of the games I'm thinking of weren't based on any movies I've ever seen).

I know I love old school point-and-clicks though!

Yeah, me too. In fact, adventure games are my favourite genre of videogames. I'm a sucker for good dialogue and stories :)

Madmaxquinn

21 May 2012, 18:15

Eh? All weird games on the Amiga were based on movies? Not sure I follow you there (pretty sure most of the games I'm thinking of weren't based on any movies I've ever seen).

You're funny (or just mad ;)). No just the ones we discussed here (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=773155&postcount=54)!

Worm Mad

21 May 2012, 18:23

lol, fair enough. It was just the quote you replied to which confused me.

But you're right, most videogame adaptations of films, etc are terrible. There are a few exceptions but not many.

68040

29 Sep 2012, 04:23

hi all, im new in the forum,im amiga user and this is my prefered team to amiga games(project x,overdrive, alien breed saga,worms...) i like see more people of the old scene,sorry for my english im spanish, bye and thanks for all the fish