Those were the days...

100 Amiga games in 10 minutes!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoJBerFDsA

Love the slow 'bouncy' Populous 1 tiles :D so many happy memories.

I'm a bit amazed how many of those actually got a DOS port, as that's where I remembered more than half of them from.....
(didn't know Stunts originated on the Amiga)

Stunt Car Racer? I'm fairly sure it came out on the ZX spectrum too

I had it for the Amstrad CPC! :D

Ran like a dog though and the steering was terrible! :D

Dabz

EDIT: Where do I know the music thats on the video (First bit)? Playpus?

I remember playing at east half of those games. Speedball, forgot about that one. I loved that game. Somebody should do a remake of it. That might be my next project (that I never finish). :)

Desert Strike, now theres a game I could play forever! :)

Dabz

damn it! I watched that, then immedietly put UEA on my PC and on my PSP and wasted an hour downloading adf demo files!

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Stunts is the PC version of 4d Sports Driving, although I'm not sure which is the original. Stunt Car Racer is a different game.

EDIT: Actually I think most of those games were developed for DOS, and ported to Amiga later.

If memory serves Stunt Car Racer was ST/Amiga first, I remember actually playing it head to head through a null modem cable from ST to Amiga, I was really impressed it worked!

That video really does highlight some of the class difference from one amiga title to the next, some looked fantastic, others looked like commodore 64 games (ie, A pile of horse shite)

Great games there, never liked Shadow of the Beast much thou...

Shadow of the Beast was rubbish without a doubt, it was however pretty, which is what sold the game, and continues to sell games now.

what is a Uea?

UEA is the University of East Anglia... However, I think Andy was referring to http://www.winuae.net/

I believe I counted 60 that I'd played. Many classics in there. Maybe a few classic missing.

re: Desert Strike. Played it on the Amiga but ended up buying all in the series on Megadrive and finishing them off.

re: Xcom: Loved that game, but played it on a PC (many years ago). Of course I played Laser Squad first on C64/Spec/Amiga.

re: Stunt Car Racer. Classic, played it loads but never got round to a null modem hookup.

re: Shadow of the Beast: Yeah was too hard, I persevered but it just peed me off + had too much loading.

Of course the Turricans are classic and so is Dungeon Master and the Eye of the Beholder series.

Hello.

Larn.

Goodbye.

Ah yes, I knew something was missing ;-)

Stunt Car Racer: great game, managed the null modem hook up, might've been from my 500 to my 1200, can't quite remember. I think someone was attempting an updated version recently... ST to Amiga would've been impressive.

Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix..... great game.

Dune, there was a few disks with that game ....

Lots of cool games there but also a lot more cool games which were not even shown. Seems like they hilited mostly A500 games, I didn't see much of the more recent stuff.

Speedball and lemmings - a very cool time. Ah, the days where every (Amiga) computer was the same spec - rather than the hardware chaos of today. You would have to deal with assembly language though - ouch!

Couldn't believe I bought an Atari ST rather than an Amiga - but there again I was put off by a mate telling me they crashed and had a slower processor (and it was probably more expensive).

Is Marble Madness in that vid - I didn't watch it all. That game made me really want an Amiga... but, I still couldn't afford one. :P

I bought an Amiga500 rather than an AtariST simply because of a screenshot of Deluxe Paint II which came with the Amiga, versus the crappy looking paint app on the Atari. That was the decision maker.

Played 55 of those games religiously back in the day.

Those games, a handful I'd played, still look great today.

Actually there are missing quite a lot:

... Mind Walker, Firepower, Archon, Guild of Thieves, Marble Madness, Elite, The Sentinel, Buggy Boy, Dungeon Master, Rock'n'Roll, The Bard's Tale, Tower of Babel, Carrier Command, Winter Games, Silkworm, Portal, Twintris, Gauntlet, Deluxe Galaga, Cadaver, Flood, Millennium2.2, Shanghai, ...

I used to love playing Jimmy Whites Whirlwind Snooker too! :)

Dabz

I counted 34 that I played myself at least once on the Amiga, although I didn't own all of them myself.

Now after watching that video I have both the "Cannon Fodder" themesong and Chuck Rock stuck in my head. :-?

I didnt recognize 3 of them.. otherwise I played them (and could name them) all.

Does this make me a nerd?

There was only 4 games there I didn't recognise. Happy times. Makes me want to play Populous 2 right now.

A friend and I looked at the specs of Atari and Amiga and concluded that the Amiga had better graphics capability (by far) and they had the same RAM (512K) and similar processors but the Amiga had much better sound capability + I loved my C64, so I got an Amiga. It was a logical choice. My mate down the road had an ST and it was "interesting" to me, but it simply wasn't as good.

Carrier Command is what decided me to buy an Amiga. Isaw a friend playing it, but I never owned it.

Spent weeks playing Elite Deluxe, M1A1 Abrahams and Mig-29.

And, Syndicate is the ONLY game I've ever completed. Fantastic.

Bas

I used to work with an Amiga owner sitting on my left, and an ST owner sitting on my right. They were constantly aguing, and I was caught in the middle, with my lowly Speccy! :P

Don't get me started on the Syndicate ending. I play the bloody thing for weeks for it to reward me with the friggin' credits. I mean I've just conquered the world with four men and a flamethrower, and all I get is the credits. Hell a 'Well done' message would have been something, but no I get five minutes of credits...

Now Flashback, there's a game with a good ending. The ending to Flashback was the only reason I bought Fade to Black. Or any of the Monkey Islands, they're games worth completing.

The ST had a faster CPU so was better for 3d stuff (speedwise) in games like Carrier Command. It also had a built-in midi port to plug-in a synth.

Apart from that the Amiga was a better machine all-round - but I remember it being quite a bit more expensive so I had no choice.

Nice memories. :) I played games on the Amiga, but coded games on the ST. Had several games on "ST Review" mag. It was very fun! The ST and 68000 were a joy to code on. My assembly code with tons of macros looked more like basic programming. The STe line added a "blitter chip" and some hardware functions, which took it to a level similar to the Amiga, but never really caught on. The Amiga had the best games, the ST line did ok in the productivity and music world for a while. ;)

The ST VRAM organization was horrible.

yeah ST was popular with musicians for years after it's "prime" due to it's MIDI port, until PCs became good enough for that role.