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"Amiga Games, which were your favourite?"

for me the golden age of gaming was the amiga. I had hundreds of games for it. many of the games we have today came from that old system. i remember a few in particular :

walker : towards the end of the machines life, a superb side on blaster had you using the joystick to control a 50ft high walker, and the mouse aiming the cannon at idiots with m16s. finally you could be ed-209, and it worked brilliantly!

hired guns : for me the first multiplayer first person shooter. 4 of your mates could duke it out on the same screen (using the keyboard and joysticks), running from room to room lobbing grenades and kicking the crap out of each other.

hunter : massive 3d war game where you controlled one guy, and ran around a 3d polygon map stealing cars, boats, helicopters, tanks, bicycles, hovercrafts and anything. you had to complete missions which usually came second to running people over etc.

midwinter : incredibly atmospheric war game. you played a host of characters (switching between them), and travelled around a massive 3d island, using vehicles, cable-cars and what-not to get about. the goal was attack an invading army at its headquarters. brilliant for its time

north and south : lunacy as you choose a side in the american civil war, and beat your opponent by cutting off his train routes and having huge battles, involving cavalry, infantry and cannons. pure stupidity and a right laugh.

supercars 1 + 2 : birds eye view racing game, similar to micromachines, buy cars, do them up, buy silly weapons like homing missiles, and kill your friends.

syndicate (not wars) : one of my all time favourites. kidnap people, turn them into cyborgs, give them miniguns, and blast rival gangs and innocent people in a blade runner style world. ultra violent. ultra satisfying.

monkey island series : i know you can get it on the PC, but it really was a gem of a series.

silkworm : choose a helicopter or a jeep (or both with a mate), and blow things up in an r-type style side on shoot em up

can't think of any more off hand

call me a nostalgic old git but I thought these games were great.

So, if you had an amiga, what games were you mostly playing?

for me the golden age of gaming was the amiga. I had hundreds of games for it. many of the games we have today came from that old system. i remember a few in particular :

walker : towards the end of the machines life, a superb side on blaster had you using the joystick to control a 50ft high walker, and the mouse aiming the cannon at idiots with m16s. finally you could be ed-209, and it worked brilliantly!

hired guns : for me the first multiplayer first person shooter. 4 of your mates could duke it out on the same screen (using the keyboard and joysticks), running from room to room lobbing grenades and kicking the crap out of each other.

hunter : massive 3d war game where you controlled one guy, and ran around a 3d polygon map stealing cars, boats, helicopters, tanks, bicycles, hovercrafts and anything. you had to complete missions which usually came second to running people over etc.

midwinter : incredibly atmospheric war game. you played a host of characters (switching between them), and travelled around a massive 3d island, using vehicles, cable-cars and what-not to get about. the goal was attack an invading army at its headquarters. brilliant for its time

north and south : lunacy as you choose a side in the american civil war, and beat your opponent by cutting off his train routes and having huge battles, involving cavalry, infantry and cannons. pure stupidity and a right laugh.

supercars 1 + 2 : birds eye view racing game, similar to micromachines, buy cars, do them up, buy silly weapons like homing missiles, and kill your friends.

syndicate (not wars) : one of my all time favourites. kidnap people, turn them into cyborgs, give them miniguns, and blast rival gangs and innocent people in a blade runner style world. ultra violent. ultra satisfying.

monkey island series : i know you can get it on the PC, but it really was a gem of a series.

silkworm : choose a helicopter or a jeep (or both with a mate), and blow things up in an r-type style side on shoot em up

can't think of any more off hand

call me a nostalgic old git but I thought these games were great.

So, if you had an amiga, what games were you mostly playing?

Cannon Fodder.

After listening to the theme tune (one of the best ever, but probably not suited to today's "situation"), I had great pleasure in spraying the dead soldiers more, jsut to see them jump across the screen like undead lunatics.

war has never been so much fun

Sensible World of Soccer. Absolute legend of a game. The only thing I didn't like about it was you could get into debt so easily. It didn't affect the enjoyment though.

<- Lazarou -> wrote:
> war has never been so much fun

the pc intro sucked the music was so much better on the amiga

"go to your brother, kill him with your gun, leave him there, dying in the sun"

Ahhhh the Amiga truly was the golden age of gaming. Some of my favourites were:

Sensible World Of Soccer (best footie game ever. Was there a football team it didn't have in it)
Magic Pockets
Cannon Fodder
Golden Axe
Lost Vikings
Lemmings
Speedball 2

So many classics - My 10 favourite games on the Amiga were:

- Sensible World of Soccer
- Cannon Fodder
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Speedball 2
- Flashback
- Another World
- Striker
- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
- Body Blows
- Micro Machines

I've just got hold of UAE and about 100 old amiga games off the net.
Took me a while to set it up properly, but before long I was able to enjoy the likes of supercars 2, another world, flashback, lotus challenge, emerald mine(!), stunt car racer, cabal, operation stealth, xenon 2 etc etc etc.

ah, happy days.....

Oh my lord! Amiga fans! Let me join!

I grew up with amiga. What a classic. You are right to say it was the golden age. It was a perfect balance between graphics and gameplay, a balance that so many new games seem to get wrong.

I throw my mind back to all those games i played on the Amiga...

Lemmings. Never ever bettered on any format. Ever.

Cannon Fodder. Hilarious shooting action

North and South. The most amusing war ive ever seen.

It came from the Desert. Gripping storyline about an old B-Movie thriller

Monkey island. Pure pirate rubber chicken wielding comedy.

So many games. SO MANY. I could so easily list hundreds of games here that are equally brilliant, but these 5 stuck out the most. But the best thing was that back then Amiga bettered PC's on power, so all games from that era sparkled on all proud amiga owners. Thanks for the flashback. If i think about it anymore however ill have to go in my attic to dig it out again. WinUAE is too much of a bother.

Hmmm, Amiga eh? Haven’t heard that word in quite some time. Anyway, my 5 fav are probably as follows. Not in any order:

Speedball 2
Cannon Fodder
Zeewolf 2
Syndicate
Gravity Force 2 (A PD game that came on one of the cover disks of Amiga Power. It. Truly. Was. Great)