Best Amiga/ST games

romperstomper

Hi guys,

There is always a mame/C64 thread or the snes/megadrive thread but I want to know what games you rate the high on the amiga/st (all versions).

Personally I couldn't get enough of:

Buggy Boy
Sensible World of Soccer

whats your $0.02?

LoGiE

1.Speedball 2 from the Bitmap Bros (Ice cream! Ice cream!)
2.Frontier from Konami (Well sort off from Konami)
3.SWOS from Sensible Software
4.Lemmings from DMA (Released on Amiga first before any other format!)
5.Frontier from Konami (Well sort off from Konami)
6.Assasin from Team 17 (Very underated classic)
7.Alien Breed 2 from Team 17 (Nice Shooter)
8.Moonstone:A hard days Knight from Mindscape (YOU MUST TRY IT)
9.Cannon Fodder from Sensible Software (Nuff said)
10. Carrier Command from Firebird (What a game for it's time)
11. Lotus Turbo Challenge II from Gremlin
12.IK+
13. Rick Dangerous 2
14. Swiv
15. Power Monger

I could just go on and on.... I've left out any Arcade converstaions because you can get the arcade versions now but there were some great ports for the Amiga.

We all know the Atari ST was a piece of ****e so I won't even bother listing any games because 9/10 games were better on the Amiga (Waits for Flame)

Big Knox

LoGiE wrote:

1.Speedball 2 from the Bitmap Bros (Ice cream! Ice cream!)
2.Frontier from Konami (Well sort off from Konami)
3.SWOS from Sensible Software
4.Lemmings from DMA (Released on Amiga first before any other format!)
5.Frontier from Konami (Well sort off from Konami)
6.Assasin from Team 17 (Very underated classic)
7.Alien Breed 2 from Team 17 (Nice Shooter)
8.Moonstone:A hard days Knight from Mindscape (YOU MUST TRY IT)
9.Cannon Fodder from Sensible Software (Nuff said)
10. Carrier Command from Firebird (What a game for it's time)
11. Lotus Turbo Challenge II from Gremlin
12.IK+
13. Rick Dangerous 2
14. Swiv
15. Power Monger

I could just go on and on.... I've left out any Arcade converstaions because you can get the arcade versions now but there were some great ports for the Amiga.

We all know the Atari ST was a piece of ****e so I won't even bother listing any games because 9/10 games were better on the Amiga (Waits for Flame)

Some classics there!!

Had an ST but it doesen't come close to the Amiga!!

Personal favs are

Shadow of the Beast 2
SWOS
Cannon Fodder
Eye of the Beholder 1&2
Speedball 2
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Monkey Island 2
Night Breed
James Pond : Robocod
Zool

Ahh the memories!!!

Ibjiba

My absolute favorites were (and still are) Settlers and Frontier. I played those games forever. And multiplayer on Settlers with split screens was amazing!

daedalus2097

Settlers, Frontier, Zeewolf, Monkey Island 1 & 2, Worms: The Director's Cut is still fantastic, Super Stardust, Theme Park, Sim City 2000, The Chaos Engine had some good moments, SWOS, Cannon Fodder, Payback (pretty recent by Amiga terms - released in 2000 I think), Formula 1 Grand Prix, Dune II, Colonization, Railroad Tycoon, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Syndicate, Birds of Prey, and heaps more that I can't remember at the moment but took up sizeable chunks of my life at one time or another...

All in the AGA (A1200 or A4000) versions where availabe as quite often the OCS versions (A500 or A600) were on a par with the ST versions...

Ibjiba

daedalus2097 wrote:

Settlers, Frontier, Zeewolf, Monkey Island 1 & 2, Worms: The Director's Cut is still fantastic, Super Stardust, Theme Park, Sim City 2000, The Chaos Engine had some good moments, SWOS, Cannon Fodder, Payback (pretty recent by Amiga terms - released in 2000 I think), Formula 1 Grand Prix, Dune II, Colonization, Railroad Tycoon, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Syndicate, Birds of Prey, and heaps more that I can't remember at the moment but took up sizeable chunks of my life at one time or another...

All in the AGA (A1200 or A4000) versions where availabe as quite often the OCS versions (A500 or A600) were on a par with the ST versions...

You're right I forgot about that one.

Peter Collins

AMIGA CLASSICS:

Kick Off 2
- greatest football game of all time...played from 1992 to 2001. It's available to play online for free now and there still is a World Cup!

Speedball 2
- our disk had a chunk gone out of it where it had been lobbed at the brothers head after yet another heated match

Formula One Grand Prix
- never watched motor racing until I played this. Never miss a GP now...incredible sim for it's time

Superfrog/Magic Pockets/Robocod
- absolutely amazing platformers, as good as anything Nintendo did

Sensible World of Soccer
- the damn thing had Bohs in it....again, amazing to play and very addictive

SWIV/Warzone
- turn up the telly and listen to that f*cking onslaught unfold...nearly went deaf playing 2-man Warzone

Other notable mentions:

John Madden's Football, First Samurai (Hallelujah!!), Another World, Heimdall, Bart v the Space Mutants (despite it being too difficult), Dizzy Diamonds, Deluxe Paint III, Troddlers, Lemmings, Lotus 1 and 2, Vroom,

So, so many brilliant games.

The amiga's quality of output has never been bettered - a golden age of games

Ah how I miss it so.........

Retr0gamer

Peter Collins wrote:

Superfrog/Magic Pockets/Robocod
- absolutely amazing platformers, as good as anything Nintendo did

They are in your swiss better than the nintendo platformers.

Peter Collins

Retr0gamer wrote:

They are in your swiss better than the nintendo platformers.

Didn't say they were better.

Retr0gamer

Well they aren't anywhere near as good either.

Peter Collins

Retr0gamer wrote:

Well they aren't anywhere near as good either.

That's your opinion, not mine.

If I've learned anything on boards, it's that there's no point in trying to convince otherwise.

Anyone who hasn't played them, give them a try.

LoGiE

Personally I loved Robocod! Pick Pick up a Penguin and all that lark...

daedalus2097

LoGiE wrote:

Personally I loved Robocod! Pick Pick up a Penguin and all that lark...

Yeah, it was fun and had some nice in-jokes, but never really appealed to me. Can still remember the music today (must make a ringtone out of it actually ). Superfrog on the other hand was great! Played it to death at the time, and it was incredibly polished and smooth... Magic pockets was a weird one, played it a fair bit but again didn't get into it the way I did Superfrog.

And while Deluxe Paint III was class, was it a game? DPaint IV and V were such an improvement though, still use the likes of DPaint, PPaint and TVPaint for editing web graphics and photos - so much simpler than fiddling around with Photoshop or Fireworks...

ciaran76

Speedball 2
Rick Dangerous 2
Championship Manager
Civilization
Wings
Shadow of the beast
Flashback
Stuntcar Racer
Syndicate
Silkworm
Another World

I loved "Escape from the planet of the robot monsters" too but only as a 2 player game.

carbsy

Arcade Pool (Team 17) - Still looks and plays great to this day.
Player Manager (Anco) - Kick Off 1 action with a management twist - brill!
Kick Off 2 (Anco) - can't get enough of this still hehe
SWOS (Sensible Software) - ahem!
Cannon Fodder (Sensible Software) - War never been so much fun eh?

Well these are the main ones I used play to death.

LoGiE

Superfrog was a good game but didn't it come on a whopping 4 disks? I think Team 17 released excellent games for the most part. Shame all they do these days is milk there 'Worms' titles.... I wonder if that kid that came up with the original idea is still getting royalties?

daedalus2097

Andy Davidson... Probably not to be honest, I'm sure they'd have seen to that a long time ago. Maybe he is though, in which case he's loaded, even if the newer versions tend to be tripe!

A lot of good games came on many disks, you couldn't get Superfrog onto only one. Monkey Island 2 came on 11, as did Indiana Jones I think... That's why god gave us hard drives Superfrog was on CD-ROM too which helped with the disk swapping and loading times too...

daedalus2097

Actually, now that I think of it, Worms was originally a submission to a home programming competition in Amiga Format (in which it came second) but then he approached Team 17 himself to get it published. That makes me think it would've been on Team 17's terms, meaning they probably got the rights to the Worms franchise in the deal.

0ubliette

Atari ST FTW. We had better sound effects than any poxy amiga
Best games hmm..

Addams family
Zany Golf
Zak McKracken & the alien mindbenders
Monkey Island
Supercars 2
Turrican 2
The Dizzy games
Populous
Mega lo mania
Rick Dangerous
Lemmings
Last ninja 2
F15 strike eagle 2
Bomb Jack
Space Harrier
Captain blood
Speedball 2

mental07

WAR! Has never been so much fun! Ah yes, I loved Cannon Fodder.

Anyone remember Midnight Resistance? There was one level where you had to kill some sort of brain, with snots coming out of it (I think....memory's slightly fuzzy...)

miles teg

New Zealand Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YViBVvjn5K4

monkeyfudge

Anyone remember K240?

One of the best strategy games of all time. You'd have to mine asteriods and you could build massive bases in order to defender self form aliens mining the same asteroid field. All the asteroids were constantly moving too so there was always the risk of collision... you could fit your asteroid with massive engines though.

Crowman

Anyone remember K240?

Is that the same game as Fragile Allegence on PC?

If so brilliant game...

monkeyfudge

Crowman wrote:

Anyone remember K240?

Is that the same game as Fragile Allegence on PC?

If so brilliant game...

I just came across Fragile Allegiance now while looking for info on K240. I'd never heard of it... but it seems to be a spiritual successor to K240. It certainly seems to have nicer graphics.

K240 was a little bit on the blocky side:



It had a cool intro though.

LoGiE

I loved k240! You could but blue prints to loads of different technologies. Hours of fun and it took me a while to figure out what to do because I didn't have any instructions!:)

Zulu

Syndicate, bloody class

mental07

Prince of Persia in 2D on the Amiga