Happy 25th Birthday Amiga 500

bobbytables · 23-01-2012 1:58am #1

Around the time the C64 was still in it's prime we got this baby, with quicker loading times & admittedly some fantastic gaming moments. What games stand out in your memory...

For me: Shadow of the Beast 2, nightbreed, alien breed, monkey island 1&2, strider, turricain 2, xenon 2 megablast, crazy sue.

There's more, just need to think.

TechnoFreek · 24-01-2012 9:37am

bobbytables wrote: »

For me: Shadow of the Beast 2, nightbreed, alien breed, monkey island 1&2, strider, turricain 2, xenon 2 megablast, crazy sue.

There's more, just need to think.

Yeah, good choice in games there. Never heard of Crazy Sue before though.

Also Cannon Fodder (in my top 5 of all time), mega Lo mania, superfrog, lemmings, speedball 2, sensible soccer

Probably more as well I can't think of off hand

TechnoFreek · 24-01-2012 9:47am

Some more.....not necessarily exclusive to Amiga but awesome on the Amiga none the less

Bubba n Stix, Worms, Brutal Sports, Dreamweb, Premiere, Chaos Engine, Desert Strike, Flashback, Putty, Pushover, Heimdall 2, Global Gladiators, Elfmania, Assassin, Soccer Kid, James Pond 2, Alfred Chicken, Jurassic Park.....

eddhorse · 24-01-2012 5:26pm

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Yeah, good choice in games there. Never heard of Crazy Sue before though.

Also Cannon Fodder (in my top 5 of all time), mega Lo mania, superfrog, lemmings, speedball 2, sensible soccer

Probably more as well I can't think of off hand

Ive got Sensible Soccer, Meglomania and Cannon Fodder on this :

EDIT: Linkage : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sensible-Soccer-Plus-Plug-Games/dp/B000B600X0

Dale Parish · 24-01-2012 9:27pm

Please tell me Elite II works with a 500. I just bought one, with workbench, memory expansion and Elite II for that sole reason.
(reason I ask why it does is because I do not see it on the top games!)

eddhorse · 24-01-2012 9:28pm

Happy birthday Amigo 500, many many hours spent on sensible soccer !!

KeRbDoG · 25-01-2012 12:00am

Dale Parish wrote: »

Please tell me Elite II works with a 500. I just bought one, with workbench, memory expansion and Elite II for that sole reason.
(reason I ask why it does is because I do not see it on the top games!)

Yup, it works alright. Get ready for the slow frame rate when you get lots of stuff in view though

bobbytables · 25-01-2012 1:54am

Elite was legendary, as was Chaos Engine

Also played: Strider, James Pond, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis, Beneath a Steel Sky.

When I was 11 a mate of mine wanted to play John Madden NFL with voice commentaries. Needed the extra 512kb RAM upgrade to get the full experience. I helped him install it & we were in business. When i turned 30, I got that very same 512Kb memory unit in a framed case. It now features on my matle piece as a reminder of a seminal gaming moment from my youth.

Monkey Island series (despite coming on approx a dozen floppies) was a gem. If i recall on MI2 not long in to the game Largo hocks a loogie and you got to see it fly through the air in all it's glory, but not without changing disks twice during the sequence.

IMO like a good book you don't even notice the pages turning, disk changing & loading screens were inconsequential in times like that.

LoGiE · 25-01-2012 12:30pm

I sent hours on my Amiga...

Back when the sound on PC versions were crap...I'm looking at you, Dune II, Supremacy and Monkey Island.

Syndicate, IK+, Moonstone, Another World...I could go on and on. Thankfully WinUAE is alway installed on my laptop.

KeRbDoG · 25-01-2012 4:01pm

Syndicate - now there was a classic.
No other version came close to the Amiga version

Andrew76 · 25-01-2012 4:04pm

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Syndicate - now there was a classic.
No other version came close to the Amiga version

Loved that game. Spent countless hours playing it. The flamethrower was frickin awesome.

Taltos · 25-01-2012 4:06pm

I miss my Amiga

ronan45 · 27-01-2012 11:09am

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Syndicate - now there was a classic.
No other version came close to the Amiga version

Syndicate was GREAT.
I remember buying AMIGA POWER....AMIGA FORMAT...
Remember the big fancy boxes that they used to sell the games in the size of an old LP lol
Captain Planet

GODS amazed me......
I remember the Hype around ZOOL... ha ha the AMIGA was taking on the SEGA lol :rolleyes:

LOVED THAT FECKIN MACHINE