Amiga Forum

There's always been something magical about the Amiga. Maybe it's because it's graphical and sound abilities were so far on from the 8-bit days we'd been holding on to for so long, perhaps it was the flexible architecture that allowed developers to squeeze so much power out of it, maybe it was the slew of triple-AAA classics that in many cases live on to this day (recent 360 versions of both Sensible Soccer and Worms). There's also the social aspect, like getting together with your friends for another SWOS tournament, or a quick blast at Lotus Turbo Challenge, or knocking a few balls around in Archer McLean.

But really it's the first machine that showed us what gaming was capable of. From the giant intro to Shadow of the Beast 2, to the multicoloured head of Tutankhamun that graced the cover of a million Deluxe Paint manuals.

There's rose tinted glasses involved in any look back at gaming past, but few would deny how much fun the games on this machine are to this day. Chaos Engine. Ruff & Tumble. Kick Off 2. Robocod. I could go on.

What do you remember of those classic days?

When I wasn't ripping tunes using my Action Replay II cartridge and remixing them in ProTracker, I was playing a bunch of great games. Anything by the Bitmap Brothers was instant genius in my book, and classics from the end of the Amiga era by developers like Team 17 like Superfrog and Alien Breed kept me entertained for hours.

And who can forget the classic Digital Illusions pinball games? Man, those were the gaming days.

Test Drive. Is the first game i played once we upgraded to an amiga. I have fond memories of messing around on the machine.

It wasnt long after that we got an IBM, which was the future.

None of them beat the C64 in my opinion.

gotta love turrican 2 best music ive ever heard in a video game

Apple G2 I think, it was the bomb

Amiga sucks. Atari ST forever! Mwuhahahahaa!

;D

No but seriously, the Amiga is an awesome computer that will be remembered forever. Games like Turrican, Lethal Xcess, Amberstar, Ambermoon... wow I think I need to buy an Amiga again.
Being the Atari fan that I am, the Atari ST will always be my favorite computer, but the Amiga is a close second.

There is something magical about the AMIGA , the games were just so memorable and many of the cross-platform titles that were on the Amiga often had some advantage to the console version. And I'm glad some developers from back then are still going and bringing out re-makes.
 
Games that stick out for me are Rodland , Moonstone: A hard days knight, IK+, Pinball Dreams and I really enjoyed Frontier: Elite II .   But in all honesty I could list games forever here, I played far far far too many. Prehaps I can contribute to Giant bombs growing Amiga section.  Nice avatar Jonnyboy btw :)