Oh yeah, all great games. Man.. You wouldn't believe how long I pondered what games I would put on this list. I started with a list of 50 and slowly eliminated until I had 5. I'm really not too happy with my number 5 choice. But, it was the very first open world game I ever played. It wasn't until the GTA's, Gun, and Red Dead, did I feel that same "openness" in a game. Still haven't beat it though. lol.
@@RetrogamerGenX I have a strong preference for arcade games. I was 10-13 maybe during the era of the arcade fad. There are some platformers I got into, but for the most part, my love of games is the arcade style games. Lemmings was a good choice, maybe even number 1 by sales at least. The SCUMM (Monkey Island is one of them) games I've never really tried, but they don't strike me as the kind of games I would like.
I hear ya man. I'm a little younger, not by much, but some of my favorite arcades are electro-mechanical. I caught the butt end of the Electro-Mech games being in the arcade. They always fascinated me. There were a lot of shooters I passed over. Number 5 was almost Blood Money. I loved that game. Yeah now that you mention it, I must like those Manic Mansion clones. I never really noticed how many SCUMM games I've played in the past. I even liked LA Noire which is, really the same thing, programmed in a shiny new modern engine.
@@RetrogamerGenX I remember playing electromechanical pinball games and a few shooters and a couple of others. But my playing EM games was largely contingent on bumming a quarter off my dad at a time when a quarter was at least somewhat actually money (cigarettes were 0.45/pk). I am fascinated by them to this day. But you just rarely ever see them. I had some EM toys as a kid, like Hit n Missile and Digital Derby, Atomic Arcade pinball and games like that. At some we had a pong machine, but it wasn't mine, it was "the family's." I got a Marx Table Tennis stand alone EM "pong" machine complete with a fake CRT, but it was quirky and so it got returned. Kind of like a full sized Blip if blip actually was well designed. It was discontinued quickly because of how unreliable it was, at least that's what I heard recently. My parents finally broke down and bought an Atari 2600 in 1981, when I was like 11 or 12. Most of the games I had were ports of arcade games. After that it 64 mostly arcade ports (though I also had a vic20). Between the ages of about 18 and 23, I almost never played video games (clubbing, girls, school and the like. This era, the late 80s/early 90s, late teen early 20s guys, at least the ones I knew, didn't really play video games). I missed that whole era, not entirely, but mostly. I bought a NES in this time, but only had a few games for it and only played occasionally. When I picked up games again, it was on the PC, games like Commander Keen. I didn't get my first Amiga until like 1997, long after it was a useful computer. I bought it at a flea market and included a bunch of arcade ports.
Ha ha.. Dude yes.. Digital Derby!! I had that as a kid. Had Blip too. Never had any problems with it. In these modern times, I have Tomy Digital Diamond the Baseball game in my collection. Sounds like me. By like 94ish it was cars, girls, and grownup bills to pay. No time for games really. Work, work, work, then lots of partying... I had the systems, but not many games as my time was spent doing other "things". 😉Hell, I remember hawk'n my entire collection of like 200+ NES games in like 1994 at a pawn shop for a down payment on a car. It wasn't until the PS2 that I got into gaming again. Then I guess you can say I got into "retro" gaming in the mid 2000's.
Nice list! The Amiga was a real beast! So many of my Genesis games back in the day, were conversions of Amiga classics.. they weren't always the best conversions, but most were serviceable enough!
Just off the top of my head, some games that were developed on Amiga and ported to Genesis: Sword of Sodan, Shadow of the Beast, Turrican, Zool, Worms... Technically, the Genesis wasn't too far from an Amiga. They both ran the on the Motorola 68000 architecture, both had custom sound and graphics chips. Sure the Amiga out performed the Genesis, but it was computer so it had too. But the Genesis had better controllers for sure. 🤣
If I had to pick 5 for the original Amiga, I'd go for Hired Guns, The Killing Game Show, RoboCod, Pinball Dreams, and Speedball II. All of them have amazing replay value.
Great picks man. I hear a lot of people say pinball dreams. I never got into the video pinball games because my dad had 2 real pinball machines at home when we were kids/teenagers. If I wanted to play pinball I just jumped on one of them. I have played pinball dreams 1&2 and I can see what the hype was about. They are some awesome games.
Owned an Amiga A500 growing up, yet can't remember Damocles🤔. I've still got an Amiga, yet I've also got a Super Console X-Pro. I've just looked at the Amiga section of games on this little emulsion-station & Damocles is there. Gonna see how it runs, thank you for the recommendation.
Cool man, I had an A500 first then because I did a lot of video and audio editing back then I bought an A2000 purely for its expandability. Damocles is a game you will either love or hate. I like it because of the story line of saving the galaxy, or is it the star system, been so long I can't remember. Also the open world aspect of the game. It's the first first person open world game I ever played. Lots of people don't like it because of how slow the frame rate is and how "bad" the graphics are, but if you can get past that, it's actually a pretty fun game. Which I still have never defeated.
I never owned an Amiga but one of the first computers I ever saw was one. There's such a unique look to Amiga computers, like a...This might not make sense "Ahead of its time colourful softness" Does that make any sense? Myself and a buddy watch Babylon 5 every Wednesday this summer, working our way through the series, and those graphics were made by "Amiga Toasters" (?) I think is the name. Anyways, the graphics on the show have the trademarked Amiga "Ahead of its time colourful softness" too.
Man, the Amiga was a beast. If it tells you anything, I used an Amiga 2000 which released in 1987, until 1996 when I got my first PC. Ugh.. And yep, mine had a Video Toaster card among several other Zorro cards, because even back then I dabbled in video editing. I was in my high school's journalism and yearbook classes, so having the Amiga was a very cool tool to have. I knew the Amiga did SFX for movie and TV, but I did not know Babylon 5's SFX's were made with Amiga too. Cool little bit of info to know, and knowing is half the battle. lol
Ah yes Zak McKracken was a cool game too. I didn't have it for Amiga, I had it for my C64 which I still had at the time. If I remember right I got it on the C64 because it was way cheaper. I've played the Amiga version, and I'd agree, awesome game.
This list needs Parasol Stars and Snow Bros and other good arcade games and arcade conversions.
Oh yeah, all great games. Man.. You wouldn't believe how long I pondered what games I would put on this list. I started with a list of 50 and slowly eliminated until I had 5. I'm really not too happy with my number 5 choice. But, it was the very first open world game I ever played. It wasn't until the GTA's, Gun, and Red Dead, did I feel that same "openness" in a game. Still haven't beat it though. lol.
@@RetrogamerGenX I have a strong preference for arcade games. I was 10-13 maybe during the era of the arcade fad.
There are some platformers I got into, but for the most part, my love of games is the arcade style games.
Lemmings was a good choice, maybe even number 1 by sales at least. The SCUMM (Monkey Island is one of them) games I've never really tried, but they don't strike me as the kind of games I would like.
I hear ya man. I'm a little younger, not by much, but some of my favorite arcades are electro-mechanical. I caught the butt end of the Electro-Mech games being in the arcade. They always fascinated me.
There were a lot of shooters I passed over. Number 5 was almost Blood Money. I loved that game. Yeah now that you mention it, I must like those Manic Mansion clones. I never really noticed how many SCUMM games I've played in the past. I even liked LA Noire which is, really the same thing, programmed in a shiny new modern engine.
@@RetrogamerGenX I remember playing electromechanical pinball games and a few shooters and a couple of others. But my playing EM games was largely contingent on bumming a quarter off my dad at a time when a quarter was at least somewhat actually money (cigarettes were 0.45/pk). I am fascinated by them to this day. But you just rarely ever see them.
I had some EM toys as a kid, like Hit n Missile and Digital Derby, Atomic Arcade pinball and games like that. At some we had a pong machine, but it wasn't mine, it was "the family's." I got a Marx Table Tennis stand alone EM "pong" machine complete with a fake CRT, but it was quirky and so it got returned. Kind of like a full sized Blip if blip actually was well designed. It was discontinued quickly because of how unreliable it was, at least that's what I heard recently.
My parents finally broke down and bought an Atari 2600 in 1981, when I was like 11 or 12. Most of the games I had were ports of arcade games. After that it 64 mostly arcade ports (though I also had a vic20).
Between the ages of about 18 and 23, I almost never played video games (clubbing, girls, school and the like. This era, the late 80s/early 90s, late teen early 20s guys, at least the ones I knew, didn't really play video games). I missed that whole era, not entirely, but mostly. I bought a NES in this time, but only had a few games for it and only played occasionally. When I picked up games again, it was on the PC, games like Commander Keen. I didn't get my first Amiga until like 1997, long after it was a useful computer. I bought it at a flea market and included a bunch of arcade ports.
Ha ha.. Dude yes.. Digital Derby!! I had that as a kid. Had Blip too. Never had any problems with it. In these modern times, I have Tomy Digital Diamond the Baseball game in my collection.
Sounds like me. By like 94ish it was cars, girls, and grownup bills to pay. No time for games really. Work, work, work, then lots of partying... I had the systems, but not many games as my time was spent doing other "things". 😉Hell, I remember hawk'n my entire collection of like 200+ NES games in like 1994 at a pawn shop for a down payment on a car. It wasn't until the PS2 that I got into gaming again. Then I guess you can say I got into "retro" gaming in the mid 2000's.
Nice list! The Amiga was a real beast! So many of my Genesis games back in the day, were conversions of Amiga classics.. they weren't always the best conversions, but most were serviceable enough!
Just off the top of my head, some games that were developed on Amiga and ported to Genesis:
Sword of Sodan, Shadow of the Beast, Turrican, Zool, Worms...
Technically, the Genesis wasn't too far from an Amiga. They both ran the on the Motorola 68000 architecture, both had custom sound and graphics chips. Sure the Amiga out performed the Genesis, but it was computer so it had too. But the Genesis had better controllers for sure. 🤣
If I had to pick 5 for the original Amiga, I'd go for Hired Guns, The Killing Game Show, RoboCod, Pinball Dreams, and Speedball II. All of them have amazing replay value.
Great picks man. I hear a lot of people say pinball dreams. I never got into the video pinball games because my dad had 2 real pinball machines at home when we were kids/teenagers. If I wanted to play pinball I just jumped on one of them. I have played pinball dreams 1&2 and I can see what the hype was about. They are some awesome games.
Owned an Amiga A500 growing up, yet can't remember Damocles🤔.
I've still got an Amiga, yet I've also got a Super Console X-Pro.
I've just looked at the Amiga section of games on this little emulsion-station & Damocles is there.
Gonna see how it runs, thank you for the recommendation.
Cool man, I had an A500 first then because I did a lot of video and audio editing back then I bought an A2000 purely for its expandability.
Damocles is a game you will either love or hate. I like it because of the story line of saving the galaxy, or is it the star system, been so long I can't remember. Also the open world aspect of the game. It's the first first person open world game I ever played. Lots of people don't like it because of how slow the frame rate is and how "bad" the graphics are, but if you can get past that, it's actually a pretty fun game. Which I still have never defeated.
I never owned an Amiga but one of the first computers I ever saw was one. There's such a unique look to Amiga computers, like a...This might not make sense "Ahead of its time colourful softness" Does that make any sense? Myself and a buddy watch Babylon 5 every Wednesday this summer, working our way through the series, and those graphics were made by "Amiga Toasters" (?) I think is the name. Anyways, the graphics on the show have the trademarked Amiga "Ahead of its time colourful softness" too.
Man, the Amiga was a beast. If it tells you anything, I used an Amiga 2000 which released in 1987, until 1996 when I got my first PC. Ugh.. And yep, mine had a Video Toaster card among several other Zorro cards, because even back then I dabbled in video editing. I was in my high school's journalism and yearbook classes, so having the Amiga was a very cool tool to have.
I knew the Amiga did SFX for movie and TV, but I did not know Babylon 5's SFX's were made with Amiga too. Cool little bit of info to know, and knowing is half the battle. lol
I bought secret of monkey island and finished it quickly. So didn't think much of it. I preferred Zack mckraken
Ah yes Zak McKracken was a cool game too. I didn't have it for Amiga, I had it for my C64 which I still had at the time. If I remember right I got it on the C64 because it was way cheaper. I've played the Amiga version, and I'd agree, awesome game.