So long, and thanks for all the Chris! 😢 But for real I am genuinely going to miss your presence on the show, sir. Wishing you a most relaxed and fulfilling time in the world of retro going forward, wherever that takes you!
Clintttttttttt!!!!!!! I love you man. Do you know I actually had an MT32? I wrote quite a number of awful songs with it but had a drummer who was very much into Rush program the most incredible drum track with it. I'll send it to you if you want to give it a listen. We did it bar by bar and I still don't know how we managed to pull it off but it's ridiculous in a good way.
Tears in my eyes. Both from laughter and the leaving. Chris I know you won't be far. But really did enjoy your presence on TWiR. Bless Wolf for making such an appearance . And so sorry I made poor Dave repeat the already far too long answer.
I love that Amiga game list (and bye bye, Chris!). After I left EA as their in-house composer in the UK, I shared an office at Pinewood Studios with Richard Joseph, and I can remember he had recently worked on the music of Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer, and we started working on a few PC titles together during that 'transition' time, including Theme Park World / Theme Park Inc. (sequels to Theme Park.. me doing the music, Richard doing the sound), while I continued working on EA Sports games, etc. Very interesting times. (I can also remember Jon Hare coming by quite a lot to jam with Richard!).
yes, I worked on Freelancer for Chris/Digital Anvil in Texas (Martin Galway was audio director at the time), and met Chris's brother Erin while working in the UK on Privateer 2 (and also the somewhat forgotten RTS, Conquest: Frontier Wars)
Thanks Chris...and all the best...and as a fellow Pom in Oz I sympathise with the challenges of keeping connected with the 'life shaping' things from a childhood and a place that's now so long ago and so far away! Play More in '24 brother!!
Yeah I'm an expom in Brisbane. Got a room of Spectrum, BBC, Amstrad, C64 and Amiga stuff... Reminds me of home. I felt Chris represented me best on the panel due to the pom in oz thing. Thanks for all the content mate. I visited The Cave last year while i was visiting my family. It rocks :)
@@SophieFeet I'm in Brsisie too...apart from the PS4 at home I get my arcade fix from regular (ish) visits to Netherworld in the Valley with an old school friend
If I recall correctly, I must have started watching TWiR regularly around the time Chris joined. So for me it was always the three of you. Good luck Chris, hope you will show up again as a guest from time to time!
Bye Chris,it’s been fun having you as a co-host. I’ve found myself watching your channel,fun videos btw, so it’s only fair I subscribe to your channel 👍
What a great surprise for Chris to see Wolf. I guess Maria Whittaker was unavailable, imagine seeing Chris's face turn beetroot red if she had turned up.
As someone who worked on a indie store as boxed pc games were turning into Steam code dispensers, you have no idea how often I had to explain why I couldn't buy them (even if with sone you *could* skip Steam altogether or why were some console games marked "no code" because it was at the time some games had features locked behind a one-use code.
Computer Exchange started to reject peoples copies of games that require you to register a key decades ago. Since Half Life required Valve. Vintage times. Since then Xbox One tried to have users register games to accounts in 2013, but the public backlash was so big and they reversed it. So in modern Console gaming there is absolutely still a market for re-used games. CeX forever!
Was mentioned 3 eps ago. Basically I love the show and catching up with the guys to record, but the prep work takes a lot of time and I just need the head space now. I just want to go back to enjoy playing games when and how I feel like it, rather than as an ongoing obligation.
Why am I crying 😢 I hardly know you guys😂. You are (were) the 3 Amigos (Amiga's lol) of Retro Gaming! Love this show. Dave is my Fave but you guys are all awesome. Chris, I will see you over on 500Amiga for sure!!!(subscribed). You are one clever bloke ❤. As for you other 2 blokes I'm not going anywhere. Get Clint back on ,,, maybe as a regular,,, lol.
@005AGIMA Chrissssssss. I love you man!!!! You 3 Amiga's have a vibe although Dave clearly an ST guy, so you best get yer butt back on Retro from time to time and keep our little bald buddy in line!
Guardian is one of my favourite Amiga games, I encourage all you you to sit down and give it a proper play. It's a great arcade 3d open world shooter. Does probably need the accelerator to get best use out of it but I'd argue its the cd32s killer app. One of the few games that uses the full cd32 joy pad. I'd also put the cd32 version above the 1200 version for the outstanding cd audio. But speaking of the joy pad, the amiga fighter that always gets overlooked is fighten spirit. Uses the 4 face buttons and has a proper combo system for special moves (a lot of them copy sf2). I came to Amiga late with the 1200 being my first machine so perhaps I'm more invested into the aga titles but I do feel that people will often look to the older ocs/ecs titles as the only thing there was.
I really have enjoyed this. I apologize for not being more involved in this community but I love these shows and I will miss Chris. Also, my actual last name is "Wolf" so I will be watching for Chris too. 😉
moonshine racers was fun enough for a little bit. it's not lotus though, if it was moonshine racers with lotus quality then it would be like anti-chasehq or should I say chased-hq
Obsidian made the amazing two Pillars Of Eternity cRPGs in the last few years 🤩 Ahhh I know: we should make a list of all the games Chris professed to not having played during his tenure here, that would for a good 70-80 episodes on 005 Agima for him to work his way through 😂
I played pillars of eternity just after finishing a couple of other crpgs and I thought it looked good but the itemization was really boring and the storytelling was too descriptive (show, don't just tell, damn it!) Eventually I decided to drop it. Had way more fun with games like - pathfinder kingmaker, - pathfinder wrath of the righteous, - bg 1, bg 2, (and yes, later on bg 3) - Neverwinter nights, - icewind dale Pillars was just boring in comparison.
Stumbled across this channel today, Neil your man cave room is amazing, looks just like the old Software Plus stores we used to have in the UK in the 80's a delight to see. I also love Dave's big box collection and Chris's Batman pack Amiga, Barbarian 1/2 with Posters!!. Just recently aquired a copy of Barbarian with poster (The rarer hard to find bit), imagine cover art like that being released in 2024 there would be uproar.
Welcome to the channel :) Nice to meet another proud poster owner. I have 1 and 2. I "need" the C&VG poster as it's actually not the same image as the one in the game box. It's the same as the image ON the box itself, where Maria is sitting not standing. Gotta catch em all.
@@005AGIMA I intend to get the Barbarian 2 (Drax) big box with poster as well when i see a copy, as you know its hard to aquire. I suspect i will have to piece the game + poster together as you rarely get both items sold together in good condition. I have never seen the C&VG one yet, id imagine thats very very rare as magazine supplied. Good luck on your quest :)
With Game stopping trade in it leaves CEX and Cash Converters as the main 2 high street resellers. I don't know what it's like in all CEX stores but our local one only does bank transfer which takes up to 5 working days to go through whereas Cash Converters is cash in hand.
The best Amiga game (considering developed by and for the Amiga, innovation (in all points), storytelling, aesthetic, puzzles vs action, duration, art work, emotion...), hands down: Another World.
I will never understand people saying that Shadow Of The Beast hit boxes are not good, or that the gameplay is not good. Even worse, people stating "SOTB is just a tech demo, but also a bad game". Most of the times I found that those people are the ones that could never beat the game without a trainer, and they blamed the failure to the "technical issues". I managed to beat the game without any technical problems at all. Was it hard? Yes. Was it unfair? Nope. Every time I died it was my fault. I drew a map during my gameplay sessions, so I would not fall into the few traps here and there, and I would find my way through the next stage. 🙂
Lol £5,95 Was the Regular Price Of Latest Games In My Day, How Times Have Changed:/ My Local 80`S Computer Shop Had A Folder Full Of Games Inlays To Select Your Games And ULTIMATE Games Was The Game To Buy :) Good Old Days!
worst change ever :( This will hit hard on my saturdays! Maybe Chris can return next week? Anyways: Thanx for all the great saturdays Chris! See you over at your channel :)
@@atomnetton ffe has sort of an ending. you can miss the prerequisities though to get the mission. it's pretty fun. also you can play frontier first encounters in opengl/direct3d as some insane guys decompiled the sourcecode and hacked the support in.
Sorry to see Chris go great fella. I’ve never traded in at Game either. I trade in games at my local independent shop Games N More here in Wigan. My only positive memories of Game are getting Dragon Force for the Saturn from there (still have it) and seeing the N64 Pod. Preferred the independent shops of the past and the one I know now.
Ive been using GAME since the early 90s when i had an Amiga theyve always been ok for me but on occasions i do look around if something is better priced. I found trade ins really useful as it allowed me to gain reward points which were better in value cause trading for cash i never bothered with cause it was practically peanuts then i could use them to knock down price on various consoles ive managed to get so i didnt have to pay full price its a real shame theyre discontinuing it but they did say you can still gain and use reward points normally via purchasing new games and consoles but not through GAME Elite which i never knew anyone use that. I dont get why Shadow Fighter is in the top 10 on that list that doesnt make any sense???
Amiga list is lacking Frontier as Dave said. Super stardust, Project-X, F-18 Interceptor (as Chris said) and Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix... And Indy 500!
indy 500 should be on the list. it was probably best on the amiga too, if you consider the time it came out for pc and what pc's people had? indianapolis 500 was really ahead of it's time only topped by microproses grand prix
Another game-genre absolutely nowhere near this "bizarre" Amiga list, of which I wasted weeks and months of my youth playing, would be: Supremacy, Millennium 2.2, Deuteros, and Mega·Lo·Mania... "We've advanced a tech-level!" 😁 - I did play Supremacy on the C64 first. I have seen a semi-good MS-DOS PC port of Mega·Lo·Mania. But I have never seen Millennium 2.2 or Deuteros on any other system than the Amiga. - But then again that might just be me never being anywhere near an Atari ST (not by choice). Because I could easily imagine many of those games being equally as brilliant on the ST. Fun Simon the Sorcerer (1 and 2) fact: in the talkie versions, Simon was voiced by Chris Barrie... aka the ultimate smeghead; Rimmer, from Red Dwarf.
I never take much notice of top 10,20 etc etc as there very very subjective. I haven't played most of those games in that top 14. Because I was in to flightsims more than anything else.
Take care Chris. Neil should have got you to say some words like 'water' just to prove you'd picked up an accent. As a Surrey boy who was a beach bum in Oz in the 90s you still have a SE England accent. Obvs I don't have an accent ;-)
I would like to point out that the best version of "Shadow of the Beast" is on an Atari... The Atari Lynx. (honestly, it's top notch and portable for the ten minutes your batteries hold out)
AVP, Tempest 2000 and Raiden were also good games on the Jag. Yes physical games are definitely being phased out, but the Spectrum Next (being a modernized version of a retro computer) bucks that trend with physical and digital options. *spoiler* Aw nice touch having Wolf on there but sad to see Chris go.
No Amiga game list is acceptable it it doesn't have at least one of these: Burntime, 1869, Ambermoon, Blade of Destiny or Reunion. Sadly few people seem to have ever heard of any of these.
37:48 "I saw someone let PCBWAY 3D print something in metal?! 🙃🤔😵💫" wow guys. is it me, or are You guys that RETRO? 🤓 serious, under what kind of rock are we living. LOL or am I the only one thats suprised. Powder Bed Fusion. Known by many names, powder bed melting is currently the most common type of metal 3D printing. These machines distribute a fine layer of powder over a build plate and selectively melt a cross section of the part into the powder layer.
I get what you are saying, but even at my level of interest in 3D printing, which dates back to a time when one of the magazines I subscribed to - and I have an idea that it may have been so long ago that it was Amiga Format - became mildly obsessed with the Rep Rap project, I have only ever seen the occasional article on metal printing. Probably most of them in the accompanying 'magazine' to the weekly parts to build my first actual printer... the infamous V3!
@@johnd6487 I must admit, sometimes I take somethings for granted to soon, and I can imagine not everyone heard of 3D metal printing , but it made me laugh a little bit, to easely I guess thinking these famous TH-camrs where somewhat flabbergasted by the possibility of metal printing. me myself only have an Anet A6 3dprinter which is pretty outdated by now and a simple alfawise W10 resin printer. and stopped printing due it's to much of a hassle and not that much satifying to print. but I am a CNC-miller by profesion working with Fehlmann/DeckelMaho/Mikron milling machines, and then sometimes I have to do some post production on some 3D printed parts also to meet some precise measurements and better surface finish yet not really reached by 3d printing, and oftenly see 3d printers doeing metal on the regular two yearly based expositions and exhibitions around the metal fabrication industry. 😉👍
I'm aware of metal fragments in filament, as well as stone and other materials, but I wasn't aware of full metal 3D printing. It's not really something I've seen, even with Richard tinkering in his 3D print farm here. Cool to learn though! - Neil
it's been around before repraps for home fdm. there's other non metal 3d printers too that work fairly differently from home printers and aren't likely to be home friendly for a while though, like inkjet style material deposition. there have been some efforts at DYI metal and nylon powder fusing printers though, but you can't really easily get around that it gets messy. you can also have pcbway(and other on demand) CNC things for you out of metal. it all just gets kinda expensive for hobby stuff really quick!
@@ThisWeekinRetro I must admit, sometimes I take somethings for granted to soon, and I can imagine not everyone heard of 3D metal printing , but it made me laugh a little bit, to easely I guess thinking that you guys were somewhat flabbergasted by the possibility of metal printing. me myself only have an Anet A6 3dprinter which is pretty outdated by now and a simple alfawise W10 resin printer. and stopped printing due it's to much of a hassle and not that much satifying to print. but I am a CNC-miller by profesion working with Fehlmann/DeckelMaho/Mikron milling machines, and then sometimes I have to do some post production on some 3D printed parts also to meet some precise measurements and better surface finish yet not really reached by 3d printing, and oftenly see 3d printers doeing metal on the regular two yearly based expositions and exhibitions around the metal fabrication industry. 😉👍
Anyone who puts shadow of the beast in a top any number list hasn't ever played it 💩 Amiga top ten... ish 1) settlers 2) megalomania 3) simon the sorcerer 4) xj220 5) lemmings 6) sensible soccer 7) eye of the beholder 2 8) wings 9) secret of monkey Island 10) cannon fodder 11) speedball 2 13) stuntcar racer 14) batman the movie 15) dune 2 16 super off road racer. Wolf awesome 🥰. Chris definitely burnt game down 🤣😂. Not been in a game shop for years, called in a cex yesterday in Scarborough, nothing but sadness, misery and bad body odour ☹️. Chris who?
Wasn't planned to be like that. It was more not just wanting to dump and run. When you leave a job, you usually work a few weeks more after quitting to help the transition. Wasn't meant to be dramatic. Thanks for watching.
Which period of gaming was good? For me it was PC games of the late nineties. I had an Amiga but never had a game that really made it worth it. I don't play Amiga games since.
@@005AGIMA I think I was 15,so about 1993. The games I liked were might and magic 6 , fallout 1 , xcom, jagged alliance. Just very fun games that were also in depth. The Amiga had k240 and some other strategy games but they were nowhere near as good. The mega drive had buck Rogers rpg which was great. I think the Amiga might have had it also. I think moonstone could be the best Amiga game but that still isn't as good as xcom etc.
Handed in my notice. Worked my (made up) notice period. Felt normal to me. I didn't expect it to get mentioned every time, but it did and that's how things played out. Thanks for watching.
So long, and thanks for all the Chris! 😢
But for real I am genuinely going to miss your presence on the show, sir. Wishing you a most relaxed and fulfilling time in the world of retro going forward, wherever that takes you!
Thanks Clint, and love your work mate.:)
Clintttttttttt!!!!!!! I love you man. Do you know I actually had an MT32? I wrote quite a number of awful songs with it but had a drummer who was very much into Rush program the most incredible drum track with it. I'll send it to you if you want to give it a listen. We did it bar by bar and I still don't know how we managed to pull it off but it's ridiculous in a good way.
@@vertigoone-gb9tg (Psst... not the time and place, fella)
Tears in my eyes. Both from laughter and the leaving.
Chris I know you won't be far. But really did enjoy your presence on TWiR.
Bless Wolf for making such an appearance .
And so sorry I made poor Dave repeat the already far too long answer.
Thanks Rich. At least now I'll have time to get my paperrounds done.
I love that Amiga game list (and bye bye, Chris!). After I left EA as their in-house composer in the UK, I shared an office at Pinewood Studios with Richard Joseph, and I can remember he had recently worked on the music of Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer, and we started working on a few PC titles together during that 'transition' time, including Theme Park World / Theme Park Inc. (sequels to Theme Park.. me doing the music, Richard doing the sound), while I continued working on EA Sports games, etc. Very interesting times. (I can also remember Jon Hare coming by quite a lot to jam with Richard!).
did you do Freelancer James? After Elite that is my fave cosmosim. Did you get to work with Chris Roberts?
yes, I worked on Freelancer for Chris/Digital Anvil in Texas (Martin Galway was audio director at the time), and met Chris's brother Erin while working in the UK on Privateer 2 (and also the somewhat forgotten RTS, Conquest: Frontier Wars)
Cheers to whomever got the cameo, top move and made the show.
That Cameo was gold :D
Thanks Chris...and all the best...and as a fellow Pom in Oz I sympathise with the challenges of keeping connected with the 'life shaping' things from a childhood and a place that's now so long ago and so far away! Play More in '24 brother!!
Thanks mate. It's a challenge but the toys help bring the connection to both the past, and the motherland.
Yeah I'm an expom in Brisbane. Got a room of Spectrum, BBC, Amstrad, C64 and Amiga stuff... Reminds me of home. I felt Chris represented me best on the panel due to the pom in oz thing. Thanks for all the content mate.
I visited The Cave last year while i was visiting my family. It rocks :)
@@SophieFeet I'm in Brsisie too...apart from the PS4 at home I get my arcade fix from regular (ish) visits to Netherworld in the Valley with an old school friend
If I recall correctly, I must have started watching TWiR regularly around the time Chris joined. So for me it was always the three of you.
Good luck Chris, hope you will show up again as a guest from time to time!
Thanks mate. There will always be 3 of them. Neil, Dave (Left audio) and Dave (Right Audio) :D
@@005AGIMA make sense, this way he can talk about both Ultima and Atari ST superiority at the same time :D
Thanks for being a great host Chris!
Thank you for listening/watching.
Thanks for all the kind words everyone. I'll be back as a guest I'm sure. This is comment 101, so remember, 2+2=5 because the party say it does. :D
Still remember Chris' first show 2 years ago, time flies! Best luck in the futur Chris!
Thanks :)
Bye Chris,it’s been fun having you as a co-host. I’ve found myself watching your channel,fun videos btw, so it’s only fair I subscribe to your channel 👍
Thanks Peter. Happy to have you along.
What a great surprise for Chris to see Wolf. I guess Maria Whittaker was unavailable, imagine seeing Chris's face turn beetroot red if she had turned up.
I couldn't believe the Wolf message lol. Gold.
As someone who worked on a indie store as boxed pc games were turning into Steam code dispensers, you have no idea how often I had to explain why I couldn't buy them (even if with sone you *could* skip Steam altogether or why were some console games marked "no code" because it was at the time some games had features locked behind a one-use code.
Computer Exchange started to reject peoples copies of games that require you to register a key decades ago. Since Half Life required Valve. Vintage times. Since then Xbox One tried to have users register games to accounts in 2013, but the public backlash was so big and they reversed it. So in modern Console gaming there is absolutely still a market for re-used games. CeX forever!
Will miss Chris. Watching the pod now, do they eventually mention where Chris is going? Or just seeking a quieter life?
He's going to live on a farm
Was mentioned 3 eps ago. Basically I love the show and catching up with the guys to record, but the prep work takes a lot of time and I just need the head space now. I just want to go back to enjoy playing games when and how I feel like it, rather than as an ongoing obligation.
Great job Chris! You’ll be missed. Enjoy spending some more quality time with the Agima.
Will do mate, and the Electron, Spectrum, G7000, 2600, N64 ect.
Why am I crying 😢 I hardly know you guys😂. You are (were) the 3 Amigos (Amiga's lol) of Retro Gaming! Love this show. Dave is my Fave but you guys are all awesome. Chris, I will see you over on 500Amiga for sure!!!(subscribed). You are one clever bloke ❤. As for you other 2 blokes I'm not going anywhere. Get Clint back on ,,, maybe as a regular,,, lol.
Aww don't cry. The show will get even better going forward. :)
@005AGIMA Chrissssssss. I love you man!!!! You 3 Amiga's have a vibe although Dave clearly an ST guy, so you best get yer butt back on Retro from time to time and keep our little bald buddy in line!
Bye Chris, will miss your humour! I was lucky enough to 'meet' Wolf on a film set where i got 'killed' by him pn screen. Genuinely nice bloke :)
Oh man that's awesome!
All the best Chris, will miss you
Thanks mate :)
Bye Chris, you will be missed.
Thanks mate. Don't miss me though. I'm note dead....I don't think anyway.
Just now (as I was off for a couple of weeks): Chris, oh Chris... 😔. But, fully understand. Best of wishes 😊
Thanks mate :)
A little bit teary eyed after that. Farewell Chris, hope to see you again soon!
www.youtube.com/@NeverKnowsBest this is the channel I mentioned
Guardian is one of my favourite Amiga games, I encourage all you you to sit down and give it a proper play. It's a great arcade 3d open world shooter. Does probably need the accelerator to get best use out of it but I'd argue its the cd32s killer app. One of the few games that uses the full cd32 joy pad. I'd also put the cd32 version above the 1200 version for the outstanding cd audio.
But speaking of the joy pad, the amiga fighter that always gets overlooked is fighten spirit. Uses the 4 face buttons and has a proper combo system for special moves (a lot of them copy sf2).
I came to Amiga late with the 1200 being my first machine so perhaps I'm more invested into the aga titles but I do feel that people will often look to the older ocs/ecs titles as the only thing there was.
I love hearing about games that actually made use of the AGA machines.
Looking forward to Chris's guest appearances.
25:19 A quote to hold on to, Neil, "You used to get games on the Amiga that also came out on the ST, and the ST kinda held it back" - Dave '24 ;)
I really have enjoyed this. I apologize for not being more involved in this community but I love these shows and I will miss Chris. Also, my actual last name is "Wolf" so I will be watching for Chris too. 😉
Thanks for watching. Can I ask, what's the time Mr Wolf?
@@005AGIMA currently 05:47 EST. 😁
moonshine racers was fun enough for a little bit. it's not lotus though, if it was moonshine racers with lotus quality then it would be like anti-chasehq or should I say chased-hq
Fairwell Chris, all the good laughs and fun you've brought to the show wont be forgotten
Thanks mate.
End of an era. Will continue to get my Chris dosage via 005 agima 😄. Look forward to seeing who next weeks special guest is.
Thanks Ed. Keep up the awesome work on your channel too :)
cheers! You’re too kind 😄. Have a goodun.
Knights of the Sky and Thunderhawk I lost hours on, on my ST then A1200.
Take care Chris. You are an Aussie in my eye.
Thanks, and glad you see me as an Aussie even if the government still dont 🤣
Obsidian made the amazing two Pillars Of Eternity cRPGs in the last few years 🤩
Ahhh I know: we should make a list of all the games Chris professed to not having played during his tenure here, that would for a good 70-80 episodes on 005 Agima for him to work his way through 😂
I played pillars of eternity just after finishing a couple of other crpgs and I thought it looked good but the itemization was really boring and the storytelling was too descriptive (show, don't just tell, damn it!)
Eventually I decided to drop it.
Had way more fun with games like
- pathfinder kingmaker,
- pathfinder wrath of the righteous,
- bg 1, bg 2, (and yes, later on bg 3)
- Neverwinter nights,
- icewind dale
Pillars was just boring in comparison.
How many Ultima's came out? because you can add all of those to the list :D
@@005AGIMA I couldn't tell, I never player any of them 😂
Stumbled across this channel today, Neil your man cave room is amazing, looks just like the old Software Plus stores we used to have in the UK in the 80's a delight to see. I also love Dave's big box collection and Chris's Batman pack Amiga, Barbarian 1/2 with Posters!!. Just recently aquired a copy of Barbarian with poster (The rarer hard to find bit), imagine cover art like that being released in 2024 there would be uproar.
Welcome to the channel :) Nice to meet another proud poster owner. I have 1 and 2. I "need" the C&VG poster as it's actually not the same image as the one in the game box. It's the same as the image ON the box itself, where Maria is sitting not standing. Gotta catch em all.
@@005AGIMA I intend to get the Barbarian 2 (Drax) big box with poster as well when i see a copy, as you know its hard to aquire. I suspect i will have to piece the game + poster together as you rarely get both items sold together in good condition. I have never seen the C&VG one yet, id imagine thats very very rare as magazine supplied. Good luck on your quest :)
Thanks and welcome
I made a custom boot for my 1 meg a500 back then so that it booted directly into syndicate from HD and would use less memory and run very smoothly.
First time I've heard anyone say the preferred XJ220 to Lotus, I thought I was the only one in the world! Music was amazing!
Chris doing the time honored tradition of doing no work on the last day, especially for the sponsor.
The only thing I forgot to do was drink beer.
My (insert superlative) Amiga game ever would be Millennium 2.2. I don't care whether it was good or bad I LOVED it.
Hmmm. That's one I've never heard of before but definitely looks like my kind of game. And there's a sequel too!
@@atomnetton top tip. Grazer to the asteroids. Bottlenecked me for weeks because I had bno manual.
Yep, Deuteros was also a great follow up.
@@danscannell9353 OMG I had no Idea Deuteros existed! Thanks! I am gonna be busy the next few days
With Game stopping trade in it leaves CEX and Cash Converters as the main 2 high street resellers.
I don't know what it's like in all CEX stores but our local one only does bank transfer which takes up to 5 working days to go through whereas Cash Converters is cash in hand.
My mum caught me having a crafty forward slash forward slash.
Some good choices, but my memorable Amiga games are Stunt car racer, Alien Breed and Another world. I also liked Dynablaster.
The best Amiga game (considering developed by and for the Amiga, innovation (in all points), storytelling, aesthetic, puzzles vs action, duration, art work, emotion...), hands down: Another World.
Great show :) Thx Chris 🙏
I will never understand people saying that Shadow Of The Beast hit boxes are not good, or that the gameplay is not good. Even worse, people stating "SOTB is just a tech demo, but also a bad game".
Most of the times I found that those people are the ones that could never beat the game without a trainer, and they blamed the failure to the "technical issues".
I managed to beat the game without any technical problems at all. Was it hard? Yes. Was it unfair? Nope. Every time I died it was my fault.
I drew a map during my gameplay sessions, so I would not fall into the few traps here and there, and I would find my way through the next stage. 🙂
Nice! :) One day I'll complete it. And then number 2. And then I'll sell my house so I can afford number 3.
Amiga:
1. Ufo enemy unknown
I love cex for retro games. I get Megadrive and SNES games regularly. The prices are eBay competitive too.
The end of an era :'( See you on 005 of course, Chris, but TWIR won't be quite the same without you.
Being sacked for not knowing things for things you're not even selling makes perfect sense....🥴
No we were selling Videos at the time, but had only just started.
Sad to see Chris go, but we can watch his YT channel, so he's still with us :-)
Yay :D
Lol £5,95 Was the Regular Price Of Latest Games In My Day, How Times Have Changed:/
My Local 80`S Computer Shop Had A Folder Full Of Games Inlays To Select Your Games And ULTIMATE Games Was The Game To Buy :)
Good Old Days!
RVF Honda was a great racing game on the Amiga, I don't know why it doesn't make more top lists.
That is indeed a fantastic game.
worst change ever :( This will hit hard on my saturdays! Maybe Chris can return next week? Anyways: Thanx for all the great saturdays Chris! See you over at your channel :)
It'll be a great change. Nice flow between 2 presenters, and leaves room for some great guests going forward.
Frontier Elite 2 should be up on the list. I've been playing it 30 years and still can't finish it ;)
it's awesome
Is there an ending? I've lost hundreds of hours in that game.
@@atomnetton No there is no ending, it plays on forever. The best space game ever made.
@@atomnetton ffe has sort of an ending. you can miss the prerequisities though to get the mission. it's pretty fun. also you can play frontier first encounters in opengl/direct3d as some insane guys decompiled the sourcecode and hacked the support in.
Sorry to see Chris go great fella. I’ve never traded in at Game either. I trade in games at my local independent shop Games N More here in Wigan. My only positive memories of Game are getting Dragon Force for the Saturn from there (still have it) and seeing the N64 Pod. Preferred the independent shops of the past and the one I know now.
Thanks mate.
Sliders is another name for White Castle Burgers & Cheese Burgers. Yummy.
Fusion, Gods, Magic Pockets, The Chaos Engine, The Killing Game Show, my top five Amiga Games.
So Chris has a history of being sacked. 🤣🤣🤣
Going to miss you here Chris. I'll seeya over at 005Amiga though. 😉
Thanks Jenni :) Glad to have you watching me.....are you standing next to Wolf?
@@005AGIMA 🤣🤣🤣
While I loved Ultima 7, I was disappointed by the Silver Seed addon. I'm a lot less disappointed now I know how much it's worth!
Ive been using GAME since the early 90s when i had an Amiga theyve always been ok for me but on occasions i do look around if something is better priced. I found trade ins really useful as it allowed me to gain reward points which were better in value cause trading for cash i never bothered with cause it was practically peanuts then i could use them to knock down price on various consoles ive managed to get so i didnt have to pay full price its a real shame theyre discontinuing it but they did say you can still gain and use reward points normally via purchasing new games and consoles but not through GAME Elite which i never knew anyone use that.
I dont get why Shadow Fighter is in the top 10 on that list that doesnt make any sense???
Amiga list is lacking Frontier as Dave said. Super stardust, Project-X, F-18 Interceptor (as Chris said) and Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix... And Indy 500!
indy 500 should be on the list. it was probably best on the amiga too, if you consider the time it came out for pc and what pc's people had? indianapolis 500 was really ahead of it's time only topped by microproses grand prix
Going to miss John.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Loved this.
Not having Simulcra on the list seems a "crime"! I wish it would be remade, BTW.
See ya later Chris, and thank you for the fish!
Thanks mate :)
Another game-genre absolutely nowhere near this "bizarre" Amiga list, of which I wasted weeks and months of my youth playing, would be: Supremacy, Millennium 2.2, Deuteros, and Mega·Lo·Mania... "We've advanced a tech-level!" 😁
- I did play Supremacy on the C64 first. I have seen a semi-good MS-DOS PC port of Mega·Lo·Mania. But I have never seen Millennium 2.2 or Deuteros on any other system than the Amiga.
- But then again that might just be me never being anywhere near an Atari ST (not by choice). Because I could easily imagine many of those games being equally as brilliant on the ST.
Fun Simon the Sorcerer (1 and 2) fact: in the talkie versions, Simon was voiced by Chris Barrie... aka the ultimate smeghead; Rimmer, from Red Dwarf.
I never take much notice of top 10,20 etc etc as there very very subjective.
I haven't played most of those games in that top 14.
Because I was in to flightsims more than anything else.
Take care Chris. Neil should have got you to say some words like 'water' just to prove you'd picked up an accent. As a Surrey boy who was a beach bum in Oz in the 90s you still have a SE England accent. Obvs I don't have an accent ;-)
wader doesn't have a T, and ends with a rising infliction even if not as part of a question. :D
Disco Elysium is superb
I would like to point out that the best version of "Shadow of the Beast" is on an Atari... The Atari Lynx. (honestly, it's top notch and portable for the ten minutes your batteries hold out)
Bye Chris!!!
Bye Chuck :(
Every time I play turrican I feel like it's really missing 8 way firing on the normal gun.
AVP, Tempest 2000 and Raiden were also good games on the Jag. Yes physical games are definitely being phased out, but the Spectrum Next (being a modernized version of a retro computer) bucks that trend with physical and digital options. *spoiler* Aw nice touch having Wolf on there but sad to see Chris go.
Thanks mate. And also I agree re AvP.
@@005AGIMA definitely, but as you're a SWIV fan I thought the (very impressive) arcade conversion of Raiden would be right up your street.
No Amiga game list is acceptable it it doesn't have at least one of these: Burntime, 1869, Ambermoon, Blade of Destiny or Reunion. Sadly few people seem to have ever heard of any of these.
#lesschoresin24
Yeah it sucks when they don't train you properly
We need a bald Brummie #baldbrummies
Bye Chris
Bye bye Billy....I mean Kris.
I will miss Chris are you getting somebody to replace him Neil.
Thanks mate.
Now he's not podcasting he has more time to not play any games
Such a huge back catalogue of games to not play!
@@ShishakliAus 005nagamin
And I'll use that time to not play them all. Today I'm not playing Ultima.
37:48 "I saw someone let PCBWAY 3D print something in metal?! 🙃🤔😵💫" wow guys. is it me, or are You guys that RETRO? 🤓 serious, under what kind of rock are we living. LOL
or am I the only one thats suprised.
Powder Bed Fusion. Known by many names, powder bed melting is currently the most common type of metal 3D printing. These machines distribute a fine layer of powder over a build plate and selectively melt a cross section of the part into the powder layer.
I get what you are saying, but even at my level of interest in 3D printing, which dates back to a time when one of the magazines I subscribed to - and I have an idea that it may have been so long ago that it was Amiga Format - became mildly obsessed with the Rep Rap project, I have only ever seen the occasional article on metal printing. Probably most of them in the accompanying 'magazine' to the weekly parts to build my first actual printer... the infamous V3!
@@johnd6487 I must admit, sometimes I take somethings for granted to soon, and I can imagine not everyone heard of 3D metal printing , but it made me laugh a little bit, to easely I guess thinking these famous TH-camrs where somewhat flabbergasted by the possibility of metal printing.
me myself only have an Anet A6 3dprinter which is pretty outdated by now and a simple alfawise W10 resin printer. and stopped printing due it's to much of a hassle and not that much satifying to print.
but I am a CNC-miller by profesion working with Fehlmann/DeckelMaho/Mikron milling machines, and then sometimes I have to do some post production on some 3D printed parts also to meet some precise measurements and better surface finish yet not really reached by 3d printing, and oftenly see 3d printers doeing metal on the regular two yearly based expositions and exhibitions around the metal fabrication industry.
😉👍
I'm aware of metal fragments in filament, as well as stone and other materials, but I wasn't aware of full metal 3D printing. It's not really something I've seen, even with Richard tinkering in his 3D print farm here. Cool to learn though! - Neil
it's been around before repraps for home fdm.
there's other non metal 3d printers too that work fairly differently from home printers and aren't likely to be home friendly for a while though, like inkjet style material deposition.
there have been some efforts at DYI metal and nylon powder fusing printers though, but you can't really easily get around that it gets messy.
you can also have pcbway(and other on demand) CNC things for you out of metal. it all just gets kinda expensive for hobby stuff really quick!
@@ThisWeekinRetro I must admit, sometimes I take somethings for granted to soon, and I can imagine not everyone heard of 3D metal printing , but it made me laugh a little bit, to easely I guess thinking that you guys were somewhat flabbergasted by the possibility of metal printing. me myself only have an Anet A6 3dprinter which is pretty outdated by now and a simple alfawise W10 resin printer. and stopped printing due it's to much of a hassle and not that much satifying to print. but I am a CNC-miller by profesion working with Fehlmann/DeckelMaho/Mikron milling machines, and then sometimes I have to do some post production on some 3D printed parts also to meet some precise measurements and better surface finish yet not really reached by 3d printing, and oftenly see 3d printers doeing metal on the regular two yearly based expositions and exhibitions around the metal fabrication industry. 😉👍
Sega? Top is road rash, second is sonic 1/2 it's all the same except helicopter tails, and third is toe jam and earl.
Shadow of the Beast 3 is a much better game than the original.
Any amiga top list that doesn't include Dungeon Master is just insufficient imo.
I´m with Dave, Shadow of the Beast is an ok game, it has good atmosphere but its way overrated
Well I didn't vote for Chrexit.
3 men enter. 1 man leaves....wait what?
Anyone who puts shadow of the beast in a top any number list hasn't ever played it 💩
Amiga top ten... ish
1) settlers
2) megalomania
3) simon the sorcerer
4) xj220
5) lemmings
6) sensible soccer
7) eye of the beholder 2
8) wings
9) secret of monkey Island
10) cannon fodder
11) speedball 2
13) stuntcar racer
14) batman the movie
15) dune 2
16 super off road racer.
Wolf awesome 🥰.
Chris definitely burnt game down 🤣😂.
Not been in a game shop for years, called in a cex yesterday in Scarborough, nothing but sadness, misery and bad body odour ☹️.
Chris who?
You what Dave? Get back to your N64 mate. I know you love that consol :D :P
The worst Chris-miss 😢
Awww Chris-miss. Wait that could have another meaning...
It's much better to rip the band aid off quickly instead of all this prolonged melodramatic good-bye.
Wasn't planned to be like that. It was more not just wanting to dump and run. When you leave a job, you usually work a few weeks more after quitting to help the transition. Wasn't meant to be dramatic. Thanks for watching.
@@005AGIMA Hey Chris, thank you for taking part in This Week in Retro! You'll be missed.
CHRIS 😢 was SACKED in 1994 .
...and I'm not holding a grudge against GAME....honest :D
Sorry guys but had 2 Amigas and found them a soulless experience. Looking back I think of Defender of the Crown and that era.
Which period of gaming was good?
For me it was PC games of the late nineties.
I had an Amiga but never had a game that really made it worth it. I don't play Amiga games since.
Out of interest, how old were you when you got your first Amiga, and which year?
@@005AGIMA I think I was 15,so about 1993.
The games I liked were might and magic 6 , fallout 1 , xcom, jagged alliance. Just very fun games that were also in depth.
The Amiga had k240 and some other strategy games but they were nowhere near as good.
The mega drive had buck Rogers rpg which was great. I think the Amiga might have had it also.
I think moonstone could be the best Amiga game but that still isn't as good as xcom etc.
The opposite of an Irish goodbye certainly is the Australian Goodbye. Several weeks of preamble. 🫶🏻
Handed in my notice. Worked my (made up) notice period. Felt normal to me. I didn't expect it to get mentioned every time, but it did and that's how things played out. Thanks for watching.