28:00 I have only played Body Blows on IBM compatible PC, so clearly it was not Amiga exclusive. Music is completely different, but I actually prefer the version I had (I don't know, maybe it's simple Adlib music? instead of tracker music?) over the Amiga one, quite possibly for nostalgic reasons.
Oh sweet nostalgia, thy grasp is unbreakable... Yeah, I get that, there are games I remember being soooo good, that I fear trying them out now, as I know for a fact that objectively speaking they're average at best, and I just keep them stored in my memory as those little gems of my youth. :)
I agree that the original worms had a certain charm that did not translate well into high-res graphics. Also, 1997's Worms Director's Cut was an Amiga exclusive an a defnite version of pixel-art worms. Or low-res worms really...
Doman shows there was some great work coming from countries other than the US, UK & Germany but also that games from outside those 3 countries were largely ignored in those countries. Same with Lost in Mine. Fight of the Amazon Queen is amazing & plays great on the Amiga but I’d moved to PC by that time & played it on PC because of the perception that it was so much better. Gloom Deluxe was so impressive but it needed AGA & again by that time many people like me had moved to PC but if like me you’re rediscovering the later Amiga games it’s a fantastic play, as are Virocop & Super Skidmarks which is the best of it’s genre. Hang your head in shame for that “it’s a blast” pun. 😄 So TeenAgent wasn’t based on the awful American movie? That perceived link can’t have helped it? Pinball Illusions is fantastic on Amiga & PC, the hole series leading up to it are some of my all time favourite games Sensible Golf & World of Soccer v1.1 are absolutely worth going back to the Amiga for if you have the chance. Zeewolf 2 looked impressive in it’s day but yeh, it hasn’t aged well. Thanks for this, it’s a fun one to cover. There were some great games that came out so late in the system’s life cycle & it’s fun to see what was there after many of us had moved on.
I loved Doman and given the fact that Amiga only had a few decent walking beat'em ups, this one really stood out. Sure, the loading was annoying but the gameplay loop and interchangable weapons with different attacks were really fun. Lost in Mine is awesome, I didn't played it back then, in fact, first time I played it was probably around 2010 and it's just great. I think of it similarily as I do about Benefactor. It's a great title that never got the recogniotion it deserved. Thanks for watching!
Good video and analysis of where the Amiga was in 1995. That part about Dungeon Master II and Fallout 4 felt oddly familiar. I really enjoyed Fallout 3 and even if it wasn't the best RPG ever, it felt great to be able to explore the wasteland in 3D. Then came New Vegas and it did pretty much everything that Falliout 3 did, but better (in terms of being a RPG). Fallout 4 with its settlement building and empty boring locations felt like a huge step backwards. That power armor suddenly was more a smartbomb rather than an upgrade you had to work hard for just showed how far the series has strayed from its roots. Fallout 4 is indeed not a bad game, but it feels a lot more like Rage than Fallout 1 & 2.
You felt that way, or I felt that way, as I can't tell for sure why you did, about Fallout 3 because in the end it was a role playing game in FPS shooter clothing. But it was that story-based deep, often requiring you to make difficult choices RPG. Fallout 4 was just a decent shooter, with weak shooting mechanics and interesting setting and story line. Not side quest or no real choices to be made. And I agree, it does feel kinda like Rage. New Vegas, was near perfect role play-wise, and a mess technically speaking but that's all down to Bethesda giving Obsidian 17 seconds to complete the game. ;) Since both are in hands of Microsoft, I'm having high hopes. All that after Starfield though as I'm really interested what they do with that.
I took around a minute/minute-and-a-half long bit from your video to portrait the game I was talking about and couldn't run. There's also a banner in the video during that gameplay nothifing that it came from your channel. I hope that you will like the video and the notification is the weel-deserved props for your awesome original video. :)
@@104d_3rr0r_vince Thank you! As much as I always try to record myself as much as I can, it's not always possible. Thankfuly YT's retro gaming community is pretty stellar and you, sir, are no different. :)
Oh, dang it... I'll make sure it doesn't happen again with the next video. Must've been a reversed edit when my editing software crashed. And I just didn't notice. :/ Thanks for letting me know!
@@OldAndNewVideoGames No problem...it was a thoroughly enjoyable series, as an Amiga owner in the 90's. I just wish Legends of Valour had made the cut, but it was otherwise top notch.
@@johnnyredpillseed Thank you! 1990 on DOS will be pretty decent selection too. Some obvious games and few I didn't even thought would make it to the list, simply cause I forgot they even existed. Re-discovering some of those gems is an adventure in itself too.
I had tonnes of fun with Xtreme Racing. Unfortunately my brother wasn't at all in to it (I'm not even sure he played it, I don't remember having two players with him). I think I had the data disk too, because I vaguely remember toying with track editing. On an A1200 with a bit of Fast RAM it ran smoothly enough at a decent resolution (probably not the highest 1x1 res), and there were a nice variety of weapons which added interest to the decently satisfying car handling. One small disappointment I had about the final game was that it didn't include any snow maps; the coverdisk that caused me to buy the game featured a demo of it on a snow track, which I thought was great. Lovely snowy scenes always made me think of Christmas, and there were approrpiately placed icy patches. I was a huge fan of SWOS, Colonization and Breed 3D, as well as enjoying Gloom, USM, Super Skidmarks (though this improvement of the first game didn't wow me as much as discovering Skidmarks on a 1993 coverdisk, what an original Amiga title it was), Worms and Virocop. I also enjoyed the coverdisk of Super Tennis Champs ("That was a great rally!"), with its cheap but cheerful voices, well drawn and fun graphics, humourous nature and top gameplay (my brother and I enjoyed this loads in two player). I quite liked Kingpin and Citadel on coverdisks too, and Zeewolf 2. I have to disagree about the 3D graphics having aged badly, I think those with few textures aged better than 90s textured 3D, on any system, and I was impressed by the Zeewolf games.
I really did the disservice to XTreme Racing in my Best Amiga Racers video but I couldn't change the pixel size back then and just didn't remember from the '90 how it was done. Now, I do know, and I can appreciate it. I mean, the did not came from pixels alone but having a bit higher resolution than the very basic one was a game changer. But I suppose similar things can be said about most of my early videos covering best games on the Amiga as I've done them more or less from memory. And for this series "10 Years of..." I actually had to check quite a few more games than I remembered. And I'm glad I did cause it not only made those better but also introduced me to games I forgot or never knew about. So, perhaps, I'll remake those top 10's at some point... But first, after the next 2-3 shorter videos I'm gonna run "10 Years of MS-DOS Gaming" coverin 1988 to 1997. Started working on some reviews for games already for that first year. It should be fun too. SWOS I liked in management mode, which is probably something most wont understand but I liked the manager-lite approach to it and absolutely sucked at playing it, so this was a neat middleground for me. Colonization I love to bits. I actually enjoyed it more than the first Civilization. Not more than the other ones, but definitely more than the first. Perhaps because it was such a polished experience and with some of the most incredibly well-fit music. Breed 3D and Gloom I played mainly either at friends house or via emulation so while I like them (Gloom's successor especially), I didn't really spend as much time at them as at other games. Super Skidmarks is brilliantly simple and infinitely playable with friends. Alone, not so much. Worms was probably the last game I played on my Amiga before moving to PC, though that was a year or year and a half later than it released. So longevity was definitely not its weak point. Super Tennis Champs was a discovery for me, never knew about it before I made the series. And I do enjoy it much more than other tennis games on Ami. So, while not surprising to those who played it, those who didn't should give it a go, as it was an unexpected gem and dethroned Great Courts 2 in my opinion. Kingpin I played with a buddy of mine having beers while talking about fantasy books that we've read so it will always have a sweet spot in my memories. Zeewolf 2, same as one, sadly is not something I enjoyed. Or do today. But you know, everyone like something else, otherwise, if we all liked the same things, World would be boring and we'd have nothing to talk about. Yeah...
@@OldAndNewVideoGames With SWOS, you definitely aren't alone. My brother preferred it like that, because he wasn't so good at actually playing and I too sometimes liked to just be purely the manager (which could be quite hard if I recall, it was easy to run low on money). I just this minute remembered something - was it possible to become the national team manager? I think it was, and then you had the massive SWOS database to select your players from. Colonization was, as you say, polished. Really nice graphics and music - once again the Amiga shining with its audio - but the one thing that annoyed me in Col (and Civ 1) was that enemies could just plant their units outside your colony/city while at peace and get in the way. Other than that though, it was a very good experience, one of my favourite Amiga games. I look forward to the MS-DOS review. I finally got a PC shortly after going to uni at the turn of the century so don't know first hand what PC DOS gaming was like (apart from one or two sessions at friends' houses).
@@danyoutube7491 I think it was possible to be a nation manager though I remember that from PC's version, so it had to be one of the latter updates... '95/'96 perhaps? My biggest gripe with Civ (all of them up to civ 4) was that a singular unit could take over city, regardless of its size or that unit's size for that matter, as long as there was no units stationed in that city. So, a ancient warrior could take over a modern city - 20 in size - if it just went on its square. That was plain silly. But 5 and 6 don't have this issue. Oh, despite configuration shenanigans, it was amazing, especially 1990+. Before around 1992/1993 when most if not all games run in 32-bit protected mode and had their own separate .exe files that allowed for configuration of your GPU and Sound Card for the game - or the game to use those to be preciese - you had to quite often edit autoexec.bat and config.sys files by hand to prepare your system "for" the game to be run. These two files were the first two running on MS-DOS start-up. It was annoying at times but it actually tought me so much, that I doubt I would've efer learned if games would run just as they do now, by double-clicking on an icon or in the Steam launcher. Luckily, it's tons easier to run them now in DOSBOX, especially with a good front-end to have it set-up to kinda Steam-like experience. I may make a how-to video on that at some point as many of these titles are really worth re-playing. Titles like first Fallout, Gene Wars, Warlords 2, to name a few... Oh, yeah, and Heroes of Might and Magic, both the first one and second. Cause the series, despite what some may try to push, did not start with third game. ;)
X-Treme Racing was awesome and imho a good Mario Kart substitute. Pretty nice graphics and it played well. We couldn't ask for much more in 1995, imho.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh? Oh! My bad, didn't even notice this was a different thing. Sorry. What a pointless release, this one seems. Especially the AGA only thing.
@@DeckerFI It's OK. It's still a good game just like you said, pointless release. There was nothing in it justifying the requirement for AGA and all it really did is alienated majoroty of potential players that were still on OCS/ECS.
It would be more accurate to say that Java was released in 1996. It was announced in 1995, but it wasn't officially or widely released until January 1996.
Thanks! There's still couple left in the DOS series to compete. But they're longer. And the 1996's one should be out hopefully either end of next week or beginning of the following one.
I've now watched and listened to every one of these videos. It's been really interesting and I very much enjoy your style of commentating. In one vide you said you were not Italian. I was wondering what nationality were you? Thx. (Just bought my first Amiga this month. A1200 and it's away being cleaned and re-capped and modified just now).
I'm glad you liked them. I've an identical but more polished series for 10 years of DOS gaming too, and just started working on the C64. First episode should be released this coming week. Oh, and I'm Polish.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I'll check out the DOS videos next week. I'm in my 40s so I lived lots of the gaming experiences you mention in your videos. Keep up the good work. Cheers.
@@stevenross-watt8640 Thanks! And it seems we may have had similar gaming experiences. Though I suppose the piracy may have reigned in Poland a bit longer than anywhere else (C64/Amiga). And while I had mostly copied games back then, I only have originals now. Life is funny that way. :)
Well, sadly TH-cam changed over the last few years and what was possible before is not necessarily now. In short, I'd be battling with the algorithm, and it's an uphill battle already. I also can't ever use videos for Bubble Bobble with it's iconic music cause they get (at least for me) instantly flagged for CI. :(
@@OldAndNewVideoGames i understand yt gotten worse, and we all know we played them. But at least a mention of Hollywood Poker Pro would have been nice since Chris Hülsbeck made the music for it xD
LEMMINGS series... - LEMMINGS - OH NO! MORE LEMMINGS - LEMMINGS 2: THE TRIBES ...were the best games, i have ever played on my Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. ALL NEW WORLDS OF LEMMINGS did not hit on me at all - it was too simple, too easy, and has only three worlds: Classic, Shadow and Egypt. ARCADE POOL is an excellent snooker game. I had it on my Amiga 500. ATR: ALL TERRAIN RACING is definitely the racing game, i have ever played on my Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️🕹️. I still want to play COLONIZATION 😹👍. In fact, CIVILIZATION is a legendary classic game 😺👍. DOMAN looks gory 😹. It's like BARBARIAN: THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR meets GOLDEN AXE 😹😺👍. I still want to play FLIGHT OF THE AMAZON QUEEN. It looks pretty awesome for an Point 'n click adventure game 😺👍🕹️. One of my friends had GLOOM on his Amiga 1200 back in the late 1990's. It's kinda messy, but still cool Doom clone 😺👍. INHERIT THE EARTH: THE QUEST FOR ORB is definitely one of my favourite games 😺👍. I had it on my old PC as the CD-ROM version with english speech audio. I wish, i could play it again 😹😸😺👍. Also, it inspired me to draw my own furry comic arts 😺🐰🦊🐻🐼🐺🐨🐹🐵🐯🐭🐷🦝🐶🐮🐍🐉🐀🐁🐏🦛🦇🦅🦉🦦🦈🐟🐧🦞🦀🕷️🐜🐛🦆🦍🦏🐘 ODYSSEY looks so amazing, i got to give a try 😺👍🕹️. PINBALL ILLUSIONS is OK - only because, i like Babewatch table 😹👍. PINBALL DREAMS and PINBALL FANTASIES are still the best 😺👍. SENSIBLE GOLF is a brilliant golf game, and i still have it on my Amiga 500 in the original box release 😺👍. SENSIBLE WORLD OF SOCCER is still the best soccer game 😺👍. SKIDMARKS is a brilliant racing game on the Amiga 😺👍. WORMS is a good game on the Amiga, but the PC and PlayStation versions are much better than the Amiga version 😺👍🕹️. Once again, thank you for this awesome retrospective Amiga game video of 1995. 😺👍🕹️
Thank you for watching and your quite acurate observations! :) And yeah, I too, did not fell for All New World of Lemmings. Not a bad game, but not my cup of tea.
WORMS is a good game on the Amiga, but the PC and PlayStation versions are much better than the Amiga version Can't agree with this, Worms TDC is the ultimate version of the orignal game and it's an Amiga exclusive
@@Harp00nX I agree Barry- Worms looked a bit different on PC and I didn't like the look of the worms quite so much- they looked skinnier and less charming. What was so much better about those version, in Ari's opinion? I am not aware of them having anything the Amiga didn't except slightly nicer backgrounds (and DC, being AGA only, had nicer graphics than the ECS Worms original). The first Worms also had the brilliant ability to make your own levels in Deluxe Paint, which I actually preferred to DC's simpler in-game map creator because with Deluxe Paint you could choose any shape and colour that you wanted and be more creative.
Man, this was the heyday of my Amiga time, I look back at these games very fondly. Flink looked pretty damn amazing thanks to Henk Nieborg's graphics, and I played Worms for an incredibly long time with my mate. The way you could rename your worms was stupid and very funny. Also, at this time I had a CD32 with an SX-1 expansion. If you had a (music) CD in the drive whilst playing worms it was playing the music from the CD. I don't know if that was an official feature or just an accident. Was pretty amazing, though.
I spent so much time playing worms with my friends back in the day, couple of them actually and we played vs PC, that we would just by the layout of the generated map and our starting locations could tell who's gonna win each match. Before we even started playing. It was great!
Thank you for your great videos! They bring back many good memories. After 1995 there weren't many good games for the Amiga. In 1996 there maybe were 10 or so decent to good games and 1 to 3 very good games but then it was over and in 1997 there were only crappy games as far a I remember. The games which were released from 1998 onwards (mainly ports from PC games like Doom and so on...) only were playable on high end machines which had not much in common with the Amiga 500,2000 or 1200, even not when those had RAM expansions, HD's, CD-drives and maybe a 6030 turbo card or something like that. Although I still played some classics (mostly strategy games and simulations) like Pirates!, UFO, Silent Service 2, Wings, Motor City, On the Ball...) on my Amiga in 1996 and 1997 (and even sometimes until my Amiga 1200 broke down around 2010) and I liked the Aminet CD's,, I moved on to the Playstation in 1997 and to the PC in 1998. But I alway liked Workbench 3 with a hard drive more than Windows 98 which crashed so many times and with its DOS mode (It was so complicated to get some older titles to work properly with it...). I also missed my good old Amiga Joysticks and Gamepads. Games like Sensible Soccer, Goal!, Speedball 2 and some Action Classics on the Amiga for me had the best playability with the Competition Pro Joystick. But after so many years using them on my Amiga they broke down in the late 90s.
Well, it depends how you wanna look at it. If we disregard the ports from PC, then sure there were very little games released up until let's say 2010. But after, some games started actually popping up on the system. Very very rarely but they were actual Amiga games and not ports. And they still do to this day. That's why I'm still thinking how to approach the supplemental episode for the series. Whether it should be a single video and only covering games that were not ports from other systems (so no Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Diablo, etc.) or should I include all of these as in the end they did (finally) work on the Amiga and split the video in 2-3 parts cause they sure as hell wouldn't fit in one then?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I haven't followed the Amiga gaming scene since 1998 so I would prefer one or two or three videos which also give information about the ports. (Who programmed them? Which kind of Hardware was needed to play them? How did they compare to the PC versions?). I here and there watch videos on youtube about new releases for the Amiga (and C64) but until now there wasn't anything that I really would like to play... . Maybe you can change my mind?! Keep on the great work and have a nice weekend.
I have always debated whether 1994 or 1995 was the last great Amiga year and despite the problems there were still things to look forward to in 1995. I was regularly buying Amiga Power and Amiga Format magazines and certainly the latter were trying to keep the glass half-full even if there were rumblings and essentially an open secret that the Amiga was lagging behind the IBM PCs. There was a big deal about the constant on-and-off-and-on-again-and-finally-off plans to release Doom on the Amiga which at the time was maybe the first moment the penny dropped and I started to question the future of the Amiga around the summer. I didn't want to fathom the thought of the Amiga fading like I saw with the ZX Spectrum only three years previous but that was a slow and gradual and expected decline. The Amiga surely had far longer life potential than that? At school I started to notice slightly more kids were talking about PCs and not Amigas and you do get this feeling of being left out. I got Alien Breed 3D at Xmas in 1995 largely out of loyalty for the machine and the review in Amiga Format that essentially told you to go buy this game because the future of the Amiga depends on it. If it succeeds then maybe software companies will reconsider their decisions to withdraw Amiga releases. Alas it was all in vain. That said, 1995 is a year I am getting more and more wistfully nostalgic about in that it was the very last hurrah. Worms was definitely a hit nonetheless and still talked about today and worthy of being remembered as one of the very last great Amiga games along with Sensible World of Soccer. I may have been losing interest in watching Gamesmaster or Bad Influence that year but I do remember being encourage when they did a feature on Worms in the Bad Influence studio that Autumn, a brief moment keeping the Amiga's popularity alive as far as I was aware. 1996 however is not worth talking about, there is no redemption there. The magazines like Amiga Power got thinner and thinner that they did not even bother talking about games any more, reminding me of Your Sinclair getting thinner in 1992. Almost immediately after going back to school in January it seemed the Amiga was not cool anymore. Did all the cool kids get Windows 95 PCs and games that Xmas that I didn't? It was a fun ride with the Amiga starting from my older brother's birthday getting the Batman Pack in 1989 up until the tail end of 1995. We will always have the memories and keep them alive for years to come.
@@jmxtvarchive9064 Yeah! And the english Amiga magazines like Amiga Power and so on I first bought around 1994 in England. And they were much more "professional" when it came to presentation then the few German Amiga Magazines. Then I always bought the English Magazines at the train station where there was a shop which sold them. I also had a CD-Drive for my Amiga 1200 and especially the english magazines had many interesting games and programs on their cd's. Good old times.
@@jmxtvarchive9064 For example... I got the full version of "Xtreme Racing", -- one "Mario Kart - Clone" which really was good from an english Amiga Magazine. I think it was called CU Amiga? Not only about games. And I also had some magazines from "Amiga Future" as far as I remember.
Civ 2 was one of my favourite games of that era, I am very glad I picked it up as a budget release in 2000/01. I just checked the system requirements and apparently you needed a 33Mhz 486 and 8MB of RAM, plus of course a CD-ROM drive (it came out in 1996). AGA could have handled the display, so let's say for example that you needed the same amount of RAM on the Amiga (not too bad, I think by that time RAM prices were pretty low), and CD-ROM drives were getting cheap as well, but to match a 486 you would probably need a 68040 @25Mhz (of course it would have to be programmed properly for the Amiga to be playable, but in a theoretical scenario where it made sense for Microprose to bother porting it to the Amiga, let's imagine they did a good job). One can't be sure that it would translate like that, they were different CPUs working with different motherboards and OS'es, but it surely would have needed a beefy Amiga compared to what most users had. Nevertheless I do think it's something a 'classic' Amiga could have done justice to (classic meaning pre-PPC, RTG), and with the sort of graphics that the Amiga was more suited to. I played it voraciously on PC, but Civ 3 was released very soon after I got Civ 2 so naturally I jumped ship before getting the most out of Civ 2. Like all iterations in the series, Civ 3 had improvements over its predecessors in some aspects while being less impressive in others - the advisers and general aesthetic of the game being the chief aspects where Civ 2 is hard to beat, in my view.
@@danyoutube7491 It souds feasible. Given how Colonization fitted nicely under Workbench I could see Civ 2 ported to Amiga directly under Workbench, preferably in C for most performance at least cost. Both systems had C language avaialble so if Civ 2 by any chance was written using it, it could theoretically be moved with relatively little work. As compared to developing it from ground up with just a knowledge of mechanics and graphical/sound assets. Not entirely sure how good 68040 would be as compared to 486. I mean it would crash most 386's but 486 was not a joke... That said, architectural differences may very well endded up in Amiga's favour since there was no 3D in it anywhere. So, we'll probably never know. But that's interesting to ponder over. I played hundreds of hours in Civ 2 MGE and loved it. Especially cause there was a WW2 scenario there and you could make your own maps. Which back then I had heaps of time for. But my most played, and probably favourite Civ would have to be Civ 5 with Vox Populi MOD. Arguably, with that, it was bigger than Civ 6 with all its DLC.
Glad you did and that you like my videos! :) A new Amiga video is dropping in around 7-ish days and then next part of DOS Gaming History covering 1995 in around 2 weeks. So, if you're into this stuff, there's gonna be some new videos out soon. :)
I really liked this series on the Amiga and it was very nice of you to take us on this journey through time and nostalgia. :) So, a bacon like 🥓 is well-deserved. There were still good games on the Amiga even this late in its lifetime. The devs sure didn't slack off. I see lots of fun and good-looking games or fun and average-looking games, which is definitely not a problem :) Worms was charming from its very first iteration and I wished a lot to play it back in the day, but only managed to later. I see a few decent FPS attempts and I'm curious to try them out. XD Pinball Illusions is nice, but for me too, Fantasies is my favourite. I didn't know that multiball was even a thing in pinball back in the day. :) Xtreme Racing looks so much like Wacky Wheels. But less... wacky. XD Oh, and I did manage to hear most of what you said about Inherit the Earth. It looks interesting. I'd never heard of that one before.
I liked the series too. Though, in all honesty, I would like to remake it at some point. And in the format I do these today. So longer coverage for some games I find to be better or more interesting/important, and no artificial limits on number of games per year and so on... I think I just might at some point in the future. Amiga FPSes were a mixed bunch. And the best of them were equivalent of something rather average on PC. It's not the devs fault but how Amiga was made. It was a 2D machine, with a lot of power to move the sprites, but not a system for serious 3D gaming. Still, it could've been if it had a chance to stay on the market for 2-3 years longer.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I understand. :) Hey, even if you'll remake them with the same games, I'll still watch them. Yes, you did mention that Amiga wasn't well suited for 3D, so that's why these successful efforts are little achievements in their own right. I wonder sometimes, since there are new retro cards and even whole systems being made today, would a company out there be able to release a new Amiga model? Or even recreate the older ones, however not as emulation boxes, but with real hardware? It might be a legal conundrum though...
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks Well... They would have same games but also many new ones in. I feel that I skimmed through them too much, and should include many more. But that's just a "what if" scenario for a potential, not yet set in stone future. Second well... So, well well... No, that actually sounds unfitting. So, uhm, there is an OS, based on Linux naturally, while not really being it, I think, that is made to be compatible with Amiga software. Two of them in fact, Icaros that is Linux based, and AROS, which I'm not sure of. And there are "new" Amigas. As in 5-10 years old systems. And few years ago there was a disk drive SoC released that contained SoC-ed Amiga too. I'm not sure while it failed... And we have Amiga mini, which is just a Linux-based emulation box, but it runs like a charm, and it's easy to add games to it.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I've heard of Amiga mini and that's the emulation box I was referring to. I didn't know that any new machines have been made in the recent years. I thought Amiga was kind of not actively produced. Aros comes bundled as kickstart ROM with the Amiga Forever Essentials free edition that I installed to try it out. I tried running a game on it, but it seemed all wrong in terms of sound and animation speed. I think it was one of the more graphically demanding games though... set in space, I forgot its name. I might update Aros and give it another go.
Probably not the best decision to talk over a voiced scene during the "Inherit the Earth" segment ;)
Probably not ;)
Bittersweet! Cheers for the excellent videos as always!!! Looking forward to the supplemental😁
Thanks a lot! It (or they) will be coming in few weeks time. Before that, other things will.
Try and play a game called Outfall, it's an F1 Licenceware game which is a total hidden gem (Puyo Puyo clone).
@@Harp00nX Sounds interesting, thanks!
28:00 I have only played Body Blows on IBM compatible PC, so clearly it was not Amiga exclusive. Music is completely different, but I actually prefer the version I had (I don't know, maybe it's simple Adlib music? instead of tracker music?) over the Amiga one, quite possibly for nostalgic reasons.
Oh sweet nostalgia, thy grasp is unbreakable... Yeah, I get that, there are games I remember being soooo good, that I fear trying them out now, as I know for a fact that objectively speaking they're average at best, and I just keep them stored in my memory as those little gems of my youth. :)
I still think the amiga worms is the best one out there even today. Those cartoonish worms that they released after are not as good.
I agree that the original worms had a certain charm that did not translate well into high-res graphics. Also, 1997's Worms Director's Cut was an Amiga exclusive an a defnite version of pixel-art worms. Or low-res worms really...
34:19 Robot: "Open the exit to the next level, Hal."
Human: "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave"
38:15 the perspective on the car is all wrong compared to the track. The car looks like a pig digging in the dirt for truffles.
Doman shows there was some great work coming from countries other than the US, UK & Germany but also that games from outside those 3 countries were largely ignored in those countries. Same with Lost in Mine.
Fight of the Amazon Queen is amazing & plays great on the Amiga but I’d moved to PC by that time & played it on PC because of the perception that it was so much better.
Gloom Deluxe was so impressive but it needed AGA & again by that time many people like me had moved to PC but if like me you’re rediscovering the later Amiga games it’s a fantastic play, as are Virocop & Super Skidmarks which is the best of it’s genre.
Hang your head in shame for that “it’s a blast” pun. 😄
So TeenAgent wasn’t based on the awful American movie? That perceived link can’t have helped it?
Pinball Illusions is fantastic on Amiga & PC, the hole series leading up to it are some of my all time favourite games Sensible Golf & World of Soccer v1.1 are absolutely worth going back to the Amiga for if you have the chance.
Zeewolf 2 looked impressive in it’s day but yeh, it hasn’t aged well.
Thanks for this, it’s a fun one to cover. There were some great games that came out so late in the system’s life cycle & it’s fun to see what was there after many of us had moved on.
I loved Doman and given the fact that Amiga only had a few decent walking beat'em ups, this one really stood out. Sure, the loading was annoying but the gameplay loop and interchangable weapons with different attacks were really fun.
Lost in Mine is awesome, I didn't played it back then, in fact, first time I played it was probably around 2010 and it's just great. I think of it similarily as I do about Benefactor. It's a great title that never got the recogniotion it deserved.
Thanks for watching!
And last but not least Windows 95 was released.
Yep! Probably most important thing really...
That was probably the death knell for the Amiga and any hope if it surviving.
Good video and analysis of where the Amiga was in 1995. That part about Dungeon Master II and Fallout 4 felt oddly familiar. I really enjoyed Fallout 3 and even if it wasn't the best RPG ever, it felt great to be able to explore the wasteland in 3D. Then came New Vegas and it did pretty much everything that Falliout 3 did, but better (in terms of being a RPG). Fallout 4 with its settlement building and empty boring locations felt like a huge step backwards. That power armor suddenly was more a smartbomb rather than an upgrade you had to work hard for just showed how far the series has strayed from its roots. Fallout 4 is indeed not a bad game, but it feels a lot more like Rage than Fallout 1 & 2.
You felt that way, or I felt that way, as I can't tell for sure why you did, about Fallout 3 because in the end it was a role playing game in FPS shooter clothing. But it was that story-based deep, often requiring you to make difficult choices RPG. Fallout 4 was just a decent shooter, with weak shooting mechanics and interesting setting and story line. Not side quest or no real choices to be made. And I agree, it does feel kinda like Rage. New Vegas, was near perfect role play-wise, and a mess technically speaking but that's all down to Bethesda giving Obsidian 17 seconds to complete the game. ;) Since both are in hands of Microsoft, I'm having high hopes. All that after Starfield though as I'm really interested what they do with that.
Well that was a new one.
YT notified me about a mention from you :-D
I will watch the video later, looks my kind of taste.
I took around a minute/minute-and-a-half long bit from your video to portrait the game I was talking about and couldn't run. There's also a banner in the video during that gameplay nothifing that it came from your channel. I hope that you will like the video and the notification is the weel-deserved props for your awesome original video. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Thanks.
Fell free to take whatever you like.
@@104d_3rr0r_vince Thank you! As much as I always try to record myself as much as I can, it's not always possible. Thankfuly YT's retro gaming community is pretty stellar and you, sir, are no different. :)
I couldn't hear a word you were saying for "Inherit the Earth"...as the game play soundtrack was just as loud as your voice.
Oh, dang it... I'll make sure it doesn't happen again with the next video. Must've been a reversed edit when my editing software crashed. And I just didn't notice. :/
Thanks for letting me know!
@@OldAndNewVideoGames No problem...it was a thoroughly enjoyable series, as an Amiga owner in the 90's. I just wish Legends of Valour had made the cut, but it was otherwise top notch.
@@johnnyredpillseed Thank you! 1990 on DOS will be pretty decent selection too. Some obvious games and few I didn't even thought would make it to the list, simply cause I forgot they even existed. Re-discovering some of those gems is an adventure in itself too.
Regarding the Citadel, the creators of this game this year released its updated version after almost 30 years 😲
Yeah, and as far as I know it's free, isn't it?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yes it is 😁
15:54 Bad sound mixing. You are hard to understand. Else: Nice video! : )
Thanks! And yeah, I keep learning. I'd like to believe that I'm better at it now than I was when I made this video. :)
I played Pinball Illusions back in the day though my personal favorite was Pinball Dreams.
For me it was Pinball Fantasies but I suppose it may be in part because of some of the memories I have with it.
I had tonnes of fun with Xtreme Racing. Unfortunately my brother wasn't at all in to it (I'm not even sure he played it, I don't remember having two players with him). I think I had the data disk too, because I vaguely remember toying with track editing. On an A1200 with a bit of Fast RAM it ran smoothly enough at a decent resolution (probably not the highest 1x1 res), and there were a nice variety of weapons which added interest to the decently satisfying car handling. One small disappointment I had about the final game was that it didn't include any snow maps; the coverdisk that caused me to buy the game featured a demo of it on a snow track, which I thought was great. Lovely snowy scenes always made me think of Christmas, and there were approrpiately placed icy patches. I was a huge fan of SWOS, Colonization and Breed 3D, as well as enjoying Gloom, USM, Super Skidmarks (though this improvement of the first game didn't wow me as much as discovering Skidmarks on a 1993 coverdisk, what an original Amiga title it was), Worms and Virocop. I also enjoyed the coverdisk of Super Tennis Champs ("That was a great rally!"), with its cheap but cheerful voices, well drawn and fun graphics, humourous nature and top gameplay (my brother and I enjoyed this loads in two player). I quite liked Kingpin and Citadel on coverdisks too, and Zeewolf 2. I have to disagree about the 3D graphics having aged badly, I think those with few textures aged better than 90s textured 3D, on any system, and I was impressed by the Zeewolf games.
I really did the disservice to XTreme Racing in my Best Amiga Racers video but I couldn't change the pixel size back then and just didn't remember from the '90 how it was done. Now, I do know, and I can appreciate it. I mean, the did not came from pixels alone but having a bit higher resolution than the very basic one was a game changer. But I suppose similar things can be said about most of my early videos covering best games on the Amiga as I've done them more or less from memory. And for this series "10 Years of..." I actually had to check quite a few more games than I remembered. And I'm glad I did cause it not only made those better but also introduced me to games I forgot or never knew about. So, perhaps, I'll remake those top 10's at some point... But first, after the next 2-3 shorter videos I'm gonna run "10 Years of MS-DOS Gaming" coverin 1988 to 1997. Started working on some reviews for games already for that first year. It should be fun too.
SWOS I liked in management mode, which is probably something most wont understand but I liked the manager-lite approach to it and absolutely sucked at playing it, so this was a neat middleground for me. Colonization I love to bits. I actually enjoyed it more than the first Civilization. Not more than the other ones, but definitely more than the first. Perhaps because it was such a polished experience and with some of the most incredibly well-fit music.
Breed 3D and Gloom I played mainly either at friends house or via emulation so while I like them (Gloom's successor especially), I didn't really spend as much time at them as at other games. Super Skidmarks is brilliantly simple and infinitely playable with friends. Alone, not so much. Worms was probably the last game I played on my Amiga before moving to PC, though that was a year or year and a half later than it released. So longevity was definitely not its weak point. Super Tennis Champs was a discovery for me, never knew about it before I made the series. And I do enjoy it much more than other tennis games on Ami. So, while not surprising to those who played it, those who didn't should give it a go, as it was an unexpected gem and dethroned Great Courts 2 in my opinion.
Kingpin I played with a buddy of mine having beers while talking about fantasy books that we've read so it will always have a sweet spot in my memories. Zeewolf 2, same as one, sadly is not something I enjoyed. Or do today. But you know, everyone like something else, otherwise, if we all liked the same things, World would be boring and we'd have nothing to talk about. Yeah...
@@OldAndNewVideoGames With SWOS, you definitely aren't alone. My brother preferred it like that, because he wasn't so good at actually playing and I too sometimes liked to just be purely the manager (which could be quite hard if I recall, it was easy to run low on money). I just this minute remembered something - was it possible to become the national team manager? I think it was, and then you had the massive SWOS database to select your players from. Colonization was, as you say, polished. Really nice graphics and music - once again the Amiga shining with its audio - but the one thing that annoyed me in Col (and Civ 1) was that enemies could just plant their units outside your colony/city while at peace and get in the way. Other than that though, it was a very good experience, one of my favourite Amiga games.
I look forward to the MS-DOS review. I finally got a PC shortly after going to uni at the turn of the century so don't know first hand what PC DOS gaming was like (apart from one or two sessions at friends' houses).
@@danyoutube7491 I think it was possible to be a nation manager though I remember that from PC's version, so it had to be one of the latter updates... '95/'96 perhaps?
My biggest gripe with Civ (all of them up to civ 4) was that a singular unit could take over city, regardless of its size or that unit's size for that matter, as long as there was no units stationed in that city. So, a ancient warrior could take over a modern city - 20 in size - if it just went on its square. That was plain silly. But 5 and 6 don't have this issue.
Oh, despite configuration shenanigans, it was amazing, especially 1990+. Before around 1992/1993 when most if not all games run in 32-bit protected mode and had their own separate .exe files that allowed for configuration of your GPU and Sound Card for the game - or the game to use those to be preciese - you had to quite often edit autoexec.bat and config.sys files by hand to prepare your system "for" the game to be run. These two files were the first two running on MS-DOS start-up. It was annoying at times but it actually tought me so much, that I doubt I would've efer learned if games would run just as they do now, by double-clicking on an icon or in the Steam launcher. Luckily, it's tons easier to run them now in DOSBOX, especially with a good front-end to have it set-up to kinda Steam-like experience. I may make a how-to video on that at some point as many of these titles are really worth re-playing. Titles like first Fallout, Gene Wars, Warlords 2, to name a few... Oh, yeah, and Heroes of Might and Magic, both the first one and second. Cause the series, despite what some may try to push, did not start with third game. ;)
X-Treme Racing was awesome and imho a good Mario Kart substitute. Pretty nice graphics and it played well. We couldn't ask for much more in 1995, imho.
Arcade Pool was released on ECS and AGA at the same time. As far as I can tell, the latter did nothing with the improved chipset
That is correct. Arcade Pool was released earlier though, in 1995 Arcade Snooker was releassed and that was only AGA.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh? Oh! My bad, didn't even notice this was a different thing. Sorry.
What a pointless release, this one seems. Especially the AGA only thing.
@@DeckerFI It's OK. It's still a good game just like you said, pointless release. There was nothing in it justifying the requirement for AGA and all it really did is alienated majoroty of potential players that were still on OCS/ECS.
It was also a free game given away on a coverdisk, it never had a shop release with box etc
It would be more accurate to say that Java was released in 1996. It was announced in 1995, but it wasn't officially or widely released until January 1996.
I stand corrected. Thank you!
Hey man! Great set of vids. I just got done binging them all. Time to devour the DOS ones...
Thanks! There's still couple left in the DOS series to compete. But they're longer. And the 1996's one should be out hopefully either end of next week or beginning of the following one.
I've now watched and listened to every one of these videos. It's been really interesting and I very much enjoy your style of commentating. In one vide you said you were not Italian. I was wondering what nationality were you? Thx. (Just bought my first Amiga this month. A1200 and it's away being cleaned and re-capped and modified just now).
I'm glad you liked them. I've an identical but more polished series for 10 years of DOS gaming too, and just started working on the C64. First episode should be released this coming week.
Oh, and I'm Polish.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I'll check out the DOS videos next week. I'm in my 40s so I lived lots of the gaming experiences you mention in your videos. Keep up the good work. Cheers.
@@stevenross-watt8640 Thanks! And it seems we may have had similar gaming experiences. Though I suppose the piracy may have reigned in Poland a bit longer than anywhere else (C64/Amiga). And while I had mostly copied games back then, I only have originals now. Life is funny that way. :)
i cant believe in all this compilation videos you didn't mention any Strip Poker Game like at all
Well, sadly TH-cam changed over the last few years and what was possible before is not necessarily now. In short, I'd be battling with the algorithm, and it's an uphill battle already. I also can't ever use videos for Bubble Bobble with it's iconic music cause they get (at least for me) instantly flagged for CI. :(
@@OldAndNewVideoGames i understand yt gotten worse, and we all know we played them. But at least a mention of Hollywood Poker Pro would have been nice since Chris Hülsbeck made the music for it xD
@@MrMeow-xl7pd Fair point.
LEMMINGS series...
- LEMMINGS
- OH NO! MORE LEMMINGS
- LEMMINGS 2: THE TRIBES
...were the best games, i have ever played on my Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️.
ALL NEW WORLDS OF LEMMINGS did not hit on me at all - it was too simple, too easy, and has only three worlds: Classic, Shadow and Egypt.
ARCADE POOL is an excellent snooker game.
I had it on my Amiga 500.
ATR: ALL TERRAIN RACING is definitely the racing game, i have ever played on my Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️🕹️.
I still want to play COLONIZATION 😹👍.
In fact, CIVILIZATION is a legendary classic game 😺👍.
DOMAN looks gory 😹.
It's like BARBARIAN: THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR meets GOLDEN AXE 😹😺👍.
I still want to play FLIGHT OF THE AMAZON QUEEN.
It looks pretty awesome for an Point 'n click adventure game 😺👍🕹️.
One of my friends had GLOOM on his Amiga 1200 back in the late 1990's.
It's kinda messy, but still cool Doom clone 😺👍.
INHERIT THE EARTH: THE QUEST FOR ORB
is definitely one of my favourite games 😺👍.
I had it on my old PC as the CD-ROM version
with english speech audio.
I wish, i could play it again 😹😸😺👍.
Also, it inspired me to draw my own furry comic arts 😺🐰🦊🐻🐼🐺🐨🐹🐵🐯🐭🐷🦝🐶🐮🐍🐉🐀🐁🐏🦛🦇🦅🦉🦦🦈🐟🐧🦞🦀🕷️🐜🐛🦆🦍🦏🐘
ODYSSEY looks so amazing, i got to give a try 😺👍🕹️.
PINBALL ILLUSIONS is OK -
only because, i like Babewatch table 😹👍.
PINBALL DREAMS and PINBALL FANTASIES are still the best 😺👍.
SENSIBLE GOLF is a brilliant golf game,
and i still have it on my Amiga 500 in the original box release 😺👍.
SENSIBLE WORLD OF SOCCER is still the best soccer game 😺👍.
SKIDMARKS is a brilliant racing game on the Amiga 😺👍.
WORMS is a good game on the Amiga,
but the PC and PlayStation versions are much better than the Amiga version 😺👍🕹️.
Once again, thank you for this awesome retrospective Amiga game video of 1995.
😺👍🕹️
Thank you for watching and your quite acurate observations! :)
And yeah, I too, did not fell for All New World of Lemmings. Not a bad game, but not my cup of tea.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames No problem, mate 😺👍.
And hey, some games are good 😺👍,
some games are bad 😹.
WORMS is a good game on the Amiga,
but the PC and PlayStation versions are much better than the Amiga version
Can't agree with this, Worms TDC is the ultimate version of the orignal game and it's an Amiga exclusive
@@Harp00nX I agree Barry- Worms looked a bit different on PC and I didn't like the look of the worms quite so much- they looked skinnier and less charming. What was so much better about those version, in Ari's opinion? I am not aware of them having anything the Amiga didn't except slightly nicer backgrounds (and DC, being AGA only, had nicer graphics than the ECS Worms original). The first Worms also had the brilliant ability to make your own levels in Deluxe Paint, which I actually preferred to DC's simpler in-game map creator because with Deluxe Paint you could choose any shape and colour that you wanted and be more creative.
Man, this was the heyday of my Amiga time, I look back at these games very fondly. Flink looked pretty damn amazing thanks to Henk Nieborg's graphics, and I played Worms for an incredibly long time with my mate. The way you could rename your worms was stupid and very funny. Also, at this time I had a CD32 with an SX-1 expansion. If you had a (music) CD in the drive whilst playing worms it was playing the music from the CD. I don't know if that was an official feature or just an accident. Was pretty amazing, though.
I spent so much time playing worms with my friends back in the day, couple of them actually and we played vs PC, that we would just by the layout of the generated map and our starting locations could tell who's gonna win each match. Before we even started playing. It was great!
Thank you for your great videos! They bring back many good memories.
After 1995 there weren't many good games for the Amiga. In 1996 there maybe were 10 or so decent to good games and 1 to 3 very good games but then it was over and in 1997 there were only crappy games as far a I remember.
The games which were released from 1998 onwards (mainly ports from PC games like Doom and so on...) only were playable on high end machines which had not much in common with the Amiga 500,2000 or 1200, even not when those had RAM expansions, HD's, CD-drives and maybe a 6030 turbo card or something like that.
Although I still played some classics (mostly strategy games and simulations) like Pirates!, UFO, Silent Service 2, Wings, Motor City, On the Ball...) on my Amiga in 1996 and 1997 (and even sometimes until my Amiga 1200 broke down around 2010) and I liked the Aminet CD's,, I moved on to the Playstation in 1997 and to the PC in 1998.
But I alway liked Workbench 3 with a hard drive more than Windows 98 which crashed so many times and with its DOS mode (It was so complicated to get some older titles to work properly with it...). I also missed my good old Amiga Joysticks and Gamepads. Games like Sensible Soccer, Goal!, Speedball 2 and some Action Classics on the Amiga for me had the best playability with the Competition Pro Joystick. But after so many years using them on my Amiga they broke down in the late 90s.
Well, it depends how you wanna look at it. If we disregard the ports from PC, then sure there were very little games released up until let's say 2010. But after, some games started actually popping up on the system. Very very rarely but they were actual Amiga games and not ports. And they still do to this day. That's why I'm still thinking how to approach the supplemental episode for the series. Whether it should be a single video and only covering games that were not ports from other systems (so no Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Diablo, etc.) or should I include all of these as in the end they did (finally) work on the Amiga and split the video in 2-3 parts cause they sure as hell wouldn't fit in one then?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I haven't followed the Amiga gaming scene since 1998 so I would prefer one or two or three videos which also give information about the ports. (Who programmed them? Which kind of Hardware was needed to play them? How did they compare to the PC versions?).
I here and there watch videos on youtube about new releases for the Amiga (and C64) but until now there wasn't anything that I really would like to play... . Maybe you can change my mind?! Keep on the great work and have a nice weekend.
I have always debated whether 1994 or 1995 was the last great Amiga year and despite the problems there were still things to look forward to in 1995. I was regularly buying Amiga Power and Amiga Format magazines and certainly the latter were trying to keep the glass half-full even if there were rumblings and essentially an open secret that the Amiga was lagging behind the IBM PCs.
There was a big deal about the constant on-and-off-and-on-again-and-finally-off plans to release Doom on the Amiga which at the time was maybe the first moment the penny dropped and I started to question the future of the Amiga around the summer. I didn't want to fathom the thought of the Amiga fading like I saw with the ZX Spectrum only three years previous but that was a slow and gradual and expected decline. The Amiga surely had far longer life potential than that?
At school I started to notice slightly more kids were talking about PCs and not Amigas and you do get this feeling of being left out. I got Alien Breed 3D at Xmas in 1995 largely out of loyalty for the machine and the review in Amiga Format that essentially told you to go buy this game because the future of the Amiga depends on it. If it succeeds then maybe software companies will reconsider their decisions to withdraw Amiga releases. Alas it was all in vain.
That said, 1995 is a year I am getting more and more wistfully nostalgic about in that it was the very last hurrah. Worms was definitely a hit nonetheless and still talked about today and worthy of being remembered as one of the very last great Amiga games along with Sensible World of Soccer. I may have been losing interest in watching Gamesmaster or Bad Influence that year but I do remember being encourage when they did a feature on Worms in the Bad Influence studio that Autumn, a brief moment keeping the Amiga's popularity alive as far as I was aware.
1996 however is not worth talking about, there is no redemption there. The magazines like Amiga Power got thinner and thinner that they did not even bother talking about games any more, reminding me of Your Sinclair getting thinner in 1992.
Almost immediately after going back to school in January it seemed the Amiga was not cool anymore. Did all the cool kids get Windows 95 PCs and games that Xmas that I didn't? It was a fun ride with the Amiga starting from my older brother's birthday getting the Batman Pack in 1989 up until the tail end of 1995.
We will always have the memories and keep them alive for years to come.
@@jmxtvarchive9064 Yeah! And the english Amiga magazines like Amiga Power and so on I first bought around 1994 in England. And they were much more "professional" when it came to presentation then the few German Amiga Magazines. Then I always bought the English Magazines at the train station where there was a shop which sold them. I also had a CD-Drive for my Amiga 1200 and especially the english magazines had many interesting games and programs on their cd's. Good old times.
@@jmxtvarchive9064 For example... I got the full version of "Xtreme Racing", -- one "Mario Kart - Clone" which really was good from an english Amiga Magazine. I think it was called CU Amiga? Not only about games. And I also had some magazines from "Amiga Future" as far as I remember.
A few highlights like Colonization make this a worthwhile year. If only the Amiga had received a version of Civilization 2...
Or even better, an updated version Civ 2 Multiplayer Gold Edition that allowed for online play...
Civ 2 was one of my favourite games of that era, I am very glad I picked it up as a budget release in 2000/01. I just checked the system requirements and apparently you needed a 33Mhz 486 and 8MB of RAM, plus of course a CD-ROM drive (it came out in 1996). AGA could have handled the display, so let's say for example that you needed the same amount of RAM on the Amiga (not too bad, I think by that time RAM prices were pretty low), and CD-ROM drives were getting cheap as well, but to match a 486 you would probably need a 68040 @25Mhz (of course it would have to be programmed properly for the Amiga to be playable, but in a theoretical scenario where it made sense for Microprose to bother porting it to the Amiga, let's imagine they did a good job). One can't be sure that it would translate like that, they were different CPUs working with different motherboards and OS'es, but it surely would have needed a beefy Amiga compared to what most users had. Nevertheless I do think it's something a 'classic' Amiga could have done justice to (classic meaning pre-PPC, RTG), and with the sort of graphics that the Amiga was more suited to. I played it voraciously on PC, but Civ 3 was released very soon after I got Civ 2 so naturally I jumped ship before getting the most out of Civ 2. Like all iterations in the series, Civ 3 had improvements over its predecessors in some aspects while being less impressive in others - the advisers and general aesthetic of the game being the chief aspects where Civ 2 is hard to beat, in my view.
@@danyoutube7491 It souds feasible. Given how Colonization fitted nicely under Workbench I could see Civ 2 ported to Amiga directly under Workbench, preferably in C for most performance at least cost. Both systems had C language avaialble so if Civ 2 by any chance was written using it, it could theoretically be moved with relatively little work. As compared to developing it from ground up with just a knowledge of mechanics and graphical/sound assets. Not entirely sure how good 68040 would be as compared to 486. I mean it would crash most 386's but 486 was not a joke... That said, architectural differences may very well endded up in Amiga's favour since there was no 3D in it anywhere. So, we'll probably never know. But that's interesting to ponder over.
I played hundreds of hours in Civ 2 MGE and loved it. Especially cause there was a WW2 scenario there and you could make your own maps. Which back then I had heaps of time for. But my most played, and probably favourite Civ would have to be Civ 5 with Vox Populi MOD. Arguably, with that, it was bigger than Civ 6 with all its DLC.
Just found you! Thank you for these compilations.
Glad you did and that you like my videos! :)
A new Amiga video is dropping in around 7-ish days and then next part of DOS Gaming History covering 1995 in around 2 weeks. So, if you're into this stuff, there's gonna be some new videos out soon. :)
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what's the point of this ?
The first one to get the code, gets a free game. That's the point.
I really liked this series on the Amiga and it was very nice of you to take us on this journey through time and nostalgia. :) So, a bacon like 🥓 is well-deserved.
There were still good games on the Amiga even this late in its lifetime. The devs sure didn't slack off. I see lots of fun and good-looking games or fun and average-looking games, which is definitely not a problem :)
Worms was charming from its very first iteration and I wished a lot to play it back in the day, but only managed to later.
I see a few decent FPS attempts and I'm curious to try them out. XD
Pinball Illusions is nice, but for me too, Fantasies is my favourite. I didn't know that multiball was even a thing in pinball back in the day. :)
Xtreme Racing looks so much like Wacky Wheels. But less... wacky. XD
Oh, and I did manage to hear most of what you said about Inherit the Earth. It looks interesting. I'd never heard of that one before.
I liked the series too. Though, in all honesty, I would like to remake it at some point. And in the format I do these today. So longer coverage for some games I find to be better or more interesting/important, and no artificial limits on number of games per year and so on... I think I just might at some point in the future.
Amiga FPSes were a mixed bunch. And the best of them were equivalent of something rather average on PC. It's not the devs fault but how Amiga was made. It was a 2D machine, with a lot of power to move the sprites, but not a system for serious 3D gaming. Still, it could've been if it had a chance to stay on the market for 2-3 years longer.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I understand. :) Hey, even if you'll remake them with the same games, I'll still watch them.
Yes, you did mention that Amiga wasn't well suited for 3D, so that's why these successful efforts are little achievements in their own right.
I wonder sometimes, since there are new retro cards and even whole systems being made today, would a company out there be able to release a new Amiga model? Or even recreate the older ones, however not as emulation boxes, but with real hardware? It might be a legal conundrum though...
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks Well... They would have same games but also many new ones in. I feel that I skimmed through them too much, and should include many more. But that's just a "what if" scenario for a potential, not yet set in stone future.
Second well... So, well well... No, that actually sounds unfitting. So, uhm, there is an OS, based on Linux naturally, while not really being it, I think, that is made to be compatible with Amiga software. Two of them in fact, Icaros that is Linux based, and AROS, which I'm not sure of. And there are "new" Amigas. As in 5-10 years old systems. And few years ago there was a disk drive SoC released that contained SoC-ed Amiga too. I'm not sure while it failed... And we have Amiga mini, which is just a Linux-based emulation box, but it runs like a charm, and it's easy to add games to it.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I've heard of Amiga mini and that's the emulation box I was referring to. I didn't know that any new machines have been made in the recent years. I thought Amiga was kind of not actively produced.
Aros comes bundled as kickstart ROM with the Amiga Forever Essentials free edition that I installed to try it out. I tried running a game on it, but it seemed all wrong in terms of sound and animation speed. I think it was one of the more graphically demanding games though... set in space, I forgot its name. I might update Aros and give it another go.