Just looking at the intermission pictures. Thinking those are possibly in 32 colors (or 64?) in Amiga. These are not much colors but the careful selection of palette, the dithering, etc makes them look like VGA 256colors images. They are masterpieces. Nowadays you can't do see such good art with millions of colors.
Dimmu Borgir brought me here. Judging by the epic music I thought it would be an adventure game. Alas, it is a side-scroller with an owl that shoots lethal sonic waves.
it had immensely influential artwork, both audio and video, it was absolutely stunning for its time. but it's true what you said, I also wish it wasn't a game that it was. on the other hand, I literally came to this video, after I whistled the main theme tune while doing my dishes. it's been almost 30 years ffs. sometimes I'm curious about whether the creators of these games know how far-reaching their products are. in space, time, and across cultures.
IMHO, this game was a beautiful demo of the Amiga chipset capabilities and a work of art. Incredible music, great graphic style, very great skills from the developers. BUT... As a game itself it was a little boring after a while. If I remember well, you could not interact with the background and it could never damage you, so it was just beautiful background art. If you removed the amazing graphics and music, there would be very little left. I remember I used this game (and Shadow of the Beast) just to impress friends with inferior machines. But when I wanted to play an horizontal shoot'em up game and have fun, R-Type was my preferred choice. Not a perfect conversion, but it was good enough, nice and smooth, good music&FX and each level was very interesting to play. It was my preferred choice until Apydia come out...
For me they still are one of my all time favorite games! And i have never experienced the feelings i had when i had the amiga, there was something magical about that machine, truly was!
The menu music isn't bad, but the music during the stages sounds like a drum machine gone completely haywire. Good god! That final stage theme was real Agony to my ears!
I was thinking of this game but for some reason I wrongly recollect it being on the PC. I think I'm getting it confused with Myst because of the cover art. I do vaguely remember Unreal at the time and I don't think it was a big hit in our home. Good to know it's the same team, I may, because of that, have a quick blast on Unreal, see how it goes down 20 years later.
+alxxpspqr - the game uses a fairly ingenious composition of hardware tricks, but this video isn't adding anything to it filter wise. Technically it is 'underscanned,' like SotB or a lot of other games which try to fully exploit the hardware sprites; unless maybe you meant the use of interlaced output purely to soften the image and get a smoother looking gradient in the horizon colors. *** So basically half of the 8 hardware sprite channels are given to the owl - why it's so detailed and colorful - and another sprite-pair is reserved purely for the scroll special attacks. Of the remaining sprite-pair, one is used for the main attack and the other covers every standard 'yellow bullet' from the enemies, and as the color palette is shared that's why you see flat white in both - and that's also why you get the odd but cool range mechanic of doing more damage up close, since only one of your 'shots' can be on screen at once. Everything else is animated with blobs (blitter objects) drawn to the main buffers in dual-playfield mode. So with two 3 bit buffers a total of 15 active colors are available - one of the front colors is 'transparent' - but the back plane is effectively reduced to 5 colors by the trick which affords the third parallax layer. All the extra color is from 'copper' interrupts then, which has it's limits and so you see the mix of brightly contrasted sprites when they aren't sharing lines with the foreground image, and sprites which blend in when they do. What it all then amounts to is a mixed framerate in which the main sprite (owl) and assorted 'bullets' along with the scrolling update at 60fps, while all the other enemy and background animation is a lower refresh, probably 20 or 30fps.
Let me find the link to the page of Frank Sauer, where he explains that the game use Dual Playfield and copper, but in a very ingenious way so that more copperlist per frame are alternatively used. [http]francksauer.com/index.php/games/15-games/published-games/10-agony
![Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight Longplay (Amiga) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RuqpISemjeQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Just looking at the intermission pictures. Thinking those are possibly in 32 colors (or 64?) in Amiga. These are not much colors but the careful selection of palette, the dithering, etc makes them look like VGA 256colors images. They are masterpieces. Nowadays you can't do see such good art with millions of colors.
The owl of the logo finally got its game.
Yes!
Dimmu Borgir brought me here. Judging by the epic music I thought it would be an adventure game. Alas, it is a side-scroller with an owl that shoots lethal sonic waves.
it had immensely influential artwork, both audio and video, it was absolutely stunning for its time.
but it's true what you said, I also wish it wasn't a game that it was.
on the other hand, I literally came to this video, after I whistled the main theme tune while doing my dishes.
it's been almost 30 years ffs.
sometimes I'm curious about whether the creators of these games know how far-reaching their products are.
in space, time, and across cultures.
Insanely beautiful, also hard game. One of my all time favorites.
Amazing art style and beautiful background art with animated effects
As said, the bravest owl to ever grace this side of the kosmos. Now I see how this game inspired BioHazard Battle.
Amazing art style and atmosphere
Absolutely! And the music was amazing, too!
Beautiful piano🎹 music at the start. And one cool game👍.
One of the most beautiful game on Amiga. Different from the arcade games during the same time but how many beautiful. Pixel art 😲👍😉
Another classic from Psygnosis. Great soundtrack as well
*Awesome game! Loved everything about this , especially the music, really need to dig this gem back out of my parents loft!*
Apart from an appearance on GamesMaster, I don't remember seeing this in the wild.
IMHO, this game was a beautiful demo of the Amiga chipset capabilities and a work of art. Incredible music, great graphic style, very great skills from the developers. BUT... As a game itself it was a little boring after a while. If I remember well, you could not interact with the background and it could never damage you, so it was just beautiful background art. If you removed the amazing graphics and music, there would be very little left.
I remember I used this game (and Shadow of the Beast) just to impress friends with inferior machines. But when I wanted to play an horizontal shoot'em up game and have fun, R-Type was my preferred choice. Not a perfect conversion, but it was good enough, nice and smooth, good music&FX and each level was very interesting to play. It was my preferred choice until Apydia come out...
The graphics are really good like every Psygnosis game
Such a great package, love the art and music, the game isn’t bad either, would love the soundtrack to be released on vinyl
Incredibly beautiful game
Those darn Frank Sauer pics inspired me to do some for Powder but at the end beside Game over were not used
Oh I just found out the first weird sound of this game is also the intro for dimmu borgirs for all tid
Sorgens Kammer from Stormblast LP
Mentor became furious and became a monster
beautiful opening music theme
"What about a shoot'em up where the ship's body constantly moves up and down on its own? Wouldn't that be great?"
DIMMU BORGIR brought me here
I grew up listening to dimmu borgir
Who's Doomy Boogy?
@21:09 "Here Lies Bitmap Brothers" - or so seems to read :P
Yes it does seem to resemble those words. I wonder what it's supposed to mean though?
Well at the time Bitmap Brothers were on the edge of popularity for Xenon II (and mostly an Atari ST shop), guess that is a pun :P
memories :D awesome sounds and music !
I love the tone of this and the Shadow of the Beast games! Never had those feelings again since the Amiga!
For me they still are one of my all time favorite games! And i have never experienced the feelings i had when i had the amiga, there was something magical about that machine, truly was!
This game is a masterpiece
Its sooooo underated!
It's not, it's terrible. Apidya is a much better shoot'm up.
great sound, great pictures , 👍
The menu music isn't bad, but the music during the stages sounds like a drum machine gone completely haywire. Good god! That final stage theme was real Agony to my ears!
The art work reminds me of Sega Genesis Eco the Dophine the Tides of time. Novatrade has something to do with this.
Thank you 😊
Never finished as child 'cause the last disk was corrupted.
Maybe Can I finish it now as adult? why not?!
My intro keeps looping. Does anyone know how to skip it?
What program did you use for 50fps recording?
Long lives the owls
Oh no, he lost 1 life 31:02 😵🦉 But good play anyway 👍
A masterpiece..
A shit game with good graphics.
What was the story to this game?
It's in the description tara although it is very brief!
RedSevenNine First rule: Always read the description.
Thank you for the playthrough!
thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed it!
@23:29 seems the main hero in Unreal (same team)
Never played Unreal myself. So Art and Magic later became the Unreal team?
am talking NOT of the PC unreal but THIS unreal (1990):
watch?v=EPVzTaK8bYY
I was thinking of this game but for some reason I wrongly recollect it being on the PC. I think I'm getting it confused with Myst because of the cover art. I do vaguely remember Unreal at the time and I don't think it was a big hit in our home. Good to know it's the same team, I may, because of that, have a quick blast on Unreal, see how it goes down 20 years later.
+alxxpspqr - the game uses a fairly ingenious composition of hardware tricks, but this video isn't adding anything to it filter wise. Technically it is 'underscanned,' like SotB or a lot of other games which try to fully exploit the hardware sprites; unless maybe you meant the use of interlaced output purely to soften the image and get a smoother looking gradient in the horizon colors. *** So basically half of the 8 hardware sprite channels are given to the owl - why it's so detailed and colorful - and another sprite-pair is reserved purely for the scroll special attacks. Of the remaining sprite-pair, one is used for the main attack and the other covers every standard 'yellow bullet' from the enemies, and as the color palette is shared that's why you see flat white in both - and that's also why you get the odd but cool range mechanic of doing more damage up close, since only one of your 'shots' can be on screen at once. Everything else is animated with blobs (blitter objects) drawn to the main buffers in dual-playfield mode. So with two 3 bit buffers a total of 15 active colors are available - one of the front colors is 'transparent' - but the back plane is effectively reduced to 5 colors by the trick which affords the third parallax layer. All the extra color is from 'copper' interrupts then, which has it's limits and so you see the mix of brightly contrasted sprites when they aren't sharing lines with the foreground image, and sprites which blend in when they do. What it all then amounts to is a mixed framerate in which the main sprite (owl) and assorted 'bullets' along with the scrolling update at 60fps, while all the other enemy and background animation is a lower refresh, probably 20 or 30fps.
Let me find the link to the page of Frank Sauer, where he explains that the game use Dual Playfield and copper, but in a very ingenious way so that more copperlist per frame are alternatively used.
[http]francksauer.com/index.php/games/15-games/published-games/10-agony
No atari fans commenting here, ha!
black metal + videogames mmmm... not Kvlt at all
You the beast try to make a turrican long play chears Pro
gr8 art , animation, but which tune is from jereon tel ? most of the tunes r shit, especially the intro, loading and ingame crap.... annoying as hell
Sounds like the music was composed by an orchestra full of irrationally angry people. Someone needs to switch off the caps lock on their instruments.
Cheater!
I saw an owl doing this in my garden last night