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late 80s -early/mid 90s was the best era for gaming ,i remember getting my first amiga and it was the most fun gaming experience ive ever had,even though i have a A600 somewhere up in the attic i play all my favourite games on winuae and its great. thanks for the amiga content!
I went to my mates house, somewhere in the late 80's and he had been allowed to get an Amiga (in addition to the BBC Micros his parents insisted he had) and seeing Starglider 2 for the first time... For me, it was a vision of beauty and wonder and I was hooked. From there I had an A500 (1.3), played with a Uni mates A500+ with A 570 CD rom (so many hours lost to that!) before selling the 1.3 and buying an A1200. I now have about 8 A500/+, 4 A1200, 6 A600, 4 CD32 and an A2000.
One of the things I remember most about the Amiga, was going from the ZX Spectrum with it's blocky colour, to games with 32 colours or even 64 if they employed Extra Half Bright mode, or handling the floppy discs and them being so much faster than cassette tapes to load. Or how you could load up an image in one of the Amiga's many graphics modes and it be in 4096 colours, which was an amazing level of detail. I remember some software (like Photon Paint) only wanted to run in interlaced modes, so there was all sorts of flickering going on. And we were using the same 14" TV as we'd used for the Spectrum, which only had RF. So, we had to use the TV modulator plugged into the RGB port of the Amiga, and pas the sound through it. So, although it looked incredible to our eyes, it was the worst possible way to use the Amiga. Eventually, that TV crapped out and died, and we moved to using a beautiful 17" Phillips TV set with stereo sound and a scart socket. With an Amiga to Scart cable, we were able to use RGB, and suddenly the Amiga was beautifully clear in a way it hadn't been before. When we got our Amiga, we didn't have a lot of money, so we only tended to get new games for birthdays and christmases. But we could afford a couple of Amiga magazines. Previously, we had bought Spectrum magazines, which used to put multiple older full games on the covertape, which had built us up a sizeable collection of some great titles. The Amiga magazines didn't tend to put out full commercial games, but they did release some great Public Domain titles on their cover discs, as well as at least one big commercial application. Within a space of about two or three months, I had a full word processor, and a copy of a program called CrossDos, which enabled you to format a floppy disc as a 720Kb MS-DOS floppy. That meant I could write essays for school on my Amiga at home, copy it onto the MS DOS floppy, and take it to school to print out on one of their 286 or 386 PCs- which was amazing to me that I could do that. The cover floppies gave us a tonne of amazing commercial programs that way. One of my favourite programs was called Vista or something - basically, you entered a random number, and it would translate that into a realistic fractal-based landscape, with trees, mountains and lakes. It used to take at least an hour to render it all, but it looked amazing when it was done. Our Amiga was an A500+, which was an amazing machine, only had a single floppy drive and no hard drive. You could run the entire Amiga OS of floppy, but you would have to keep swapping discs. Or, if you were funning a wysiwyg word processor, and needed to load fonts or something - you'd end up swapping floppies multiple times. It was the same with games - most came on at least two discs. Some on three. So, unless you had an external floppy drive, you would be doing an awful lot of disc swapping. The ability to avoid that with an external drive was amazing. I also scored a 512Kb RAM expansion. The A500+ shipped with a full 1Mb of RAM, but even then, that wasn't that much. So the extra half megabyte made a big difference - especially when playing polygon-based games like a flight simulator. Another Amiga memory, was that it was the first time i used analog joysticks. We got an amazing Amiga combat flight simulator called Reach for the Skies, which was all set during the Battle of Britain. You could fly a Spitfire or Hurricane against a variety of Luftwaffe fighters and bombers - a whole wave of them. In the options, you could could turn on gourad shading, which made the planes looks a lot more realistic. But you could also opt to use an analog joystick from a PC - you just needed a little convertor cable. playing a flight sim with a digital joystick is no fun, so I got an analog stick. It was amazing - so much more realistic. And of course, I remember playing fantastic two-player games with my brother, like The Chaos Engine - still one of my absolute favourite games to this day.
I miss my old A500, badgered my parents for ages for it, and got one for xmas. I was so excited lol good times the piracy scene was amazing, bring back the amiga!!
Had a great time with the Amiga. Was round my mates constantly playing commando, RoboCop, lemmings, zool, James pond, another world and bubble bobble and rainbow island! Great console with solid games!
Weird question but you don’t by any chance have any duplicate DS/3DS games that you’d sell do you? I’m starting a small collection and I’m struggling to find games big time! If so PM me I’m down in sussex area not trying to come off as weird but you have loads of games lol so I thought I’d ask cool video also keep up the content.
I remember always looking at a Commodore CDTV in a computer shop in town. The price tag on it was eye watering! Some of my favourite Amiga games were Goal, Powermonger, Harlequin and Stunt Car Racer.
I loved James Pond too, my sister used to come into my room just to play it with me. Good memories :) What I think I might have played the most on the Amiga though was probably Civilization. Also Dune, Dune 2, the Lotu games, Shadow of the beast, Another world, Space Crusade, Hero quest, Moonstone... there's just so many good old classics on the Amiga. Later on my Amiga 1200 I played Doom a lot, also a bit of Quake, but that ran pretty slow on my machine
I had an Amiga 500 but i was a kid who did not know English. Yet I figured out opening basic editor, one day one of our relatives who happens to be a programming teacher saw the amiga basic and show me some simple things, like for loops, drawing lines, and circles etc. That set me for lifetime programming adventure. My favorite game was Agony, just the amosphere, the music made me look games different way, different compared to arcade or atari games so to speak. I still judge games with those first, gameplay later. I think Amiga 500 was the machine had most effect on me in my life, good thing is I found it in my mother's basement, it still works.
Used to love playing the Simpsons and Lemmings on my friends Amiga 500. Then he picked up a Snes with Streetfighter 2 and Mortal Kombat which we had first played in the arcades. Then Mario Kart was the go to game on the Snes. I had a Megadrive myself so my friend would come over to play Streets of Rage at my house and I would play Snes at his. Back then it was mostly one console or the other for most kids but did have one friend who had all consoles.
I have many memories of the thousands of hours that I spent playing the Amiga. But easily my standout memory was seeing the intro and beginning of Shadow of the Beast, probably in Dixons or Currys, and just thinking this is outrageous. This is so far above anything I've seen before on a home machine. I also remember my mum telling me that it was too much money for me to have one, and getting a paper round so that I could save up, and it must have taken me a year based on the derisory wage I used to receive! But it was worth it!
Hi Gemma, I started off Amiga wise, with a new 500+, followed by a 600 before moving onto the bad boy...a 1200 that I bought the overdrive plug in external hard drive for. I must of spent a fortune but justified it by saying it was for the kids (3boys). So much fun had and some cracking games back then. I loved Cannon Fodder & the boys Sensible Soccer. The game developers had a sense of humour for sure. Other fav games (so many!) were Lemmings, Zool, Syndicate, Shadow of the Beast...the list is endless. Poor partner had no interest in computer games, we collectively must of drove her mad, however she did used to crave a good old blast on Pinball Dreams....so realistic for the time. Thanks for rustling up some good memories during this crappy time. All the best to you & Jess 😊
Listening to you talk about your childhood takes me back to mine, it's like a time machine when I watch you, a chance to visit my good memories. So thankful you're on here
I used to go to an electronics store after school just watching a demo of Shadow of the Beast. I could stand there for ages and I'm pretty sure the people working there was pretty fed up with me.
I didn't have an Amiga. But my uncle did. They lived in Kent and whenever we went to visit we loved playing the Amiga. Magic Pockets, Pushover, Lemmings, Jimmy White Whirlwind Snooker all great games. The Best Two Games on Amiga in my memories were Cannon Fodder and Sensible World of Soccer
I played all the popular games at the time with my sister on the A500 and a bit of A1200. but for me my most vivid memory of excitement was... (now I was already starting to cut my teeth on music software for the amiga and enjoyed messing around with MED) and there was this day around 1994, dad comes home from work/town and slaps down onto the kitchen table, CU Amiga [may '94] magazine with the gold egg and chick on it and I see the brand new OctaMED 4 purple floppy disk still in its wrapper and I'm so hyped for it. but to be fair, all new mags Dad brought back had me excited, the amiga formats too! and I really miss the days of seeing those mags stocked in news agents! I have so much nostalgia connected with those magazine and their front covers.... it'll never leave me. I still have my a1200 and a500 and am very active in certain scenes!
I had a similar childhood. I got a Super Nintendo SF2 pack for xmas 92. Some of my friends had Amiga's and I was also mesmerised by them. I asked every xmas for one, but I never did get one. Came close one year, when one day my mother said are you still wanting an Amiga? I was like yeah, and she said ok we'll go to the town today to buy one. We got into the town and I hurried into Electronic Boutique to be told sorry kid, they're discontinued. I have an Amiga 1200 now though :)
I bought an Amiga 500 in 1991 from the proceeds of selling my car. I can't remember if it came with any software pack, but that pic of Tutenkamun Deluxe Paint really sold it to me. Favourite games were Lemmings and Eye of the Beholder (despite the disk swapping!). I went to uni in 1993 and the Amiga didn't get used so much, with all the distractions of uni! The A520 modulator was really playing up so I decided to sell my collection in 1997 :(
I still have my first amiga 500 i bought way back when i was younger my first computer was the zx spectrum 48 k plus i always preferred computers back then .
I still have plenty of nostalgia of playing Monkey Island 2 on my A600.. 11 disks! Even with the second floppy disk drive it was a mammoth task. Still my favourite game of all time.
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I really enjoyed hearing your about your memories and they definitely resonated with me, I remember feeling like this. I had a much older cousin whom used to babysit me and my 2 sisters and he would bring with him he’s Atari ST, I was blown away, I begged my parents for a long time to get one, which eventually I got one Xmas I think I even cried, such amazing times... Then I got to secondary school and my friends that had computers all had Amiga’s. I saw the games on the Amiga when I went to their houses and the Amiga versions of all the games were always superior. So I always wished I knew about Amigas before begging for my Atari ST.
I Remember back in the early 90's me and my friend used to run the Digmoor Amiga club, where a load of us used to gather in the local community center. We'd take our Amiga set ups to the club and set them up then we all used to pass around and share all the games and Demo's. I miss them days lol
I had an Amiga 1200 that I pimped with a CPU upgrade and an 80mb hard drive. The Amiga was my gaming system as I wasn't allowed a console. As the Amiga was a computer I was expected to use it for college work. We had a dot matrix printer that used to takes ages to print. So many amazing games on the Amiga. My 2 favourites were championship manager and Swos my friends and I spent hours playing both games.
@@colinlacey100 Thats the one and as you look over the wall you can see a couple at "it", I think that was a Virgin game, or some other big brand :/ glad they havent remade that with modern engines.
I had this too, I’d completely forgotten about it until reading this comment, I’m wracking my brain now trying to remember the other characters you played as. Gonna go see what google has 😁
Love the vid Gem 👍 It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything in the comments, but had to on this one 😁 I loved the Amiga but my first gaming platform was the C64 . I had copied games on both machines . If I remember correctly you could get about 8-10 copied games on a cassette for the C64 . I had an uncle and a cousin who would get them for me . When I moved on to the Amiga my dad (who was a miner at the time) used to come home from work with huge lists of games printed out on A4 sheets of paper, and I could choose anything I wanted. Later on me and my friends copied and shared games , like almost every Amiga owner back then . Good old Xcopy ! 😁 It’s funny , at the time I always wanted the games consoles , but my friends who did have them only had a handful of games , where as I had draws full of games on the Amiga . Some of the ports on Amiga were complete trash , such as street fighter and few others . Street fighter wasn’t a patch on the snes version , and the lack of games like Mario had me envious . But for the most part the Amiga version of most games were the definitive versions for me . The sound and visuals were nearly always superior , apart from a small few . I miss my Amiga, and I’m always looking out for another . One day I’ll bite the bullet and get one . Even if it does cost me a couple hundred. Loving the content as always Gem . Thanks for the nostalgia trip 😁👍
I got an Amiga 500 in 1988 and I also had an Amiga 1200 which were my favourite computers I owned back in the day. I even had an Atari STe for a couple of months somewhere in between them kept the A500. My first computer was a 48k Speccy in 1983 and my uncle gave me his Commodore 64 in 1986.
Loved speedball 2. Turrican series. Wings . Its came from the desert to name a few. Still have amiga and with gotec regularly play it. I used a megadrive pad on tje amiga way back in earlier 90s and have ever since so nearly 30 years on multiple machines and never had any issues with it damaging the pad or the machine.
The amiga was a great computer...moonstone, wings, gods, it came from the desert 2, xenon 2, lotus, cannon fodder...so many great games, there was allways someone in the playground at school with a stack of floppy discs held together with a thick elastic band.
So many classics, the good old days and so much happy memories. Xenon 2 The Chaos Engine Pinball Dreams/Pinball Fantasies Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 Project X
Nice video. I got great memories of the Amiga. Got my first A500 on Boxing Day 1989 and still got it. Huge Amiga fan here, been collecting Boxed games for years. You got a nice Game Room, which i wish i had, but anyway some nice memories in the Video. Lotus 3 is a great game but i played the 2nd alot more.
Great games, Team 17 games were great like Alien Breed and Project X, I use to live near them and they used to own this little shop down a dodgy alley where you could buy public domain stuff like all the crazy amiga demos you could get, I'll never for get Jesus on E's just because of the name... *and Jolly Rogers Cookbook 😅
I had a A500 WB1.3, A1500+ and lastly an A1200 which got stolen. I found Edge vol 10,11,12 in the news agents and bought one of them with Ridge Racer on the cover, saw the review for 3DO Road Rash and the upcoming Ridge Racer on the PS1. From that moment forward I became a American/Japanese import guy. My memory of the Amiga was wowing over the graphics, but only a few handful of games stick with me today. Lotus 2, Monkey Island, Twintris, Alien Breed, Dyna bomber, Blues Brothers and Stunt Car Racer were my favourites and probably the only ones I would play today. The C64 had at least 50 games I would play today so I prefer that era over the Amiga. I did like the tech demos on the amiga, the first time I saw the RSI megademo I was hooked.
I also have a Mega Drive Pad that I have used for years (decades) without problems. I started on the 48k Spectrum+, then got an A500, then an A1200 (with 20 Meg Conner Hard Drive, later adding a PCMCIA CD drive) then an A500+ then a CD32 and A600 then a very yellow A500 (for spares). Got lots of add-ons for them --- not as much as I would like --- due to lack of Space + Money. As for 'PCs' --- I used to build my own (have not for about 10 years) AMD & Nvidia (WinXP & 7) ruled :) Got a couple of Pi's but don't use them much.
The 90s was a real golden era for computers. Helluva time to be alive. Amiga, IBM, Mac doesn't matter. If you were a programmer back in the day you were as close to the action as anyone could ever be.
I loved my Amiga years. Think it was about 1990 when I got a 500with 512kb upgrade. I miss having big box games. I miss the games. I don’t miss loading times though. I remember giving my friend a whole boot bag full of floppy games, mostly copies 😃
These are the top games that remain among my Amiga Memories: Lemmings ~ Super Frog ~ Alien Breed ~ D-Generation ~ The Sentinel ~ Beneath a Steel Sky ~ Defender of the Crown Super Stardust ~ Dungeon Master ~ Alfred Chicken ~ Turrican, and II and III ~ Dark Seed ~ Another World ~ Starglider and II Shadow of the Beast ~ The Lotus Trilogy ~ Paradriod 90 ~ Uriduim 2 ~ Heimdall and Heimdall 2 ~ Universe ~ Mercenary and II and III ~ Encounter! And of course The Secret of Monkey Island (series) Hope you get to try some of these! Though basic by today’s standards, the atmosphere and music in these games is so memorable.
I didn’t have an Amiga growing up. I guess they were available in America but I didn’t know anybody who had one. I probably read about it at some point in some magazine but I don’t remember. I was primarily interested in consoles and handhelds because that’s what I usually played. First the NES and Game Boy and then Game Gear, Sega Genesis, and SNES, and I even had a Lynx. But I rarely played PC games until I got Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. So I wasn’t paying much attention. But now I’ve started to play some Amiga games. I like some of the dungeon crawlers. I love that genre tho. I’ve played some CD32 games too now. I like Darkmere and Dragonstone. I have a lot more to play but I do plan on exploring. I figured you were a fan as a kid. You clearly are passionate about the Amiga. It’s nice to see more genuine people talking about things they genuinely love on TH-cam. I feel like a lot of people just cover popular games and don’t really love a lot of what they talk about. That’s understandable since you do need views to be successful but I can tell when someone really is interested in what they’re covering. Anyway, I just found this channel and I subbed after watching a couple videos. I have a lot of videos to go thru and I’m looking forward to it. You seem like a pretty cool lady and I’ll be watching more in the future. Thanks for sharing your memories. It was nice to listen to
Hi, thanks for this wonderful comment. Sounds like you’ve got some great memories! You mention DOOM! Oh I love Doom. Thanks for the sub. I hope you enjoy the content 😃
Cool, Amiga content :) Always nice to hear people's Amiga memories, nice story :) Played with my Amiga 500 just couple of weeks ago, for example the Lotus Trilogy, great racing game for the Amiga. I also played Out Run, which was my favourite game for Commodore 64 and Amiga. For comparison, played Out Run even with PC, as my Amiga game box (KIXX release) also included the PC version, and played again also in Forza Horizon 4 the LaRacer event about Out Run :D Fun comparison how racing games have changed during the decades. I did even draw a Knight Rider inspired picture (KITT's dashboard) with DeluxePaint 3 :P Before Amiga, I had Commodore 64 and before that, a Salora Manager, a rebranded Vtech Laser 2001 home computer which I got in 1986. Probably not very well known home computer anymore. Salora was my first home computer and I still have it and last time I checked, it was still working. Sold my Commodore 64 in 1991, but now I've been able to play again C-64 games I used to play as a kid with the Mini C-64 :)
There was a guy in the Argyle Arcade in Glasgow who used to sit behind a small table with a couple of folders listing copied Amiga games for sale which he kept in boxes behind him. I think it was £2 per disk. I used a Sega Master System control pad. Great memories of playing Monkey Island, Cannon Fodder, Zool, Theme Park, Desert and Jungle Strike, but mostly Championship Manager Italia and, still my favourite game of all time....Sensible World of Soccer.
Hi I had a Commodore Vic 20 , And An Amiga 500 and I remember playing a James Bond Game for hours and shadows of the beast , the last Amiga I owned was the Amiga Cd 32. And I am 50 this year and still play games
It's sad that copying & Commodore USA's bad management Killed the Amiga. I honestly don't think any other system has had so many types of video games that everyone would play!
Fond Amiga memories. Had the A500 to start then got the A1200. Some great games and the Psygnosis ones were ones that gamers were drooling over at the mention of a new game coming out.
I had about 3 full games but 300 demos... all in a brown suitcase I nicked off my grandad. I can still hear the sound the floppy discs made sliding around on top of each other while I tried to find the disc I was looking for in the least efficient way... didn't matter... I had all the time in the world 🌎*sigh*
Mega Drive controllers will NOT do any damage to an Amiga, only a Commodore 64. The myth that it damages Amigas is a holdover from the fact that it does damage C64s. So many people keep perpetuating the myth without ever bothering to get their facts straight.
I obviously watched the video. The Amiga and the snes conjure up my childhood and gaming. I got the amiga 600 pack with putty the game. I wont lie I got Into copying games and had most of the Amiga library. And played the hell out of it. But I was always jealous as my rich friend had the Amiga 1200. I'd love for them to make an Amiga mini
Awesome video Gemma! thank you for this! I share so many of your memories, although I live in Sweden! :) Subscribed! I'm remaking Street Fighter II for the Amiga if you would like to check it out! (hopefully adding to the nostalgia and the whole "what if"-mind experiment!) :D
I had the Amiga 500. Probably the best memory was learning how to copy games and trading them with friends at school. I also owned a C64 and CD32. Years later I bought a C16 with some games for £1. There was a big sense of community.
Bowdon yes I had the Amiga 500 too. But it was the plus and still have it. I had some games bought at the store like sleepwalker, WWF wrestle mania and monkey island but most were copies from a guy we knew down the carboot sale who we'd see every Sunday to buy more games. And they worked flawlessly too. I agree with what you mean with there being a sense of community with these consoles - we'd pick up one of the Amiga magazines from the newsagent each month and you'd get your free demo disks! I still have my mortal Kombat 2 one but those were the days of the 90's! How the kids today have no idea how much fun it was 😎
@@Bowdon Well My Dad was the one who would buy me the Amiga magazine and I would be so excited to see the new games coming out and play the free demo floppy disks - it really was good times then. Now with the downloads its too easy, there's no magic like the floppy disk!
I loved everything about my Amiga, right down to the sound of the floppy disk loading. I pestered my dad for so long to get me one. I clinched it with "But dad, I can do my homework on it!!". Obviously no homework was done. Especially as the A500 I got came with 100's of illegitimate games! Like you, a couple of my mates had Amigas and I only had a Megadrive with a couple of games (Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Zombies, Batman, Sonic, and Flashback) and there was GamesMaster magazine pumping out the reviews. Amiga Format with the awesome demos and utilities. God, the Amiga was fantastic for its time. My dad tried to copy Alien Breed 2 from my mates retail version and wiped it, lol. Wasn't allowed to play with him again! Do you have Lethal Enforcers?! I'd love a 2p with you (or anyone) on that, lol.
Ah the good old amiga, I love that machine. I used to play plenty of games on the one my old mate had back in the day and the 1200 was the best one they made. I owned one that I picked up off my local car bot for 15 quid a few years back.
Any Amiga was the Don in my eyes back then... Never had one as they were too expensive!! 😢 Always wanted one though... Oh and Lotus Turbo Challenge on the Amstrad trashed every joystick I owned!! 🤯 Stay safe everyone... 🌈
Whilst I love your Amiga passion, the reason you and your friends had all those games in the first place was because me and other sceners spent our time properly learning how the Amiga worked, coding demos, going to parties and breaking protection systems. $55555555 $4489
I grew up with computers and remember the amiga and Atari ST. I had a funny memory with my ST though. I was playing a gunship game and was being shot at and the computer had smoke coming out of it. I was surprised but also thought, being young and unsure what was happening, that the effects were brill until my dad took it outside and put the smoke out. Not sure what happened to it to make it smoke but loved playing with both 😀
Lotus 2 was my favourite, the snow level makes me feel so happy ,I'm currently playing a season on swos 96 ..best footy game ever made ..excluding fifa obviously lol
What a great video! I don't know much about the Amiga so this was nice to hear. This video has made be crave for a weekly/fortnightly podcast from you though Gem! Love the videos but something to curl up and chill out and listen to would be great. Just a suggestion though :-)
Interesting about the mega drive joypad, back in the day i used to always use my mega drive pad on the amiga never had any issues with the amiga blowing maybe i just got lucky there
I must admit 99 percent of my games were backups. We all had a copy of X copy software to back up games and swap with our friends. The Amiga 1200 is my most favourite computer ever. It had some cracking games.
Police Quest is a game I remember my buddy playing all the time.. We just watched of course, never got to have a go 😀 But such funny memories of that game..
More Amiga content please Shadow of the beast 2, Monkey Island, Moonstone, Cannon Fodder, Megalomania, Jimmy White, Super Cars 2, but the software I used the most was Xcopy 3 "nibble copy" 😂😂
Atari ST. For me growing up back in 1992-94 I worshipped Rick dangerous, navy seals, Alcatraz and some demos. I also had Street Fighter II from US Gold on 10+ disks.
I used to play a game called QWAK back in the day on my Nanna's Amiga! my sister, cousins and I were obsessed with QWAK! I recommend it!! Also a bit of Mortal Kombat & this painting game that I can't remember the name of.
I remember back in the day my dad getting me a amiga out the bargain pages do that still sell that anyway we went to the chaps house to get it my first game was shadow of the beast I remember getting final fight for it as well and bean really excited as I could never find the SNES one no internet so games were harder to find
Did you visit Gordon Harwoods when it was above the chemist on the high street as well as the specific shop on the back road. We got power play pack 2 when it came out with a 1084s monitor we played it to death spitting image, sword of sodan and bermuda project were ace.
@@TheGebs24 I'm originally from kimberley and my dad used to bring me up when we wanted to visit the shop. I now live in somercotes and have done for the past 16 years
If you will ever stream Amiga games on your channel, check Amigalive.com. I never tried it myself but It looks cool. It allows you to play Amiga games with friends. You could play Lotus 3 with your viewers. :)
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late 80s -early/mid 90s was the best era for gaming ,i remember getting my first amiga and it was the most fun gaming experience ive ever had,even though i have a A600 somewhere up in the attic i play all my favourite games on winuae and its great.
thanks for the amiga content!
I went to my mates house, somewhere in the late 80's and he had been allowed to get an Amiga (in addition to the BBC Micros his parents insisted he had) and seeing Starglider 2 for the first time...
For me, it was a vision of beauty and wonder and I was hooked. From there I had an A500 (1.3), played with a Uni mates A500+ with A 570 CD rom (so many hours lost to that!) before selling the 1.3 and buying an A1200.
I now have about 8 A500/+, 4 A1200, 6 A600, 4 CD32 and an A2000.
One of the things I remember most about the Amiga, was going from the ZX Spectrum with it's blocky colour, to games with 32 colours or even 64 if they employed Extra Half Bright mode, or handling the floppy discs and them being so much faster than cassette tapes to load. Or how you could load up an image in one of the Amiga's many graphics modes and it be in 4096 colours, which was an amazing level of detail.
I remember some software (like Photon Paint) only wanted to run in interlaced modes, so there was all sorts of flickering going on. And we were using the same 14" TV as we'd used for the Spectrum, which only had RF. So, we had to use the TV modulator plugged into the RGB port of the Amiga, and pas the sound through it. So, although it looked incredible to our eyes, it was the worst possible way to use the Amiga. Eventually, that TV crapped out and died, and we moved to using a beautiful 17" Phillips TV set with stereo sound and a scart socket. With an Amiga to Scart cable, we were able to use RGB, and suddenly the Amiga was beautifully clear in a way it hadn't been before.
When we got our Amiga, we didn't have a lot of money, so we only tended to get new games for birthdays and christmases. But we could afford a couple of Amiga magazines. Previously, we had bought Spectrum magazines, which used to put multiple older full games on the covertape, which had built us up a sizeable collection of some great titles. The Amiga magazines didn't tend to put out full commercial games, but they did release some great Public Domain titles on their cover discs, as well as at least one big commercial application. Within a space of about two or three months, I had a full word processor, and a copy of a program called CrossDos, which enabled you to format a floppy disc as a 720Kb MS-DOS floppy. That meant I could write essays for school on my Amiga at home, copy it onto the MS DOS floppy, and take it to school to print out on one of their 286 or 386 PCs- which was amazing to me that I could do that.
The cover floppies gave us a tonne of amazing commercial programs that way. One of my favourite programs was called Vista or something - basically, you entered a random number, and it would translate that into a realistic fractal-based landscape, with trees, mountains and lakes. It used to take at least an hour to render it all, but it looked amazing when it was done.
Our Amiga was an A500+, which was an amazing machine, only had a single floppy drive and no hard drive. You could run the entire Amiga OS of floppy, but you would have to keep swapping discs. Or, if you were funning a wysiwyg word processor, and needed to load fonts or something - you'd end up swapping floppies multiple times. It was the same with games - most came on at least two discs. Some on three. So, unless you had an external floppy drive, you would be doing an awful lot of disc swapping. The ability to avoid that with an external drive was amazing. I also scored a 512Kb RAM expansion. The A500+ shipped with a full 1Mb of RAM, but even then, that wasn't that much. So the extra half megabyte made a big difference - especially when playing polygon-based games like a flight simulator.
Another Amiga memory, was that it was the first time i used analog joysticks. We got an amazing Amiga combat flight simulator called Reach for the Skies, which was all set during the Battle of Britain. You could fly a Spitfire or Hurricane against a variety of Luftwaffe fighters and bombers - a whole wave of them. In the options, you could could turn on gourad shading, which made the planes looks a lot more realistic. But you could also opt to use an analog joystick from a PC - you just needed a little convertor cable. playing a flight sim with a digital joystick is no fun, so I got an analog stick. It was amazing - so much more realistic.
And of course, I remember playing fantastic two-player games with my brother, like The Chaos Engine - still one of my absolute favourite games to this day.
I miss my old A500, badgered my parents for ages for it, and got one for xmas. I was so excited lol good times the piracy scene was amazing, bring back the amiga!!
Had a great time with the Amiga. Was round my mates constantly playing commando, RoboCop, lemmings, zool, James pond, another world and bubble bobble and rainbow island! Great console with solid games!
I played my Amiga with an MD controller for years! Never knew it was risky! My main memory on the 500+ was breaking the TV modulator repeatedly!
Have a great day #Team24
Thanks you too! Love the nostalgia trip down memory lane! I copied my games also myself had a lot of them haha. Great Times😍
Weird question but you don’t by any chance have any duplicate DS/3DS games that you’d sell do you? I’m starting a small collection and I’m struggling to find games big time!
If so PM me I’m down in sussex area not trying to come off as weird but you have loads of games lol so I thought I’d ask cool video also keep up the content.
I remember always looking at a Commodore CDTV in a computer shop in town. The price tag on it was eye watering!
Some of my favourite Amiga games were Goal, Powermonger, Harlequin and Stunt Car Racer.
I loved James Pond too, my sister used to come into my room just to play it with me. Good memories :) What I think I might have played the most on the Amiga though was probably Civilization. Also Dune, Dune 2, the Lotu games, Shadow of the beast, Another world, Space Crusade, Hero quest, Moonstone... there's just so many good old classics on the Amiga. Later on my Amiga 1200 I played Doom a lot, also a bit of Quake, but that ran pretty slow on my machine
I had an Amiga 500 but i was a kid who did not know English. Yet I figured out opening basic editor, one day one of our relatives who happens to be a programming teacher saw the amiga basic and show me some simple things, like for loops, drawing lines, and circles etc. That set me for lifetime programming adventure. My favorite game was Agony, just the amosphere, the music made me look games different way, different compared to arcade or atari games so to speak. I still judge games with those first, gameplay later. I think Amiga 500 was the machine had most effect on me in my life, good thing is I found it in my mother's basement, it still works.
Used to love playing the Simpsons and Lemmings on my friends Amiga 500. Then he picked up a Snes with Streetfighter 2 and Mortal Kombat which we had first played in the arcades. Then Mario Kart was the go to game on the Snes. I had a Megadrive myself so my friend would come over to play Streets of Rage at my house and I would play Snes at his. Back then it was mostly one console or the other for most kids but did have one friend who had all consoles.
I used my Amiga and colour dot matrix printer to forge student cards for the older kids at school so they could get into the local trashy nightclub.
I have many memories of the thousands of hours that I spent playing the Amiga. But easily my standout memory was seeing the intro and beginning of Shadow of the Beast, probably in Dixons or Currys, and just thinking this is outrageous. This is so far above anything I've seen before on a home machine. I also remember my mum telling me that it was too much money for me to have one, and getting a paper round so that I could save up, and it must have taken me a year based on the derisory wage I used to receive! But it was worth it!
Hi Gemma, I started off Amiga wise, with a new 500+, followed by a 600 before moving onto the bad boy...a 1200 that I bought the overdrive plug in external hard drive for. I must of spent a fortune but justified it by saying it was for the kids (3boys). So much fun had and some cracking games back then. I loved Cannon Fodder & the boys Sensible Soccer. The game developers had a sense of humour for sure. Other fav games (so many!) were Lemmings, Zool, Syndicate, Shadow of the Beast...the list is endless. Poor partner had no interest in computer games, we collectively must of drove her mad, however she did used to crave a good old blast on Pinball Dreams....so realistic for the time. Thanks for rustling up some good memories during this crappy time. All the best to you & Jess 😊
Listening to you talk about your childhood takes me back to mine, it's like a time machine when I watch you, a chance to visit my good memories. So thankful you're on here
What a lovely comment. Thanks Bas
I used to go to an electronics store after school just watching a demo of Shadow of the Beast. I could stand there for ages and I'm pretty sure the people working there was pretty fed up with me.
The guys that made the new c64 are going to make an Amiga this year. Pretty cool stuff.
We maybe be even getting something regarding the cd32 as well.
I didn't have an Amiga. But my uncle did. They lived in Kent and whenever we went to visit we loved playing the Amiga. Magic Pockets, Pushover, Lemmings, Jimmy White Whirlwind Snooker all great games.
The Best Two Games on Amiga in my memories were Cannon Fodder and Sensible World of Soccer
I played all the popular games at the time with my sister on the A500 and a bit of A1200. but for me my most vivid memory of excitement was... (now I was already starting to cut my teeth on music software for the amiga and enjoyed messing around with MED) and there was this day around 1994, dad comes home from work/town and slaps down onto the kitchen table, CU Amiga [may '94] magazine with the gold egg and chick on it and I see the brand new OctaMED 4 purple floppy disk still in its wrapper and I'm so hyped for it.
but to be fair, all new mags Dad brought back had me excited, the amiga formats too! and I really miss the days of seeing those mags stocked in news agents! I have so much nostalgia connected with those magazine and their front covers.... it'll never leave me. I still have my a1200 and a500 and am very active in certain scenes!
I had a similar childhood. I got a Super Nintendo SF2 pack for xmas 92.
Some of my friends had Amiga's and I was also mesmerised by them.
I asked every xmas for one, but I never did get one.
Came close one year, when one day my mother said are you still wanting an Amiga?
I was like yeah, and she said ok we'll go to the town today to buy one.
We got into the town and I hurried into Electronic Boutique to be told sorry kid, they're discontinued.
I have an Amiga 1200 now though :)
Before I owned a snes, my first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2
I bought an Amiga 500 in 1991 from the proceeds of selling my car. I can't remember if it came with any software pack, but that pic of Tutenkamun Deluxe Paint really sold it to me. Favourite games were Lemmings and Eye of the Beholder (despite the disk swapping!). I went to uni in 1993 and the Amiga didn't get used so much, with all the distractions of uni! The A520 modulator was really playing up so I decided to sell my collection in 1997 :(
I still have my first amiga 500 i bought way back when i was younger my first computer was the zx spectrum 48 k plus i always preferred computers back then .
I still have plenty of nostalgia of playing Monkey Island 2 on my A600.. 11 disks! Even with the second floppy disk drive it was a mammoth task. Still my favourite game of all time.
Can I suggest you link the previous episodes in the description? You provide a lot of great content and it sometimes takes a while to search through it all :)
Gemma talking about Amiga: instant like. 👌
I really enjoyed hearing your about your memories and they definitely resonated with me, I remember feeling like this. I had a much older cousin whom used to babysit me and my 2 sisters and he would bring with him he’s Atari ST, I was blown away, I begged my parents for a long time to get one, which eventually I got one Xmas I think I even cried, such amazing times... Then I got to secondary school and my friends that had computers all had Amiga’s. I saw the games on the Amiga when I went to their houses and the Amiga versions of all the games were always superior. So I always wished I knew about Amigas before begging for my Atari ST.
I Remember back in the early 90's me and my friend used to run the Digmoor Amiga club, where a load of us used to gather in the local community center. We'd take our Amiga set ups to the club and set them up then we all used to pass around and share all the games and Demo's. I miss them days lol
I had an Amiga 1200 that I pimped with a CPU upgrade and an 80mb hard drive. The Amiga was my gaming system as I wasn't allowed a console. As the Amiga was a computer I was expected to use it for college work. We had a dot matrix printer that used to takes ages to print. So many amazing games on the Amiga. My 2 favourites were championship manager and Swos my friends and I spent hours playing both games.
Lol my best friend had a dodgy copy of Viz the game. As an 10 year olds we loved it :)
Ha ha , I remember that game . Buster gonad bouncing as high as you could using his balls 😂
@@colinlacey100 Thats the one and as you look over the wall you can see a couple at "it", I think that was a Virgin game, or some other big brand :/ glad they havent remade that with modern engines.
@@andyjackson-parr257 I remember mate , I was born 1980 , so I would have been about 10 when I played it too . Bloody hilarious at the time 😂
I had this too, I’d completely forgotten about it until reading this comment, I’m wracking my brain now trying to remember the other characters you played as. Gonna go see what google has 😁
Love the vid Gem 👍 It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything in the comments, but had to on this one 😁 I loved the Amiga but my first gaming platform was the C64 . I had copied games on both machines . If I remember correctly you could get about 8-10 copied games on a cassette for the C64 . I had an uncle and a cousin who would get them for me . When I moved on to the Amiga my dad (who was a miner at the time) used to come home from work with huge lists of games printed out on A4 sheets of paper, and I could choose anything I wanted. Later on me and my friends copied and shared games , like almost every Amiga owner back then . Good old Xcopy ! 😁 It’s funny , at the time I always wanted the games consoles , but my friends who did have them only had a handful of games , where as I had draws full of games on the Amiga . Some of the ports on Amiga were complete trash , such as street fighter and few others . Street fighter wasn’t a patch on the snes version , and the lack of games like Mario had me envious . But for the most part the Amiga version of most games were the definitive versions for me . The sound and visuals were nearly always superior , apart from a small few . I miss my Amiga, and I’m always looking out for another . One day I’ll bite the bullet and get one . Even if it does cost me a couple hundred. Loving the content as always Gem . Thanks for the nostalgia trip 😁👍
Amiga 1200 and PD software as we had a shop that would get this stuff for us. Galaxians 2000.
I got an Amiga 500 in 1988 and I also had an Amiga 1200 which were my favourite computers I owned back in the day. I even had an Atari STe for a couple of months somewhere in between them kept the A500. My first computer was a 48k Speccy in 1983 and my uncle gave me his Commodore 64 in 1986.
Loved speedball 2. Turrican series. Wings . Its came from the desert to name a few. Still have amiga and with gotec regularly play it. I used a megadrive pad on tje amiga way back in earlier 90s and have ever since so nearly 30 years on multiple machines and never had any issues with it damaging the pad or the machine.
The amiga was a great computer...moonstone, wings, gods, it came from the desert 2, xenon 2, lotus, cannon fodder...so many great games, there was allways someone in the playground at school with a stack of floppy discs held together with a thick elastic band.
So many classics, the good old days and so much happy memories.
Xenon 2
The Chaos Engine
Pinball Dreams/Pinball Fantasies
Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
Project X
Nice video. I got great memories of the Amiga. Got my first A500 on Boxing Day 1989 and still got it. Huge Amiga fan here, been collecting Boxed games for years. You got a nice Game Room, which i wish i had, but anyway some nice memories in the Video. Lotus 3 is a great game but i played the 2nd alot more.
The good old Amiga, I remember Alien Breed, Ruff N Tumble and of course Sensible Soccer! Thanks for this Gem, Not played an Amiga for years
Dude Alien Breed though
Great games, Team 17 games were great like Alien Breed and Project X, I use to live near them and they used to own this little shop down a dodgy alley where you could buy public domain stuff like all the crazy amiga demos you could get, I'll never for get Jesus on E's just because of the name...
*and Jolly Rogers Cookbook 😅
Do you remember an Amiga game called Murder? Black and white who dun it game. Classic
I had a A500 WB1.3, A1500+ and lastly an A1200 which got stolen. I found Edge vol 10,11,12 in the news agents and bought one of them with Ridge Racer on the cover, saw the review for 3DO Road Rash and the upcoming Ridge Racer on the PS1. From that moment forward I became a American/Japanese import guy. My memory of the Amiga was wowing over the graphics, but only a few handful of games stick with me today. Lotus 2, Monkey Island, Twintris, Alien Breed, Dyna bomber, Blues Brothers and Stunt Car Racer were my favourites and probably the only ones I would play today. The C64 had at least 50 games I would play today so I prefer that era over the Amiga. I did like the tech demos on the amiga, the first time I saw the RSI megademo I was hooked.
I need to play the amiga port of Ryger arcade ASAP
my brother had an amega 600 he took me to a local community centre where everyone was copying amega and amstrad games it was amazing memory
I also have a Mega Drive Pad that I have used for years (decades) without problems.
I started on the 48k Spectrum+, then got an A500, then an A1200 (with 20 Meg Conner Hard Drive, later adding a PCMCIA CD drive) then an A500+ then a CD32 and A600 then a very yellow A500 (for spares).
Got lots of add-ons for them --- not as much as I would like --- due to lack of Space + Money.
As for 'PCs' --- I used to build my own (have not for about 10 years) AMD & Nvidia (WinXP & 7) ruled :)
Got a couple of Pi's but don't use them much.
The 90s was a real golden era for computers. Helluva time to be alive. Amiga, IBM, Mac doesn't matter. If you were a programmer back in the day you were as close to the action as anyone could ever be.
Spot ON!
Gravity Power all the way 👌 SUBLIME .
I loved my Amiga years. Think it was about 1990 when I got a 500with 512kb upgrade.
I miss having big box games. I miss the games. I don’t miss loading times though.
I remember giving my friend a whole boot bag full of floppy games, mostly copies 😃
Lotus turbo challange." Turpentine" still in my brain like my frieds house phone numbers.
So sorry to hear about Rich. You are keeping his memory alive with your channel!
These are the top games that remain among my Amiga Memories:
Lemmings ~ Super Frog ~ Alien Breed ~ D-Generation ~ The Sentinel ~ Beneath a Steel Sky ~ Defender of the Crown
Super Stardust ~ Dungeon Master ~ Alfred Chicken ~ Turrican, and II and III ~ Dark Seed ~ Another World ~ Starglider and II
Shadow of the Beast ~ The Lotus Trilogy ~ Paradriod 90 ~ Uriduim 2 ~ Heimdall and Heimdall 2 ~ Universe ~ Mercenary and II and III ~ Encounter! And of course The Secret of Monkey Island (series)
Hope you get to try some of these! Though basic by today’s standards, the atmosphere and music in these games is so memorable.
Amiga still alive and kicking - today friend of mine release Turbo Sprint (Super Sprint remake) :) Dave - South West Amiga Group
I didn’t have an Amiga growing up. I guess they were available in America but I didn’t know anybody who had one. I probably read about it at some point in some magazine but I don’t remember. I was primarily interested in consoles and handhelds because that’s what I usually played. First the NES and Game Boy and then Game Gear, Sega Genesis, and SNES, and I even had a Lynx. But I rarely played PC games until I got Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. So I wasn’t paying much attention. But now I’ve started to play some Amiga games. I like some of the dungeon crawlers. I love that genre tho. I’ve played some CD32 games too now. I like Darkmere and Dragonstone. I have a lot more to play but I do plan on exploring. I figured you were a fan as a kid. You clearly are passionate about the Amiga. It’s nice to see more genuine people talking about things they genuinely love on TH-cam. I feel like a lot of people just cover popular games and don’t really love a lot of what they talk about. That’s understandable since you do need views to be successful but I can tell when someone really is interested in what they’re covering. Anyway, I just found this channel and I subbed after watching a couple videos. I have a lot of videos to go thru and I’m looking forward to it. You seem like a pretty cool lady and I’ll be watching more in the future. Thanks for sharing your memories. It was nice to listen to
Hi, thanks for this wonderful comment.
Sounds like you’ve got some great memories! You mention DOOM! Oh I love Doom.
Thanks for the sub. I hope you enjoy the content 😃
Cool, Amiga content :) Always nice to hear people's Amiga memories, nice story :)
Played with my Amiga 500 just couple of weeks ago, for example the Lotus Trilogy, great racing game for the Amiga. I also played Out Run, which was my favourite game for Commodore 64 and Amiga. For comparison, played Out Run even with PC, as my Amiga game box (KIXX release) also included the PC version, and played again also in Forza Horizon 4 the LaRacer event about Out Run :D Fun comparison how racing games have changed during the decades.
I did even draw a Knight Rider inspired picture (KITT's dashboard) with DeluxePaint 3 :P
Before Amiga, I had Commodore 64 and before that, a Salora Manager, a rebranded Vtech Laser 2001 home computer which I got in 1986. Probably not very well known home computer anymore. Salora was my first home computer and I still have it and last time I checked, it was still working.
Sold my Commodore 64 in 1991, but now I've been able to play again C-64 games I used to play as a kid with the Mini C-64 :)
Didn't know much about the Amiga until now. Thanks, Gemma 😊😊😊
Great computer, great games.
There was a guy in the Argyle Arcade in Glasgow who used to sit behind a small table with a couple of folders listing copied Amiga games for sale which he kept in boxes behind him. I think it was £2 per disk. I used a Sega Master System control pad. Great memories of playing Monkey Island, Cannon Fodder, Zool, Theme Park, Desert and Jungle Strike, but mostly Championship Manager Italia and, still my favourite game of all time....Sensible World of Soccer.
Hi I had a Commodore Vic 20 , And An Amiga 500 and I remember playing a James Bond Game for hours and shadows of the beast , the last Amiga I owned was the Amiga Cd 32. And I am 50 this year and still play games
It's sad that copying & Commodore USA's bad management Killed the Amiga. I honestly don't think any other system has had so many types of video games that everyone would play!
I love the Amiga I never had one myself but my friend had a 1200 and I would play dune 2 and syndicate over and over loved them games.
Fond Amiga memories. Had the A500 to start then got the A1200. Some great games and the Psygnosis ones were ones that gamers were drooling over at the mention of a new game coming out.
I had about 3 full games but 300 demos... all in a brown suitcase I nicked off my grandad. I can still hear the sound the floppy discs made sliding around on top of each other while I tried to find the disc I was looking for in the least efficient way... didn't matter... I had all the time in the world 🌎*sigh*
Ahhh the sound of the floppy discs clinking 😊
Mum get the hell out of my room.!!
Mega Drive controllers will NOT do any damage to an Amiga, only a Commodore 64. The myth that it damages Amigas is a holdover from the fact that it does damage C64s. So many people keep perpetuating the myth without ever bothering to get their facts straight.
I obviously watched the video.
The Amiga and the snes conjure up my childhood and gaming. I got the amiga 600 pack with putty the game. I wont lie I got Into copying games and had most of the Amiga library. And played the hell out of it. But I was always jealous as my rich friend had the Amiga 1200. I'd love for them to make an Amiga mini
Awesome video Gemma! thank you for this! I share so many of your memories, although I live in Sweden! :) Subscribed!
I'm remaking Street Fighter II for the Amiga if you would like to check it out! (hopefully adding to the nostalgia and the whole "what if"-mind experiment!) :D
Thanks Pixel. I’ll check it out
I had the Amiga 500. Probably the best memory was learning how to copy games and trading them with friends at school. I also owned a C64 and CD32. Years later I bought a C16 with some games for £1. There was a big sense of community.
Bowdon yes I had the Amiga 500 too. But it was the plus and still have it. I had some games bought at the store like sleepwalker, WWF wrestle mania and monkey island but most were copies from a guy we knew down the carboot sale who we'd see every Sunday to buy more games. And they worked flawlessly too. I agree with what you mean with there being a sense of community with these consoles - we'd pick up one of the Amiga magazines from the newsagent each month and you'd get your free demo disks! I still have my mortal Kombat 2 one but those were the days of the 90's! How the kids today have no idea how much fun it was 😎
@@greenkitty82 Yes it was.. I remember buying the magazines too.. browsing in WHSmiths to spend my pocket money on a computer magazine. Good days :)
@@Bowdon Well My Dad was the one who would buy me the Amiga magazine and I would be so excited to see the new games coming out and play the free demo floppy disks - it really was good times then. Now with the downloads its too easy, there's no magic like the floppy disk!
Never Played on any Amiga 😱😱
Habibi once this Is over we have to have a good old gaming session in the lady lounge
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I mean they’re super slow on loading but soooo nostalgic ❤️❤️❤️
I loved everything about my Amiga, right down to the sound of the floppy disk loading. I pestered my dad for so long to get me one. I clinched it with "But dad, I can do my homework on it!!". Obviously no homework was done. Especially as the A500 I got came with 100's of illegitimate games!
Like you, a couple of my mates had Amigas and I only had a Megadrive with a couple of games (Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Zombies, Batman, Sonic, and Flashback) and there was GamesMaster magazine pumping out the reviews. Amiga Format with the awesome demos and utilities.
God, the Amiga was fantastic for its time. My dad tried to copy Alien Breed 2 from my mates retail version and wiped it, lol. Wasn't allowed to play with him again!
Do you have Lethal Enforcers?! I'd love a 2p with you (or anyone) on that, lol.
Love this comment 😃😃😃
@@TheGebs24 Yeah but what about Lethal Enforcers? "wah, wah, wahhh...patrolman" (if you know this game, you know that excerpt lol)
*R-Type and Shadow of the Beast!* ⭐️
Ah the good old amiga, I love that machine. I used to play plenty of games on the one my old mate had back in the day and the 1200 was the best one they made. I owned one that I picked up off my local car bot for 15 quid a few years back.
Speedball
Beneath a steel sky
Syndicate
Cannon fodder
Zool
Zool though
@@TheGebs24 I also ploughed hours into dune 2 and 2d shooter construction kit
Any Amiga was the Don in my eyes back then... Never had one as they were too expensive!! 😢 Always wanted one though... Oh and Lotus Turbo Challenge on the Amstrad trashed every joystick I owned!! 🤯 Stay safe everyone... 🌈
Whilst I love your Amiga passion, the reason you and your friends had all those games in the first place was because me and other sceners spent our time properly learning how the Amiga worked, coding demos, going to parties and breaking protection systems.
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I grew up with computers and remember the amiga and Atari ST. I had a funny memory with my ST though. I was playing a gunship game and was being shot at and the computer had smoke coming out of it. I was surprised but also thought, being young and unsure what was happening, that the effects were brill until my dad took it outside and put the smoke out. Not sure what happened to it to make it smoke but loved playing with both 😀
I never ventured in to Atari ST territory
Lotus 2 was my favourite, the snow level makes me feel so happy ,I'm currently playing a season on swos 96 ..best footy game ever made ..excluding fifa obviously lol
Very good, love your vids and you. Had 2 A1000, 1 %00, 1 1200 and a 3000. Fond memories.
..waiting in anticipation for the new Amiga this year...... (hopefully) ... Moonstone is no.1 :)
Holy shit I loved that game . Moonstone 👆 Total fucking gem 👍😁
My fave was Simon the sorcerer 2 loved that on my A1200
What a great video! I don't know much about the Amiga so this was nice to hear.
This video has made be crave for a weekly/fortnightly podcast from you though Gem! Love the videos but something to curl up and chill out and listen to would be great. Just a suggestion though :-)
Interesting about the mega drive joypad, back in the day i used to always
use my mega drive pad on the amiga never had any issues with the amiga blowing maybe i just got lucky there
I must admit 99 percent of my games were backups. We all had a copy of X copy software to back up games and swap with our friends. The Amiga 1200 is my most favourite computer ever. It had some cracking games.
We got given an old BBC/Acorn Micro from by a friend who worked at a college is Bristol,way back in 1990 when the college update the computers
finally some amiga love
Nice video. I love my COMMODORE AMIGA
Police Quest is a game I remember my buddy playing all the time.. We just watched of course, never got to have a go 😀 But such funny memories of that game..
More Amiga content please
Shadow of the beast 2, Monkey Island, Moonstone, Cannon Fodder, Megalomania, Jimmy White, Super Cars 2, but the software I used the most was Xcopy 3 "nibble copy" 😂😂
I liked the video before I watched this.
The Amiga rules
My childhood
Great Video Gemma, The Amiga was awesome!! Sensible Soccer tournaments with my mates, great memories 😀
not enough Amiga content on youtube¿ 😂😂 are you serious¿ , nice video by the way...
Love my amiga 1200 and 600 you need furia for your 600
Atari ST. For me growing up back in 1992-94 I worshipped Rick dangerous, navy seals, Alcatraz and some demos. I also had Street Fighter II from US Gold on 10+ disks.
I used to play a game called QWAK back in the day on my Nanna's Amiga! my sister, cousins and I were obsessed with QWAK!
I recommend it!!
Also a bit of Mortal Kombat & this painting game that I can't remember the name of.
top video! :) amiga 4ever!
MORE AMIGA-STUFF PLEASE :-)
still got my A1200, with a hard drive built in
So cool dude
I think everyone with an Amiga had.....XCopy :-)
nice vid :)
My first gamestation was the Comodore 64^^ i really want one back... but prices go up to 300€ :/ i refuse to pay it...
I remember back in the day my dad getting me a amiga out the bargain pages do that still sell that anyway we went to the chaps house to get it my first game was shadow of the beast I remember getting final fight for it as well and bean really excited as I could never find the SNES one no internet so games were harder to find
Did you visit Gordon Harwoods when it was above the chemist on the high street as well as the specific shop on the back road. We got power play pack 2 when it came out with a 1084s monitor we played it to death spitting image, sword of sodan and bermuda project were ace.
No sadly not. I remember my auntie telling me it used to be up there. Are you from Alfreton?
@@TheGebs24 I'm originally from kimberley and my dad used to bring me up when we wanted to visit the shop. I now live in somercotes and have done for the past 16 years
If you will ever stream Amiga games on your channel, check Amigalive.com.
I never tried it myself but It looks cool. It allows you to play Amiga games with friends.
You could play Lotus 3 with your viewers. :)