What a excellent showcase of just what the Amiga was capable of with the right coders. All these games stand out, they could be in any order imo. Soon as I saw Marble Madness on TV I knew I had to have a Amiga! it was arcade perfect! All these ports are awesome, glad to see you added TinyUs m8, I was always puzzled and disapointed why we didn't get a Nemesis/Gradius port back in the day, better late than never I guess....Great vid :)
Yeah when i was making this it really blew me away seeing them all side by side just how good the Amiga games were. Thanks for the TinyUS recommendation and thanks for doin my Best Arcade Ports Ever Title i love it...really Arcadey (even though thats not a word lol)
Neil when i first set off to do this video i had 20 games to mind but then once i looked at the full list of arcade ports it was staggering how many awesome arcade ports were on the Amiga. I think games like Double Dragon and OutRun had clouded my mind on just how good a port the Amiga was capable of
@@GangstaSpanksta I wouldn't put Strider in the same class as Outrun (that was something else) but I did buy it BITD off the back of a 91% score in AF and enjoyed it greatly. The competition is strong on this list though, it would be hard to find a spot for it.
Rainbow Islands is probably my favourite arcade game ever. The 64 port was the one I remember best, but the Amiga one blew me away when I saw it at a mate's house. When I fire up MAME on the Pi, it's usually the first game I play. I was hopeless at the arcade version back in the day, but I can clear the first two worlds getting both jewels on one credit these days.
Massive Amiga fan here, but i didn't play many arcade games, except Spacies, and Gorf. I have just realised after 35 years how we took for granted the software that was produced. We all knew the Amiga was ahead of its time , but seeing side by side, and how much smoother and audibly better the ports were, wow. Just didnt realise at the time
I would say that the Amiga port of Space Harrier was actually quite competent. For the most part, most of the companies doing the Amiga ports belonged on the short bus
Unfortunately I didn't get an Amiga until the A500+ in Xmas '91, and so I missed a lot of these games when they were new. This meant they flew under my radar, and I didn't get around to playing them (I was too obsessed with beat 'em ups and later footy games to consider looking for what had become half-forgotten classics). But I remember hearing school friends gleefully talking in the late 80s, early 90s about how good Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands were; to me they remained a tantalising mystery. I did play MK though, and both Indy Heat and Super Off Road were fantastic fun, two of the most enjoyable 2-player games on the Amiga.
Ghosts n Goblins deserves to be on the list, it's an incredibly accurate port (I have the arcade game to compare it to). I think better than New Zealand Story and Rainbow Islands at least.
About time somebody aside Retro Core calling out good ports for this machine, whenever the Amiga actually gets competent developers for conversions, you'd get something above even higher quality than most console conversions
as long as it wasn't Tiertex or US Gold developing them u were always on a safe bet....I remember playing Double Dragon 3 on the amiga and it was so much better than the horrible choppy arcade version or the Megadrive one with its horrid hit detection.
Another great list. In a way R-Type II was even more impressive a conversion than the original R-Type with its parallax backgrounds and amazing sound and music, although it did slow down somewhat at times.
My impressions of the amiga were based on my lack of knowledge of it and its games. This video made me respect it. I also NEVER knew MK2 had a amiga port. Great video sir. 🤙🏾💯
Playing Klax undoubtedly helped with the numerous factory/conveyor type jobs I would procure in the future. When then conversely helped my Klax playing ability rise to higher levels than before! :D
Great list. others- NARC, UN Sqaudron, Shadow Warriors, Shadow Dancer, Cabal were all pretty good conversions imo. I thought Rampage was a good conversion, good three player fun. Although the best I can think of that doesn't get enough love is Saint Dragon.
I always thought Midnight resistance, Rainbow islands,R type, Rainbow Islands, Pang and Golden Axe were fantastic ports.oh and New Zealand story was great too.
There were literally loads of games that just missed out on this list, as with the C64 list I could have made a much bigger list but these videos are so time consuming building up layers and then getting the transitions done that any more than 20 is going to take too long
Thanks for a great (and for me, very timely) review. During the last lockdown, I'd been dusting off my old stock A1200, and found that the floppy drive was failing. So I set about revamping it (with the help of several youtube vids) with an 8MB RAM expansion, a flash card HD drive, and a GOTEK floppy drive emulator, which arrived a couple of days ago. It's now fully new-and-improved, so I'm looking forward to giving TinyUS a go. Thanks for keeping the nostalgia and enthusiasm for these old systems alive!
@@oldstylegaming Looking at how difficult it is to get an authentic amiga floppy drive is these days (or any floppy drive for that matter), I'm not surprised. I'm glad I hung on to my old system which I bought back in '93.
And of course Turbo Sprint, the remake of Super Sprint from Atari was just released by Graeme Cowie this last week - I would definitely have put That one on the list too. Check it out if you have not seen it already
I agree with this list. Rainbow Islands was a great conversion, but I agree with you, not my cup of tea. I loved Bubble Bobble, but I really didn't like any of the sequels (aside from Puzzle Bobble, which was more of an offshoot than an official sequel) Rainbow islands was good, because it was essentially developed by Graftgold, or Andrew Braybrook to be more precise. I'd like to add a couple of honorable mentions as well.. Super Space Invaders. Pretty good port IMHO. And of course... Super Hang-On And since you did include TinyUs... Deluxe Galaga deserves a mention as well
Nice to see some recent conversions, didn't know about TinyUS but it looks close to identical i.e. "Arcade perfect. I seem to remember that term being used quite frequently in the magazines back then and of course it was almost always hyperbole. However Ocean France were one of the best on the Amiga; you have three of their games featured here (Pang, Toki and Snow Bros) and Liquid Kids was another sadly unreleased but great looking conversion.
Pure class video mate, had a fair few of the games on the list and loved them. But now i have to go and play a few of them new games just to say i have played them haha. Keep up the great work and roll on then next video buddy, take it easy.
Awesome video and abssolutely spot on.....going to hunt down TinyUS and TinyBobble as they look top notch. I would give honourable mentions to Buggy Boy, Cabal and Midnight Resistance as I played them a lot and thought they were very good ports
Great list. I've played nearly every one of those on my Amiga in the day. Still have it, the games in cardboard boxes. EA's Marble Madness was very good, best the way I played it like the arcade control, on the Amiga with a Wico Trackball roller.
Nice list. Problem I have with many of these is with the exception of the new conversions, these all could and should have been better - lazy releases to get out asap to make money. Need to squeeze on operation wolf!
Some great conversions, shows what the Amiga was capable of. In the right hands. I thought the player sprite in Silk Worm was a bit small though would push it down my list.
Love a huge amount of this list, I used to have quite a few on the list and used to go play on my mate's on his st, a particular fav of mine on the st was bombjack the more basic sound I prefer which is strange because most stuff is better on the Amiga by far, we used to play 2 player after when we had the time.
Other good arcade ports: Bonanza Bros, Dynamite Dux, St. Dragon, Dragon Breed, Shadow Warriors, Buggy Boy, Mercs, Commando, Ghosts'n Goblins, P47 Thunderbolt, Wonderboy In Monsterland. Sadly, the Amiga is mostly talked about when it comes to horrible ports like Outrun or Street Fighter II, but there is a actually a bunch of decent arcade ports.
Fantastic list of games from a fantastic computer I owned back in the day. I remember just before it come out and there was a shop in Alum rock Birmingham that had one of the first ones. From that moment I knew how special it was, great to look back on all the memories it gave me. One thing I disagree on is the music to Golden axe, Jeroen Tel blew all the others away with his version on the C64. Hope there's another video to add to this one 😊
Good list but so hard to do. There are many good conversions. Rampart, plotting, shadow dancer, puzznic. I would rate toki higher. Also loved the star wars arcade port, it has excellent controls if you use mouse.
yeah as with the C64 video i could have done at least another 10 games in this list and not ran out of great games...plotting is awesome though ...maybe I should have had that in
Games I love Arkanoid, Mortal Kombat I and II, Marble Madness (I bought an Atari 2600 Tracball just for this game), Star Wars and Space Harrier (there's a lot of Sega ports)
That needs a stupidly pimped out and horrifically expensive (these days) Amiga to play which is probably why it was omitted. Is it not technically emulating the arcade rom as well? Kinda cheating...
Yeah cannonball is a great outrun game for the Amiga but as its been said here it needs at least a vampire to run, i even struggled to set it up in an emulator ( but managed in the end) its not emulating the arcade though its pure amiga code but utilises the assets from the original arcade hence the reason why you need the arcade rom to run it....great game though
There was a homebrew port of Gyruss that I had sometime back in 1992 that took the original arcade port and expanded upon it. The intro screen was German so I believe that was it's origin. I've been looking for the disk image ever since Amiga emulation was available and still can't find it. The music was so awesome with replacing the lead with an electric guitar (in music mod of course). I'm still looking for it to this day.
@@oldstylegaming If you can, please let me know. I no longer have the disk copy and my Amiga 500 died sometime back in 1998 after an thunderstorm. I'm in the States so if it made it this far then there had to have been many copies made.
Klax - While the Amiga version is technically well done, it's harder than the arcade or other versions. The tiles seem to have less travel time as they come up the conveyor belt and they seem to be closer together. Arkanoid - This port would have been perfect if they had allowed you to use a paddle controller. For that reason, I actually liked playing the C64 version more. I was so disappointed when they released Arkanoid II and they replaced the paddle option with a mouse. I've never liked playing Breakout style games with a mouse. I tried the arcade game once, but there was something wrong with the controls. The knob grated as it turned and wasn't smooth at all. Rodland - This is a great game and would be a perfect port if not for the fact that they left out the second set of levels from the arcade. Not that I can get that far, but just knowing that they didn't include them makes me see it as inferior.
I have seen people doing arcade shoot outs and being very down on the Amiga and it is true that we often got some poor arcade ports but when it was done right, the Amiga was more than capable. There is a version of Kung Fu Master being developed which looks really good. Recently someone did a port of Pole Position for the Atari ST so I am hoping that developer will either do the Amiga port or hand over the code to a programmer who will know how to optimise the game for the Amiga and I think we would have a good version of Pole Position. I often wonder if someone with the know how could get the code for Lotus 2 and use it as the basis for a version of Outrun which, whilst it may not be spot on the arcade version, it surely would be miles better than the awful version we got on the Amiga.
@@oldstylegaming Yeah I've seen the Cannonball version and it looks great but as you say it is incredibly hardware intensive. Thats why I wonder if something built from the Lotus code would do a version of Outrun that could run on stock Amigas.
I don't think Joe & Mac Caveman Ninja was too bad either. Took a quick look at videos of Volfied on Amiga, seems fine too (used to like that back in the day on C64), Gauntlet II wasn't probably as good as it could be, but still playable. Last but not least, one of my absolute favorites. There are arcade games in the series, but not sure if the Amiga version is based on any of them really - Dyna Blaster.
Excellent list, I was sure that rodland would appear at the top and infact it's second. One thing about bubble bobble, the firebird conversion had a huge problem, when you died you would appear not blinking and instantly vulnerable to enemies, this was a massive bug that prevented the game to be completed you happened to die in certain stages, that's why I also liked best the c64 version. And btw bubble bobble has always been my favorite acarde game ever.
The list was interesting, though I never played in the arcades, felt too embarrassed, as I have poor hand eye coordination. I never played an Amiga as well, I was a console boy.
I never liked Rainbow Islands, but that's because it was advertised as a sequel to Bubble Bobble (which I liked a lot), but wasn't anything like it. It's arguably and objectively a great game, but that initial disappointment of not being the expected "Bubble Bobble 2" just soured it for me for ever.
What hurt Rainbow Islands the most in my opinion was that they took one of the things that made Bubble Bobble so special and removed it from the game, that being the simultaneous 2-player co-op mode
So many arcade ports in the comments, so let me throw in one too - Bionic Commando. Probably not good enough for the list of 20, mainly due to limitations of 1 button controls, but I do feel like arcade version needs more recognition vs the NES game. Also Mercs was good.
@@oldstylegaming It was one of the best ports for its time and a lot better than the Genesis version. Graphics were good and music was pretty good from what I remember. But I guess the best port was when they released it on the Sega Saturn.
@@oldstylegaming Yah I guess it was not the best but I did like it over the Genesis and SMS versions. But like I said the Sega Ages bundle that came out for the Sega Saturn was a carbon copy of the Arcade original in every way. th-cam.com/video/JD7Ce9ep3Cw/w-d-xo.html
R-Type II, Shadow Warriors, Ninja Warriors. The most accurate Amiga version of an arcade game is probably Xenon. 😉 I played R-Type 1 on Amiga a lot and it seemed like a lazy ST port, everything looks wrong about it.
Shadow Warriors I would also have considered, but in fact it wasn't perfect and I think it lacked a level. Or Ninja Warriors, but it was too much for the poor Amiga
Looks wise GnG was good on the Amiga but the gameplay wasnt, the frame rate wasnt good and the game mechanics were off meaning that firing backwards when jumping wasnt possible and anyone who knows GnG knows just how important that move is.
@@JMDAmigaMusic you cant ive just loaded it up cos you had me worrying there but i can confirm that when you jump on Ghosts N Goblins on the Amiga you cant turn and shoot backwards. you can on Ghouls N Ghosts though so maybe you are getting mixed up with that game
4:22 Uhh, no. The Amiga version looks horrible, because the developer didn't care for using the Amiga's color palette to its extent. P.S.: Would it be possible for you, to upload videos in 720p50 and 1080p50? Thank you.
Shadow dancer is very good, i played it to the death on Amiga. Dragon breed and Saint dragon are also excellent. Wonderboy in monster land is good but coin farming mechanic by jumping cant be done on Amiga, so it hinders the game. Double Dragon II is good so does the DD III (animation is better on Amiga than arcade) but DD III is bad game. R type II is preety good conversion with music, sound effects simoultaniously and paralax scrolling. Toki is better game on Amiga thn arcade. In fact, I played Amiga version first and when I found arcade cabinet, I was so dissapointed. Pang port is excellent and Golden Axe is to. Contrary to popular belief, I think Super Hang on Amiga port is crap. Bikes are jigly, no pseudo 3d sprites, just "drawings" of bikes from back and all sprites are small. Compared to Mega Drive port, it looks like 8 bit game.
Gauntlet 2 would let you use an adapter to connect 2 extra joysticks for four player fun. I seem to remember you could use it for 4 joystick 2 player smash tv as well.
Sorry to say but Golden Axe was awful, same for every other game console, and the Sega Genesis/Mega was the worst because of the really bad sounds, and also one you did not let us see T2 the Arcade game, the Amiga version was just plain awful, the best was on the SNES, i have played it when i was a teenager on the Amiga 2000, and it was bad really bad, now i have it for the SNES and it comes a lot closer to the arcade version.
What a excellent showcase of just what the Amiga was capable of with the right coders. All these games stand out, they could be in any order imo. Soon as I saw Marble Madness on TV I knew I had to have a Amiga! it was arcade perfect! All these ports are awesome, glad to see you added TinyUs m8, I was always puzzled and disapointed why we didn't get a Nemesis/Gradius port back in the day, better late than never I guess....Great vid :)
Yeah when i was making this it really blew me away seeing them all side by side just how good the Amiga games were. Thanks for the TinyUS recommendation and thanks for doin my Best Arcade Ports Ever Title i love it...really Arcadey (even though thats not a word lol)
@@oldstylegaming Lol, np m8. It's a word now! ;)
I realize I'm pretty off topic but does anyone know of a good site to stream newly released tv shows online ?
@Cody Lorenzo Try Flixzone. Just search on google for it =)
@Vincenzo Brennan Definitely, I have been using FlixZone for since march myself =)
Great list, every one deserving of its place. Strider I really enjoyed on the Amiga and Gemini Wing
Neil when i first set off to do this video i had 20 games to mind but then once i looked at the full list of arcade ports it was staggering how many awesome arcade ports were on the Amiga. I think games like Double Dragon and OutRun had clouded my mind on just how good a port the Amiga was capable of
Strider! Yeah!
@@oldstylegaming Strider, Double Dragon and Outrun are all considered disappointing ports. So glad they're not on the list.
@@GangstaSpanksta I wouldn't put Strider in the same class as Outrun (that was something else) but I did buy it BITD off the back of a 91% score in AF and enjoyed it greatly. The competition is strong on this list though, it would be hard to find a spot for it.
Rainbow Islands is probably my favourite arcade game ever. The 64 port was the one I remember best, but the Amiga one blew me away when I saw it at a mate's house. When I fire up MAME on the Pi, it's usually the first game I play. I was hopeless at the arcade version back in the day, but I can clear the first two worlds getting both jewels on one credit these days.
Massive Amiga fan here, but i didn't play many arcade games, except Spacies, and Gorf. I have just realised after 35 years how we took for granted the software that was produced. We all knew the Amiga was ahead of its time , but seeing side by side, and how much smoother and audibly better the ports were, wow. Just didnt realise at the time
yeah we were spoilt ;-)
Looks like I missed some absolute corkers! and that Bubble Bobble conversion? smooth as silk! I know what I'm going to be playing tonight
I would say that the Amiga port of Space Harrier was actually quite competent. For the most part, most of the companies doing the Amiga ports belonged on the short bus
Unfortunately I didn't get an Amiga until the A500+ in Xmas '91, and so I missed a lot of these games when they were new. This meant they flew under my radar, and I didn't get around to playing them (I was too obsessed with beat 'em ups and later footy games to consider looking for what had become half-forgotten classics). But I remember hearing school friends gleefully talking in the late 80s, early 90s about how good Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands were; to me they remained a tantalising mystery. I did play MK though, and both Indy Heat and Super Off Road were fantastic fun, two of the most enjoyable 2-player games on the Amiga.
What a nostalgia trip. I played and loved all of these. BTW that Gradius port looks insane!
Ghosts n Goblins deserves to be on the list, it's an incredibly accurate port (I have the arcade game to compare it to). I think better than New Zealand Story and Rainbow Islands at least.
About time somebody aside Retro Core calling out good ports for this machine, whenever the Amiga actually gets competent developers for conversions, you'd get something above even higher quality than most console conversions
as long as it wasn't Tiertex or US Gold developing them u were always on a safe bet....I remember playing Double Dragon 3 on the amiga and it was so much better than the horrible choppy arcade version or the Megadrive one with its horrid hit detection.
a good amiga port could match or even better the arcade if the developers put the time in.
@@krissymarklewis1793 US Gold weren't developers, why do people keep forgetting that, same with LJN, they were *publishers* not *developers*
@@turrican3839 they did hire people that did some atrocious ports though, a shame as their early ones were alright.
Gauntlet, Indiana jones etc.
Another great list. In a way R-Type II was even more impressive a conversion than the original R-Type with its parallax backgrounds and amazing sound and music, although it did slow down somewhat at times.
My impressions of the amiga were based on my lack of knowledge of it and its games. This video made me respect it. I also NEVER knew MK2 had a amiga port. Great video sir. 🤙🏾💯
Playing Klax undoubtedly helped with the numerous factory/conveyor type jobs I would procure in the future. When then conversely helped my Klax playing ability rise to higher levels than before! :D
lol
Double Dragon II by Binary Design is an excellent arcade conversation on the Amiga. A redemption for their terrible conversation of Double Dragon I.
Totally agree
Love The NewZealand Story and Silkworm
Silkworm is outstanding on the Amiga got perfectly balanced gameplay and the sound is much better than the arcade i think
Awesome video , all fantastic ports, thanks mate!
Glad you enjoyed!
Gauntlet 2. Pitstop Loved both of those. G2 was pretty much arcade perfect. Right down to 4 players.
Just started catching up on some of your videos and this is excellent. Some cracking versions that I wasn’t aware of. Keep up the excellent videos 👍
Bubble Bobble is amazing on the C64.
Also, I think that Gauntlet II belongs on this list. It was near arcade perfect.
I was about to post that too. For a time it was the closest port to the Arcade version.
Yeah c64 bubble bobble was brilliant especially two player 🙂
Great list.
others- NARC, UN Sqaudron, Shadow Warriors, Shadow Dancer, Cabal were all pretty good conversions imo.
I thought Rampage was a good conversion, good three player fun.
Although the best I can think of that doesn't get enough love is Saint Dragon.
I always thought Midnight resistance, Rainbow islands,R type, Rainbow Islands, Pang and Golden Axe were fantastic ports.oh and New Zealand story was great too.
oh and Rodland and ST dragon. Mortal kombat puts Streetfighter 2 to shame. Silkworm on the amiga was better than the arcade.
There were literally loads of games that just missed out on this list, as with the C64 list I could have made a much bigger list but these videos are so time consuming building up layers and then getting the transitions done that any more than 20 is going to take too long
@@oldstylegaming I always love and look forward to your vids so keep up the good work:)
its funny as I was gonna mention Op Thunderbolt too, T2 the arcade game and Shadow warriors too i'd stick on my list.
Op Thunderbolt is outstanding and up until TinyUS went in it was on the list in 20th
Thanks for a great (and for me, very timely) review. During the last lockdown, I'd been dusting off my old stock A1200, and found that the floppy drive was failing. So I set about revamping it (with the help of several youtube vids) with an 8MB RAM expansion, a flash card HD drive, and a GOTEK floppy drive emulator, which arrived a couple of days ago. It's now fully new-and-improved, so I'm looking forward to giving TinyUS a go. Thanks for keeping the nostalgia and enthusiasm for these old systems alive!
Sounds like a perfect setup that. I want a 1200 one day but they getting mega expensive now
@@oldstylegaming Looking at how difficult it is to get an authentic amiga floppy drive is these days (or any floppy drive for that matter), I'm not surprised. I'm glad I hung on to my old system which I bought back in '93.
And of course Turbo Sprint, the remake of Super Sprint from Atari was just released by Graeme Cowie this last week - I would definitely have put That one on the list too. Check it out if you have not seen it already
Oh ... im gonna check that out now i never knew about it
I agree with this list. Rainbow Islands was a great conversion, but I agree with you, not my cup of tea. I loved Bubble Bobble, but I really didn't like any of the sequels (aside from Puzzle Bobble, which was more of an offshoot than an official sequel)
Rainbow islands was good, because it was essentially developed by Graftgold, or Andrew Braybrook to be more precise.
I'd like to add a couple of honorable mentions as well..
Super Space Invaders. Pretty good port IMHO.
And of course... Super Hang-On
And since you did include TinyUs...
Deluxe Galaga deserves a mention as well
Deluxe Galaga is a truly awesome game. Probably my favourite public domain game ever
Nice to see some recent conversions, didn't know about TinyUS but it looks close to identical i.e. "Arcade perfect. I seem to remember that term being used quite frequently in the magazines back then and of course it was almost always hyperbole. However Ocean France were one of the best on the Amiga; you have three of their games featured here (Pang, Toki and Snow Bros) and Liquid Kids was another sadly unreleased but great looking conversion.
Pure class video mate, had a fair few of the games on the list and loved them. But now i have to go and play a few of them new games just to say i have played them haha. Keep up the great work and roll on then next video buddy, take it easy.
Thanks for the video! I also liked a lot Ninja Warriors and Wonderboy in Monsterland ports.
Rod.Land is my favourite Amiga arcade port too,
Also Mortal Kombat II is one of the few games with 2 button support.
Awesome video and abssolutely spot on.....going to hunt down TinyUS and TinyBobble as they look top notch. I would give honourable mentions to Buggy Boy, Cabal and Midnight Resistance as I played them a lot and thought they were very good ports
Cabal! Yeah!
Good list, not easy to pick just 20 games. Maybe a part 2 in the future? :)
Great list. I've played nearly every one of those on my Amiga in the day. Still have it, the games in cardboard boxes. EA's Marble Madness was very good, best the way I played it like the arcade control, on the Amiga with a Wico Trackball roller.
A few new games I dont recall playing, those that I did, was played a lot. Bomb Jack was one of my favorites on the Amstrad CPC
Nice list. Problem I have with many of these is with the exception of the new conversions, these all could and should have been better - lazy releases to get out asap to make money. Need to squeeze on operation wolf!
I dont believe any of these are lazy releases like
@@oldstylegaming something like nZ story for example could have ironed out the graphics, smarter animation, etc. Etc. - it's an ST Port.
Some great conversions, shows what the Amiga was capable of. In the right hands. I thought the player sprite in Silk Worm was a bit small though would push it down my list.
Several games there I didn't know existed even in the arcade. I will have to find them and give them a play.
Sly spy: secret agent was one along with Toki i played once that amazed me for a computer port. Pacland i remember liking as well.
Love a huge amount of this list, I used to have quite a few on the list and used to go play on my mate's on his st, a particular fav of mine on the st was bombjack the more basic sound I prefer which is strange because most stuff is better on the Amiga by far, we used to play 2 player after when we had the time.
Other good arcade ports: Bonanza Bros, Dynamite Dux, St. Dragon, Dragon Breed, Shadow Warriors, Buggy Boy, Mercs, Commando, Ghosts'n Goblins, P47 Thunderbolt, Wonderboy In Monsterland. Sadly, the Amiga is mostly talked about when it comes to horrible ports like Outrun or Street Fighter II, but there is a actually a bunch of decent arcade ports.
I have literally just said the same thing to RMC about my mind been clouded by OutRun etc. Before reading this comment.
Fantastic list of games from a fantastic computer I owned back in the day.
I remember just before it come out and there was a shop in Alum rock Birmingham that had one of the first ones. From that moment I knew how special it was, great to look back on all the memories it gave me.
One thing I disagree on is the music to Golden axe, Jeroen Tel blew all the others away with his version on the C64.
Hope there's another video to add to this one 😊
I did not know Silkworm was an arcade cabinet game. I just checked on YT, and yes Amiga sound FX were epic.
Swiv was ace too, unofficial follow up but did the original proud. Maybe the best top-down shooter on the system.
Yeah, Amiga.. my all-time favorite system😁👍
SWIV is class
@@basvanharen2904 I love the amga, sit me down with something like Turrican Apidya or Project x and I'm a happy bunny.
@@oldstylegaming that and Battle squadron were mint
I loved Silkworm back in the day on my A500.
Pac-Mania was the first Amiga game I ever saw. I knew at that point I had to have a machine of that power.
Another great video my friend..keep them coming!!!!!!!
Plotting and Puzznic were also very good but it's quite common that puzzle games are less popular in arcade world.
Golden axe and Rodland for me. I would have loved the bubble bobble version too.
Oooooh Gradius is all shiny and gorgeous innit! Nice one
Good list but so hard to do. There are many good conversions. Rampart, plotting, shadow dancer, puzznic. I would rate toki higher. Also loved the star wars arcade port, it has excellent controls if you use mouse.
yeah as with the C64 video i could have done at least another 10 games in this list and not ran out of great games...plotting is awesome though ...maybe I should have had that in
Games I love Arkanoid, Mortal Kombat I and II, Marble Madness (I bought an Atari 2600 Tracball just for this game), Star Wars and Space Harrier (there's a lot of Sega ports)
Great list I'd have thought the Cannonball outrun would make the list, it seems a lot better than what we got back in the day.
That needs a stupidly pimped out and horrifically expensive (these days) Amiga to play which is probably why it was omitted. Is it not technically emulating the arcade rom as well? Kinda cheating...
Yeah cannonball is a great outrun game for the Amiga but as its been said here it needs at least a vampire to run, i even struggled to set it up in an emulator ( but managed in the end) its not emulating the arcade though its pure amiga code but utilises the assets from the original arcade hence the reason why you need the arcade rom to run it....great game though
There was a homebrew port of Gyruss that I had sometime back in 1992 that took the original arcade port and expanded upon it. The intro screen was German so I believe that was it's origin. I've been looking for the disk image ever since Amiga emulation was available and still can't find it. The music was so awesome with replacing the lead with an electric guitar (in music mod of course). I'm still looking for it to this day.
Im intrigued now....im gonna find that game
@@oldstylegaming If you can, please let me know. I no longer have the disk copy and my Amiga 500 died sometime back in 1998 after an thunderstorm. I'm in the States so if it made it this far then there had to have been many copies made.
Klax - While the Amiga version is technically well done, it's harder than the arcade or other versions. The tiles seem to have less travel time as they come up the conveyor belt and they seem to be closer together.
Arkanoid - This port would have been perfect if they had allowed you to use a paddle controller. For that reason, I actually liked playing the C64 version more. I was so disappointed when they released Arkanoid II and they replaced the paddle option with a mouse. I've never liked playing Breakout style games with a mouse. I tried the arcade game once, but there was something wrong with the controls. The knob grated as it turned and wasn't smooth at all.
Rodland - This is a great game and would be a perfect port if not for the fact that they left out the second set of levels from the arcade. Not that I can get that far, but just knowing that they didn't include them makes me see it as inferior.
The only two on this excellent list I’ve played on both arcade and A500 is Golden axe & Mortal kombat II. But my oh my the hours I’ve spent on them.
I have seen people doing arcade shoot outs and being very down on the Amiga and it is true that we often got some poor arcade ports but when it was done right, the Amiga was more than capable. There is a version of Kung Fu Master being developed which looks really good. Recently someone did a port of Pole Position for the Atari ST so I am hoping that developer will either do the Amiga port or hand over the code to a programmer who will know how to optimise the game for the Amiga and I think we would have a good version of Pole Position.
I often wonder if someone with the know how could get the code for Lotus 2 and use it as the basis for a version of Outrun which, whilst it may not be spot on the arcade version, it surely would be miles better than the awful version we got on the Amiga.
Cannonball does that for outrun on the amiga but its mega resource sapping and needs an amiga with serious beef
@@oldstylegaming Yeah I've seen the Cannonball version and it looks great but as you say it is incredibly hardware intensive. Thats why I wonder if something built from the Lotus code would do a version of Outrun that could run on stock Amigas.
@@AmbersKnight i think i heard someone mention that one is in the works at this moment on a stream i was in last night.... ill look into that
Great video but I would add:
Double dragon 2 y 3
Dynamite Dux
Bonanza Bros.
shadow warriors
wonder boy 2
Scape from the robot planet
I don't think Joe & Mac Caveman Ninja was too bad either. Took a quick look at videos of Volfied on Amiga, seems fine too (used to like that back in the day on C64), Gauntlet II wasn't probably as good as it could be, but still playable.
Last but not least, one of my absolute favorites. There are arcade games in the series, but not sure if the Amiga version is based on any of them really - Dyna Blaster.
I think midnight resistance should have made it, but it got an honourable mention. Roland is a great little game
Excellent list, I was sure that rodland would appear at the top and infact it's second. One thing about bubble bobble, the firebird conversion had a huge problem, when you died you would appear not blinking and instantly vulnerable to enemies, this was a massive bug that prevented the game to be completed you happened to die in certain stages, that's why I also liked best the c64 version. And btw bubble bobble has always been my favorite acarde game ever.
Have you played the TinyBobble version?
@@oldstylegaming No never, but I plan to try it
@@mikestunt77 its awesome mate and if bb is your favourite arcade game you gonna be blown away
@@oldstylegaming I will look for it as soon as I got some time to play it, thanks a lot !
Good list! Thanx!
Evil man not liking the cutesy genre. Some of the best gameplay ever in those.
Shadow dancer was an amazing port too
Awesome stuff. My faves are Golden Axe, Arkanoid, Pang, Rod-land, Pac-mania, Silkworm...
Amiga and spectrum forever!!!
Welcome back
Mortal kombat 2 always surprised me how good it was and a brilliant conversion especially when we got the crap that is street fighter 2!
The list was interesting, though I never played in the arcades, felt too embarrassed, as I have poor hand eye coordination. I never played an Amiga as well, I was a console boy.
Porting on Amiga the best perfect! 👍 😎
Except for Street Fighter LOL
One fire button was a real negative on the Amiga
You missed Ninja warriors and midnight resistance! They are perfect arcade Amiga conversions
Great video
I never liked Rainbow Islands, but that's because it was advertised as a sequel to Bubble Bobble (which I liked a lot), but wasn't anything like it. It's arguably and objectively a great game, but that initial disappointment of not being the expected "Bubble Bobble 2" just soured it for me for ever.
What hurt Rainbow Islands the most in my opinion was that they took one of the things that made Bubble Bobble so special and removed it from the game, that being the simultaneous 2-player co-op mode
So many arcade ports in the comments, so let me throw in one too - Bionic Commando. Probably not good enough for the list of 20, mainly due to limitations of 1 button controls, but I do feel like arcade version needs more recognition vs the NES game. Also Mercs was good.
Is Pang considered an arcade game or platform?
Its an arcade game if its in the arcades.
I hope you do more Best/Worst Arcade Ports lists for other systems.
Will be mate :-)
@@oldstylegaming Awesome.
ST would be cool
@@oldstylegaming If you do worst arcade ports for the Amiga, you have a lot of material from US Gold. :) Those guys were masters of doing crap ports.
@@pnvgordinho i have already done that video about 3 weeks ago
Shadow Warriors, dragon ninja, and a few others were good ports
Double Dragon 2 was a good/accurate port. Golden Axe and Altered Beast too. The worst has to go to Street Fighter 2. Lol.
I always wished they made a better “solar warrior “ arcade port!
Xain d sleena is my favourite run and gun platform shooter mate, can believe how bad it was on the Amiga
Don't forget Outrun and Space Harrier. Those were good ports also.
Erm.... outrun was a terrible port
@@oldstylegaming It was one of the best ports for its time and a lot better than the Genesis version. Graphics were good and music was pretty good from what I remember. But I guess the best port was when they released it on the Sega Saturn.
@@robertdaone surely you arent talking about the us gold amiga outrun its renowned for being one of the biggest disappointments on the system
@@oldstylegaming Yah I guess it was not the best but I did like it over the Genesis and SMS versions. But like I said the Sega Ages bundle that came out for the Sega Saturn was a carbon copy of the Arcade original in every way.
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R-Type II, Shadow Warriors, Ninja Warriors. The most accurate Amiga version of an arcade game is probably Xenon. 😉 I played R-Type 1 on Amiga a lot and it seemed like a lazy ST port, everything looks wrong about it.
@Neb6 the guy at the end pleading not be killed by ninja robots.. they don't make em like that anymore.
Shadow Warriors I would also have considered, but in fact it wasn't perfect and I think it lacked a level. Or Ninja Warriors, but it was too much for the poor Amiga
No Operation Thunderbolt??
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Love arkanoid. Though on the emulator is unplayable with the lag
Which version and which emulator?
@@oldstylegaming winuae. Not sure beyond that
Great list but where is Ghost'n Goblins?!
Looks wise GnG was good on the Amiga but the gameplay wasnt, the frame rate wasnt good and the game mechanics were off meaning that firing backwards when jumping wasnt possible and anyone who knows GnG knows just how important that move is.
@@oldstylegaming Weird because i was able to do it
@@JMDAmigaMusic you cant ive just loaded it up cos you had me worrying there but i can confirm that when you jump on Ghosts N Goblins on the Amiga you cant turn and shoot backwards. you can on Ghouls N Ghosts though so maybe you are getting mixed up with that game
@@oldstylegaming Did play last time like more than twenty years ago so you might be right
4:22 Uhh, no. The Amiga version looks horrible, because the developer didn't care for using the Amiga's color palette to its extent. P.S.: Would it be possible for you, to upload videos in 720p50 and 1080p50? Thank you.
These are in 720p 60fps
Be Vewy Vewy quiet... I'm hunting Wabbits!
How about the ninja warriors ?
Pac Mania is not "slow". The early levels start off slow but later levels are very fast.
So .... it is slow then compared to the arcade that its being compared with
Shadow dancer is very good, i played it to the death on Amiga. Dragon breed and Saint dragon are also excellent. Wonderboy in monster land is good but coin farming mechanic by jumping cant be done on Amiga, so it hinders the game. Double Dragon II is good so does the DD III (animation is better on Amiga than arcade) but DD III is bad game. R type II is preety good conversion with music, sound effects simoultaniously and paralax scrolling. Toki is better game on Amiga thn arcade. In fact, I played Amiga version first and when I found arcade cabinet, I was so dissapointed. Pang port is excellent and Golden Axe is to. Contrary to popular belief, I think Super Hang on Amiga port is crap. Bikes are jigly, no pseudo 3d sprites, just "drawings" of bikes from back and all sprites are small. Compared to Mega Drive port, it looks like 8 bit game.
Golden Axe and Mortal Kombat were rather slow, no?
what games *are* for the faint hearted?
Gauntlet was close to arcade perfect.
Gauntlet 2 would let you use an adapter to connect 2 extra joysticks for four player fun. I seem to remember you could use it for 4 joystick 2 player smash tv as well.
He Stephen hope all is good, you done any more development?
outrun was the best by miles..... miles i tell you
Amiga port of Outrun was shit. Even the fans on LemonAmiga give it a mere 3.5 out of 10
so basically best two are knnock offs of original games
What's your accent, it sounds like Welsh/Scottish.
Northeast England (Durham)
smash tv
Cabal was also cool.
My amiga gave me the shits so that's why I done what I did to it.
Are tinyus and tinybobble free games on amiga?
Yeah you can find links on indieretro
Sorry to say but Golden Axe was awful, same for every other game console, and the Sega Genesis/Mega was the worst because of the really bad sounds, and also one you did not let us see T2 the Arcade game, the Amiga version was just plain awful, the best was on the SNES, i have played it when i was a teenager on the Amiga 2000, and it was bad really bad, now i have it for the SNES and it comes a lot closer to the arcade version.