Monkey Island 2 had 12 disks, I remember having to swap those disks all the time even though I had two extra disk drives. Also loved Utopia, Sensible Soccer, Battle of Britain... lots and lots of memories with Amiga.
But MI2 did have music on the amiga, too, right? I remember it was quite a revolutionary sound system on the PC, but i am sorely missing ANY music in the actual gameplay scenes for this game in the video.
Wow, this video brings back some memories! We were poor, but my parents sacrificed a lot to make sure I had a computer. The first was a VIC20 (bought new!), followed by a secondhand C64 when a wealthier family in town upgraded, then an Amiga500. I miss my parents, they did such a good job raising me.
Sensible Soccer, GOAL!, Kick Off, Cannon Fodder, Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies, Super Frog, Lotus Turbo, Scorched Tanks, The Settlers, Soccer Kid, Monkey Island, Zak Mcracken, Tanks and Miami Chase were cracking games for me in the 90's ❤
@Brad Viviviyal EotB 2 had bugs and exploits? I can't recall any to be honest. EotB 1 on the other hand, that was a messy afair I thought. You could skip huge chunks of the game - for instance, the first time I played the game, I didn't visit any of the purple levels and didn't find all of the stone artifacts but I still made it to Xanathar's lair. EotB 2 was more linear and was the superior game much because of that in my opinion. It's actually my all time favorite game :)
Great system. I played my friends Amiga when I was a kid and wished I had those graphics at home. Moonstone, Last Samurai, Lemmings etc. I had a CPC464 (which my Dad probably spent as much on as an average cost of an A500) which I loved, but it wasn't a scratch on the Amiga. I think what ended this machines career was the 386 based PC's with universal expansions and VGA graphics. When I saw games like Wolfenstein 3D running on the school 386 it just blew my mind all over again. It's so impressive to see what the Amiga did with it's limited hardware and for such a long time, but I got a 486 based PC back in 1994 and played Doom and UFO : Enemy Unknown and the Amiga simply couldn't match the speed. UFO on the Amiga seemed like a sluggish affair and the disk swapping eventually became horrendous.
...and the price for a small harddisc was about the same as for the entire system. And it was obvious at the time, that even that wouldnt cut it for long.
@@mrscruffy8045 Yes, nobody I knew had an Amiga HD. By the time it became feasible to buy one, it was far better value to buy a much faster PC. That 486 I bought in 94 only had a 130MB HD but it was easily enough for DOS 6, Windows 3.1 and 20+ games installed at the same time.
PANZER KICKBOXING!!! That was amazing. First one on this list that I had completely forgotten about and utterly adored playing. Beautiful sprite design too.
No Nitro, many weeks lost to that game. Loads of great ones missing, Wings and Golden Axe for example. Great list however, took me right back on nostalgia trip, thank you.
Super frog, soccer kid, flash back, volfied,wild cup soccer, Ruff 'n' Tumble, shadow dancer, dragon ninja, double dragon 2, warzone, lost dutchman mine, lost vikings, golden axe, Arnie ,Assassin, simon the sorcerer, Test Drive, Hook, monkey island, mortal kombat, Gunship, Desert Strike, Also These are some of the best amiga games.
Battle chess was simple, but i sometimes deliberately lost just to see the pieces fight.... I was always crap at chess anyway, so it didn't really matter about my play ability.
@Copenhagen remember stretching a cable across the street to friends house and playing 2 player network stunt racer on our amigas, probably one of the first or even only amiga lan games?? must be 30 years ago now :)
I was missing a couple of classics (I'm sure I have forgotten many others still...): The Settlers (!!!), Sim series, Worms (!!), Apidya, The Patrician, Dune2 (first RTS game!!) But my forever star game will stay Turrican2 with its crazy good graphics, super smooth gameplay and fantastic soundtrack (Chris Hülsbeck)... :-)
Any Amiga mini would need to patch each game to be correctly played on a system without keyboard, just a joypad or Joystick. In this way, C64 mini is a failure. And about the game selection. Too many possibilities to make fans really happy. So many more games published and loved by players than on NES or SNES. The selection here is a good exemple of games unforgettable for Amiga player but better to play nowadays on other systems. Games such as BADLANDS, BUGGY BOY, R-TYPE or SUPER OFF ROAD are nice conversions but can be easily played in their original arcade version, far better than on Amiga. Even if I played MONKEY ISLAND 1 & 2 on Amiga back in the days, it's better to play those games on PC in 256 colours release. You see what I mean? So a game selection would only include exclusivities or games that became famous on Amiga and here is the difficult as so many games were born on Amiga but really became known on other systems, sometimes for the best (Megadrive, SNES or PC). Well, to summarize, the problem is that it is more or less easy to select games for a console system, even if some people have been disappointed by games on Megadrive, NES or SNES mini, everybody is ok to says that a lot of those game are obvious because only available on the dedicated system. On Amiga, it is fair with so varied games and finally few exclusives. That would be a good starting point, a list of unforgettable exclusivities... And there we have not yet talked about the copyright problem...
@RETRO- RICKY For me AGA has no real interest for gaming. Just a few games exploited correctly AGA specs and really few of them were exclusively AGA. If you had compatibility problems without the help of WHDLoad, for me A1200 is the Amiga to avoid for playing 😉
I already have amiga mini on retropie with the amazing amiberry emulator and whdload files. Got 200 of the great titles well and running using the ps4 controller. Did the same thing with other 90s consoles.
I actually feel like crying, had every single one of those games but only just realised it was 30 odd year ago, give me a rope and stool, fantastic and best days of my life.
Hostages is definitely missing from this list. What a great game! And Midnight Resistance! Can't believe that didn't make the Top 50 either! But apart from those two missing, this is a pretty awesome list, brings back many memories. Plus, I still own a few of those games, and not even copies, but the original games! :D
Now I see that I know and players around 95% of them. I played so long hours that sometimes I was sick due to long play. Was unique anyway. Amiga rules!
Amiga was well ahead of its time. With the video toaster add on It was doing things that high end graphics workstations were doing at a fraction of the cost.
I still hold fond memories of the C64 and the SID Chip. Many hours of fun coding 6502 and notching discs :) ,and then playing on the Amiga Monkey Island
If you saw the Deathbed Vigil, it did take a peak of the hack developers use to get around programming. There was no checking of anything.. The Amiga just assumed the got the last command, or had enough RAM, and if it didn't....... GURU Meditation error. We've come a long way..
As someone who only heard once about the system in the nineties, and with no memories about it whatsoever, I have to say I am impressed with its longevity. Games from the mid-nineties look like they were created for a completely different machine. Some interesting games here, and most of them look better than what they did on consoles. The fact that all the fighting games were super slow and not exciting is definitely a bad thing here, but considering the age of the machine, it still holds up well.
Hall of Fame (still great): 1. Earl Weaver Baseball 2. Ports of Call Weeks of Fun: 3. Mean 18 4. Populous 2 5. Populous (in the video) 6. TV Sports Football 7. Speedball 8. Speedball II (in the video) 9. Magic MVP Johnson's Basketball 10. Bubble Bobble 11. Archon 12. Archon II 13. Arkanoid II 14. Arkanoid 15. The Three Stooges Quick Multiplayer Action: 16. Fast Break Basketball 17. Ebonstar 18. Hardball II 19. Helter Skelter 20. Spy Vs. Spy
Shows how great the Amiga was, that you can list 50 games and still not find room for classics like Dune2, Settlers and Mean 18. The latter was the game that got me into gaming. The mechanics of Mean 18 were so good they were still being used in golf games decades later. Some still are.
I would extend the list by my personal favorites like Microprose Grand Prix, Battle Isle, Cruise for a corpse, Syndycate, F18 Interceptor, Wings, Defender of The Crown. And probably some more. My god the amiga was such a fun time for me. Great memories.
I play 90% of all this games. Lemmings, the game for going mad in two days. Rick Dangerous, the same but in one day. Monkey island, what an adventure. It came from the desert, better than all the films of this period. Great work with this video.
Awe brings back memories.... I had one back in 1988ish? I had a Vic20, TRS-80, Commodore 64 and then the Amiga then IBM clones. I use to play Earl Weaver baseball everyday after school playing many seasons and printing out stats on my dot matrix printer. Great stuff
Sounds familiar. We had pong (pong), atari 2600 (missile command), vic 20 (hunt the wumpus), TI99 (parsec), C64 (mail order monsters), C128 (mail order monsters), Amiga 1000 (earl weaver baseball), 386 (earl weaver baseball II + commissioners disk), xbox (ncaa football), wii (wii fit), Psion Revo Plus (sim city), blackberry (why chicken why), a whole boat load of x86 PCs (age of empires/rise of nations/star wars galactic battlegrounds saga), and android (uae4arm - earl weaver baseball). Earl Weaver Baseball on the Amiga isn't just the great game on the Amiga, but the greatest long-play game of all time for single player, two player, or simulation --it got me through the hardest time of my life, moving (a tough deal back when kids didn't have phones, texting, or e-mail), starting a new school where they spoke a different language, and having new peers that didn't know how to use computers or play competent real life baseball...
This brought back so many good memories of when I was a teenager. Especially Shadow of the Beast, which was the first video game that I ever played on the Amiga..................Thanks for the post!!
it's difficult to make a list of games where a lot of people could agree they were the best, there are so many games missing. Soccer kid, Nebulus (Frustrating AF), Baby Jo, Marble Madness and a lot more. good video, just watching it i found another game i used to play as a kid when i had an Amiga, just recently bought one and trying to rebuild what i had then and others to try that were interesting, playing again (25 years later, now 30YO) it's an awesome machine. keep the compilations coming.
Those were the days when you had to go to WHSmith to get your games no game shops or Internet or do what I did copy them from mates at school !! Happy days we had to buy the magazines for reviews and what was hot or not ! Amiga for posh kids 520st for middle class kids trust me I cleaned a lot of cars and did my paper rounds to get my 520st my parents couldn't afford to pay the full 265 quid I wish I carried on my rounds for another year and got the amiga better sound better colour palette it cost 350pounds Owell I was lucky I had friends with both and I could walk round after school sod home work ! Probably why I've got a shit job now !! Before the days of girls screwing up your life and shit nightclubs all I used to worry about was nothing yes nothing !
Thanks for this. The hours I would spend watching one of my brothers playing many of these games. I loved playing turbo outrun, lemmings games, pinball dreams.
Awesome Top 50.... I would have liked to see Superfrog in there and Body Blows Galactic.. but it was only 50... I'm still trying to remember that game, i'm pretty sure it was defiantly on the Amiga, it was sorta like Pit-Fighter but it centered on the character/player as the game constantly zoomed in ad out on the action Anyone know what it was called?? I remember bundles of hay ???? or something.. it was also in Time Zone too as an arcade, but as we know, most are also ported to the Amiga...
Cool nostalgic journey 😉 Though we played alot of multiplayer games like bomberman! Or gravity force versus- and moonstone as well... Good old amiga times! Thanks for vid!
Before watching this, I'll have to say, I don't think you'll include my top three. :) I will edit if I'm wrong! Edit: My top three are Battletech, Millennium 2.2 and Deuteros. I was right, but that doesn't make you wrong. Our faves are bound to differ. :)
Before I pressed play I was hoping to see some of my childhood favourites, and boy, this video does not dissapoint. Rick Dangerous, Pinball Dreams, North&South, Lotus Challenge, Alien Breed, Flashpoint, IK+, Rtype, Monkey Island, Shadow of The Beast, Batman, Battle Chess, Cannon Fodder, Silk Worm, and Speedball2, Super Cars!!! Great times!
Decent list....I can't remember all the games since the Amiga wasn't in my "wheelhouse" as far as systems went. I was a gaming freak though. From a Commodore Vic-20 and C-64, to an Apple IIe, a Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, a Nintendo NES, SNES, N64, Sega Master System, Genesis, Sega💿CD💿, Saturn, Dreamcast, TurboGraphx-16, and eventually the Sony and X-Box we have now. I have loved gaming my entire life! I've enjoyed the animation, the side scrolling adventures, the insanely goofy 🤪 characters, and the fun! Whatever your top 10, 20, 25, 50, ?? list is? It's YOUR list! It's what you love and enjoy. I can't say your picks or pick is wrong. For me, maybe, but I RESPECT🙏your opinion on gaming and respect your dedication to creating this video! Well done! Thank you! Keep it going, you have another subscriber.
Yeah. Used pro tracker also. 4 tracks mono. I bought a pentium 90Mhz after that with a soundblaster awe32. Got more tracks but the sound was about the same as on Amiga. They where ahead of their time for sure. Just loved the Amiga
Elite on the Amiga has got to be my all time favourite game. Loved it when I was a kid. Played it hundreds of hours. Only thing that came close was Dungeon Master. How I wish they would bring out an updated version of that.
Turrican, Rick Dangerous, IK+, Buggy Boy.. all classic games. But Cannon Fodder was just close to perfection :) Music, graphics, gameplay, sounds.. perfection.
Great games for sure! But you are missing probably the biggest arcade game ever which also was great on the Amiga: Street Fighter 2 and if you are into fighting games then also body blows.
Pinball dreams/fantasies, Wings,Gods, Speedball 2, Sensi soccer, Zool, James Pond, Cannon Fodder, Lemmings! oh the memories! Great days they were back then :)
Nice to see Stunt Car Racer there. Also great were Dungeon Master, Rocket Ranger, Wings, Police Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Sim City, Player Manager.......Pirates!
The days at school when you had to Impress the so called friends back then. I remember sending off a load blank discs to a bloke called Cody in Europe somewhere and he would keep a few and send you games back in the post with cheats on. Brand new games were alot of money back at comprehensive school days. Computer nights held at local schools were cool you could pick up different games you never had
Yeah..the games were so easy to copy too, almost every day at school somebody would be swapping a handfull of floppy discs with someone to borrow games to copy...usually held together with a thick rubber band lol
@@yozza4978 Have you seen the emulation boxes you can get nowdays I picked one up this year 15,000 games lol just plug it into the TV all the Amiga games on it you can thick of and Atari ST plus loads of other consoles
@@SHEARMINATOR i used to download emulators on my pc..mame,snes and megadrive ones...but i never really found a decent amiga one...i like the sound of a box you just plug in though...which one did you get?
@@yozza4978 super console X it's got enough on it lol even tho you can connect it to WiFi this ones at its full capacity....you can get bigger boxes I'm sure but 15,000 games lol no way I could be a gamer nowdays....when you reach the age of 40 time does fly even tho it's irrelevant in my life lol
3:33 Dude 1 : "Hey!! Let's play beach volleyball!" Dude 2 : "Alright! But where?" Dude 1 : "We go to the park!" Dude 2 : "Which park?" Dude 1 : "That one with the buckingham palace and notre dame."
so many games I loved on the Amiga, I can't even remember them all.. but to add.. Tiny troops Civilisation Bounce Harelquin Alien Breed 3D Conquest Syndicate UFO enemy unclothed There was a brick breaker game with 4 players, each owning a castle A couple of other side scrolling titles .. one had shops where you could buy health and weapons.. very generic by todays standards but very rare in the 90s i'm sure another game, similar ground to Gods.. you had to collect these crosses with circles on top and make your way through the levels games like nemesis which was a space shooter.. but one also that was an aqua shooter and you could upgrade your weapons after each level. It's a shame these games have to be manually ported into programs to play on the PC.. and there are so many!
Amiga gems that don't get enough fanfare: Faery Tale Adventure, Ebonstar, Datastorm, Typhoon Thompson, FA-18 Interceptor, Deja Vu, Kings of Chicago, Simulcra, Time Bandits, Paradroid 90, Midwinter 2, Sinbad (the cyclops terrified me as a kid), Megalomania, Supremacy, Battletech: Crescent Hawk's Inception, Knights of the Sky, LOOM, Willy Beamish, Tower Toppler, Street Rod 2, Emerald Mines, all of the Freddi Fish collection disks... Dangit. I could go on forever
Great video with some great games. However a lot of my favourites never got a mention. Vid kid, parasol stars, super frog, vikings, championship manager, jaguar xj220, curse of enchantia and Indiana Jones to name a few.
Alien Breed and the indy game, Extreme violence were my favourites, while booting from a hard drive took about 4 seconds. The Intel PC's were eventually more powerful, but felt like a huge step backwards in technology, given what the Amiga could do with minimal resources.
I wish they made a Golden Axe 2.... Allot of old Amiga games get "updated" but so far all i've seem are Commodore 64 ones... Not allot for the Amiga 500.. Well, i guess there is : Amiga Racer Released in 2016 for Amiga, Windows, etc... but not that much else.
Nice List, Sensible soccer best game ever made for me, miss in the list games like Toki and Indy Heat, some of the car games and sensible soccer were crazy good to play with friends. i think The Manager was very good to the old Football Manager...
Very fun list, I recall playing many of these on other platforms (or in the arcade). The Great Giana Sisters looked almost identical to SMB, of course, and I was wondering if they ever got sued by Nintendo. Wikipedia says no, but they did withdraw the game rather quickly after Nintendo accused them of copyright infringement.
Ahh my favourite games machine. So many good games. Chaos engine was such a blast, escape from planet of the robot monsters lol oh and Moonstone the first action rpg I ever played. Awesome... So many other great titles. Still have my Amiga set up, never get rid of it 👍
If you would like to jump straight to any game, there are time stamps in the more info section
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Jumpy in the Bell.
I see you are a man of culture and class. Speaking of your music playlist.
Bro Where Is "The Town With No Name"?
Excellent list! Thank you.
This is making me very nostalgic and sad at the same time.
@Harry Harry hehe I'm 50 and I think I was 15-17 something when I got my Amiga 500. Dang it was good times 😅
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North & South and Cannon Fodder ... two unforgettable masterpieces!!!
Monkey Island 2 had 12 disks, I remember having to swap those disks all the time even though I had two extra disk drives.
Also loved Utopia, Sensible Soccer, Battle of Britain... lots and lots of memories with Amiga.
But MI2 did have music on the amiga, too, right? I remember it was quite a revolutionary sound system on the PC, but i am sorely missing ANY music in the actual gameplay scenes for this game in the video.
I only had 9 disks for monkey Island 2.
Wow, this video brings back some memories! We were poor, but my parents sacrificed a lot to make sure I had a computer. The first was a VIC20 (bought new!), followed by a secondhand C64 when a wealthier family in town upgraded, then an Amiga500. I miss my parents, they did such a good job raising me.
I have the same gratitude, for the same reason! Nice one.
Sensible Soccer, GOAL!, Kick Off, Cannon Fodder, Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies, Super Frog, Lotus Turbo, Scorched Tanks, The Settlers, Soccer Kid, Monkey Island, Zak Mcracken, Tanks and Miami Chase were cracking games for me in the 90's ❤
Dune 2, Eye of the Beholder 2, Syndicate, Zak McCracken, Flashback, Moonstone, Chaos Engine, Pinball Dreams. I think they're my favorites.
@Brad Viviviyal EotB 2 had bugs and exploits? I can't recall any to be honest. EotB 1 on the other hand, that was a messy afair I thought. You could skip huge chunks of the game - for instance, the first time I played the game, I didn't visit any of the purple levels and didn't find all of the stone artifacts but I still made it to Xanathar's lair. EotB 2 was more linear and was the superior game much because of that in my opinion. It's actually my all time favorite game :)
Yes! You know the proper amiga classics. Also cannon fodder, worms, r type, pinball fantasies, etc.
Slam tilt is the best pinball from Amiga ever!
Great system. I played my friends Amiga when I was a kid and wished I had those graphics at home. Moonstone, Last Samurai, Lemmings etc. I had a CPC464 (which my Dad probably spent as much on as an average cost of an A500) which I loved, but it wasn't a scratch on the Amiga. I think what ended this machines career was the 386 based PC's with universal expansions and VGA graphics. When I saw games like Wolfenstein 3D running on the school 386 it just blew my mind all over again. It's so impressive to see what the Amiga did with it's limited hardware and for such a long time, but I got a 486 based PC back in 1994 and played Doom and UFO : Enemy Unknown and the Amiga simply couldn't match the speed. UFO on the Amiga seemed like a sluggish affair and the disk swapping eventually became horrendous.
...and the price for a small harddisc was about the same as for the entire system. And it was obvious at the time, that even that wouldnt cut it for long.
@@mrscruffy8045 Yes, nobody I knew had an Amiga HD. By the time it became feasible to buy one, it was far better value to buy a much faster PC. That 486 I bought in 94 only had a 130MB HD but it was easily enough for DOS 6, Windows 3.1 and 20+ games installed at the same time.
PANZER KICKBOXING!!! That was amazing.
First one on this list that I had completely forgotten about and utterly adored playing.
Beautiful sprite design too.
No Nitro, many weeks lost to that game. Loads of great ones missing, Wings and Golden Axe for example. Great list however, took me right back on nostalgia trip, thank you.
just watched the vid and my first thought was 'no nitro?!'.
Super frog, soccer kid, flash back, volfied,wild cup soccer, Ruff 'n' Tumble, shadow dancer, dragon ninja, double dragon 2, warzone, lost dutchman mine, lost vikings, golden axe, Arnie ,Assassin, simon the sorcerer, Test Drive, Hook, monkey island, mortal kombat, Gunship, Desert Strike, Also These are some of the best amiga games.
And the Joystick Killer
Sommer and Wintergame 🥰🥰🥰
Great calls on Super Frog, Golden Axe, Test Drive and Desert Strike. Some of my favorites! Alien Syndrome too.
The music and graphics of the Amiga were awesome!!
Stunt car racer, what a game that was.
Shane Fitzgerald One of the greatest games of all time
Battle chess was simple, but i sometimes deliberately lost just to see the pieces fight.... I was always crap at chess anyway, so it didn't really matter about my play ability.
@Copenhagen remember stretching a cable across the street to friends house and playing 2 player network stunt racer on our amigas, probably one of the first or even only amiga lan games?? must be 30 years ago now :)
@@paulgerrard6085 Oh yes, I got the wiring wrong and had smoke pouring out, luckily didn't break anything.
Driving a car uncomfortably on the xbox 360 (but my xbox 360 has the same controller as the xbox one)
Great compilation, thanks. Waiting for another one, with Dune, Dune 2, Myth, Elite 2, Wings, Street Fighter 2, F-16 Falcon, some SSI games and so on.
I was missing a couple of classics (I'm sure I have forgotten many others still...):
The Settlers (!!!), Sim series, Worms (!!), Apidya, The Patrician, Dune2 (first RTS game!!)
But my forever star game will stay Turrican2 with its crazy good graphics, super smooth gameplay and fantastic soundtrack (Chris Hülsbeck)... :-)
3D Boxing
Also Turrican2 in my top 3 of all time ! I have the Desert Rocks as my ringtone !!
Oh fantastic, I NEED that as a ringtone! Hope it’s available for Apple...
With all the talk of NES and SNES mini's just imagine an Amiga mini, yes please.
The people that made the C64 mini will do an Amiga500 mini next.
Any Amiga mini would need to patch each game to be correctly played on a system without keyboard, just a joypad or Joystick. In this way, C64 mini is a failure. And about the game selection. Too many possibilities to make fans really happy. So many more games published and loved by players than on NES or SNES.
The selection here is a good exemple of games unforgettable for Amiga player but better to play nowadays on other systems. Games such as BADLANDS, BUGGY BOY, R-TYPE or SUPER OFF ROAD are nice conversions but can be easily played in their original arcade version, far better than on Amiga. Even if I played MONKEY ISLAND 1 & 2 on Amiga back in the days, it's better to play those games on PC in 256 colours release. You see what I mean? So a game selection would only include exclusivities or games that became famous on Amiga and here is the difficult as so many games were born on Amiga but really became known on other systems, sometimes for the best (Megadrive, SNES or PC).
Well, to summarize, the problem is that it is more or less easy to select games for a console system, even if some people have been disappointed by games on Megadrive, NES or SNES mini, everybody is ok to says that a lot of those game are obvious because only available on the dedicated system. On Amiga, it is fair with so varied games and finally few exclusives. That would be a good starting point, a list of unforgettable exclusivities... And there we have not yet talked about the copyright problem...
@RETRO- RICKY For me AGA has no real interest for gaming. Just a few games exploited correctly AGA specs and really few of them were exclusively AGA. If you had compatibility problems without the help of WHDLoad, for me A1200 is the Amiga to avoid for playing 😉
@@iXien There are already games and collections that are made for CD32, that use only gamepad.
I already have amiga mini on retropie with the amazing amiberry emulator and whdload files. Got 200 of the great titles well and running using the ps4 controller. Did the same thing with other 90s consoles.
Thanks for the list. So many memories. Another world is one of my all time favourites.
OMG I remember a lot of these games in my old 80286 PC, a tear of joy has just been shed.
I actually feel like crying, had every single one of those games but only just realised it was 30 odd year ago, give me a rope and stool, fantastic and best days of my life.
Speedball 2. I can still hear the call from the side line "ice cream, ice cream". Shame you didn't capture that part on your clip.
TalsVids Same, it was amazing. It’s on TH-cam
And the intro music! Woaw! The early electronic scene!
I would like to go back in time and play again on my Amiga 500 those games....magic years!!
You can download a dosbox and the games themselves now are freeware , easy to setup 👍🏻
@@Christoff070 Amiga 500 emulator
Another World was my favourite. Memories from the early 90’s.
Hostages is definitely missing from this list. What a great game! And Midnight Resistance! Can't believe that didn't make the Top 50 either!
But apart from those two missing, this is a pretty awesome list, brings back many memories. Plus, I still own a few of those games, and not even copies, but the original games! :D
Now I see that I know and players around 95% of them. I played so long hours that sometimes I was sick due to long play. Was unique anyway. Amiga rules!
Sounds strange today, but I used to be amazed at how good Shufflepuck Cafe looked! Great vid, thanks!
Amiga was well ahead of its time. With the video toaster add on It was doing things that high end graphics workstations were doing at a fraction of the cost.
I still hold fond memories of the C64 and the SID Chip. Many hours of fun coding 6502 and notching discs :) ,and then playing on the Amiga Monkey Island
If you saw the Deathbed Vigil, it did take a peak of the hack developers use to get around programming. There was no checking of anything.. The Amiga just assumed the got the last command, or had enough RAM, and if it didn't....... GURU Meditation error.
We've come a long way..
Alien bred tower assault, All terrain racing, Superfrog, Wings, The settlers, Golden axe, Paramax, Worms
Thanks man that took me way back when things were simple and joyful... I can say I played most if those games
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So many memory’s came flooding back ! Thank you for posting this, I had nearly everyone of these games
As someone who only heard once about the system in the nineties, and with no memories about it whatsoever, I have to say I am impressed with its longevity. Games from the mid-nineties look like they were created for a completely different machine. Some interesting games here, and most of them look better than what they did on consoles. The fact that all the fighting games were super slow and not exciting is definitely a bad thing here, but considering the age of the machine, it still holds up well.
Thank you for including a list of games in description with hyperlinks. :-) good job
It was so inventive, music, gameplay was a real new experience. I miss this time!
Hall of Fame (still great):
1. Earl Weaver Baseball
2. Ports of Call
Weeks of Fun:
3. Mean 18
4. Populous 2
5. Populous (in the video)
6. TV Sports Football
7. Speedball
8. Speedball II (in the video)
9. Magic MVP Johnson's Basketball
10. Bubble Bobble
11. Archon
12. Archon II
13. Arkanoid II
14. Arkanoid
15. The Three Stooges
Quick Multiplayer Action:
16. Fast Break Basketball
17. Ebonstar
18. Hardball II
19. Helter Skelter
20. Spy Vs. Spy
Shows how great the Amiga was, that you can list 50 games and still not find room for classics like Dune2, Settlers and Mean 18. The latter was the game that got me into gaming. The mechanics of Mean 18 were so good they were still being used in golf games decades later. Some still are.
I would extend the list by my personal favorites like Microprose Grand Prix, Battle Isle, Cruise for a corpse, Syndycate, F18 Interceptor, Wings, Defender of The Crown. And probably some more. My god the amiga was such a fun time for me. Great memories.
Syndicate wars 🎉
Speaking of reliving the childhood memory :) Just watching this gets me in the mood to take out Amiga emulator again and enjoy for the next 72 hours.
Take it out?? You mean pull it up??
@@waltersobchak7275 perhaps pull it out and bring it down then fire it up
I play 90% of all this games. Lemmings, the game for going mad in two days. Rick Dangerous, the same but in one day. Monkey island, what an adventure. It came from the desert, better than all the films of this period. Great work with this video.
Awe brings back memories.... I had one back in 1988ish? I had a Vic20, TRS-80, Commodore 64 and then the Amiga then IBM clones. I use to play Earl Weaver baseball everyday after school playing many seasons and printing out stats on my dot matrix printer. Great stuff
Sounds familiar. We had pong (pong), atari 2600 (missile command), vic 20 (hunt the wumpus), TI99 (parsec), C64 (mail order monsters), C128 (mail order monsters), Amiga 1000 (earl weaver baseball), 386 (earl weaver baseball II + commissioners disk), xbox (ncaa football), wii (wii fit), Psion Revo Plus (sim city), blackberry (why chicken why), a whole boat load of x86 PCs (age of empires/rise of nations/star wars galactic battlegrounds saga), and android (uae4arm - earl weaver baseball).
Earl Weaver Baseball on the Amiga isn't just the great game on the Amiga, but the greatest long-play game of all time for single player, two player, or simulation --it got me through the hardest time of my life, moving (a tough deal back when kids didn't have phones, texting, or e-mail), starting a new school where they spoke a different language, and having new peers that didn't know how to use computers or play competent real life baseball...
Never knew there was a 3rd rick dangerous game!
Also where is moonstone?
It should definitely be in!
There was a 3rd Rick Dangerous game??
Moonstone yes...sword of sharpness ftw
Moonstone their is a game that could do with a remake.
populus best game ever LOVED THAT FRICKIN GAME
Gods
This brought back so many good memories of when I was a teenager. Especially Shadow of the Beast, which was the first video game that I ever played on the Amiga..................Thanks for the post!!
it's difficult to make a list of games where a lot of people could agree they were the best, there are so many games missing. Soccer kid, Nebulus (Frustrating AF), Baby Jo, Marble Madness and a lot more.
good video, just watching it i found another game i used to play as a kid when i had an Amiga, just recently bought one and trying to rebuild what i had then and others to try that were interesting, playing again (25 years later, now 30YO) it's an awesome machine. keep the compilations coming.
Those were the days when you had to go to WHSmith to get your games no game shops or Internet or do what I did copy them from mates at school !! Happy days we had to buy the magazines for reviews and what was hot or not ! Amiga for posh kids 520st for middle class kids trust me I cleaned a lot of cars and did my paper rounds to get my 520st my parents couldn't afford to pay the full 265 quid I wish I carried on my rounds for another year and got the amiga better sound better colour palette it cost 350pounds Owell I was lucky I had friends with both and I could walk round after school sod home work ! Probably why I've got a shit job now !! Before the days of girls screwing up your life and shit nightclubs all I used to worry about was nothing yes nothing !
I remember buying 2.99 budget games at John Menzies...when I wasn't fantasizing about knobbing Dorien from Birds of a Feather :)
Wheatly Wyatt? :)
Busby here
Slill love the days man !! ..
X-Copy was every Amiga users best friend 😂
Danke für die Erinnerungen. Stunt Car Driver, Turrican, Panza Kickboxing. Bis zur Sehnenscheidenenzündung gezockt.
Amazing selection, some banging classics mixed with a few less well known 👍
8:10 - Great Giana Sisters. Similarities to Super Mario Bros. are purely coincidental, of course. ;-)
Killing Game Show, Rainbow Islands, SWIV and Battle Squadron!
@@danhemsley Newzealand Story!
Wings, James pond, hill street blues, it came from the desert 2
YO! JOE! .....
Robocod :)
Thanks for this. The hours I would spend watching one of my brothers playing many of these games. I loved playing turbo outrun, lemmings games, pinball dreams.
Awesome Top 50.... I would have liked to see Superfrog in there and Body Blows Galactic.. but it was only 50...
I'm still trying to remember that game, i'm pretty sure it was defiantly on the Amiga, it was sorta like Pit-Fighter but it centered on the character/player as the game constantly zoomed in ad out on the action
Anyone know what it was called?? I remember bundles of hay ???? or something.. it was also in Time Zone too as an arcade, but as we know, most are also ported to the Amiga...
Some of these look like some of the better early 2000s web games
Cool nostalgic journey 😉
Though we played alot of multiplayer games like bomberman!
Or gravity force versus- and moonstone as well...
Good old amiga times!
Thanks for vid!
Before watching this, I'll have to say, I don't think you'll include my top three. :) I will edit if I'm wrong!
Edit: My top three are Battletech, Millennium 2.2 and Deuteros. I was right, but that doesn't make you wrong. Our faves are bound to differ. :)
Before I pressed play I was hoping to see some of my childhood favourites, and boy, this video does not dissapoint. Rick Dangerous, Pinball Dreams, North&South, Lotus Challenge, Alien Breed, Flashpoint, IK+, Rtype, Monkey Island, Shadow of The Beast, Batman, Battle Chess, Cannon Fodder, Silk Worm, and Speedball2, Super Cars!!!
Great times!
Decent list....I can't remember all the games since the Amiga wasn't in my "wheelhouse" as far as systems went. I was a gaming freak though. From a Commodore Vic-20 and C-64, to an Apple IIe, a Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, a Nintendo NES, SNES, N64, Sega Master System, Genesis, Sega💿CD💿, Saturn, Dreamcast, TurboGraphx-16, and eventually the Sony and X-Box we have now. I have loved gaming my entire life! I've enjoyed the animation, the side scrolling adventures, the insanely goofy 🤪 characters, and the fun! Whatever your top 10, 20, 25, 50, ?? list is? It's YOUR list! It's what you love and enjoy. I can't say your picks or pick is wrong. For me, maybe, but I RESPECT🙏your opinion on gaming and respect your dedication to creating this video! Well done! Thank you! Keep it going, you have another subscriber.
I wasn’t much of a gamer, I loved Pro Tracker (if I remember the name correctly).
Miss the sound of Amiga
Yeah. Used pro tracker also. 4 tracks mono.
I bought a pentium 90Mhz after that with a soundblaster awe32. Got more tracks but the sound was about the same as on Amiga.
They where ahead of their time for sure.
Just loved the Amiga
or OctaMed. ProTreker was better
IK+ on speed "Turbo"! Can't remember anything more funny sounding than that :-)
Same. My brother and I would deliberatly let the computer win just to hear those sounds, lol.
Same here, the comedy value was legendary
Elite on the Amiga has got to be my all time favourite game. Loved it when I was a kid. Played it hundreds of hours. Only thing that came close was Dungeon Master. How I wish they would bring out an updated version of that.
Was waiting for this comment. Played them both way too much as a kid, along with rainbow islands and populous 2
Turrican, Rick Dangerous, IK+, Buggy Boy.. all classic games. But Cannon Fodder was just close to perfection :) Music, graphics, gameplay, sounds.. perfection.
barbarian and that cutting head off spinning move !! loved it
Great games for sure! But you are missing probably the biggest arcade game ever which also was great on the Amiga: Street Fighter 2 and if you are into fighting games then also body blows.
3:25 "WELCOME TO LONDON!!!!"
Last time I played that on my Amiga 500 I was in highschool in the 90's.
Ok, they are great but where is The Settlers - revolution in gaming and Dune 2? First real RTS in history?
A lot of good oldie Games from the A500 but i miss my favorite "Moonstone" a mix, of Defender of the Crown, Mortal Kombat and an RPG,
Moonstone is awesome! I still play it now on my arcade machine with Amiga emulator
@@seanheffernan754 Unfortunately, the Amiga emulator will be as close as get to the real hardware..
I missed my hardware.,
I'd add Lost Patrol and Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis,Settlers,Flashback...the list can go on forever!
Lost Patrol had great music.
Where's W.A.L.K.ER?! A classic. Good selection though, great memories! :)
and Adams family, James pond, chuck rock, and worms
worms is missing its a gem why did you not include it!? :(
David Mcgurk yes I agree. Still love Worms today.
Pinball dreams/fantasies, Wings,Gods, Speedball 2, Sensi soccer, Zool, James Pond, Cannon Fodder, Lemmings! oh the memories! Great days they were back then :)
Forgot Nitro, how could i forget Nitro! spent so many hours on that game it was amazing!
I may not play them much anymore but Amiga games will always be my favourite.
Where's the game "Wings"? Used to play this on the A500
How do you get the old computers and i get modern computers?
@@NickEh30VSFanFNFMod Look for Win UAE. An Amiga emulator that works very well.
Wings was a great game. Knights of the Sky was good too. Cinemaware
theres a wings remaster on steam, its good, lets you even use the amiga music in game if you want.
Loved the ball ache copy protection on Lotus Turbo Challenge. The tyre tread pattern password on every page of the manual.
Spent hours and hours on speedball 2👍😂
Gay 😎👉😎👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉
Very gud game
Nice to see Stunt Car Racer there. Also great were Dungeon Master, Rocket Ranger, Wings, Police Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Sim City, Player Manager.......Pirates!
The days at school when you had to Impress the so called friends back then. I remember sending off a load blank discs to a bloke called Cody in Europe somewhere and he would keep a few and send you games back in the post with cheats on. Brand new games were alot of money back at comprehensive school days. Computer nights held at local schools were cool you could pick up different games you never had
Yeah..the games were so easy to copy too, almost every day at school somebody would be swapping a handfull of floppy discs with someone to borrow games to copy...usually held together with a thick rubber band lol
@@yozza4978 Have you seen the emulation boxes you can get nowdays I picked one up this year 15,000 games lol just plug it into the TV all the Amiga games on it you can thick of and Atari ST plus loads of other consoles
@@SHEARMINATOR i used to download emulators on my pc..mame,snes and megadrive ones...but i never really found a decent amiga one...i like the sound of a box you just plug in though...which one did you get?
@@yozza4978 super console X it's got enough on it lol even tho you can connect it to WiFi this ones at its full capacity....you can get bigger boxes I'm sure but 15,000 games lol no way I could be a gamer nowdays....when you reach the age of 40 time does fly even tho it's irrelevant in my life lol
@@SHEARMINATOR is there different versions of that super console x? Or is it just the standard one that has an amiga emulator on it?
3:33
Dude 1 : "Hey!! Let's play beach volleyball!"
Dude 2 : "Alright! But where?"
Dude 1 : "We go to the park!"
Dude 2 : "Which park?"
Dude 1 : "That one with the buckingham palace and notre dame."
I was thinking the same thing , who plays beach volleyball in England?
so many games I loved on the Amiga, I can't even remember them all.. but to add..
Tiny troops
Civilisation
Bounce
Harelquin
Alien Breed 3D
Conquest
Syndicate
UFO enemy unclothed
There was a brick breaker game with 4 players, each owning a castle
A couple of other side scrolling titles .. one had shops where you could buy health and weapons.. very generic by todays standards but very rare in the 90s i'm sure
another game, similar ground to Gods.. you had to collect these crosses with circles on top and make your way through the levels
games like nemesis which was a space shooter.. but one also that was an aqua shooter and you could upgrade your weapons after each level.
It's a shame these games have to be manually ported into programs to play on the PC.. and there are so many!
Turrican 2, Swos 95/96 and 96/97, pinball dreams/illusions, jimmy white snooker, Pang, Agony, Xenon 2, Magic Pocket, Speedball 2, Cannon Fodder, Moonstone, Leander, Assassin, Superfrog, Lemmings, Lotus 2, Gods, Vroom, Shadow of the Beast 1/2/3,The Chaos Engine, Bomberman, Another World, Apydia Prince of Persia, Hunter...
Had many of these games. Pure class. A friend of mine at the time was a graphics designer on ‘populous’ 😂
Amiga gems that don't get enough fanfare: Faery Tale Adventure, Ebonstar, Datastorm, Typhoon Thompson, FA-18 Interceptor, Deja Vu, Kings of Chicago, Simulcra, Time Bandits, Paradroid 90, Midwinter 2, Sinbad (the cyclops terrified me as a kid), Megalomania, Supremacy, Battletech: Crescent Hawk's Inception, Knights of the Sky, LOOM, Willy Beamish, Tower Toppler, Street Rod 2, Emerald Mines, all of the Freddi Fish collection disks...
Dangit. I could go on forever
Swos, Skidmarks 2, Cannon Fodder, Chaos Engine, all the pinball games, what a machine the Amiga was.
Great video with some great games. However a lot of my favourites never got a mention. Vid kid, parasol stars, super frog, vikings, championship manager, jaguar xj220, curse of enchantia and Indiana Jones to name a few.
Deuteros, one of my favorite game on this machine !!
Nice selection, makes a change from all the platform based countdowns!!
Alien Breed and the indy game, Extreme violence were my favourites, while booting from a hard drive took about 4 seconds. The Intel PC's were eventually more powerful, but felt like a huge step backwards in technology, given what the Amiga could do with minimal resources.
Golden Axe, Archon, Lemmings, New York Warriors was my favorite games.
I wish they made a Golden Axe 2.... Allot of old Amiga games get "updated" but so far all i've seem are Commodore 64 ones... Not allot for the Amiga 500.. Well, i guess there is : Amiga Racer
Released in 2016 for Amiga, Windows, etc... but not that much else.
@@Tech-geeky Oh, I have that one too. Golden Axe 2 for Sega. Too bad the Amiga didn't have it.
Such gameplayand atmosphere willnever happen again.We grew up with ti game.Respect.
Nice List, Sensible soccer best game ever made for me, miss in the list games like Toki and Indy Heat, some of the car games and sensible soccer were crazy good to play with friends. i think The Manager was very good to the old Football Manager...
I was lucky enough to play most of these. Great times, and great games on an amazing machine much ahead of anything else you could find at the time.
Wings, moonstone, it came from the desert, gods, xenon 2...amiga had so many great games and the sound was good too.
dude i love you... brought me back all my memories..
every game you showed is all time greatest thank you very much for the flash back.
It came from the Desert , SuperCars 2 , Skid marks , should be in everyone's top 5. AWESOME
No Fairy Tale ? My favorite. As Ell as the Eye of the Beholder , Bard's Tale series
great memories man! I love so much Amiga!
Never had amiga. But have my trashy laptop that runs windows vista
cofnąłem sie 25lat :) meeeega chyba zakupie sobie znowu:) polnoc poludnie flashback franko alfabet smierci lotus jaguar jumping flash i moja ulubiona frog :)
rick dangerous i prince of persia
Very fun list, I recall playing many of these on other platforms (or in the arcade). The Great Giana Sisters looked almost identical to SMB, of course, and I was wondering if they ever got sued by Nintendo. Wikipedia says no, but they did withdraw the game rather quickly after Nintendo accused them of copyright infringement.
Ahh my favourite games machine. So many good games. Chaos engine was such a blast, escape from planet of the robot monsters lol oh and Moonstone the first action rpg I ever played. Awesome... So many other great titles. Still have my Amiga set up, never get rid of it 👍
Getting over the flu & this video was like chicken soup :) thank you for making it!