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BeardedGamerUK 1 Jun 2014 03:54:38 2,184 posts
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DazzaS wrote:
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Did you play Sensible World Of Soccer by any chance? 😄
It would be my choice for best game on the Amiga.

It's my favourite game on any system ever

Endless fun and one button does everything!

Kingsc00t 1 Jun 2014 08:57:52 1 posts
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Millennium 2.2
vroom
North and South
Dungeon Master
Carrier Command
Stunt car racer
Speedball 2

to name a few

quadfather 1 Jun 2014 09:33:46 39,069 posts
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Moonstone
Lionheart
Speedball 2 + any bitmap Bros game in general
Alien breed(s)
The eye of the beholder games
Monkey island(s)
Cannon fodder
C&c
Civ
Populous

Could go on all day!

Krappers 1 Jun 2014 10:39:46 42 posts
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Hired Guns.

caligari 1 Jun 2014 11:16:39 17,956 posts
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Krappers wrote:
Hired Guns.

It was fantastic - even though I'd play it with friends and we were pretty clueless as to what we should be doing. Same goes for Liberation and Eye of the Beholder.

In fact, I used to struggle with most first-person 'dungeon crawlers', but I loved every minute of that struggle. 'Waxworks' was a favourite of ours, if only for the 'Jack the Ripper' level - oh, and 'Space Hulk'.

Navi 11 Dec 2017 10:49:55 352 posts
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After the article at the weekend, got me nostalgic for some Amiga gaming.

Definitely have a soft spot for Banshee and Apidya. Fantastic games up there with anything available on the consoles of the time.

caligari 11 Dec 2017 11:55:43 17,956 posts
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Ah, Banshee. I only managed to get my version to work twice, but they were a glorious few minutes. Apidya was also the only game that I have ever managed to get my Dad to enjoy.

I didn't realise that Agony had been so badly received...that owl animation blew my little mind.

One_Vurfed_Gwrx 11 Dec 2017 12:39:44 4,467 posts
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Apidya was always one of the best Euroshmups. Both in style and playability. The competing and better selling Project X was pretty but played worse (and the art went downhill after level 3 as if they didn't expect as many people to see the later levels).

BreadBinLidHero 11 Dec 2017 12:43:38 10,801 posts
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Super Skidmarks. I don't think that I've ever been better at a game.

Carlo 11 Dec 2017 12:46:33 21,801 posts
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Something a little less common for this thread.

Deleted user 11 December 2017 13:38:41

Space Crusade
Birds of Prey
Putty
Fire Force
Speed Ball 2 Brutal Deluxe
Chaos Engine
North & South

Navi 11 Dec 2017 14:49:28 352 posts
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Super Skidmarks is a great call. Never got to enjoy the 2 monitor mode, but hires 8 car mode was godlike.

Music was pretty good too.

BearFishPie 11 Dec 2017 20:36:49 837 posts
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@Navi Everything Acid Software got involved with was superb: Skidmarks/Super Skidmarks, Guardian and Roadkill. I spent ages thrashing around the one-track Skidmarks demo level given away with AP, marvelling at the tech and the throaty roar of the cars.

BearFishPie 11 Dec 2017 20:40:18 837 posts
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@whatfruitlivesagain The Spaces Crusade death animation being a weeny mushroom cloud type explosion never failed to raise a chuckle with me. That and being able to squash enemies in doors once you got the remote control. The chunky sound effects in particular are burned deep in my brain.

caligari 11 Dec 2017 20:42:37 17,956 posts
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Did they ever attempt to re-release Skidmarks? I'd love to play that online against other peeps.

BearFishPie 11 Dec 2017 21:30:15 837 posts
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@caligari Not that I an aware of. And now I am sad.

caligari 11 Dec 2017 21:41:45 17,956 posts
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BearFishPie wrote:
@caligari Not that I an aware of. And now I am sad.

I think RC Motorstorm was similar in style - a little too lightweight, though. Gawd, the name alone would guarantee success with the yoof of today.

Imagine it with a proper Demolition Derby style damage - caravan carnage!

Navi 12 Dec 2017 09:35:12 352 posts
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I did enjoy RC Motorstorm, but as you said, it didn't quite have the same level of fun. Might be time to have a trawl of steam and itch.io to see if any indies have produced something similar.

@BearFishPie I loved that AP one level demo. Especially being able to keep playing on it as it became muddier and muddier.

Cappy 12 Dec 2017 10:47:27 14,393 posts
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At this point you'd really have to put some time in to play Amiga games you remember being okay before making a recommendation, things have moved on somewhat since the early 90s.

Xenon 2 for instance, the soundtrack is no longer special in any way, now you start to judge all these elements on their own merits. The music is rather gimmicky and dated and it's not a genre I like. As a shooter itself, if we rank all vertical shooters in a stack top to bottom, I doubt even the most generous to the game would put it anywhere above the middle.

Xenon 2 did some things that seemed fancy at the time but viewed in a broader context of today when we have access to a wealth of arcade back catalogue, indie and console exclusive shooters we don't need to slum it with just the games that were 'okay' on the Amiga.

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