the worms remake wouldnt need any restrictions like that whatsoever

take a look at this (if you dont mind a webplayer) and see how worms style stuff could come about

http://uterrains.com/webplayer/demo/

What happened to that Amiga on a PCB about five years ago?

No-one's mentioned Stunt Car Racer yet. Damn I loved that game. There was also a platformer where you were a harlequin on loads of weird levels, it was a bit Meteroidvania-like. Plus a shoot 'em up where you were a bee shooting other insects. Soooo many good games, and developers. Loved my Amiga. Was first proper gaming rig I had in my house as a kid.

I remember playing a decent Defender clone called Starray, one of the early games for it, I think. Also, Wizball, put a serious amount of hours into that.

trippy wrote:

Loved Exile,

There have been loads of games called Exile over the  years and I'm always hoping they'll re-do this one. Every time I see Exile in a list on an emulator I always think "oooh I didn't know that came out on the Super-System-32" and then load it up to find a shitty platform-shooter. I think it was ported from the BBC Micro.

IanHamlett wrote:

trippy wrote:

Loved Exile,

I think it was ported from the BBC Micro.

Reimagined by the same people. Never played the BBC one but it is also held in very high regard.

I still have my boxed Amiga version, mail ordered it and it took about seven weeks to arrive. Was so excited when I finally got to play it.

The controls were insanely complicated but combined with the amazing physics engine you could do lots more than in a lot of modern games.

If you needed to put out a fire you grabbed an empty container, jumped into a pool to fill it and then carefully carried it to the fire, trying not to spill the water. If you could think of a solution to the puzzle, the physics engine would almost certainly allow it, so you could be really creative.

It all gave the game a sense of solidity and place that is still pretty much unrivalled.

Incredible game.

trippy wrote:

IanHamlett wrote:

trippy wrote:

Loved Exile,

I think it was ported from the BBC Micro.

Reimagined by the same people. Never played the BBC one but it is also held in very high regard. I still have my boxed Amiga version, mail ordered it and it took about seven weeks to arrive. Was so excited when I finally got to play it. The controls were insanely complicated but combined with the amazing physics engine you could do lots more than in a lot of modern games. If you needed to put out a fire you grabbed an empty container, jumped into a pool to fill it and then carefully carried it to the fire, trying not to spill the water. If you could think of a solution to the puzzle, the physics engine would almost certainly allow it, so you could be really creative. It all gave the game a sense of solidity and place that is still pretty much unrivalled. Incredible game.

There was a cover disk demo for it that I got hours of fun out of. I remember reading that it would take 20 minutes to complete if you knew exactly what you were doing. Most of the games I owned at that point took 20 minutes to complete once you knew what you were doing.

100 Amiga games in 10 minutes:

http://youtu.be/hUoJBerFDsA

No Harlequin though...

Moonstone. I couldn't get into that at the time even though everyone was raving about it. Played it again recently, I think I was right.

I loved my Amiga. It was probably my favourite period of gaming in my life. I think my favourite gaming memory probably comes Monkey Island, it really transported me to another world like no game had done before.

I don't think I owned a single original game (apart from what came in the bundle). Piracy back then wasn't even a word we were familiar with, it was just what we did. Half of my school swapped and copied games. We went to the local black market. For a middle class lad from the outskirts of Glasgow, venturing into the Barras market was like stepping into Mos Eisley. It was incredible. The game "shop" was something else, like a bustling bar, kids and adults alike fighting to get served.

Heaving folders full of poly-pockets containing every game under the sun. You jotted down the corresponding numbers before fighting your way back to the front to hand over your order. Ten minutes later you were scurrying out, pockets heaving with floppies, feeling like a smuggler. Or if you were unlucky the place was raided by the police and the entire operation shut down in seconds and you scarpered with the rest of the punters. 

Our middle class get-up was always a give away and on more than a few occasions we found ourselves being chased through the market but gangs of neds and often ended up hiding in shops. Getting home with your life (and games) in tact was a victory in itself.

I remember using my Amiga to create opening and closing credits for a spoof documentary about my friends' band. I'm sure I still have it on VHS somewhere - The Life and Times of Wilson and the Butlers.

US Gold were bought out by Eidos. It's how they ended up with Core Design.

Ocean were always one of my favs, and they did a lot of the US Gold games. They got bought out by Infogrammes, who then bought out Atari, and changed their name to that. So in a sense, Ocean, who once made games for the Atari, now are Atari.

Main Ocean Amiga game I remember is the dreadful Epic.

Batman Returns was a good Ocean game.

mk64 wrote:

Batman Returns was a good Ocean game.

I've just been playing Batman Returns on the SNES. Literally 5 mins ago. It's a Konami game tho so probably different. Just a Final Fight rip with bat-sprites.