Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
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Daniel Mandic
Am Dienstag, 25. März 2014 00:44:49 UTC+1 schrieb Daniel Mandic:
Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
Boy, it's been quite a time since I was active in csag. Any of the old fellas of the late 90s still around? I read that Angus wrote just recently and was happy to see that his Amiga games database is still around. Cheers, mate.:)
On to the question at hand:
While it's not the best game because of technical achievement, for clever story or for the deep impact it left on gaming as a whole, my favorite Amiga game has to be Kick Off 2. Played it all the time against my brother, and while it was far from being a realistic soccer simulation like the recent FIFAs try to be, it simply was pure and unadulterated fun with a small slice of chaos.
In the same vein, Speedball 2 comes as a very close 2nd.
Am Dienstag, 25. März 2014 00:44:49 UTC+1 schrieb Daniel Mandic:
Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
Boy, it's been quite a time since I was active in csag. Any of the old fellas of the late 90s still around? I read that Angus wrote just recently and was happy to see that his Amiga games database is still around. Cheers, mate.:)
On to the question at hand:
While it's not the best game because of technical achievement, for clever story or for the deep impact it left on gaming as a whole, my favorite Amiga game has to be Kick Off 2. Played it all the time against my brother, and while it was far from being a realistic soccer simulation like the recent FIFAs try to be, it simply was pure and unadulterated fun with a small slice of chaos.
In the same vein, Speedball 2 comes as a very close 2nd.
In article <90c0c5b7-7a81-4b18-9e0d-4a93c72a8db4@googlegroups.com>, <mapuch@gmail.com> wrote:
Am Dienstag, 25. März 2014 00:44:49 UTC+1 schrieb Daniel Mandic:
Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
Boy, it's been quite a time since I was active in csag. Any of the old fellas
of the late 90s still around? I read that Angus wrote just recently and was >> happy to see that his Amiga games database is still around. Cheers, mate.:) >>
On to the question at hand:
While it's not the best game because of technical achievement, for clever
story or for the deep impact it left on gaming as a whole, my favorite Amiga >> game has to be Kick Off 2. Played it all the time against my brother, and
while it was far from being a realistic soccer simulation like the recent
FIFAs try to be, it simply was pure and unadulterated fun with a small slice >> of chaos.
In the same vein, Speedball 2 comes as a very close 2nd.
I detest sports games and sport in general! :-)
I don't know about "the best", but some games we played a lot included:
- Gods
- Chaos Engine
- Alien Breed
- Project X
- Lost Vikings
- Bubble Bobble
- Pang
- Lemmings
- Push Over
- Nebulus
- various RPG adventures
- Test Drive
- Wizball
- Fire & Ice
- Magic Pockets
- Great Giana Sisters
Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
On 6/25/2016 8:17 PM, Your Name wrote:
I don't know about "the best", but some games we played a lot included:
- Gods
- Chaos Engine
- Alien Breed
- Project X
- Lost Vikings
- Bubble Bobble
- Pang
- Lemmings
- Push Over
- Nebulus
- various RPG adventures
- Test Drive
- Wizball
- Fire & Ice
- Magic Pockets
- Great Giana Sisters
Hah... Great Giana Sisters. I had a lot of fun playing that game. I
think mostly because I never had an NES, and it was a Super Mario 1
clone. Didn't the designers get sued over that?
Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
--
Daniel Mandic
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 12:44:49 AM UTC+1, Daniel Mandic wrote:
Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
Surprised to see that nobody has mentioned Perihelion or any Cinemaware or Horrorsoft/Adventuresoft titles.
If I were to pick a single game it'd be Perihelion: The Prophecy.
To me that game encompasses all I love about Amiga games, the absolutely stunning art with a really beautiful color palette, the dark sci-fi setting and atmospheric music, and of course it's a game within the pretty much quintessential genre of that era - the first person grid based dungeon crawler.
In article <ab7ccddf-f4dc-4def-a9e9-ad9b6cda5772@googlegroups.com>,
Joel S <fisknoll@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 12:44:49 AM UTC+1, Daniel Mandic wrote:
Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
Surprised to see that nobody has mentioned Perihelion or any Cinemaware or >> Horrorsoft/Adventuresoft titles.
Cinemaware games looked good, but tended to be horribly slow playing
due to continually loading.
If I were to pick a single game it'd be Perihelion: The Prophecy.
To me that game encompasses all I love about Amiga games, the absolutely
stunning art with a really beautiful color palette, the dark sci-fi setting >> and atmospheric music, and of course it's a game within the pretty much
quintessential genre of that era - the first person grid based dungeon crawler.
I can't remember ever playing that one. We did play all the SSI dungeon
games (on C64 and Amiga).
On 7/17/2016 7:58 PM, Your Name wrote:
In article <ab7ccddf-f4dc-4def-a9e9-ad9b6cda5772@googlegroups.com>,
Joel S <fisknoll@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 12:44:49 AM UTC+1, Daniel Mandic wrote:
Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
Surprised to see that nobody has mentioned Perihelion or any Cinemaware or >> Horrorsoft/Adventuresoft titles.
Cinemaware games looked good, but tended to be horribly slow playing
due to continually loading.
{snip}
I really like Wings. Only had to deal with disk loads between
missions. And with my Supra 28 MHz accelerator, played beautifully.,
If I were to pick a single game it'd be Perihelion: The Prophecy.
To me that game encompasses all I love about Amiga games, the absolutely >> stunning art with a really beautiful color palette, the dark sci-fi setting
and atmospheric music, and of course it's a game within the pretty much
quintessential genre of that era - the first person grid based dungeon
crawler.
I can't remember ever playing that one. We did play all the SSI dungeon games (on C64 and Amiga).
For dungeon crawlers, I always like Black Crypt. But I was addicted
to the SSI games, too. :)
I was always disappointed that they never made an Amiga version of Alternate Reality: The Dungeon. Was one of my favorite games on the C64.
Frontier Elite II was good, too... despite its bugs!
On 7/19/2016 3:09 AM, Your Name wrote:
In article <nmjebn$7ja$1@dont-email.me>, Ryan P. <ryannewguy@gmail.com> wrote:
Frontier Elite II was good, too... despite its bugs!
There's a sort-of new version:
Elite: Dangerous
http://elitedangerous.com/
If you've got a PlayStation 4 console, there's a new game called "No
Man's Sky" which some reviewers are calling "Elite for a new century"
(it apparently has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets you can visit!).
C'mon... I just got a Playstation 3 only three years ago... Stop trying
to tempt me into spending another $350!
I may check out the PC version of Elite Dangerous, though... I'll
have to read up on it a bit more. Usually "massively multiplayer" games
are controlled by people who have no real-world life and spend 18 hours
a day in the game world helping to make the game miserable for
casual/low level players.
On 7/19/2016 3:09 AM, Your Name wrote:
If you've got a PlayStation 4 console, there's a new game called "No
Man's Sky" which some reviewers are calling "Elite for a new century"
(it apparently has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets you can visit!).
C'mon... I just got a Playstation 3 only three years ago... Stop trying
to tempt me into spending another $350!
In article <nmjebn$7ja$1@dont-email.me>, Ryan P. <ryannewguy@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/17/2016 7:58 PM, Your Name wrote:
In article <ab7ccddf-f4dc-4def-a9e9-ad9b6cda5772@googlegroups.com>,
Joel S <fisknoll@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 12:44:49 AM UTC+1, Daniel Mandic wrote: >>>>> Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
Surprised to see that nobody has mentioned Perihelion or any Cinemaware or >>>> Horrorsoft/Adventuresoft titles.
Cinemaware games looked good, but tended to be horribly slow playing
due to continually loading.
{snip}
I really like Wings. Only had to deal with disk loads between
missions. And with my Supra 28 MHz accelerator, played beautifully.,
Wings was good ... but waiting for the loading was a pain (as was the constant disk swapping until we got a second drive, and then a hard
drive).
Mind you, there have bee much worse games. On the Apple II (also on
C64) there was a great game called Castle Wofenstein, the original game
not the 3D rubbish, ... but it takes AGES to load from disk and if you
caught quickly you had to wait for the menu to reload and then start a
new game and wait for it to reload. Even with a "turbo" loading on the
Apple II emulator, it's still painful. :-\
If I were to pick a single game it'd be Perihelion: The Prophecy.
To me that game encompasses all I love about Amiga games, the absolutely >>>> stunning art with a really beautiful color palette, the dark sci-fi setting
and atmospheric music, and of course it's a game within the pretty much >>>> quintessential genre of that era - the first person grid based dungeon >>>> crawler.
I can't remember ever playing that one. We did play all the SSI dungeon
games (on C64 and Amiga).
For dungeon crawlers, I always like Black Crypt. But I was addicted
to the SSI games, too. :)
I was always disappointed that they never made an Amiga version of
Alternate Reality: The Dungeon. Was one of my favorite games on the C64.
We finished all the SII games, and many of the others like Bard's Tale.
I may even still have some of the maps we drew while playing them. I
still, play similar games on my Mac now.
Frontier Elite II was good, too... despite its bugs!
There's a sort-of new version:
Elite: Dangerous
http://elitedangerous.com/
If you've got a PlayStation 4 console, there's a new game called "No
Man's Sky" which some reviewers are calling "Elite for a new century"
(it apparently has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets you can visit!).
On 7/20/2016 4:14 PM, Your Name wrote:
In article <nmolen$uc1$1@dont-email.me>, Ryan P. <ryannewguy@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/19/2016 3:09 AM, Your Name wrote:
If you've got a PlayStation 4 console, there's a new game called "No
Man's Sky" which some reviewers are calling "Elite for a new century"
(it apparently has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets you can visit!).
C'mon... I just got a Playstation 3 only three years ago... Stop trying >> to tempt me into spending another $350!
I haven't got a games console at all ... just this Mac computer that is almost 20 years old (although the version of Mac OS X it is running is /only/ about 13 years old. :-)
Truth be told, consoles aren't really worth the money. At least not
solely for game playing. Most of the games I've played (always bought
second hand, or for real cheap on Amazon!) don't really have any replay value. The game I play most on my PS3 is a FREE flight sim.
Not like playing Rampage, or Mario, or Super Stardust or Project X...
Am Dienstag, 25. M?rz 2014 00:44:49 UTC+1 schrieb Daniel Mandic:a realistic soccer simulation like the recent FIFAs try to be, it simply was pure and unadulterated fun with a small slice of chaos.
Dear subscribers!
Please tell your favourite AMIGA Game (and why...). Just one guess!
--
Daniel Mandic
Boy, it's been quite a time since I was active in csag. Any of the old fellas of the late 90s still around? I read that Angus wrote just recently and was happy to see that his Amiga games database is still around. Cheers, mate.:)
On to the question at hand:
While it's not the best game because of technical achievement, for clever story or for the deep impact it left on gaming as a whole, my favorite Amiga game has to be Kick Off 2. Played it all the time against my brother, and while it was far from being
In the same vein, Speedball 2 comes as a very close 2nd.
In article <nmolen$uc1$1@dont-email.me>, Ryan P. <ryannewguy@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/19/2016 3:09 AM, Your Name wrote:
If you've got a PlayStation 4 console, there's a new game called "No
Man's Sky" which some reviewers are calling "Elite for a new century"
(it apparently has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets you can visit!).
C'mon... I just got a Playstation 3 only three years ago... Stop trying
to tempt me into spending another $350!
I haven't got a games console at all ... just this Mac computer that is almost 20 years old (although the version of Mac OS X it is running is
/only/ about 13 years old. :-)
On 7/20/2016 4:14 PM, Your Name wrote:
In article <nmolen$uc1$1@dont-email.me>, Ryan P. <ryannewguy@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/19/2016 3:09 AM, Your Name wrote:
If you've got a PlayStation 4 console, there's a new game called "No
Man's Sky" which some reviewers are calling "Elite for a new century"
(it apparently has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets you can visit!).
C'mon... I just got a Playstation 3 only three years ago... Stop trying >> to tempt me into spending another $350!
I haven't got a games console at all ... just this Mac computer that is almost 20 years old (although the version of Mac OS X it is running is /only/ about 13 years old. :-)
Truth be told, consoles aren't really worth the money. At least not
solely for game playing. Most of the games I've played (always bought
second hand, or for real cheap on Amazon!) don't really have any replay value. The game I play most on my PS3 is a FREE flight sim.
Not like playing Rampage, or Mario, or Super Stardust or Project X...
In article <nnfp4s$gv3$1@dont-email.me>, Ryan P.
<rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> wrote:
On 7/20/2016 4:14 PM, Your Name wrote:
In article <nmolen$uc1$1@dont-email.me>, Ryan P. <ryannewguy@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 7/19/2016 3:09 AM, Your Name wrote:
C'mon... I just got a Playstation 3 only three years ago... Stop trying >>>> to tempt me into spending another $350!
If you've got a PlayStation 4 console, there's a new game called "No >>>>> Man's Sky" which some reviewers are calling "Elite for a new century" >>>>> (it apparently has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets you can visit!). >>>>
I haven't got a games console at all ... just this Mac computer that is
almost 20 years old (although the version of Mac OS X it is running is
/only/ about 13 years old. :-)
Truth be told, consoles aren't really worth the money. At least not
solely for game playing. Most of the games I've played (always bought
second hand, or for real cheap on Amazon!) don't really have any replay
value. The game I play most on my PS3 is a FREE flight sim.
Not like playing Rampage, or Mario, or Super Stardust or Project X...
Consoles are becoming more and more computer-like with decreasing
timeframes between updated versions trying to force you into upgrading
just to play the latest games by developers too lazy or too greedy to actually make them available on the older systems.
In article <nnfp4s$gv3$1@dont-email.me>, Ryan P.
<rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> wrote:
On 7/20/2016 4:14 PM, Your Name wrote:
In article <nmolen$uc1$1@dont-email.me>, Ryan P. <ryannewguy@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 7/19/2016 3:09 AM, Your Name wrote:
C'mon... I just got a Playstation 3 only three years ago... Stop trying >>>> to tempt me into spending another $350!
If you've got a PlayStation 4 console, there's a new game called "No >>>>> Man's Sky" which some reviewers are calling "Elite for a new century" >>>>> (it apparently has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets you can visit!). >>>>
I haven't got a games console at all ... just this Mac computer that is
almost 20 years old (although the version of Mac OS X it is running is
/only/ about 13 years old. :-)
Truth be told, consoles aren't really worth the money. At least not
solely for game playing. Most of the games I've played (always bought
second hand, or for real cheap on Amazon!) don't really have any replay
value. The game I play most on my PS3 is a FREE flight sim.
Not like playing Rampage, or Mario, or Super Stardust or Project X...
Plus almost all console games these days have 3D graphics (which make
me motion sick very quickly) and are just Doom clones ... B-O-R-I-N-G!
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