Good Old Times: The Amiga

[SgtFury]

This brings back memories

Watch the first youtube video for a montage of some great amiga games.

http://zeb.3dvf.com/blog/en/index.php/post/2008/Good-old-time-The-Amiga

Awww the memories.

 

[thatbloke]

I shall watch that when I get home. I still have my Amiga 1200 with a 120MB HDD and a daughterboard upgrade with a 68030 processor and 16MB of fast ram in my attic.

I bet if i got it out it would still work too...

 

[SgtFury]

oooo purty thatbloke I think my Amiga 600 is up in my loft too Plus a spectrum 128+

There's clips of games like Alien Breed, Lemmings, New Zealand Story(?), Speedball, James Pond, all sorts .

 

[thatbloke]

oooo purty thatbloke I think my Amiga 600 is up in my loft too Plus a spectrum 128+

There's clips of games like Alien Breed, Lemmings, New Zealand Story(?), Speedball, James Pond, all sorts .

I had every single one of those and they were all awesome.

 

[DocBot]

ooh, james pond and speedball *happy sigh*

I played the monkey island games on an Amiga as well. Great times...

 

[HotStuff]

one thing I defintely miss about the 80's is the stability of zx spectrun etc.

If someone had told us back then how unstable gaming was going to be 20 years in the future, I doubt if we would have believed it.

 

[Iron_fist]

no one has mentioned the classics that are cannon fodder, the chaos engine, prince of persia and worms


i remeber playing all of them on my A550 which is currently in my room back home

 

[thatbloke]

no one has mentioned the classics that are cannon fodder, the chaos engine, prince of persia and worms


i remeber playing all of them on my A550 which is currently in my room back home

Worms: The director's cut was brilliant. Basically worms 2 with worms 1 graphics. I also had all of the above.

Incidentally, there is a fully functioning Amiga Emulator out there which works for PC. I have about 300 or so games for it.

If anyone else would like these applications then let me know

 

[pHatBambi]

I can't believe none of you mentioned S.W.I.V. That was my favoutrite out of the lot. Although I'll admit to being a nutter for Cannon Fodder too.

A James Pond and RoboCod at the end. Awesome!

 

[thatbloke]

I just watched this.

I love you.

There were only about 5 games in there that i didnt own!

 

[kershan]

Got my 1200 with a 10MB RAM/RTC board, a 700MB hard disk and a NES controller modded into a joystick set up in my living room still. Still on the stock 68EC020 processor, sadly, CPU daughterboards are expensive on ebay

 

[Cookalarcha]

MONKEY ISLAND lol the most legendery funny game on ther

 

[Zooggy]

Ahoy,

Ok, first off, I love the speccy. My dad got one back when it came out, in 1982, the original Sinclair one, with the badly designed 9V transformer that used to put out 13V, none of that newfangled Timex crap...

Still have the emulator, have a bunch of games for it, and moreover, still play Formula One every so often. Multiplayer. Yeah!

But...!

one thing I defintely miss about the 80's is the stability of zx spectrun etc.

R Tape Loading Error, 0:1

Ring any bells?

I think we're better off...

Cheers,
J.

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

Aye, but I do know what HotStuff means though. My battered old NES is still working perfectly after about 18 years of abuse, even if it does need the odd dust-blowing (and is still well worth playing from time to time), my SNES still works a dream after about 15-odd years and I swear that it never crashed ONCE due to dust or anything, not as far as I can remember. N64 still hanging in there too, playing it last week in fact. Now contrast that with my X360 - broke a year after buying it, and now my newer console is getting a bit dodgy, too.

Too many moving parts, these days. Just don't have the lastability of the older ones.

 

[HotStuff]

Ahoy,

R Tape Loading Error, 0:1

Ring any bells?

I think we're better off...

Cheers,
J.

Yes, I remember this as it appeared on the bottom part of the screen after you had waited some 5 mins for game to load.

However if you invested in a good quality cassette player, as I did, this would increase the stability of the audio data loading system.

The thing that troubles me about todays PC games is regardless of how much money/time/effort you expel, you can still be rewarded with an unstable game/machine.

With the speccy, when the game loaded you could relax and enjoy without worrying about BSOD's or screen freezing etc - the programmers wouldn't DARE release a game if it did. That is in STARK contrast to what we put up with today. The fact that people defend the unstability of PC games today really does still surprise me....is simply a sign that we have been gradually doctored in time to do so.

Makes you wonder what we are going to accept in another 20 years from now..