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Silver:
--- Quote from: unclet on May 22, 2006, 02:43:11 pm ---I went through all 291 games starting with "A" and only 19 games were accepted.
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Ouch - yes I agree there are a LOT of Amiga games which are not worthy - for anything. Amiga games still lived in the day where plucky ex-zx81 bedroom coders could get some dodgy game released. It was attractive as it had the power of 16-bit consoles, but you could write your own stuff (unlike consoles). So there is a lot of Flak. Just look at all the gigabytes "PD" collections (Public Domain).
If its easier every game I listed in my above post I played on my Amiga, which means technically they should all work on an (emulated) Amiga with 1meg ram (512K chip, 512k slow/fast), 68000, Kickstart 1.3, OCS chipset. And obviously I was (more of) a kid when I was playing those, and memories are sometimes distorted....
Silver:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on May 22, 2006, 01:50:52 pm ---
IMOP most Amiga games were either too hard, or just plain horrid. IE shadow of the beast looked great... but seemed impossible to me. Out Run on the amiga was a train wreck. I didnt have that many games.. but just going from what I saw, I wasnt very impressed with most games.
Check out the X68000 emulator :) The thing has near perfect arcade ports. I even found Thunderforce II on it! Which was ported to the sega genesis... but, the x68000 version has more parallax scrolling layers, more levels, better sound and gfx. Quite kick --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules--.
Its a little tricky to set up (its all in japanese).. but I had found a site out there that showed you pics of what to select to get it to go.
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You got any info/links on the X68000? I remember a friend at my school had one (his dad had brought it over from the far east). He thought it was great but then he could speak japanese...
captainpotato:
I'm going to have Sensible World of Soccer 96/97 on my upright (when I finally build it in the next few years *sigh*), as even now it's still the best football game ever. I plugged my desktop machine into my bartop to test it out under emulation, and apart from the occasional instability in the emulator, it was a blast. Two player cabinet play would be even better.
Chaos Engine 2 and Speedball 2 are a couple of excellent 2-player games that you'd need to have.
If you have a trackball, then you could even play Lemmings - two trackballs would mean that you could play 2-player Lemmings, which only the Amiga version had, from memory.
A trackball would also also Worms - the Director's Cut - sheep on a rope, anybody?
Super Cars 2 wouldn't be too bad either.
Even though it's a shareware game and the graphics weren't exactly cutting edge for the time, Extreme Violence is great fun. Hell, it's been about the only game I've ever been able been able to convince my partner to play - she's not exactly computer game-friendly (but I am allowed to do whatever I want :) ) - Extreme Violence is available here.
RandyT:
Super Frog and James Pond were a couple I used to play a lot of my cabinet when my Amiga was driving it (about 20 years ago)
Speedball was much fun as well.
I'll bet they don't look as good as I remember them though :)
RandyT
captainpotato:
--- Quote from: RandyT on June 09, 2006, 11:30:36 pm ---
Super Frog and James Pond were a couple I used to play a lot of my cabinet when my Amiga was driving it (about 20 years ago)
Speedball was much fun as well.
I'll bet they don't look as good as I remember them though :)
RandyT
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They mightn't look as good, but providing they play as well as you remember, that's all that counts - it's not as if classic era arcade games look brilliant either ;)
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