Hey Peeps! what are the best Amiga shooters?

[marcfrick2112]

Hey, well, nothing more than the title suggests, what are the best, or favorite Amiga Shoot 'em Up games? OK, to start, I'll say I LOVE Banshee AGA... even if I have to cheat to get beyond even the 2nd level!!!! Ilyad, and Tubular Worlds AGA get high votes from me, as well.

OK, I randomly Googled 'Amiga shoot 'em ups' and found lots of games I never heard of... so , please, peeps, lemme hear of the best Amiga shoot 'em ups!!

Ummm, and can someone point me to a copy of T-Zero? Please? SOMEone??? I ran the demo from an Amiga Format CD.... but... man... REALLY... ya wanna know what's messed up about the Amiga nowadays? .... I AM WILLING TO PAY FOR A GAME, YET CAN'T BUY IT!!!

..man, history repeats itself.... I had to order Theatre of Death from Psygnosis directly, as all US dealers,  and even a UK dealer i talked to, told me... 'not available'.......

[runequester]

My 1200 is sick right now but the ones I've enjoyed (other than Banshee)

Project X
Agony
SWIV
Silkworm
Disposable Heroes
Apidya

If top down shooters count, throw in any of the Alien Breed games, as well as Chaos Engine

[CritAnime]

I would also say Zeewolf. Thats a pretty entertaining game.
 
Would you consider Alien Breed: Tower Assault as a shooter?

[tone007]

One part Amiga, two parts vodka.

[fishy_fiz]

Hybris is pretty nice, better than Battle Squadron in my humble opinion, even if it does lack a 2 player mode. Battle Squadron isnt bad though either. Z-Out for my tastes is one of the best shooters on the amiga. Very under-rated game. Gets better as the game goes on too. The mothership level (ala level 3 rtype) is pretty darn cool. Mothership + multiple levels of parallax scrolling.

[Cammy]

I love Agony, check out this movie trailer someone made for it:

[YOUTUBE]e9Rcrp3SBRE[/YOUTUBE]

[marcfrick2112]

Hey everyone, thanks for the input!

As for Alien Breed: Tower Assult, well, it's a shooter I guess, not a shoot 'em up in the strictest sense of the word.... but still a great game!

Just realized, I have SWIV, but not Silkworm, Ack!

[paul1981]

I used to have one heck of a lot of fun playing a little game called Bratwurst. It's a 2D vector space shoot 'em up.  Only downside is that it's for 2 or more players....but probably the most fun I ever had on any two player game, besides perhaps The Chaos Engine, or maybe even Hired Guns (that's good for 1 player as well).
http://m68k.aminet.net/package/game/shoot/bratw101

I'd also check out Sidewinder.  It's another game similar to Banshee & Swiv, so you may like to try that one too.

[Ancalimon]

I used to get high playing Silkworm when I was a kid.

[klx300r]

DELUXE GALAGA AGA :afro:

[ajlwalker]

Xenon II was fun and very polished.

I only has the coverdisk demo, didn't have much money in those days.

[Digiman]

Jesus, I can't believe nobody has mentioned Super Stardust AGA. It is THE shootem up to play, even today there is no finer playing looking or sounding shootem up. Hell the AGA disk version plays and sounds better than the PS3 version.

That game is soo good that to play it as smoothly on joystick you need a PCI graphics card, 16bit Soundblaster and Pentium 133-150mhz PC (120mhz for keyboard only play, don't ask me why PCs were pathetic like that in 1990s!)

-1 for Flying Shark and Xenon II (both had the sh1t Atari ST 16 colour graphics shoved across with NO improvement at all)

[NorthWay]

Hybris, Battle Squadron, Datastorm (all by S0DAN!)
Silkworm

[Digiman]

DELUXE GALAGA AGA :afro:

Insectoids from Acid Software (Blitz Basic demo game) is just as nice, I even prefer it myself

Also Project Buzzbar is fun for a while, pretty smooth too (It's like Time Pilot 84/II)

[CritAnime]

Xenon II was fun and very polished.
 
I only has the coverdisk demo, didn't have much money in those days.

Just a shame it sucked on the Mega Drive.