What style of game says "amiga" to you?

[carvedeye]

Sega had Sonic mouse(?) and Zintendo had Mario. What did Amiga have for a mascot? Zool?

Superfrog....best amiga platform ever

[Xanxi]

Platformers were you need to go UP with the stick to jump instead of pressing the button.
Definitly Amiga (or Atari) and not console-like.

[jj]

I hate games where up is jump just isnt right.   Its nrealy as bad as racing games where up is accelerate.
 
Games that always made me feel amiga even though most were multi-platform.
 
Moneky Island I & II
Settlers
Lemmings
Syndicate
Lotus Games
Porno games where you had to waggle the joystick or mouse and the two people whould have sex in bad digitised graphics and the object of the games was to make the guy jizz
Hunter
Team 17 games
 
The list could go on .....

[EDanaII]

Apparently Defendor of the crown was a good game but i have yet to play it.

Defender of the Crown was an OK game, it was basically Risk, but set in England only with a couple of "side games" tacked on. But it had graphics unlike any that had ever been seen on a computer until then, so that elevated it a notch.

For me the game was Arctic Fox, which, itself, featured things never before seen on a computer at that time: white-outs, black-outs with thunderstorms, etc.

But, then, _that's_ what really defined the Amiga and its games for me: to boldly go where no computer had gone before...

[carls]

Not that they're my favourite game genres, but classic platformers and footie manager games were always plentiful on the miggy.

[B00tDisk]

Trackload single floppy twitch platformers that only ran on unexpanded A500s, unfortunately.

I can count on one hand and have fingers left over the number of companies that dared to suggest you have a beefier machine to get the best experience out of their games.

[danwood]

Platformers for me, often with glorious copper backrounds/parallax scrolling and banging mod music.

[runequester]

Haha, lots of good suggestions here.


And up to jump, always Though I get why it sucks on a D-pad.

[Digiman]

2D

[outlawal2]

Side scrollers, Speedball 2, Arctic Fox and Archon...

[Vulture]

Platform/Shooters with "adventure" elements (ie many optional things to explore) eg Gods, Turrican series, Super Wonder Boy, Shadow of the Beast series etc.

[AmiBoy]

For me its hard to define it to one game or even one genre.

For me the Amiga will always be the home of good, side scrollers, top down scrollers, isometic dungeon crawlers, point & click adventures, real & turn based strategy games, flight sims...........the list is endless

[som99]

For me its hard to define it to one game or even one genre.

For me the Amiga will always be the home of good, side scrollers, top down scrollers, isometic dungeon crawlers, point & click adventures, real & turn based strategy games, flight sims...........the list is endless

I must agree I can't say one genre, there is some special feeling with Amiga games and playing with a stick, but one thing that screams Amiga and make the games great is the music in Amiga games.

[Cammy]

Games that use Intuition for the graphics layout and the Amiga's voice synthesis for dialogue, using the Copper to display two or three separate screens at once (for a panel and the game area) with their own palettes and resolutions. As much fun as it is when a game takes advantage of the hardware, I think it's also great when they make good use of the OS too.

[rednova]

To me, when I think of amiga, shadow of the beast comes to mind.
It was just soooo Amazing !!!

[Drummerboy]

Sega had Sonic mouse(?) and Zintendo had Mario. What did Amiga have for a mascot? Zool?

well, with the Amiga 1200 release and sales, back in 1992/92, they tried to do something similar, including in the A1200 Pack a Zool game Copy. That was fact.