Just got the original version of Hired Guns

[runequester]

Pretty excited. This is one of my all time favourite games, and I managed to score a copy in the original box. I hope the disks are working, but what I really wanted was the manuals that came with it.
Box is in decent condition too.
 
Good old Psygnosis
 
 
This game had absolutely killer music too

[runequester]

and well, I apologize in advance for having an amiga related thread on here. I figured I'd buck the trend...

[fishy_fiz]

Congrats.
Always fun to get new amiga stuff
As for Hired Guns, it's really one of the classic games that I'll have to get around to trying one day. Pretty much everyone seems to like it.

[runequester]

My friends today have a hard time getting used to it, but it'll blow your mind once you do

[Franko]

and well, I apologize in advance for having an amiga related thread on here. I figured I'd buck the trend...

Wow that's an unusual subject to talk about round these parts... whasa Amiga...

Always remember buying HG myself and playing for six day and nights on the trot until I finished it, was a very atmospheric game I always thought but I was quite disappointed when I managed to finish it so quickly, wish the levels were a bit bigger and more of them, but all in all it's an all time Amiga classic I think...

[runequester]

I remember when I was a kid, we'd arrange improvised death matches on some of the training levels.

Mines, sentry guns... a ton of fun, and way ahead of its time (or anything since, for that matter)

[Franko]

You know it might be worth booting up again (I've still got it installed on a hard disk somewhere) and I haven't played it for so many years hopefully I'll have forgotten my way round the levels and it'll feel like playing a new game again...

[fishy_fiz]

Semi off topic, but speaking of psygnosis I found this while doing some browsing of youtube. Pretty darn cool for the humble ol' speccy (even if I was/am a c64 man).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXTw_o5u8w

[save2600]

and well, I apologize in advance for having an amiga related thread on here. I figured I'd buck the trend...

I was gonna ask where you found a CIB example of this? Not super-familiar with it. Will have to give it the old WHDLoad try sometime.

Love to find a source where people sell CIB Amiga games for reasonable. WHDLoad is all well and good, but there's nothing like owning the real box and manual to be sure.

[runequester]

This was actually off ebay. I usually bid pretty low. THat means I miss most of the stuff, but once in a while, you get something nice.

[save2600]

Hmm... as per usual, a search (I don't give a flock if it's ePay, here, Google or somewhere else) revealed nothing of relevance. I just searched for 'Amiga Hired Guns' and nothing currently came up. Completed listings show an example that did not sell for $37 from the U.K. $37 and it did not sell? I'M SHOCKED! Not  

Price gouge in aisle 1. Errr... make that ALL isles.  :lol:

[runequester]

yeah, its pretty random. Most of the time, you'll get a handful of random floppy disks, which Im gunshy on, since you never know if they work.

[save2600]

Psygnosis kicks/kicked ass. Amazing though, how many great games they did not produce in house, yet they secured through licensing. Software development and marketing is truly an enigma.

Still, can't argue that most anything (with very few exceptions) released under the Psygnosis label, really was worth purchasing. I think of them as I do Cinemaware. Really can't go wrong w/ 'em. From fit to finish. Top notch stuff.

[runequester]

I tend to put them alongside Team 17 in that regard. Occasionally, you'd get a game that was a bit dodgy, but at least they looked and sounded like an amiga game.

ANd most of it was awesome

[J-Golden]

The only Psygnosis game that seemed out of line of their odd atmosphere and near impossible difficulty would be the Carl Lewis Challenge.
 
A Track & Field game?  Really?