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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: ptek on November 11, 2006, 05:35:25 PM
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Hi all,
I was expecting this kind of this question was already discussed here before, so I did an advanced search on the forums with "first amiga game played".
No hits relevant for this matter. So, proceeding :)
What was the first Amiga game you've played, and in what Amiga model ?
Honestly, I cannot tell precisely what mine was :-)
I think it was Saint Dragon on my A500.
(it could be also Battle Squadron or Golden Axe, since i've got the three along my A500 when I bought it)
So if you have clear memories than I, go ahead :)
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Great question!
My first game was a beta of One-on-one on an Amiga 1000 in late '85.
I was friends with the guys who later became Digital Creations. They ported the program for Electronic Arts. Actually, the sounds in the game were recorded at a Sacramento Kings game.
I'm always happy to beta!!
Bob
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My first one was from Disc 63 CU Amiga called "Apocalypse"
I had an Amiga 600 at the time.
Mike.
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I can't remember exactly which game I played first. Before I got my own Amiga, I played a few times at a friend's house, where we used to play games we could do with 2 players. Our favourites were SWIV, Lotus Turbo Challenge II and Speedball 2.
When I bought my first A500, I copied a few of his games, and if I remember correctly in my first box of 10 disks were Lotus II, Speedball 2, Twintris, Cubix, Prehistorik, SWIV, Rodland, Turrican, and Miami Chase (LOVE! that game - especially the soundtrack :-D )
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North & South on my grandparents neighorsons A500 when I was not much older than 9 or 10yo. :)
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Xenon 1 on a friend's Amiga 1000. I was not impressed by the gameplay itself of that game, but I was already in love with the machine.
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Nebulus on my A500.
Actually, my dad played it first. He picked the A500 up from Colchester Computer Center, near where I used to live, and took it back to the police station where he worked. He and his work mates set it up and played Nebulus, and they were absolutely amazed by the rotating "3D" tower. When we opened the A500 on Christmas day, that was the first game he said to play.
I still have very fond memories of that day, and still play Nebulus to this day :-)
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moto
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Lost Dutchman mine... Maybe not the first game I played, but the first one I remember... What a great game... On a a500 ofcourse.
Then I bought my own amiga and got really sad when I found out I needed another 512k memory to play it.
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Nebulus on my A500
Hmm interesting ... I have to try it.
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Lotus Turbo Challenge II
The only game we played on the Amiga 1200 as it was really reserved for a video titling machine, we played the game a couple of times a month and could we get onto the next stage? no, then my cousins came over and got to the third one first time, haha!
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i think it was leisure suit larry on my Amiga 500, and the year must have been 1988.
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I bought several games when I got Amiga (500), don't remember which one was first: Super Cars 2, Gods, Chuch Rock, Centurion.
I didn't have joystick then, so guess it was Centurion.
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motorollin wrote:
Nebulus on my A500.
Looks like the C64 game Tower Toppler. That's one of my favorite old games, I never knew there was an amiga version. Cool.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The platformer. It came with the A500 set that I bought. It wasn't the best game I ever played on the Amiga but it showed off some nice graphics and sound. It blew me away after the diet of C64 and Atari 2600 that I had been fed on until then! :-P
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Shadow Of The Beast, on an A500 at a computer shop (Brighton Computer Exchange, in the UK - now long since gone). I was completely blown away by the graphics and sound and it was pretty much this that persuaded me to ditch the ST and upgrade to an A500!
- Ali
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The platformer. It came with the A500 set that I bought. It wasn't the best game I ever played on the Amiga but it showed off some nice graphics and sound. It blew me away after the diet of C64 and Atari 2600 that I had been fed on until then! :-P
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I think mine was Millenium 2.2 (spelling incorrect on the game, not by me) and the next was a tank game, 2 player, wait, it is coming to me . . . . Fire Power, that was it. Another that my son liked to play was Rampage, but I did not play it much. Millenium 2.2, any of the SSI D&D games and then much later UFO Enemy Unknown absorbed vast quantities of time that should have been devoted to sleep. I have often wanted to start coding a clone of Millenium 2.2 that would allow some random changes so the game would be different each time you played it, but have not made the time to start it yet. This was in 1987 when I first got a used A1000. The next few years were great learning about computing on my Amiga, expanding it and then lusting after an A2000 with lots of expansions and software.
Now I think the count is near 20 Amigas and I am working on a couple of them today.
A1000 x2 (1 w/Spirit 1.5mb RAM expansion & internal HD)
A500 x2 (1 w/GVP A530, 1 w/Supra HD)
A2000 x2 (1 w/68060 & NewTek Video Toaster/Flyer & 2mb Chip)
A3000D x3 (2 w/68040 Warp Engine and VLAB-Motion)
A4000D x3 (2 in tower conversions w/VT/Flyer & CSPPC)
A4000T x1 (w/NewTek VT/Flyer w/GVP 68060)
CDTV x2
CD32 x2 (1 w/SX-1 expansion) (1 new in box, mint)
A1200 x2 (1 w/68060 & SCSI & USB)
A600 x1
Yep, that's 20. I would like to trade one or two for an A3000T just to round out my collection.
Hundreds of boxed software titles and I don't know how many back-up floppies. Just kept buying (on eBay mostly) year after year and have tons of accessories to go with this massive collection. One of my next goals is to network 4 to 7 of the faster Amigas together and experiment with NewTek's Screamer Net for rendering LightWave scenes. I think I have about 5 or 6 68060s and a couple 68040's and 2 68030s.
Blah, Blah, Blah. Sorry for the running on at the keyboard. I am sort of out of it at the moment (vicodin & soma for back pain, but the good news is that surgery is finally happening on December 11 after waiting and fighting insurance for 16 years. Wish me luck!)
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It was either Outrun, Hybris, or Road Raider, on an A500 on Christmas day, 1988. Amazing times :)
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I bought an A500 pack that included AMC+After the war+Budokan
The first one I tried was After the war. Not exactly a good game but as I was used to c64 the graphics were impressive.
Later I tried AMC (Astro Marine Corps), it had great music.
Budokan was the last one. Learning all the special movements was entertaining.
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@amigadave,
Wow man, that's impressive ! So many Amigas !
And good luck.
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Battle Chess at a mate's house sometime in 1988. Ah, the fun of losing on purpose just to see the animations (after swapping the disk endlessly).
First Amiga game I owned was probably Xenon.
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After my A2000 was delivered, I found a local shop that stocked Amiga games and bought Defender of the Crown and Marble Madness. I can't remember which one I played first. :-D
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by amigadave:
One of my next goals is to network 4 to 7 of the faster Amigas together and experiment with NewTek's Screamer Net for rendering LightWave scenes
Is that the same as a 'render farm' in that each machine passes completed frames down the serial port?
How would this work, is there some sort of special cable or hub?
Well done for owning a CD32 too...
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The first game I played was Oscar - the speech samples, music and graphics were so crystal clear and vibrant.
Next games I played were Dennis and the demos of XP8 and Syndicate (from an Amiga Format cover disk).
I still remember that first shot with the gauss gun... quite graphic!
EDIT:
Thinking about it I played North & South, Zool and saw First Samurai years previously. But I didn't own them!
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Shadow of the Beast :)
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The first game I played on my own Amiga was Wingcommander and I played it on a bare A600. I even bought the game before I had the A600, as it was reduced in price from 60 DM to 30 DM. I actually finished Wingcommander on this A600 but with a ChipRAM expansion and a secondary floppy drive. I was years later on an A1200 with a Blizzard1230 that I found out how this game should feel and it was a whole new experiance.
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Going back twenty years...
I think the first amiga game I played was either Dark Castle or Arkanoid on my friend's stepdad's A500.
When I bought my own A500, Dark Castle was the first game I bought :-D
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Shanghai on an A1000 just over 19 years ago.
Pete
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Mine was Firepower! at a friend's house - I thought it was the coolest knowing that he was playing against someone over the modem across town. We must have played that game until dawn.
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I think it was 1988-89, I played AF Coverdisk 1 (New Zealand Story Demo) and AF Coverdisk 3 (Xenon 2 Demo). I'm sure I played others, but these stand out clearly in my memory.
Like many others, Indiana Jones, Kick Off and Interceptor were the first games owner (and thus played to death). Indiana had lots of loading problems (didn't always work).
Made the mistake of lending Kick Off to a friend (almost never got it back).
benJamin
"25 days 'til Wii..."
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@benJamin
Crazy Cars 1 back in 1989 i.e. packaged with Amiga 500 (Rev6A)/AmigaOS 1.3.2.
My first Amiga magazine is Amiga Action with SuperCars2 demo.
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Defender of the Crown on a mate's Amiga 1000 - what a game! The GFX totally blew me away and I knew I had to have one of those... :-D
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@Hyperspeed,
Yes, the Screamer Net from NewTek shares the rendering load between the networked computers and all the frames are sent to the target directory. The plan is to network them all together through ethernet cards, cables and a router switch, or hub (I need to learn more about setting up a LAN). I have all the ethernet cards I need already to put at least 5 or 6 on the network.
I have only heard about this and not seen or put it into practice myself yet.
My installation of a 73.5gb and 36.7gb drives into one of my Toaster/Flyer systems went well today and they are formatted in HQ5 and ready for use.
(read my sig, it's really true)
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Defender of the Crown
Great game, got it with the A1000 in 1986. Spent many hours playing it (I remember hating the jousting though, could never figure out how to win it).
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Ports of Call or Stunt Car Racer, don't remember which one, around 1989 as I recall.
Had a C128 as my own computer back then.
Got my first Amiga in 1991, favorite games then was Utopia (loved the music tracks) and Djingis Khan. :-)
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I first SAW "The Killing Game Show" on an Amiga 500. Later I played "Shadow of the Beast" and on a friend's Amiga 500, and eventually purchased my own 500 just for SotB -- but since it wound up not being part of the software collection, I instead played Ballistix as my first Amiga game (LOVE that game, and would LOVE to purchase a new copy.)
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F/A-18 Interceptor on my A500 in 1987 - about 5 minutes after booting it up for the first time.
Also got Fairy Tale Adventure and Defender of the Crown will it...
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SHADOW OF THE BEAST I
Then I burried my Atari ST and became an Amiga Fan for life.
Ps : I didn't burried my ST, I still have it ... somewhere ...
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It was Defender of the crown back in may or june 1987 on a A1000 with KS 1.0/1.1
The amiga was owned by the brother of one of my friend.
I had a C64 then and I was so impressed that i had just one idea in mind: having mine . It take one full year before i could buy it (A500 KS 1.2)
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Marble Madness on an A1000 :-)
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Well, my father purchased the A500 Batman pack as a family Christmas present in 1988. I recall being a little disappointed - 'What is this? This isn't a Spectrum 128k?!' - I thought to myself at the time.
Unfortunately, the included modulator did not function, meaning my sister and I had to be content with typing our names as quickly as possible on a disconnected A500 over Christmas and Boxing day. The day after, I believe, my family went into Norwich city centre to 'One Step Beyond' (an independent computer store that is still going strong today), replaced the faulty modulator and we eventually returned home.
I seem to recall 'The Very First English Version' disk being inserted early on, with pictures of different Amiga accessories, accompanied with the line 'Get the best!' - rather ironic given that one of the promoted products was the very same A520 modulator that was faulty!
Anyway, I am almost certain that the first real game we played together was 'Batman The Movie' - a rather poor movie tie-in, released by Ocean. The Amiga was connected to the family's colour television in the living room, with the audio hooked up to my father's large Rotel amp and speakers. Wow, the title music was just incredible for a seven year old lad - it even had sampled speech from the film ("Who are you?", "I'm Batman!").
After this, my father insisted on playing 'Interceptor' for a little while, again the music and graphics were incredible - I still remember the sound of the afterburners rumbling through my fathers stereo.
Later on that day, my elder sister and I took turns playing 'The New Zealand' story, another classic platformer, yet devilishly hard for a small child.
I have other memories playing with the Workbench 1.3 'Say' speech program, and of course Deluxe Paint II - I would gaze for hours at a black and white TV, fascinated by the symmetry tool.
The first game I actually purchased however, was not for a little while later - 'Advanced Ski Simulator', a budget release by Codemasters for 4.99GBP. Great title screen music and scrolling text, even if the game itself was far too difficult to be enjoyable.
Ah, happy days!
Take care,
James
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ps. I'm just thinking about these early games and how we managed to play them - I do not believe a joystick was included with the Batman pack, which rather begs the question how consumers would control the characters. At some point a friend of my fathers loaned him an old C64 joystick, and told him of the JAMMMMMM cheat for Batman. Goodness, this is truly nostalgic!
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Ports of Call + Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego; A500 Amiga School pack in ยด91.
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Rick Dangerous :-D
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Hm, it must have been either Buggy Boy, or Xenon 2, or Lotus (2). Twas not my A500 though. (never had one 'till 1997)
Graphics didn't blew me away, we had a 386 at home with vga (1988) though lots of pc games had ugly cga gfx, but all the a500 versions had neat 'vga' gfx. The thing that blew me away was the sound (especially of Xenon 2).
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Cripes, I've had a few too many :pint: since then, but I guess it was Hybris on my A1000. I should never have sold that :-(
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AmigaDave
Good Luckwith the back and getting your 3000T. Oh and I've been to BigBear Lake before..I love it up there..!!! I didnt like LA so much. I could live in BigBear
for sure.
Take care.
Rich
from NY
Oh the first game I played was BattleChess..really cool!!
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I believe I purchased the first Amiga 1000 (http://pix.blakespot.com/view/computers/a1000.jpg.html) sold in the state of Virginia, in late 1985 (October?). It was December, I think, when I received via mail-order the first game I could get my hands on:
Activision's "Hacker"
Soon after came the oh-so-thrilling Software Golden Oldies from EA.
The most fun I had in that Amiga-just-released period with a game was with Infocom's Wishbringer, which I was laying in January '86. Good stuff.
blakespot
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The first game I ever played on an A1000 was "The Pawn" developed by Magnetic Scrolls and published by Rainbird Software. As this was my first Amiga and the first game I ever bought for it, I seem to remember this happening in 1986 or early 1987.
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Kid Gloves on my own Amiga.
But before that, APB on a friend's Dads - quality game!
"I sure could use a Donut!"
Rude!
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You all seem to have played such interesting games.
The first Amiga game I played was CarVup on A500+. I still love it to this day and I still can't get past level 3 :lol:
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Defender of the Crown, Port of Call.
I remember that i was impressed by the water animation in DOTC . Ports of call was really amazing, with good graphics and sound. I hope we will see again quality games such this on the new amigas.
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It was Menace, at a local computer shop in November 1988. I'd spent two years with a Spectrum +2 and was amazed at how pretty Menace looked then... And am equally amazed at how dated it looks now.
When I eventually bought my first Amiga (A500) in 1990, the first game I played was Xenon II, with the sound cranked up. :lol:
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My first game.........
Bart Vs. The Space Mutants 8-)
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TurricanII, on an A2000 with 50MB HDD and 3MB RAM.
:flame:
:-D
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Hi,
It was on a standard A500 at a cousin's home around 1988, a game whose name I forget : it was an arcade game, maybe a strategy game, taking place in some futuristic nuclear war scenery, whose level I played was a first person shoot and run through a corridor, where enemies were coming from side ways, and at the end of which there was some sort of love scene. Does anyone identify this game ?
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First game played on an Amiga,,, Had to be Alternate Reality on a friends Amiga. Bard's Tale on mine.
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i thinks is year 1990 and A500!!
my first impression was F-16 fightin falcon and fighter bomber..? if im remember right!
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I used to play with A500s of my friends in late '80s. I was 8 or 9 years old and I owned a C64.
Sincerly I don't remember the first game I played on Amiga but I still have in my mind what I thought every time I came back to my home: "I love Amiga!".
The mine arrived on 1992, it was a gorgeous A500+ that I still keep. It's mint!
The first game which I played was Lotus Turbo Challenge 2. During the same day, I tried also demos of Pinball Dreams and Shadowlands.
That was a great period... I'm so nostalgic!!! :boohoo:
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The first Game i played in Amiga was 3 games...
- Babarian - Palace (Know in C64 like Deathsword)
- Stunts Track Racer..
- Silkworm
Amazing games in that time!!!..
i keep playing sometimes Barbarian and Stunts Track Racer.. this games it must be in every Amiga games Collection!..
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Way back when (no idea on the year), I saw an ad in the paper and went to a guys house who was selling an Amiga 500 with monitor (old 1.3 kickstart), and he had it setup on his kitchen table and BAM, up loaded TV SPORT BASKETBALL.
I was by no means a sport game fan, but when I saw all those colors and the fans faces, with the announcers voice I was sold before the tip off!
Up until them I was a commodore 64 owner and loved games like M.U.L.E and California Games, Commando, Spy Hunter, etc.
FAVORITE AMIGA GAMES: Project X, GODS, Speed Ball II (anything by psygnosis & Bitmap Brothers)
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First game I played was nuclear war. I still play it. hahha
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Either Barbarian (Psygnosis) or SDI (Cinemaware).
The computer was an Amiga 500 and the year was 1988.
Barbarian was included with the Amiga 500 that my father bought. He also purchased SDI at the same time as the Amiga. I can't recall which game I played first.
A bit off topic..
I remember the first that I saw a screenshot of an Amiga game. It was on the backside of a "Borrowed time" box. I was amazed by the graphics because it looked so much better than the IBM PC CGA version of "Borrowed time". But a couple of years later when I had an opportunity to play the Amiga version, of that game, and I thought it look quite bad.
I also remember the first the I saw an Amiga game in real life. It was the intro to "Defender of the Crown" played on an Amiga 2000 in a computer store. The golden logo looked so much better than anything I had seen on a computer at that time.
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must have been Hybris at a frends place, thats the game that convinced me I had to have an Amiga. had a C64 at the time.
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The first game which I played was Lotus Turbo Challenge 2. During the same day, I tried also demos of Pinball Dreams and Shadowlands
I find that really curious because, if IIRC, Lotus 2 didn't work on an A500+ because it "banged the hardware" in an unsupported fashion?????
I'm thinking of the version that came with the Philips monitor? Or perhaps it was the A1200 it didn't work with - can someone enlighten me (not that its important)
Rude!
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I guess i strted with IK+. That was one ofthe rare games I understood and possessed.
Also within the very Amiga 1st games there was Turrican, Defender of the crown Firepower and Kick off. A bit later I was impressed by hostages and shadow of the beast. Back in the days I owned spread disks only (in my school class alone there were ~7 Amiga owners). Wow - that's longs years ago!
Still playing Turrican today (in the meanwhile I own a nice boxed original (incl. poster)).
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I find that really curious because, if IIRC, Lotus 2 didn't work on an A500+ because it "banged the hardware" in an unsupported fashion?????
Are you sure? I can swear it worked on my a600 atleast, which is basically the same machine in a smaller package. I dont recall if i used softkick though, but i find it doubtful.
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I'm not sure, but I think it was Cruise for a Corpse. It came bundled with my brothers A600HD.
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dont know what year but the first i think was Obliterator(psygnosis)
ports of call was 1 of my favorite
and aargh was a cool game to
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I don't remember which game. The A500 came with the 3 disks from Commodore: Workbench1,3 (no games on that one), Extras1,3 (no games as far as I remember, or it must be an odd BASIC game that I had no idea of on how to use it) and Commodore's Dutch introduction to the Amiga: Amiga Stap voor Stap.
There was also a FredFish disk collection of 10 floppies, can't remember anything usefull on those. So my guess would be.... either Warzone (the game with the little tank) or Protector. If I had to put money on it: Warzone! That were the days... 1988... I was like 16 or so.
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I'm not sure, though the first game I remember playing was Myth. That game is still addictive!
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my m8 bought his daughter a new a500+ 2 months before exmas 89/90 for her school work :roll:
so we just had to try it out,3 nights a week playing
wolfchild, then we found gods :-D
she never got a look in until after the new year.
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my first games played on A500 was Another World and Wing Commander
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F-16 Falcon
Plain A500 Tiger Edition, 15.07.1989.
Since I had some PC experience, I thought that game should be "installed" before first startup so I loaded Workbench. It took me few hours of a pain disk switching before I accidently recovered a universal secret of Amiga custom bootblock. BTW, while on topic, let me embarass myself a bit more than this...it took me over a week to discover soft-reset combo...I was to lazy to RTFM
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Ahhh, that golden era....
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My first Amiga game ( :boohoo: ) was Lemmings (first version) on my Amiga 2000. What a beatiful day! :-)
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I think the first Amiga game I ever played was Leatherneck on a friends' A500. For some reason I still ended up buying an own Amiga a few years later, despite that experience :-D
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Mine was midnight resistance on a friend's A500. 1st on my A500 was speedball 2 and on my current beloved A1200 first was, oddly enough, blues brothers.
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Hi,
I really don't remember the titles. That was about 18 years ago. There was a type of Arkanoid game, a car driving game with a choice of four models, a mini-put game, and of course Arkanoid.
Fester
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Nitro?
My first was just before christmas 1987, the A500 came from Dixons in Chesterfield with the Ocean Amiga pack. Wizball and Eco, Eco was bizzare, but Wizball still gets played today!
Dad got me F/A-18 Interceptor for christmas, must've played that for the next 2 years stright :lol:
Brunty
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My first Amiga game was Hybris, and i played it on an Amiga1000. But the first game that realy made me impressed was Shadow of the beast3.
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I'm not sure which one was first, so I'll list them both:
It might have been "Echo", a wireframe 3D-game. Never really understood what it was about.
OR it was "Captain Blood", a weird game featuring intro music by Jean-Michel Jarre.
Both games sucked bigtime though, but I think I still have the originals laying around somewhere. :)
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A500 with F-18 Interceptor and Test Drive were the first.
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I think the first game I played on my Amiga 2000 was Defender of the Crown. The graphics painted by Jim Sachs still look impressive.
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Nice topic, but a stress on the memory, must have been 8 years old. I think it was Silkworm.
Jarrod
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Mine was Pirates :) I remember that day like yesterday. I wanted to play that game so much, my mom gave in and bought me the Amiga. I was so desperate, I even tried to play it on C64 from TAPE (one of the most painful experiences in my life) before getting the Amiga. I watched the game in AWE for about a week, all those colorful graphics and beautiful music was just so wonderful, even though I didn't understand much of what's going on since I was young and my English was not enough.
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my first was ports of call. i was used to pc games and c64 stuff and even though poc was several years old at the time i was impressed
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Libyans In Space.
This was the game shown as a demo on the Amiga 500 back in 1987 or so. That sold me, and I bought the Amiga 500 with that game and also Flight Simulator 2. Some of the other first programs I had was Deluxe Paint 2 and Deluxe Music Construction Set.
Wow, those were memorable days! I had DMCS hooked up to my keyboards using MIDI and had fun putting songs together. And Deluxe Paint was great too.
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Year: not sure - too long ago ;)
Machine: A500
Game: (either Golden Axe, North & South, Rolling Thunder or Barbarian)
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Great Giana Sisters... Or North and South... Dont remember... geeeee Im getting old :S
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Sword Of Sodan on my first A500. Coming from a C64 I can remember being blown away by the size of the characters on screen but the game was a bit rubbish.
Having said that I still load it up now and again :lol: .
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I'm not sure what the first game was. But I think it was Donald Duck's Playground, Super Wonderboy or Oswald. All crappy conversions :crazy:
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I remember unpacking my first Amiga 500 back in 1987 and loading up Instant Music first, playing with that for half an hour or so.
Soon after I spent the rest of the evening playing Marble Madness.
Later in the week I picked up Tass Times In Tonetown and Archon.
Still have all these copies sitting in my closet.
:-D