Kid Chaos AGA is the finest platform game on Amiga!

[The_Power_of_the_Ginger]

Amiga Platform games in the years 1992-1995 is a subject I would take for Mastermind, I own so many of them...

Soccer Kid is one of the great ones, with a difficulty level pitched just about right. Just a little monotonous after a while.

Now, Kid Chaos...It's simply far too hard in the latter stages. I defy anyone to do Ruined City level 3 without cheating or losing more than 5 lives...

Ruff 'n' Tumble, by contrast, is excellent. Brilliant graphics, excellent sound effects, the difficulty is spot on and it is a joy to play. Particularly when on a combo of destroying 10 tin monstrousities in a row. The explosions are simply magnificent.

Zool 2 is quite marvellous, too. I'm sure you can get it from a certain company that deals in murky illegal waters...(I missed that story about something to do with Epic/Amigagames.co.uk, please enlighten me...)

Brian the Lion, marvin's Marvellous Adventure, Charlie J cool and Pinkie are all, apparently, rubbish to poor. I didn't think much to James Pond 3 either (run it side by side with Sonic, or something...it pales in comparison).

Ooh, Aladdin is great, but too short. Like some of today's games.

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Incidentally, did anyone get their hands on Putty Squad? The demo played like a dream, but the full version wasn't released. Twice. System 3 saw the Amiga base was shrinking, and Alive Mediasoft (ee, remember them? Don't!) got into what can only be described as serious dog-do. I'm still waiting for my copy of James Pond 3...:roll:

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Rats, I forgot about Superfrog. Fun to play, that one. The only thing that slightly tempers my enjoyment is the penultimate level, which requires to use a power-up to get across an otherwise impassable part. If you run out of power-ups, you can't complete the game. Apparently, this actually made the PC incarnation impossible to complete.

Harlequin is a joy, too. It is, after all, where I got this nifty avatar from...

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Also, Superfrog encourages gambling...see the end-of-level screens where you had to gamble to get a password for that level...what sort of example does that set to kids, eh?  :-D  Did Sonic teach you to smoke? Did Mario have secret levels where you dealt drugs (mind you, I've seen one screen where he starts flying, so he must have been drinking too much Red Bull)...I don't know...still, Lara croft got her Lucozade habit from the platforming green frog.

I would add The Power of the Ginger to this selection, except a) nobody bought it from me b) It's not quite as good as ruff n' Tumble (but more engrossing than charlie J Cool! Hurray!) and c) None of you have heard of it. I'll release it one day, when I can be bothered...for WinUAE...

Hey, it's not like I'm bitter, or anything... :-)

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Pussies Galore was never released. Phew, that was close. :-D

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Objective as I'm trying to be here...where on earth was there jerky scrolling in Superfrog? The game looked cuter than Mario, and ran nearly as fast as Sonic (in fact, Superfrog was much more pleasing to the eyes). I wish I could have coded something like Superfrog in Amos Pro...

Incidentally, I just remembered the cheeky 'Big Sucking Things' in the Circus level in Superfrog. They were implemented deliberately to be a subtle innuendo...so I read from a preview..

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The original design for Kid chaos was to have him as a fox, I think. That may have been a bit too similar to a hedgehog's sidekick...