Will the Amiga ever regain it's footing in games?

[Valan]

The developers will not support yet another platform.

Amiga has a huge back catalogue of 2d games that woud be ideal for a PDA. Starglider, Rainbow Islands, Lemmings, Sensible Soccer, Pinball Prelude or Worms would be fantastic to be played through AA/DE.

IMHO Amiga Inc shoud be busy getting this material through to Microsoft to distribute.

[Valan]

The developers will not support yet another platform.

Amiga has a huge back catalogue of 2d games that woud be ideal for a PDA. Starglider, Rainbow Islands, Lemmings, Sensible Soccer, Pinball Prelude or Worms would be fantastic to be played through AA/DE.

IMHO Amiga Inc shoud be busy getting this material through to Microsoft to distribute.

[Valan]

They are not Amiga Inc's titles. But software could be licensed and recoded for AA.

Bill did say that the Microsoft deal had opened doors and helped others to get underway. I hope these are within those deals.

Such titles would make the PDA gaming look very attractive even along side the GBA.

[Valan]

Another thing to consider is that Sony has done a fantastic job in selling the 'must be 3d' idea.

When the Playstation was first launched all the games had to be 3D. Psygnosis wanted to publish Lemmings for it as it was very popular but Sony forced them to do a 3d version. Remember Lemmings3d?

So I think there are othe genres of games to be designed, maybe not even 2d or 3d. The Amiga must be an easy(non expensive) development environment like in the past so that new game developers can use it.

Amiga Inc should setup an internet publishing program to enable new games to be purchased through the internet.

Just a thought

[Valan]

@Odin
I thought I read that Psygnosis were buying themselves back from Sony?
Maybe I am wrong. Anyway the link you gave is not affiliated to Psygnosis or Sony. It also lists them seperately.

I think a back catalogue of Amiga games in any form is such an obvious way to go for a handheld console, PDA or phone. It is not that the Amiga community would buy them but they are simply attractive to any gamer.

Even Rares old back catalogue of Spectrum games would look amazing on a PDA or Phone. How about Ataris games?

I think once a delivery method is available like AA then we can see all these games being released again.

When we get AOS5 then the AA SDK should be pre installed to incourage easy development. History has shown this is the way to get things really happening.

Valan