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Title: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: Nautilus on December 20, 2007, 04:57:11 AM
By Simon Carless
Wired

When it was unveiled 22 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was instantly recognized as a groundbreaking multimedia machine.

The computer's consumer price point belied the Amiga's prowess as a rendering tool for realistic audio and eye-popping visuals. Its usefulness in the field of animation -- from Babylon 5 and early works by the creators of Wallace & Gromit to Andy Warhol's You Are the One -- was equaled only by the smoothness and realism the computer brought to games.

The heyday for Amiga games was the late '80s and early '90s. The computer's custom chipset and advanced (for the time) graphics capability led to sumptuous 2-D titles in a variety of styles, and even some basic 3-D games. Here's a look at some of the more innovative entries in the Amiga game canon.

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2007/04/gallery_amiga0411
Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: Im>bE on December 20, 2007, 05:30:19 AM
What games are those?
Are they any good?
Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: Methuselas on December 20, 2007, 07:59:39 AM
Uh....Sensible Soccer, Lemmings, Syndicate, Defender of the Crown, Another World, Cannon Fodder, Shadow of the Beast....


They're *GREAT* games!!!

*ALL* of them.


 :-o
Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: Wolfe on December 20, 2007, 09:08:41 AM
Yes, they are excellent games . . .  :-D
Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: Atheist on December 20, 2007, 09:20:51 AM
I must have played Defender of the Crown a hundred times.... Loved tricking it so almost the entire game ran from ram: Load time....zero!


Amiga is "The One!" (And is coming back BIG time!)
Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: zurt on December 20, 2007, 11:27:49 AM
no doubt "Spitting Image" was one of the most influential games. It even changed regimes... x)
Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: odin on December 20, 2007, 01:03:14 PM
Well, Shadow of the Beast is a {bleep}-game when it comes to gameplay. The music on the other hand...pure brilliance.

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Amiga is "The One!" (And is coming back BIG time!)

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Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: Piru on December 20, 2007, 01:49:56 PM
odin, please don't...

(If you really must, check moobunny)
Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: SamuraiCrow on December 20, 2007, 11:04:04 PM
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Uh....Sensible Soccer, Lemmings, Syndicate, Defender of the Crown, Another World, Cannon Fodder, Shadow of the Beast....

... Speedball 2, Pinball Dreams, and Worms.
Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: Invisix on December 20, 2007, 11:28:07 PM
House on a Disk (a.k.a. Little Computer People) 8-)
Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: jarrody2k on December 21, 2007, 10:51:42 AM
Agree almost whole-heartedly, but I wish it was top 11 so it could fit Settlers in there.

Jarrod
Title: Re: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games
Post by: orange on December 23, 2007, 02:33:01 AM
one is enough: Syndicate