Most annoying Amiga game in the world.

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Shogun (text adventure) is extremely annoying. You have to type the exact right thing at the exact right time. The most points I ever got was 10. Later, I tried to finish with cheats. Even with the in-game hints, even with the "game cheat" text file, it is unbareably tedious. I gave up in disgust.

Dragon's Lair 2 is probably the most annoying game I still have on my harddrive and it's only there for nostalga reasons (the only reason I keep any annoying game). I can't even get past the first scene!

Another World - it's visually impressive, but totally sucks as a game. How many times do you have to die, just to figure it out?? I think my average was something like 76 deaths per scene for the first few scenes, then 350 after that.

Prince of Persia - same as Another World: die, start over, die, start over, die....

Fantastic Voyage - beautiful graphics but even with the 99 lives cheat, it's impossible to get past the first valve.

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Lammatron, without a doupt was the worst Amiga game ever. The sounds were enough to drive you up the wall and then make you fall down the other side

Llamatron sound effects are like a cross between an old science fiction movie, a barn full of rabid sheep and a cheap porno. It's not a bad game though - just a little strange.

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Most annoying Amiga game for me is Zeewolf. Whoever thought controlling a helicopter with a mouse was a good idea should be strangled.

What? Zeewolf is one of my top five games (Zeewolf 1 & 2). I have never used the mouse for controlling the helicopter - that would be way to tedious. Try it with the joystick.

As far as controls go I would say Thalion's No Second Prize. Whoever thought of controlling a motorcycle with a mouse isn't smart or clever.

That is the main reason I don't play this game much. I love the instant replay feature with multiple camera angles, but it's just way too hard taking corners when using the mouse. I wish this game had an option to use joystick.

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Whoa, this thread went off topic. Briefly: the death of Amiga and Commodore is 100% the fault of management. Commodore was heading towards death in 1991 as mentioned in the Deathbed Vigil, but the management incompetence was obvious even in 1989. Here are some quotes from a Canadian Amiga magazine I bought in 1989:

"There are very many people who are relying on the success of what may be Commodore's last chance at giving the Amiga the recognition it deserves. There are many software and hardware developers that have been disenchanted with the low sales they have been having, some have even stopped promoting and/or developing software for the Amiga. At the recent Siggraph graphics show in Boston there was quite a disturbing sight in the Byte-by-Byte booth (the makers of Sculpt-4D); they had several Mac II's at the front of their booth and one lone Amiga at the back with its name plate removed."

"From my point of view... CBM seems to have a split personality. It appears to have brilliant engineers, and a not-so-brilliant group of marketing personnel... Why is it that the marketing folks back at Commodore Headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania - who should be leading the pack when it comes to the business of developing and maintaining good relationships with dealers and software producers - why is it that these marketing 'experts' often seem to be looking the other way when someone out in the field is trying to get their attention?"

These quotes are from early 1989 remember, not 1993.

Back on the subject of most annoying game, can we consider all the Amos PD games ever made as a contender?

DawnVideoPoker and Babenoid were great AMOS games (written by Richard Fhager). Wonderland was pretty good too.

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ANY game that uses just one button and uses up to jump get my vote for most annoying game. unfortunatly there are many of them.

You must be from the "Nintendo generation", because every joystick I ever used had just one button. How else could one jump but by pushing up?

Gamepads make me sick. ;-)