Amiga Forgotten Worlds.... good/bad/other ?

[kedawa]

Yeah that always pissed me off, especially with arcade ports.  I had plenty of one button sticks around, but I preferred to play games with a SMS pad.  I only ever got to use button 2 on a couple of games.
Nowadays, I play all my amiga games with a custom arcade stick with configurable buttons.  Having buttons for up and down helps a lot, but it's no substitute for proper multibutton support .

[runequester]

The only thing I can imagine is that most of the joystick floating around weren't wired for it, and so game developers didn't want to rely on it.

Or something.

I don't know why, the amiga is perfectly capable of accepting a 2 or 3 button input.

I do remember an Amiga Power article where the writer was lamenting game controls, and wondering why nobody ever used the keyboard. Maybe it was too "IBM"

[kedawa]

When I had my original A500 as a kid in the late 80's/early 90's, I don't think I would have given keyboard controls a fair try, especially after playing so many console games that my friends owned.
Today I can play just about anything, even Street Fighter II, on a keyboard with very little trouble, and it baffles me that more games on the Amiga never supported keybord controls.

[Arkhan]

Keyboards werent part of the AUTHENTIC INHOME ARCADE EXPERIENCE.



Thats all.

[save2600]

Keyboards werent part of the AUTHENTIC INHOME ARCADE EXPERIENCE.

Space Wars arcade by Cinematronics had keyboard like controls. :-)

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9691

[Arkhan]

Space Wars arcade by Cinematronics had keyboard like controls. :-)
 
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9691

 
yeah.  and I guess Asteroids does too sorta.
 
but, that shit didnt last long, haha