When talking about the best system why nobody mentions the AMIGA 500

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

sakuragi007

I've NEVER heard of that system in my entire 24 years on this very Earth. o_o When did it come out?

i was a complete atari ST fanboy back in those days and had many playground argument (simular to SW arguments) about atari ST VS amiga 500. looking back i was clearly wrong.

ZX Spectrum completely pwned the Amiga's. "Peee Pip, Peeeeeeeee Pip, PINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG"

Gamespot is international site, but majority of users are from North America and that period was dominated there by SNES/Genesis, while they were flopping like crazy in Europe which was dominated by 16bit computers

The Amiga 500/500+ Does indeed deserve recognition! Had some amazing titles and dev's working on it! Good old Sensible software and bullfrog games, i remember bugging my parents into getting me one using the claim it would be helpful for school work despite knowing i would actually be spending most of my life playing cannon fodder and syndicate! Fools HAHAHA!

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

sakuragi007

certainly is one of the best platforms of all time.

It was one of my favourite systems :)

I played some great games on it like Monkey Island1 and 2, Dune2, Another World, Flashback, The Settlers, etc before i got my first PC!!!

wow I never ever seen anyone mention the Amiga 500 in System Wars. I remember when my parents were looking at buying a Computer for home. We looked at Amiga's, Atari ST''s and a MS-DOS based PC(glad we choose PC). It had some amazing games like Zool, Chaos Engine, Monkey Island, Cannon Fodderbf2nutta

Very unlikely there are people here old enough to have even heard of it. Commodore 64/Monty on the Run FTW!

[QUOTE="sakuragi007"]

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

I've NEVER heard of that system in my entire 24 years on this very Earth. o_o When did it come out?

wow I never ever seen anyone mention the Amiga 500 in System Wars. I remember when my parents were looking at buying a Computer for home. We looked at Amiga's, Atari ST''s and a MS-DOS based PC(glad we choose PC). It had some amazing games like Zool, Chaos Engine, Monkey Island, Cannon Fodderbf2nutta

Oh, Chaos Engine, how much I loved this game.

Very unlikely there are people here old enough to have even heard of it. Commodore 64/Monty on the Run FTW!

shutdown_202

my favourite in the series was Auf Wiedersehen Monty. nice to see some older gamers on here

I was using a C64 too, I had to go to friends or family to use the AmigaBlackendV

i had an amiga 500, the load times were a killer and the amount ofdisc swapping was suicide worthy. the games were good but i take the quick snes and megadrive

I was using Commodore 64, never had an Amiga, we switched to DOS after our C64 died (RIP :cry: )

aaaahhhhh so many great memories gaming on the Amiga... SF2 was the reason why i had to change the disk drive lol

It was an awesome system and underrated in my opinion... used to game more on my Amiga than on my Mega Drive back then..

Amiga 500 will always have a special place in my heart :)

anybody remember a game called capitive.http://www.livevideo.com/video/F7FE5AA7292242F4AFE5BE015399E972/atari-st-s-captive.aspx

aaaahhhhh so many great memories gaming on the Amiga... SF2 was the reason why i had to change the disk drive lol

It was an awesome system and underrated in my opinion... used to game more on my Amiga than on my Mega Drive back then..

Amiga 500 will always have a special place in my heart :)

Malta_1980

[QUOTE="Malta_1980"]

aaaahhhhh so many great memories gaming on the Amiga... SF2 was the reason why i had to change the disk drive lol

It was an awesome system and underrated in my opinion... used to game more on my Amiga than on my Mega Drive back then..

Amiga 500 will always have a special place in my heart :)

Salt_The_Fries

:) its version was great... also i cant remember how many Quickshot conrollers i destroyed gaming on my amiga back then lol

so many great games back then Shinobi, Shadow warrior, Double dragon, Dragon Ninja, SWIV, Silkwar, Turrican,Golden Axe, Outrun, Lotus turbo challenge, Ninja turtles, Mortal Kombat 1 & 2, Sensible Soccer etc etc :)

Did anyone ever play Rick Dangerous? That had to be the most difficult 2d platformer ever created. AlphaGamer469

Did anyone ever play Rick Dangerous? That had to be the most difficult 2d platformer ever created. AlphaGamer469

yep great game and the sequel was great too. free to play it here, brings back a lot of memories!

http://rickdangerousflash.free.fr/

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

sakuragi007

[QUOTE="shutdown_202"]

Very unlikely there are people here old enough to have even heard of it. Commodore 64/Monty on the Run FTW!

Macutchi

my favourite in the series was Auf Wiedersehen Monty. nice to see some older gamers on here

I loved that one too. Commodore 64 was actually way before my time (only eighteen) but they were the time of my older brothers so i used to just play them there.

Did anyone ever play Rick Dangerous? That had to be the most difficult 2d platformer ever created. AlphaGamer469

Yep, i loved that game. It was on pair with Sir Fred and Navy Seals one of the first games i ever played on my Spectrum 128k

[QUOTE="AlphaGamer469"]Did anyone ever play Rick Dangerous? That had to be the most difficult 2d platformer ever created. Macutchi

yep great game and the sequel was great too. free to play it here, brings back a lot of memories!

http://rickdangerousflash.free.fr/

Great find!!! Thats a PERFECT remake :o

Ahh, the Amiga 500. I got lots of love for that system. A word to the cows, the Playstation would have not be anywhere near as good as it was without that platform. Most of the UK developers that are now part of Sony's first party development houses came from developing for that platform.

My favorite Amiga dev: Psygnosis (Shadow of the Beast, Awesome, Menace, etc) Dave Jones made Menace when he was 17 went on to create GTA.

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For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

Rahnyc4

The Amiga 500 was an incredible gaming machine! To the games already mentioned here I'll add Beach Volley, Defenders of the Crown and Battle Squadron! Absolutely brilliant games!

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

sakuragi007

Most of this forum is North American while the Commodore systems such as the C64 and Amiga were better known in the UK and Europe. The Americans were more into their NES.

Unfortunately, although I'm British and although my brother had an Amiga 500, I'm too young to remember these systems or any of the other home computers such as the Amstrad CPC or ZX Spectrum myself.

[QUOTE="sakuragi007"]

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

Menalque2

Most of this forum is North American while the Commodore systems such as the C64 and Amiga were better known in the UK and Europe. The Americans were more into their NES.

Unfortunately, although I'm British and although my brother had an Amiga 500, I'm too young to remember these systems or any of the other home computers such as the Amstrad CPC or ZX Spectrum myself.

The Vic 20, C64 and Amiga all did pretty well over here.

heretrix

Maybe I'm wrong, all I know is it as more of a UK thing. I think the MSX did reasonably well in the US. Part of the reason the Sega Master System did better in Europe than NA was because the home computers took away a large chunk of Nintendo's marketshare over here.

[QUOTE="sakuragi007"]

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

Rahnyc4

[QUOTE="Rahnyc4"][QUOTE="sakuragi007"]

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

AdrianWerner

[QUOTE="Rahnyc4"][QUOTE="sakuragi007"]

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

AdrianWerner

To this day, I've never owned one. I was busy with the Commodore stuff. After the crash, I didn't get another console until the 16 bit era.

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[QUOTE="Rahnyc4"] most of those games you listed could be easily found on the snes. to me a great console is known for its key exclusives, thats what makes a great console.bf2nutta

[QUOTE="bf2nutta"][QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]but snes versions were simply absymal. It's like comparing multiplat between 360 and Wii. Amiga had tons of games that weren;t on consoles too, altough it did share plenty of them with PC

HuusAsking

Two of my Amiga favourates have to be F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 (an amazing combat sim for its time) and Odyssey (platformer), aswell as the previously mentioned Desert Strike, Cannon Fodder, Formula One Grand Prix and obviously Flashback.

[QUOTE="HuusAsking"]

[QUOTE="bf2nutta"] I was gonna say how would Cannon Fodder work on the Snes... it was mouse driven!?!?!?!bf2nutta

The Amiga A500 was the cheaper updated version of the A1000 from around 1984??? Can't really recall what year the A1000 came around, but the Amiga platform was so far ahead of the curve for the time, one of the computing greats, certain "workbench" features its equivilent of windows still today are as advanced as what you'd find in XP!!!, Amiga "Towers" running "video toaster" were used to create all the CGI in Babylon 5 it was a portal with which many of todays top programmers and software houses learn't their trade. As a games machine forits time it was unsurpassed all this in stock form with 512kb of ram and a Motorala 68000 cpu and some sweet custom hardware, a true legend. Oh and the demo scene still use Amiga's although the later 1200 models. check these amiga demo's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kuYfTCGLg this is from around circa 1991 and is heavily inspired by the underground UK rave scene, all in 880k!!! you'd be lucky if thats a game save on modern hardware today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns5u3Ac4deM&feature=PlayList&p=C90D570D4AF29920&index=6 ok this demo is from 2005 i think on the later AGA 1200 chipset and Motorala 68060 cpu, still an amazing achievement on such old hardware

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

sakuragi007

The Amiga 500 was really awesome and ahead of its time. Inexpensive, compact, multitasking, 4096 colors, Deluxe Paint, 4 stereo PCM channels, MOD trackers, Sim City, Populous, Shadow of the Beast, Xenon, Lemmings, Out of This World... all the best multiplats! The only problem was Commodore's very limited market. The Amiga didn't see much sunlight outside Europe.

[QUOTE="sakuragi007"]

For me it's even better than the super nes and the first playstation. Some of the most originals games out there. Turrican, cannon fodder, sensible soccer, syndicate, populous, etc.., no to mention the great tools the amiga had for music in mod format.

ralphikari

The Amiga 500 was really awesome and ahead of its time. Inexpensive, compact, multitasking, 4096 colors, Deluxe Paint, 4 stereo PCM channels, MOD trackers, Sim City, Populous, Shadow of the Beast, Xenon, Lemmings, Out of This World... all the best multiplats! The only problem was Commodore's very limited market. The Amiga didn't see much sunlight outside Europe.