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offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-02-22 14:48 [#02274267]
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ok so i just watched this, and yes it made me all
nostalgic and go up to my attic and get down 500 floppy
disks.. but really, the amiga was the blast for games.
discuss.


 

offline Tomi from Poland on 2009-02-22 14:57 [#02274270]
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amiga was best for ideas for games. nowdays games are just
all about perfect graphics.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-02-22 15:07 [#02274276]
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aint that just a shame? the creativity just isn't there
anymore. I'm currently playing bioshock, which is meant to
be amazing and got rave reviews, but its crap. its rehashing
old ideas and it holds no surprises. the Amiga had it all.
sigh.


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-02-22 15:32 [#02274281]
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woohoo, Chaos Engine was the shit! And Hunter!!! omg, that
game was so wild and amazing and open world, much better
than all the current Battlefield Earths and Grand Theft
Autos...

"Stunt Car Racer" and "North & South" are some of my other
favourites. That video really brings back some memories.

i owned one (Amiga 500), but frankly it didn't have a TON of
great original games, or at least not in my collection...
The graphics were amazing and colourful, though. Always.
Just looking at Turrican 2 and those games... they really
shine, even today. But most of the best games on the system
were on other systems as well, or ported for them
eventually, stuff like lemmings and turrican or those
Pinball games.

If there's one game that exemplifies what was typically
wrong with Amiga, it's "Superfrog". That game was AMAZINGLY
CUTE, really colourful and just breathtaking... But it was
also incredibly shallow and unoriginal. The same with "Fire
& Ice" and "Zool"! Zool was the worst!! Beautiful and lush,
but complete bullshit compared to mario or sonic.
Platformers on the system were pretty shallow. Beautiful,
but shallow. Just like many Amiga games. Graphics were easy
to do, but gameplay was sweet as candy, and made you sick in
the long run!!

"Apidya" is another great-looking amiga game, that was real
fun and trippy, but actually pretty shallow towards the end.
But we never complained - we only had a demo of the game.
:D

Overall, yeah, great system. Really fun arcade style action
with breathtaking environments. Beautiful graphics, just
super! It really kicked the asses of most of the consoles
and computers of that time period just in terms of palette
and animation.

Funnily enough, my best memories of that system are from
playing "Captain Planet!" That game was amazing!! Aah,
saving the planet! To a very beautiful multi-layered
background. What else can you ask for?


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-02-22 15:36 [#02274282]
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did you ever play harry the haddock?


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-02-22 15:42 [#02274283]
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no, I don't recall. Can't find much info on the webs,
either.


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-02-22 15:46 [#02274285]
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Without Amiga we wouldn't have Cannon Fodder, either.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-02-22 15:47 [#02274286]
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Title: Harry the Haddock
Developer: N/A
Year of Release: N/A
No. Players: 1
Graphics: *
Control: * *
Sound: *
Genre: Platformer


Harry the Haddock
Screenshot NOOOOOOOO!

SOUNDS/MUSIC MP3s
Main Theme
In-Game (if you dare!)
BAAAAD! GAAAAAH! LEAVE ME ALONE!
NO NOT THE MUSIC! HELP ME! HE STARES AT ME!!

Any game that has the awful pop song 'Saturday Night' from
the mid 90s looped as its in-game music deserves nothing at
all!

I don't think I will ever understand this game, nor will I
understand the reasons why I am even typing out a review for
it! Maybe some strange person will be looking for some strap
of evidence of its existence, or maybe a brand new Amiga fan
will be looking for a game to get...

If you are one of the latter... do not get this game!
Please, spare yourself of the sheer pointlessness!

How can I put it, a haddock called Harry (you can guess that
much) runs and jumps about on piers and beaches with huge,
unsightly red sunglasses on, collecting stuff and avoiding
enemies like seagulls and crabs which... seem rather
oblivious to the walking haddock-sapien on the beach...

Is there anything I can say that is good about this game? I
am putting a lot of gaps in this review to make it look
bigger than it is...
Maybe, if you actually LIKE 'Saturday Night' then you may
find this game... interesting...
(cough)




 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-02-22 15:50 [#02274287]
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lol, yea I saw that too. I wanna play it, now. :(

I wonder if there's a good emulator out there. Last time I
tried it was a big hassle to get anything to work.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-02-22 15:53 [#02274289]
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well i downloaded this ages ago, with a load of
disk images from b*t torre*t a while ago, bit i've since
formatted my hd but i couldnt figure it out anyway. UAE is
a chore. i guess its just an awkward thing to emulate.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-02-22 15:54 [#02274290]
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i have a copy of harry the haddock, unfortunately it has
'read block error'


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-02-22 16:04 [#02274292]
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yea, winUAE was really difficult to use, but this new Amiga
Forever thing looks promising at least. thanks for the link!


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-02-22 16:07 [#02274293]
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if you have any luck with it let me know :)


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-02-22 16:10 [#02274294]
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will do in the next couple of days


 

offline Mask 500 from now on 2009-02-22 16:18 [#02274296]
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I had an Amiga 600, 1200. I made music in Octamed, sliced
samples with a sampler (still have the sampler and the
floppies), made drawings and animations in DPaint IV, played
Wings and other amazing games with a MegaDrive pad, great
system, you could do a lot with that little computer. Oh and
the DEMOS!! Stuff like 9 fingers and State Of The Art, still
groovy.


 

offline oyvinto on 2009-02-22 16:26 [#02274297]
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Amiga was the bizzniss. Swapping discettes via mail, reusing
stamps, getting the latest demos and the latest issue of
'never mind'. Those where the days. I used to call myself
Master-X, lol.


 

offline Torture Garden from Feelin' 2Pacish on 2009-02-22 17:46 [#02274305]
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Apidya. I'm glad someone remembers that game. The music was
kickin.


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2009-02-23 00:35 [#02274325]
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LOL!

Lotus (all versions) was the daddy and still is


 

offline Tomi from Poland on 2009-02-23 03:24 [#02274334]
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ps4 should include all amigas amulation (600,1000,1200,4000)
:)


 

offline Tomi from Poland on 2009-02-23 03:26 [#02274335]
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but really the system was fantastic. i had found slamtilt`s
convertion working on xp. only error is that you`ve need to
slam the enter before the game starts. Any one want this? I
can upload it somewhere.


 

offline Tomi from Poland on 2009-02-23 03:30 [#02274336]
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the thing with UAE is all about kickstarts. I had spend some
time editing the preferences of the sys performance for
games and its not that hard to do. but yeah, it takes time
for a beginner to do and could be annoying.


 

offline big from lsg on 2009-02-23 04:08 [#02274337]
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yea it half looks like a nintendo to me.
therefor i like c64 better


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2009-02-23 04:56 [#02274346]
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i thought the greatest game machine was the cps2


 

offline Tomi from Poland on 2009-02-23 05:17 [#02274349]
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COnversion of Slamtilt for pc


 

offline freqy on 2009-02-23 15:06 [#02274471]
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atari sounded better on the games and it was a low latency
midi beast so it rules.


 

offline freqy on 2009-02-23 15:06 [#02274472]
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atari st * aww we loves you :)


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-02-23 15:12 [#02274476]
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get your own thread before the haters come.


 

offline freqy on 2009-02-23 15:38 [#02274484]
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am i a troll here? damn sorry i didnt think , i shall
leave. bye bye. x



 

offline Mask 500 from now on 2009-02-23 20:15 [#02274591]
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I also had an Atari ST, I really liked the bee icon, I think
it made me like bees ever since. KARATE KID, picking up the
flies with the chopsticks, breaking pack of ice pads, great
times, IK+ was my favorite game on the ST.

On the Amiga my favorite games were the Pinball Dream games,
specially Illusions on 1200, also the AGA Arcade Pool was
very smooth and until this day the only virtual pool game
I've ever liked, Wings the dog fights were fun and they were
much faster rendered when played on a 030 or 040 than on my
old 600, Walker was the tits, that's all that needs to be
said.


 

offline Mission AD from United States on 2009-02-23 20:44 [#02274596]
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I spent most of my childhood playing Commodore 64, so gonna
stick with my roots there. If I owned Amiga instead,
however, I might think differently


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-02-24 03:02 [#02274618]
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I had both, commodore 64 and amiga, and i have to say I
loved my C64 more, but it was still an older generation
machine which couldn't compete with amiga's super-amazing
graphics. When I wanted to trip out on rainbow coloured
bliss, I went for my amiga.


 

offline Grahf from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-24 05:22 [#02274626]
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SWOS, cannon fodder, ruff'n'tumble, lemmings

full of classics.

never did understand what the ram disk in workbench did
never found out ;(

poor amiga... I loved that miserable looking grey triangular
box! it got sold to some ungratefuls though.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-02-24 05:31 [#02274627]
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*use root beer*


 

offline Grahf from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-24 05:39 [#02274628]
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Quit it. Your outdated monkey island 1 techniques are
flawed. *throws porcelain vase*


 

offline Grahf from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-24 05:40 [#02274629]
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^ follow up damnyo


 

offline Grahf from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-24 05:41 [#02274630]
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Followup to Guybrush

its just not working. :(


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-02-24 05:48 [#02274634]
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fail. i wish they never made monkey island 3 & 4.


 

offline Grahf from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-24 06:17 [#02274640]
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i was refering to 2

anyhow, 3 wasnt so bad. 4 was ugh


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2009-02-24 08:53 [#02274661]
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Your avatars look really cute together. But yeah, Amiga
rocks.


 

offline Tomi from Poland on 2009-02-25 13:43 [#02274996]
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i loved Amiga days, so UP the topic goes :)


 

offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-25 13:46 [#02274998]
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IK+ on the Amiga ruled.


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-25 19:02 [#02275081]
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alienbreed, frontier, syndicate, north and south, wings,
flashback. zak mccraken and the alien mindbenders. . . my
favs=]


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-25 19:07 [#02275082]
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great


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2009-02-26 04:55 [#02275125]
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Shadow of the best series were my favourite. I didn't manage
to get anywhere in the second one because it was so insanely
difficult, but the graphics and music justified it as a work
of art.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-04-17 17:15 [#02549380]
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LAZY_TITLE

stakker video and aphex mention!



 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2018-04-18 04:59 [#02549421]
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cool


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-04-18 20:26 [#02549466]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-02-06 21:09 [#02594385]
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just had been playing populous, just saw a tiny wizard on a
little magic carpet casting spells that create a row of
trees, was really magical man


 


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