Top Amiga Titles

[CodyJarrett]

Since lesser platforms have been covered in lists in this forum, here is a random selection of some of the best games on the mighty Amiga!


No Second Prize





Super-fast, mouse-controlled racer from Thalion.


The First Samurai





Hallelujah, hallelujah! An utterly slick Japanese-styled slash-'em-up.


Zeewolf





Virus and Desert Strike, said Amiga Power.


Civilization AGA





Timeless strategy game.


Moonstone





Questing, swords and the fierce Baloks of the northern wastelands.


Hunter





Endlessly replayable and fun open-ended vehicle game.


Paradroid '90





Andrew Braybrook's brilliant update of his C64, sadly with Atari ST hardware limitations retained.


Super Stardust AGA





Asteroids for the 90s but it still looks great.


Hired Guns





Highly atmospheric Dungeon Master in space, with lots of guns and puppies.


Gloom





Wolfenstein 3D on steroids.

 

[TCD]

Turrican 2

Screenshots


Best incarnation of the series on any platform.


Heimdall

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Norse gods, comic graphics, RPG and much more. Can't go wrong with that.

 

[Tickles]

One of my favourites was Syndicate. I haven't played it for years (saving it for Pandora) but it's an isometric game set in the future (think Blade Runner) where you control a team as they go on different missions, e.g assasination attempts, kidnapping, rescuing, etc. My memories are a little foggy now so I'm finding it hard to explain properly, but trust me, it's great.


I also liked Manhunter: New York. To be honest I can't remember if I had this on Amiga or Atari ST but I'm sure they're pretty much the same. It's a point and click adventure game, again set in the future. It had some weird story about giant eyeball aliens that had taken over the planet and, er, you're this guy dressed as a monk who travels around New York collecting clues and figuring stuff out... Yeah I'm not selling that well either, am I? But I know it's good!

 

[Prometheus]

I originally posted these recommendations at the other forum. Here they are again.


Sleepwalker - Platformer - This game is what you would get if you put the platform game genre, Lemmings, and Tom & Jerry into a blender. You play as Ralph, a dog whose human, Lee, has a habit of sleepwalking. You have to prevent Lee from getting himself killed overnight. Ralph is invincible, but all sorts of comic mishaps befall him. (This game was originally made as a fundraiser for the British charity Comic Relief. If you like it, it may be worth considering sending them a donation.)


Fire and Ice - Platformer - You play as Cool Coyote, who has been charged with tracking down a fire-powered alien beast who has the power to torch the planet. Cool Coyote has to defeat enemies by freezing them with ice pellets, and then shattering them into a gajillion pieces by running into them, in an effort to piece together the key that will let him continue to the next level. The key parts are placed with random enemies each time, so it never plays the same twice. (Fire and Ice, and the "Christmas Special" demo version which features an exclusive level, is legally available to download from Back to the Roots.)


Pinball Dreams - Pinball - An excellent video-pinball game with near-perfect controls and physics, which is an absolute must for anyone's library. (This game is legally available to download from Back to the Roots.)


Lemmings - Puzzle - The original version of the much-ported legendary game where you need to assist the green-haired, blue-suited rodents in getting through increasingly fiendish landscapes. Another absolute must.

 

[Asiyura]

Dune : an adventure game with bits of strategy/management inside.

Dune 2 : one of the precursor of the modern RTS (if not the first).

Chaos Engine : kill everything you see with your mate before it kills you.

Cannon Fodder : tactical action game… try to keep your troops alive.

Another World : vector drawn adventure game. (IIRC Amiga was it's home platform)


I agree with Tickles, Syndicate must have a place in this list!


Monkey Island and Indiana Jones games were fun, but I think that on the Pandora they should be run with ScummVM.


Is Reminiscence ported to Pandora? Because it's the best way to plays Flashback (beside using a real amiga

).

 

[CodyJarrett]

Super Cars II





Great multiplayer racing game with missiles and mines.


Jetstrike AGA





Peculiar action game with dozens of aircraft and a dragon.


Formula One Grand Prix





Geoff Crammond's masterpiece.


Stunt Car Racer





Another of Geoff Crammond's masterpieces.


Flood





Fairly atypical Bullfrog game.


Exile





Physics-based arcade action game.


Knights of the Sky





Top WW1 based simulation with suitably unhurried gameplay.


SWIV





Highly distinctive shoot-'em-up with one big level.


Speedball II





Amazing two-player futuristic sports game.


North & South





Bizarre French wargame set in the American Civil War.

 

[Asiyura]

[sNIP…]


North & South





Bizarre French wargame set in the American Civil War.

It's a Belgian comics, full of humour. I never knew they made a game based on it…


The baldie on the right is in the army against his will, he is slacking and try to flee anytime he can.


The red bearded in the middle completely mad and want to die "like a brave" in the battle.


Th red haired on the left is the only one almost sane

 

[DaMummy]

oh the hours ive spent on North & South, and i havent played it in decades, waiting for my panda to play it for nostalgia's sake

 

[Wrath Of Khan]

Deliverance hack and slash adventure.Excellent.


Agony gorgeous side scrolling shooter.


Second samurai sequel to first samurai.


Darkmere rpg.


heimdall 2 fun adventure rpg.


lotus turbo challenge 2 best racer on the amiga.Supercars 2 is the best overhead viewed racer.


Pegasus fantasy shooter with a man on a pegasus,winged horse.

 

[Xenu]

It's a Belgian comics, full of humour. I never knew they made a game based on it…


The baldie on the right is in the army against his will, he is slacking and try to flee anytime he can.


The red bearded in the middle completely mad and want to die "like a brave" in the battle.


Th red haired on the left is the only one almost sane

Oh I had forgotten about that game. I played that for hours and hours.

 

[RobFord]

Blood Money


Forgotten worlds


Elite


Worms

 

[GunPei2X]

Typhoon Thompson

 

[Wilhood]

Shadowlands


Legend

 

[NoeleyC]

Hunter


Sensible World of Soccer


Mega-lo-Mania


Wizkid


James Pond 2 - Robocod


Ruff'N'Tumble


Stunt Car Racer


(just a few I can think of at this early hour)

 

[john4p]

Apidya





Maybe the best sidescrolling shoot'em up for the Amiga. Great music by Chris Hülsbeck.


ATR - All Terrain Racing





Difficult but very rewarding overhead-racer with great gameplay.


Battle Squadron PAL





Arguably the best vertical srolling shoot'em up for the Amiga. Scored 109% in Amiga Computing's review.


The PAL-version is vastly superior to the NTSC-version because the playfield is 28% larger in the PAL version (which uses 320x256 pixels whereas the NTSC-version only draws 320x200 pixels). The inferior NTSC-version is the most common...


Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge





First in the series. Fast gfx, many tracks, good gameplay, good music.


Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad





Great mix of Sonic and Mario with many levels.


Pinball Fantasies





Successor of Pinball Dreams. Slightly larger and more complex tables. Pinball Dreams has better music and atmosphere.


Shadow of the Beast III





Good puzzles, good gfx, good sound. Much easier than Beast I&II. A bit short.


Stunt Car Racer TNT (The New Tracks)


Stunt Car Racer TNT


Reverse engineered modification of Stunt Car Racer by AmiGer. Eight completely new tracks!


Turrican 3





Quite different to Turrican I&II but worthwhile. Almost identical to Mega Turrican (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis), only less colorful and some bosses have different patterns. Music (by Chris Hülsbeck) is vastly superior to Mega Turrican.


Uridium 2





Defender on steroids. Fast and frantic sidescrolling shoot'em up.


Wings





World War I dogfight simulation and bitmap action mix. Play 240 missions from April 1916 to November 1918. Most missions are 3D dogfights which are very intense, challenging and fun. The other 2 mission types (bitmap action) are strafing (soldiers, vehicles, tents, trains) and bombing (buildings, bridges, trains and vehicles).


There's also a nice story told in form of a "squadron journal" between missions.


There are also very slight RPG-elements because your pilot has 4 attributes (flying, shooting, mech and stamina) which you can initially spend points on and which grow automatically as you complete missions. The attributes affect gameplay.

 

[NoeleyC]

never heard of that patched Stunt Car Racer, must look that one up sometime (when my Pandora comes home again!), the original was the only game I ever managed to play 2 player across 2 Amigas

 

[Sugar_Kane]

Deva vu 1 & 2,

and Uninvited

- really tense adventures and some of my fondest amiga memories. Uninvited scared the pants off me.


Waxworks

This was really gruesome at the time. I only completed it recently with the aid of a guide. Elvira 2 was also really good.


Yo Joe

 

[snurty]

Some great games mentioned but I can't believe anyone hasn't mentioned Alien Breed

 

[craigix]

Wizkid if you like surreal action/arcade/puzzle games. One of the most original games ever made.

 

[Mutilator]

Anyone renember what game had like 10 disks and involved you playing as a schoolboy at a school, I dont renember if it was any good or the name as I was a kid at the time


Chuck rock was a legendary game XD