Happy (belated) 40th, for the Commodore Amiga!

I don't think this has been posted already, but anyway, a port more than 30 years in the making, the only issue I see with it, is that you can only have either SFX or music, not both...which is strange, more as you are using the more beefed up Amiga's to run it...so so I don't think it is quite as arcade perfect as it could be..

 
Team Andromeda said:
In my comprehensive school, consoles were seen for little kids or people with no friends, where the only girl they kissed was MUM, There was a real stigma against consoles back then, in my neck of the woods. That didn't start to really change until Sonic on the Mega Drive, where everyone fell in love with the character and the game and where sales exploded beyond belief.
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You really think that ? For real ? :messenger_tears_of_joy:
Like people suddenly find consoles games to be cool and for adults because of Sonic ?
Man, some of the Sega fanboys really lives in their Sonic dreams.
 
Variahunter said:
You really think that ? For real ? :messenger_tears_of_joy:
Like people suddenly find consoles games to be cool and for adults because of Sonic ?
Man, some of the Sega fanboys really lives in their Sonic dreams.
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Not adults as we were still kids in school , but Sonic was the game where none gamers and more so girls in school started to like video games in a big way and sales exploded.

SEGA UK then just built on that with big sports sponsorship and various celebrities playing then games and hardware. Making the system much cooler and not just for nerds , then FIFA came out on the Mega Drive and that game marked the 1st time I saw adult men talking about video games and how amazing FIFA was .
 
RAIDEN1 said:
I don't think this has been posted already, but anyway, a port more than 30 years in the making, the only issue I see with it, is that you can only have either SFX or music, not both...which is strange, more as you are using the more beefed up Amiga's to run it...so so I don't think it is quite as arcade perfect as it could be..

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Does make me laugh where this slags off the original that was designed to run on a stock A500 with 512mb memory then this one needs a minimum A1200 with a 68030 co-processor and 10mb of RAM to even load!!
 
I remember doing a 12 hour gaming session for the first time in my life, playing an RPG on my Amiga called Bloodwych. Good times.
 
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I wrote some very popular shareware on the Amiga and that made my career. Also made me a nice bag of money over several years :-) I still keep my A4000/040 and A2000/040 around, although I doubt they work anymore now.
 
Ar¢tos said:
Games in those days were just about fun and gameplay, it's a shame a lot of that has been lost.

I really wish someone would remake Supaplex.
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It was also a time when devs actually were confident that players are able to figure shit out by themselves (or at the very least are able to read the fucking manual). Nowadays, most AAA games treat you like a retard, which has taken away some of the "magic", imho.
 
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Does make me laugh where this slags off the original that was designed to run on a stock A500 with 512mb memory then this one needs a minimum A1200 with a 68030 co-processor and 10mb of RAM to even load!!
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The developer even sampled the original soundtrack so it can be played on the Amiga's 4-channel sound chip. So the music isn't really being generated by an Amiga.

In the video the guy plugs a Raspberry Pi into his Amiga to give it the boost required to get this running. He might as well just play the arcade version on that Pi via an emulator.
 
mitchman said:
I wrote some very popular shareware on the Amiga and that made my career. Also made me a nice bag of money over several years :-) I still keep my A4000/040 and A2000/040 around, although I doubt they work anymore now.
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What applications did you write?
 
Speaking of the Amiga, I set mine back up, thanks to current issue of Retro

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Probably my favourite system ever, if only because it was the computer that got me into digital art, got me into programming (I did a bit of basic on the ZX80/81 and Spectrum but nothing major), got me into the demo scene, and had some of my favourite ever games (the Turrican series especially)
 
The Amiga was great, allegedly the full-size A1200 replica is going to turn up at some point in the near future. Although I hate to admit it, all the recent activity on the C64 scene is kinda putting the Amiga in the shade!
 
Clear said:
The Amiga was great, allegedly the full-size A1200 replica is going to turn up at some point in the near future. Although I hate to admit it, all the recent activity on the C64 scene is kinda putting the Amiga in the shade!
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Whose behind the new edition A1200?
 
RAIDEN1 said:
Whose behind the new edition A1200?
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Retro Games Ltd, same team the A500/A500 mini. It should've been out by now but its being held up by litigation by the same lot that tried (and failed) to derail the A500 launch.

It sucks that these old, but still loved, platforms are being held back by greedy twats who have the rights but no interest with doing anything with them.
 
Dr.Morris79 said:
Can you remember the first Amiga game you tried?

Like it was yesterday! Barbarian 2 intro with the skeleton hand ripping through the screen and the speech. Shadow of the Beast (that parallax scrolling!), Altered Beast, and The 3 Stooges. To say my C64 owning mind was blown was an understatement. Saved all my paper round money for months and together with the part ex of my C64 I was able to purchase an Amiga 500 from Wythenshaw market. It was the one bundled with F29 Retaliator and Rainbow Islands. I LOVED that machine!
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Brutal Deluxe Brutal Deluxe

I remember that bundle! :messenger_tears_of_joy:

I think one of the ones I've still got is the Cartoon bundle. But I actually can't remember what one I got first back in the heyday. I think it was a plain bog standard edition but with a copy of Amiga Format which had the Lemmings and Syndicate demos on the cover :unsure:

I think one day I'll have to have a sort out. My old man was hell bent on Amiga stuff right up until he passed, long after I'd drifted off to the PS1, PC etc.

Even a few years back he was still buying and hoarding CD32's, 1200's and christ knows what :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
Dr.Morris79 said:
Brutal Deluxe Brutal Deluxe

I remember that bundle! :messenger_tears_of_joy:

I think one of the ones I've still got is the Cartoon bundle. But I actually can't remember what one I got first back in the heyday. I think it was a plain bog standard edition but with a copy of Amiga Format which had the Lemmings and Syndicate demos on the cover :unsure:

I think one day I'll have to have a sort out. My old man was hell bent on Amiga stuff right up until he passed, long after I'd drifted off to the PS1, PC etc.

Even a few years back he was still buying and hoarding CD32's, 1200's and christ knows what :messenger_tears_of_joy:
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I think looking back it was my favourite era for gaming. So many great memories.
Games are clearly better nowadays but nothing excites me like games used to (maybe being nearly 50 has something to do with that!).
Getting home from the local computer club with a box full of discs l'd just filled was so much better than browsing Gamepass or PS+ collections.


I'm not one for retro gaming at all but I do wish I still had my old A500. Part ex'd that and my Super NES so I could get a PS1!

Having a dad that much into gaming must have been great. I think I'm like that with my son now.
 
While I knew one kid with a C64 I never did see an Amiga in the wild. My only experience with them was the ads in gaming magazines where I was always super impressed with the graphics capabilities.
Everything looked so sharp and colorful, I had some pc envy till dad bought home the 486dx.
 
RAIDEN1 said:
This just goes to show that base Amiga 1200 just wasn't cut out for the catalogue that was to come and eventually come to PCs, (Doom excluding..)
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Oh, I agree 100% Commodore completely dropped the ball on the A1200. The A1200 should have had higher specs than the A4000.
 
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Thanati said:
Oh, I agree 100% Commodore completely dropped the ball on the A1200. The A1200 should have had higher specs than the A4000.
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Exactly, you take a look at the CD32, at a bare minimum it should have been as powerful as the Jag, yet even that system today, would struggle to give a decent port of Outrun, (without some sacrifice) and then you look at that Super Hang on like game for the Jag, which looked like something from Sega themselves...and yet both systems were about as successful as each other...
 
RAIDEN1 said:
Exactly, you take a look at the CD32, at a bare minimum it should have been as powerful as the Jag, yet even that system today, would struggle to give a decent port of Outrun, (without some sacrifice) and then you look at that Super Hang on like game for the Jag, which looked like something from Sega themselves...and yet both systems were about as successful as each other...
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Again, I agree 100% The story of the CD32 is really sad. As a "console", it was a joke.

There's an interview with David Pleasance about the whole making of the CD32 that's really interesting and shows how the majority of people inside Commodore were completely against it.
 
Thanati said:
Again, I agree 100% The story of the CD32 is really sad. As a "console", it was a joke.

There's an interview with David Pleasance about the whole making of the CD32 that's really interesting and shows how the majority of people inside Commodore were completely against it.
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Do you have a link to the interview, or is it on Youtube?
 
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