PirateNeilsouth: But my question to you is, what was your top 5 favorite Amiga games?
I bailed out of Amiga quite soon (I just got bored by most of its games) so I missed some later greats, which I then enjoyed on PC instead. Like Another World.
Anyway, at least these (mainly older pre-1990 Amiga games) have a special place in my heart:
- Faery Tale Adventure
- Dungeon Master
- Elite (it was the first time for me for this game, on Amiga. But later I liked Elite Plus on PC even more, due to analog controls; I consider Elite Plus on PC as the best version of the original Elite game)
- Starglider 2 (this was really a magical experience for me, the space whales, OMFG...)
- Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon (the second best Cinemaware game I've played)
- Rocket Ranger (the best Cinemaware game I've played)
- Barbarian (Psygnosis) + Obliterator (wacky controls, yet I loved the games)
- The Great Giana Sisters (a very good Super Mario Bros clone on Amiga? Woohoo!)
- Garrison (this was back when I was miffed that Atari ST got an official port of Gauntlet, but Amiga didn't; but then out of nowhere came this very good Gauntlet-clone, which in some ways was even superior to the original Gauntlet. Later I've found that apparently Amiga did get official ports of Gauntlet games after all.)
Games that caused me to get bored of Amiga gaming (ie. these do not belong to the best Amiga games), and lead me to eventually get rid of my Amiga for good:
- Baal (I was expecting to like it as much as Obliterator, but no)
- Ballistix (what is this simple shit, Psygnosis/Psyclapse?)
- The Kristal (lots of pre-launch hype and it didn't live up to it, or at least I was completely bored.)
- Magic Pocket (tried too hard to be "kewl", I was getting fed up with generic platform jumping games)
- Shadow of the Beast (style without substrance)
- Sword of Sodan (lots of pre-hype, it was supposed to be something very special, I got it at launch but it turned out to be an unplayable turd that didn't even look very good; what's with that ultra-stiff animation and sound effects that make your ears bleed?)
That's it, out of gaming. Later I played Gunboat on PC, which got me interested again into gaming (PC this time; yeah there was probably also an Amiga version, but meh...)