With this news, I hope GOG.com will soon have the latest beta version of Worms Armageddon within its library. This site would be an excellent way to revitalize the online community for games such as this one. The only problem would be getting all the features to work properly without a disc, or disc image for that matter.

Did MCL have a PC version btw? Just checking.

Also lol at all the amiga fans in here........not bashing, just never played an Amiga so I don't see the big deal. :\

(Don't hurt me....*ducks likely incoming shoes & diskettes*)

The Amiga was not terribly popular in the US. I myself did own one and understand what the big deal was about. In the late 80's to early 90's, before VGA and Sound Blaster had really taken hold on the PC, the Amiga was pretty much the most powerful, audio and video wise, "gaming" computer in existence. The only rival might be the Atari ST, but in truth, the devs, particularly the European/non-US ones, highly preferred the Amiga. The biggest reason was that outside of the US, it was one of the more popular computers. The people that go crazy over the Amiga are the ones that owned one and played the games of the day on one and know that they looked and sounded the best on that platform. It's as simple as that...

You mean thought they looked better? It's all a matter of subjective opinion imo. Of course i'd have to play both to make a proper comparison but still it all boils down to opinion. ;)

I won't argue about the ethics behind abandonware, that is far too subjective, but it is entirely illegal according to both my local laws and US laws. Other countries might have laws that don't prohibit it, but in both Sweden & USA it is illegal to spread copyrighted material, even if it is not sold anymore. Whats illegal is not always unethical (and the other way around) though.

Superior specs or no, if one likes them(game titles on one system versus another/etc) or not or not IS subjective.

Thats a first to me, I hadn't heard anything about EA & Team 17 and reading the linked to article its only the rights to Worms on mobile but non iPhone platforms (given they can self publish there cheaply compared to the expensive handset compatibility tests that are required for publishing on many J2ME platforms)

As to Worms and T17, I enjoyed the first one but I somewhat consider it as the game that mostly killed Team 17. It became to easy a franchise for them and any other original output from them basically vanished. (I remember them killing an RPG project that had sounded quite interesting)
*chuckles* Having playing both early PC games and Amiga games, the Amiga was definitely the superior device (particularly sound wise and not worrying about EMS/XMS :) ) but Harddrives/CD Drives in PC's helped to propel them to better success.

I still cringe at the amount of disk swapping I had to do in The Secret of Monkey Island on the Amiga 500+

It's also illegal in many countries to put money into someones parking meter that is about to expire. It was also illegal at one time for women to vote. It was also legal at one time to smoke cigarettes in a car with children in it.

A man who truly desires freedom, fairness, and justice will live how he feels the world SHOULD be, even if that goes against what someone else tells him he should or shouldn't do. If nobody ever "disobeyed" the law, we would likely all still be herding goats in the pastures of the fertile crescent.

Agreed with all but putting the smoking in cars example of laws which seemingly aren't fair. If people want to smoke in their car than the law should keep their butts(pun intended) out of it.

Yes I have it somewhere. I remember it's a big plastic case with 4 disks.... it's also pretty rubbish.

Bah, it was pretty funny and yer just picky. :p

:)

(Or one of those adult/childish humor game hating snobs, which is even worse.)

Two versions, one censored and one "uncensored", which had boobies.

I'll reserve my opinion on Amiga games. Let's just say that as a seasoned gaming veteran of 25 years, a LOT of the games don't deserve all that praise. :P

Ah Boobies, one of the staples of any gamer's nutritious breakfast.

Oh yeah of course. That's why I own all the VGA editions of the older Leisure Suit Larry games (Except 4 ^_-) :P and own Duke Nukem 3D on 3 different formats along with Bulletstorm, Shadows of the Damned & god knows what else that comes under adult humour. I'm all for the humour.
As for picky... the game was 90% dull, repetitive minigames with little variety in them & the game's humour felt tired compared to the older games. Maybe you were so desperate to score with the women in there and see a bit of bush in the uncut version that you overlooked how bad the game was (see? I can make groundless suppositions too)