Didn't have the HD however we did have the extra ram, which meant we could add the trailer on the back of the cars in Super Skidmarks \o/
Oh and the CDROM with caddy was quite cool
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Didn't have the HD however we did have the extra ram, which meant we could add the trailer on the back of the cars in Super Skidmarks \o/
Oh and the CDROM with caddy was quite cool
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I think Zool was one of my first experiences of "game rage", curse its ways!
Looked damn cool at the time though, even the gameboy version was good.
Anyone remember Midnight Resistance? That game was pure co-op awesome.
Edit: Was Amiga 600 for me, always wished I'd got a 1200 afterwards but got a console for gaming instead.
One of my life mistakes.
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Anyone remember Midnight Resistance? That game was pure co-op awesome.
Edit: Was Amiga 600 for me, always wished I'd got a 1200 afterwards but got a console for gaming instead.
One of my life mistakes.
Midnight Resistance, Renegade, Ikari Warriors = co-op awesomeness back then.
Didn't have the HD however we did have the extra ram, which meant we could add the trailer on the back of the cars in Super Skidmarks \o/
Oh and the CDROM with caddy was quite cool
Skidmarks, I remember that! Too young to truly enjoy the double entendre of the title though, but my Dad must have wondering what the Hell I was playing.
Anbyone play Rome 92 AD? I loved that game, but nobody seems to know it!
They were perhaps fun back then but would seem rubbish and so basic now compared to modern games.
Not quite as extreme as these examples, but you get the idea:
Amiga 500 was way ahead of the time (still have several of mine & many original boxed games in storage). Custom sound chips as well which still sound excellent. Shame Commodore exec's greed killed it when they kept the A1200 price way too high when early PC's were trouncing it all they had to do was lower the prices a bit to keep market share......& piracy as well was another factor in its demise unfortunately By the time they reacted to this the Megadrive was the game system to own so Amiga died a slow death (most Megadrive games were coded on Amiga as well but like nowadays with PC's being used to make console games even then because of extreme piracy the Amiga did not get many games ported despite it being the superior hardware by far!).
Some of those Amiga classic games are also waiting to be remade in HD as is with few changes they would still sell. Many Amiga games also had surprisingly good gameplay & some using HAM or other tricks meant thousands of colours onscreen at once
By the time they reacted to this the Megadrive was the game system to own so Amiga died a slow death (most Megadrive games were coded on Amiga as well but like nowadays with PC's being used to make console games even then because of extreme piracy the Amiga did not get many games ported despite it being the superior hardware by far!). Some of those Amiga classic games are also waiting to be remade in HD as is with few changes they would still sell. Many Amiga games also had surprisingly good gameplay & some using HAM or other tricks meant thousands of colours onscreen at once
Was one of my favourite coin-op games back in the day. Oh how I hated the home version as it just couldn't replicate the rotating stick controller of the arcade.
Damn.. i loved my Amiga 500, it was the 2nd computer i owned after the ZX Spectrum 128K 
I spent so many hours on the amiga playing games like Lemmings, International Karate+, The Secret of Monkey Island 1/2, Pang!, Superfrog, Populous II, Turrican II, Sensible Soccer & Flashback/Another World... plus many more, the joys
It's still in the loft after all these years, couldn't quite bring myself to part with it, too much memorys
I spent so many hours on the amiga playing games like Lemmings, International Karate+, The Secret of Monkey Island 1/2, Pang!, Superfrog, Populous II, Turrican II, Sensible Soccer & Flashback/Another World... plus many more, the joys
It's still in the loft after all these years, couldn't quite bring myself to part with it, too much memorys
I had an Amiga 500+ to start with. It was a bit of a surprise as the machine had an additional 512K of memory and the newer WB3.0 over the A500. Absolutely loved it, have so many fond memories of Lotus Turbo Challenge and Populous etc…
I eventually sold the 500+ and got myself a nice A1200 which I soon towered into a full sized PC tower case, coupled with a rather healthy at the time 500MB HD which could hold absolutely loads of stuff as most Amiga programs and apps etc weren’t all that big, even music MODs and pictures didn’t need much HD space, with a CD Rom drive, accelerator card and a whopping 4MB of fast memory and a A4000 Keyboard my A1200 was a thing of beauty at the time.. I remember that 14” microvitec monitor, which was actually very expensive for what it was…
But still, I loved it and sadly 1994 was the ill fated time when I just decided games like Day of the Tentacle, X Wing, Tie Fighter, Magic Carpet and a whole host of PC games coming out meant the towered A1200 was lagging for games and was stripped and either sold or I used what I could with my PC gaming rig..
Sad times, the PC O/S using Windows 3.1 and DOS was years behind Amiga WB3.0 and it wasn’t until Windows 95 came along did I really feel the PC was anything like a replacement to the mighty Amiga..
Such a shame, the Amiga was, and will always be a huge part of my computing and gaming history – those days I feel are maybe rose tinted as PC gaming today is still very addictive and immersive and we do see PC games that just make you go – wow..
Even windows 7 has come a long way and PC gaming is still excellent way to keep yourself entertained, and the gf upset, just like an Amiga back in the late 80’s and early 90’s did…
I eventually sold the 500+ and got myself a nice A1200 which I soon towered into a full sized PC tower case, coupled with a rather healthy at the time 500MB HD which could hold absolutely loads of stuff as most Amiga programs and apps etc weren’t all that big, even music MODs and pictures didn’t need much HD space, with a CD Rom drive, accelerator card and a whopping 4MB of fast memory and a A4000 Keyboard my A1200 was a thing of beauty at the time.. I remember that 14” microvitec monitor, which was actually very expensive for what it was…
But still, I loved it and sadly 1994 was the ill fated time when I just decided games like Day of the Tentacle, X Wing, Tie Fighter, Magic Carpet and a whole host of PC games coming out meant the towered A1200 was lagging for games and was stripped and either sold or I used what I could with my PC gaming rig..
Sad times, the PC O/S using Windows 3.1 and DOS was years behind Amiga WB3.0 and it wasn’t until Windows 95 came along did I really feel the PC was anything like a replacement to the mighty Amiga..
Such a shame, the Amiga was, and will always be a huge part of my computing and gaming history – those days I feel are maybe rose tinted as PC gaming today is still very addictive and immersive and we do see PC games that just make you go – wow..
Even windows 7 has come a long way and PC gaming is still excellent way to keep yourself entertained, and the gf upset, just like an Amiga back in the late 80’s and early 90’s did…
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so did the atari 800 and that was released in '79. it wasnt really anything new on the amiga 1000 (released in '85) but there's no denying the 1000's sound capabilities were massively ahead of anything else at the time.
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I went from an Amiga 600 to a PC, and the biggest shock was the sound. I remember Space Marines (turn based isometric warhammer40k game) had excellent creepy sound on the Amiga, and terrible, woeful, embarrassing warbling noises on the PC 
