Atari ST vs Amiga

[mrbios]

Someone please tell me the name of this amiga game:

Your a little boy in his PJs, you jump around grabbing fruit and other assorted foods, you kill snails and stuff, the games quite long and a bit bizarre

Anyone know the game I'm thinking of?

 

[Bubo]

The thing I remember most from my A500 Amiga days was the staggering amounts I spent on hardware for the thing. £130 for a 0.5MB memory board. About 400 hundred quid on an A590 20MB hard disc and another couple of hundred on a subsequent 50MB disc upgrade. Over 500 quid on a 68030 accelerator board. Frigthening if put into todays money. Also I wrote my university final year project on my A500 in Wordperfect 4.2 and printed it on a Star LC24-10.

 

[Final8y]

Someone please tell me the name of this amiga game:

Your a little boy in his PJs, you jump around grabbing fruit and other assorted foods, you kill snails and stuff, the games quite long and a bit bizarre

Anyone know the game I'm thinking of?

MagicPockets.

 

[m4cc45]

Sounds like Sleepwalker to me - the red nose day game. The only game I can think of with a kid wearing PJ's.



M.

 

[mrbios]

MagicPockets.

Nope that's not it

 

[Mike UK]

Definitely Amiga 500+ for me!

Only recently bought a A1200 and A500+ and they are as good as I remember

 

[valve90210]

Started off with an A500+, then my brother and I wanted to upgrade to a CD32 but in the end decided to go for the A1200 as it was about the same price but was much more useful. Still have it in stored away carefully in the cupboard under my parents stairs.

They were going through the cupboard the other week and I had to have a look. Was amazed by how many genuine games we had, there were stacks of them!!!

Thing that puzzles me, how did people come about pirated games back then? I knew a couple of kids at school who I got copies from but where did they come from, there was not real internet back then and no one I knew had a modem to dial into bulletin boards etc...

Still a huge fan of several amiga games, my favourite being Sensible World of Soccer, which has been the only game I've played on my psp for about 4 months now!!!

 

[npjnpj]

My favourite game at the time was Tony Crowther's 'Captive' (both ST and Amiga).
It's so good, I still fire it up on my emulators once in a while.
Anyone remember this?

 

[mame]

Thing that puzzles me, how did people come about pirated games back then? I knew a couple of kids at school who I got copies from but where did they come from, there was not real internet back then and no one I knew had a modem to dial into bulletin boards etc...

Well in stoke there was actually a 'club' that met up in a working man's club every monday night attended by kids and adults. a lot of people went and there was even someone who set up a stall selling blank disks etc (Rich, who only recently got locked-up for music piracy). Any people from stoke remember that?? First at the YMCA, then mainly at Chell cricket club and then I think briefly at tuntstall (or was that a different one).

The Amiga games that I remember most were: lotus esprit turbo challenge. This is the game that made me buy a 512kb memory upgrade. Alien breed and stuntcar racer. Probably loads of others I can't think of.

 

[m4cc45]

My favourite game at the time was Tony Crowther's 'Captive' (both ST and Amiga).
It's so good, I still fire it up on my emulators once in a while.
Anyone remember this?

Yes remember this. They made a second one called Capitve 2: Liberation. If I recall correctly there were two endings but you could end up continually playing it as there were ways to end up going over and over it again. Good game!

Well in stoke there was actually a 'club' that met up in a working man's club every monday night attended by kids and adults. a lot of people went and there was even someone who set up a stall selling blank disks etc (Rich, who only recently got locked-up for music piracy). Any people from stoke remember that?? First at the YMCA, then mainly at Chell cricket club and then I think briefly at tuntstall (or was that a different one).

The Amiga games that I remember most were: lotus esprit turbo challenge. This is the game that made me buy a 512mb memory upgrade. Alien breed and stuntcar racer. Probably loads of others I can't think of.

I had a few friends who went to Chells one but mainly we went to Nortons WMC. It was a great social evening with everyone swopping software. Obviously very, very dodgy and having to carry your Amiga and a big blooming TV up there was a pain!




M.

 

[champ222]

Amiga 500 for me, i took it down the tidy tip last weekend ( still working fine, but just no use for it, and no value on ebay either.

Any game by the bitmap brothers was a winner... speedball 2 etc.

Psychognosis made some awesome games too! shadow of the beast, Agony, lemmings, to name a few.

Awesome system!!

 

[thevet]

Someone please tell me the name of this amiga game:

Your a little boy in his PJs, you jump around grabbing fruit and other assorted foods, you kill snails and stuff, the games quite long and a bit bizarre

Anyone know the game I'm thinking of?

it could be wierd dreams

was this it?

 

[marv]

still have my a500.

fav games were: defender of the crown and wizball

 

[thevet]

Amiga games i played till i could not play no more.....

Frontier Elite 2

battle chess... actually taught me to play chess

gunship 2000

rocket ranger

m1 tank platoon

midwinter

sid meiers pirates

CANNON FODDER

ufo enemy unknown...currently playing this game now on the pc

defender of the crown

dungeon master

it came from desert

secret of moneky island

carrier command

kick off 2

the settlers

syndicate

stunt car racer

jimmy whites snooker

speedball 2

another world

panza kickboxing

lemmings 1 and 2

 

[mrbios]

it could be wierd dreams
/IMG]
was this it?[/QUOTE]

nope wasn't that either :( your character was a small kid, in red and blue PJs with blonde hair, that's about all i can remember

 

[davecarter]

Monkey Island 2 - Le chucks Revenge coming on a whopping 12 floppy discs, it wasnt long after that i purchased my first hard disk a huge 200 MEGABYTE which cost around £300

 

[champ222]

ohhh, someone mentioned 'Another World' - excellent game... you can get it for the pc now, they have re-done the backdrops, and you can run it at high resolutions, still the old game tho, which is a good thing. great fun to play again!!

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Another+World:+15th+Anniversary+Edition&btnG=Search&meta=

Great stuff!!

 

[davecarter]

Anyone remember the budbrain demo, simply awesome circa 1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8JbAdEzvMA

 

[DominicStar]

Monkey Island 2 - Le chucks Revenge coming on a whopping 12 floppy discs, it wasnt long after that i purchased my first hard disk a huge 200 MEGABYTE which cost around £300

Yeah I remember changing zones and it could sometimes require 3 disk changes!

 

[mame]

nope wasn't that either your character was a small kid, in red and blue PJs with blonde hair, that's about all i can remember

A long shot but it wasn't home alone was it ??