Atari ST vs Amiga

marscay said:
with all the hardware available today my best gaming moments were on the Amiga, Sensible Soccer all nighters with a few mates were the days.

nothing compares to hitting a severely swerving bouning goal from the halfway line on an icy pitch in the last few seconds :p
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This is so true....and exactly why the only game that has graced my PSP for the last few months has been SWOS on an emulator, it is still such a good game!!!
 
anyone one remember a game for amiga called atom smasher. you had to push block to crush things like lemmings you could also smash the blocks so things couldnt come out of them
 
Hotpot said:
Anyone remember NightHunter on the ST? It was a sidescrolling game in which you played Count Dracula or some vampire or other. You had to find rings or something to progress to the next level. You also had to feed on people to sustain yourself. When the birds started singing, you had to retire to your grave or you'd burn.
You also had Van Helsing pursuing you if anyone saw you feed or change into a bat. The graphics were lush for the time.
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yes i remember that game it was great,you could change from dracula to a bat,to a wolf...i played that game a lot...it had great sound effects on the Atari St also of the birds chirping,it sounded like it was sampled:)

I remember this game came out with no publicity whatsoever,it just appeared on the shelves in the shops with no preview in any magazines at the time and it was very good game
 
Super nostalgia time!

Bought my first Amiga A600 in 1992, replaced it a year later with the A1200 which I fitted a hard drive to. Also dabbled with the CD32 (must have been another one of the ten) even tried the Video-CD add-on but couldn't get it to work.

The Amiga's were my first taste of "computer gaming" even if it was on a 14" portable TV that made your eyes go fuzzy, as proper monitors were way too expensive then.

Some true classics of gaming, today's games may be graphically superior but who can forget the simple joy of the Amiga games. Just a few I remember...
F16 Combat Pilot, my first ever flight sim and considering it came on a single floppy, huge depth and mega-campaigns.
F15 Strike Eagle II & F117A Nighthawk.
Gunship 2000. Still one of the best helicopter sims ever produced.
Lemmings 2 - The Tribes. Passed hours on that one going for the elusive gold on every level.
Frontier Elite II. again a huge innovation at the time of release and the forerunner of more contemporary games such as the X-series.
Jack Nicklaus Golf.
Silly Putty
Alien Breed
Airbus A320
Desert Strike
Sensible Soccer
Cannon Fodder
to name but a few.

It's a sobering thought that was all so long ago - 17 years now. Would love to go back and re-live those heady days. Games were being written for people to have fun, not just money printing mechanisms for big corporations. There was something in just about every genre and always plenty of new titles coming up for release. Developers were constantly having to be more ingenious at getting more out of the hardware, rather than just saying the best graphics will be playable on the PC's and graphics cards two years hence.

One of the main attractions was price - £300 for the A600 I think (£400 for the A1200) plus a portable telly when a run of the mill 386SX PC would leave not much change out of £1000.

It all came to an end in 1994 when I bought my first PC (actually hired from Radio Rentals!). By then the Amiga had started to go into decline and PC games were starting to move forward as SVGA graphics and more advanced hardware kicked in. How I do wish I'd kept my A1200 though it probably would have packed up by now along with the floppies the games came on!
 
i used to have a spectrum zx, with a sepaerate tape player, used to love coding patterns and games and the like. there was one game called millionaire i think and you had to decide whether you where going to make tapes, advertise them or the like basically footy manager for a factory. havent read all of the thread as its quite big now, but anyone else remember this.
 
I'd love to see Nintendo release some ST or Amiga games on the Virtual Console... they're doing some C64 games so hopefully - fingers crossed - they'll get round to the Amiga games too.
 
GarethDW said:
I'd love to see Nintendo release some ST or Amiga games on the Virtual Console... they're doing some C64 games so hopefully - fingers crossed - they'll get round to the Amiga games too.
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I thought sensible soccer has been released in one of those joysticks that you plug into a tv
 
Well this thread has now made me want to buy a Amiga 1200 and Atari ST off ebay to compare games on both systems from the early 90`s when both computers really came into their own.

I wish i kept my old computers and consoles but i sold them back in the late 80`s and 90`s though i am now collecting them again, one my favourite old consoles is the Panasonic 3DO FZ-1.

I've always had something for that console but didnt get one originally as i got a Saturn and Playstation instead, i bought one with lots of games a few years back off ebay and i just love it, it was way ahead of its time like the Amiga was, lots of its games were converted to the PC, Saturn and Playstation and in most cases werent as good as the original 3DO version like the Need For Speed for example, i just love that game and Wing commander 3, the 3DO was developed by the same guys who developed the amiga, i recommend Amiga fans to buy one there is just something about the system, i`m a big fan of interactive movies too i think they undeservedly get a bad rap and the 3DO had some good ones though the PC has the best like Gabriel Knight 2, Spycraft and Under a Killing Moon for example.

I really think its unfortunate they dont make them anymore now we have Blu Ray just imagine how excellent they would look in HD and there would be tons more room on the discs for more interactivety, the small capacity of CD's really limited what they could do and DVD only came towards the end of the interactive movie cycle.


Games improved massively from when i first bought an Atari ST in late 1987 and Amiga 500 in late 1988 to around 1992 when classics like sensible soccer were released, thats still my favourite Amiga game probably one of my all time favourite games and definately my favourite football game.

Had an Atari ST, then Amiga 500 then a CD32 which i also loved(Beneath A Steel Sky CD32 Version was just great and so was Liberation), i never had an Amiga 1200 so want to get one off ebay with HDD to install lots of games.

Here's a lit of games off the top of my head i absolutely loved playing on Amiga 500,

Rocket Ranger
Speedball 1 and 2
Xenon 1 and 2
Defender Of The Crown(actually only played it on Atari ST back in late 1987 but i've heard the Amiga 500 version is superior)
Lotus Espirit Turbo Challenge 1 and 2 (3rd i thought was the weakest)
Soccer Kid,
Superfrog
Arabian Nights
Secret Of Monkey Island
Leisure Suit Larry series, !st and 3rd were my favourite.
Assassin.
Alien Breed Special Edition
Sensible Soccer
Flashback
Desert Strike
John Maddens American Football
Body Blows
International Karate+ (best fighting game on amiga and the best version)
Crazy Cars 3
Jaguar XJ220 ( my favourite racing game on the Amiga though The original 3DO version of The Need For Speed is my all time favourite racing game)
 
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Neil King said:
Well this thread has now made me want to buy a Amiga 1200 and Atari ST off ebay to compare games on both systems from the early 90`s when both computers really came into their own.
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Yeah, I moved out of the Amiga in the early 90's as the PC was offering me more for flight sims (I went into flight sim enthusiast mode) so I kinda missed the latter end of what was going on. I do have an A1200 and A600 in the loft somewhere and tons of games but never got round to setting it all up again.

Like many here I started out with the A500 then the A500+....seem to remember back then a lot of Amiga games were just ports from Atari ST, not taking advantage of the Amiga's graphics capabilities.
 
an atari st was the first computer i had with 512 kb ram i played things like dizzy and the very original prince of persia on it. plus other games i remember like impossimole and le fetiche maya.

I then played monkey island on my cousins amiga and turned into my favourite game ever, first graphic adventure i played. i tried to get it on the atari but was peeved that i couldn't because it required 1 mb of ram lol. i had to wait till i got a dos pc several years later to buy up every graphic adventure ever made!
 
Vern1961 said:
Games were being written for people to have fun, not just money printing mechanisms for big corporations. There was something in just about every genre and always plenty of new titles coming up for release. Developers were constantly having to be more ingenious at getting more out of the hardware, rather than just saying the best graphics will be playable on the PC's and graphics cards two years hence.
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So true, I miss the time when two or three people could make a really fun and original game. These days it takes hundreds of people to make yet another mediocre sequel :(.

amigafan2003 said:
2: I read it on my AmigaOne and posting from it now (PowerPC G4 processor, 1gb ram, 500gb hdd, ATI 9700pro gfx card).
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Haha, oh wow! That's a bit of a step up from my old Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM :D.
 
mattyj1085 said:
Just been playing PP Hammer and cannon fodder. Why dont they still make games like this?
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Because despite envoking nostalgic feelings any time I load up WinUAE, they're old, and most people wouldn't pay money for them. I generally find that any time I actually take a look at an old Amiga/ST game, those rose tinted specs crack and shatter right in front of me.

Except for Turrican 2 ;)
 
FlukeRogi said:
Because despite envoking nostalgic feelings any time I load up WinUAE, they're old, and most people wouldn't pay money for them. I generally find that any time I actually take a look at an old Amiga/ST game, those rose tinted specs crack and shatter right in front of me.

Except for Turrican 2 ;)
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Just played sleep walker, those rose glasses of mine havent broken yet. Though they certainly broke a few times when i was around the age of 8 and i got a new game for xmas and got the nice guru meditation red error screen :(
 
I remember the Lotus Esprit Challenge

Ther was another top down racer that had train tracks was good multiplayer on a Sunday afternoon. Edit: it was Supercars II found at 1:47 of the third clip

Had this too

1:34 Lotus Turbo Challenge 2. 1:45 Supercars 2
 
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