Best Amiga game ever?

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James Pond II Robocod
Lemmings
Zool 1 & 2
Desert Strike
Walker
Monkey Island
Chuck Rock 1 & 2
Wonderdog
Fire And Ice
Doodlebug
Flashback
Rainbow Islands
Apidya
Cannon Fodder
 
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Moonstone
Shadow of the beast soundtrack was awesome
First Samurai (Oh no, my sword!)
Nightbreed
Midnight Resistance
Elite 2: Frontier
Turrican 2 (Obvs)
I hated Lemmings
Captain Planet
Deluxe Paint IV, Supported "High res" (640x480) Loved doodling on that
The lotus games were ace
Skidmarks 1 & 2
Darkseed!!
Another World
Leander
Chuck Rock
Wings
Pinball Fantasies
That Indiana Jones game
Monkey Island (I bought MI2 on release day for £40! and 11 discs)
Settlers
Megalomania
Beneath a steel sky
Gunship 2000 (I think it was called)
IK+
So many I've probably forgotten
 
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Long thread so can't be bothered to read through all of it :p
Chaos Engine, Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder are all absolute classics. I also had a couple of F-16 sims that I played a lot. One was Falcon I think but can't remember the other.

Edit: F-16 Combat Pilot was the other one.
 
For me it would be the Alien Breed series of games. They are also a double edged sword, as they are also what killed the Amiga for me. That was Alien Breed 3d. I played it and enjoyed it but then I saw Doom on my brother's 486 and I just had to get a PC then. I sold my A1200 with 80MB HDD with a monitor for £350 and bought parts to build a 486 dx4. I wish I had kept it now but I needed the money lol.
 
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Bloodwych. Completely forgot about this gem from way back in 1989.
While sometimes considered a Dungeon Master clone, I remember Bloodwych being far more playable.
The two persons on one machine mode was great fun too!

As for the earlier Amiga versus ST debates: the distinguishing thing about the ST was the digital TTL mono monitor. Which almost gave it split personality as all the games would only run in ST Low.
An Atari ST + SM124 was very much a far cheaper Mac Plus in its biggest serious market, Germany. That's where most of the big productive programs came from. Atari's American market was almost nothing, yet they concentrate so much on it including buying a national retailer to try and sell their stuff and that almost bankrupted then.
Even more so than the Amiga, Atari never really got around to upgrading or offering newer models. In the PC era that's hard to imagine but from 1985 to around 1990 both the Atari ST 520/1040 and the Amiga 500 were almost unchanged.
 
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My childhood favs:

Stunt Car Racer
Test Drive
Grand Prix
Super Cars II
Cannon Fodder
Dessert Strike
Bubble Bobble
Rainbow Island
Unsensible Soccer
James Pond
Robocop
Jimmy White's Snooker (who didn't love the balls making faces at you!)

...and of course, getting workbench to swear at me :cool:
 
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Anything by the bitmap brothers
kick off 2 - spent countless hours saving goals scored on disks and showing mates in school :D
Blood money
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Monkey Island
Sensible Soccer
Elite 2
The Dizzy series of games
So many good games, seems a lot of folks played the same sort too
 
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There is no single best game. Ones that I remember to this day so must be good :D

Starglider 2
S.W.I.V (Silkworm 4)
Speedball 2
Kick-off(s)
Drakkhen
Pinball Fantasies/Illusions

Group of us used to meet up bi-weekly club together to hire a room in a pub where many an xcopy/nibbler would commence ;)
 
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