Racing game on Amiga

DailyGeek · 25 Jul 2006 at 21:59

The PD game 'Biplanes' is one of my favourite games, its awesome.

Sitting in front of me I have an Amiga 1200, Amiga 500, Amiga CD32 and the Philips monitor for them

MadFruit · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:10

I loved Super Skidmarks - written in Blitz Basic by bedroom coders. The caravans were brilliant.

Keep dabbling with buying it for my CD32

Biplanes was class too (the single screen thing, with the hut in the middle?) A mate of mine wrote a version of that on the PC with internet multiplayer

Dunno if he ever finished it properly.

Flibster · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:15

I've still got Skidmarks and Super Skidmarks floppies.

Aaaaaah... Nice that the Amiga lives on.

Most importantly - mine still works and has been PPC powered for a while.

I LOVE it!

Simon/~Flibster

melchy · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:39

MadFruit said:
I loved Super Skidmarks - written in Blitz Basic by bedroom coders. The caravans were brilliant.

Keep dabbling with buying it for my CD32

Biplanes was class too (the single screen thing, with the hut in the middle?) A mate of mine wrote a version of that on the PC with internet multiplayer Dunno if he ever finished it properly.

I've got the CD32 version sitting in front of me

Buy it, you know you want to

Reektan · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:42

I was always partial to Nitro on the Amiga myself. Awesome fun with a couple mates.

Richiev4 · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:49

Anyone remember twintris?

It was probably the best tetris clone ever made, nothing has come close IMHO.

The music was cool to. If you want a bit of nostalgia checkout

http://www.amigaremix.com/main.php

The Amiga Rocked

Wasted my youth playing on that machine

Rich

mark_t50 · 25 Jul 2006 at 23:15

Richiev4 said:
Anyone remember twintris?

It was probably the best tetris clone ever made, nothing has come close IMHO.

The music was cool to. If you want a bit of nostalgia checkout

http://www.amigaremix.com/main.php

The Amiga Rocked

Wasted my youth playing on that machine

Rich

What a great site

I remember being amazed at the sound and music the Amiga could do. I used to spend hours listening to many a games tunes especially the Turrican games. I also remember these demo disks you used to get with 3d graphics set to dance tunes, ahhh those were the days.

/me wanders of in a state of nostalgia.

da_mic_1530 · 25 Jul 2006 at 23:28

i remember playing super skidmarks for my sega megadrive, spent hours on it, what a game

pinkacidbootson · 25 Jul 2006 at 23:50

Was Super Skidmarks the one with the picture of colourful cows on wheels as the box art? Or am i on crack?

Chaos · 25 Jul 2006 at 23:54

mark_t50 said:
What a great site I remember being amazed at the sound and music the Amiga could do. I used to spend hours listening to many a games tunes especially the Turrican games. I also remember these demo disks you used to get with 3d graphics set to dance tunes, ahhh those were the days.

/me wanders of in a state of nostalgia.

Theres a cool project where a dvd will be released with Amiga coding demos and they are going to try and get the coders to voice over them.
You can download a preview of the dvd here -

http://www.demodvd.org/downloads

Was amazing what those coders could do.

lordrobs · 26 Jul 2006 at 01:09

Ah I remember my A1200 gaming days. Absolutly awesome. 13 hour sessions on syndicate when one of my mates came round were a common occurance

Yewen · 26 Jul 2006 at 02:30

Johanson said:
Was Super Skidmarks the one with the picture of colourful cows on wheels as the box art? Or am i on crack?

Wow, a cool game pre-playstation I saw in the arcades with cows on the side, I really want to know what that game was!

Probably the next in the series to what your thinking of.

dlittley · 26 Jul 2006 at 08:18

Reektan said:
I was always partial to Nitro on the Amiga myself. Awesome fun with a couple mates.

Maaaan, Nitro was cool as! Many many hours spent with my brother playing this - when I wasn't playing SWOS that is

mmj_uk · 26 Jul 2006 at 10:34

Indy Heat was awesome, so was Supercars 1/2.

PiKe · 26 Jul 2006 at 10:35

Was there a game called Indy 500? A 3d racer that had really spectacular crashes (for the time) that you could watch again and again on replays.

roboffer · 26 Jul 2006 at 12:26

mmj_uk said:
Supercars 1/2.

Was just thinking of Supercars, another great game.

lordrobs · 26 Jul 2006 at 12:48

PiKe said:
Was there a game called Indy 500? A 3d racer that had really spectacular crashes (for the time) that you could watch again and again on replays.

Not sure of the name but I'm 99% sure I know the one you mean. Absolutly sucked away my life that game, the amount of setup options you had were crazy and I remember being stupidly impressed how you could not only monitor the tyre temps but measure the inner, middle and outer temp! I think that was the only game I've ever had where I spent proper time setting the car up for each track.

PiKe · 26 Jul 2006 at 12:53

I don't remember it looking as bad as this!

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6103365/p-2.html

lordrobs · 26 Jul 2006 at 13:12

PiKe said:
I don't remember it looking as bad as this!

Me either

I think you may have been able to turn thing off like the crowd etc. but I can't remember if that boosted speed or quality of the other graphics.

I'm pretty sure I turned everything else off and had better looking cars :confused:

geeza · 26 Jul 2006 at 13:45

super off road, what a game. I had skidmarks (

) 1 and 2, there was about 12 disks if i remember, certain tracks wouldnt load because the disks were knackered

one of the best racing games there was on amiga was the one where it suspented you with chains at the start then dropped you onto the track. cant remember the name but i played it all the time