Remembering hidden gems you never got to complete

GGizmo · 25 Mar 2025 at 19:02

I always remember playing a point and click game on the Amiga in the 90s. But could never remember the name. Then suddenly I remembered the word Maddog the other day and that allowed me to search on the Lemon Amiga site for the full name and details.

The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Adventures of Maddog Williams, The

The Adventures of Maddog Williams is an Amiga animated graphics/text adventure game released in 1991 by Game Crafters.

www.lemonamiga.com

I also found out that it came out for not only Amiga, but Atari ST, and DOS.

It's also been made freeware by the makers and can be downloaded from their site;

Game Crafters

I wish there were some better playthroughs on YouTube though.

Does anyone else have an off the road hidden gem that's always played on your mind?

ivrytwr3 · 26 Mar 2025 at 15:40

I found a channel where a guy completes C64 games - spent hours watching games i played being completed, nostalgia overload!

MontyMole1976

Complete Ingame Videos from c64 games. All longplays were made with a tool-assistent emulator to make the videos look smoother. Since january 2013 this channel is partner from Zoomin.TV

www.youtube.com

Infiltrator - did finish but was a blast from the past. My fave game on the C64.
Raid over Moscow - did finish but was a blast from the past. My 2nd fave game on the C64.
Time Tunnel - did finish but was a blast from the past. My 3rd fave game on the C64.
Impossible Mission
V
Dragons Lair
Equinox
Paradroid
The Goonies
Dan Dare
Rocky Horror
Zak McKraken - how the **** did anybody ever complete this?!
Back to the Future
Last Ninjas
Kane
Wizball

GGizmo · 26 Mar 2025 at 22:42

Finishing games back in the day was a real test.

You did well!

Quartz · 26 Mar 2025 at 23:12

Eurofighter 2000.

There was a mission where enemies were continuously spawned and I never got past it.

Vinno · 29 Mar 2025 at 13:00

I didn't complete ANY games on my Amiga from what I can remember. I was far too young to get anywhere on them.

It's not exactly a hidden gem, but one game that always sticks out in my mind is Cannon Fodder. I must have played the first couple of levels about 100 times as a kid but never progressed further. Still haven't sadly!

Superficial · 30 Mar 2025 at 16:49

ivrytwr3 said:
I found a channel where a guy completes C64 games - spent hours watching games i played being completed, nostalgia overload!

MontyMole1976

Complete Ingame Videos from c64 games. All longplays were made with a tool-assistent emulator to make the videos look smoother. Since january 2013 this channel is partner from Zoomin.TV

www.youtube.com

Infiltrator - did finish but was a blast from the past. My fave game on the C64.
Raid over Moscow - did finish but was a blast from the past. My 2nd fave game on the C64.
Time Tunnel - did finish but was a blast from the past. My 3rd fave game on the C64.
Impossible Mission
V
Dragons Lair
Equinox
Paradroid
The Goonies
Dan Dare
Rocky Horror
Zak McKraken - how the **** did anybody ever complete this?!
Back to the Future
Last Ninjas
Kane
Wizball

now that is some serious nostalgia!

J.James · 1 Apr 2025 at 17:26

Captive on the Amiga is the one that sticks out, but then nobody finished it

Hugest_UK · 14 Apr 2025 at 22:40

ivrytwr3 said:
I found a channel where a guy completes C64 games - spent hours watching games i played being completed, nostalgia overload!

MontyMole1976

Complete Ingame Videos from c64 games. All longplays were made with a tool-assistent emulator to make the videos look smoother. Since january 2013 this channel is partner from Zoomin.TV

www.youtube.com

Infiltrator - did finish but was a blast from the past. My fave game on the C64.
Raid over Moscow - did finish but was a blast from the past. My 2nd fave game on the C64.
Time Tunnel - did finish but was a blast from the past. My 3rd fave game on the C64.
Impossible Mission
V
Dragons Lair
Equinox
Paradroid
The Goonies
Dan Dare
Rocky Horror
Zak McKraken - how the **** did anybody ever complete this?!
Back to the Future
Last Ninjas
Kane
Wizball

Thanks for the heads up this looks great for the nostalgia feels.

MookJong · 16 Apr 2025 at 13:10

My cousin had a game on the ZX Spectrum called "Megabucks". The story was something like your mad uncle had died and left you a load of money in a safe in his mansion. If you could get to it it was yours. It was essentailly a metroidvania before that was even a thing and probably where my love of that kind of game comes from. Lots of item finding and backtracking to open the next part of the map etc. One of the things that blew my mind was that there was a telephone in the house. If you walked up to it and pressed the button to interact you would be taken out of the game and a telephone dial pad would come up on the screen. Calling certain numbers had effects in the house. Of course we would spend ages just entering random numbers in the hope we would get lucky. My cousin managed to find a few things on his own and would show me the next time I went round but we never got very far I don't think. I'm not sure he was that bothered about the game as much as me but I've never forgotten it and want to go back and crack it.

Trapdoor on the Amstrad CPC (yes the game of the CITV show) was a similar vibe, so much to discover though experimenting but I never finished it or had any idea how far I'd actually got. Need to watch a playthrough of that.

Guest2 · 24 Apr 2025 at 21:23

Moonstone - A hard days knight on Amiga.
Once I managed to get all 4 keys to the valley of the gods, tried to defeat the whirlwind witch woman and as I did it crashed giving me a Guru meditation error.

Zefan · 24 Apr 2025 at 21:30

Vinno said:
I didn't complete ANY games on my Amiga from what I can remember. I was far too young to get anywhere on them.

It's not exactly a hidden gem, but one game that always sticks out in my mind is Cannon Fodder. I must have played the first couple of levels about 100 times as a kid but never progressed further. Still haven't sadly!

I was largely the same, Desert Strike, The Lion King and The Chaos Engine excepted, all done with a three button joystick might I add! No idea how I managed lion king with that :cry:

If I remember right cannon fodder was, like most games back then, pretty unforgiving.

Bubo · 25 Apr 2025 at 08:37

I remember playing a text adventure on the Acorn Electron called Quest for the Holy Grail by Epic Adventures. I was instantly hooked on the game having never played a text adventure before. I got almost to the end of the game and got to a bit where you got to the end of a path with a lake to cross to a castle in the distance, and there was this boat there you obviously had to use to get there. Try as I might I could not come up with the correct wording to use the boat. It must have been a couple of weeks of me trying in vain. This was in 1984 so no way of jumping on google to find solutions, so I actually wrote an actual letter to the publishers, remember letters? After a month they replied and it was an embarrassingly straight forward "Go South - You are now in the boat", rather than combination of "use boat, enter boat, get in boat, jump in boat, fall backwards in to boat etc". So I did eventually complete the game, but it took a while.

This kicked off a love and fascination of text adventure games in that era on 8bit and 16bit, from Colossal Cave through the Magnetic Scrolls games to the Infocom games. I played so many but can say that I don't think I ever actually completed any of them, again no internet, so was clearly a glutton for punishment.