Most played Amiga game fellow brothers...

[Bloodwych]

Bloodwych and its extended levels, without doubt. Out on Amiga, ST, Speccy, C64, PC, Amstrad around 1989.

Game choice is so down to personal taste, but a few gems appear that everyone agrees are awesome titles. Bloodwych is one of those games, and the fact that I've finished the thing with several friends and my brother multiple times over the past 12 years is testimony to that, talk about long lasting appeal! I LOVE THIS GAME, and every friend I bump into from years ago always mention this title.

For those of you deprived of playing the best 2-player game of all time check out the following sight:

Bloodwych Shrine (http://www.classicgaming.com/bloodwych/)

It may not look up to much, but believe me it's one of the greatest and most addictive games around. If only they would make an up-to-date version with fantastic 3D graphics.....................

Lines like: "thou art an utter toad" or "thou seems strangely awesome"
,"Utter bumblefoot", "thou slug"; I know too much about this game. NOSTALGER OVERLOAD!!!!!!!

Characters such as: Bloodwyn, Asteroth, Sir Edward, Ulrick, Zothern, Megrim, Zaspath, Mr Flay.............Anyone remember the character pictured left?

[MadMunky]

I would have to agree with everythink posted above, considering its my website!

Thanks :)

Chris

//[edit by Akira] oi mate, your site is linked below, don't use signatures ;)

[Bloodwych]

Great to see ya madmunky, glad you could make it......

Ulrick, good choice! :thumbs_up

Come and join my merry band....................

and then I can nick all your coins, commen keys and dismiss you! :)

[ilm]

SWOOOOOOOOOOS
oh man I love that game
played it soooooooooooo long and I still love it

[Bloodwych]

How about F1GP - I spent days of my life setting up that damn car and completed a whole season at full race distance. If I get my Amiga out, i'll have to post the times and see if anyone could beat me - I doubt it though ;)

My eyes were never the same again after that season................

[ilm]

mmm, I'm not a fan of racegames but my friend is really a freak
if you want i will ask his times but i don't know if he still knows them

[Shatterhand]

I already did that with GP2 on PC.. :-)

I have to say the games I most played on Amiga was SWOS , Elite (I had to start all over again, I was playing in the MSX for ages, then I got the amiga, and I just had to re-learn how to dock )... on the MSX I was already Elite class, on the amiga, I only got to Above Average.... shame I could never be that good on Frontier :)

and about SWOS.. Before it, I played Sensi a LOT..but when SWOS was released, I played EVERY SINGLE DAY until my Amiga broke...I played custom leagues, played it as a manager (although I found this option rather boring) , I played leagues with my friends (although it was just a competition for the 2nd place.. the 1st place was ALWAYS mine :) , I played crazy cups with a crap team from El Salvador against the top teams from Europe (this was a real challenge)... I guess SWOS was the game I most played in my life, and it's still my favourite soccer game ever (Maybe there's not the graphics or realism of Winning Eleven in the PSX, but boy, it's DAMN FUN to play! playable, good, and manic (yes, MANIC) as a soccer game can get!

[CodyJarrett]

I've spent far too much time on Civilization. I moved to Civ 2 on the PC and every while I play it for hours. I think I sat there for 7 hours playing it once.

Ultima 6 on the Amiga was another game that I spent months playing, discovering the game and exploring the world.

[andreas]

This answer is clear: DEFINITELY Lotus 1 :)

After 11 (read: ELEVEN) years *after* I first got the game (i. e. in 1999), I was finally able to complete that nasty hard level.
Sounds *very* long ... but I could always get to the one *before* the last level, never the last level myself. Even though 'RUSSIA' wasn't the last stage yet, it was nevertheless tough as hell as well with all it's traffic signs -- if you crashed into them one or two times, you could safely say: 'Forget it, you can't even _touch_ the Top Ten to get on with the game'.
And one of the "CD" musix tracks was so great (Track #04) that I began to work on a remix (which never came out, due to lack of both good equipment & time, but maybe this year - stay tuned :))

RPGs: For Cody, it's Ultima 6 - for me it was Ultima 4 in 1990. About 9 weeks I was playing on this one. GREAT times back then anyhow, you were permanently forced to figure things out yourself because there was nothing like a search engine where you could do a simple search '+"ultima 4" +walkthrough and walla, there was the solution. Looking back I think it did contribute more to gaming fun than nowadays because if you've got the *possibility* to look it up somewhere, you *will* look it up sooner or later. We're humans. :)

[Burge]

Gee, that's a very, very difficult one. Hmm, I couldn't really tell you, to be true. Would be one of those few games that didn't get corrupted. Maybe, Midnight Resistance? No wait, Wizball! Yeah that's probably it. What an addictive game.

[Codetapper]

Although I played games like Hunter, Rainbow Islands, Stunt Car Racer, F1GP, Speedball 2 a lot, I had a group of friends who were all into cricket, rugby and soccer. Hence we organised championships (8 player knockout tournaments etc) on ET's rugby league, Graham Gooches and of course SWOS - probably SWOS had the most total gametime. A decent sports game in multiplayer mode is pure bliss. We even organised a world cup on Graham Gooches with home/away matches (2 people's houses with Amiga's) and played every round of the 1992 cricket World Cup, found out the semi finalists etc, we even had a winners cup and prizes! But SWOS, I must have played several hundred games of AC Milan vs Barcelona so that's probably the most played game on my system...

(Dynablaster is another top notch game when you have some human opponents - brilliant!)

[LaundroMat]

F1GP and SWOS. It's as simple as that.

F1GP is in my eyes still the reference in F1 racing sims, with Brazil being my favorite track. After all those years, I can still play that track with my eyes closed in Formula One 2001 on my PS2. Btw, Bloodwych, didn't you ever try the Amiga F1GP Hall Of Fame? That was a great contest! Here's a link. (http://www.nanunanu.org/~oliver/). That, by the way, is Oliver Robert's site, the created of the ex-cel-lent F1GP Ed, the first (and only) piece of shareware I ever bought.

And SWOS. Aaah. The rage, the anger, the frustration, the fun! Indeed, the greatest arcade soccer game ever. I found it ion a bargain bin for PC not so long ago. It sucked. Boo PC's. Is it the machine's architecture that prevents it from running game that have actual gameplay in it? ;)

[Drake1009]

One game I kept playing though not always for as long sittings but still kept returning to was IK+. Still play it now and the, (About every time I turn on the Amiga). Another one would be Rick dangerous 1, still haven't completed level 2 either.

[Akira]

The game we played the most with my chums, has to be Micro Machines. We had great, great tournaments. Second spot should be a tie between Sensible Soccer (1.1 and SWOS), and Arcade Pool.

[Tim Janssen]

After my Amiga has gathered dust for 5 years on the attic I have installed the machine again a few months ago. The first game I booted up was Loriciel's Jim Power. The game is nothing out of the ordinary gameplay-wise, but I just had to hear the ingame-sounds again after all these years. I have a soft spot for games which sound aurally great -even if they are crap at play.

One-player games I have wasted most hours on are the Turrican trilogy of games, Apidya, Lemmings 2 and of course Wizkid which I still haven't managed to complete.
There are also many two-player games I always played with my little brother. Like in Akira's list, Micro Machines comes at number 1. I especially like the Pool-table in this game. With 90 degrees corners it is great to knock your opponent off the table.
Dynablaster is a very close contender. -Blowing up friends has never been so much fun. Hmm, it seems I love sadistic 2-player games. ;)

[MrDig]

KICKOFF 2 BY FAR!!!

Oke no need to shout of course :), but Kick Off 2 is my all time favourite game and most played game (I actually just played it again for more than 30 minutes :))... The speed, the fabulous ball control (ball not glued to your feet), the excitement... Yes it's all in Kick Off!!

And before we get the old discussion about which game is better SWOS or Kick Off, Well, there has already been said enough about that topic... Anyway, I also like SWOS a lot...

[Walker]

I totally agree. Being a football (soccer for the yanks here....) player myself, I think Kick Off 2 is the only game that has the right feeling. SWOS is a great game, but it's not a great football game!

[Shatterhand]

I think Goal! is a much better game than Kick Off 2
I still think the ball is hard to control in KO2, and the players are too big, making hard to make good passes, the keepers are too dumb.....

in Goal! the keepers are better, there's the zoom out option (I always play with this option turned ON all the time), you can slowdown the game to get the gripes with it when you're still a novice, pass works better....

But I still think SWOS is better...

[Walker]

Well, that´s exactly my point!

I have never had the ball glued to my feet when playing. My passes don´t always find a team mate. It doesn´t help screaming "Slower!" when an opponent outruns you. If it was like this, football would be utterly boring.

SWOS may be a good game, but it has very little to do with the real thing.

[Akira]

I preffer SWOS because it's more arcadey... if I want the real thing (hell no, I hate real footy :) I go out with mates and play it.

This is what is kind of missing from today games, trying to make them more 'real' (if being a gun-toting bastard and kill everyone at sight is real). They should emphasize in teh fantasy side of it all, to provide something you just cant have in real life.

[Shatterhand]

I agree with Akira 100% ... if make it more real means make it unplayable, then I prefer to make it unreal. Take a look at the Winning Eleven series in the PSX, they are rather realistic and still very playable.

Also, I think Goal is as realistic as Kick Off 2, and much more play playable

Goal would be much better with a kind of analogic joystick, so you would have better control of the speed of the player (Instead of running like hell, or have to tap the joystick to a direction, so you don't get full speed and have more control of the ball)

[Akira]

Ahhh good ole tapping! I remember that technique, from when I played Goal! to no end (that was before I tried Sensi). I remember we got to play it in the MANIC speed mode... now ICant even play it :) I have to try to master that game again.

[Marcuz]

eye of the Beholder for sure; the first time until half game then back and forth. there it was a time it was becoming like my house, i was firing it up like a modern mmorpg and reserving different floors of the dungeon for different stuff to stash; i had my training area in the kenku levels, my living room in the dwarf' area, i also had, you know, the places in your house where as a kid you had fear to go, like the cellar with huge spiders...

[spiff]

Aah.. Civilization, lemmings and EOTB2.

I still remember sitting in school all the day doing nothing else but counting down the minutes until I could load up civ, dreaming of the disks and so on. And then friday came 2.5 whole days of NOTING but CIV! Hallelulea!!
Unfortunately my mum dragged me away on some “parent activity” on saturday.. I couldn’t believe she didn’t understand that I HAD to play.. or I would die right there on the spot or something…

Seeing it now, classic gaming addiction. I probably was high enough on dopamine to chew off my right leg if it would get me out of there and back home to civ.

[oldpx]

Eye of the Beholder 2.

I was stuck with a puzzle for 2 years :D

[Hillsy_]

Hmmm....alot...:)

Formula 1 Grand Prix.
Civilization.
SWOS.
Player Manager. (maybe ST version, Can't remember!!)
Xenon 2.
Blades of Destiny.
Might & Magic III.
Elite.
Superfrog.
Eye of the Beholder.
Eye of the Beholder 2.
Bloodwych (not data disk).
Captive.
Knightmare.
Turrican 1+2.
Apidya.
Kick off 2.
SSI AD&D games, especially Curse of the Azure Bonds.
UFO Enemy Unknown.
Speedball 2.

I use to play games alot!! :spin

- Hillsy.

PS: Yes, I got stuck on a puzzle too on EOTB2, it was a bug in the game!! I found a solution in a magazine so I could pass it.

[Freakyweakywoo]

Elite, though after Frontier I never played it again. The idea of having to manually dock with the space station was a turn off. My best Elite moment was surviving a mis-jump after fighting my way through quite a few thargoid ships.

EOTB II and Settlers also hermitised (I think I just created a new word) me for days on end.

[StarEye]

SWOS
Lotus II
Civilization perhaps
The Settlers have taken some of my time too.
Pirates! is one of my most played games of all time, just like the first two on this list.

[wlcina]

frontier 2 - I was hemeroiditized when I was playing this game 8 hours per day 7 days per week ;-)

[Bloodwych]

Flippin' Heck! Who revived this old thread from the deep recesses of EAB’s bowls......

*checks dates*

Marco! Must have been diggin' deep to find this one! :shocked

This is my second ever thread from back in mid-2001 when I first joined up. And not surprisingly, it's a cheap push for Bloodwych! :cheese Nice to see my opinion hasn't changed so I needn't post anything new. First was some rambling about StuntCar Racer (http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=425)

Back then you could come up with loads of new threads - since the board had just opened conversation was fresh n kicking! Must have posted several new topics a week and you'd instantly be greeted with loads of replies.

Can't believe I'm going off-topic in my own thread. Oh well, interesting to read all these recent posts. Better get back on-topic:

Marco - nice comparison. Glad to hear you kept a tidy gaming Dungeon! :laughing

Spif - so true. People say games aren't truly addictive in that you don't get withdrawal symptoms. Try letting someone tell you that when you're in the middle of finishing an absorbing game.

Burseg - never got stuck on EOTB 1 or 2 although I can empathize - I've got a Black Crypt save disk somewhere from back when it first came out, TOTALLY stuck near what must be the end of the game. I always meant to go back and finish it. Still haven't.

Hilsy - Grab an old friend and finish the datadisk - now!

Freaky - nice new word.
Stareye – Games known as life suckers.
Wlcina – I’m not even trying to pronounce that!

Many past games "hermitised" me, resulting in a little natural and understandable build up in my room:

[wanderer]

Ahh, nostalgia time... For some reason right now I can only remember "weird", not-so-blockbuster, games played to death...

:bowdown Sinbad (I just love this game, my no.1),
Mission Elevator ( :) :) ha ha ha the sound samples,
the crazy-lady: "Guilllaaaard.... Guillllaaooorddd" or sth.),
One-on-one Basketball (recently discovered a working adf, :crazy )
Captain Planet,
PoweStyx,

Of course Turrican 1+2, Kick Off 2 etc. but I am in
an underrated-games mood now.

[Repetition]

Following on from some previous posts in this thread.

Wizball came free with my Amiga. I didn't play it for ages cuz I thought it was bound to be cr*p (cuz it was free). What a fool! I was completely addicted when I finally got around to playing it. It was VERY hard to complete, I think I only managed it once or twice. Quite recently, I found a PC conversion... but it was graphically inferior and, worse, no amount of slowing it down slowed it down to Amiga-speed. UNplayable.

My g/f and I would play Pirates! for days on end; often without sleep until we couldn't stay awake any longer....... OR... when my hands were complete agony from endless swordfights or walking on land. My g/f wasn't much good at the fights, so I did all things joystick while she dictated strategy. We'd play for weeks... quit for a few months... then play for weeks again. Brilliant game. Got a PC version of this too but can never be bothered to re-learn it. Sea battles seem too fast.

F1GP - LIke somebody above, I'd do full seasons at full race distance... with damage ON when I got to the point that it was too easy to win with it off. My fave track was Portugal. I'm still miffed that it's missing from the REAL GP calendar. Seems they get rid of all the good overtaking tracks. SOMEWHERE I'll have a notebook with my best laps and race times in it... but I can't say I've seen that particular one recently. I have enough notebooks to build a house extension! Kickstart scores from my Commodore 16 days.... REAMS of planet documents from Elite (C64 - never did get a copy for Amiga)... right up to lap/race times from my Gran Turismo 3 (PS2).

Only game(s) I can remember being addicted to that haven't been mentioned already (that I noticed) were the Microprose X-Com ones. Oh... and Gunship 2000. They rocked.

[Macca]

Hmm what games do I keep going back to well in no particular order:

Turrican 2 - obvious why
Speedball 2 - just enjoy a game or two now and again
Kick Off 2 - as above
SWOS - as above above
Bloodwych - as first post really - never completed it but will do one day
Dungeon Master - well - do I need to say anything?
XCOM: UFO Enemy Unknown - completed and still damn addictive

+ Many others...


Macca

[kolorabi]

Aah.. Civilization, lemmings and EOTB2.

I still remember sitting in school all the day doing nothing else but counting down the minutes until I could load up civ, dreaming of the disks and so on. And then friday came 2.5 whole days of NOTING but CIV! Hallelulea!!

I recognize the feeling. For me it's probably a tie between The Settlers and Civilization, and when I wasn't playing one of those games, I was probably thinking about them. For some reason or other, I still think about The Settlers every time I have to carry lots of stuff around.. :)

I'm really curious about the new Settlers-game. I'm glad they've gotten rid of the sugary cute look that plagued the third and fourth game in the series, but I'm kind of afraid that they'll turn it into yet another RTS (which I don't need, now that I have Rome: Total War to play).

[Freakyweakywoo]

Sometimes I didnt bother to wait for school to finish, just went home and played anyway, didnt do me any harm. I got caught a few times but that was all part of the fun. I really glad my parents didnt take the Amiga off me, maybe they knew what trouble I could get up to if I was out on the street causing mayhem.

Discalimer: Skipping school is not cool, education is very important. (or you can just catch up in later life ;) )

[Marcuz]

heh... i was so nice to go to school everyday :)

[Sid]

Well, that´s exactly my point!

I have never had the ball glued to my feet when playing. My passes don´t always find a team mate. It doesn´t help screaming "Slower!" when an opponent outruns you. If it was like this, football would be utterly boring.

SWOS may be a good game, but it has very little to do with the real thing.
Totally agree!
SWOS is a great game ... KO2 is more realistic and not as predictable to score.

GOAL! was supposed to be the new KO3... somehow that got changed with Anco demanding rights off Dino Dini... and that is also a class game!
My bro could never figure out my expert dribbling!