Biggest, best looking bosses in Amiga games?

[lionagony]

The last few nights I've been playing Sword from 1997 and it is a super fun game, at least with save states as it's extremely difficult. I was really impressed with how big and cool looking some of the bosses were. It's only an OCS/ECS game needing 1MB so looks great. I'm only half way through the game so far but the beetle at 6:57 and the centipede thing at 25:00 are really amazing.

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Some others that I can think of is this huge creature in Tubular Worlds AGA, I can't find a video of the AGA version but it's pretty much identical to the PC one here at 9:04

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The big pike in Apidya at 16:13 always impressed me

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and also the zooming boss in Mr Nutz at 56:38

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this huge ship in Blastar at 33:23

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the first boss in Mega Typhoon at 6:11

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and finally the last boss in Turrican 2 AGA at 1:45:30

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Who do you think is the most impressive looking Amiga boss?

[Amigajay]

I wasn’t normally a good enough (maybe patient as well!) player to play many end of level bosses, but from memory Chuck Rock II has a decent sized one.

[lionagony]

Originally Posted by Amigajay

I wasn’t normally a good enough (maybe patient as well!) player to play many end of level bosses, but from memory Chuck Rock II has a decent sized one.

Yes, that game has some good and large bosses, I like the first level one here at 9:00

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That got me thinking that the original Chuck Rock final boss was a really big one too at 36:36

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[DisasterIncarna]

Disposable Hero?

[lionagony]

Originally Posted by DisasterIncarna

Disposable Hero?

Yeah, I always liked the skeleton one at 15:50 [ Show youtube player ]

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Sword of Sodan "David and Goliath" bit

[lionagony]

I thought this topic would make for a good video so I made a quick one and added a Jim Power boss.

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[ZEUSDAZ]

Best looking boss in an Amiga game (imo) is the game boss in The Plague, in the vid It's at 18:52.

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[lionagony]

Originally Posted by ZEUSDAZ

Best looking boss in an Amiga game (imo) is the game boss in The Plague, in the vid It's at 18:52.
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Yes, that's a great one, one of my favourite games when I first got the Amiga.

[dreadnought]

Not a boss per se, but the giant ant shootout in It Came From The Desert is still pretty impressive.

[lionagony]

Originally Posted by dreadnought

Not a boss per se, but the giant ant shootout in It Came From The Desert is still pretty impressive.

That's another good one, might have to make a Part II video one day.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by lionagony

and finally the last boss in Turrican 2 AGA at 1:45:30

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It's worth mentioning that the OCS/ECS version has the same boss and a couple of others that were pretty big and good looking.

[kremiso]

the mech bird in Ruff n Tumble
in this video all the bosses of that game

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it would be indeed nice to have some new videos of some forgotten/never seen bossfights

[d4rk3lf]

@kremiso
Yup... I was also thinking about Ruff 'n' Tumble bosses.
Not as big as some that lionagony referenced, but still pretty large, and amazingly animated, with amazing look.

@lionagony
The other that comes to my mind... well.. not Amiga exclusive, and some levels are missing, but Joe and Mac had very large bosses:

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Also, I am not sure if you count 3D titles, but Alien Breed 3D had enormous, like building sized boss at the very end...
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[kremiso]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

...Not as big as some that lionagony referenced, but still pretty large, and amazingly animated, with amazing look.

you are right, not as big but well drawn indeed
it isn't, but almost seems hi-res

[lionagony]

I thought of a few more, the swamp boss and the flying dragon boss in Lionheart at 34:11 and 1:24:13

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the stone boss in Agony at 19:13

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the first boss in Banshee at 16:20

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and the final boss in Microcosm at 106:10

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[rabidgerry]

That big huge head thing spitting out worms in Midnight Resistance! 19mins 32sec in this video.

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[saimon69]

Some stuff from Powder (will add more once i find a link to the longplay)
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[gimbal]

I will go with... the "dragon" in Wrath of the Demon. I just love the Don Bluth-esque graphical style that it has. A nice combination of menacing and dorkiness all wrapped into one. A-ma-zing art design on that one, easily the best graphical work in the game besides the intro IMO.

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@ around 7:15

With a close 2nd place going to Apidya, the giant Mantis. It was on a coverdisk so boy did I beat that thing like a million times. After the wimpy stationary mole you had to beat before it this comes as just such a surprise.

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@ around 9:00

I would go with the giant robot from Turrican 2 as my #3 IF that thing didn't die way too quickly. It's big, but all it kind of does is just slowly zoom around a little bit. In that respect I have to hand it to the giant grabber boss of 2:2. That thing really made me go "wow" the first time I saw it.

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@ 42:00

Still not difficult, but at least it is programmed to do cool stuff like slamming the wall and trying to grab you. And it explodes in a satisfying way too.

[vulture]

Deliverance bosses were pretty spectacular (18:00 , 33:30, 39:50, 43:40)

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Gods bosses were no slouches either (17:05 , 48:20 , 71:10 , 100:30)

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