Your favorite Amiga game from either 88 or 89

[Kitty]

This is one my favourite amiga games from 1988, its called Fright Night
Whats your favorite 88/89 Amiga game?



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[Retro-Nerd]

88 = Hybris
89 = Battle Squadron (and Oil Imperium)

[TCD]

It Came From The Desert was pretty interesting and well presented

[DDNI]

'88 Mercenary Escape from Targ
'89 Falcon

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

It Came From The Desert was pretty interesting and well presented

Really 1989? Maybe the US release.

[s2325]

1988 - Great Giana Sisters
1989 - Axel's Magic Hammer, Bomb Jack, Hard 'n' Heavy, New Zealand Story, Rick Dangerous, Terry's Big Adventure, TwinWorld - Land of Vision, Wonderboy in Monsterland

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Really 1989? Maybe the US release.

Okay, maybe a close call
Battle Chess should be safe enough I guess

[AmigaFriend]

Games most played in/from those years:

1988- Battle Chess, Bionic Commando, Cybernoid I, Deflektor, F/A 18 Interceptor, Football Director II, The Great Giana Sisters, Hybris, IK+, Obliterator, Pac Mania, Rocket Ranger, Sidewinder, Speedball, Starglider 2, Sword of Sodan, World Class Leaderboard

Winners: Rocket Ranger, Hybris

1989 - Arkanoid II, Battle Squadron, Blood Money, Bubble Bobble, Chambers Of Shaolin, Cybernoid II, Double Dragon, Double Dragon II, Hollywood Poker Pro, Hostages, Indiana Jones and the Last Cruzade, It Came From the Desert, Kick Off, New Zealand Story, Out Run, R-Type, Rainbow Islands, Renegade, Rick Dangerous, Rock 'n Roll, RVF Honda, Silkworm, Stunt Car Racer, Test Drive II, Xenon II

Winners: Battle Squadron, Stunt Car Racer

[Graham Humphrey]

1988 - Maria's Xm... er, sorry, I mean IK+.
1989 - The New Zealand Story

Good grief, there's a distinct lack of Good Games released in those years! Amazed the Amiga made it past '89 alive...

[TCD]

True that Graham. The list of 1990 is a lot more appealing

[alexh]

1988 - Dungeon Master
1989 - Chaos Strikes Back

[AmigaFriend]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Good grief, there's a distinct lack of Good Games released in those years! Amazed the Amiga made it past '89 alive...

Don't say that Graham, there are genuinely good games from those years, and 1989 was when the Amiga really took off, because of the Batman pack and of the games released in the previous and in that year. I think you didn't tried enough.

[Redwood]

A couple that haven't been mentioned:

1988 - Ultima IV
1989 - Ultima V

Yeah, I know Ultima IV was released in 1985 on the Apple II, but the Amiga conversion didn't appear till '88.

[Minuous]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Good grief, there's a distinct lack of Good Games released in those years! Amazed the Amiga made it past '89 alive...

You're kidding, right? Most of the best Amiga games were made in these 2 years and the couple of years immediately before and after. In particular very few good games game out after about 1991...Cannon Fodder series, Zeewolf series, Primal Rage, Syndicate and Rise of the Robots being the only ones that spring to mind. Whereas I can list hundreds from the late 1980s. The deluge of crap games throughout the 1990s is one of the major factors in the eventual collapse of the platform as a commercial proposition.

[s2325]

Do you think Primal Rage and Rise of the Robots are good games?

[Minuous]

Yes. Although admiitedly the animation on Primal Rage could use a few more frames.

[Graham Humphrey]

Originally Posted by Minuous

You're kidding, right?... Rise of the Robots

I'm kidding?

[alkis21]

Kick Off: Extra Time, followed by Future Wars: Time Travelers.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Minuous

The deluge of crap games throughout the 1990s is one of the major factors in the eventual collapse of the platform as a commercial proposition.

One could argue that the amount of poor ST or C64 conversion and the lack of games that used the Amiga's capabilities before 1990 had an impact on the success of the platform. Sales figures for the A500 in the UK kinda support that argumentation : http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/sales.html
From that point of view you could say that the Amiga used it's 3-4 years as the leading computer gaming platform quite well to build up a fanbase

[seuden]

Alien Syndrome '88
Batman the Movie '89