Can You recommend me 10 excellent games from each genres

Hello Cody Mate,

Can You recommend me 10 excellent games from each of the following genres:- (they can be Public Domain if they're any good)

RPG
Adventure
Platform
Puzzle
Strategy
Arcade Adventure

These games must come from your opinions & experiences.

Cheers in advance mate

Zeewolf

[CodyJarrett]

RPG

Abandoned Places - Cheap and cheerful RPG.
Black Crypt - Derivative, but good.
Bloodwych - antique adventuring. Great.
Captive & Liberation - sci-fi adventuring.
Dungeon Master - classic dungeon romp.
Eye Of The Beholder 1&2 - deservedly classics.
Faery Tale Adventure, The - old, but enjoyable.
Hero Quest - isometric RPG from the board game.
Hired Guns - puppies and guns in one beautiful game.
Immortal, The - nice little RPG.
Legends Of Valour - interesting Ultima Underworld wannabe.
Shadowlands & Shadoworlds - inspired use of light.
Ultima 6: The False Prophet - huge and intelligent, with a great storyline.


Adventure

Beneath A Steel Sky - dystopian adventure.
Blood Net - vampires and cyberpunk.
Cruise For A Corpse - whodunnit.
Floor 13 - operate in a secret government agency.
Hacker 2 - infiltrate a building with droids.
Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis - more Lucasarts adventuring.
Infocom text adventures - try them all.
Lure Of The Temptress - medieval adventure.
Operation Stealth - spy adventure.
Secret Of Monkey Island 1&2, The - what else?


Platform

The Addams Family - a good film conversion.
Alfred Chicken - an innocent chicken in a startling world!
Arabian Nights - fast moving platformer.
BC Kid - Head butting action.
The Blues Brothers - another good film conversion.
Bubba 'n' Stix - One man and his talented stick.
Bubble And Squeak - underrated Audiogenic game.
Bubble Bobble - essential arcade conversion.
Car-Vup - cute car on platforms.
Catch'Em - animal collect-'em-up
Chuck Rock - prehistoric themed platformer.
Chuckie Egg - old school platformer.
Doodlebug - cute platformer.
Flood - dark platformer set in sewers.
Robocod - robotic fish game.
Kid Gloves - flip screen old school game.
Kid Gloves 2 - Wonder Boy influenced game.
Nebulus - Frustrating rotating tower platformer.
Putty - elastic hero in a neat game.
Rainbow Islands - another essential arcade conversion.
Rodland - more arcade action.
Soccer Kid - novel platformer.


Platform beat-'em-up

Aladdin AGA - polished cartoon graphics.
Deliverance - Gods, but fast and gory.
First Samurai, The - Great gameplay, graphics and sound
Hammerfist - Interesting beat-'em-up
Lionheart - beautiful fantasy action.
Onslaught - organised chaos.
Second Samurai - this time with multiplayer.
Switchblade - self mapping platform beat-'em-up.
Switchblade 2 - Japanese console style action.
Yo! Joe! - game with novel touches and multiplayer.
Zool 1&2 - fast moving shoot/beat-'em-up platformer.


Platform Shoot-'em-up

Alien 3 - with added weaponry.
Fire And Ice - more Graftgold magic.
Ghouls 'n' Ghosts - zombie bashing from the arcades.
Ghosts 'n' Goblins - even older than Ghosts
Harlequin - athletic platformer.
Jim Power - scrolling platform shoot-'em-up
The Killing Game Show - a game from Psygnosis.
Midnight Resistance - arcade conversion using one joystick.
Naughty Ones - one and two player flip screen game.
New Zealand Story, The - Kiwi-themed platformer.
Qwak - superb in multiplayer.
Ruff 'n' Tumble - platforms and weaponry.
Sorceror's Apprentice - obscure 3D platform shooter.
Toki - short, but sweet, arcade conversion.
Turrican Trilogy - expansive platform shoot-'em-up.


Puzzle

Bill's Tomato Game - help Bill using fans etc.
Bombuzal - 2D and 3D puzzling.
Clockwiser - block rotating from Rasputin.
Deflektor - guide a beam of light.
Gem'X - tough puzzler.
Klax - Tetris with a conveyor belt.
Lemmings 2: The Tribes - improved Lemmings.
Locomotion - nice little puzzle game.
Pipe Mania/Pipe Dream - frantic pipe connecting.
Plotting - arcade puzzler.
Power, The - block matching puzzling.
Puzznic - more block matching puzzling.
Sentinel, The - unique 3D landscape puzzler.
Shanghai - engrossing memory and observation task.
Statix - mellow see-saw game.
Tower Of Babel - atmospheric, but slow, 3D puzzler
X-It - push blocks round a maze.


Strategy

A-Train - Sim City meets Railroad Tycoon.
Caesar Deluxe - Roman town construction.
Civilization - best game ever!
Colonisation - zoomed in version of Civilization.
Deuteros - space age strategy.
Dune 2 - beginning of a genre.
Lords Of The Realm - PC conversion.
Populous 1&2 - Molyneux's god games.
Powermonger - atmospheric strategy wargame.
Railroad Tycoon - more interesting than you would think.
Settlers, The - full of character.
Sim City Deluxe - classic construction.
Supremacy - spreadsheets made interesting.
Theme Park - more Bullfrog strategy.


Arcade Adventure

Another World - cinema brought to the Amiga.
Castle Master - Freescape exploration.
Corporation - 3D first-person adventure.
Cybercon 3 - 3D sci-fi.
Elite - classic space combat and trading game.
Escape From Colditz - novel action adventure.
Exile - brilliant use of real-world physics.
Flashback - superb follow up to Another World.
Heimdall - Polished Norse adventure.
Hunter - Small (but packed) action adventure
Mercenary 2: Damocles - Huge (but empty) adventure.
Moonstone - travel across a land, beating up monsters.
Wings - Arcade sub-games within a WW1 storyline.
Wizkid - inexplicable game from Sensible.

Thanx for the lists CodyJarrett!!!

Zeewolf

I didn't know bloodnet was out on the Amiga, was it one of the later releases, will it work on an ordinary 1200?

Zeewolf

[CodyJarrett]

There are two versions - A500 and AGA. It should work okay with a normal A1200. However, I wouldn't play it without a hard disk!

It came out in 1995, although the original PC version was 1993.

I'm thinking about purchasing a hard drive for my 1200,
I was wondering, how hard is it to install the HD to the Amiga, I've heard lots of nightmare stories. Do you have to have a soldering iron? I know my mate did when he did his years ago.
Thanx in advance

Zeewolf

[CodyJarrett]

A good solution would be to buy the Power Tower from Power Computing. Follow the instructions to put your motherboard in the tower.

Then get a Power Flyer (also from Power Computing). This is attached to the motherboard.

You can then use cheap 3.5 inch IDE hard disks - there is plenty of space in the tower for it and it connects directly to the Flyer. It is also a fast interface and you can add IDE CD-ROM drives, CD-writers, more hard disks etc. A decent accelerator and more memory is a good idea too.

Of course, this can be expensive. I used to attach a 3.5 inch IDE hard drive inside the A1200 case, but this means some cutting of the metal shield. A basic A1200 is designed to take a 2.5 inch IDE hard drive, but these are hard to find and expensive.

You don't need a soldering iron!

A towered up, accelerated A1200 is great.

[CodyJarrett]

Head on over to http://www.asimpson.abelgratis.co.uk/ for Blood Net A500 and AGA.

If I didn't want to get a hard drive for my Amiga, would I be able to play bloodnet off CD if I bought a CD drive instead? How quick would it run?
I've been thinking of buying a CD drive for a while now, I can't really afford to buy both at the present time.

Thanx

Zeewolf:bounce

[CodyJarrett]

I would really get a hard disk before a CD-ROM drive.

A hard drive should be the root of all upgrades.

All you need to use a 3.5 HD or CD-Rom drive is a 2.5 to 3.5 HD cable and a power splitter cable.

If you need either of these let me know I think I can locate a few still lying around at work.


A better idea is a 2.5 to 3.5 inch converter board not sure if anyone is still doing these now. This allowed you to plug a standard 3.5 IDE cable onto the board and then to any device.

I used to have a HD and CD connected this way.

[Amiga1992]

Originally posted by Stu-Asi
All you need to use a 3.5 HD or CD-Rom drive is a 2.5 to 3.5 HD cable

but thsi one is a bastard to find. Teh board you mention, used to connect 2.5 drives to 3.5 cables, would work a treat. Ive seen it around but never bought it, I had a good adapter planned using this thing

The cable connects to the 2.5 header on the mother board

The 3.5 end into the back of a HD.

The cables I have at work are only very short though..

If anyone needs one let me know!!