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Megalomaniac · 02 November 2022, 00:03

I'm struggling to be jealous of most of that list. Many of them are on the Amiga with better graphics and sound, and most of the others are just as good on the C64, though sometimes disk-only. And there's a LOT of ghastly CGA and beeper sound in there. Wasteland is a forgotten classic, The Ancient Art of War is probably more important than its obscurity suggests, the first Wizardry has great historical value, and Vette! was pretty innovative (though it got mixed reviews in its day).

Looking at 1991 or earlier on MobyGames, I'm struggling to find much that the Amiga didn't get, beyond Wing Commander, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and Jetfighter II, but you'd need spend £1500 on a PC (which in those days were ugly, charmless boxes with unfriendly text interfaces and a million configurations) to get slightly better games than a £400 A500, was it worth it? The Apogee and early iD stuff might be fondly remembered by PC owners, but it doesn't touch similar Amiga stuff. You needed at least a 486 to match A500 performance on 2D action games. The PC got lots of American classics like the Monkey Islands, Eye of the Beholder and Civilization before us though.

02 November 2022, 00:03	#5
Megalomaniac Registered User Join Date: Sep 2022 Location: Eastbourne Posts: 1,043	I'm struggling to be jealous of most of that list. Many of them are on the Amiga with better graphics and sound, and most of the others are just as good on the C64, though sometimes disk-only. And there's a LOT of ghastly CGA and beeper sound in there. Wasteland is a forgotten classic, The Ancient Art of War is probably more important than its obscurity suggests, the first Wizardry has great historical value, and Vette! was pretty innovative (though it got mixed reviews in its day). Looking at 1991 or earlier on MobyGames, I'm struggling to find much that the Amiga didn't get, beyond Wing Commander, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and Jetfighter II, but you'd need spend £1500 on a PC (which in those days were ugly, charmless boxes with unfriendly text interfaces and a million configurations) to get slightly better games than a £400 A500, was it worth it? The Apogee and early iD stuff might be fondly remembered by PC owners, but it doesn't touch similar Amiga stuff. You needed at least a 486 to match A500 performance on 2D action games. The PC got lots of American classics like the Monkey Islands, Eye of the Beholder and Civilization before us though. Last edited by Megalomaniac; 02 November 2022 at 00:19.