Amiga games you loved, but looking back... weren't very good.

[Megalomaniac]

I did get something out of Body Blows back in the day, though this was the faster second version, but with hindsight even that is well short of what even a one-button Amiga was capable of for beat 'em ups - less than half the price of SNES Street Fighter II, but barely half as good. Sadly Shadow Fighter and Fightin' Spirit came too late, and Elfmania's wonderful game engine wasn't matched by good design.

Also Simpsons - Bart Vs the Space Mutants, one of my first Amiga games, which played now is really frustrating and excessively difficult with some illogical puzzles, especially considering the age range it was aimed at. And you can only hear 'Eat My Shorts' without getting annoyed.

[oscar_ates]

I enjoyed only from Mortal Kombat I-II on my Amiga. Rest of the fighting games on Amiga was trash. I played SF2, Body Blows, Elfmania, Rise of the Robots on my A500. And on A1200, Fighting Spirit, ShaqFu, Shadow Fighter, Primal Rage all bad in my opinion and plays like an a$$.

Only issue with Mortal Kombat on Amiga was the removal of all background animations. That made it a bit dull.

[Seiya]

Originally Posted by sokolovic

Because you obviously didn't played Colonization. Or the Settlers. Or Cannon Fodder. Etc etc.

cannon fodder and Settlers i played.
The first it was very nice, but in long run become tiring and ripetitve.
The second funny for the first missions, but it's a very long games. Maybe i was more impressed by Warcraft series, similar in concept, but more intriguing.

Colonization and Civilization are not my genre

[Lilura]

Originally Posted by Seiya

Settlers

Yep, this one for me as well. On a technical and audio-visual level it's great, but the depth of gameplay just isn't there.

Fun to play with a friend on the Amiga with 2x mouse, not so much in single-player mode.

There were much better strategy games than the Settlers in 1993. Indeed, long before 1993. Strategy games that I've never stopped playing even after 30 years. Now that's what I call replayability.

And then I wrote 100 articles on one of those strategy games in the 2022... and I'm still playing that game in 2024. How odd.

But the Settlers came out too late. And it was too little too late.

The SVGA 640x480 sequel was just more of the same... a snoozefest.

I guess the Settlers caught on because it's a strategy game for "casuals". It looks pretty and you can watch things happen while you ponder the complexity of its underlying code.

That said, I still have fond memories of the Settlers.

[Cimmerian]

Dragon's Lair,Space Ace games.

[Adropac2]

I really can't think of any game that I don't enjoy today that I did. They all play exactly as I remember. There's different factors I guess but it's only the games where I'm not again used to the subtleties that I don't immediately gel to them but then given a little time I'm right back in. I think a lot of it depends on your mindset