What Software did you actually pay for ?

[Geordie-Jedi]

Hi there guys.

I was wondering what software did you actually pay for ?
This could be Games / Productivity / PD / Shareware / Whatever else /

1. What did you enjoy about the software ?
2. Did you think you got good value from it ?
3. What were the pro's / con's ?
4. Did you get any stinkers ?

Like most people, I was fairly young / teenager when I was using my Amiga
so did not have much disposable income at the time.

So most games that we (my brother and I) owned were "trial" versions
(AKA pirate versions).

However we did buy the odd original. We mainly got 1-2 games per year (for Birthdays and Christmas)
with the odd one bought by pocket money too.
So although there may be a few boxed games in my list, this was over many years of owning an Amiga.


Games:

LOV (Legend Of Valour): I loved role playing games, and was desperate to get
this game. However it was complex, and ran very slowly on our A600.
So my brother convinced me to swap it at the shop for Walker instead !
(Read: hassled me relentlessly until I broke and agreed).


Value for money: Yes-ish, I did enjoy playing it, I think I would have gotten a good bit
of mileage from it. Especially If I'd kept the game.



Walker: (See above)
Value for money: It was fun, if somewhat repetitive.


Frontier Elite 2: (Spend soooooo many hours playing this game BITD).
had the star map poster on my wall.

I had played and loved the original on Speccy and BBC micro.
So I HAD to own this for myself.

I started a brand new game recently (a couple of years ago), on my emulated
Amiga and ploughed another couple of hundred hours into it.

Vale for money: YES !!
I must have spent hundreds of hours playing ths game.


EOTB-2 (Eye Of The Beholder 2): Got the pirate copy, played it a great deal
but couldn't get too far into the game without the manual and the guides.
So saved up and went out and bought the original, as I enjoyed it that much.

Spent many more hours, engrossed in the game. But I couldn't complete it
as it was extremely hard. (I had no BBS or internet access BITD) so I was
reliant upon magazines to provide tips, help and guides.

Recently got the urge again, and have been playing the AGA remastered version
with the auto map feature (a total life saver) but still had to download -
Clue book, map book, and walkthrough's.

I've now completed about 85% of the game.
(I really need to go back and finish it properly).

Value for money: YES !
Totally worth the money back then, very good value (and a large amount of
replay value).


Worms (OCS): (shared with brother) - Absolutely loved this game.
Spent many hours, playing against my bro, and friends from school and college.

Value for money: Yes, definatley


Worms TDC: As the 1st game was incredible fun, and I wanted to see what extras
were available on my shiny new A1200
Again - I spent countless hours playing this myself. with friends, and making
custom levels too.

Trying to get back into making some new custom levels very recently.
However my art skills leave a lot to be desired !

Value for money: Yes - massively so.


Alien Breed 3D 2: I LOVED the original Alien Breed 1, on my CD-32, so again, I HAD to buy
the new version. It ran like a slideshow on my stock A1200, but I did enjoy it.
(It was hard though).

Value for money: Meh - I never managed to get more than a few levels into the
game. It never hooked me like the 1st game.

I'm sure there were a few more (got some budge releases too)
but it's late, and I cant quite remember them ATM.
I'll update this when I remember them.


Notable mentions:

When one of my best friends was getting rid of his Amiga stuff, he gave me a
few boxed games (Frontier Elite 2, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis)
Amongst others.


PD / Shareware:
I did buy some PD and shareware software from mail order BITD
However I can't remember what I bought (annoying as my memory is usually
excellent).

If I remember, I'll edit my post.


So what says you ?

[stx2199]

The last games I bought were onescapee and genetic species
both really worth the money yet are fantastic and exclusive Amiga games

[CCCP alert]

Hmmm I bought a few stinkers, OutRun etc, and that spurred me on to get loads of disk swapping contacts really early so never got ripped off from about 1988 onward.

The extra large 'owl' badge inside Deep Space from Psygnosis was nice, the packaging was high quality too, didn't think much of the game as a person who owned Star Raiders for the Atari 2600 a few years earlier!

I also liked the fact that inside the fold out box of Defender of the Crown (Mirrorsoft UK) it had a nice image of a bag of popcorn with the popcorn spilling out printed inside.

I think The Pawn was something I remember having a quality feel, the box+contents felt heavy, the manual and novella was nice quality for a game and it had a large map and some other stuff (dice etc). I had adventure games before on my C64 but I think Pawn was the first one I actually wanted to play even when I got 'stuck' etc as it had a great Eliza style parser.

The CD case style packaging for Marble Madness felt/looked a bit cheap. ditto F/A 18 interceptor and Skyfox also had the same sort of packaging, whereas on the C64 disk release Skyfox was something memorable and different by contrast, reminded me of a Flash Gordon comic.

Can't really think of any others off hand that had innovative packaging or freebies I liked. I thought the Shadow of the Beast t-shirt looked shit, so I wore it when I was working on my car lol

The B.Vallejo artwork on Sword of Sodan was very cool and the packaging was nice with those two impressive screenshots on the back too and the game was very user friendly as far as loading went because I had two external drives by the time I bought that and it would support the max of 4 drives if you had them but rarely had to change disks with 3 drives. It Came from the Desert with 2 external drives was also a pleasant disk swapping devoid gaming experience but I never bought the original to that so I don't remember the packaging.