First Amiga game you ever witnessed........... - Page 10

Minuous · 31 August 2006, 15:01

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Qube · 31 August 2006, 21:25

First game I witnessed was Lemmings, I was hooked and never left

Superb game.

wanderer · 01 September 2006, 01:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by gimbal

The first game I saw on my Amiga was either Turbo Outrun, Wonderboy in Monsterland or Xybots. I think it was Turbo Outrun, I know I really wanted a racing game back then (luckily I got Lotus 2, Supercars 2 and Super Monaco GP not long after turbo outrun...)

Thank God it wasn't Outrun... you'd still be running away from the Amiga!

shillard · 24 September 2006, 12:20

Defender of the Crown on an A1000 in a department store - I had it on my C64, and it was awesome.

Then the A500 came out, I got one almost as soon as they were released in Australia, along with two games - F/A-18 Interceptor and Fairy Tale Adventure.

Reading a magazine review of F/A-18 a few months earlier convinced me that I had to upgrade. It was a hell of a jump from "Combat Pilot" and "F-19 Stealth Fighter" on the C64!

rebelli0n · 26 September 2006, 10:27

Barbarian at a school fete in 87 or early 88. It was some kind of funday thing where you could pay 50p for a game on the new fangled amiga 500 that i presume was either the schools, (which would be odd for a UK school at the time , with their BBC/Acorn love), or belonged to someone associated with the school.

I Think i died immediately on the second screen , i didn't have a chance! stupid trap!

But i came away with a very good impression of the amiga

Seeing Shadow of the Beast for the first time was one of those rare moments where everything i knew about games was blown away and just stood there awe. Thats only happened a few times, Outrun in the arcade, the first time I saw doom on the PC perhaps (a bittersweet experience for an amiga lover).

i used to just watch the rolling demo of SOTB for ages in shops, i never tired of it, until i could finally play it at home of course.

cosmiq · 26 September 2006, 12:26

My first game was 'Pinball Wizzard' as it was provided with the amiga. One of the first GOOD games I ever witnessed was Turrican II, and that stuck to my life for quite a period ;-)

DanE · 26 September 2006, 14:00

I got off to a good start, Another World - I went to my mates house and he had a A500, when i saw that intro i had to get an amiga and badgered my parents for months, Then when christmas came bingo an A600.

jaycee · 07 October 2006, 01:21

First saw Shadow Of The Beast on the Amiga in 1989 in a store, the parallax scrolling of the title screen just blew me away compared to what the ZX Spectrum could do at the time. First played - Lemmings with my A600 in xmas 92. I seem to recall new years' day was spent mostly fiddling with AMOS though

DamienD · 07 October 2006, 01:28

Haven't answered in this thread yet, I guess now is as good a time as any...

First game I ever witnessed was Double Dragon on a friend's Amiga.

First game I ever played on my own Amiga 500 must have been Battle Chess or F/A-18 Interceptor

Many more games followed

aldo · 08 October 2006, 03:55

Before my Amiga I had an Atari ST; so every game seemed good after that

aldo · 08 October 2006, 04:01

oh yes, my first Amiga game was stunt car racer, I also collected all the Magnetic Scrolls adventures

woody.cool · 12 October 2006, 12:34

I bought my first Amiga in Dixons - it was my Amiga 500+ (still owned by me now) and was the Cartoon Classics pack that was advertised on the telly all the time, containing:

Lemmings
Captain Planet & The Planeteers
The Simpsons: Bart vs The Space Mutants

Deluxe Paint III
Workbench 2.04 (+ Extras & Fonts)

So really my first game must of been one of the top three listed. It was Lemmings that was on the first time I visited Dixons to see what I could request for Xmas from my folks! The next time I was in there, I saw Bart vs The Space Mutants. Every other time I went in there I just saw a purple screen with a multi-coloured tick and a disk being inserted into a drive (don't you just love the Kickstart 2.x/3.x startup screen)!

Anyway - when xmas finally came I saw this really big box in the corner and obviously had to be left till last (out family xmas tradition) so I unwrapped all my smaler presents really quickly and I got some really good stuff - Now the biggy - I unwrapped the Amiga 500+ - Oooh! The excitement

I've loved and cherished my beloved A500+ ever since!

MrA600HD · 24 October 2006, 21:09

First one EVER ?

Xenon 2 !!

I remember thinking how much better it was than the Atari ST version !

MainCore · 02 November 2006, 18:17

...playing Mindwalker during august/september 1985 on my very first Amiga 1000. Archon was runner-up.

Cassius · 02 November 2006, 18:27

My first?

Yes! Star Trek - The Future Of Mankind.

I was a little boy, who only knews the gamesounds of the good old Schneider CPC and the old atari st of my brother.

We were on visit at my other brother, who was at this time an real computer freak. he had at this time ataris and amigas... I dind`t know how effective an amiga was, my opinion was: Atari is better, because we`ve got one of it.

Little Cassius was an Star Trek freak too, so my brother let my sit down to the amiga. i did`t know what happend...

...The Amiga was booting. She was sounded on the hifi. Star Trek was starting...

The room was dark, it was autumn on the streets...

...The Title-Screen

Me:

"Wah! Digitized sounds!"

The next shock: "The Bridge sounds like the real enterprise"

after 2-3 hours i know which computer i must have!

This was my first amiga-game, which has infected my by the amiga-virus. hehe

03 November 2006, 12:43

In 1989, when I bought my Amiga 500, my father brought me 3 games from an collegue at work. They where

Marble Madness
Test Drive
Insanity Fight

Cassius · 05 November 2006, 02:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by the_Agent

Test Drive

"Autobahns are made for You!"

This was one of my first Amiga-Games too.

Tweeky · 05 November 2006, 20:24

im not sure

,
it was Katakis or Nort & South
i played both much

trackah123 · 20 December 2006, 22:38

my first game was "Duck Tales - The Quest for Gold" .. with that old fairlight intro.. i got that game from my uncle when i was like 10 years old.. on my birthday when i got my first amiga 500 ...

boy i was so happy that day.. nowadays i wouldnt be even that happy when i get a geforce 8800 GTX

amiga feels and still feels more value to me then a high-spec PC.. im 24 now lol.. and i got my amiga 500 back (it still works after some dust cleaning inside YAY

QUALITY I SAY) .. these things wont die

.. its the same amiga as i got from my birthday (sold it to my neighbour 10 years ago).. now i bought it back.. he had it on the attic all that time LOL .. its only a bit yellowish..

macce2 · 20 December 2006, 22:44

My first contact with the Amiga (A500) was playing Outrun..
god, it was 8and still is, ..er?! ;-) ) great! That music, ah..
and the graphics, so much better than in c64

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31 August 2006, 21:25	#182
Qube Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: England Posts: 218	First game I witnessed was Lemmings, I was hooked and never left Superb game.

24 September 2006, 12:20	#184
shillard Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Newcastle / Australia Posts: 143	Defender of the Crown on an A1000 in a department store - I had it on my C64, and it was awesome. Then the A500 came out, I got one almost as soon as they were released in Australia, along with two games - F/A-18 Interceptor and Fairy Tale Adventure. Reading a magazine review of F/A-18 a few months earlier convinced me that I had to upgrade. It was a hell of a jump from "Combat Pilot" and "F-19 Stealth Fighter" on the C64!

26 September 2006, 10:27	#185
rebelli0n Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: UK Posts: 13	Barbarian at a school fete in 87 or early 88. It was some kind of funday thing where you could pay 50p for a game on the new fangled amiga 500 that i presume was either the schools, (which would be odd for a UK school at the time , with their BBC/Acorn love), or belonged to someone associated with the school. I Think i died immediately on the second screen , i didn't have a chance! stupid trap! But i came away with a very good impression of the amiga Seeing Shadow of the Beast for the first time was one of those rare moments where everything i knew about games was blown away and just stood there awe. Thats only happened a few times, Outrun in the arcade, the first time I saw doom on the PC perhaps (a bittersweet experience for an amiga lover). i used to just watch the rolling demo of SOTB for ages in shops, i never tired of it, until i could finally play it at home of course.

26 September 2006, 12:26	#186
cosmiq Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Holland Age: 41 Posts: 314	My first game was 'Pinball Wizzard' as it was provided with the amiga. One of the first GOOD games I ever witnessed was Turrican II, and that stuck to my life for quite a period ;-)

26 September 2006, 14:00	#187
DanE Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Lincoln, England Age: 46 Posts: 113	I got off to a good start, Another World - I went to my mates house and he had a A500, when i saw that intro i had to get an amiga and badgered my parents for months, Then when christmas came bingo an A600.

07 October 2006, 01:21	#188
jaycee Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Norwich, UK Posts: 57	First saw Shadow Of The Beast on the Amiga in 1989 in a store, the parallax scrolling of the title screen just blew me away compared to what the ZX Spectrum could do at the time. First played - Lemmings with my A600 in xmas 92. I seem to recall new years' day was spent mostly fiddling with AMOS though

07 October 2006, 01:28	#189
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Haven't answered in this thread yet, I guess now is as good a time as any... First game I ever witnessed was Double Dragon on a friend's Amiga. First game I ever played on my own Amiga 500 must have been Battle Chess or F/A-18 Interceptor Many more games followed

08 October 2006, 03:55	#190
aldo Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Scotland Posts: 125	Before my Amiga I had an Atari ST; so every game seemed good after that

08 October 2006, 04:01	#191
aldo Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Scotland Posts: 125	oh yes, my first Amiga game was stunt car racer, I also collected all the Magnetic Scrolls adventures

12 October 2006, 12:34	#192
woody.cool Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wakefield UK Age: 41 Posts: 119	I bought my first Amiga in Dixons - it was my Amiga 500+ (still owned by me now) and was the Cartoon Classics pack that was advertised on the telly all the time, containing: Lemmings Captain Planet & The Planeteers The Simpsons: Bart vs The Space Mutants Deluxe Paint III Workbench 2.04 (+ Extras & Fonts) So really my first game must of been one of the top three listed. It was Lemmings that was on the first time I visited Dixons to see what I could request for Xmas from my folks! The next time I was in there, I saw Bart vs The Space Mutants. Every other time I went in there I just saw a purple screen with a multi-coloured tick and a disk being inserted into a drive (don't you just love the Kickstart 2.x/3.x startup screen)! Anyway - when xmas finally came I saw this really big box in the corner and obviously had to be left till last (out family xmas tradition) so I unwrapped all my smaler presents really quickly and I got some really good stuff - Now the biggy - I unwrapped the Amiga 500+ - Oooh! The excitement I've loved and cherished my beloved A500+ ever since!

24 October 2006, 21:09	#193
MrA600HD In rust, we trust. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: HERTS, UK Age: 47 Posts: 33	First one EVER ? Xenon 2 !! I remember thinking how much better it was than the Atari ST version !

02 November 2006, 18:27	#195
Cassius Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 18	My first? Yes! Star Trek - The Future Of Mankind. I was a little boy, who only knews the gamesounds of the good old Schneider CPC and the old atari st of my brother. We were on visit at my other brother, who was at this time an real computer freak. he had at this time ataris and amigas... I dind`t know how effective an amiga was, my opinion was: Atari is better, because we`ve got one of it. Little Cassius was an Star Trek freak too, so my brother let my sit down to the amiga. i did`t know what happend... ...The Amiga was booting. She was sounded on the hifi. Star Trek was starting... The room was dark, it was autumn on the streets... ...The Title-Screen Me: "Wah! Digitized sounds!" The next shock: "The Bridge sounds like the real enterprise" after 2-3 hours i know which computer i must have! This was my first amiga-game, which has infected my by the amiga-virus. hehe

03 November 2006, 12:43	#196
the_Agent Posts: n/a	In 1989, when I bought my Amiga 500, my father brought me 3 games from an collegue at work. They where Marble Madness Test Drive Insanity Fight

05 November 2006, 20:24	#198
Tweeky Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 308	im not sure , it was Katakis or Nort & South i played both much

20 December 2006, 22:38	#199
trackah123 Amiga User Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Delft / The Netherlands Posts: 327	my first game was "Duck Tales - The Quest for Gold" .. with that old fairlight intro.. i got that game from my uncle when i was like 10 years old.. on my birthday when i got my first amiga 500 ... boy i was so happy that day.. nowadays i wouldnt be even that happy when i get a geforce 8800 GTX amiga feels and still feels more value to me then a high-spec PC.. im 24 now lol.. and i got my amiga 500 back (it still works after some dust cleaning inside YAY QUALITY I SAY) .. these things wont die .. its the same amiga as i got from my birthday (sold it to my neighbour 10 years ago).. now i bought it back.. he had it on the attic all that time LOL .. its only a bit yellowish..

20 December 2006, 22:44	#200
macce2 Retro maniac Join Date: May 2005 Location: Finland Age: 49 Posts: 1,222	My first contact with the Amiga (A500) was playing Outrun.. god, it was 8and still is, ..er?! ;-) ) great! That music, ah.. and the graphics, so much better than in c64

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