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Fuzzy question. For personality you're looking at lots of dialog, and/or lots of expressiveness sharing that. For there to be enough of it to *really* say you've captured a lot of a personality you're looking at a fairly long story game. And Mario (and Sonic and many others) fall way short both in the dialog and expressiveness.
If this is the question, then a character like Roger Rabbit would be the answer. Or maybe any of the characters from movie conversions; this is what they aimed for, even if many movies are not very deep and the stories and characters become cartoony or Marvel(etc)-ey. It becomes even fuzzier if you dismiss the above and go for "famous". Fame is bought and paid for with advertising money and preinstalled/shipped with "default software". Internet Explorer is iconic. Minesweeper is iconic. Mario/Sonic is iconic. I don't think any of those have stories or characters worth anything. If Mario/Sonic is in the poll, to avoid a fuzzy poll it should be say, only about mascot-like characters that got a sequel (same or other platform shouldn't matter; it would only strengthen the iconicity, as in: "Mario was on arcade first, so NES Mario and sequels shouldn't count??") that you could print on a mug or a T-shirt and they would be recognized. I think for this category it should be enough to see the character on a mug and go, "Hey, that's X! I played that on Amiga!". And I think Amiga has some of those. Lemmings, Worms, Beasts, Nebuli, Turricans, Gianas, and lots of previously mentioned ones. |
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What about iconic charcters that aren't the protagonist. The shopkeeper in Xenon 2 for example. |
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S'funny how in the Amiga world even a simplest of topics (and not entirely serious one to boot) can cause hair-splitting & bickering
That aside... ...these guys get it. My initial list was only partially tongue-in-cheek - for me these secondary characters often made the games shine, added lasting impression, and influenced how I remember things. As for more "official" one, I'd count: 1. Guybrush 2. Beast 3. Superfrog 4. James Pond 5. "Indy" Jones 6. Bren McGuire 7. Lemmings 8. Settlers/Cannon Fodders 9 ...? Aside from #1, the ranking can be in any order really. And #7-8 definitely count for me, despite being mass entities. Last edited by dreadnought; 07 April 2024 at 06:33. |
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Indy definitely doesn't count for me, as he's from films rather than games. Guybrush is debatable as his games were all released for the PC first - though I suspect globally the Amiga versions probably outsold the PC ones in the first year or two.
Fair point about the Settlers sprites being quite iconic - little touches like the 'yup' when you give them an instruction, the door-knocking to start the fights, and the animations of them at work, really help. I'm sure Blue Byte considered why Lemmings was so successful when developing it. |
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There are so many to chose from
Superfrog - Superfrog Cpt Reynolds - The Alien Breed series of games James Pond - Esp James pond 2 and 3 Walker - (The mech from the game Walker........unsurprisingly) Cool Coyote - Fire and Ice Worms - Worms 1 & Worms TDC Lemmings - All of the Lemmings games Guybrush Threepwood - Monkey Island series of games Chuck Rock - Chuck Rock 1 & 2 Zool - Zool 1 & 2 Lester Chaykin - Another World Conrad. B. Hart - Flashback Cmdr Jameson - Elite Bren McGuire - Turrican series of games Jools & Jops - Cannon Fodder |
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The Lotus Esprit and Elan SE.
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Of course I would have to say DiscreetFX's Hottie but unfortunately her game is still not out yet. It's still waiting for me to find a proper coder, graphics for the game are already done.
http://www.discreetfx.com/Hottie.html http://www.discreetfx.com/HotEnoughToPlayWith.html |
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the knights from moonstone?, as soon as you see 1 you know exactly where they are from.
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How about Captain Blood?
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To be fair Lemmings are the most instantly recognisable - a lot of people do associate them with the Amiga although it has been released on nearly every format known to man (as mentioned previously on page 1 of this thread)
Rick Dangerous, Turrican & James Pond all good choices as mentioned previously too. Maybe Prince of Persia, although falls into the Lemmings category of available on most formats and was not on the Amiga first either Very hard for others, I will throw some out there but have been on other formats as well: Kick Off 2 players Rocket Ranger Speedball 2 players WizKid (not really a huge hit) |
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