First Amiga game you ever witnessed...........

[John Pillow]

Hello all! Mine was a compilation disk (by Quartex i think) that included Arkanoid (can't remember if 1 or 2), Axel's Magic Hammer, Rick Dangerous and… Can't remember what was the last game. How did they manage to squeeze all those games on a single floppy was beyond my comprehension. Rick Dangerous hooked me for days and days and days.

[a-type]

Mine was Double Dragon II. That title music still remains one of my all time favourite pieces of music.

[hattig]

Populous II on a mate's Amiga, back when I had an Amstrad CPC 6128. Amazing.

[stainy]

Think mine was Starglider

Shadow of the Beast!!!!!! Awesome!!!!

[Mark36]

Mine was Speedball on a friends amiga. I had been playing speedball on my c64 earlier so it was a real eye-opener the graphics and the sound you knew the amiga was going to be special. The 8-bit to 16-bit transition was a special era kids today just don't realise and take it for granted.

[Rob 1]

Originally Posted by Mark36

The 8-bit to 16-bit transition was a special era kids today just don't realise and take it for granted.

Oh no! we've all turned into the modern version of the 4 Yorkshire men from the famous Monty Python sketch.

"I used to dream of hav'in an 8 bit"

"You were lucky!"

"But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya"



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http://www.montypython.net/scripts/4york.php

Mine was Sidewinder from Arcadia, a top down shoot em up, it's was the music in Stereo and graphics whooooo, coming from a C64 to that, I nearly pooped me pants !!

Originally Posted by Rockeulven

Mine was Sidewinder from Arcadia, a top down shoot em up, it's was the music in Stereo and graphics whooooo, coming from a C64 to that, I nearly pooped me pants !!

Me to (sort of), Sidewinder was the first game i saw that made me buy a game but it was the "Elgato Demo" running on an A500 in Dixons that sold the Amiga to me.

[RMK]

Originally Posted by Chat Rob 1

I didn’t have a C64 or Spectrum so I went from an Atari 2600 to an Amiga in one jump!!

I made that same jump and it was simply incredible.

[Rob 1]

Originally Posted by RMK

I made that same jump and it was simply incredible.

[neil324]

Not sure of the exact game. I remember buying my first Amiga that came with loads of demo's though from Evesham Micros. One was called 'ugly mug' which was a mug with a face on it spinning. Was amazed by that.

[mikey2002kent]

When my dad first brought home a commodore 64, the first games I played were Klaxx, Freddies Big Top Of Fun and Flimbos Quest.

When The Amiga Appeared one day, the first games I booted up were Stunt Car Racer and Monkey Island, have never looked back.

Every disk that came with it was a copy mind, don't think I had any originals until I started buying some with pocket money. Or found someone at school who could copy something I wanted

[Prosonic]

ooh mine was before i even owned an amiga, i went to vuisit my uncle who had an amiga, street rod and defender of the crown, graphix killed anything on the market was a good 6 years before i could afford one tho

[lesta_smsc]

Cant remember but as I had language pack of A600HD I believe it was Myth!

[Apollo]

Got my first A500 in July 1987 and my first game was "Amiga Karate" followed by "Barbarian" (Psygnosis)

Gosh, the start couldn't be much worse....

[dirkies]

Originally Posted by Apollo

Got my first A500 in July 1987 and my first game was "Amiga Karate"

reminds me of another oldie which was one of the first games I loaded into my miggy, Ninja Mission, quite fun back then.

http://hol.abime.net/980

Well the first one I cannot remember the title, it was few years before I bought my own Amiga.
I walked over to my mates place to swap some Atari XE games and he showed me his new Amiga 500

So like I said I don't know the title and to this day I have not seen this game again but the second game we played was Vixen! and I still have it!

Btw, the game in question was a platform action game, the main character had a body of a human but a head of an ape I believe. Platforms to jump and items to collect, I cannot remember the enemies or anything else

[lesta_smsc]

Originally Posted by PO15KA

Well the first one I cannot remember the title, it was few years before I bought my own Amiga.
I walked over to my mates place to swap some Atari XE games and he showed me his new Amiga 500

So like I said I don't know the title and to this day I have not seen this game again but the second game we played was Vixen! and I still have it!

Btw, the game in question was a platform action game, the main character had a body of a human but a head of an ape I believe. Platforms to jump and items to collect, I cannot remember the enemies or anything else

Was it Toki?! Although that's the other way round?

[quahappy]

Originally Posted by Rockeulven

Mine was Sidewinder from Arcadia, a top down shoot em up, it's was the music in Stereo and graphics whooooo, coming from a C64 to that, I nearly pooped me pants !!

Blimey. Sidewinder was a tough game! Yes, I remember the great music too and the digitized title screen (was that in HAM mode?). The in-game SFX were excellent too.