Worst Amiga Ports

[alkis21]

In theory it makes sense, but when I was 12 years old I didn't even know those fancy words such as scrolling and sprite collision, I just picked up my joystick and played. In theory I shouldn't have liked Shinobi, but I did.

[Retro-Nerd]

And it's nothing wrong with that you liked it. But that's not the point imo.

Total Recall on the Spectrum played far better than the Amiga version. And the Spectrum version was produced in THREE weeks after the original programmers made a mess of it.

[dlfrsilver]

active minds, get out of this bodyyy XD

[Jope]

Originally Posted by alkis21

Well, not everything is black or white. A game can be worse than its arcade equivalent and still be a good game. Perhaps if you hadn't played the other version, you would enjoy it more because now all you can think of is how badly it compares.

Precisely. I loved the Amiga port of The New Zealand Story as a kid. Played it to death.

Then a lot of time went by without me touching TNZS on any platform.

After I got into arcade collecting I purchased TNZS as a JAMMA PCB and played that to death. Then just to see how it was on the Amiga, I booted up the Amiga version after all these years.

Where are my colours? Why is this running at only 25fps? Why are the levels truncated and some of the warps missing? Aaargh. I can't play the Amiga port ever again. :-)

It's not a bad port after all, but the Amiga could have done much better.

[Leffmann]

King's Quest V. I can't get my head around how incredibly slow and sluggish it is.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Leffmann

King's Quest V. I can't get my head around how incredibly slow and sluggish it is.

Second that... you have to enable 'warp' mode in an emulator to make it playable Plus the conversion of the colours from VGA is quite 'suboptimal'.

[NovaCoder]

Originally Posted by TCD

Second that... you have to enable 'warp' mode in an emulator to make it playable Plus the conversion of the colours from VGA is quite 'suboptimal'.

Anyone tried it on ScummVM AGA using the PC game data? It probably looks quite good now

[Asman]

For meTiger Road.

[Leffmann]

Bad Dudes reaches a new low.

[Galder]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

I was looking through some Amiga videos on youtube and found a couple of games which were so bad that I had to share them.

Castlevania:

I've always enjoyed the Castlevania games, I was aware there was a C64 version of the first game but I had no idea there was also an Amiga version. This has to be the jerkiest, most unplayable heap of crap ever released on the Amiga computer. I have no idea how they thought it was suitable to release it in this condition.

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Super C:

Brilliant arcade game that the Amiga could have quite easily done perfectly. Instead we were provided with this rubbish.

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Jeeeeez... how the HECK did they manage to make such a CRAPY Castlevania?! I wasn't aware of its existence and I regret that I am aware of it now...

As I said in another thread, Rolling Thunder!

1) Small sprites in a small area.
2) Game running at almost 4 FPS.
3) Jerky scrolling.
4) Non-responsive controls.
5) All the enemies have all the same colors, while in the coin-op there were a lot of different ones.
6) No continues.
7) The music is a loop of the first notes of the original coin-op, making it horrible.

... can't believe there really was a magazine that pointed out almost all of this, yet still dared to say:"... we can pass over those things and say that it is a wonderful games that is going to set new stardards for the Amiga in the future!"...

BLEAH!!!!

[saimon69]

Among the black beasts for me:

-Street fighter I and II
-Strider
-Outrun (turbo outrun affect me less but is still 5h17)
-Hard Drivin
-Black Tiger
-Ghouls'n'Ghosts
-Power Drift
-Galaxy Force
-Shinobi
-Pacland
-Chase HQ

Wish there was an Amiga Arcade Conversions Remake project so that finally those bad sores would be cured

[desiv]

Outrun with perspective, definitely.
I have to admit that I loved Outrun in the arcade so much at the time, and didn't think the Amiga could do it anyway, so even a really really bad Outrun didn't seem as bad to me..
(At least till I saw some other Amiga driving games (Lotus II) and realized it could/should have been SO much better)

But the one I really remember being disappointed with was SideArms. ;-(

I really liked that arcade game, and having seen Amiga games like R-Type, I was thinking this could be a great port.
But as I remember, it was just so slow... (fuzzy or is that real? It's been a long time..)

desiv

[saimon69]

@desiv

The port was made by Factor-5, same people as Turrican and Katakis/Denaris, but i guess short dev time and still little experience on Amiga Hardware had the best on them...

[Shatterhand]

Originally Posted by JudasEZT

You can avoid those slowdowns by loading the game in NTSC mode. Also worked with R-Type 2, in NTSC you got perfect constant framerate.

How do I do that?

[Retro-Nerd]

For WHLoad version = put the NTSC tooltype in the game icon or load the disk image with a NTSC Amiga setup.

[Shatterhand]

I always load WHDLoad from the CLI , I just type " whdload rtype2.slave " and that's all.

[Amiga1992]

You can add the options after the slave art, I think.
Type "whdload ?" at the CLI to see how it should be invoked.

[Bastich]

I loved Bubble Bobble on the Arcade (10p used to last like 30+ minutes), the C64 version was great, the Spectrum version played good even thou it it looked quite terrible.The Amiga version even though it looked and sounded great played terribly. The collision detection was to blame as it was just to mean in comparison to all the other versions that I have played.

I still have fond memories of The New Zealand Story. It may not have been the same quality as the arcade version but it played good.

Compared to such utter rubbish such as Outrun and Super C they both look like almost perfect games however.