Greatest pre-Amiga games not available on Amiga

[MazinKaesar]

Centaury Alliance and Wasteland.

[Axxy]

Did Dun Durach, Tir Na Nog, Chuckie Egg, System 15000 or Starion ever make it to the amiga?

[TCD]

Chuckie Egg did.

[hitchhikr]

Omnitrend's Universe.

[Predseda]

I simply loved R.I.S.K. from The Edge and also liked Motos from Mastertronic. And not to mention great The Master of magic (all C64), which I really can imagine remade for Amiga...

[mr_a500]

Originally Posted by Mequa

- Rescue on Fractalus, Ballblazer and Koronis Rift from LucasFilm on the Atari 800 series. All included advanced 3D or pseudo-3D effects which made them stunning on an 8-bit machine. Amiga ports of all 3 would have been awesome.

There is an Amiga port of Ballblazer - and it's pretty damn good.
Masterblazer: http://hol.abime.net/2420 (screenshot is from the optional "race" part, not main game)

In the intro, there's even a fractal mountain flyby that looks like Rescue on Fractalus - which is what made me start this thread in the first place.

Originally Posted by Raggot

Am I the only one who noticed the whole "pre-Amiga" thing? Most of these games were released after 1985.

Anyway, my choices:

Choplifter, Karateka, and The Oregon Trail, on the Apple II

[...]

Gradius, Joust, Robotron, and lots of other arcade games that I can't remember at the moment.

For Choplifter, check out
Apocalypse: http://hol.abime.net/3282

For Robotron, check out
Llamatron: http://hol.abime.net/4970

(I did also say, "games that have never been converted/cloned/copied in any form". Yeah, llamas aren't robots... but close enough.)

Originally Posted by AB Positive

Or you can get a Sio2PC and not have to worry about disks, or drives. Streaming images off your computer to the A8. It's how I do it, and makes any disk swapping take seconds instead of minutes.

I've got this:


SD card reader for Atari 8-bit. It's awesome. I copy disk images from Amiga to Atari. Game loading is fast (well, compared to floppy loading). I've even typed stuff on an Atari wordprocessor, saved it on SD, loaded it on Amiga, then sent it on the internet. (Why? - because I can, damn it!)

[Belgarath]

Originally Posted by AB Positive

Tail of Beta Lyrae

if you've not heard of this gem, dig out an A8 emulator and give it a shot. The music and sound are underrated as well, one of my faves.

Also - would've loved to see an updated version of Drol - another 8-bit favorite of mine.

You know there's an Amiga PD version of Drol? http://hol.abime.net/436

[roberthazelby]

SabreWulf and Underwurlde.

Work on both titles was actually underway on both games (the idea was that the coders would license the titles from Ultimate), and screenshots even appeared in Amiga mags.

Sadly neither saw the light of day.

[jabsy]

Bruce Lee on C64.

Love that game.

[vidarh]

Aztec Challenge.

[deicidal]

Originally Posted by vidarh

Aztec Challenge.

http://hol.abime.net/4856
Seem to remember it been pretty good.

And I agree with the above bruce lee was a cracking game, didnt they also do Zorro which was also pretty good

[vidarh]

Originally Posted by deicidal

http://hol.abime.net/4856
Seem to remember it been pretty good.

Interesting. Though I looked at a longplay of it on youtube, and it looks like they've lifted the graphics almost directly from the C64 without any improvements to take advantage of the Amiga, which is a bit disappointing.

Though I also found a video of a PC remake that, while the graphics looked polished just didn't seem to have the atmosphere of the original, so maybe it's for the best that they left it as is.

[deicidal]

Bak 2 Skool and Contact Sam Cruise for the spectrum where really good as well

[commie1974]

Second round from me, after loooong!!

Well, the mighty "Heavy on the Magick" from ZX Spectrum, "Tau Ceti" from CPC and "Driller" from C64 could be awesome on miggy...

[hitchhikr]

If you're talking about this driller then it always have been available on Amiga

[commie1974]

Originally Posted by hitchhikr

If you're talking about this driller then it always have been available on Amiga

Man, after 22 years of happy Amiga-fiddling, here's something I didn't expect to see!!! Thanks!
In fact I never searched for this one on miggy, but I was somehow sure that it hadn't been released for 68k..
Gonna try it on my real stuff at once!!

[s2325]

The Goonies for AROS: http://aminet.net/game/jump/GooniesRM.lha
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50.../aros/gon1.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50.../aros/gon2.jpg

[IFW]

wow, is it the remake of the C64 game?

[deicidal]

Originally Posted by s2325

The Goonies for AROS: http://aminet.net/game/jump/GooniesRM.lha
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50.../aros/gon1.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50.../aros/gon2.jpg

fantastic I loved that game on the old atari 8 bit

[TCD]

For those who aren't on AROS, here's the Windows download as well : http://thegoonies.zxq.net/downloads.html