Best 'Multiplayer' Game

02 July 2002, 15:04

Which are the top 3 'multiplayer' (hot seat, split screen, null modem etc.) games on the Amiga?

My Picks:

Battle Isle
Bundesliga Manager Professional
Sensible Soccer

Drake1009 · 02 July 2002, 15:38

My top 3 would be

1. Lotus 2
2. Settlers
3. Naughty ones

(Of course I haven't played that many other games multiplayer, Pang, and Lupo Alberto are the only 2 other games I remember multiplayering)

02 July 2002, 16:23

I remember a lot of games suitable for more than one player at the same time.

Most sport games were multiplayer enabled (Kick Off, Sensible Soccer, Manchester United Football, Wayne Gretzky Hockey, TV Sports Basketball, Lotus etc.).

But there are others like most Managing games (Bundesliga Manager, Eishockey Manager) and some strategy games like the Battle Isle series and History Line (I'm not sure if Powermonger and Popolous were multiplayer games too). Civilization and Colonization definitely were.

And then there were other like Ports of Call.

Big-Byte · 02 July 2002, 16:32

My top 3....

1. Populous - absolutely fantastic.. Games could go on for hours.
2. Stunt Car Racer. Really good fun..
3. Skychase

Korodny · 02 July 2002, 17:16

1. Blitzbombers (with four-player adaptor) - We still have a BB session (which usually lasts at least three hours) every few weeks over here.

2. Speedball 2 - One of my all time favourites, even in singleplayer mode. Perfect two player game: fast gameplay and aggressive atmosphere. And you can always blame destiny afterwards ("you had much more money and the better powerups!")

3. SWOS - for the same reasons as speedball 2 ("your f***ing keeper is way to good, that's unfair!")

And the runner-up would be M.U.L.E./Subtrade. Brilliant "realtime strategy"

wich proofes that the best games often have a very simply set of rules. Unfortunately, I'm out of M.U.L.E oppenents atm.

RetroMan · 02 July 2002, 17:47

I will vote for :

1.) Stunt Car Racer
2.) FreeCiv (GREAT Civilization Clone

)
3.) HBMonopoly (which is really fun playing with 8 other guys online

)

Djay · 02 July 2002, 18:21

1. The Settlers
2. DynaBlaster (Bomberman)
3. The Chaos Engine

Bloodwych · 02 July 2002, 19:35

1. Bloodwych
2. Bloodwych Data Disk
3. Speedball 2

Amiga1992 · 02 July 2002, 19:41

In no partivular order:

- Micro Machines
- Arcade Pool
- SWOS

03 July 2002, 01:05

My choices would have to be:-

1... Sensi Soccer
2... Stunt Car Racer
3... Bloodwych or Dynablaster (Too tough a decision to pick one outright!)

Matt D`Wrecker · 03 July 2002, 02:19

My three choices would have to be:-

1. SWOS. It is just the greatest!

Need I say more?

2. Worms. Great to play after a bad day, getting medieval on those worm a****s is a great stress reliever!

3. Sensi Golf. Nice weather, nice scenery, v.v relaxing and all without the burden of a heavy bag of clubs or a 5 mile hike!!

03 July 2002, 02:25

@Matt D'Wrecker

Sensi Gof has to be the hardest golf game Ive ever played in my life, the swingmeter goes way to quick for my liking!

Also the greens are a nightmare to play!:eek
Though I must admit it is very funny especially when drunk playing it with your m8's like I happened to be doing on Sunday night!

th4t1guy · 03 July 2002, 03:04

1) Worms: DC - this was always one of my favorite 2 player games of all

2) Hired Guns - too bad they cancelled the PC version. It looked really promising

3) Knights - this was some PD game off Aminet that I used to play to death

Shatterhand · 03 July 2002, 05:44

Do I need to choose only 3??

Hmm

The following are the ones I played the most with my friends

SWOS
Micro Machines
Sensible Golf.

But we also played a lot Great Courts 2, Brutal Sports Football. F1GP (trying to make the best lap times)...

Stunt Car Race is probably great with 2 players. Dynablaster gottabe great with 4 playes, but I don't have an adaptor

(But I've played Bomberman in others consoles with 4 players many times, it's just great !

)

th4t1guy · 03 July 2002, 05:59

Quote:

BTW, Hired Guns was indeed released on PC. I've played it multiplayer some time ago and it's really great! Not as smooth as the Amiga version, but still a good conversion.

Actually, I meant the PC remake using the unreal engine. There's a bunch of screenshots floating around the net somewhere, and I even remember there being an mpg at one time, however this was several years ago, and I doubt it will ever resurface.

03 July 2002, 06:30

My best Multiplayer's on Amiga, the only ones I had experience multi'ing on:

Battle Isle + Battle Isle Moon of Chromos - Great strategy between a couple of players (hot seat). It was pretty easy against the CPU, except for maybe a couple of the missions, but when you tried to use the same tactics you used against the CPU with a human player, things got very strategic. Every unit became extremely important, but what a bugger when a group of 5 no-stars light troopers would take out 3 of your 5 5-star heavy troopers.

And...

Deluxe Galaga! 2 players at once! Me & my brother used to go marathon on that thing...the most extreme I remember was like 9 hours straight, no sh*t. We went through the 75 levels like 3 times, then another 50, to around 400 levels. Our scores were so high, they didn't even display right at the top the screen, just a bunch of garbled characters. It was like we broke the thing, so my brother put in for his high-score name "Hulk Smash". We used all the tricks for finding the money ships, and we really needed all the cash we could get to keep going. As good as we were, the asteroid belt part was never a 'gimme'. We'd get through a couple times by luck, and get those bonuses, but that was always a 'maybe make it or not' part. Yeah, I know, "get a life", but it was something me and my brother could share that brought us together.

And Chaos Engine, 2 players at once. Great game.

03 July 2002, 12:26

hmmm... three you say...? thats not fair there were loads that were good fun! ok though here we go...

sensible soccer for reasons mentioned elsewhere
dynamite warriors (bomberman clone - very good fun!)
gravity force 2 - a very simple but fiendishly addictive game... "GO!" "BINGO!" - spent days on this on 2 player trying to shave tenths of a second off laptimes etc...!

Matt D`Wrecker · 03 July 2002, 20:11

Quote:

Originally posted by Zeewolf
@Matt D'Wrecker

Sensi Gof has to be the hardest golf game Ive ever played in my life, the swingmeter goes way to quick for my liking!
Also the greens are a nightmare to play!:eek
Though I must admit it is very funny especially when drunk playing it with your m8's like I happened to be doing on Sunday night!

What??

:eek Have you the reactions of Brian Deane! :suspiciou Never really found it that tricky although being drunk does have a huge influence on the score i`ve found!

:laugh

blackcornflake · 03 July 2002, 20:11

True, Sensi Golf is a piece of cake.

*Matt D`Wrecker wishes he was as good at Sensi Golf as yours truly...*

Matt D`Wrecker · 03 July 2002, 20:19

Quote:

Originally posted by blackcornflake
True, Sensi Golf is a piece of cake.

*Matt D`Wrecker wishes he was as good at Sensi Golf as yours truly...*

*Choking on cup of tea*

02 July 2002, 15:04	#1
olliplex Posts: n/a	Best 'Multiplayer' Game Which are the top 3 'multiplayer' (hot seat, split screen, null modem etc.) games on the Amiga? My Picks: Battle Isle Bundesliga Manager Professional Sensible Soccer

03 July 2002, 06:30	#16
Epsilon Posts: n/a	Multi's My best Multiplayer's on Amiga, the only ones I had experience multi'ing on: Battle Isle + Battle Isle Moon of Chromos - Great strategy between a couple of players (hot seat). It was pretty easy against the CPU, except for maybe a couple of the missions, but when you tried to use the same tactics you used against the CPU with a human player, things got very strategic. Every unit became extremely important, but what a bugger when a group of 5 no-stars light troopers would take out 3 of your 5 5-star heavy troopers. And... Deluxe Galaga! 2 players at once! Me & my brother used to go marathon on that thing...the most extreme I remember was like 9 hours straight, no sh*t. We went through the 75 levels like 3 times, then another 50, to around 400 levels. Our scores were so high, they didn't even display right at the top the screen, just a bunch of garbled characters. It was like we broke the thing, so my brother put in for his high-score name "Hulk Smash". We used all the tricks for finding the money ships, and we really needed all the cash we could get to keep going. As good as we were, the asteroid belt part was never a 'gimme'. We'd get through a couple times by luck, and get those bonuses, but that was always a 'maybe make it or not' part. Yeah, I know, "get a life", but it was something me and my brother could share that brought us together. And Chaos Engine, 2 players at once. Great game.

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02 July 2002, 15:38	#2
Drake1009 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Denmark Posts: 2,284	My top 3 would be 1. Lotus 2 2. Settlers 3. Naughty ones (Of course I haven't played that many other games multiplayer, Pang, and Lupo Alberto are the only 2 other games I remember multiplayering)

02 July 2002, 16:23	#3
olliplex Posts: n/a	I remember a lot of games suitable for more than one player at the same time. Most sport games were multiplayer enabled (Kick Off, Sensible Soccer, Manchester United Football, Wayne Gretzky Hockey, TV Sports Basketball, Lotus etc.). But there are others like most Managing games (Bundesliga Manager, Eishockey Manager) and some strategy games like the Battle Isle series and History Line (I'm not sure if Powermonger and Popolous were multiplayer games too). Civilization and Colonization definitely were. And then there were other like Ports of Call.

02 July 2002, 16:32	#4
Big-Byte Long time member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: UK Posts: 754	My top 3.... 1. Populous - absolutely fantastic.. Games could go on for hours. 2. Stunt Car Racer. Really good fun.. 3. Skychase

02 July 2002, 17:16	#5
Korodny Zone Friend Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 812	1. Blitzbombers (with four-player adaptor) - We still have a BB session (which usually lasts at least three hours) every few weeks over here. 2. Speedball 2 - One of my all time favourites, even in singleplayer mode. Perfect two player game: fast gameplay and aggressive atmosphere. And you can always blame destiny afterwards ("you had much more money and the better powerups!") 3. SWOS - for the same reasons as speedball 2 ("your f***ing keeper is way to good, that's unfair!") And the runner-up would be M.U.L.E./Subtrade. Brilliant "realtime strategy" wich proofes that the best games often have a very simply set of rules. Unfortunately, I'm out of M.U.L.E oppenents atm.

02 July 2002, 17:47	#6
RetroMan Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Germany Age: 51 Posts: 3,704	I will vote for : 1.) Stunt Car Racer 2.) FreeCiv (GREAT Civilization Clone ) 3.) HBMonopoly (which is really fun playing with 8 other guys online )

02 July 2002, 18:21	#7
Djay 95th User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Brighton/UK Age: 48 Posts: 3,120	1. The Settlers 2. DynaBlaster (Bomberman) 3. The Chaos Engine

02 July 2002, 19:35	#8
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	1. Bloodwych 2. Bloodwych Data Disk 3. Speedball 2

02 July 2002, 19:41	#9
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,646	In no partivular order: - Micro Machines - Arcade Pool - SWOS

03 July 2002, 01:05	#10
Zeewolf Posts: n/a	My choices would have to be:- 1... Sensi Soccer 2... Stunt Car Racer 3... Bloodwych or Dynablaster (Too tough a decision to pick one outright!)

03 July 2002, 02:19	#11
Matt D`Wrecker Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: England Posts: 15	My three choices would have to be:- 1. SWOS. It is just the greatest! Need I say more? 2. Worms. Great to play after a bad day, getting medieval on those worm a****s is a great stress reliever! 3. Sensi Golf. Nice weather, nice scenery, v.v relaxing and all without the burden of a heavy bag of clubs or a 5 mile hike!!

03 July 2002, 02:25	#12
Zeewolf Posts: n/a	@Matt D'Wrecker Sensi Gof has to be the hardest golf game Ive ever played in my life, the swingmeter goes way to quick for my liking! Also the greens are a nightmare to play!:eek Though I must admit it is very funny especially when drunk playing it with your m8's like I happened to be doing on Sunday night!

03 July 2002, 03:04	#13
th4t1guy Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Kansas City, MO, USA Posts: 683	1) Worms: DC - this was always one of my favorite 2 player games of all 2) Hired Guns - too bad they cancelled the PC version. It looked really promising 3) Knights - this was some PD game off Aminet that I used to play to death

03 July 2002, 05:44	#14
Shatterhand Warhasneverbeensomuchfun Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Rio de Janeiro / Brazil Age: 41 Posts: 3,450	Do I need to choose only 3?? Hmm The following are the ones I played the most with my friends SWOS Micro Machines Sensible Golf. But we also played a lot Great Courts 2, Brutal Sports Football. F1GP (trying to make the best lap times)... Stunt Car Race is probably great with 2 players. Dynablaster gottabe great with 4 playes, but I don't have an adaptor (But I've played Bomberman in others consoles with 4 players many times, it's just great ! )

03 July 2002, 12:26	#17
penguin Posts: n/a	hmmm... three you say...? thats not fair there were loads that were good fun! ok though here we go... sensible soccer for reasons mentioned elsewhere dynamite warriors (bomberman clone - very good fun!) gravity force 2 - a very simple but fiendishly addictive game... "GO!" "BINGO!" - spent days on this on 2 player trying to shave tenths of a second off laptimes etc...!

03 July 2002, 20:11	#19
blackcornflake Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cereal box Posts: 798	True, Sensi Golf is a piece of cake. Matt D`Wrecker wishes he was as good at Sensi Golf as yours truly...

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