10 Amazing Commodore Amiga OCS Exclusives

[@johnd6487]

Ah.. thanks for mentioning the boxart on Agony. I was so sure I'd seen it before and in my Spectrum days.. I did finally upgrade to Amiga around late 1991, or possibly 1992, but I really was mostly using it for my uni work - mostly word processing - and I wasn't a massive gamer, so never came across Agony.. Lemmings, which came in my Cartoon Classics pack kept me entertained pretty much until I got my first modem around 1995 😅

[@lil_thang]

wonderful upload, thankyou for this - just a minor point, i much prefer the videos fullscreen blackbar'd instead of in a tiny frame of the amiga png

[@retrojoe85]

Agony had been a huge influence on my personality: it's up to that game if today I love Fantasy art and Cyberpunk movies & books.

[@donovevs]

Great video! Ruff'n'Tumble deserves much more credit, I honestly think it is the best Amiga platform of all times.

[@AmigaVR]

Fun video ,AlienBreed 3D is one of my favourites🤘🏻

[@LeChave]

Another exclusive side-shooter was Apidya, where you played as a bee.. great soundtrack too. I never finished it though 😥

[@TheLairdsLair]

That was originally going to be in the video but I had too many shoot 'em ups so I took it out.

[@xenorac]

@@TheLairdsLair Aw man, that game was sweet!

[@LeChave]

@@TheLairdsLair no worries, I wouldn't have the patience to to do what you did anyway. 👍

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

It's a shame that Commodore didn't release their own two or three or four button controller with the Amiga, to set the standard for the system. Because they didn't, almost all games ended up having to suffer with only one button passed down from way back in the Atari 2600 days. Some later games allowed the use of the Sega Genesis controller, but by then the die had been cast. Anyway, hindsight is 20/20 as they say. Another question I'd ask the engineers is, how come the sound capability was never improved in the Amiga? No additional voices, no higher frequency or bit resolution, no additional capabilities, etc. The next chip set, Hombre,* was going to include many improvements including sound but it never made it to production. :( * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset (Be prepared to salivate as you read the specs...)

[@weepingscorpion8739]

AAA and Hombre... the two we never got. :( Hombre sounds really amazing.

[@MarkTheMorose]

It's only a slight stretch to call this an Amiga exclusive: Star Ranger. It did also appear on the Amiga-based arcade system 'Arcadia'. It's quite Defender-alike, and seemingly quite Datastorm-alike in that you're rounding-up rather than simply protecting friendlies, here called Critters. I loved the cute graphics and sounds for some of the Critters.

[@jamiec2023]

Great vid Hopefully you can do a Amiga shoot em up vid some day. Nowt wrong with that in my book

[@MrYossarianuk]

Best computer ever released

[@retrowarp6528]

I like Datastorm, but never understanding the gameplay, because you can catch all pods from the beginning and bring them through the portal, so I stayed on defender.

[@neilthomas6042]

Yet; more games I never played,on a computer I didn’t own. Having said that, the 2D graphics hold up better than the Atari 2600 silver games you featured.

[@pigpenpete]

I'll have to disagree on zeewolf - the framerate is just too low for it to be fun, it feels too slow and lumbering on the A500.

[@MarkTheMorose]

Luckily, I had an A4000/030, and Zeewolf played beautifully, and remains one of my absolute favourites. I agree it's just too slow on the A500, though.

[@simonwl]

Nice video. Was that Graham Gooch's Cricket I saw in the intro? It would have been good to see your opinions on that game.....if it was an Amiga exclusive.

[@TheLairdsLair]

It's not an Amiga exclusive, its just a random clip I used in the background for the intro. I've never played it in all honesty, I can't stand cricket!

[@IsaacKuo]

Huh. I didn't know Zeewolf was an Amiga exclusive. Just looking at it, I assumed it was a port from an Archimedes game. I wish I had known about this game back in the day. At the time, I was wowed by the look of Atari's Steel Talons in the arcades, but I was too intimidated to pump in enough quarters to learn how to play it. I would have really appreciated Zeewolf (the 28MHz 68030 on my Amiga would have had no problem pumping out frames per second). The Amiga had a lot of interesting exclusive freeware/shareware/public domain games, but they're not so easy to look up and find. I mean, maybe the most famous was Deluxe Galaga, but it is nowhere nearly as famous or historically significant as famous PC games like Scorched Earth or Wolfenstein 3d. With commercial titles, it was just too easy to port to Genesis/Mega Drive, an option that wasn't readily available for your every day PD/shareware coder. I really liked high resolution modes, which weren't very supported in commercial games. PD games supported high resolution interlace a lot more. Kinda the same situation with Atari ST and the high resolution monochrome mode. Very little commercial game support, but quite a few PD/shareware titles. Not that these are necessarily the "best" games, but they tend to be more quirky and interesting.

[@oodatoodat1]

Agony has super annoying music. All those orchestra stabs could be used as a torture method.

[@CastleFamilyThe]

Apidya was much better than Agony despite looking or sounding not as amazing. Plus you missed out the best Amiga fighting game ‘Fightin’ Spirit’ , again Elfmania looks much better but plays like Body Blows, FS supports 7 button pads too!

[@TheLairdsLair]

I wasn't aware of Fightin' Street, I'll keep it in mind for the follow up video.

[@braillynn]

On mobile, it can be a bit tough to see the game in the small TV window.

[@retropalooza]

U forgot all the good shooters