25 Cancelled Amiga Games

This is a cancelled games episode that I've been wanting to do for quite some time - the Commodore Amiga, my all-time favourite gaming platform. Join me as I take a look at 25 of its many unreleased games...
Check out Games That Weren't, without whom this episode would not have been possible:
www.abime.net/agtw
Thanks to Alkis Polyrakis for the assistance with the In Shadow of Time segment.
Find the other episodes in the Cancelled Games series here:
• 15 Cancelled Sega Drea...
Other background music from the Amiga versions of:
Alien Breed Tower Assault
ATR: All Terrain Racing
Bubble Bobble
Miami Chase
Shadow of the Beast
Syndicate
Turrican II
Video sources:
Babylonian Twins - khubuz
/ @khubuz
In Shadow of Time, Alchemy, Blast Squad, Flower - Mingos Commodorepage
/ @mingo77
Fatal Noise, City Limits - Per-Ola Eriksson
/ @per-olaeriksson2589
Agricola - s2325
/ @s2325
ACSYS - Marecheck RetroMan
/ @marecheck9603
Harold The Hairy Hermit, Hostile Breed, Deep Silence, Nobby the Aardvark - petsasjim1
/ @petsasjim1
Paradise Lost, Indigo, Desolate World - hipoonios
/ @hipoonios
Stargunner, Liquid Kids - einokeino303
/ @einokeino303
Bureau 13 - Gameruni
/ @gameruni
Putty Squad - CuteFloor
/ @cutefloor
Hardcore aka Ultracore - hellfire64
/ @beyondthescanlines
Snow Bros - Amiga500
/ @amiga500
No Buddies Land - Steve
/ @ataricrypt
Justice - fondriesete
/ @fondriesete
Where Time Stood Still - I AM IRONCLAW!
/ @iamironclaw

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

RIP Amiga really wanted to see the power of the AAA chipset and the Hombre chip!!

[@onaretrotip]

😢

[@valenrn8657]

For native hardware, the closest to Hombre chipset's PA-RISC 7150 based RISC CPU with 64-bit integer SIMD is Apollo's AC68080 with 64bit integer aMMX SIMD or A1222's e500v2 with custom 64bit SIMD INT/FP. A1222's e500v2 is a dual-core PowerPC Book E CPU with 1.2 Ghz clock speed and out-of-order processing which is more than 10X over Hombre chipset's PA-RISC 7150 based RISC CPU's expected 100 Mhz clock speed.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

@@valenrn8657 thanks. would the graphics chip come even close to the NV1 from Nvidia or the Voodoo Graphics?

[@valenrn8657]

@@tHeWasTeDYouTh Voodoo Graphics has 30 million bilinear filtered textured pixels per second. Hombre has 30 million 3D rendered pixels per second. I do not know Hombre has texture filtering. Voodoo Graphics can do Quake GL at 640x480, 65,536 displayed colors, and 30 fps www.vintage3d.org/images/voodoo/glquake.jpg Both Voodoo and Hombre has a triangle polygon system. Hombre supports SGI's OpenGL. NV1 has a quad polygon system which is a failure and does not support OpenGL. Microsoft refuses to support NV1 's quad polygon system for Direct3D.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

@@valenrn8657 thanks for the reply. very interesting of what could have been

[@nickarmitt4722]

I had an Amiga 500. I remember the amount of disks that had "1MB Needed!" and I couldn't play until I got the upgrade. I was VERY young. My favourite games were Prehistorick, Chuck Rock, Captain Planet, Rolling Ronnie and Dizzy games. Oh and this Scooby one where the first level is on a ship.

[@SlavomirG]

Prehistorik was the shit. A classic game.

[@onaretrotip]

Ah, bet that was frustrating. Luckily I git an A500 with the 1MB upgrade (Screen Gems pack). Happy days 😀

[@ASVESTAS23]

Amiga 500 was a great machine that offered me lots of fun and service!

[@onaretrotip]

Absolutely.

[@GanjsmostPrime]

Yes Pete! The best gaming system to date! So many good memories with this machine. Cannon fodder and sensible soccer merged into a great demo disk? Where else other than the amiga. Miss those days when devs were creative and fun

[@onaretrotip]

Absolutely! Amiga is no. 1. Hahaha, where else indeed.

[@shahid1296ify]

So many potential games here. The Amiga was such a good platform to play games on . Reminds me of my childhood. Loved the Amiga 500 back then . Great video once again!

[@onaretrotip]

The Amiga is king!!! Thanks mate.

[@shahid1296ify]

@@onaretrotip Completely agree!!

[@jonnyretro3128]

Amazing video Pete. Very well put together as usual. Some decent games there. Love the Amiga me.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Jonny! Me too, can't beat the Amiga mate. Hope you're well.

[@GimblyGFR]

Excellent video, as usual. Amiga games had this unique style that you can unmistakably see through most of these games. Love this series. I'm still hoping to get a Speccy cancelled games episode, though!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you! Oh, absolutely; the Amiga had a really distinctive style. Speccy episode will probably appear at some point depending on what I can dig up.

[@ilexgarodan]

The Amiga was woefully underappreciated here in North America. Commodore USA had no idea what to do with the machine here, and didn't know how to market it. As such, I can't help but feel a twinge of jealousy over all of the great games that the U.K. and Europe received.

[@onaretrotip]

That's a great shame. We didn't experience the "video game crash" at all over here, with the prevalence of home computers.

[@ilexgarodan]

Lucky you never had to experience it. Home console sales withered and died practically overnight, once the crash was in full swing. As I understand, game consoles weren't that big in the UK, with the aforementioned prevalence of the home computer market. At least, until the Master System and Mega Drive came around, thanks in part to Nintendo's botched handling of distribution and sale of the NES in the PAL territories. Here in North America, our home computers during the latter half of the '80s were primarily IBM PCs and PC-compatibles, as the Commodore 64 started losing steam. And even then, the home computer install base in North America was small when compared to the UK's!

[@onaretrotip]

@@ilexgarodan Very different indeed!

[@heavysystemsinc.]

@@onaretrotip It wasn't so much that a videogame crash hurt the Amiga, more that the videogame crash caused the Amiga marketing team to try and directly compete with IBM PC format/MSDOS in the business realm which, given the difference of processors and the kinds of work being done weren't anything the Amiga could overcome. I think had they targeted the emerging color macs, especially with the video toaster and such for the Amiga which was seriously well above what the color macs were capable of, they could've taken over and maybe the Amiga could've been today's mac in the states. Just one take on it. The American computer history is hella strange compared to the very straight forward UK scene and the cultural approval of both games and computers in general. The US gov't dragged it's feet culturally on the computer front. Now we have a bunch of people that don't even know how to use their stupid cell phones which are just pocket computers. *sigh*

[@Turtlehands]

@@heavysystemsinc. the IBM pc just did first person shooters, better, the graphics were made for it.

[@AdiSneakerFreak]

Loved this Pete, just shows the depth of the Amiga library really, you could probably make another few videos of canned Amiga titles too.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Steve! Yeah, the list is endless mate.

[@AmAtAm]

“He looks like a topless flat chested Wonder Woman”. This is a very well-observed comment, I knew that disturbing Adam sprite was reminding me of something. This is a great video on a very interesting topic. I know plenty of cancelled games on the Amiga, but I didn’t know about most of these (with a few notable exceptions).

[@onaretrotip]

Hahaha. First thing I thought of when I saw the sprite. Thanks! There are so many cancelled Amiga games, it's crazy.

[@AtariLegend]

Super interesting and well made video. I've always been an Atari ST person, but have lots of love for Amiga game history as well. Thank you for the video!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you very much. My mate had an ST growing up, so I have fond memories of that too. First time I played SWIV was on an ST!

[@gobbodicana]

Magic stuff my friend. I will never forget christmas 1992 when I've found an Amiga 500 under the tree -best system ever!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you. I'll never forget getting my A500 either. Good times.

[@Notir072]

You got yours really late, 1992 was already the begining of the end of the Amigas. I got my Amiga 500 at Christmas 1987, and yes, it was an incredible computer for me then. The jump from my previous one (a C64) was gigantic ! Later i bought myself an Amiga 1200, must have been around 1992 or 1993. That one lasted much shorter, The PCs around that time were already Superior by then. But i still programmed on it till around 1999.

[@gobbodicana]

@@Notir072 That's true, but looking back I think 1991-1993 where the best years for Amiga and MS DOS gaming, the golden age of 16 pixels. Began with Turrican II on the Amiga and ended with Doom for the PC 😅. For my part, I had unfortunately never a C64, but played on my dads 286 Sierra adventures etc. when I was 10 years old...

[@evildeadmitch]

That's a lot time/effort for these videos & it's appreciated.

[@onaretrotip]

Oh, thank you very much. That's very nice to hear.

[@naviamiga]

Great to see the range of games that never quiet made it (although not surprised about that aardvark game never making it, lots of stuff nicked from other games there).

[@onaretrotip]

Yes, quite a mix here. Thanks!

[@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries]

Excellent video, I loved by Amiga 500 growing up

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you. Me too!

[@drittz7840]

Really interesting video. Have very found memories of the Amiga days.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Michael! Me too :)

[@MrBads_Games]

A cracking video as always Pete. I was eagerly awaiting the releases of Putty Squad, TFX & "The Big End" (Chuckles) for the Amiga before they all got cancelled. It was such a shame! I totally forgot that Where Time Stood Still didn't get an Amiga port, Doh!! I had that one on the ST.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Paul! Thought you'd like this one.

[@PrettyBlueThings]

Brilliant video as always! Thank you Pete

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you very much!

[@yuvraj01]

You should do a part 2 of this video, it was great!!!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you!

[@akalyx]

so many psygnosis titles... i wish i grew up with an amiga, i like the graphics style of their titles...thanks for this vid, i enjoyed it very much

[@onaretrotip]

I count myself very lucky to have had an Amiga as a kid. It really was the pinnacle for gaming at the time. Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

That was 37 min!? I mean, personally I listen to most KZbin vids at 1.25x speed anyway, so it was only like 28-30 min for me, _but still_ - the time flew by! I love this series; could listen to you talk about, and show off, these games all day - it's always fascinating. And you're totally right about 'Nobby the Aardvark' - I was just saying to myself, "Should've called it Ant-lantis" when you said it out loud, lol (^-^) Keep up the great work!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you very much, kind words indeed!

[@AdamCoate]

I can't get enough of the counseled game series!

[@onaretrotip]

Me too! :)

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

Not much was known on A Nightmare On Elm Street, except it was believed to be an arcade adventure game, with you attempting to avoid Freddy in his many dreamworlds According to Danielle Woodyatt, it was always something of an on/off project wirthin US Gold, by the time the licence had expired, she revealed the issue with basing a game on the film, was that the agr group of those old enough to see the film, differed from that of the age group the game was aimed at, so project was abandoned.

[@DouglasTitchmarsh]

Great video, looks like us Amiga fans missed out on some serious goodies.

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you, Douglas! Yes, looks like we did.

[@trixstermillion2190]

I would be hard-pressed to name a platform game other than Shadow of the Beast that was released for the Amiga in the U.S., and I would have an even harder time naming a good one. Judging from what I've seen in these videos showcasing European releases, I would say it looks like we didn't miss out on much.

[@onaretrotip]

Oh wow, there were tons of really fantastic platform games on the Amiga. Don't take these cancelled games as a glimpse at what it had to offer.

[@MorganJustGames]

Wow never seen any of these. So many are simular to other games. Thanks for sharing this video. Was very interesting.

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, a lot are very similar to established franchises, so maybe that contributed to a few cancellations. Thanks, Jamie! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@pnvgordinho]

I would play today some of those games. I miss the Amiga. Thanks for the video.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Pedro! Glad you enjoyed it. I still absolutely love my Amiga.

[@BombDaBass2000]

The Ultimate canceled Amiga Game was Jim Sachs (Graphic Artist on Defender of the Crown) 's own Game "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". A Computer Virus destroyed his works. On Jim Sachs his own Channel there is a Demo Real..called "20KL Late"..you 'll be amazed wat was possible in the early 90's with an Amiga..its like a movie.

[@onaretrotip]

Just watched it, wow that's impressive!!!

[@jurassicmatt2796]

This is great. Suggestion though: let us hear some of the music and effects that you rate.

[@onaretrotip]

Not always possible/practical I'm afraid, but I will where possible.

[@felipebrasil5]

13:15 damn look the colors, a game with such a pattern must be so cool !

[@onaretrotip]

Yes, very colourful indeed!

[@TheFrenchy82]

As an "Atarist" (yeah don't throw me rocks... at least the brand Amiga is still there... Atari is long gone....) , I was jealous of my mate's amiga. The graphics , the sound were very impressive... And yeah : those years were "crazy years"... tons of games in a box shoe (old players will know what I'm referring to...) ....:-) oh but wait... I was an "amigaist".. I had a CD 32 console ! good times.... thanks for this nice video ! a lot of cool "dead" games....

[@onaretrotip]

I love my Amiga, but had a lot of good times on my friend's Atari ST too. Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video!

[@MaidenHell1977]

Another fantastic video. Having grown up strictly a console gamer I always heard lore of the Amiga and how great it was. Dude dont worry, everyone missed out the MD Ultracore, I'm impressed your friend managed to score two, they like sold out instanously. It was inanity. I settle for a PS4 port of the game myself. Is it just me or does Nobby The Aardvark's music sound like Bubble Bobble's? And, no way!! They aired The Racoons in Great Britain? That's too funny, great to see some classic Canadian TV make it across the pond, hahaha Cheers brother!

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, I heard that it was sold out in literally seconds! I've been really lucky to source one. Nobby The Aardvark didn't have music, so I actually added Bubble Bobble's music (which I did for a few games in this episode). Yeah, The Raccoons was one of my favourite cartoons growing up. Everyone loved it here :)

[@paddyoneill2655]

babalonian twins has a lost vikings feel to it

[@onaretrotip]

Indeed!

[@farcry223]

The amiga has always fascinated me

[@onaretrotip]

Amiga is the GOAT!

[@farcry223]

@@onaretrotip agreed

[@replicant8532]

WHO THE HELL STARTS SUCH A NICE CHANNEL AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT?! SUBSCRIBED DAMN IT! European Amiga Masterrace!

[@onaretrotip]

Hahaha thanks mate!

[@RetroGamePlayers]

Haha crazy list! I remember playing Bureau 13 on DOS and at one point a monster goes topless. It was kinda a big deal back then lol

[@onaretrotip]

Hahahahaha

[@justinludwig3995]

I managed to get a Genesis/MD version of ultracore. Can't wait to play it!

[@onaretrotip]

Me too!

[@ilkeryoldas]

Babylonian Twins is a really good puzzle platformer similar to The Lost Vikings, played the Android apk version

[@onaretrotip]

Nice! Love The Lost Vikings.

[@Highretrogamelord]

Thanks for this video. Shame they were never released, look like they could be fun. My favourite one here is Flower (maybe because I really like Rodland). Anyways, would've loved to see Witchwood in this video as well.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks for watching! Flower looks really cool. Witchwood featured in another episode; I can't remember which, but it may have been Saturn.

[@davidretrogamesplayedbadly3533]

Really enjoyed this, shame most of them didn't really make the light of day. The Amiga game's certainly had a distinctive look and feel, I want to play on mine now 😁😍

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, David. Absolutely, the Amiga has such a signature style.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Lovely video! Thank you! :)

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you for watching!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

@@onaretrotip My pleasure! :)

[@amigatronics]

Great job!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you very much!

[@onlogica]

Nice to see the spirit of Amiga stil is alive :) Love it as old Amiga developer :)

[@onaretrotip]

Absolutely. My A1200 is my pride and joy :)

[@lovedecors]

Great video, excellent 👍

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@GanjsmostPrime]

I remember playing putty squad on my 1200 back in the late 90's. A friend donated the computer and all of his pirated software. I never knew this was a canceled game! I also remember a crash test dummy game that wasn't a platformer but rather a point and click physics game where you would put the dummies through tests like firing them out of cannons and crashing a car.

[@onaretrotip]

Ah cool, I wonder how he came across it. Wasn't there a game called Crash test Dummies?

[@GanjsmostPrime]

@@onaretrotip there was a game called crash test dummies, it released on consoles too. It doesn't seem to be the game I remember though. Unless I had some Amiga demo of the game with different levels?

[@onaretrotip]

@@GanjsmostPrime Ah, god knows.

[@madpuppet666]

The final graphics in Stargunner were rendered in real3d on an amiga and the map editor was running on an amiga. We did the original graphics in deluxe paint and had the first level running on Amiga but it was late in the day and Amiga was losng too much ground to PC so the decision was made to just finish it on PC rather than spread our resources across 2 platforms. Pity we didn't save any videos of the Amiga version running. Would love to know how you found out about the Amiga version...

[@onaretrotip]

Ah, thanks for the info. Honestly, I can't remember where I read about the Amiga version now.

[@rollerxcore]

it would be interesting to see a proper release of babalonyian twins. some interesting games, that unfortunately never got released. cannot wait to play hardcore when it is finally printed!

[@onaretrotip]

Me too, Eddie. I can't wait to play it on the Mega Drive!

[@newkfromrotterdam]

i love Hostile Breed but it is REALLY HARD to get even a single corridor free of critters

[@onaretrotip]

Games were so much harder back then LOL

[@AMildCaseOfCovid]

It's interesting that they were going for open-world on Justice. I remember a different youtube video mentioning that Star Fox was going to be open world, but then Miyamoto pooh-poohed that idea and had them make a rail shooter instead. After watching the Justice footage, I have to agree with Miyamoto. Graphically it looks great, though

[@onaretrotip]

Yes, it worked out well in the end.

[@youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939]

I'm surprised that you didn't mention the Amiga version of the original _Sonic the Hedgehog_ that had a couple of screenshots in a magazine before Sega apparently decided that the game would be more useful as a MegaDrive exclusive and took back the rights - I may be misremembering, but I _think_ that Larry Bundy Jr. mentioned it in a video…

[@onaretrotip]

Oh yeah? Wow.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

Planetside was intended as, and will eventually be, a game, not a demo. It has been shunted aside for development of Microcosm and we should eventually side it -- possibly late in '93 or early in '94. " "Psygnosis seems to be generally comitted to Amiga CD, but most of the things its working on now are for other CD platforms first: Geny/SNES, 3DO, IBM MPC. Found out a bit more about the fate of Planetside. It's still alive, but now under the name Scavenger 4 (which will use the same engine), but there'sno clear indication yet which platform it will appear on." Source: Peter Niel Olafson In case it's in next video B-)

[@arthurlhenaff9589]

Amiga Cd32 list would be cool

[@onaretrotip]

Definitely.

[@pagb666]

Oh man, I need that Gods clone. And Justice runs super smooth!

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, the Gods clone looks awesome, albeit very similar.

[@jacekk4231]

Oh...why not finish... Everything looks very good. I want to buy it!!!

[@onaretrotip]

😢

[@arundimunga282]

Hello Onaretrotip, do you know anything about the seemingly cancelled Dennis n Gnasher game? It was previewed in the January 1994 issue of The One Amiga (issue 64) where they even printed some screen shots. These are available on Amiga Magazine rack btw.. It looked pretty interesting.Just wondered if you had any info on it or owt. Thanks :)

[@onaretrotip]

I don't I'm afraid.

[@TheJosep70]

Maybe I misremember but there was a cancelled Amiga game featuring a technologically-evolved kingdom of Egypt which I was eager to play... It was similar to Ocean's Inferno I think, but I can't remember its name.

[@onaretrotip]

Hmm, doesn't ring a bell.

[@Corsa15DT]

all of them look great

[@onaretrotip]

Such a shame 😢

[@KiR_3d]

I always (in Amiga times) had fantasies about games like ACSYS. It's a bit sad that it wasn't released back then! Pitty that Desolate World wasn't completed! Hardcore is great, I hope to find a ROM to play soon.

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, what a shame they never came out in some form. Can't wait to play Hardcore on my Mega Drive!

[@gravballemandendk]

JSF should had been mentioned, as it was a top dev game, that was supposed to be released for the amiga, and then was never released.. some amiga magazine released it years later though

[@onaretrotip]

So many unreleased Amiga games out there!

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

i can see why the street fighter ripoff with ripped assets and the bomberman clone were cancelled

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, a bit naughty.

[@jasont9824]

Does anyone remember the games “ Mail order Monsters“ or another game which I believe was called Eyeballs, its actual name may not be eyeballs but I remember that when playing it there was av voice that would repeat the word eyeballs over and over in different tones and speeds.

[@onaretrotip]

Haha sounds weird. Don't remember that I'm afraid.

[@jasont9824]

@@onaretrotip I didn't really remember how much I miss that game until I found this thread and started thinking about. Commodore 64 128 or Amiga will always be the best in my book!

[@onaretrotip]

@@jasont9824 Definitely!

[@lordreefer]

There was a firebird game called i-ball on the c64/128

[@lucariosimon9058]

You ever played the Amiga game Alpha Waves? It’s one of my all time favorites, although the DOS port is better due to the amazing vapor wave music. It’s actually pretty much the first polygonal 3D platformer of all time, years before Mario 64 defined its control and camera. It has tank controls and jumping is controlled by walking over bounce pads on the ground. It’s really fun but there are barely any videos on it

[@onaretrotip]

No, not heard of that one. It will be on my Amiga's CF drive though, so I'll check it out. Sounds intriguing!

[@AmbersKnight]

Interesting list. Indigo looks like one to check out. if youe ver do another set I would be interested in your take on Universal Monsters, which had the real potential to be the Amiga answer to Knight Lore and games of that ilk, but whilst there were playable demos and reviews, it sadly was never completed :(

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Ronnie! Yeah, Indigo looks promising for sure.

[@cwskbfan1456]

the cancelled game i remember is sonic the hedgehog it was planned for amiga but got cancelled i heard it just by U.S Gold

[@onaretrotip]

Sonic on Amiga would be weird haha.

[@anathema2me4EVR]

I remember Putty. The cover disc that I had was very enjoyable.

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, good little platformer.

[@kevinpicone6485]

After the bankruptcy announcement it felt like everybody who'd been nursing their Amiga game babies, just disappeared from face of the planet. At the time, is seemed that every Amiga coder you spoke with, had a hand full of game prototypes in development, then within a year. most of us had facepalmed into retirement.. Awesome to see at least some of these projects make a release though !

[@onaretrotip]

I know, right. It was a mass exodus from Amiga programming at one point in the 90s. Yes, at least a few have been found and completed.

[@vix_in_japan]

If you ever want to sell your copy of Ultra Core, haha :) But seriously some nice looking Amiga games there, I was using my Amigas right up until 2000 or so but I can't remember any of these late games, I gues they weren't previewed widely.

[@onaretrotip]

Hahaha. Yeah, we missed out on some promising games here :(

[@cwskbfan1456]

i really want to play nobby the ardvark for the amiga it looks fun

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, looks like a fun little platformer, doesn't it!

[@TonimanGalvez]

The video is very good, I was wondering, some games look clearly that they are AGA, but others don't, do you mind to add subs in some corner for us to know witch games are AGA or OCS?

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you! I can't remember now I'm afraid, but noted for next time.

[@nexnexnex8261]

These are mostly platformers, I have never been interested in such games. Their mechanics and appearance are associated mainly with older eight-bit computers such as C64, Spectrum, etc. When I bought my first AMIGA computer, I wasn't interested in games at all. I used music and graphic programs. Fortunately, I came across gems among games like Syndicate, Cannon Fodder, Speedball and decided that playing can be fun and I've been playing for 30 years :)))

[@onaretrotip]

You obviously have great taste. Syndicate is my favourite Amiga game, and I still play it along with Speedball 2 and Cannon Fodder :)

[@nexnexnex8261]

My favorite first RPG - "Black Crypt" - literally looking for one pixel that opens a secret cache, or a great horror game "Elvira". Then "Dungeon Master". There were lots of great games :)

[@onaretrotip]

@@nexnexnex8261 I remember Elvira well.

[@templar2b1ask]

Looking forward to some new Amiga styled hardware about to come to the light in the near future. Hopefully the Stand Alone Vampire units will soon become available & then these games be released down the road. As for me I’ll be investing in some upgrades very soon ... just trying to get my head around as to what exactly I need to do. I wish I had an old fashion Amiga Group to connect with in the USA. Not that I don’t trust EUROPEAN vendors! I am remembering the times many years ago when our local Commodore Amiga Dealer fostered a local user group held at a local community college meeting room ... was it in the mid 1980s or earlier? I still have my 3 Amigas, which have not been used in 10;plus yrs. thinking the on board batteries need attention, but I am afraid to look! One is in a tower. Guess it time to contact some folks? Where to start?

[@onaretrotip]

There are some great Amiga groups on Facebook, and I'm sure they have people all around the world. I bought my modified A1200 off a guy on there, and couldn't be happier with it.

[@adamphillip5305]

30:11 What music is playing during Nobby The Aardvark game?, i recognise it from another game but cant pinpoint it, i know its bloody obvious as well lol

[@PJBonoVox]

Bubble Bobble.

[@adamphillip5305]

@@PJBonoVox of course duhhh

[@PJBonoVox]

@@adamphillip5305 Happens to the best of us 😄

[@pferreira1983]

This is depressing. Normally I'd single out certain games that should have made it but nearly all of these looked great. Such a shame. This unfinished game is a video all onto itself: www.indieretronews.com/2015/08/unreleased-amiga-game-superhero-gets.html

[@onaretrotip]

Yes, a lot of misery in this one. Haha he looks like a Superman/Batman hybrid. Always a shame to see a cancelled Psygnosis game.

[@pferreira1983]

@@onaretrotip A real tragedy that would got deleted. Stupid police.

[@TravestyJunction]

Whoa baby, I better cancel the next 37 minutes of my life

[@onaretrotip]

LMAO

[@val5183]

11:26 Looks like a bunch of Yodas :D

[@onaretrotip]

Haha it does indeed.

[@kickstart-1.3]

30:34 More like the aardvark from The Ant and the Aardvark.

[@onaretrotip]

Never heard of it!

[@SuperVstech]

I would have LOVED to get some of these games back in the day... mi am STILL so mad at commodore stupidity...

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, there are some promising ones here for sure.

[@PeterFreitag]

Thank You. TFX for AMIGA is missing

[@onaretrotip]

You're welcome! Hundreds more that aren't here.

[@kjrchannel1480]

As far as I am concerned. Commodore, Atari, Activision, Tengen, and Amiga are the same company by employee affiliation.

[@onaretrotip]

🤔

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

Actually I have "no buddies land" for the Amiga :-/ Both disks and WHDLoad version.

[@onaretrotip]

Noice!

[@giumacgyver7127]

Agricola looks like it was a rivisitation of Flimbo’s Quest ! Almost the same game

[@onaretrotip]

Oh yeah!

[@adam4349]

Give me in shadow of time. fatal noise. Agricola. Acsys. Hardcore.

[@onaretrotip]

Some decent choices. Hardcore was since released on Mega Drive (as Ultracore). Very fun game!

[@paulhunter123]

Should have been a lot more from ocean, so many great movies ocean translated into as many crappie games

[@onaretrotip]

LOL

[@mrrm4005]

Stargunner looks awsome

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, really cool! Free on Steam and GOG.

[@mrrm4005]

@@onaretrotip thanks ! ill try it :)

[@amiga4ever]

Wow great video. 'Justice' remind me Alianator.. 'Indigo' just a rip off from Trolls. I regret 'Gore' the most. Amiga 4 ever!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you, Marcin! Amiga forever indeed :)

[@nickarmitt4722]

I would have said it was more Doctor Who than Bill and Ted... As would Bill and Ted been out in time for this when made? Oh I forgot how much time I spent on Bill's Tomato Game.

[@onaretrotip]

I didn't mean they based it on Bill & Ted, I was saying the way the machine works is like the phone booth in Bill & Ted (which is true). It's definitely more like that (or Day of the Tentacle) than Doctor Who.

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

Could you do a cancelled games episode for the unreleased games for the 3DO console?

[@onaretrotip]

It's in the pipeline 👍

[@ghua]

paradise lost seems like clone of Shadow of the Beast, soundtrack also sounds similar. EDIT: I just realized you said it in the video lol soundtrack is from SOTB 1, am I right?

[@onaretrotip]

Correct. It was inspired by the game too.

[@malad1]

Desolate World's looks more like a Gods reskin.

[@onaretrotip]

Absolutely. Did I not say that in the video?

[@mattypusplatypus3340]

Liquid Kids sounds like my sort of game! :)

[@onaretrotip]

Good little game. Love the graphics!

[@mattypusplatypus3340]

@@onaretrotip Defo! They hold up rather well now that you mention it! :)

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

love cancelled games

[@onaretrotip]

Me too!

[@HoraceAndTheSpider]

No “The Big End” :/ For me, the one I missed the most.

[@onaretrotip]

😢

[@nickarmitt4722]

Guru Larry Bundy Jr said in a video why it was cancelled (putty squad) I think i had the demo from format or One?

[@onaretrotip]

Really miss demo disks :(

[@michaelhall6178]

I suspect that Nobby the Aardvark was meant to be based on DePatie and Freleng's "The Ant and the Aardvark" cartoons from the late 1960s, e.g.: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYG4p4JtnteWr7c

[@onaretrotip]

Oh shit, I remember watching that as a kid!

[@corty1980]

That nobby the ardvark music sounds familiar sound like it is from another game just cant put my finger on it

[@onaretrotip]

It's Bubble Bobble. I added it as the Nobby demo has no music.

[@HaquinusDeGothia]

In 1989 I waited and waited and waited for "Broadsword" kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnikqWhpiqx_bNk to appear, but due to *someone* (pointing at you Mr Rainbird) messing things up, that one was never to be. 'Til this day I wonder if the sourcedisks are still around somewhere...

[@onaretrotip]

You never know!

[@valenrn8657]

Without good first-party studios, Commodore couldn't survive like Nintendo.

[@onaretrotip]

First-party?

[@valenrn8657]

@@onaretrotip First party game studios are owned by platform vendors which are a major advantage for Nintendo and Sony (learning from the Betamax lesson). Nintendo can survive despite inferior hardware specs. Microsoft also understood the importance of strong first-party game studios, hence buying ZeniMax Media. ZeniMax Medi's games are associated with gaming PC and both Sony and Google Stadia attempted to make ZeniMax Media's future games exclusive for their respective platforms which gimps MS's Xbox and Windows platforms. Sony's buying Psygnosis has gimped the Amiga platform. Amiga powered by powerful Hombre chipset in 1995 wouldn't be enough when Sony has strong exclusive games.

[@onaretrotip]

@@valenrn8657 Oh, I know what it means, I was just trying to clarify what you meant. You don't think the quality third-party devs were enough then?

[@valenrn8657]

@@onaretrotip 1. The original Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One X has strong hardware specs, but it wasn't enough. 2. Xbox One's superior specs defeated by Nintendo's Switch is LOL 3. MS's Xbox leadership Phil Spencer has understood the Japanese game console's advantage.

[@onaretrotip]

@@valenrn8657 Yes, Nintendo have always had superb first-party studios.

[@pnvgordinho]

"Antlantis" lol. nice.

[@onaretrotip]

😎

[@Stephan5022]

Ultracore is released on the PS4 and the PS Vita

[@onaretrotip]

Yes, and the Mega Drive!

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Nobby the ardvark looks very similar to the cartoon 'the ant and the ardvark' any relationship I wonder?

[@onaretrotip]

Hmm... 🤔