Amiga 500 Longplay [004] Golden Axe

[@sepsism138]

Brings back memories, probably my favorite music from any Amiga game. I still have the old Amiga 500 in the garage (bought it in 87 or 88).

[@HaveAniceDay2450]

my fav music from amiga 500 games is hard for me to pick! Because there are so many. But i think shadow of the beast 2 got a very good soundtrack! And the same with lotus turbo challenge. Also turrican

[@sepsism138]

@@HaveAniceDay2450 Good calls!

[@jfs2761]

Music are AMAZING compared to all other versions. Very playable and responsive too on the Amiga. One of my fav'

[@Max-du1wo]

THX from Italy! You remind me to the year 1991, when I was only ten and extremely jealous of a cousin of mine who owned an Amiga 500 and used to play everyday games like Golden Axe. We often played together... How many good (old) times!

[@Cosmic_idea]

Been watching a few of the good oldies today. North and South, Wings of Fury and now this. This how ever is properly the game i played the most. This game has a really special place in my heart.

[@mirekfajfer3765]

One of the best memeories from my childchood. First on game automats, then in my home, on my beloved Amiga... Fine game, but then, it didint seems to be so short ...;)

[@crunchychips8123]

First game I ever finished. Felt like a right badarse.

[@Ian_Beale_Eastenders]

yup, me too

[@scotpak100]

Like going back in a time machine. Used to play this on my Amiga 500+ many years ago!! Great game.

[@loneshewolf74]

Gilius Thunderhead; My brother was killed by Death Adder. Ax Battler: My mother was killed by Death adder. Tyrus Flare: My mother AND father were killed by Death Adder! Ax and Gilius: Okay, okay, you win. -_-

[@garrettp6942]

Lol

[@IsiahAllison-h7i]

Right. The girl has an even sadder life because she lost BOTH her parents.

[@harmonyastudio823]

tank you for making me remember what does beeing a child means.

[@UsernameUnidentifful]

Arcade: *enemy screams when dead* Sega Genesis: *enemy screams when dead* Sega CD: Ow! Amiga 500: Ugh! PC: *weird alien noises*

[@jaycee1980]

Sega got the samples from Conan and Rambo. Quite likely they couldn't afford to license these for the home versions.

[@Nukle0n]

Don't forget the weird "boink" Three Stooges sounds when people get thrown to the ground.

[@Chalehan]

That Music, a Dream :) Childhood

[@xpaulkplx]

2 players coop on real A500 , THAT WAS SOMETHING !!!

[@megna1]

one of the best memories of my youth!

[@spacetragedy]

Amiga Forever🤘

[@renrezcrypto6155]

Amiga means friend

[@rasherbasher8203]

Sad git

[@Phantom.Gaming64]

I remember trying this game out as a little kid, and that skeleton in the character select screen really spooked me. I don't know, something about it made my skin go cold for a moment.

[@gabrielirlanda]

Great Amiga conversion, it was like having the arcade machine at home.

[@valenrn8657]

The Probe Entertainment Limited also ported Mortal Kombat 2 for the Amiga.

[@jasonlee7816]

@@valenrn8657Probe Software didn't port the Amiga Golden Axe version it was Virgin Games

[@valenrn8657]

@@jasonlee7816 Programming & Graphics: Dementia for Probe Produced for Probe by Neil Young & Jo Bonar Produced for Virgin by Andy Green & Ian Mathias

[@jasonlee7816]

@@valenrn8657if Probe did convert (port) Amiga Golden Axe the name Probe would be on the box (packaging) why is it Virgin Games on it not Probe? because Probe didn't port it?

[@valenrn8657]

@@jasonlee7816 I'm just quoting Amiga's Golden Axe's startup screen.

[@pekkakallio8732]

I got this game to my Amiga 500, with unlimited lives and unlimited energy. What a enjoyment it was when I recently played this game to the end, with unlimited lives! I played as Tyrus Flare also.

[@jasonlee7816]

did you buy (purchase) Amiga Golden Axe in a shop? did it come with infinite energy or unlimited lives? or did a friend give you the game free with a code that you had to enter in the game? or did a relative sell it to you with the code already included?

[@valenrn8657]

@@jasonlee7816 I can complete Amiga Golden Axe without cheats.

[@pnvgordinho]

First game I saw running on Amiga and it was love at first site. After seeing this I run home and I begged my father to buy me an Amiga 500. Before the Amiga I had a zx spectrum, so you can imagine what was going on my mind when I saw this.

[@yukatoshi]

Yeah. Decent port as well.

[@jasonlee7816]

did you compare others? Amiga v Sega Mega Drive Amiga vs > SNK Neo Geo Amiga vs Super Nintendo Amiga v NEC Turbo-Grafx

[@DifficultFlannel]

Ah, I remember Death equals Adder

one of my all time favorites, all 3 of them

[@daniel_007]

The skeleton enemies in Stage4 were so hard to beat, even much more difficult than Death Adder

[@scandalreturns]

Fuck off

[@ketulu]

one of my fav game on Atari ST with my brother, back in time

[@MarcGameplays]

I really like this game. I used to play it when I was a kid.

[@pekkakallio8732]

I like the Amiga 500 version of Golden Axe.

[@wizzgamer]

A fair step up over it's rivals the NES and Master System.

[@jaycee1980]

The Amiga could have done much better than this, however I think they sacrificed a lot to make it compatible with the 512K models

[@jaycee1980]

There's also some fcking large sprites in this game. The Blitter mustve been shitting itself trying to keep up!

[@Syklonus]

It was still an amazing port. The 1Meg upgrade would probably have made it a bit better in terms of animation but the gameplay was spot on. Also, the sprites weren't really that big when you consider that the view port of the game only takes up part of the monitor/TV screen. It's been stretched out to fill the KZbin player so they look bigger than what they actually are.

[@LuchoOM_8]

5:02 wtf that was scary back then , I like the artwork

[@flolore4145]

An awesome conversion !

[@andromedaone3640]

I hope there's a amiga mini classic with this in.

[@spacetragedy]

Summon the lightning summon the dragon🌩

[@DaryckReese300]

I Would Have To Say That Tyris=Flare, The Amazon Is My Favorite Character In Golden Axe.

[@formatman525]

hi....what is the key to cast the magic portion?

[@bkdove]

hi, left ALT

[@bl00derly]

i think i prefer this music to the megadrive version (the rythm feels better to me). i didn't watch the whole video yet but it seems there's more colors. It also feels like the animation and the gameplay got screwed.

[@dukeoversteer]

bl00derly Amiga has always been superior for audio than contemporary consoles and way ahead of PC. It was limited by CPU with the A500 and the more powerful Amigas came too late to save it. I had a A500 with external floppy drive and 1Mb RAM and loved it.

[@Syklonus]

The game actually plays much better than the Megadrive version due to the fact that the hit detection is far tighter and more accurate. I had this Amiga version first and then I got a loan of the Megadrive game a few years later and I couldn't believe how slow and clunky it was.

[@rasherbasher8203]

​@@Syklonus what you smoking... Megadrive shits on the this version from a great height... its better in every way. 🤡

[@villevenetjoki7633]

so cool game I saw this last time when I played it ages ago !!!

[@TOUKOretrotaku]

i prefer the amiga version overal, the sound(musics and FX) was miles better than MD one with his really bad and awful digits .

[@rasherbasher8203]

You must deaf and blind.

[@SuperJimUK]

The graphics were a bit better on the Amiga, but the Mega Drive had another two levels to beat.

[@nebularain3338]

The Megadrive had ropy ht detection and really clunky controls. I much prefer the Amiga version.

[@RMoocher]

Graphics were NOT better on the Amiga version!

[@RMoocher]

@@nebularain3338 Please, the MD version plays fine. Just bitter that the MD left the A500 in the dust when it came out, lol

[@rasherbasher8203]

Megadrive destroyed the amiga version hands down.... this version is an embarrassment..

[@Syklonus]

Way better than the clunky mess that was the Megadrive version. The Amiga port had much better hit detection and was more fun to play. Great music too!

[@Jayce_Alexander]

LOL good one

[@AceGear..]

You must be jocking.

[@RMoocher]

Please, the MD version plays fine. Certainly not worse than the Amiga version.

[@willthomas2310]

Stop lying, This version sucks lol! Dull muted colors, constant slowdowns, low framerates, bad sound quality, fewer enemies on the screen, missing levels, rycyle stage music

[@mortenera2294]

Are you a fucking clown or what?

[@christianwiksten4874]

good memories

[@ratius1979]

Tough as old boots this game! The Eagle level was 🤪 But wow great memories

[@BartoszS-x8t]

maan my childhood! do you play this on Amiga using joystick? or some kind of PC simulator?

[@Weggefahrtin-]

I Love this Game 🥰

[@hanchiman]

I never know how to read his name should it be Death Adder or Death Equal Adder? Haha, never mind the detail, still this game probably much better than the modern version of Golden Axe Beast Rider.

[@wombat2775]

THX for uploading!

[@SelevanRsC]

I always hated the little shits with bags on their back, so 10:20 has made me lol

[@pakasack]

Wow 1989, I'm old... I think the dwarf's name is Gillius Thunderhead, why that immediately rolls off my tongue I'm not sure

[@pakasack]

lol well intro screen tells you anyway

[@TheRogueMonk]

why does the dwarf have Golden axe in amiga version? i havent seen him w golden axe in other versions

[@Syklonus]

He has a Golden Axe in the original arcade version. The only version where he has a silver Axe is the Megadrive port.

[@yael6239]

buy Buena adaptacion y esos enanitos son muy escurridizos lo mas chistoso es como gritan cuando mueren😁😁😁😁

[@MrSalmonOrange]

love it

[@DamirMarasso]

I wasn't young when i played this one. 😅

[@MrKadidle51]

Hoooly shit. I completely forgot about this game.

[@vaju79]

great game

[@gerabos8188]

My Name ist Gerhard i have Play it on Brothers amiga 500 in the childhood.

[@RonaldoGazel]

A pretty decent conversion. I used to play It a lot. It works on 512MB machines.

[@rafaellima83]

17:58 is SO FREAKING ANNOYING and its like EVERY BEAT'EM UP ON AMIGA suffers from this. You just regained control of your character after dying and enemies ARE ALREADY BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF YOU. Game Design 101: Give a period of invencibility after player loses and regain control of its avatar, so it doesn't get attacked even before it can move/defend himself. Amiga coders could be great coders, but most of them knew shit about game design.

[@nebularain3338]

To be fair, in this case it's more that the player's "re-appear" point happened to be close to the enemies. If you look you'll see that when the player gets knocked over the enemies stand still. Also, I think you are underestimating coders' game design skills. There's so much that goes into these sort of games that you just don't think about. so saying that one flaw makes them bad game designers when everything else is so good is a bit off. Granted, when the player re-appears the enemies should fall over, but as stated - one flaw in an otherwise fantastic port.

[@rafaellima83]

@@nebularain3338 You still need to give the player some period of invencibility just after you regain control of it. When the player re-appears, he should be invencible (or enemies stand still, as it happens in Golden Axe) . It is a *serious* flaw in the gameplay department. Like I said, this is basics. And the coders of this didn't design the game. They just ported a good game - and did a good job indeed CODING wise.

[@agataagata9858]

Ten kto robił ta muzę jest prze chujem. Cudo. Po grę pamiętam za dzieciaka.

[@lucgarnier7723]

for my friend MAX

[@gumdeo]

Great game.

[@ryzmaker11]

it's not a bad port compared to other shitty Arcade to Amiga ports! but yeah, the Mega Drive / Genesis version is (again) clearly better

[@Hankkillo]

again? XDDDD

[@glenaitken8574]

Played both and the Ami shits all over the Meggi.

[@RMoocher]

@@glenaitken8574 Haha, don't kid yourself!

[@rasherbasher8203]

​@@glenaitken8574 you must smoke crack.. what complete nonsense

[@TytanGaming]

Wow this port is sooooo slow. Great video though.

[@RUTHAN667]

This is nice, i dont know why, but present WHDload image is too fast, as far i understand WHDload, it should be capable to make game speed right.

[@nadeembackus2741]

It's probably running at 60Hz NTSC, PAL Amigas run at 50Hz which seems a lot slower.

[@madcommodore]

Graphics are worse than my update of the 16 colour Atari ST graphics!!!!!!! No wonder I gave up on Amiga and got a Megadrive (naff PC Adlib style FM soundchip and rough single sample channel on that machine though!)

[@francescopusceddu9233]

Su Amiga si sentivano le urla.

[@weemadangus1834]

Lol I remember seeing this in the stores and thinking it looks like crap.

[@weemadangus1834]

Lol I was talking about the Amiga copy. I still have my sega megadrive Golden Axe, that came with the system. Mega drive one was good.

[@weemadangus1834]

It looks sluggish, grainy and the sound isn't great.

[@nebularain3338]

Mega drive one was crap. Bad hit detection and slow controls. Amiga was far more responsive.

[@segaboy9894]

Aspect Ratio!!!!!

[@lorddeimos3129]

Not bad port its more best of the port of the turboduo or PC-ENGINE....

[@Luke.hello.]

lmao, this game looks so sloppy. i really like the mountable monsters though.

[@DracXBelmont]

The Amiga port wasn't very good. The Genesis and Arcade versions were much better.

[@CRILLER3]

DracXBelmont But IMO it has better music ( played the amiga version when i was a kid probably why i prefer it over the others :D )

[@DracXBelmont]

I actually like the C64 version better music wise - Jereon Tel did a great job with what he had.

[@CRILLER3]

DracXBelmont Eh i dont know wasn't really sold on C64 i got it way later after the amiga. Dont know much about specs for amiga but IMO it pretty much dominated the sound aspect.. Gameplay that can be talked about ;D

[@DracXBelmont]

That's why I appreciate the C64, it was often trumped by other home computers / consoles at that time in terms of sound or graphics, but the composers, particularly Jereon, worked so well with them. Funny, I had neither a C64 or an Amiga growing up :[

[@etherallight7379]

Não se compara nada á versão das consolas, muito menos á versão arcada. Uma das piores ( senão a pior ) versão do " golden axe"

[@adamtarnoki1370]

I did it without life loose, it was easy.:) (okay it was 20 years ago.)

[@피제스]

16:21. 17:54

[@SomeOrangeCat]

This looks like a pretty serviceable port. If you didn't have a Genesis, you could do a lot worse than this version.

[@sridharsarnobat8673]

I'd forgotten how much the Amiga version had been butchered

[@jamstrings100]

Sridhar Sarnobat Its not that bad.

[@RUTHAN667]

Looks and Commodore or Spectrum version, but to be honest pc master race version is best one, even better than arcade one.

[@nebularain3338]

Butchered? Are you serious? This is a great port. I much prefer it to the clunky Megadrive version.

[@rafaellima83]

@@nebularain3338 It's a good port... but better than the Megadrive one? Sorry, it isn't. The PC vesion is indeed great.

[@christoph1246]

Can’t believe the beginning is missing from the genesis version.

[@jimmybiggs9230]

The graphics are on par with the arcade except one thing. The music chip is not so good. Ending also matches the arcade except the missing scaling. Also missing voices.

[@IsiahAllison-h7i]

Innocent question: Who plays this game only to choose the girl? Be honest. Don't be shy.

[@VeeeeryyyFaaaastSlooooth]

The slowdowns are even worse than on Atari ST...lazy port

[@rasherbasher8203]

Spectrum version is a better conversion than this....