Awesome New Amiga Physical Retro Games in 2022 | MVG

We take a look at some new and updated homebrew physical Amiga games in 2022. Bomb Jack Beer Edition, Rygar, Turbo Sprint and Devils Temple are all high quality games for your Amiga and in this episode we take a closer look at all 4 releases including what you get with the physical games
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[@StooCambridgeArtist]

As a developer at Sensible we managed for the most part to escape the ST to Amiga coding route. Phew! It's so refreshing seeing new stuff coming out that takes advantage of the Amiga hardware - and what superb hardware it is too! Great Video as always mate!

[@matt.willoughby]

oOoh did you do sensible soccer?

[@wighar]

Oh now I remember the name, you were on the crew for cannon fodder right? always loved that game.

[@joe77andino]

Honestly how did this man channel forget get about *Metro Siege* ????? 1 of the most impressive Homebrew games I seen this year ...

[@joe77andino]

Oooh nm that why it isn't in this video.. 2022 think that game comes out next year

[@duncanself5111]

I loved Sensible Software

[@GeezerGamesRetro]

Wow, MVG... thank you ever so much for reviewing my games and the boxes, I'm so pleased you like them! As usual a fantastic video and of course your technical decision points about the Amiga are absolutely spot on. I'm considering doing a shooter next or Hyper Sports which is one of my favourite arcade sports games that I remember back in the day. Stay well and I hope you and your family have a great xmas and new year!

[@mikes333]

Excellent job on the games, professional quality across the board! I'm curious though, as I'm assuming that Rygar includes all of its hidden items throughout, how did you go about determining where those were? Did you have to parse through the original source code?

[@ThePerfectKiosk]

Question: I'm assuming this is done above-board, so I'm curious how you acquired permission to do these re-releases? Were the original publishers down with it?

[@pnvgordinho]

Next games, Renegade and Target Renegade. :)

[@pseudonayme7717]

Great work buddy! Hyper sports was also a fav of mine, hope you get it done

[@stevenbenson9976]

@@ThePerfectKiosk my question exactly

[@Reapergrim-kv2ps]

The Amiga is still my fav computer of all time, I had so much fun with the amiga range of computers back in the day 🙃

[@davidbanner9001]

I loved my Amiga so much. It's great to see people are still working to develop for it. These games look great.

[@KevinSaunders]

Great research and review, Geezer continues to create awesome games for the Amiga. So many other games need to be ported, fixed, updated. Thanks for shining a light towards the Amiga Scene MVG :)

[@GeorgesChannel]

Great video! The Amiga is indeed an astonishing machine for its time. Opening a big box game is always like opening a present at Christmas every time. Thank you for sharing this great games with us.

[@tomsorens4453]

Very nice Video! Thank you for the update on my well beloved Amiga.

[@arcadesunday4592]

I love that these kinds of projects are STILL being done, and new life is being breathed into old PCs and consoles. Amazing work by Geyser Games!

[@TravisBHartwell]

I never really had access to Amigas growing up, but I remember the one time I got to use them. I saw one in a computer store that was running Lemmings and I was blown away by the graphics and even more so by the sound. I was used to MS-DOS PCs (and PCs without sound cards) and this was so far above and beyond anything I had experienced.

[@Cyko..]

I had an Amiga 500 back in the day and loved every game I got for it. These games look absolutely stunning!

[@julespleeswoah859]

When all my friends had Segas, Nintendos & Commodore 64s - I felt so superior with the beast that was the Amiga

[@stompreaper]

This is outstanding. They look like fantastic (re)creations. So much respect for the development effort here.

[@bradallen8909]

I'm lucky enough to have spoken to mcgeezer on several occasions. Really friendly guy, and an absolutely amazing coder.

[@CinemaStormz]

This is really awesome keep up the good work!

[@wraithcadmus]

It's really pleasing to see what these machines were capable of, especially the OCS machines, not necessarily that much weaker but the color depth could make ports a challenge. Apparently the whole "ported to a weaker system, then to another micro" hampered the MSX too, with several ports from the *Spectrum* of all things.

[@yakovkhalip9714]

Hmm... I just bought a YAmaha MSX2 computer, never had one before...) Wonder what's good on it))

[@Midwinter2]

Yes, I'm far more interested in what can be achieved with the OCS Amiga.

[@Holammer]

Amiga had a few really good arcade conversions. Toki, Super Off Road ("can you feel it angels?"), Pang, New Zealand Story, Rodland & Rainbow Islands. All of them quality ports. Silkworm was one of the few games that actually improved on Amiga, upping the resolution from 256x240 to 320x200 made it feel so much better than the original. If you never played the arcade, try it in MAME, you will recoil in horror and appreciate the extra horizontal resolution.

[@matsadona]

I remember Silkworm. Had my Amiga connected to larger sound system, and I almost had to change my pants when using the smart bomb the first time ;)

[@Darkuni]

Omg ... Angels indeed. I had to boot that game when my mom wasn't looking....

[@memitim171]

Mortal Kombat was a staggering technical achievement, after the shocking port of Street Fighter 2 I wasn't expecting much, but it turned out to be one of the few times the Amiga left the consoles looking slightly embarrassed.

[@Darkuni]

@@memitim171 Probe did a great job with those. Felt like pretty close ports from the Genesis/Megadrive - esp. MK2.

[@memitim171]

@@Darkuni There wasn't much in it but other than being limited to 2 buttons it was slightly closer to the arcade than the Genesis version, and quite far ahead of the turgid SNES version.

[@WalrusFPGA]

I love that the Rygar port has gamma correction baked into the graphics for a more authentic feel to the original presentation on a 15khz CRT. looks fantastic!

[@darenn-keller]

Great video! It's great that people keep creating games for retro systems and I'm glad you are featuring them. I'm curious; These are ports from original arcade games, does Geezer Games needed to sign a deal with the original developers to sell physical copies?

[@Ti-JAC]

Thank you for posting, enjoyed it 👍

[@MichaelOglesby]

Excellent video MVG. Well done @Geezer Games.

[@DigitalCircus777]

Wow amazing new games and thanks for the reviews and inside information. Sadly my A4000 barely works anymore, so the digital version will have to do. Keep up the great work and Happy New Year!

[@TravisStamper]

Nice to see some things still coming out physically. Amazingly enough I have never used an Amiga. Everything else but never that one. Thanks for the video MVG

[@funstuffonthenet5573]

Another great video. Both Modern and Vintage at the same time, as usual.

[@philipmurphy2]

Wonderful video MVG, Keep up the work.

[@celynjones4958]

That Bombjack port is amazing. Happy memories in the arcade, less so at home. Cheers

[@Evercade_Effect]

I love this! This would make a fantastic Evercade collection.

[@buckvideo]

Love seeing all the new games! When are we going to get a proper port of the dos version of syndicate?

[@PST101]

Nice to see this. That Kung Fu Master Reboot looks great. I think the game we'd all like to see done properly on the Amiga is the one that we were all let down by the most, as kids.... Street Fighter 2. In fact, there was a guy called Pixel Shade on KZbin that started the project. His work looked amazing. Defo worth a look.

[@kenh6096]

Love seeing these sorts of things :D

[@MegaManNeo]

Great to see the homebrew community being so passionate about what its doing. Too bad I do not have an Amiga, otherwise I would have probably picked up Bombjack which I remember well from the GameBoy.

[@joe77andino]

Bruh look up *Metro Siege* that got to be 1 of the koolest looking Amiga fan made game I ever seen ... it really impressive... if u own a Amiga don't sleep on Beats of Rage

[@doktor6495]

Soo great!!! Please more if such stuff in the future! AMIGA FOREVER! Greetings, Doc64!

[@timmturner]

I enjoy all your content, not interested in the Amiga these days but love to see what developers can achieve on older hardware and this certainly applies here. You have to be the only channel on KZbin that can release a video and have it be up for days without any dislikes.

[@gamingcrazy7013]

It's great to see people keeping the Amiga alive by developing quality games such as these. One game I'm looking forward to is Dread, an amazing-looking Doom clone!

[@ashleyggg123]

makes me so happy to see this

[@trueakuma777]

I wasn't aware that there was an arcade version of Rygar, since my only experiences with it was the NES version and then later the PS2 version. So this video taught me something new! Thank you for the informative video and stay safe out there!

[@alexojideagu]

It was one of the first games on the Atari Lynx

[@alexojideagu]

You might find this video interesting kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2bIdZidfKh-n5I

[@trueakuma777]

@@alexojideagu That is indeed interesting! I'll have to see about trying out the other versions of Rygar! Thank you for sharing this and stay safe my friend!

[@vrakula]

Ghosts 'n Goblins on the Amiga is a surprisingly good arcade port. Not arcade perfect, by any means, but very enjoyable.

[@markofmelb]

I always loved the Amiga but couldn't afford one as a kid. I'm a huge arcade fan and now I'm enjoying the Amiga and this video is right up my alley. There are also some awesome recent arcade ports on the Megadrive like Paperboy, Double Dragon and Gauntlet. I didn't realise until recently that the Vigilante arcade game was a sequel of sorts to Kung fu master and Devils Temple looks very much in the same visual style as Vigilante. Cheers from New Zealand!

[@davewills6121]

Always nice to see a revival of a much luved format, remember the A1200 with fond memories. Who ever thought Vinyl would come back like it did.

[@Heiach]

This is so good! Are there any more retro games but released in 2022 you can make more videos like this on?

[@Vimame999]

I play Bomb Jack Beer Edition on Amiga Forever. Thanks for the info, I'm going to have to check out the other games

[@zanmaru139]

Bomb Jack's NES follow - up, Mighty Bomb Jack, was one of the few games my mom ever got into along with Dr. Mario. That takes me back...

[@davidbrennan5]

The Amiga was ahead of its time, I had a close friend with one who lived nearby and not only was it good at professional workloads that his Dad would use for design work etc.. but the games were great and a lot of them were 2 player with joystick support. I remember being blown away with some of the racing games that had cars with headlights and some of the lighting and shading effects that were possible with this hardware.

[@LyricsVideo4U]

Great stuff!

[@rtc3000]

Nothing beats opening up boxes of games and playing them on the original hardware!

[@davewills6121]

True, i remember the 12 disk ''Simon the Sorcerer'', sure it was 12, Cannon Fodder, Lionheart ...memories?

[@tommylakindasorta3068]

These remind me of Denpa games for the X68000, which is a huge compliment because those games were always close to arcade perfect if not better than the arcade.

[@desiv1170]

I remember I picked up Fighter Duel Pro (I think it was Pro, maybe not ?) back in the day for my Amiga. Not that I was a huge flight sim guy, but it could run in hir-res interlace mode, which was really rare for a game back then. So nice seeing Turbo Sprint using that mode!!!

[@DeafOnAllFronts]

Wow juat last night I was browsing the Internet Archives and was looking at At how to literatures on programing and developing games for the amiga, seeing this video makes me want to go for it

[@gfdggdfgdgf]

The initial bomb jack beer version had different music, glad to see they added the original music.

[@ChadDoebelin]

Great coverage! I wish that Rygar worked on OCS/ECS!

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Even though I've never used one, I'm really getting tempted to get a Amiga/classic

[@RobsRetroGaming]

Exciting stuff! Amiga is soooo underappreciated!

[@Reactivate100]

Bomb Jack was one of my favourite games on the Amiga. You are right about the original port being sluggish. Great to see an arcade near perfect conversion. Definitely going to check it out. Rygar you can get the arcade version to work on the Amiga mini with the PSP Capcom collections. New Kung Fu Master game. I’m thinking of purchasing next pay day. Got the NES version of Kung Fu Master working on Amiga mini. I think the C64 version of Kung Fu Master was amazing. Still need to add that to the Amiga mini.

[@naviamiga]

Love seeing something like Turbo Sprint using the abilities of the Amiga well.

[@10p6]

Nice. Bomb Jack on the bog standard ST could have been much closer to the Arcade version though.

[@glharlor]

I absolutely loved super sprint in the arcade. Only cabinet I would ever consider buying.

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

Always love the commitment from the community

[@brandongunnarson7483]

These videos make me wanna explore homebrew, this shit is so cool!

[@spongebobfan78]

There's some so special about very old hardware getting new releases. Especially ones with physical versions. I just remembered how Crunchyroll is going to release a game about their Vtuber for GBC with a physical version via Limited Run Games.

[@crazyscrolly]

Thanks mate for your vids ,just realised I was watching you yrs ago and it just didn't click with me lol ,was on alot of painkillers and recently remembering alot ,big fan of obviously Sean and Nate and you just only recently starting interacting online socially again and of course I love spawncast,told Sean and Nate and Im not that egocentric to think that you would know but I gotta thankyou aswell for helping me,I been having night terrors etc and flashbacks since I was 4,so sleep is something I treasure even if it's 2 hrs straight that's incredible,usually wake up every 20 mins ,but since I decided to try something else ,I can't sleep without tv ,fan and I can't use beds -they trigger me,so I got my playlist of Sean vids ,the ones with you and Nate ,spawncast,aftershow and added yours in aswell especially love anything commodore or Amiga related ,big commodore 64 boy grew since 3 playing that and also had amstrad PC in 1991 good ms dosshell -kings quest ,conquests of Camelot and also longbow ,anything sierra adventure my dad and I would play ,great memories from a hard time ,may I ask you are a fellow Aussie which I'm proud to know and very happy that you are over there programming ,what state do you live in ? And where you working for a gaming company here? I may have seen vids where you mention it but just gradually getting recall of last 12 yrs ,I'm in northwest Sydney idk if you know the mean Fiddler -famous Irish pub? Well I'm like walking distance ,hadn't connected before so I apologize for long message,I'm just a very open and chatty guy when in a good mood haha ,so thanks again for your role in helping me sleep better no nightmares since I started watching the playlist whilst going to sleep so thanks heaps,have a great holidays!!

[@kroadster3249]

Wow thank you so much

[@lactobacillusprime]

Arcade conversions often looked like 8 bit versions. But there are definitely a lot of gems for the system for sure. If only they'd used Sharp X68000 ports as a source for the arcade games instead of Atari ST ports... 🤔

[@michalgajdos7575]

"Authentic Arcade Port" awarded for the very first time ever. As kids we speculated, dreamed about them.. Discussed them in great lengths ...Not even ALTERED BEAST could be deemed AUTHENTIC.

[@wimwiddershins]

Great to see some arcades getting faithful ports. I always thought the port of Capcom's BlackTiger fell short of what the Amiga could do.

[@Midwinter2]

Oh, God, yes. Black Tiger was appalling.

[@angusmclaren6257]

This makes me happy to see the Amiga still getting games today. And great ports.

[@darkling84]

Thx for the video MVG! Great as usual! I wonder if this video could help me finding out one of my favorite amiga 500 games of the time... As I was just a child, I can't remember the name, but I have fragmented memories on this game: We used to call it "Rambo", because you played a small soldier-like guy in a 2d side scroller. Running, shooting and climbing up obstacles. In my memories the gameplay was quiet fluid and the graphics look way better thay rygar for example... If anyone can help me out, I would really appreciate your help! Sry for the bad english, no native speaker here :-)

[@craigh5236]

Oh I remember my Amiga days very fondly.

[@Nick_Nightingale]

Those big game boxes take me back.

[@nimrodlevy]

If I would've amiga i would've pickem up, this is a true labor of love, how many people in the world right now can write good legthy software for motorola 6800 assembly? Let alone games. Thanks for bringing them forward they truely deserve it.

[@pnvgordinho]

We had a few good arcade ports. Toki, Pang, Rainbow Islands, New Zealand Story, Cabal, Rodland and even Super Hang on, Golden Axe and Final Fight.

[@mehere3013]

love the artwork on the posters in devil's temple. lots of ports from St to amiga was lazy

[@GYTCommnts]

OMG That Rygar port!!!!!!!! Played and loved it in Arcades back then (and now of course), didn't like the ports. But this one... Looks INCREDIBLE. 💪

[@BoGy1980]

Rygar si a real classic ... dropped serious coin in that cabinet as a kid ... still one of my favorites on mame... also Gyruss still does it for me, and Wonderboy in Monsterland (wonderboy2) was my absolute favorite as a kid :) Took me about 45 minutes back in the day to complete it... and the pub/café where i was every weekend with my parents, luckily had a WBML cabinet; i just played the game from start till end a few times, then we went home again :) ... (no not a good way of letting a kid grow up at that age, but at least i had my fun)

[@murrayreid2748]

Although not "new",Tiny Bubble is well worth a go for a full blooded Amiga version of Bubble Bobble!👍 Not so long ago was a great home-brew effort of Green Beret too! And a week or two ago an AGA port of Turrican 2 (based off the PC version),was released too...much like C64 home brew efforts of Ghosts'n'Goblins remastered & Commando,great to see these efforts that push the hardware to the full!😎

[@PSNGormond]

I remember playing Bomb Jack on the Atari ST back in the 80s, brings back some good memories.

[@namakudamono]

Great stuff MVG! What was the reason for Amiga arcade ports being ported from the ST?

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

Software houses (especially Ocean) would code for the weaker platform, then port the game over. Having optimised Amiga conversions would have been more expensive as they would either need to develop Amiga and atari St versions in parallel, or take additional time to downgrade the Amiga version to meet the atari St hardware. Both options would have had an impact on the release date. Also there weren't many coders able to work with Amiga custom chips back then.

[@matsadona]

software houses going the cheap route...

[@pagb666]

The opening tune is just lit. My fave amiga game ;)

[@ScoopexUs]

I hope to find time to bring some original games to Amiga as well, coded to the highest standard.

[@bmwolgas]

If you ever do a Commodore 64 conversion episode, I have 4 recommended games: Super Mario Bros, Sonic the Hedgehog, Donkey Kong 2016, and Frogger Arcade 2016. The latter 2 are excellent ports that expand gameplay vertically into the top and bottom borders, and the first 2 are amazing technical achievements.

[@dsmith4658]

loved both amiga / pc big box games

[@gothakane]

Wolfchild music in the intro

[@pauljones8135]

Alot of work and money gone into making these. Box and discs keep up the work

[@losttechwetlights7493]

Love these Flashback style Videos

[@ultragoldenantchannel5648]

Devil's Temple looks a lot like Vigilante, which is another game that is known to be a spiritual successor of Kung-Fu Master!

[@psychopoison]

Yeah, its like Vigilant with different graphics, moves are copycat

[@danialhughes830]

Wow! These look amazing! Used to love Kung Fu Master in the arcade, this new Amiga version look stunning! Hope the soundtrack is similar to the arcade version!

[@boydpukalo8980]

It is amazing to still see groups releasing software for both the Amiga as well as C64 decades after they lost general relevance and usability for daily tasks. Long live the Amiga. I am still building an A3000+ big box Amiga. Hopefully the motherboard will be done soon as I already have the checkmate case, board sheetmetal fitting kit, ZZ9000 GPU, PSU, drives, and OS’s.

[@a4000t]

i was still banking and using credit card sites on my A4000 csppc 060 Picasso IV Amiga well up to 2015 or so. The only think that stopped me was encryption improved and Amissl lagged behind for a while. Well everything going CSS didnt help ;)

[@alzeNL]

Very interesting, I was brought up coding Z80, 6502 and 68k , graduating in 1997 on real time systems. There is very much a place for me where I would still love to write and make games for the Amiga, seeing videos like this really helps me in that its not only something that I should do, but would really enjoy the Amiga renaissance and contributing to it. Whilst I would love to use a physical Amiga (the A1200 was my favourite!) would the UAE be a realstic place to start coding Assembler again ?? Am going to do some digging and see what I come up with but would love to hear comments/input.

[@joejoseph00]

UAE for sure a valid dev platform

[@GeezerGamesRetro]

I use WinUAE and VASM on WIndows 10 to make these games.

[@Grunchy005]

I talked some buddies into going across town to a 7-11 which I knew had a SuperSprint and we each brought a $10 roll of quarters and had an epic Grand Prix, the 7-11 people were amused when we hung around there for an hour straight (plus Big Gulps and Slurpees). Have you checked out the amazing ARLASOFT library of arcade conversions? 24 (that's TWENTY-FOUR) C64 games written between Oct 2019 and Jan 2022. Including Donkey Kong Jr, Galaga, and Galaxian.

[@geesterfunk]

All my life with the amiga I never knew games came in a box! we used to go to this place in Glasgow, Scotland called the Barrowland, it was a market of stalls and shops... completely legit of course haha think the place was raided every month!

[@bobopro1628]

Didn't know, you're also a proud Amiga owner, MVG. 😉👍

[@martindrake37]

As the musiscian of the 2019 release "ReshootR" hope you will get your hands on the follow up Reshoot 3 Proxima, coming in spring 2023. I think it is one of the most playable and arcadish shooters on the system.

[@jatekforditok]

Not into these home PCs myself but very glad new physical releases are coming.

[@PixelGaming_2020]

Glad to see the homebrew community is alive and thriving!

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

My favourite Amiga games were Neuromancer, Ports of Call, Phantasie III: Wrath of Nikademous, Rocket Ranger, Secret of Monkey Island, Three Stooges.

[@TheAccuphasefan]

This is awesome! 😊

[@andrewdunbar828]

Not just arcade conversions, but any games based on licensing of any kind including movies, conversions from other platforms, etc. One reason was the crazy short development times the companies gave the coders. This drove away some of the good coders from such companies so they could work on the projects they liked and take the time they needed to get the results they wanted. It was the same on the 8-bit platforms.

[@williamwright9079]

So good!

[@matteogiberti3297]

Back then I played a lot of text-adventures for Amiga, those from Magnetic Scrolls were the best ones IMHO. Nowadys I'd love to play some new ones possibly as good as the old ones (The Pawn and Fish my fav...)

[@blacksunshine7485]

As a big fan of Kung Fu/Master I was so happy to get my hands on Devils Temple. The gameplay and art blew me away. Great Great game.

[@christianweber9089]

MED, OctaMED was great Music Editor in Amiga 500 them.

[@michaelh9667]

I have been watching you for years and love your work. Just realised I wasn't subscribed! Facepalm! lol