Exclusive Amiga Games - Part 4

Another 10 games that never graced any other systems. Couple of not so great ones, but the rest is stellar!
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Gameplay recordings that you've seen in this video as a background to my commentary came from amazing retro gaming related channels that do a great job preserving the classics for the future. They all deserve your subscription, and they all have mine. These are:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Rajd Przez Polske (‪@OldGameplay‬)
2:13 Overkill
4:08 Nemac IV: Director's Cut (‪@juvvuk‬)
6:08 Odyssey (‪@AL82RetrogamingLongplays‬)
7:57 Hillsea Lido (‪@AlexMenchi‬)
9:43 Dragonstone (‪@RetroShowCaseGr‬)
11:32 Borobodour: The Planet of Doom (‪@insertdisk‬)
13:30 Airtaxi (‪@petsasjim1‬)
15:01 Forest Dumb Forever!!! (‪@hipoonios‬)
16:54 Hybris
19:50 Outro
#amiga #exclusive #retrogames #retrogaming

[@fabiankoenig6499]

I didn't know Poland had such an active Amiga scene, very interesting.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Oh, Poland had a huge Amiga scene. Mostly late in system's life, and of various quality, but some games were really fantastic. Not Forest Dumb games though. These sucked. :)

[@naviamiga]

Love how smooth the animation on Odyssey is. Underrated game.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

It's a bit tough for me, but overall an excellent game. Well worth trying out.

[@J_Stamps86]

I have good memories of Dragonstone, but the hitbox in the combat was so frustrating, especially if an enemy was up screen from you and you were facing them, timing any sort of strike was extremely difficult, especially for me as a young lad. It did look beautiful though.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Worst thing I remember was when you got hit. Cause you can't hit back while getting hit, so being drawn into a receiving end of a hit combo was possible and often deadly. xD

[@Toon_Pirate]

I'm glad Batman has a crash pad in Poland with a nice guy providing him with snacks and games. He works so hard

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

I'm not sure "work" fits in that sentence. He eats, that's for sure. I've seen him sleep, more than once. And I think he's in the toilet at least 3-4 times per day. But working? I don't think so. He didn't even add a drum roll to a video once when I asked him to.

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

10:10 protag: *blacks out due to a night of heavy drinking* *immediately sets out to slay dragons* My man has his priorities in order

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

A hero's gotta do what hero's do. No matter the circumstances. xD

[@Zontar82]

Hybris will always be a masterpiece for me, the sound and music and gameplay. the pseudo sequel battle squadron will never be as good. never understood back in the day why the bigger ship wasn't the one send to decimate the aliens and they send the puny player ship. if you press space you can use the smart bomb, holding fire and moving joy counterclockwise you get to separate your power up to shoot independently

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

It's a classic, no doubt about that. And oddly enough never released on anything else. Even though it was easily worth ports to other systems of the time.

[@Jokerwolf666]

Keep up the awesome videos, someday when I have more time to play all these classic games this is where I'll go.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

I keep discovering and adding games to my virtual mental queue "for later" too. It just keeps growing... ;)

[@SWW_Productions]

I was hoping you would mention Odyssey! I love that game. I will be honest and say it is one of my favourites on the Amiga. I also love Dragonstone too.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

It's a good game but I can't play it. I don't know why this game in particular, but I suck at it terribly. xD

[@williamwright9079]

I really love your work,my dear sir!

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

And I really appreciate your kind words :)

[@gumdeo]

Ah, Hybris. It was like an improved version of the Terra Cresta arcade machine. AirTaxi is great multiplayer action.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yes and... yes. :)

[@chaosordeal294]

Dude, you gotta hear the Lido Shuffle by Box Scaggs. A proper classic from the seventies.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

:)

[@thisnthat3530]

Hybris was the first ever game I had for my A500 I bought in 1988.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

It's such an amazing game to start your Amiga adventure with, and in the same time, such a tough act to follow. xD

[@mantovannni]

It's mad how we may not have had any Amiga games if Atari hadn't sold the model to Commodore. I only found out recently they bought the model and Atari made the Gem Desktop and made the ST, selling what turned out to be the superior machine when it got it's custom chips.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

History it seems is not without the sense of irony. :)

[@Zontar82]

nemac looks really god for an fps on the amiga, depite being at the very barebones of hud interface

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

It's not bad. There are just better games, that's all I'm saying. Still, Amiga was not built for these games, so any really is a little miracle. :)

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

11:46 Ah yes, Borobodour, one of the members of the Fellowship of the Ring who contracted a heavy case of dieds.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

LOL :)

[@nicholsliwilson]

Rajd Przez Polskę says a lot about late 80’s Poland & has a real charm to those of us that weren’t there. I think it deserves extra points for the cultural story it tells with the choice of cars available. Don’t discount it for the thing that makes it so interesting to outsiders. I love defender so will probably love Overkill? Nemac IV: Director’s Cut shows what a late, powerful Amiga can do much more than it’s achievements on lower end Amigas, in my opinion. Never played Odyssey but I will give it a look? I could have sworn Dragonstone came out for DOS? never played it but from what you’ve said I don’t think I’ll bother? Borobodour is quite a name! Genuinely a hard to pronounce name (for English speakers) can kill a game & in this case it may have because it’s another I don’t know? Airtaxi is so much more fun than the… “home made” graphics suggest & I enjoy it 1 player & 2. Forest Dump Forever!!! Is again new to me but there are more than enough good platformers that it doesn’t sound like it needs checking out? Hybris is a great arcade shooter, especially for 1988, that never came out in arcades & is well worth a play, if you love shooters. Great video. Once again a good mix of stuff I know, suff I don’t & the odd game I don’t need to bother with, thank you.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

It really does say a lot about it (RPP about Poland). The country started opening up towards the western influences, and people began to have more and more money. Perhaps not a lot by any modern at the time standards, but much more than before. So, naturally everyone wanted a car. But since even they had more than before it was still hardly enough for a new BMW, Mercedes or Toyota, the country had to find a solution. And it was licensing simples, less expensive car models from other manufacturers and then making them and selling for cheap(-ish). So, there were just a few you saw everywhere with these better and more expensive ones often being a symbol of status. Things changed now, but it was an interesting time. But the game... It still sucks. ;) Nemac was interesting for many reasons, and also such a missed opportunity for so many others. But by then, whomever still had an Amiga, was just happy to have another FPS, even if average games in the genre on PC where usually much better and faster. Odyssey is loved by most Amiga gamers. So, chances are that you'll like it too. Not because it's common and I'm so special, none of that, it's more cause I'm an odd gamer, and often things that other don't mind frustrate me, and those that other don't like, I don't mind as much. I'm weird that way. And it's not only games, it goes for TV shows and movies too. Also, why I so love incredibly bad movies. Not those that failed a little in their hopes of grabbing audiences, but those that from the get go were so bad, that noone even hoped that they would ever reach the theatres. Dragonstone never came out for DOS. But don't discount it because of what I said. It's a good game. It's just an early Zelda with better presentation, so not really a deep RPG experience. But if you like those, you'll like it too. If not, then good call, don't play it. ;) Yes! I mean YES! Borobodour's name could've been a reason. At least partly. I mean would I buy the next, let's say, Raiden, a well known name and game, or something that I would never be able to pronounce when talking to friends? Makes sense. Especially in the 90s, when hardly ever you got to learn about all games you came across before trying them out. Not all were covered in gaming mags after all. OMG! I don't know if it's intentional or not but Forest Dump is literally that the game should be called. ;) Oh, the next video while not about Amiga, will have quite a few big and fun games. :)

[@shevat]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames And still I would be ashamed to release RPP so late in Amiga life. I saw images in Secret Service (or was it Top Secret or Amiga Computer Studio) back in the day and I was not even tempted to pirate such a crap :/. Crazy Cars 3, Jaguar XJ 220 or greatest one of them all - Lotus series was way ahead in term of playability and graphics.

[@nicholsliwilson]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames someone in a movie group I’m in tried to claim The Lion King (2019) was “the worst movie ever made” & I’m like, “you have no idea.” 😂 Things, Sting of Death, War of the Robots (AKA Reactor) I could go on but Things is the worst of the worst ever, IMHO.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@nicholsliwilson The Lion King? Seriously? I mean I've no sentiment for it anymore, but objectively speaking and keeping its intended audience in mind, it's actually a pretty good one.

[@JanHell666]

Yes Hybris! I had it! ...i mean the game.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

LOL :)

[@EvilStreaks]

Gawd, its a shame I never had an Amiga. They were ahead of the curve for a really long time. This is all eye-opening to me. I expect that Amiga shovelware was generally better than early DOS shovelware. Anyways... Overkill LOOKS beautiful and plays really smoothly. I just wish it did one original gameplay thing. It was a mistake in Rajd Przez Polske to make the camera angle jerk up and down to that mad degree. I'm English and I've only EVER come across "lido" in crosswords.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

You can still play some of these gems through emulation without the need to invest into real hardware, which I must add, is extremely expensive now if you wanna get it in good condition. I have an older video on how to emulate Amiga on PC on my channel. It's a bit old and rough but all the concepts in it are still up to date. And shovelware stuff on the Amiga was same as on PC, there were some good ones, and some really really bad ones too. :)

[@EvilStreaks]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames Gotcha. And yeh I actually ran an Amiga emulator once, to compare a DOS game I was remaking to the Amiga version (Omnicron Conspiracy). Trying to guess how to do it on my own was not straightforward ;D

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@EvilStreaks Yeah, while it's not difficult per say, having to figure it out first few times, especially if someone never had an Amiga can be tricky. But after few successful attempts it becomes a second nature. A good short summary of the configurations would be this, I suppose: 1. Amiga 500: kickstart 1.3, 0.5MB Chip + 0.5MB Fast RAM, OCS Chipset 2. Amiga 500+: kickstart 2.04, 1MB Chip RAM, ECS Chipset 3. Amiga 600: kickstart 2.05, 1MB Chip RAM, ECS Chipset 4. Amiga 1200: kickstart 3.0 or 3.1, 2MB Chip RAM, AGA Chipset There are some changes you can make to these to make them run faster or for extra compatibility reasons if something fails, but generally speaking most games should run on 1, and those that don't will on 4. Oh, and for best compatibility it's best to keep drive emulation at 100% speed. I usually go for 800% or Turbo, and if that fails drop down to 100%, but if you want a hassle free albeit slower loading configuration, 100% is the speed to have set there.

[@shevat]

I can't seem to find similarity between Ruff'n Tumble and Forest Dumb Forever (but I see this game for a first time :P). But those tiles are clearly stolen from Furry of the Furries.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Both games FD and FDF based their whole designs on theft of assets and ideas. Probably counting that the original devs forgot about Amiga by the time that they released. As time has proven, that was the case.

[@amiga_vision]

Hybris is fantastic, RIP Paul van Der Valk - amazing music. You mentioned that it was similar to an arcade game, but I could not make out what you are saying (sorry!) in that section. Is it referencing Terra Cresta, or a different game?

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Dangar UFO Robo.

[@amiga_vision]

Thanks! Those are not words that make sense in any language, so it makes sense that I couldn’t make it out 😅

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@amiga_vision No, they really don't. xD The game is neat though.

[@ksauerrr]

Hahaha. Rajd przez Polskę was so bad, but somehow cute for us.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yeah, it's definitely a product of its time (and place).

[@hezekiahramirez6965]

I never had an Amiga but I've been curious about its library for a while. I'm especially curious about Dragonstone. I love action adventure RPGs and I've been playing the ones I missed. I had a lot of consoles growing up, and a PC, but never an Amiga. So it's a big gap in my videogame knowledge and I'd really like to become more familiar with it. There's another Zelda clone called Speris Legacy and another action adventure RPG called Darkmere I'm also curious about but I think Darkmere is on Atari ST too. I've heard there are a couple more games that are somewhat Zelda-like but I don't know how close they are

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Well, Amiga had an incredibly vast library of standard games and another one of these of Public Domain titles. So, if you're really into experiences that were not possible on other systems, it's definitely a system to take interest it. Are you planning on buying a system or trying it out through emulation?

[@hezekiahramirez6965]

At some point I might snag a mini but I've been emulating. I think I'll just do that for the time being. My PC needs to be repaired so I don't have access to it at the moment but I did download some RPGs so I do want to play those. I've only put a few minutes into a handful of dungeon crawlers so far

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@hezekiahramirez6965 As someone who loves RPGs and has the most fond memories of Amiga out of all systems I will say something very controversial here. But PC, had better RPGs overall. Obviously there were awesome ones on the Ami. But PC had more good ones. If that makes sense. Still, Amiga library is so vast, that going through them all can easily take months. :) Also, I'm all for emulation!

[@AdrianuX1985]

Kluczyk STEAM odhaczony. Dzięki.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

"Smacznego" :)

[@jeremygregorio7472]

You know I'm beginning to think the guy on your couch might not be Batman....

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

You mean... I'm... Crazy?

[@fkirfirt9606]

Does the government of Poland mandate that schools teach English or did you learn independently? You do an excellent job. Edit: also I enjoy how positive you are!

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

First of all, thank you! Especially that your comment is much nicer than the last I received about it. It literally said "Your English is shit, bye." ;) We are taught foreign languages in all schools, primary, secondary, high school and then in uni/college. It's more often than not English, and then German, with other languages being less popular. But at least in my experience teachers really either don't have a working knowledge of the language, or know only what's covered in their textbooks. I grew up in a small town though, so perhaps it's not the case in bigger cities. I however learned English by playing video games and watching movies and TV series in their original undubbed versions. And later on by reading books. Today, I consume all my media in English, and really don't watch anything in Polish. Not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just there's much bigger choice of it in English, be it on YT, Netflix or whatever, and often of higher quality, and only as many hours in the day. :)

[@lurkerrekrul]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames I've always thought your English was very good.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@lurkerrekrul Thank you! I wouldn't go as far as very good, but I'm pretty sure, that it's understandable, and that's as much as one can hope for running an English-speaking channel. :)

[@lurkerrekrul]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames I've watched videos from some other people who aren't native English speakers, and some of them make many more mistakes than you do. I'v heard some native English speakers who make more mistakes than you. :) And don't even get me started on the amount of written mistakes I see every day!

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@lurkerrekrul Once again, thank you! :)

[@lurkerrekrul]

Rajd Przez Polske - I can excuse the lack of variety in the tracks and cars, however the way the camera jerks up and down is extremely annoying and would be enough to make me not want to play it.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

You're the second person to say so. So, it's not a coincidence that it wasn't very popular. xD

[@assassindelasaucisse.4039]

Your english is good. Bye!

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

OMG LOL :) xD

[@herrEthic]

Great Content, but your pronunciation is very thick.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Sorry for that.