Exclusive Amiga Games - Part 5

Mostly amazing games in this one. So, if you never had an Amiga, it's worth having a look. And if you did, then even more so.
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Many of the 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
0:16 Shadow Fighter
1:54 Pole Walki (‪@SQron188‬)
3:21 Screech (‪@s2325‬)
4:58 Xtreme Racing
6:42 Pinball Brain Damage (‪@s2325‬)
8:29 Sierra Soccer: World Challenge Edition (‪@gameoldies420‬)
10:01 Ruff'n'Tumble
12:22 F17 Challenge
14:04 Metal Kombat (‪@melomonster007‬)
15:43 Wild Cup Soccer (‪@JalopEntertainment‬)
17:28 Outro
#amiga #exclusive #retrogames #retrogaming

[@SWW_Productions]

Watching these videos just makes me want to get my Amiga going again! There is just something magical about that old computer... I have got an original Amiga 1200, but these days if I want to play Amiga I get roms for my A500 mini to save on disk swapping, crashes etc. 👍

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yep, even though that by now I spent incomparably more time on PC than I ever did on the Amiga, I still feel more melancholy towards Commodore's system "that could". :)

[@Bowen_Landry]

always nice to see games I've never seen before.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Glad that I could surprise! :)

[@ksauerrr]

I had some much fun with Shadow Fighter back then, back changing the floppy discs was such a buzzkil.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yeah, it was. But it wasn't even as close as bad as it was with Mortal Kombat II or Super Street Fighter II The New Challengers. xD

[@FEEDMEKITTENS]

Oh snap! I was early enough for the key! Looking forward to playing that later after work! I really wish I would've had access to an Amiga. There are so many crazy cool games I missed out on.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

You till can. Through emulation. I do, have and will say that in the last couple of decades, the best Amiga is PC. Emulate the hell out of it, and don't feel bad about it! :)

[@FEEDMEKITTENS]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh for sure! That's how I'm getting my fix these days. I just wish I would've had the chance to experience these all back in the day on real hardware!

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@FEEDMEKITTENS There is that sense of uncanny magic when these oldies are played on a real hardware, no doubt about that. Especially going through dozens of mis-labelled disks (and no, that's not sarcasm), discovering what's really on them and having (or not) fun playing these discoveries. This cannot be emulated sadly, and only way of re-experiencing it, is to get a real Amiga and a box of unlabelled or mislabelled disks from a random Ebay sale or something. On the other hand while emulating, you can play any game you want now, as fast as no Amiga could run them, and loading instantly. So, both ways of have their own different appeals.

[@frilansspion]

the way reading from the disc sounds, playing on a old tv with that special blur, the feel of the mouse...

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@frilansspion Hard to replicate. Unless you have the real thing and the CRT somewhere.

[@gumdeo]

Pinball Brain Damage looks like a good one which I had not come across before.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

It's not bad, though that one table with way too many ramps is a bit annoying. xD

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

6:40 announcer: "Watch this!" *player immediately misses a jump and takes a dip in acid*

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

He wanted to take a closer look. As instructed. ;)

[@melomonster007]

Finally, an appreciation video about Shadow Fighter. I remember playing many beat'em up's on Amiga: Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2, Body Blows (especially Galactix), Shadow Fighter and Super Taekwondo Master. MK was great, MK2 was a bit worse because of disk juggling, Street FIghter 2 was great also but the animation was a bit sluggish compared to arcade version. Body Blows, as you said, had nice graphics, some nice music and... that's it (fun fact: Allister Brimble did soundtrack to both MK1 and Body Blows and there are songs that use the same samples). Then there was Shadow Fighter: a fast paced beat'em up with big character roster (17 playable characters if I remember correctly) and cool music. My favourite character was Cody with his speed punch. Character roster is not only big but also diverse; we can fight with anyone from small Toshio - 12 years old martial arts adept to Kury - mysterious giant. I also played Super Taekwondo Master which was this even faster paced, goofy Polish beat'em up game. Authors of this game used the same trick that was used in Mortal Kombat: they used digitized sequences made by recording real people. The effect was... not as good as in MK but it's still quite fun. BTW OP, are you pl by any chance?

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Shadow Fighter is a straight up very good fighter. If it released on any other system, it would've been as good. So, I'm not saying it's good cause it landed on the Amiga. It just was. Was it the best? It's difficult to say, but easily in the top 3-5. For me at least. And yeah, Body Blows just blows. xD Super Taekwondo Master is actually quite fun if you forgive it being very very generic. No explosive specials, not fireballs, just martial arts. That said, it doesn't compare to another awesome basic martial arts game - Panza Kick Boxing. Which I actually consider to be the best fighter on the Amiga. I know, not many share the sentiment. xD And yes, I'm Polish. :) Also, love your videos!

[@melomonster007]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames I liked Super Taekwondo Master BECAUSE it didn't had any fireballs and whatnot. It was a game where you fought people which you wouldn't like to have met in a dark alley. Plus it had some nice animated intro, nice punk rock music and VERY nice ending music. Panza Kick Boxing, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time... It's another great fighter game, slower but requiring more precision. Kind of like International Karate + which is another great Amiga beat'em up. There are a lot of others fighters for Amiga like Elfmania (for me it kind of have same problem that Body Blows has, nice graphics, nice music but I just don't buy the concept of cute elves fighting), Brutal Paws of Fury was ok I guess, I didn't enjoy Full Contact because it required too much of both precision and reflex and I have yet to play Capital Punishment.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@melomonster007 I did some top10 when this channel started and Panza was my number 1 fighter on the Amiga. I bet many would disagree but for me, even if I haven't played it as much as the others, more flashy ones, was the best. I think it was because I could actually enjoy the single player in it more. It offered basic progression, you could exchange and learn new moves, it was fun. In 2-player, I'd go for anything else really. Well, other than the Dangerous Streets or Body Blows, or Elfmania for that matter too. Though I would use Elfmania as a show off piece. Brutal Paws of Fury I have mixed feelings about. Cause I remember sucking at it but enjoying it thoroughly, and then for years reading about it being $hit. So, I'm a bit disillusioned about it, and can't really tell how I should feel without replaying it. And it's not happening as I've too many videos to work on. ;) Capital Punishment tried too much in my opinion. It was not inherently bad, it's kinda good actually, but I always felt that it is because "it tried" and not because it just was. I don't know if it makes sense, but that's how I feel. Oh, and Shaq Fu, similar thing as with BPoF, I'd have to replay it to reform my opinion about it. xD

[@SQron188]

Thanks for showcasing Pole Walki, that game was a bit of fun. Not the best of games for sure but an experiment of adding another dimesion to Scorch. Only got to know this video existed because of the mention I saw in KZbin Studio

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Are you for real? My video was mentioned in the KZbin Studio? That's so cool! xD Also, thanks for watching and your kind words. :)

[@SQron188]

@@OldAndNewVideoGamesYeah, the first time I checked that section of KZbin Studio; I hadn't even used it or realised there was stuff in there!

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@SQron188 Still, that's surprising. Such a small channel as mine, there. It's pretty cool. :)

[@SQron188]

@@OldAndNewVideoGamesWell I think it's because you mentioned me using the "at" symbol (@) and my name in the description

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@SQron188 It's possible. :)

[@EvilStreaks]

Again, some of these are nostalgic even though I've never seen them before. Especially Metal Kombat. There's something Commodore 64 about it. Not the graphics, but the "I bet can make a game!" clunkiness, freedom from genre conventions, and naive concepts of things like what a cool battle robot should look like from a time when Darleks and Short Circuit were more ubiquitous. Really takes me back.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Ha ha ha :) I bet I can make a game approach is actually what we did few years back, when I worked in a small company making games for Android and iOS. We've made maybe five, if I'm not wrong, and sixth was basically ready when the company shut down. And the first two were absolute garbage. They did prove that we could. And the next two were pretty decent. None are available anywhere and I'm not sure that the main programmer has any of the source code anymore. But yeah, we went for it same way some of the C64 garage coders did.

[@EvilStreaks]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames I've made some dogshit games in my time :P Like, really proud of them. I showed my stupid homebrew DOS Sonic game to some girls once who came around once when I was in college. That was 17-year-old me attempting to impress girls >=D I WISH I still had it. It must have been so basic and shareware-ish

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@EvilStreaks Yeah, I wish these of mine would be available still too. They would've made for an interesting cringe filled video. ;)

[@FromWitchSide]

I always wonder why people consider Pole Walki as a strategy, while it really is a top down Scorch. If not for the missiles destroying any idea of balance, the game would be quite fun to play against people.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Probably same reason why "Worms" is being called that. So, cause there's no real better fitting generic genre to assign it to. Sure, we could create one from few subgenres and it would more accurate, but I suppose it's just easier to say "strategy", and assume people will get that you don't mean moving armies but rather careful planning. That sort of thing. I think.

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

4:35 *spectator is ran over* Organisers: *don't even think of interrupting the race and sending the audience home, much less calling the cops*

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

And that's a dedication!

[@J_Stamps86]

Ruff n Tumble was great fun. There was a similar game with kids with fire guns popping giant snot monsters and I think it had some sort of McDonalds tie in and I can't for the life of me remember what it was called, but it'll be something really obvious I'm sure.

[@drstephenstrange897]

Global Gladiators? Was not an Amiga exclusive tough.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yep, that's the one. And yep, not an exclusive. :)

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@drstephenstrange897 beat me to it. :)

[@nicholsliwilson]

Having a rough couple of days health ways but your videos always cheer me up. Pole Walki actually has my interest, I’ll tale a look at it as there’s some originality to it. Pinball Brain Damage needs looking at, I haven't plaid that? That was fun, thanks.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Hope that you're better now? And the Xmas video that I'm working on will not only have games I've not covered before, but also hopefully most you've never seen. They will be games for 8-9 different platforms too, so more than I'm used to covering. Should be fun, and perhaps will lift everyone's spirits for Xmas. :)

[@nicholsliwilson]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames sounds intriguing?

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@nicholsliwilson It will hopefully be fun :) That however is something we'll know in over a week.

[@Toon_Pirate]

I'm always surprised by how many Polish games there are, that's really cool that you've had such a thriving game creator community down there. Is it thanks to the power of the kiełbasa??

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

There's nothing that can't be powered with a good kielbasa. ;)

[@melomonster007]

Concerning Polish Amiga games - there was a period of time in the 90's where while Amiga was losing it's popularity in the Western Europe, in Poland it was still owned by a lot people who didn't felt like parting with their 500s, 600s and 1200s, who considered pc their mortal enemy and switching to pc would have felt as an ultimate betrayal to them and who thought that Amiga is still a capable computer. The latter people were sometimes programmers who either tried their hand at making computer games or programmed demos with impressive audiovisual effects. All that caused a wave of Polish games (some well polished some not) on Amiga somewhere between 1994 and 1998. Most of them we're craps or poorly executed ripoffs but there were few games that gained some acclaim like Cytadela - one of many efforts to make FPP game for Amiga, Behind Iron Gate - same but without textured graphics, Teenagent - a first Polish point and click adventure game or Franko: The Crazy Revenge - beat'em up in Final Fight style.

[@Toon_Pirate]

It's a testament to their craft that I, a Swedish person, knows about Teenagent and Franko: the crazy revenge. Keep programming, Polish people, you're making cool stuff @@melomonster007

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@melomonster007 Yep, that. And Doman is the best Amiga side scrolling beat'em up. Period. It's flawed, sure, it's not the best looking, and the loading is painful, really painful, but if you look at what it is and offers, and other games on the system, it's gotta be it. Or at least at the very top. :)

[@Virtzus]

If I'm seeing this right, Pole Walki seems to do something I haven't seen in other 2d turn based tactical games, in that firing is done via a Scorched Earth-like angle+power along a 2d side-view plane based on a read of the terrain in a line between the two units? That's kind of interesting, although probably one of those things that could make it hard to enjoy when playing against AI.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Let's just say that there's a reason why Pole Walki was rather obscure. xD

[@FromWitchSide]

There was an issue with AI, but I do not remember the specifics. However you could just wipe it using manually (mouse) controlled missiles which broke the balance. Certainly this game was made for multiplayer, there isn't really any story or real campaign with missions. I never considered it to be a strategy, rather just top down Scorch with tactical elements. Unfortunately it was hard to find someone who knew the game and would like to play it, not something where friends can just come and play it right away.

[@systemchris]

I owned a big box of wild cup soccer as a 10 year old on my granddad's amiga, good family memories I think you had the cd32 playing as the a500 music was more limited 🎉 R.I.P grandad

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yep, the footage was from CD32 port. And sorry to hear about your grandad.

[@systemchris]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames was many years ago, it's just good memories now! He had a long good life so no sadness!!

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@systemchris :)

[@ZeroWalker26]

Man your Exclusive Amiga games videos makes me wish I could get my hands on an Amiga today but an original Amiga 500 is like 300-400 euro here in Sweden and the new 500 mini is like 200 euro sure may not sound expensive but if I say like this my rent is about 500 euro and being unemployed you kind of don´t have the money to throw on an old pc or even a new one or even a console. But man I for ever been wanting to own an Amiga 500 or a c64. I mean I grew up playing on them but I never owned one it was always friends who owned them.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Oh, Amigas are stupid expensive now everywhere! Getting one in. decent condition and at a fair price is impossible. I'm lucky enough to have A500, though I feel that the disk drive may be on its last legs. I'd love the A600 for the sexy looks of it and upgradeability. But it's not gonna happen. They're just too expensive. And while I am full time employed I get it, trust me, prices of the classic hardware are just ridiculous and I wouldn't recommend spending on them unless someone has a lot of disposable money. The best Amiga is a PC though, so any, even an older one, can easily emulate super fast Amigas with ease.

[@Zontar82]

As said before shadow fighter is the best fighting game on the system, and proud that it was made by italians as well. P.S the game has 18 characters not just 6 :)

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

My country's responsible for Metal Kombat, so I don't know what to tell you... ;)

[@mantovannni]

I'm thinking of getting a mini A500, so I can stick more emulators on it and have a dedicated emulation machine. I always end up deleting them off hard drives for some reason or another on my PC.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

A500 mini is a fun system. But if you wanna use many more different emulators, I would've personally lean towards the Raspberry Pi.

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

0:57 "it features six uniquely looking (...) characters" My man, leotard girls is a cabon copy of Cham Cham from Samurai Shodown with a hint of Lum from Urusei Yatsura.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

So, if it's a mixture of the three, then it's... Unique?

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

It's "don't make it obvious" copied homework unique

[@Zontar82]

Game has 18 characters total

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@Zontar82 Wait what? Who was the 18th?

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

4:05 yum, audience pizza, my favourite!

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

:)

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

12:43 "Swallow, swallow, Dany" Is this a racy Game of Thrones fanfic?

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

These were different times, man. You could advertise cigarettes, or explicit acts, it was a time of freedoms... xD

[@Harp00nX]

This video was going so well until you attacked my ears with that god awful Amiga song lol

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Ha ha ha :) If it helps in any way, it's not used anywhere else? ;)