Gloom Deluxe (Amiga, 1996)

First person shooter for the Amiga. Improved version of Gloom (Black Magic, 1995).
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[@sandroilpelato7153]

Fun Fact: The sound of the enemy soldier's death scream was actually ripped from the movie Aliens, it Bishop's scream when he is killed by the Queen

[@OpenMawProductions]

Most of the sounds are ripped from aliens. Ammo pick up = Hicks shotgun. The death screams are Bishop, Wierzbowski, and Dietrich. Drake's death scream is used for one of the monsters. Robots make powerloader sounds. The door opening sounds are from Aliens as well. Even the design of the soldiers look a lot like the USCM uniforms. I'm honestly shocked there wasn't a law suit.

[@keyserxx]

@@OpenMawProductions hah yeah I was just watching this video I didn't realise until now they just took all the sounds straight from the Aliens film. I think in reality the 1996 Amiga A1200 030 community was fairly small so probably not much point in suing, or they just slipped in under the radar.

[@ateserd]

Who would give a fuck about a dying computer and abysmall game sales on Amiga back then in 1996

[@Del-Canada]

I was addicted to this game back in 96. Would come home from work on Fridays, crack a beer and play some Gloom or Alien Breed 3D.

[@AmigaWolf]

Same here, i loved Gloom and Alien Breed 3D.

[@fnizzle8805]

Poor soul :(

[@AmigaWolf]

@@fnizzle8805 Why, they are great games.

[@fnizzle8805]

@@AmigaWolf the amiga period was horrible. By the time this game came out which is a bad rip of doom. The SNES and SEGA was out already. This system was commodore's downfall.

[@AmigaWolf]

@@fnizzle8805 What system was commodore downfall, Amiga was not the problem, Irving Gould and Medhi Ali was the downfall of Commodore. The Amiga 500 was a huge hit, and many millions were soled same for the Amiga 2000 in the movie/sound business, no other PC came anywhere near the power of the Amiga with graphics and sound in the 80s, the Amiga 1200 would have soled much more if they did not have too short Amiga 1200 when he came out. I can clearly see you know nothing of the downfall of Commodore and thus the Amiga.

[@rekkimaru7]

I simply love Gloom. Thank you for the video.

[@ateserd]

When the professional companies jumped out of the sinking Amiga ship after the Commodore's demise, the scene was left to brave amateurs and the demo scene groups and you get this

[@danyoutube7491]

It was actually a great game, not one of the shoddy games despite being the only commercial game series released by this company (Black Magic. They made Gloom for A1200 and CD32, and then Gloom Deluxe). This was one of the best games on the Amiga, a very fun game.

[@ateserd]

Actually Gloom Deluxe is good. Fears was very bad and AB3d too small screen

[@NaaLaaCreator]

It was an awesome game!

[@RabidGerry]

Why does this look way smoother than it does on my A1200 with ACA1233n-40? I can't get even close to that frame rate unless I make the screen tiny.

[@RabidGerry]

@@stuartmcfarlane213 well I managed to get it this smooth in the end, used a different C2P routine.

[@SledgeNE]

It looks awesome.

[@LouSantiago-mg9dg]

What a great looking game

[@naviamiga]

Lovely playthrough and great game. Always liked the 1x1 mode so modern accelerators (or rich people in the 90's) can enjoy the full experience. Wish AB3D had got a similar Deluxe version.

[@Swordslinger-hb1ns]

Definitely a step up from the ill fated Commodore Amiga CD32 version that’s for sure.

[@guest21984]

What is this running on? Emulated I take it with an accelerator card. On an A1200 it looks and plays nothing like this. Great game though, even though FPS was not Amigas strong point. Behind the Iron gate was the fastest FPS game on the Amiga and even ran on my stock A500

[@michalkalinowski7783]

it was my first fps 🖤

[@IMN602]

Ok so does anyone get big time disruptor vibes from this game engine?

[@TheDashingDevils]

Is litteraly no one going to talk about the stupid baby bottles?

[@Moskalus]

My fave game!

[@parabolee]

Does anyone have a WHDload version of this? Can't find it anywhere!

[@SpillhistorieNo1]

Not sure there is a WHDLoad-patch for this, though the game is HD-installable.

[@johntyrrell1549]

Angry video game nerd hated the cd32 version

[@rsouth454]

Looks way better than the cd32 version . Why ?

[@DhavidSetiawanKilluaDhavid]

Out Of Memory?

[@SpillhistorieNo1]

This is Gloom Deluxe, which was the improved version released a year later to take better advantage of high-end Amigas. It's running on an A4000 with a 68040-processor.

[@DhavidSetiawanKilluaDhavid]

@@SpillhistorieNo1 Oh OK I thought it issue with _Out of Memory_

[@SpillhistorieNo1]

@@DhavidSetiawanKilluaDhavidI believe Gloom Deluxe could run on 2 MB machines, but then it'd probably look a lot more like the original Gloom.

[@DhavidSetiawanKilluaDhavid]

@@SpillhistorieNo1 Oh OK

[@daishi5571]

It was a fun game! no Doom killer, but fun all the same.

[@scottplanttoon7165]

The Avgn will be happy

[@LordTchernobog]

Poor man's Doom

[@Akiramarusama]

Sincerely, if I'm going to play a doom rip off I prefer Corridor 7.

[@djaccount5458]

Great game!

[@eterenostalgia5088]

Funny game

[@deedeedaydee]

Autofire Hax. Poor effort.

[@hunters7565]

Catastrophic Doom clone exactly like "Fears" and "Alien Breed 3d". The Amiga was simply not made for that genre.

[@tobiassoderlund7098]

Hunter S If anything Gloom is a clone of Wolfenstein 3D, and quite a brilliant one. With no quick saving available the levels have to be well balanced to provide a good sense of progression, which they are, and the game controls perfectly well with a CD32-pad even on an Amiga with the shoulder buttons being used for strafing. Overall the game has a very consoley feel, good enermy placing and interesting level design. Playing the campaign co-op is also great fun. I honestly can’t think of one single Wolfenstein 3D clone doing things better overall than Gloom. Alongside Doom and Quake this is one of those early fps experiences I just have to keep coming back to every now and then. Oh, and as far as Gloom and Gloom Deluxe goes I prefer the original Gloom with lower resolution over the Deluxe version. The giant pixels and messy attityde paves way for a colourful explosion of action on the screen. Quite nothing like it, really.

[@Jpimwgliv]

@@tobiassoderlund7098 this is just piece of shit watered down doom knockoff

[@tobiassoderlund7098]

@@Jpimwgliv Again: Wolfenstein 3D, not Doom.

[@danyoutube7491]

@@Jpimwgliv Nope, it is evidently not a copy of Doom, and it was a very fun game.

[@Jpimwgliv]

@@danyoutube7491 no it ain’t fun the enemy’s are unappealing the maps aren’t even cool which is what both made doom and wolfenstein great games they had appealing enemy’s and cool maps to explore, gloom is just a cheap knockoff that doesn’t even try to be a knockoff

[@Jpimwgliv]

This is just a piece of shit watered down doom knock off

[@illegalquantity]

It's a very primitive FPS clone. Bad level design, narrow gateways, idiot enemies, dumb gameplay. The graphics also could be better. The sounds from the Alien games (like Alien Trilogy) also doesn't improve the overall effect. Maybe it's slightly better than Wolfenstein 3D (1992) but this is all.