Obscure Amiga Games - Part 10

[@TeaAndFloppyDisks]

I do enjoy the random anecdotes and the jokes you throw in there. Boppin' is pretty cool. I played it on the PC, but wasn't too good at it. Maybe I still am not.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Thank you! Some games do in fact bring back memories or spark up my imagination. Which, unfortunately is pretty vivid. ;) Oh, there's so many games I played back then like a champ, and now I would suck doing so. xD

[@TeaAndFloppyDisks]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames There's nothing wrong with a good imagination. I reckon we all had more free time as kids to play for hours to master a game. But now...

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@TeaAndFloppyDisks It's a different thing entirely. Back then if I wanted to, I could complete all games that I started. Now, I deliberately choose those that I want to even attempt to. And those that seem interesting, but I'm not feeling like going for yet, just end up somewhere in the back of my Steam library waiting for when I win the lottery. ;)

[@MisterSplendy]

You once again turned me on to some gems. Great series. Sad it's over.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Oh, far from it. End of first season. The next episode will just start of the next one. I'm gonna release a whole season as a one-off combined video too, as some people prefer those really long ones to have them running in the background when they do something.

[@MMattJ72]

Weird Dreams is the only game on this list I'd heard of - never played it but knew of it. Thanks for the vid

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Thanks for watching! And it means that it was a good selection. Regardless if all the games were or not. And no, not all of them were great. ;)

[@williamwright9079]

Dynasty wars was the first arcade game I ever played as a kid. I had to stand on tip toes to see the screen, it was amazing. I was heart broken by the Amiga port.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yeah, it's terrible. I wouldn't say that it's Pro Soccer 2190 bad, as you can actually control your character more or less, but it's really bad nonetheless.

[@willrobinson7599]

Teirtex programmed the conversion so gonna look good on still screen shots but terrible when in motion

[@nicholsliwilson]

Weird Dreams looks fantastic but I don’t think I’ve see it before? Same for Pegasus. Definitely not played Lupo Alberto before? That deserves a look. Rajd Przez Polske has the best range of cars of any Amiga racing game! 😂 I checked out The Shepherd based on your recommendation & it’s really impressive. Good recommendation, thanks. I played Street Racer on the SNES but not on the Amiga & it sounds like I was lucky not to. That fish pie analogy was… creative. 😄 Great video. There’ve been recommendations for something new to play & some great humour in every video in the series, thanks.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yeah, Lupo was a new one for me too. And a viewer recommendation actually. It's quite fun if a bit difficult because of the pixel perfect jumping. But the animation, oh my days, you can see it in the video. Couple of frames each for the movement. Just terrible. Rajd Przez Polske really does have the best range of cars of any Amiga game! Provided you're not into racing. ;) Street Racer was actually pretty good on both SNES and Genesis. You've seen the video, it's actually me playing it on Amiga. I mean, sure, I'm older than I used to be so my reflexes may not be the best, but it's just a nightmare to control. All the corners are a coin toss. You either take them perfectly or completely go off the rails. It feels random. I bet that with practice it can be mastered and probably even enjoyed to some degree but I just don't have the patience anymore. ;) Thanks for your (as usual) kind words! I'm trying my best. Next new one is going to be for C64. Cause I will drop a whole Obscure Amiga first season one-off too today or tomorrow, but that's not new content. And then either Obscure DOS or Amiga or... Something entirely different. Depending how much time I'll get, as I've been toying with a new idea for a while... I'm not saying anything until I'm sure that I'll be able to make it yet.

[@Zontar82]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames indeed lupo alberto is a very famous comic book in italy in the style of garfield strips, and the game was equally famoous, both the c64 version and the amiga one,

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@Zontar82 Yep, and I've never heard of it until recently. But I knew of some other games that were specific to my country and not very well known outside of it.

[@PJBonoVox]

Wow. The Shepherd unlocked a memory I'd forgot I had. Never worked out what the hell I had to do though.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yeah, I saw Shepherd in a gaming mag first, from what I read in a short preview it seemed like something I'd love. And when I finally managed to track it down - let's say semi legally - it was a jumble I didn't figure out. Especially that not long later I moved to PC.

[@sebastientoccupe5704]

Starush looks great !

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yep :)

[@danyoutube7491]

I agree, and The Shepherd sounds like an inventive twist on Powermonger/Populous. Boppin looked like a decent title as well, it's a shame it didn't get more sales.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@danyoutube7491 These were weird times. We didn't have digital distribution the way we do now. So, if someone didn't know about a shareware or public domain title, they never even got a chance to consider purchase. Now, if you drop something on Steam, regardless how niche it is, someone will find it and download it. :)

[@sebastientoccupe5704]

Weird Dreams was famous on PC. Didn't know there was an Amiga version

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Then I'm gonna blow your mind... It was even on C64. :)

[@sebastientoccupe5704]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames I'm curious on how the graphics are on it

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@sebastientoccupe5704 Surprisingly good: www.mobygames.com/game/2550/weird-dreams/screenshots/c64/

[@gumdeo]

Weird Dreams is very strange indeed. I particularly liked the psycho girl with the knife 👧🔪

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yeah, but I kinda get the inspiration. I had so many so weird dreams over the years, I see where the game came from. ;)

[@Lopeirada]

I've been searching for a game that i'm 100% sure its on AMIGA, it was a very strange fighting game with 3 or 4 wacky characters. My father says it was probably a german game. One of the characters was a brown leaf or "shit" with only 2 legs and red shoes, you could run to the corner of the map and reappear in the other side of the map. I remember 2 "arenas", one was a living room and the other one was like a like a forest . The art is like it was painted in Paint.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Sadly it doesn't ring the bell. Do you remember anything else? What was the view? Side? Top down? Isometric? Was it arena in a sense that it happened on the arena or more like mortal kombat/street fighter, that there were separate stages you could fight in? Was it sci-fi? Fantasy? Or "realistic"? It was a vs fighting game and not side scrolling beat'em up?

[@Lopeirada]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames it was side view, and there were no stages. You could only play vs another player, there was no cpu player. So its just lile a fighting game in terms of Tekken or MK. I would say it was like "fantasy" or cartoon'ish game.

[@Lex-vd2is]

Never Ever heard of Lupo Alberto. Can't have been all that popular in Germany after all and I usually know a larger chunk of those obscure games. Maybe I just spent my whole time playing Rodland and overlooked Lupo because of it's sub-par presentation. Who knows.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Rodland, now that's one of the better games... In fact, it's my most favourite single screen platformer to date. :)

[@Lex-vd2is]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames It also ran super smooth on the Amiga and looked great. One of my all time favorites with a lot of fond memories of playing it. That said, I don't even remember enough single screen arcade platformers to make a tier list.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@Lex-vd2is Rodland looked and played arguably better on Amiga than it did in the arcades. That said, it missed some of the content. I'm sure you know of few, and just can't recall them of the top of your head. I mean, Bubble Bobble is definitely one. Qwak would be another... :)

[@Lex-vd2is]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames Back in the day I would never have noticed some missing content. Or cared. While I'm aware of Bubble Bobble and Qwak, I actually never owned or even played them back then. The only ones that really come to mind ware Rodland and possibly Troddlers, but that one was more of a puzzle game than a platformer. A quick look at lemonamiga says Silly Putty was also single screen so that would be a third single screen platformer game I played.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@Lex-vd2is Oh, Bubble Bobble is an iconic title, and I gotta say it's not for no reason. It's amazing and a second close in my eyes to Rodland when it comes to pure fun single screen platformers. If you ever get a chance give it a chance, regardless on what platform you'll get to do it. Qwak is entirely different, also very fun but much more demanding than Bubble Bobble.

[@mantovannni]

The Atari ST version of Dynasty wars was a rarity as it looked better than the Amigas version I can just barely remember. In my opinion anyway.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

It's possible. Amiga version was a nightmare. I mean, you saw me play it. Half of the time I didn't know if the enemies fell from my attacks or just cause they feared the look of my character on his majestic horse. In other words, collision detection is odd to say the least.

[@sebastientoccupe5704]

Game grabbed with success ! But i don't know which game is. Is it Jagged Alliance?

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Nice! It was one of the Syberia games.

[@sebastientoccupe5704]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames oh okay ! I got them already but thank you very much anyway !!!!!!

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@sebastientoccupe5704 There's one in each new video (that's not a re-release or compilation), so you still may get something.

[@sebastientoccupe5704]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames even if I got already a syberia game (the 1st)?

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@sebastientoccupe5704 Yeah, it was the first one. If you had it already, the key is still active for someone else to pick it up.

[@EvilStreaks]

Have you reviewed Mega-Lo-Mania? :D Pretty unique

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

I've talked about it in one of the "10 Years of..." videos...

[@EvilStreaks]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames Something in my brain was telling me you had >:D

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@EvilStreaks It's hardly a review though. Just a few sentences. I wanna get back into proper reviews at some point, but there's a lot of work with the current videos at the moment, so it will be a while.

[@EvilStreaks]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames I dunno any other KZbinr that's as consistant as you :O

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@EvilStreaks There's nearly unlimited amount of potential content when it comes to retro gaming (which is a large chunk of what this channel is about) and I have no kids. So, I get back from work, and I usually work on those videos, writing rough drafts for scripts, or doing research for particular games, or recording voice overs, gameplay or putting it all together. A lot of you seem to like it, so it's well worth it. :)

[@IsaacKuo]

I bought (NTSC) Weird Dreams, and I really liked the basic idea of it. But the game itself was such a disappointment to me. Sluggish frame rates and you have no idea what the heck to do. The best part of the game was reading the cool starship story in the middle of the manual (which is a story). The Amiga's hardware was at least capable of better frame rates or responsiveness. Oh well.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

I feel it might have been a game that sounded great on paper, but devs dropped the ball somewhere along the way, or realized that they couldn't pull everything they wanted off.

[@KC9UDX]

Amiga was hard to program, because it was so different. If it had just been called Atari in stead of Amiga, more people would've understood it.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@KC9UDX LOL

[@sebastientoccupe5704]

Street racer looks like a waste, because the graphics are great, specially with the "Mode 7" look-a-like ground

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

Yeah, it was. Especially that it was pretty good title on SNES and Genesis.

[@sebastientoccupe5704]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames such a waste. Just like a lot of other ports on the Amiga. I guess there was less money to make on it because of the easy way to copy and crack on floppy disks.

[@OldAndNewVideoGames]

@@sebastientoccupe5704 Yeah, back then literally everyone I knew had at the very least a box-full of pirated disks. Some people had few.

[@sebastientoccupe5704]

@@OldAndNewVideoGames same here, back in the day.