Silkworm Longplay (Amiga) [QHD]

[@RMarkNolan]

The video doesn't do justice to the perfectly smooth scrolling, which was breath-taking when viewed on original Amiga hardware in person. Not just the background scrolling, but the fast moving rockets fired from the heli or any enemy. They smoothly accelerate across the screen.

[@axonis2306]

You are right and the reason is that CRT's refresh rate would improve motion quality.

[@Zebpro]

I love this game, me and one of my best friend were addicted to it, and managed to finish it so many times, without loosing a single life. I always played the jeep and let my friend with the chopper.

[@JonasRosenven]

I love this game. It's still a blast to play. And it's one of the rare games that are even better than the arcade version. Edit: It's possible to kill the goose helicopter before it assembles by shooting the gray cockpit.

[@LeShark75]

Indeed, absolute classic.

[@jamezxh]

SWIV was awesome too

[@JonasRosenven]

@@jamezxh SWIW is a weird thing for me. On paper it had pretty much everything I liked in a game back then. It looked good and played good and it certainly did sound good too. Had two player option too! It was not the upside instead of sidescrolling view that put me off either. Nothing really put me off about it to be honest. It wasn't the slow moving background either. Silkworm had that too. Super slow scrolling backgrounds, right? I think what made Silkworm exciting for me was the hectic swarms of the enemies coming at you at a fast pace. I still don't get why I wasn't having fun playing SWIW. I love Hybris and that game is pretty much the same thing as SWIW is as far as how it plays. I still absolutely get why people love SWIW.

[@shazybabersaleembuttsahib9907]

who to install this game

[@youvsyou945]

it's a great port....but better than the arcade version? Graphics took a big hit and I'm not wild about the sounds at all. Still it's a great and respectable port but the arcade version is king IMO.

[@kevykanga]

I used to play this when I was seven years 🥲

[@stequality]

Same here !

[@elephant_888]

The sound design (Samples + FXs) for this game was spectacular!!! This game had zero need for in-game music. 🏆

[@SendyTheEndless]

SPFFFFVVVVVV!!!!

[@rafaellima83]

and yet the arcade original does have music. I miss this and SWIV having music to be quite honest.

[@fcukugimmeausername]

The sound effects just blow my mine. I absolutely love them and really also love SWIV.

[@mrs7195]

Love this game and love the soundtrack. So good. Still the best explosions in any game imho.

[@JennhasADHD]

I used to watch my grandad play this when I was little.

[@jirokoshibailey2052]

The music and double shield... that noise has been with me since 1991... I was 5, nearly 6, since then...this game. After this is Raptor:call of the shadows(?) Miss Terminal Velocity

[@Jayce_Alexander]

I love this shoot em up. I enjoyed it way more than its spiritual successor, SWIV, which seems to get all the praise.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Could just be timing - SWIV came out a couple of years later, when the Amiga owner base had increased. Perhaps it's just more people played SWIV than Silkworm.

[@danyoutube7491]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays You may well be right- I don't think I got an Amiga until Christmas '91, so never played Silkworm, though I think I had vaguely heard of it. Indeed, I don't think I knew anyone who had an Amiga before that (this was right at the end of Junior school, but when I got to secondary school a lot of people had Amigas). The Amiga games from late 80s to 90/91 were curious little gems that I sometimes came across, but mostly knew nothing about, much like the Speccy, PC and Amstrad hits that I heard mates talk of (Dizzy, Paperboy etc.). I never actually owned it but played SWIV briefly on an Acorn Archimedes at a friend's house, but it looked very impressive (shortly before we got our Amiga). I had only played on our Atari 2600, Commodore C16 and a friend's NES before this, so SWIV looked quite fancy. There was a bit of a buzz about it at the time, and we may even have been allowed to play it on the school Acorn Archimedes when that computer was first demonstrated to us, though my memory on that last point is very hazy to say the least. It might just be that a classmate piped up and said the machine could play SWIV.

[@rafaellima83]

Swiv is very fun to play, but Silkworm was indeed the better game.

[@PeterJohnson76]

I not sure about that.? Silkworm still looks better compared to SWIV like it did back then..

[@VeasnaVerera]

Finally found this back.

[@PeterJohnson76]

The AMIGA Was and still is awesome. Silkwork, Hybris, Sidewinder , not to mentioned Shadow of The Beast, Gods, and 100's more.

[@benbaxter5000]

This, Ik+, Golden Axe and Hostages. Those were the days

[@oele]

one of the best shooters on amiga. never clocked it

[@CarlMahnke]

There was a strange bug: When you didn't fight the tank endboss, it will move forward a tiny bit every now and then until it eventually leaves the screen on the left side, then it re-enters on the right side. You will notice, that it will shoot less and less. Then you can destroy the boss. The next levels will then contain less enemies. However, if you wait too long on the boss screen, the tank won't re-enter and you are trapped on the screen with no possible end.

[@GrimeUK777]

used to play this in local pub. such a sick game

[@PeterJohnson76]

I loved this game, played it back in the day!

[@MatthewCarven]

A game that takes me back to my childhood, my c64 and pc386dx33 ega couldn't compete with my amiga 500

[@antoninofilippofazzino]

Uno dei giochi più belli per Amiga e la musica è spettacolare

[@casorzesesette9162]

Già già!!

[@alex76gr]

I so much love this game.

[@shazybabersaleembuttsahib9907]

who to install this game

[@zerotonic2659]

The perfect side scroller on Amiga! The Amiga version was way better than the Arcade. Love this game.

[@ayara8157]

Fuck I miss the 80s! Loved this game!

[@scorpioone3932]

One of my favourite games on the amiga , could complete it with the jeep to

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

Look at the background at 13:14 => I love when they do that in games, gives so much depth.

[@jarecki83]

Loved the C64 version.

[@deakon_rhymes]

One of my most favorite themes

[@MegaDAWIL]

Finished it with a friend approx' 30 years ago ! I was on keyboard/Jeep. Such a great game...

[@sharamarsh150]

loved playin this as a kid

[@glenni83]

This is one of my golden disks.

[@Borat808]

All the jeep-players in da house say yo! ^^

[@deceiver444]

Stunning port for its time

[@jasonlee7816]

stunning in what areas?

[@deceiver444]

@@jasonlee7816 smooth animation despite the numerous sprites, parallax scrolling, bombastic sound fx, slick gameplay and overall simply faithful to the arcade original.

[@-IFFTI-]

No.1 shooter made for Amiga!

[@gompi8022]

The goooood old days 😔😁😉

[@Sash_Window]

Needs the Jeep!

[@Strap1205]

When shooting the silver part of this special helicopter, you could earn 2 upgrades at once. Took me some time to figure it out but was worth it :)

[@nikolauspescatore7001]

Awesome game. Scrap28

[@CarBitGTSaxen]

How do you use music instead of sound effects in this one?

[@rashyonly123]

I searched this game different names on Google and KZbin after 35 year. Can I play it on my Android phone. I used to play with a jeep in my chalihood. Now I'm 43

[@Video-Games-Are-Fun]

LOVED this game! sadly it was NEVER ported to a single console, not even to nintendo online or xbox live arcade or mobile., why?

[@Jayce_Alexander]

There was a NES version.

[@jasonlee7816]

license fee went up

[@florianpautot777]

AMIGA😃😃😃😃

[@amshermansen]

Kind of sad the awesome music just... vanishes during gameplay.

[@MatthewCarven]

Music uses all 4 channel of the amigas synthesizer hardware so you wouldn't get all the sound effects through in gameplay, lots of explosions etc.

[@amshermansen]

And that's something you have to account for when designing a game.

[@killerkegel1]

the same way I played this game. 1978

[@PeterJohnson76]

Brilliant game. I'm making a new game in tribute to this

[@esmepryde6490]

Could solo this in the jeep back in the day

[@yeraysantanaaday6827]

...but the helicopter with helicopter inside its impossible to defeat!

[@Kyntteri]

Longest end explosion scene since 1988? Good alone, great in co-op, but I admit that I always cheated in this.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

The explosion went on so long I thought the game had broken...

[@marioscicluna]

Anyone remembers what was SCRAP28 ???😂😂😂

[@gonflo4042]

this version < NES version ...