The 10 Best US Gold Amiga Games In Order Of Greatness

[@TruckerJenkins82]

The atmosphere those early 90s point and click games created were unreal when experiencing them at the time. They completely captured you in their worlds.

[@oldstylegaming]

True that

[@pacbilly]

Soon after I got my Amiga 1200, I saved up for a 20-meg hard drive. 20 MEG. When I installed LeChuck's Revenge, I had to uninstall every other game I had on there to get it to fit.

[@oldstylegaming]

Lol, its funny how we talk about 20 meg as if it was massive... when kids today would just laugh at anything below a terabyte

[@caseofquartz7366]

I remember wanting hard drive back then, but at the time I couldn't afford it. So, I played LeChuck's Revenge on my 1MB Amiga 500. I was swapping disks more than I was playing the game.

[@pacbilly]

@@caseofquartz7366 Oh hey man! Sheesh, no wonder so many people were switching to PCs around this time. Yeah, the drives were expensive. And actually by the time I got my hands on that 20 meg drive, my PC-owning friends had drives up in the hundreds of megs, I think. But the Amiga drives were always so overpriced. Even though it was nice to finally have an IDE controller on the 1200, it still took the more expensive 2.5" drives.

[@caseofquartz7366]

@@pacbilly They were overpriced, even additional floppy wasn't as common. I remember that time, VGA/Soundblaster PCs started to get superior ports of games and I was jealous since I was too poor to get one. One time, I got invited by a school friend and I got to play Wolfenstein 3D on his brand new 486DX2. Just in few minutes in the game, it dawned to me that this is it, PC is the future.

[@fritzdrybeam]

I had a 60 meg one. LOL.

[@HiddenAsbestos]

Delphine must never learn of other publishers! -- US Gold management

[@perperikis5501]

Operation Stealth was a masterclass of how point and click adventures should be made. Delphine was such an incredible game studio. I'd vote Flashback as the most iconic of them all, though. So many people playing on other platforms were so jealous when listened how the beretta sounded on the amiga. I would know, I was one of them :)

[@bigstackD]

Yes definitely knew what number 1 was before clicking on the video 👊🏻😁. I still hear one or two of the awesome monkey island soundtrack pieces almost daily as I have the original monkey Island soundtrack sprinkled through every one of my playlists on Spotify 👌🏻

[@Tommi1981]

Wow. Cruise for a corpse looks unbelievably and astoundingly great! Wish i had the ability to delve deeper into these amazing games back then. Guess its impossible.. But i can imagine somewhat the experience. In time. The cruise for a corpse! Somewhere in time ❤

[@colinthomson7518]

the Secret of Monkey Island is a Brilliant Game,. and a great Soundtrack.

[@RZPPAA]

My fave game of all time!! (You prob know) but they released another 'Return to Monkey Island' last year. 1 and 2 were exceptional.

[@ClansmanIan]

I remember leaving the taps running in Cruise for a Corpse and being annoyed when I re-entered the room they had been turned off. That, Another World and Op Stealth are my favourites here.

[@oldstylegaming]

Lol

[@caseofquartz7366]

I can say that I love every single game on this list and I've finished them all back in the day. And Number 1 is my favorite game of all time.

[@uberdump]

Grew up playing all of these. So magical being able to play truly innovative games as they were released. The last ‘modern’ game I got that same feeling from was when WoW first came out.

[@chrislaustin]

Color me surprised, as I had no idea US Gold had any good games , or at least games I didn't know they had published in other regions. A few of these games I knew from NA releases, while a few others I didn't know about at all but they look rather good. Thanks for the gaming education, as it's always a good thing to learn about some hidden gems.

[@jodijohnson3488]

Thanks for the mention of *Murder*. Had never even heard of it!

[@Lucasrainford]

I never really took much notice of who published what bitd, I was much more interested in the devs so I was pleasantly suprised to see so many great Amiga games were published by US Gold which generally has a bad rep. Delphine and Lucasarts sure did knock out some Amiga classics which no doubt made US Gold a lot of wonga! Nice vid m8

[@oldstylegaming]

Defo mate... they really didn't need US Gold

[@sakis-c9x]

Another World,Flashback and Monkey Island are probably the 3 best Amiga games ever created...great video... Amiga Rules!!

[@lurkerrekrul]

I always found it strange that US Gold published so many games from so many different companies. Here in the U.S. most companies published their own games. EA games were published by EA. Epyx games were published by Epyx. Lucasarts games were published by Lucasarts, and so on. Yes, sometimes a company bought the rights to a UK or European game, but then they usually published it under a budget label. And even then it was an Accolade budget label, or an Epyx budget label. I can't really think of a company that existed just to publish other companies' games.

[@Fox8ball.]

Perfect timing for the upload I've just taken a pizza out the oven sat down with a can of monster and the top notification was this 💪♥️

[@worken360]

I remember playing defenders of the Crown for the first time. I blew me away! That was the mid 80s

[@richardm6332]

Great video and some great games I must get for my A500 mini. Loved the talkie version of Fate of Atlantis on PC. Yeah it would have made a far better movie than the tripe they put out.

[@TheGeordieTiger]

I adored the two Monkey Island games on the A500+. The remasters on playstation 3 are amazing too, as they have the voice actors from the Curse of... doing the scripts. You can skip to the original graphics and display using the controller on the fly too.

[@professorpenne9962]

I live in the USA and certainly remember US gold games. over here we thought the company were mocking us because of how bad some of the games are. I know it isn't the case but fun tidbit from across the pond. we just called delphine games, delphine games lol.

[@oldstylegaming]

Yeah me and my mate were saying that we always just think of Flashback and Another World as Delphine

[@professorpenne9962]

@@oldstylegaming I get it, it's almost like over here we forgot about the US Gold part and got happy it was a game from delphine haha. both titles are timeless classics that still hold up.

[@professorpenne9962]

flashback is an amazing game, love it on the genesis/megadrive

[@wiggleman12345]

I know it's probably controversial opinion but I really didn't like the Monkey Island games. In fact, I couldn't get into any of the point and click style of adventure gaming. I think the soundtracks for all the Amiga games I had or saw always hit the mark but (imho) never matched by gameplay. Can anyone remember that motebike racing game's name? The bikes were almost Tron-like but it was racing on a circuit and the mouse control mean you either didn't lean in enough or you ran out of desk space trying to steer 😀

[@oldstylegaming]

No Second Prize?

[@jackburton8352]

@@oldstylegaming Correct it was 💩

[@RZPPAA]

Shadow Of The Beast 2's soundtrack takes some beating. Loved Chaos Engine too.

[@jackburton8352]

@@RZPPAA Alien Breed 3D CD32 version has an awesome soundtrack.

[@RZPPAA]

@@jackburton8352 Electro synth heaven!!!!

[@TheTenthArt]

The graphics of Murder reminds me of ZX Spectrum's Movie.

[@andyhodgson7692]

In the mid 1990's I had that golf game on a PC that was more powerful than an Amiga. It was identical to the Amiga version apart from having slightly higher resolution graphics. An excellent game. I was hooked on it.

[@oldstylegaming]

Yeah its a great golf game mate, i lost a full night playing it when i was getting footage for this video

[@deszaras3]

If a world is a simulation then I want Amiga games and music streamed straight to my brain

[@DerDude1977]

In Germany I think most of them or some weren't released by US Gold.

[@oldstylegaming]

interplay released some delphine right?

[@DerDude1977]

@@oldstylegaming I am no sure atm. But I think at least Monkey Island 1 and 2 as well a Indy 4 were released by Lucasfilm Games/ Lucas Arts themselves. When it comes to Delphine games I am absolutely unsure but I think they also weren't released here by US Gold. It's long ago and my Originals of most of those games mentioned had been in my cellar room for more than 10 years and got lost when I moved (sadly). Btw.: Good video. Have a nice day.

[@JhraumG]

In France Delphine distributed its games. And I do think Lucas film was not distributed by us gold. I remember action and adventure versions of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade be called the US Gold and the LucasArts versions

[@DerDude1977]

@@JhraumG Yes. The Action versions of Indy 3 and 4 also in Germany were released by US Gold. But not the Adventures. When it comes to Delphine games I am not 100% sure atm, but afair they also weren't released by US Gold. US Gold in Germany had a quite bad reputation. I remember "the gem".... World Cup Carnival 1986 for the C64 and many bad Arcade ports for the Amiga which had been distributed by them.

[@AmigaVR]

Another world is one my all top favourites.when I finished it as a kid it was all I could talk about amazing. Flashback is also legendary, I finished it on PS4 with save sates 😂👍🏻 I'm starting on Flashback 2, yeah yeah calm down 😂I don't care its Flashback 2 and I'm all for it. Soon finishing up on Fade to Black on ps1 also🤘🏻

[@jasminpoljak6115]

Its incredible how good these games were 30 years ago. Can anyone verify amiga emulator for android that works? You can include payed ones.

[@Wondermooses]

Really great list of games!

[@oscarjimenezgarrido7591]

Unpopular opinion: Line of Fire was an excellent conversion and should be on this list, specially considering the original arcade it was based on was a spectacular display of super scaling tech. It's a way better conversion than Operation Wolf on the Amiga for sure, and although the decision to use a digitalized sample of the original arcade gun unit's recoil mechanism as the sound of your weapon firing might come up as odd to many, I think it actually was a clever and creative decision in an attempt to truly capture the feeling of playing the original thing in spite of the inherent limitations. And the soundtrack is awesome.

[@oldstylegaming]

Line of Fire is in the worst games list...that game was awful

[@oscarjimenezgarrido7591]

@@oldstylegaming No, it wasn't. Opinions aren't objective facts, sorry. It was a very good conversion, respected the original's gameplay, had quite good graphics which made good use of the base A500 capabilities at a very decent speed and had excellent music. If you don't like rail shooters and/or don't like the original game in the first place that's a matter of taste and preference, but the port was really good.

[@SuperMookles]

Buddy, you're presenting your own opinion as fact. It's a bit rich to lecture other people about their lack of objectivity...​@@oscarjimenezgarrido7591

[@gumdeo]

US Gold were okay when they just published a game and had nothing to do with the development.

[@MEGAMIGA]

Cruise for a Corpse (Croisière pour un cadavre in its original French 😁) was on, huh, 11 discs, if I remember correctly?

[@oldstylegaming]

5 disks mate

[@MEGAMIGA]

@@oldstylegaming Only? OK, I stand corrected! 😅

[@00kayem]

Monkey Island 2 and Indiana Jones & Fate of Atlantis were on 11 disks

[@MEGAMIGA]

@@00kayem Hence my confusion! Also, Dragon's Lair used many discs as well I think

[@sakis-c9x]

Beneath a Steel Sky was on 15 disks if I remember correctly...another great adventure.

[@Gollumfili]

Ahhhh the memories! Some absolute belters.

[@willrobinson7599]

Basically anything by delphine or lucas arts , no tiertex anywhere lol Loved the indiana adventure games and of course the classic monkey island

[@mrb5606]

The fate of atlantis is a great game but better than le chucks revenge? No way.

[@oldstylegaming]

I guess like with all things its completely subjective

[@sakis-c9x]

​@oldstylegaming I think they are both equally great.

[@Larry]

Didn't Delphine make Shaq Fu for the Amiga?

[@oldstylegaming]

Nah they own the copyright on it though

[@Larry]

@@oldstylegaming Aaah! BTW did you count the Data Soft games as US Gold releases? Like Bruce Lee, Zorro, Goonies Etc.

[@oldstylegaming]

@Larry on Amiga?

[@Larry]

@@oldstylegaming Do'h oh yeah, sorry! Not been thinking too straight since I became ill :(

[@Codetapper]

Take out Delphine and Lucasfilm/Lucasarts and there is sweet f*** all left. I bet US Gold had almost nothing to do with the development and quality of any of those games. Funny how no Tiertex games made the cut! 🤣

[@oldstylegaming]

Lol yeah they obviously had nothing but distribution to do with these games, we all know what happens when us gold get involved with development

[@johnlancaster563]

thank you

[@oldstylegaming]

Thank you for watching

[@twankistevenson3884]

Here's a challenge.. find 10 good Titus and Tiertex games

[@oldstylegaming]

Lol that would be a challenge... there are only 2 ok games between them.... bonanza bros and Lamborghini American challenge

[@JohnnyProctor9]

How about the fan-hacked talkie version of Operation Stealth? That was WAY better in my opinion, lol! 😆

[@oldstylegaming]

That version gives me a headache ....its like the voice off Berzerk Arcade

[@JohnnyProctor9]

​@@oldstylegaming - That's what I love about it, it's like an audiobook narrated by the late Stephen Hawking. "Goodwhat do you know about the STEEELTH?", lol! 😆

[@danjclark1975]

Mostly agree with the list but Operation Stealth is much better than Cruise for a Corpse in my opinion

[@JohnnyProctor9]

Why are we giving U.S. Gold credit for so many games developed by LucasArts anyway?

[@denishillier4889]

We're giving them credit for publishing them, because they were a publisher

[@oldstylegaming]

Published by US Gold. They shouldnt really get credit but there company is credited in the games, same with Delphine

[@professorpenne9962]

published by them. US Gold didn't publish full throttle for the amiga, otherwise I would have some serious disagreements with the top picks haha

[@JohnnyProctor9]

@@oldstylegaming - They really were mixed bag as a publisher though, and I believe that they put more actual work into their rubbish games than the good stuff that they published. The most that they did with these is port them over to Amiga and publish them, right? Just saying...they've mostly sucked as a company, plus they don't actually own the rights to any of these gems currently. Do they? Or else I'd say let's get a U.S. Gold Collection on Evercade with some of these...

[@oldstylegaming]

@@JohnnyProctor9 yeah thats true.... and thank god for that ...can you think of the mess these would have been if US Gold was involved in the development..... it doesnt bare thinking off...they probably would have wanted monkey island developed in a week .....

[@mattjames6349]

did tiertex manage to develop one good game?

[@oldstylegaming]

Bonanza bros is as good as tierex got on the amiga

[@LeChuck652]

😊

[@fritzdrybeam]

US Gold, and best, in the same sentence?

[@JhraumG]

So, half of these games are from Delphine Software, the other one from LucasArt...

[@oldstylegaming]

Yeah developed by them.

[@sakis-c9x]

Usgold destroyed so many arcade ports...worst company ever...i hate usgold xaxa

[@oldstylegaming]

They did mate, it seems like they would rather push crap out of the door in a tight timescale to capitalise on profits whilst the arcade game was still current instead of taking time and getting them right....i wonder how many brilliant arcade ports might have been with us gold supporting the developers properly and some quality control

[@bit-ishbulldog2089]

Lucas Arts Not Lucas Films. You kept saying it.

[@oldstylegaming]

Last crusade and monkey island are lucas film...