The 10 Goriest Amiga Games Ever Made!

Hey whatsup guys OSG here with another video and today we will be looking at the 10 goriest Amiga games ever made…well in my opinion anyway.
Unlike today when gore and violence are in kids games, back then the sight of a bit blood was a real money spinner for publishers and for us kids at the time the gorier the better. So as a request from Fenryr. I’ve trawled the amiga catalogue and come up with the cream of the crop of blood and guts games.
I’ve also put them in order of goriness so that’s not in order of how good they are however the top place takes it on both goriness and greatness
Anyway enough talking about gore let’s see some blood and guts as we take a look at the 10 most goriest Amiga games in order of goriness
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[@krissymarklewis1793]

Moonstone comes imediantly to mind.

[@oldstylegaming]

great minds

[@DjStrucjah]

One of my favourite Amiga games when I was a kid it’s actually really expensive to buy now very rare

[@MrPaddy2010]

Yes! 🎉

[@wrathpsp]

Snap. My brother and I played the demo endlessly as kids, just so we could hack each other's heads off.

[@clarenceboddicker6679]

I was about to type the exact same comment, you beat me to it lol

[@BackyardEpicMovies]

Surprised by the lack of any Horrorsoft games. The first Elvira game was a classic in scares and gore.

[@andreasoberg2021]

Elvira was awesome and also really bloody. Almost the best Amiga game in my book.

[@szadron]

Moonstone is a masterpiece. It would be awesome to see a remake but seeing what remakes have been delivered so far, I would be concerned about the quality of such a project.

[@oldstylegaming]

I think a prototype is out there somewhere looks awesome too

[@PixelShade]

I would love to have a modern remake for the Amiga specifically. With graphics true to the original, but higher framerate and better use of color palettes together with some well deserved coppertricks. On AGA machines, with modern tools we could quite easily increase frame counts and improve animations, as well as adding some nice effects like perspective line scrolling (found in SFII arcade, or Elfmania). I don't think you need to change that much about the game. Perhaps add an enhanced mode where you just add more features on top of the already awesome foundation. :)

[@szadron]

@@PixelShade That would've had to be a fan remake. Otherwise, it's very likely that we would've been given something like the new Flashback. Big players create games for today's teenagers, focusing primarily on 3d visuals and simplifying the gameplay quite often.

[@TheJpf79]

We used to have bragging rights tournaments with that! brilliant game.

[@panterdivlji6128]

Its on my list of :"to make a video game". But first are some other in making.

[@Halbared]

Having Maria on the thumbnail always is a winner. Wow that Humanity game looks ace, I would have loved it back in the day, it has a Valhalla vibe. And the next one with the big robot, I never knew it existed!

[@kenterminateddq5311]

What video game is the box cover from? She's really hot AF!

[@NachoVldaI]

It's nice that you mentioned Franko, which came from guys (students), who lived in Szczecin (Poland). The starting location is on Rydla street (you can view it on google maps - the building on the left of the school ;) Doman also came from their hand.

[@tonyp3824]

Love the video - I seem to remember Waxworks (1992) was pretty gory and shocking at the time.

[@roartjrhom4932]

I was about to ask the same. I remember Waxworks being gruesome, so abit surprised I did not see that on the list. :-) But totally agree on the first place.

[@BridgetGX]

Waxworks... Dear God. That game held NOTHING back.

[@roartjrhom4932]

@@BridgetGX I know! I did not have the stomach to play it back in the day! .. And yes I am not afraid to admit it I was 15 years old even! haha..sensitive soul maybe! 😂😂 And my oldest daughter saw Stranger Things back in 2016 she was 12 and said.. "oh dad I can handle it!" LOL...

[@tonyp3824]

Yeah- there was graphic pictures of his death! Ah- happy childhood memories! 😂

[@jKORE77]

​@@roartjrhom4932 Stranger Things 😂 my 13 year old son came to me and asked me when terrifier 3 will be released... He's a good Boy 🤣

[@miniaturewizardry7650]

You mentioned Maria Whittaker the glamour model posing on the box art for Barbarian (which was surprisingly controversial at the time), but another fun fact is that the male barbarian is a 'before they were famous' Michael Van Wijk, who would later find fame as 'Wolf' from TV's Gladiators!

[@robertdaone]

Don't forget Sword of Sodan. There is a scene where you hack the giants head off while he is on his knees. That game graphically is probably one of the best that came out on the Amiga, along with all of the Cinemaware titles. I miss my Amiga, it was way ahead of its time.

[@DJChrist2006]

Oh hell yes, I cannot believe Sword of Sodan isn not on this.. The sound effects were so squelchy.

[@Fluoride_Jones]

Growing up, my best friend had both "Techno Cop" and "Sword of Sodan" for the Sega Genesis (or, as you might call it, the Megadrive). Neither of the games were great, but we loved the blood and guts, as middle-school boys often do.

[@robertdaone]

@@Fluoride_Jones Wasn't impressed with the Genesis version of the game. I had both and the Amiga version had slightly better graphics and way better sound effects and music quality.

[@robertdaone]

@@DJChrist2006 Loved the music on the part when you are walking across the bridge and the sound effects in the grave yard scene where the zombies come at you.

[@Katiriaa84]

Franko doesn't say "fuck off", he says something like "Get lost you wimp" and Doman is based on a comic.

[@zneezer]

Great list. Absolutely loved Moonstone back in the day. Gory, fun, great atmosphere and great multiplayer.

[@MEGAMIGA]

Deffo!

[@Christians_Retro_Gaming]

Great list! As soon as I saw the title of your video, I thought of Moonstone and indeed you had it at the top. Alien Breed 3D was also quite gory. I believe they had to make the blood green in the second game in order to release it. It would be interesting with a similar list for the Commodore 64. One C64 game that scared me as a kid was Friday The 13th as it had some really gory images.

[@EelkodeVos]

Barbarian sprang to mind immediately when I read the title of your video. But you've got a lot of others that also definitely take the cake!

[@IsaacKuo]

Weird Dreams had a LOT of different gruesome animated deaths. And also a stupid difficulty, so you got to experience them. A lot. Possibly the most gruesome game of all, where you are the one being gruesomely killed, rather than dealing out the gruesome deaths yourself.

[@grotgrusson5124]

Loved the intro. Esp the "wavey" text that was (in my eyes) so typical for the Amiga games start screen. 😄

[@zubazub66]

Another great video. I'd not heard of Bloodfest and it looks fun, and I hate to admit it but I've never played Moonstone even though I clearly remember reading about it in the mags at the time it was released. A couple of others that I remember been a bit gory are Zombie Apocalypse II, a fun Operation Wolf type PD game and Darkseed which had a pretty gruesome intro. Maybe you should do a follow up of the 'Top 10 most controversial games for the Amiga' as there were quite a few from Cannon Fodder to Giana Sisters.

[@ncf1]

Personal Nightmare had some gory death scenes.. and someone has mentioned Elvira already. I remember Moonstone back in the day making scenes in parliament.. imagine if we'd known back then how things would be now? Take me back to the mid 80's, someone! :D

[@oldstylegaming]

yeah its totally gone to shit now, theres way worse stuff than this on Google Play store

[@ncf1]

@@oldstylegaming Right! its scary, anything goes nowadays

[@raggeragnar]

A couple I’ve never played on this list. ”Walker” was so much fun. ”Moonstone” is in my Deciding-Dozen (the 12 games that made me buy an Amiga)

[@oldstylegaming]

Moonstone is outstanding its one of the reasons I got an Amiga too

[@raggeragnar]

@@oldstylegaming : 1 Moonstone 2 Alien breed 3 Eye of the beholder 4 Hero quest 5 Pinball dreams 6 Another world 7 Heimdall 8 Ranx 9 Dylan dog - The murderers 10 Golden axe 11 Lotus Esprit challenge II 12 Escape from Colditz Honourable mentions that I also ”got” within the first month : Silent service II , Wings , Speedball II , Stunt car racer , F1GP , Murder , Dune , SimCity , Space crusade , Persian gulf inferno , Advanced Destroyer simulator , Lost patrol , Pirates , Sherman M4 , It came from the desert. Later there were MANY others , but these are the ones that made me decide.

[@gaminglazarus4343]

@@oldstylegaming hi oldstylegaming how ya doin and have good time. you make good videos and you are on my youtuber favorit list . my favorit are amiga games, c64 games, atari st games .

[@Redneck_Hero]

I had Technocop on Sega Genesis when I was a kid. Very memorable game to me. Still have it via emulator

[@herrnobody6714]

i miss Elivira. It was one of the blodiest game on Amiga too even it was an strange Adventure

[@zigzagkillah7666]

WOW! The amiga! I totally forgot about this system! It takes me WAY back! I had a friend who had , I think , 3 different systems when they came out.

[@manicpanic4486]

Maria Whittaker drew me in on the thumbnail ❤😂... great video as usual OSG 👍

[@markduchey8785]

She was fine as hell

[@TheHobbyLodge]

haha I guessed the number 1 spot when I saw the thumbnail! As always great video.

[@oldstylegaming]

Thanks mate

[@PalkosHorrorCollection]

Some great games! Couple of honorable mentions would be Sword of Sodan & Elvira. I probably shouldn’t have been playing them as a young kid. Ha

[@oldstylegaming]

none of us should have been playing them lol...thats what made us want to play them

[@andrewbrown3304]

Moonstone was so hard. Like many games from back in the day, I couldn't complete it. The cinematic at the beginning with a =ll the druids was like nothing I'd ever seen before. Glad I found this channel, liked and subbed 🙂

[@oldstylegaming]

Thanks mate

[@chukabowa]

Brutal Sports football. I have no memory of blood but you could kick around the heads of fallen opponents.

[@double-helix-22x22y]

The goriest Amiga game I ever played was Elvira - Mistress of the Dark. Kinda surprised it is not on this list since it easily wipes the floor with all games here in terms of gore. Kinda pain in the ass to finish though.

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

Prince of Persia on MS-DOS had some pretty gory deaths. It traumatised us as kids, but it was still such a great game!

[@phattjohnson]

Ha! Yeah that was some of the first 'gore' I was ever exposed to in a video game 😅

[@oldstylegaming]

Yeah the fall to spikes was always a shocker

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

@@oldstylegaming Not as much of a shocker as getting caught in the chompers.

[@roartjrhom4932]

Totally agree that Moonstone had to be in first place. Great video! 👌😁

[@timha4102]

Moonstone was probably my favourite Amiga game back in the days. Played it sooooo many times.

[@FiggsNeughton]

FREAKIN' AMAZING. Can't believe I missed all these games as a kid.

[@refractionpcsx2]

Walker and Moonstone are great games! I'd never heard of Bloodfest, but I like how it has sounds from Cannon Fodder :D Must have been one of the things on those sample discs that used to do the rounds in the 90's

[@tomauberwenig2116]

You can't imagine my joy when I saw images of Quest of Moonstone in the 1st place!

[@mattjames6349]

as soon as I got this notification I was curious what games you'd pick? because I suddenly thought 'actually there was quite a lot of gore on the amiga wasn't there?' I watched an american play cannon fodder(the megadrive version) and being shocked at seeing a dead body floating down the river! I loved Walker though. Stomping over soldiers is so satisfying!

[@Atarifan72]

Butchering of Humanity looks amazing! And I love the sound effects. Need to play all of these.

[@Lucasrainford]

Cool idea for a video m8, not familiar with a few of em. I figured MK would be on the list and of course Moonstone! Nice one :)

[@MervJaap]

Expected Fright Night to be on the list. Anyway nice list

[@BuggritHall]

Cannon Fodder was a pretty gory game. Might not be graphically gory but when you had one bloke screaming and spraying blood after being shot....

[@princeknight4773]

Thanks for this, it made a gloomy day brighter. dreamweb was pretty dark and i remember there being a particularly gory moment.

[@Sinisteve]

I bought a monitor from a polish guy called Slawomir Mrozek, who lives around 15 minutes from me and he said he was one of the developers for Franko and Doman, he did the music. I’d never heard of the games before that. He’s still composing now

[@oldstylegaming]

The music is great, infact with a reskin both those games could be brilliant... but i guess those graphics add to the charm

[@RetroMatter]

In fact, they created a new game Skinny and Franko Fists of Violence, which is a sequel to Franko the crazy Revenge, and Slawomir again created all the music, which again is great. Check it out it is amazing. And if everything goes well Doman will have a sequel also.

[@user-ln5dh1fk3k]

Hey what is the music playing in the background? I recognize it only from a shareware made freeware game called Realmz from the 90s but I think the creators maybe just repurposed the tracks form an older game and Im curious !

[@petr79]

barbarian 2 from palace software has also very gory settings, while in Barbarian 2 from Psygnosis you can also decapitate enemies

[@nerdygeezer78]

I did wonder if Walker would get a mention, love that game. Don't think I ever played Tecno Cop but wow he turns that guy to mush lol😂

[@ThunderCrashed]

Ooh I remember moonstone, that game was a masterpiece of its own class, would love to see some enhanced remaster thing of that today

[@SPac316]

The Immortal on Sega Genesis/Mega Drive was quite gruesome.

[@clivepotts1273]

I absolutely love your Amiga videos, thanks for another one and keep them coming

[@oldstylegaming]

Thanks mate

[@AS-ly3jp]

Thank you for my new top-ten-to-play-first list!

[@Prelmable]

I remember North Sea Inferno/Persian Gulf Inferno being pretty brutal.

[@oldstylegaming]

Ill check that out i never heard of it

[@derkernspalter]

@@oldstylegaming It plays pretty much like game No 9 but on a Oil Rig fighting terrorists.

[@meetoo594]

Loved the sampled screams, gunshots and arabic taunts on that one. Really good game as well. It was called Persian gulf inferno iirc, north sea inferno was a straight to video action flick released to capitalize on the piper alpha disaster (i kid you not lol).

[@Prelmable]

@@meetoo594 While that movie might be a thing, "North Sea Inferno" was the title for this game in UK, GER and FR, which was slightly censored (vanishing corpses and it took place in the North Sea and not in a pretty hot zone like the Persian Gulf. But other than that it is the exactly same game.

[@meetoo594]

@@Prelmable Thats interesting, didnt know there were 2 versions. Im in the UK and the version I had was set in the middle east. The (very cool) intro had a Saddam type dictator and arabic chanting. What did the censored version have as the intro?

[@marvrogers9540]

YESSSSSSS!!! We played Moonstone for hours on end mainly for the gore. It was at a time when we were taking our gcse german classes and for some reason we renamed Moonstone as Gehackenslashen! It just seemed appropriate at the time

[@Ti-JAC]

interesting. Thanks for putting the segment together and sharing.

[@theNightrage]

I think what could also have been on the list there is the flying WW1-Game Wings!. Why? Because of those strafing missions and also because the pilot/player character can actually get shot and die during the normal plane VS plane missions making you watch the head lie on the back of the seat while the poor guy bleeds out and the plane crashes to the ground uncontrollably. But I have to admit that those are the only scenes like that. 😅

[@IsaacKuo]

Yeah, those strafing missions were so tough, you didn't feel bad at all for any guys you managed to splat. Only satisfaction at managing to get them.

[@pablot-r9402]

One thing many Amiga game developers had trouble balancing for better replay value (even the marquee developers like Psygnosis) was difficulty VS player mechanics. Often (on many Amiga shooters for example - Xenon) it was far too easy to be killed due to sluggish character movements or limited capabilities in general. Psygnosis' "Baal" was the worst, although visually pleasing. This is why we always needed cheat inputs.

[@SpontaneousWeasel]

Moonstone was so good! It really gave the sense of being in a mythic world of fantasy adventure with all the danger therein.

[@ProgrammedForDamage]

I only had a Commodore 64, but whenever I went over to my mate's place I'd hassle him incessantly to play Moonstone on his Amiga. Loved that game. The other game that springs to mind is DreamWeb. It was Hotline Miami long before Hotline Miami. Early on you come out of an elevator, plunge an axe into a guys chest, blow the other guard's brains out with a bullet, before walking in on a guy and girl getting it on and splattering his brains across the headboard.

[@hienasmietnikowa7795]

3:30 - "spadaj pierdoło" - cóż za wulgarny język :DDD

[@Peter-MH]

Immediately thought of Barbarian when seeing this list! 😂 Amazed with Gloom Deluxe though, never realised FPS on the Amiga 1200 got that good!

[@oldstylegaming]

I might do a video on FPS' on the Amiga theres some good ones

[@vortexspinner4470]

Good selection, 'Walker' was my fave. But, where's "Zombie Apocalypse-2" PD game given away free on the cover of Amiga Format magazine. It was a super gory operation Wolf type game..Even the sounds made you feel sick.😉😁

[@ToddSweeney341]

Looks darn cool thanks for the post 😊😊

[@oldstylegaming]

Thanks for watching!

[@ToddSweeney341]

@@oldstylegaming 😊😊🎮

[@sudarowakatta4543]

There was another very obscure game that I had in the 1990s on a single floppy disk. The game was low-budget, sold in a blister pack and was very simple (got boring quickly). You walk around the courtyard of a mental hospital with a chainsaw and kill people. You also collect fuel for the saw, and when you run out of fuel, it's game over. Top down view, paint-style sprites, gory. I've never seen it again and couldn't find any information about this game!

[@SKURVIEL1973]

Yes, Moonstone, Franko Crazy Revenge and Doman were my favorite Amiga games. Recently, after 30 years, a sequel to the Franko game was released, called Skinny & Franko, and it is great. I wonder if Doman2 will also be released :).

[@kerbal666]

What's the music playing around the 10-second mark in the background. It ripened a member berry and I used to hear it a lot back in the day.

[@CasperLD]

I completely forgot about Walker! Need to play now!

[@thomascouch4864]

I have not seen this channel before, but I am happy to find a channel that condenses the Amiga by topics that interest me.

[@oldstylegaming]

Thanks mate

[@damiendalski4278]

Now the sequel to Franko Crazy Revenge titled Skinny & Franko: Fists OF Violence has been released and it's great. One of the best beat em ups I've ever played. I recommend checking.

[@oldstylegaming]

Ill definitely check that out

[@attic636]

As some others here I'd say that Waxworks and Zombie Apocalypse 2 should be on the list. How about a top 20 of the goriest Amiga games? The 3D-shooters Testament and Genetic Species and the beat-em-up Capital Punishment are noteworthy, too. And the first levels of Alien Breed - Tower Aussault had many blood and guts on screen passively as decoration and aliens feeding on corpses. But killing the aliens did not spill any blood.

[@deanolium]

You missed the Elvira games and Waxworks - all three are massively gory

[@jimmyhillgren7479]

A dark winter night, connect the audio to the stereo and load Moonstone. Then you really jumps when the swamp monsters come up. 🙂

[@timetorelaxfocus9642]

Great games. Some I had forgot about. Thanks

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

Maria Whittaker... Legendary

[@SilverWolvesScarletForestSnow]

I wish they launched the Amiga 1200 earlier like 1989 or something, could have kept the Amiga going to the point where we got a 3D capable Amiga before the PS1.

[@duckmobility33]

With all this gore, i half expected RHYNO to show up.

[@jothain]

Moonstone is still insanely good action game. There's so many ways to die and pretty much all of them are quite graphic. Persian Gulf Inferno would've been quite good in this listing with it's headshots. Also iirc correctly there was one "one screen lightgun style" shooter that was fairly violent on Amiga, but can't recall its name.

[@hpbifta]

A C64 version of this list needs to include Creatires1+2 just for the win/fail states of the torture screens.

[@philosoaper]

it's funny how much gore was in really non-gory games like letting hundreds of lemmings fall to a splatty death or watching the machines kill Clydes friends in Creatures...

[@oldstylegaming]

True mate

[@edbrito-swdev]

I remember seeing my cousing playing Moonstone when I was a kid and also seeing it on TV and magazines. Looked pretty radiCOOL back then and still does now.

[@oldstylegaming]

its stood the test of time alright, this could be released now on modern consoles with only a few tweaks

[@Oscuros]

0:55 Mate, remember that poster for the game with Linda Lusardi. That was in a friend's bedroom and made you want to buy the game. simpler times.

[@oldstylegaming]

It was Maria Whittaker

[@TheRealKaiProton]

Ive not thought about Moonstone for ages, Sooooo good, I hated those swap trolls that splattered the player in one hit

[@robertmiles9942]

The Mortal Kombat games translated so well to the Amiga, that the crappy street fighter series ports were left with no excuses.

[@NostalgiaForever100]

It was interesting to look at your top, but of course MK didn't surprise me here 😉

[@darkjediorder1412]

i completed moonstone back in the day. really loved that game.

[@MichaelSollienmusic]

I was missing some of my favorite gory games: Sword of Sodan, Elvira 1 and 2 and Cannon Fodder.

[@mrk45]

I'd say Waxworks is up there too.

[@victorvance2573]

I didn´t expect to hear an Amiga version of OMD´s Electricity here. And yes Walker is a fantastic game. I didn´t knew Gloom was that gory. It seems even more brutal than the DOS FPS of that time Gloom mimicked (even the name Gloom is a reference to DOOM).

[@komemiute]

I remember Elvira as being quite gory...

[@JohnDoeGaming2021]

Great list, and Moonstone for the win!!! 👍

[@oldstylegaming]

The best!

[@_Jay_Maker_]

Man, Psygnosis was pushing boundaries back then. They were one of the first really Japanese-inspired developers I encountered as a kid and it made them so memorable to me. I never really touched Amiga games, I'm actually fairly impressed by their graphical fidelity even today.

[@WitchhunteR82]

2:55 P51 "Mustang" fighter drops 3 paratroopers :D xD

[@michaelmorbid704]

Fun Fact: Doman means Doom Man or Judge.

[@WorshipfulGeek]

Finally found the name of that game from my childhood, Technocop! Stupid, gory, and unforgettable

[@Sashman1234]

Thank you! I forgot the name of TechnoCop. Loved the game as a kid. But no Ninja Warriors on the list?

[@steelerj2000]

Thank you for the old school video. I grew up Pong, I`m that old.

[@iam3mondoot]

I had Barbarian on my c64 .Great game and ahead of its time .

[@SUPERLITMARIO]

Another great video

[@oldstylegaming]

I appreciate that

[@SUPERLITMARIO]

I rewatch all your videos at bedtime. Love it, great quality and great orders of greatnesses

[@Vishnu_Karthik]

Franko looks like a juvenile flash game made in 2003, i can't believe its an official game.

[@MithridatesVI-Evpator_Pontus_]

Class content 👍🎮🕹😂

[@Pelcurus]

That Elvira game was pretty gory, too.

[@gavh9360]

Waxworks and the Elvira games

[@DigitalConfusion]

Love Moonstone. Great game that I still play every now and then, to this day.

[@oldstylegaming]

Yeah its class

[@juanelorriaga2840]

I remember Walker that game was dope had a Rampage feel to it but Walker is just insane

[@oldstylegaming]

True that mate

[@logosicon]

For anybody wondering about thumbnail pic girl: Maria Whittaker 'Barbarian', a TEN (in the #10 game list)

[@GoodPunk]

Interesting, didn't even know that the Amiga got MK and it doesn't look half bad.

[@oldstylegaming]

Yeah both MK1 and MK2 are great on the amiga which is surprising for a 1 button system