The Chaos Engine Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]

[@stevjohnson6557]

This was so far ahead of its time. The artwork and music was insane. I absolutely loved this game.

[@skylined5534]

My brother and myself had a thought a year or two back... this premise would make for a great film!

[@ashleyobrien4937]

so did I with mine....although, at the time, back in 1998, when we were playing this and other AMIGA classics like SPEEDBALL I was taking Dextropropoxyphene a drug so good, they banned it....@@skylined5534

[@norbertlodkvist6364]

This was defintiv not a head in time. This game came in 1993..same year Doom came out. This game can not compite with Doom.

[@GTX-lq2gj]

R.I.P Richard Joseph. He was a Genius. First dynamic music in game history in this amazing game.

[@JMDAmigaMusic]

Not the first (hostages did come before) , but first very good implemented one

[@JMDAmigaMusic]

I think Richard used a custom version of the MOD format adding a command at the end of a pattern sequence that called a function in the game to decide - depending on location and events - what to play next

[@englishwithphil42]

Agreed, this is amazing. These European games were absolutely amazing because of their music

[@leventaltntas4110]

this is the best of amiga,I see

[@leventaltntas4110]

@@englishwithphil42 this game is absolutaly wonderful.but you say just for music..its gameplay is in complete harmony with sounds...rarely you encounter this.and chaos engine.wonderfull as all aspects even today.wonderful to be played even today.but even if you dont experianced it you must be lacking something...

[@fl00d69]

Bitmap Bros made iconic Amiga games. The sound design is peerless.

[@Psycodelic12]

Xenon 2 bomb the Bass megablast❤

[@pilouuuu]

A real masterpiece, probably one of the very best on the Amiga. Everything works in a perfect conjunction: graphics, gameplay, music, and sounds.

[@2PeteShakur]

"It was important to create a very different look and feel to Speedball 2 as they both had the same forced plan view. There wasn't a plan to do a steampunk game in particular, it came about mainly from a load of books and artists I was into at the time. I remember making a model of the Chaos Engine itself out of a light-bulb, an inverted lamp shade and various bits of junk, in order to get the lighting right for the end sequence - it remained on my desk, gradually falling apart, for months! Alongside Speedball 2, The Chaos Engine stands out as a particular favourite of mine." -- Dan Malone, graphic artist (The Bitmap Brothers)

[@kraftwerk974]

When it's Bitmap Brothers you know it will range from excellent to awesome 👈

[@RalphZ80]

For my money this soundtrack is still one of the best ever, and the best of Richard Joseph's many great compositions. The theme for The Workshops (World 2) still plays in my head whenever I see or read anything Steampunk.

[@doomniel]

Amazing music, probably the best in an amiga game, the closest ones would be turrican, turrican 2 and the secret of monkey island. Considering that most games only had a main theme, each of these 4 games had lots of amazing soundtracks. No doubt Richard Joseph and Chris Huelsbeck are the main composers for the amiga, and in the top 10 of the commodore 64.

[@JarlStaubhold]

My best buddy and I were a co-op death machine. We were a well oiled machine and masterd alot of 2 player games. This we loved so much back in the AMIGA times.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

The Chaos Engine Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]: Despite a smaller colour palette, the original OCS version of this classic Amiga shooter still has the edge over it's AGA sibling! A big thank you to all of you who have subscribed to my channel - I finally broke the 2,000 barrier! As always, read the video description for my review!

[@Gtfallofyer]

Al82: Retrogaming Longplays & Reviews N.

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

Sometimes limitations are needed to boost your creativity. In this case the 32 color limitation was the catalyst. Once they went 256 colors, it became fugly.

[@Midwinter2]

A beautiful game: fast, smooth, great sprite graphics and an outstanding soundtrack.

[@PaintBeforeAssembly]

Good lord, this play through makes the game look much easier than I remember it being. Kudos.

[@LeShark75]

A pure classic, the best version.

[@v509-cassiopeiae3]

In 1993 this was highest quality of gaming. Everything was over the top. Graphics, Sound, dynamic Music, Artstyle, Gameplay.

[@christianp.232]

A real blast from the past... over 20 years ago I played this on a Amiga 1200 with Competition Pro's and my best friend Andy.... I miss these times !

[@bipbipbopbop]

I love the artwork in this game. A joy to play.

[@JMDAmigaMusic]

Dan Malone, very good illustrator - did work also on 8 buit (antiriad c64)

[@jimbotron70]

​@@JMDAmigaMusicHe's still in activity.

[@Nutzer_1524]

I have played this game in the years and 1993 and 1994 and I had a lot of fun. This game ist simply genius.

[@BOOGY110011]

amazing! so much memory's!!! I've played it with my older brother when I was 11. I always was Player 2 as guy in a glasses. thank you!!! very personal!!! my heart feels like when i fall in love for first time... nostalgia.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@Kyntteri]

Am I the only one that prefers this "duller" color palette over the AGA version?

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Nope - I prefer this version as well :)

[@OneRoomShed]

Me too. This is the best version.

[@svenmeling6053]

I agree! Gives the game a grittier feel, which suits the atmosphere and style well.

[@VastyVastyVoid]

Same here. The sepia tint just twings that steampunk vibe.

[@Lenriak]

More colours would have been fine, just not the vibrant colours seen in the AGA version.

[@robertdeniro7800]

Thanks so much for this video, it bring me so many years back. Thanks man.

[@scorpioone3932]

Great game when it came out , way ahead of its time

[@Microbex]

The graphic outlast every current pixel game. Bitmap brothers was deus ex.

[@techspud7934]

Played this to death on the Amiga and then on the Amiga emulator. Your playthrough is almost exactly the way I do it, but I've got to admit I use the exploit of infinite Party Power in World 1 Level 4. I never liked the CPU player as a kid as I wanted all the powerups for myself, so I'd start a two player game and kill the second player, hence the Party Power exploit as it helped a heck of a lot. Great game, excellent music and typical awesome Bitmap Brothers style of graphics. Thanks!

[@1x5x7]

Played this the first time back in 2009. Just randomly saw gameplay from it in another video and the nostalgia hit me like a blast.

[@LeShark75]

When I get something to eat in the house I always comment with "Food!" every time I pick something up. The Wife still has no idea what I'm on about Lol.

[@V8AmericanMuscleCar]

What a flashback to my childhood... ❤❤❤❤❤

[@AndreasToth]

I loved the Bitmap Brother games on my Amiga, as such I am very surprised to find a gem of theirs in 2024 that I hadn't heard of.

[@pauledwards8008]

Really takes me back as part of a Christmas package with the console in 1996 think

[@Underworld-Dark-Moon]

Oh memories of my youth! Awesome music and... Wouldn't this make a great remake?!?!?!?!

[@englishwithphil42]

Thank you for posting this, now I remember that I am still to beat this game, 27 years after.

[@Alfred19780426]

good old days

[@wayneevans3860]

amazing graphics/music/sfx-great game,The Bitmap Brothers were supreme😀

[@LPetal86]

Very interesting to see these playthroughs for a system I've never seen much of, here on the other side of the pond. The graphics and animation I dare say are of the caliber of SNK's Metal Slug. That's basically what this reminds me of. A top-down Metal Slug. I like the subtly unsettling soundtrack that Amiga games can be known for. Very ominous.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

The Amiga was one of the most popular gaming computers of it's day in Europe, and The Chaos Engine is one the best-loved games for the system; it still holds up well today ☺

[@LPetal86]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Yeah it's one of those things that because I didn't hear of it when growing up, have discovered through KZbin and various gaming sites. I tried to run an emulator for the Amiga 500 but it is a bit of a different beast in setting up, so I couldn't figure out how to get the mouse working. It's a real shame we didn't pay more attention over here in the States because we really missed out on some gems like The Chaos Engine and other titles like Apidya. The tech demos for Amiga are impressive as well.

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

The Amiga pc was really something special :)

[@Experternas]

such a good looking game. i remember this as a premium among my discs.

[@eileennoise9515]

What a great game and great computer Amiga, i would have been 8 years old...

[@adroharv9213]

one of only a handful of games I actually finished on the beloved amiga. Love this game. The insanely great music is just one of the great things to love about it as it's so well designed in many ways. RIP to the fantastic Richard Joseph

[@Brunosmith85]

There bringing out the amiga 500 mini and this game and speedball 2 will be included on it. My childhood gaming Brought back :) 😀

[@loupax]

I’m always surprised when I see video games as a family business. I can’t stop fighting with my brothers, and here are these guys, working together to build all time classics ;)

[@scootakuh3142]

They weren't real brothers :)

[@ohjatt9133]

QUESTION! Did anyone ever play with Preacher and Gentleman together??

[@ikitclaw3299]

Loved the game, I was shite at it but my brother carried me through most of it

[@Fisarro]

Awesome game, played on CD 32 with my brother.

[@darkuser9992]

Love this game... Always played as Brigand and Thug...

[@daskarman]

remember playing this on the cd32 -still one of my favorite games

[@Quagaars]

Great run through of a great Bitmap Brothers game.

[@sammymcfone8281]

Thank you for letting the intro playout. My friend didnt believe me about how much better the ammy was than the snes with sound.... :) He thought they were equal.. lol: Doesnt now. )

[@danyoutube7491]

I think that the sound of Amiga games was consistently superior to other platforms until the mid 90s (when PC CD-ROM became mainstream and next gen consoles came along). Not in all games, but in most cases.

[@gitman3486]

No-one ever talks about how this is clearly a large chunk of the inspiration for the zybourne clock

[@paddyoconnor5362]

awesome game awesome video! I have only owned the snes version but that was still bloody good. I love the speech in this and the sound in general is spot on. good work :)

[@VHSTvRetro]

Przeszedłem tę grę całą na Amidze 500 w ferie zimowe 1997 z moją siostrą. CRACOV POLAND !!!

[@JStar1337]

Played this al lot with my brother on AMIGA... we beat the game many times. Good memorys

[@pedroroggla8129]

it aged so well, ypu can still play it to this day and have lots of fun

[@howell_124spider]

Long live the Amiga. Still got my 1200. Epic game.played it the death. Sounds like Patrick Stewart. Player activated. 🤘

[@lutherburgsvik6849]

The intro music is so nineties, it's great.

[@MartinRodriguez-qk4hc]

There is currently a patch that fixes oversaturated colors in the Sega Genesis version of The Chaos Engine to make them look more like the Amiga version. The patch also fixes the speed of music when the game is running at 60 FPS, from an emulator. The PAL version of the Sega console retains the original title of The Chaos Engine. It is in this same version where the patch must be applied, which can be downloaded from the following page: www.romhacking.net/hacks/2754/ Having the ROM file, the patch can be applied from this page: www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/ The Sega Genesis version has some unique features, such as the ability to choose between three levels of difficulty and a wider field of view (around 20%), which substantially improves gameplay, by being able to see enemies appear from a greater distance. I sincerely believe that with the application of this patch, this version now becomes the best option when it comes to enjoying this classic. Actualmente hay un parche que corrige los colores sobresaturados en la versión de Sega Genesis de The Chaos Engine para que se parezcan más a la versión de Amiga. El parche también corrige la velocidad de la música cuando el juego se ejecuta a 60 FPS, desde un emulador. La versión PAL de la consola de Sega conserva el título original de The Chaos Engine. Es en esta misma versión donde se debe aplicar el parche, que se puede descargar desde la siguiente página: www.romhacking.net/hacks/2754/ Teniendo el archivo ROM, el parche se puede aplicar desde esta página: www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/ La versión de Sega Genesis tiene algunas características únicas, como la posibilidad de elegir entre tres niveles de dificultad y un campo de visión más amplio (alrededor del 20%), lo que mejora sustancialmente la jugabilidad, al poder ver aparecer a los enemigos desde una mayor distancia. Sinceramente creo que con la aplicación de este parche, esta versión se convierte ahora en la mejor opción a la hora de disfrutar de este clásico.

[@mountainbearoutdoors]

never did finish this,think I had a corrupted disk back in the day, great game loved it! thanks for the video!

[@rossington-x6031]

In the top 3 best soundtracks for the amiga for me.

[@jochenf788]

Wahnsinns Spiel. Absolut top damals

[@maciektrybuszewski9964]

Biggest mystery of Amiga gaming. What is level percentage for if you cant score 100% in every level. Or...?

[@pauledwards8008]

Makes me want to get another console though some of the games were a bit basic. Gunship 2000 was another one I spent a long time on.

[@GameslordXY]

When I played this looong ago on...probably Amiga 500 or I suppose it could have been Amiga 1200,I was certain that they will never do graphically better looking game.😄

[@dunckeith]

Fantastic game

[@theNeathBoy]

This game was fun, played it for hours

[@KubiROCKETMAN]

The Chaos Engine the is absolutely amazingly cool, i love it 😍and it's very unique👍

[@trmin8r-fin-363]

"When I was a youth I used to play Chaos Engine a lot and a lot and a lot and a lot..." (name the song)

[@vsnake8466]

This is by far the best version but the AGA, SNES and Amiga CD 32 Versions are also impressive! I have them all and play them all : )

[@GamingCatBytes]

If these gaming companies are so focused on remakes, DO THIS !!!

[@markforster6948]

Class! my childhood, favourite was preacher, least favourite thug, liked playing this as single player, 2 player mode but kill player 2 early in 1st level, never buying player 2 back

[@leventaltntas4110]

I finished that super game.final round was very hard.but the atmosphere and gameplay made me go forward.nowhere can be foound.that is a super of amiga.can be ranked 1 or 2

[@hiufuxthevideographer9877]

I loved this game so much when I was little ❤️

[@raalaa121]

Awake at 4am playing this at my cousin's house because he had it on megadrive and I had a snes

[@alexjackson1130]

This is essentially the sequel to time warrior

[@jammerc64]

I wonder why game doesn't run at 50fps for really smooth experience. More complex Amiga games could pull that off.

[@ojkolsrud1]

Is it possible to have two player on this game, where one person uses a joystick, and the other uses the keyboard? In general I don't understand why so many games just doesn't have keyboard support.

[@albertodiez4215]

The music is much better than the consoles

[@hiufuxthevideographer9877]

I miss this game

[@bobloerakker7010]

4 people were victims of the priest's perverse nature...

[@thirtythirty9054]

good old times

[@LogrusUK]

10:06 if you'd have just took a little longer the best drumbeat in Amiga history would have been played..! LOVE THIS. Even down to the Molotov Frame Rate Rape.

[@alanklajnsek4400]

Great game, great memories. Amiga was the best in games.

[@Weterius]

Best game, played on sega many years ago

[@georgebest9871]

What a game!

[@scootakuh3142]

I've got the SNES version on my Evercade and while it's good, it isn't anywhere near this. I'm looking forward to the A500 mini that comes out in March so I can finally relive the Amiga original :)

[@laurascott8415]

LOVED THIS GAME WAS AMAZING!!!!! WE SELL THE T SHIRTS

[@LogrusUK]

Damn right - a classic.

[@UberSynth]

The music was cool on this game

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

The Bitmap Brothers always had this Judge Dredd-esque feel to them.

[@barbadoskado2769]

the music is super high energy

[@iljavieten687]

I frickin LOVED that game!!! This was one of the few Amiga 500+ games I actually purchased....most games seemed to magically appear in my disc box...😉 Today most folks say that we were blinded by the (for the time) very good graphics and that the gameplay itself was pretty bland...that's nit absolutely untrue, it's pretty repetetive and not that "deep", BUT: it's a frickin SHOOTER!!! And some mechanics, like the slight role - play aspect and the level design were ahead of it's time!! And while the graphics were amazing back then, the game itself with it's cyberpunk backstory and the weird characters was fun, too!! When I wanted to play a game with more story, I'd pick some Lucasfilm Games Adventure or Sierra or perhaps ine of the pretty good RPGs on the Amiga, but as a shooter, especially the two player mode, this definitely was top notch!!! Tanks for the video!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@JamesCorbettMusic5000]

Played it on my Amiga again recently! Graphics a great but gameplay is a bit meh

[@FunFooFurat]

yeah this game rules. bitmaps always coolest graphics

[@swilberthcampoy3569]

Estos son 2, de muchos password, que colocamos mi hermano y yo, en la sección de password para un jugador y CPU. WLDWLDWST123 THBTMPBRTHRS Que disfruten, aún más, este increible juego.

[@Tricker-the-licker]

I loved this game as kid, I think I played as Thug lol.... I honestly can't remember. I never completed it hahaha, I was fucking awful at games as kid lol.... Didn't stop me from enjoying them never the less. Then again most of theses retro arcade games, usually tend to be very challenging lol...... Oh well it was still fun to play at the time.

[@shingshongshamalama]

"Enter six hard nailed mercenaries for hire." What, they have hard nails? They are both hard and have been nailed? Who nailed them?

[@perceptibleperception8733]

This game should be on Mobile

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Brilliant game this,

[@ripace554]

One of my absolute favourite 16-bit games. If anyone's interested, check out my (hopefully faithful) remake of The Chaos Engine theme tune here kzbin.info/www/bejne/pn2moZxjnLemo9U

[@TheBrataccas]

Can definitely see the similarity in speedball

[@vincent5525]

What does he say when a character picks up one of the yin yang items?

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

"Players Saved" - you respawn there if you die.

[@vincent5525]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Thank you. I've been wondering about that for decades. It's obvious now.

[@crappymeal]

This game is not as dark and scary as i remember as a kid but cool none the less

[@dinaalves2409]

Eu amo esse jogo

[@mattx5499]

And today game that looks like this needs a dual core 1Ghz processor and at least 2GB of RAM to be playable. You can find many retro-inspired games on Steam that have insane system requiremments for 16-bit graphics.

[@The_Boctor]

Using commercial game engines comes with pretty huge overhead.