Unboxing Our Classic Amiga Game Collection with Danny & Alan O'Dwyer | Noclip Summer Jam

[@NoclipDocs]

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[@pronstorestiffi]

Thats a great collection, so many classics where featured here. A few other noteworthy titles for Amiga would be, Flashback, Another World, Walker, Gobliins, Popolous.

[@B1tterAndThenSome]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Core Designs Banshee and Acid Softwares Super Skidmarks sure deserve a mention when talking about the best Amiga games.

[@endaoconnor]

Ah the good old days, I had an Amiga 1200 (not to brag or anything). Remember Gods, and The Chaos Engine, they were incredibly beautiful games for the time. Also Lemmings was fun, The Last ninja (I think I had either the 2nd or 3rd one on the Amiga, I had the first one on the C64). Almost forgot, The Settlers.

[@JesperCPH]

Wow, so many memories! Also put countless hours into SWOS with MY brother. The Cinemaware games were great to show off the gfx (Defender of the Crown and It came from the desert), and with Wings they also had a game that was both pretty AND good😊

[@Asgath]

I feel like I'm reliving my childhood. Had an Amiga 1200 with bucketloads of pirated games!

[@ZosoHacker]

Fantastic trip down memory lane. I did the packaging for Sensible Soccer with ‘not Ruud Hullit’ on the cover. I also drew the Bitmap Brothers and Renegade Software logos from Eric and Dan’s sketches. Good times. I did Cannon Fodder 2 as well as quite a few others for Virgin Interactive. The Bitmaps and Virgin were the rockstars of the day. Still friends with most of them. Speedball 2 is my all time favourite game and the reason my design company is still called Revolver - I didn’t design that one.

[@TerryRed]

Amiga was popular in Canada. I had an A500, A2000, A1200, and Amiga CDTV. Loved all of them, and bought many magazines and games from the UK. I still have my CDTV fully kitted out.

[@Derekconlon]

Irish Amiga fan here. Just sent this on to my older brother. SWOS, Deluxe Paint, Worms, Indy its like looking at my own past. This is just the best kind of flashback video. Great times.

[@johnhenderson548]

Alien Breed.. Cannon fodder.. worms.. walker.. Some of the best A600 games.. and monkey island 2.. Thanks for the memory reminders @Noclip

[@Ryotsu2112]

I live in Arkansas, and me and a friend got really into Amigas around 1992 or so, right after college. They actually sold them here, but they were a niche product. He had an Amiga 1000 and I had an Amiga 500. He knew this older guy (who was a friend of his family’s) that would dial up to the BBS’s in Europe and download cracked games by the tons. Due was an ATM repair guy. He would come visit my friend from Little Rock some weekends and bring a briefcase full of pirated game discs. We actually spent most of the time on Amiga actually just using telnet to connect to a place called ISCA BBS. It was basically a chat room environment with ascii graphics, before the html web was a thing. Good times.

[@StayFractalesque]

fascinating!

[@buzzlombardi]

I can watch Danny and Alan just chat with their brogues all day. Absolute music to me'ears!

[@GrunkaLunka]

This brings back so many great memories. Formula 1, Prince of Persia, mortal combat, Doom, heretic, one must fall, worms, commander keen, X-Wing,bio menace, speed ball 2. Ahhh those were simpler times

[@SaiNarayan_]

Danny and Alan interacting is right adorable. They're such duffers. More O'Dwyer-based content!

[@Cadmeus]

"Thank you, Jon Hare" I couldn't agree more! This is my childhood right here. You want a niche Amiga game that never got the recognition it deserved? Try Odyssey - it's sort of a metroidvania released just a year after Super Metroid and easily one of the best platformers for the system.

[@Skellingtor97]

danny's accent is so different from alan's, but the more they talk the more irish danny starts sounding

[@yoishoono]

Peer pressure

[@vjvolition]

This was great, brought back so many memories, thanks. There were so many games I loved on the Amiga, like First Samurai, Shadow Of The Beast, James Pond, Mean Streets and many, many more, good times.

[@TheGenejoke]

I loved the amiga back in the day. I used to play on friends amigas before eventually getitng my own. Shadow of the beast and it's long load times and awesome graphics.the sequel as well. new zealand story, batman the movie, shinobi were among the first games I played on it, but the ones that stood out were monkey island, frontier elite 2, cadaver, speedball 2, alien breed, cannon fodder, prince of persia, super cars (perhaps 2), hunter, stunt car racer, lotus turbo challenge. I had many hours playing that with my mate late at night. good times.

[@johnhansen8140]

Theres two of them!!!

[@Kelenae]

This is getting out of hand

[@PaulV3D]

Massive amiga fan. Sensible Soccer, Sensible Golf, and Cannon Fodder which was my favourite! Desert Strike, Alien Breed, so many!

[@johnbowen7314]

So good. I remember my Amiga very fondly, and the crushing disk swapping. I did actually laugh out loud when you got to the Mortal Kombat fatality disk swap… :)

[@jackpaice]

This makes me wanna just spend a whole day playing old games with my older brother...

[@Numfuddle]

‚Its for school! It’s educational!‘ apparently the lie we all told our parents to eventually get our own computer

[@abbasidanny]

Guys, thanks for doing this video, the Amiga has a semi-mythical status in my mind as it was my friend's older brother who had one. I've only ever seen them played, never played them myself except some of the games on other systems (Syndicate, Cannon Fodder, Speedball 2). Love games from this era, and Noclip videos in general. Cheers!

[@ogto]

Danny O'D. still pumping out some of the best content in this biz. Keep it up Danny, you're an inspiration and a bar raiser.

[@TimTams_64]

Man the orange sky freaks me out, and Australian summer is like 3 months away. After last years apocalypse i dont know if i can deal

[@c.jarmstrong3111]

Chances are pretty high you will have another brutal dry fire season. Climate change is a big problem and this kind of shit will only get worse.

[@Gassaroth]

Yooo it's hard to believe that was literally earlier this year, started last year but finished well into 2020

[@glacialpace5655]

I had many of the same games as you guys and played them for hours with my brother. I also put many hours in to Frontier: Elite 2, fantastic memories.

[@holgz]

So many memories!! Thanks for this, played a bunch of these games back in the day... Cannon Fodder!!!

[@Cybolic]

Lovely, lovely video! A few nitpicks though: 1. Joystick buttons: The Amiga did actually support more than one button, but it's true that most joysticks and games only supported one. Some games have since been patched to allow button 2 to function as jump through the harddisk game loader WHDLoad. 2. The Worms intro: The Amiga version _did_ have the animated intro, just not for the floppy disc release. If you got it on CDTV or CD32, you'd get the intro. 3. Memory: The 1/2MB upgrades were fairly common, but you could upgrade to a lot more on the desktop versions of Amiga (the A2000, A3000 and A4000). You can also upgrade your A500, A600 or A1200 to crazy memory levels these days using modern expansion cards even though I don't know of any cards from back then that supported more that 2 or maybe 4 MB for the "home" Amigas. If you wanna get back into it, the Amiga scene is still very much alive with new games, software and hardware coming out fairly steadily.

[@eareboucas]

It's crazy how things looked during the initial bits of this video, it's like Danny is sitting on a lawn chair during the nuke drop in Fallout 76. The color is dead on.

[@purpleaki06]

Great watch. Your anecdotes re getting an Amiga because your parents didn’t want you to have a console and the old wonky Sensi joystick was exactly my experience. Loved my Amiga, must have had about 200 copied games. Alien Breed, Lemmings, Superfrog, some game where a bloke turned into a wolf. Great days

[@mus_cetiner]

Chaos Engine

[@TheGenejoke]

Oh yes, that was amazing.

[@andrewmontague9682]

Oh yes, the Bitmap Bros were gods on the Amiga. 😁

[@GregorBarclay]

Damn, that one was amazing. The co-op was exceptional...

[@Cassp0nk]

Loved that. Had an amiga at boarding school so played so many games like this multiplayer. Same with the alien breeds.

[@michaelwhite5641]

I'm less than a minute in & this is already the best noclip video. Amiga rules, Atari St sucks.

[@bearisland638]

amiga rules no doubt, but atari st is a still sweet machine too!

[@GuerrillaSauce]

I grew up on both. I honestly couldn't tell which which games I played on which system!

[@ShellComics]

LOVED THIS! Once this nightmare is over, please do more of these 😁

[@TohirT]

This brought up so many memories from the time I used to not be able to afford these games, but one of my richer friends did. So we’d play it. And eventually, once I had my first PC, and playing Desert Strike, Commando, PoP....man this was a trip down the memory lane...

[@Xedus86]

Finally watching this video and I loooooved my Amiga 500+ and 1200 back in the day. My two brothers used to sneak into my room to play it while I was asleep haha (I didnt hear them as I am a hearing aid user which I remove to sleep). Pirated games were so good for me and I must have had over 200 of them! Had original boxed games of Monkey Island, Syndicate, SWOS, a Dungeons & Dragons game, Back to the future 2, Rise of the Robots (Rubbish game haha) and about 20 more too. Amiga certainly inspired my love for Strategy games like Civilization, Dune 1 & 2, Colonization, Mega Lo Mania, UFO Enemy Unknown, North and South etc

[@TheChodder]

Great video, turns out I was doing exactly the same over in Leeds as you guys were over in Waterford :) people need to realise, I was 16 in 1992 and had come from probably about 8 years of Spectrum then Sinclair, so the jump up in graphics on Amiga was like another planet! Thanks for the memories guys :)

[@allansillis5034]

Thank you for a great video. Growing up in Sydney in the 80's these games were my life.

[@Jamesharveycomics]

I love that intro clip. It's the video equivalent of the "this is fine" comic.

[@eareboucas]

It's me again, hah! Wonderful time watching this all throughout. My brother and I were horribly into pirated games as kids too, I'm very impressed with how well you guys have kept your copies. Ours have been gone for years, mostly. Loved the video!

[@kristoferstoll587]

This was great to watch! I had an Atari ST growing up and most of all of those games were also on the ST. So watching this was like going back to a time a miss dearly. Really good video guys, and btw... I'm from Canada so The Amiga and the Atari ST were actually pretty popular up here as well.

[@kieranbentley9520]

Absolute memories! Thanks for this. So so good. Syndicate. What a game that was. Cannon fodder all time hall of fame. So good. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@readbird]

Still have two 500's and an 1200. First game that came with my 500 was Phalanx. I remember Psygnosis was my favourite developers/publishers back then, and I got Terrorpods and Blood Money. Also remember attending a "copyparty" back in the day that got raided by the cops. This happened in Drammen, Norway back in 1990.

[@agentorangecb1]

Very wholesome! I'd love to do this for BBCB or Master System games. Cannon Fodder, Desert Strike etc were so good

[@nuxfelles9651]

my dad used to be a member of the local amiga club where we lived. They met one night a week and traded and talked about software all night. I first saw someone playing ghosts and goblins and shadow of the beast there. Those were the days :).

[@jubeljubelfreu]

turrican 1 and especially 2, katakis, x-out, project x... so many good amiga memories

[@markbarker289]

This is wholesome, thanks Danny!

[@ryangibbons1306]

Awesome video guys, brought back alot of memories. dusted off my Amiga 1500 after watchin. Just a few i found in my collection: Magic Pockets,James Pond, navy seals. keep up the great viDocs.

[@deft_86]

Silkworm - one of the best coop games. Apidya - an insane concept for the time and just an awesome sidescrolling shooter experience. CIV 1 - Oh how far we've come. Back then you would start the game, then go outside and kick a soccer ball around for half an hour because the intro was hella long and not skippable.

[@gameoverman80s89]

Great video guys. Had a nostalgia trip watching this. I too grew up playing the amiga and all those classic games. All the team 17 games and sensible software games are my favourites and I still play them on emulation till this very day. Ooooo and the lotus turbo challenge games to.... and the pinball games..... or man not forgetting overdrive... the start up tune to that was excellent. Most Amiga tunes where excellent. Turrican 2 As well. I could go on and on. Memorys that will last a life time. Respect Davey :)

[@D0S81]

oh my god, so many memories. the Amga we had was my stepdads. but i used to play it alot in between playing console games at my friends houses. and this video bought back so many memories of games i still remember now, like Prince of persia, worms, sensible soccer, cannon fodder (of which i hear there is a mash up of the two where you play football but with soldiers and grenades i think? sensible software were cool) monkey island, zool, and loads i had forgot about till seeing them here, like sensible golf, Alien breed i used to play relentlessly, putty (and that baby audio wahh wahh wahh, thanks fpr that one), the quavers dog....and then desert strike came up on the screen, how i forgot about this i do not know, but as soon as i saw it, i remember all the hours i spent playing it, my god, another one of my favs. speedball, another great game i loved and forgot about till now. theres so many others i remember that werent here tho, like lemmings, most pinball games (cuz back then pinball machines were in there heyday imo, so games of them were cool as hell too) James Pond Robocod with its penguin biscuit bars in the background and licorice allsorts everywhere. myst (which i still like playing now, and its sequels, 4 being my fav for visuals), and loads others. i defo remember alot of the games we had, my stepdad got from friends and stuff, basically copies, and each one would have some loud ass bitune techno track on it at the start that was awesome back then, with all these hacker names scrolling across the screen in some cool ass animated way. but one of the memories of amiga i will never forget, is just the sound and feel of putting a disk in, and taking a disk out. might sound weird, but there was just something satisfying about hitting the button to pop a disk out during a disk swap, and the sliding another one in. anyway, i've rambled on enough to technically class this as a hike, not a ramble, so i just wanna say thanks for the memories man. made me wanna go find some old amiga games and go play them now.

[@onelone]

"I feel personally attacked by this relatable content". Copies of Amiga and Commodore 64 games are how I survived the late 1980's and early 1990's. Thank you both for this trip down memory lane.

[@SunDancerGE]

Great Giana Systers was developed by German studio Time Warp Productions and published by Rainbow Arts. I've played it on my C64.

[@Pillock25]

I bought my Amiga 500 in 1988, 512K memory, that could be upgraded to 1Mb. Lemmings was one of my favourite games. Hill Street Blues, Desert Strike, X-Copy all good stuff.

[@PLightstar]

Always remember being introduced to Amiga with Soccer Kid and Lemmings, my mate had the grey and red joystick.

[@RolandDeschain1]

My older sister and her husband bought me an Amiga 600. The first game I bought for it was the INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE adventure game.

[@thenamelessone123]

Jesus this brings back some memories! PUSHOVER WAS FANTASTIC!

[@mashakos1]

It gets a lot of hate today but as a kid I loved, loved Chuck Rock. A less divisive game: Jumping Jack'son, a musical puzzle game. The synth tunes were so good!

[@user-qjvqfjv]

I'm so lucky to have been an American millennial who grew up entirely on the Amiga. Had a 600 and a 1200, and my dad had a 2000 and 4000T. No American in my age group even knows what I'm talking about when I mention Amiga. I accumulated hundreds of issues of Amiga Power, Action, Format, CU, etc. I was blessed.

[@stpirate89]

Wow I already remember the first 4 things theyve mentioned! This is a proper nostalgia trip

[@queenlives4ever]

This is giving me some hardcore Sega Mega Drive flashbacks

[@richstoehr3247]

Bard's Tale had the ultimate copy-protection - a three-tier code wheel you had to arrange a certain way to access the game. It didn't stop us from re-making the wheel though, we were enterprising pirates for sure.

[@OnEdEcKhk]

My heart ! How fucking brilliant is this. Now all I wanna do is see my brother again and have game together

[@Nerun2000]

Nice little video, btw Giana Sisters was a German production, with Manfred Trenz, Armin Gessert and Chris Hülsbeck involved, you might know them from Turrican, R-Type, Katakis, etc.

[@analogGigabyte]

Oh the Amiga500 days, Kick Off 2 with me and my cousin, all summer long. Turrican, Chaos Engine, Shadow of the Beast, with 4 stereo channels and 4096 colors on screen. It was a literal Coin-Op machine that didn't need coins and you could program it in Basic

[@KeeperPeace]

I had a Amiga CD 32 as a kid not sure if they shared games but I remember loving Diggers and Brutal Football (Where you can win by scoring or decapitating every player in the opponents team)

[@MealsBeast]

Amiga is my happy place. one of the many things that reminds me of being a happy child. I wish I kept my system, I had over 500 xcopy games

[@MadRushe]

Speedball my favorite - Danny's Brother Alan is very cool - need to get him in more videos - I loved my Amiga and those demo discs and magazines was my whole teenage childhood. (so sad)

[@MPdub]

A 600 HD and A 1200 (expanded to 2 MB RAM!) owner. I (no my parents if I'm honest at the time)actually bought me, or gave me the money to buy a lot of games. I did have a fair few pirated games too mind. It was a different time then. BUT I also learned to use paint and 3D (Imagine) software and point me towards my current job :) Ahh memory lane.

[@bearisland638]

hell yeah! AMIGA is finally on Noclip, thank you guys! my top amiga games of all time: alien breed another world/out of this world banshee cannon fodder chuck rock 2 elfmania elvira flashback frontier elite II gobliiins jaguar xj220 kick off lemmings lotus moonstone north & south pinball dreams/fantasies project x ruff n tumble sensible soccer shadow of the beast simon the sorcerer slam tilt speed ball 2 stardust/super stardust super frog SWIV the chaos engine the secret of monkey island the settlers turrican II worms if you haven't seen something from this list, check it out folks!

[@JimmyGeschwind]

I never had an Amiga myself, but I remember playing Synicate and Superfrog at a friends house.

[@TheBecke1983]

I just gamed on PCs and NES but a friend had an Amiga and the game I remember the most was Hunter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_(video_game) it exploded my tiny mind. I don't remember my first pirated PC game, but I remember the last floppy disk me and my friends did. MDK... it was A L O T of floppy disks I can't even recall but it was a full 650mb CD compressed into ZIP and onto a 1.44mb floppies :D. After that we all saved up cash for a CD Burner and shared it :)

[@nickholl]

i remember buying a megabyte upgrade just for Kickoff 2 - and i think it basically allowed me to get a refs whistle, maybe linesman? and different pitches i think :D

[@CesarRamirez-ks6py]

Uuuuh so many good game. Totally brings me back. Desert strike Syndicate and Speedball 2. So many hours played.

[@TYNEPUNK]

the games had more than one button, i released on that used cd32 pad (6 or more buttons). Basically depends on the coder.

[@SpacialKatana]

My Amiga 1200 had a 68060 accelerator card with 6MB ram! I played Frontier : Elite II to death on it, and it started me down the path of 3D animation.. GG Noclip, GG

[@elymuff]

Kick Off 2... That was my jam for so many years

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Sensible World of Soccer. What a beautiful game!

[@fenlig]

Moonstone, Knights and Chuck Rock were big favorites of mine.

[@ILOVESTARK]

Amiga content! My favourites was Lost Dutchman Mine, Street Rod and Moonstone.

[@dizkko1808]

I'm guessing one of those other discs was X-Copy. The wonderful chug-chug-chug you'd get while watching the grids fill up.

[@gabriatus9508]

Love the Post Apocalype theme you did. Oh that’s California in 2020? Oh well

[@antivanti]

Amiga actually supports 2 button joysticks but most games only used one because most people had single button joysticks because it was compatible with all the old C64 and Atari joysticks

[@MrRodrigues520]

Danny, you should interview Jon Hare.

[@dribblesbarbax7570]

Same as yourselves. Demos went a long way. i used to play UGH!!. I remember Brian the Lion too. Also Puggsy. Harlequin. Playing Shadow Of The Beast 2 with the 10 pints cheat code. The list can go on and on and on.

[@ta6t5n]

Great video, I was playing Giana sister on c64 version with all sprites replaced to look exactly like Mario. Didn't know it was a reap off until I was 20, but given that I love and buy Mario games until today and my children loves them too I think that Nintendo came out on plus side with that game. Games was german not Polish, Nintendo made them in court to take the game out of shelves, but for eastern Europe at least where Nintendo wasn't present until late 90's I think this game did a pretty good joob introducing their flag ship character.

[@AntiNihilist]

Zip discs were so legit that my dad who never plays video games, got like 10 of them in the early 90s and just gave them to me and my brothers. So random

[@Daniel__Nobre]

Seems like piracy was just so common in many countries in the EU. Same in my country (Portugal). Games and consoles and PCs were so damn expensive, our parents could never afford them. No wonder piracy was so rampant. But at least it democratised gaming (and helped preserve some games even).

[@Wizartar]

The joy of going to some random Dublin hotel confrence room full of Amiga 500s with a daisy chain of 3 1/4 floopy drives playing the X Copy 1.3 soundtrack burrrrrrrr

[@ampinstein]

Swiv, Nitro, Pinball Dreams, Stunt car racer, Lemmings. Mostly copied, but you could rent from Computer City. I remember spending hours hand copying the unphotocopiable code book for Sim City. I bought Frontier: Elite for it when I had a part time job and the difference in graphics fidelity hooking it up to my wee Trinitron 14" telly with a scart cable. Good times.

[@voyddd]

So much nostalgia:) Great video!

[@EGOS42]

Danny's first instinct about how many floppies could fit on a Zip disk was right. Amiga disks were only 880K. I can tell he was thinking of PC 1.44MB disks when he made a correction Could actually fit well over 100 Amiga floppies on a Zip. More if you used compression.

[@MJ-ib1qq]

Absolutely wonderful stuff!

[@AzderielBane]

No Chaos Engine? That game was amazing!

[@Xennialtraveltime]

Turrican 1 and 2 Gods Chuck Rock First samurai Impossible mission Just to name some off the top of my head from my childhood Amiga days

[@andrewmontague9682]

Lemmings and Lemmimgs II were amazing and I must have played so much Rainbow Islands.... I got an A500 in 1989 and when I think about how much my parents paid for it I am seriously humbled. My brother an I had the Batman movie box with Batman and New Zealand Story in the box. I believe we also got Chase HQ separately that year too. I bought the 512kb memory upgrade and much later a 40mb HDD which was a fifth of the size of the whole machine. 😂

[@mus_cetiner]

Lotus Turbo challenge 2

[@Rendaro]

UFO: Enemy Unknown

[@IRWPD]

This is awesome. Think it would be cool to have him come back for more videos. Maybe have your sister in one was well.

[@calebjross]

This was so much fun to watch!

[@thehorror7135]

My favorite Amiga game was Wings, by Cinemaware, a World War One flight sim (lite).

[@DenkyManner]

"is it Bowser Jr at the end of the second level of the original?" If I wasn't already sitting down I'd have to sit down. I might lie down.

[@raphalguul]

a nostalgia podcast with Danny and Alan? I'd tune in

[@jeffvannoy7196]

I was going to complement the set as looking super cool. Then I realized it wasn't a set and that's just a backyard. Crazy times.

[@TYNEPUNK]

wow where did you get them entire cover disk ones? i have A LOT of work on them id like to see again.