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@Il_Paradroide @CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @CommodoreKazz @commodoreofcl @CommodoreLad @nyimski You're right that the Amiga has a lot of great games. But you can see sometimes how much animation and sound has been cut down to fit on those wee floppy disks, or to fit within A500 ChipRAM. With arcade games they can set the hardware to what the game requires.. to a degree. 😊

@Il_Paradroide @CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @CommodoreKazz @commodoreofcl @CommodoreLad @nyimski Yeah. There are differences between arcade and home computer games. Xenon and Leaderboard have complex control schemes that take time to master. Arcade games should demo the game and look as good as surrounding games. And they should be learnable in one credit and -hook- you. 😊

SideWinder. Mastertronic, 1988. #Amiga #Commodore

@Il_Paradroide @CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @CommodoreKazz @commodoreofcl @CommodoreLad @nyimski Yeah, that's the problem Amiga games of that era: graphics and sound assets that had been squeezed down to fit onto one or two floppy disks. It needed an artist and coder on each game to really boost the graphics, particles and possibly the sound too. Nice idea done too cheap. 😄

@level106 @CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @CommodoreKazz @commodoreofcl @CommodoreLad @nyimski Heh, not properly arcade-quality games.

@oldyzach Ooooh! I don't know this one. Looks like an FPS with a good sense of its own style. Will have to check it out. 👍 But, whenever I'm in an Egyptian tomb setup like that, I start thinking of Serious Sam. 😄

R U ready for some classic pew pew pew? Chasm: The Rift (1997)

@CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @CommodoreKazz @commodoreofcl @CommodoreLad @nyimski Magic Johnson's Fast Break, Ninja Mission and World Trophy Soccer definitely have potential. And Xenon is quite a looker. But I think its control-system is too complex/unwieldy. I'd have simplified the control-scheme for the arcade. Maybe even flying-only. 😮 (Controversial?)😄

@CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @CommodoreKazz @commodoreofcl @CommodoreLad @nyimski I mean, Sidewinder was a good choice for the arcade. But World Darts? Leaderboard Golf? Spot? Sport Time Bowling? I'm not convinced those would've been good money-earners. (Maybe Leaderboard, with some tweaks to the controls and game structure.) 🤔

@OldSchoolBooks1 Hunchback is a cool wee game. Definitely can't half-ass the timing on this one. 😊 It was years before I realised it was an arcade conversion. (I may have played it on a certain other 8-bit platform.) 😄

Today's #retrogaming on the #ZXSpectrum #HunchBack an ability to time jumps was needed in this game. This was a skill I NEVER aquired!

@exQUIZitely The old LAN sessions were great fun. Unreal Tournament, Battlefield 1942 (and the Desert Warfare mod), Shogo, Counterstrike, Quake III, Wolfenstein, Tribes.. a bit of NFS: Porsche 2000/Unleashed for variety. 👍 But the original Unreal Tournament was peak LAN gaming for us. 😄

Modern FPS games have hyper-realistic graphics, movie like cutscenes, and gazillion dollar budgets. Yet, if you ask me, nothing beats how 90s FPS games felt. And yes, you can do the easy thing and dismiss it as just nostalgia and revisionist history. But I would bet if you were among the ones who played Quake, Doom, or Unreal Tournament (Epic Games), you remember that they just hit differently back in the day. A favorite for our LAN sessions back in the day. Dragging a 21" monitor over to your friend's house felt a little less heavy when you knew you'd be playing Unreal later that day... Exellent and colorful graphics (even on PCs that weren't high end, like those you needed for Quake III Arena for example), great sound, and your typical capture the flag or deathmatches - I mean, what more did you need? Plenty of "Game of the Year" nominations (with some wins), the highest of critcal acclaim, and massive sales numbers. I think we can all agree that Unreal Tournament belongs in the Hall of Fame of FPS games. Or maybe I am just getting old and gloryfing things from the past too much?

@oldyzach Did you ever get to try Banshee (For AGA Amigas)? That was made by people who truly loved the system. Some beautiful effects that showed off what planar graphics could do. And a gorgeous Bitmap Brothers looking graphic style. 👍 youtube.com/watch?v=aPhOYe…

@CommodoreBlog I'm still preparing to die.. 😊

Every bank holiday, this purple bastard turns up at my door...

@oldyzach I remember Raptor. I still had an Amiga, and my PC owning friends were finally able to say "See! We can have awesome shoot-em-up's too!" But I still had Battle Squadron and Hybris, and they couldn't take that way from me. 😋 youtube.com/watch?v=128KMq…

Raptor - love or not? I think Tyrian fans will say NO.

@E16S1 @PixelCNinja Ah, the old Super Offroad game! It's those madly-spinning-the-steering-wheel moments that make it. 😊 youtube.com/watch?v=nxYDXN…

@PixelCNinja Gameplay reminded me a bit of this.

BMX Simulator on Atari ST delivered one of the first truly convincing bike racing games, with its birds eye view gameplay, it was similar to car racers of the time, but with bikes and jumps. Who else still remembers the frustration (and joy) of nailing those perfect runs?

@PixelCNinja You're not suggesting it was better than the C64 version, are you? 😋 (Actually, I didn't know there was an Atari ST version. Cool!) 👍 youtube.com/watch?v=cBOw6V…

@InsaneMegaCD First thing I always did with the Dead or Alive games was turn off the jiggle-physics. 😄 I mean, I had no objection to it at all. It was just darned distracting! 😋

Fighting Kasumi in Dead or Alive (Sega Saturn, 1997)

@exQUIZitely I had no manual, so I had no ideal what was going on. But it was great fun to slowly work out how to use the vehicles and various weaponry of the carrier.. though I never worked out how to use them well. 😄

An oldie but goldie... and definitely needing a manual to have the slightest clue what was going on. Carrier Command (1988), developed by Realtime Games and published by Rainbird, blends RTS and simulation elements. You command the aircraft carrier ACC Epsilon in a future war to colonize a 64-island archipelago before a rival carrier does the same. You can attack by air (Manta) or land (Walrus) and drop command centres on neutral islands. The game switches between fleet management and direct vehicle control. The filled-polygon graphics (epic for the time!) and tactical elements made it one of the earliest true RTS games. It received excellent reviews, often in the high 90% range. A sequel, Battle Command, followed two years later.

@Apogee_Ent The first 3D isometric games, in the 8-bit days. Representing a fully three-dimensional world back then just felt like some kind of sorcery had been done to the CPU. 😊

What’s a game that felt ahead of its time when you played it?

@000Angus000 @gamesyouloved I'm sure I'm ready for a brush with .. Erm, never mind. 😊 (I think my first witchspace mis-jump left me entirely stranded. But it was one heck of a fun shoot-out.) 😎

@level106 @gamesyouloved But are you ready for the Witchspace manoeuvre and a brush with the Thargoids? 👍 (Screenshots may vary) 😉

If you are old enough - what are your memories of this? #BBCMicro #retrocomputing

@CommodoreBlog No other terminal I'd rather be browsing the library catalogue on.. 😎

@exQUIZitely Battle Squadron was one of the early shooters I got to see on the Amiga. Fresh from the C64, it blew my mind that they could have a whole group of ships on screen with an inviso-cloak effect, showing through the background. It was like..