Old amiga rpg games

It all adds up to a slightly bizarre game with an unmissable end sequence. As the game begins, the player is hurtling through space, through a solar system to a distant pinpoint, which becomes larger and is revealed as the planet Eris. The spacecraft then proceeds to land on the planet. The sword of Damocles, in this case, is a comet that is about to hit Eris. Such an early 3D game has limitations of course, and the world is sparsely covered in buildings, with large empty spaces in between.

However, as with Amiga games such as Hunter , the abstract 3D style adds to the charm. On 8-bit machines, its famous games were the likes of Uridium and Paradroid. The character of D. Although developed for the Amiga , there was an enhanced AGA chipset version for the more powerful Amiga machine, which included a whole new world.

Virocop was the final Amiga game from Graftgold and, as a parting gift, it was also an Amiga exclusive. Behind these generic fantasy names is a detailed role-playing game that is a kind of prequel to Bloodwych. The developers added some great little touches, such as a dragon who draws a map and a chicken option that causes the characters to run away Monty Python and the Holy Grail -style. The world is traversed on an overview map, but the game changes to an isometric game upon entering certain locations.

Each of the four characters possesses a special ability: hiding in shadow, a bardic melody, a berserker rage, and spellcasting. The magic system is freeform and is the basis of a massive number of spell combinations. Runes provide magic effects, such as damage or healing, and are combined with ingredients to create spells. Pushing the joystick right increases the throttle and pushing it left decreases it. Pulling the joystick back pulls the aircraft nose up and pushing it forwards pushes it down.

As the view is from the side, this takes some getting used to, and initial attempts at taking off will probably result in a nasty crash. There are 32 tracks to complete with city, forest, desert, and apocalypse themes, and three players can race at the same time with two on joystick and one on the keyboard. There is no split-screen mode so racers must avoid falling behind. Micro Machines and the Super Cars games may be better known, but Nitro is an uncomplicated game that is well worth your time.

In , Gremlin followed this up with Space Crusade , which was also based on a board game from the same two companies. Unlike HeroQuest , Space Crusade is viewed from a top-down perspective, which is less pretty but gives a good overview of the tactical situation.

During combat, the game changes to the more aesthetically pleasing isometric viewpoint. Each mission is set on an alien hulk and allows up to three players to board as Blood Angels, Imperial Fists, or Ultra Marines. Each team of Space Marines takes turns moving and attacking aliens. Each system contains a variable number of planets, depending on the difficulty level, and an unpleasant alien at the other end who must be conquered.

The ultimate bad guy, Rorn, is very difficult to defeat. Once purchased, an atmospheric processor can be used to terraform lifeless planets. From a central interface, other screens can be used to manage various planetary and interplanetary ships, set tax rates, and train troops, which can be sent to attack enemy planets. Supremacy is really about numbers, and there is very little direct control over certain key events, such as battles.

Destiny and his Tinhead Army. The gameplay is fluid and action is frantic. The graphics are excellent and the enemy characters have a wonderful metallic look.

There are big bosses, some nice weapons, and great music and sound effects. The style is distinctly Japanese and the game feels as if it is a conversion from the consoles, but the only other platform it appeared on was PC DOS. The Joe of the title, Joe Maroni, and his friend Nat Gonzales must make their way through a castle, a pyramid, a monastery, and a mysterious kingdom in this platformer.

It can be tackled alone as Joe or with a friend in the two-player co-op mode, which is a great way to play a game like this. The soundtrack is marvelous and there are some bonus horizontally scrolling shooting sections to break up the platform levels. Five years after the release of Paradroid on the Commodore 64, Andrew Braybrook brought an updated version to bit platforms.

Five large spaceships have been overrun with a variety of droids and the aim is to clear each one. Each ship contains up to 16 decks and there is an extra pirate ship called the Arabella that can be accessed by finding hidden keys. When the host is destroyed, control returns to the basic droid.

Powerful or fast droids are preferred as hosts, but feebler maintenance models can be used as a last resort or as stepping stones. There is a droid transfer puzzle sub-game, but this can be turned off in the main menu.

Andrew Braybrook updated another of his 8-bit classics to bit, but this time, Uridium 2 was only released on the Amiga. The game is set in a fantasy world in peril and is played in two modes. In the RPG portion, a sorceress, knight, barbarian, or paladin travels by horse or by boat across four continents, collecting treasure, recruiting armies, and fulfilling contracts taken out on villains.

When a battle occurs, the game moves to a mode similar to the Spectrum game Chaos. But it all started here and the Amiga version is a damn good one. Its influences are coin-op and home computer favorite SWIV , but with a high level of polish and excellent graphics.

At its core, Odyssey is about visiting islands and getting from one location to another by solving puzzles that prevent progress. These puzzles generally involve switches and doors but some areas are inaccessible to the human character. As the game progresses, crystals allow the player to transform into different creatures, such as a spider, a grasshopper, and various birds.

These additional powers open up new areas. There are six islands with exterior and interior sections as well as a final castle to tackle. Be sure to check out the Amiga Format magazine coverdisk demo, which features an exclusive training island. It was originally released as plain old Tennis Champs on an Amiga Power magazine coverdisk, and later earned the SNES-esque Super prefix when it was published commercially by Audiogenic.

The Super Tennis Champs enhancements include a scrolling court, more characters, more options, and a simultaneous four-player mode using a joystick adapter. Bizarrely, Samuel L. Jackson even made an appearance on one of their magazine covers. The cars have names like Inferno, Hammer, Demolition, and Cyclone. The tracks are suspended high above the ground and have names such as Maximum Overkill Grand Prix and Badlands Megasmash.

Racers can attack other cars with missiles and there are kill zones in each track. Although only a single player game, Roadkill is nonetheless an addictive racer. It was originally released for the CD32, but eventually made its way to the Amiga This is a cute platform game featuring ducks who fling eggs at their opponents. Each level is only one screen in size, but the compact graphics manage to pack in a lot of detail. The aim is to collect keys, avoid the enemies, and escape through the exit.

A second player can join in and fling his own eggs. Qwak was sold by Team 17 as a mid-range title, but it was superior to a great many full-price games costing twice as much. The concept is brilliant and involves opponents dropping bombs in arenas to destroy each other while collecting bonuses to increase the length of explosions and the number of bombs that can be dropped.

There is a single player mode, but Dynablaster is at its very best when played with five players using the supplied joystick adapter. Players gather around the same computer with four on joysticks and one on the keyboard. Although in the s gaming was usually portrayed as a lone hobby, a lot of Amiga games turned it into a social event.

Something has been lost with modern multiplayer games where the players are on different continents rather than in the same room. Bomberman clones were popular on the Amiga and the public domain scene saw a lot of shareware and freeware versions, the best of which is Master Blaster.

Thalion, a German developer known for games like Dragonflight , Amberstar , Ambermoon , and Lionheart , released a very slick motorbike racer called No Second Prize. No Second Prize succeeds in the two key areas of speed and control.

The 3D engine is fast and recreates the feeling of hurtling around a track at high speed. The bike is controlled by mouse, which allows a fine degree of control when tilting on corners. Stardust is a renowned Amiga game that was created by Finnish developer Bloodhouse, distributed by Daze, and originally sold at a reasonable mid-range price.

The game is an upscale version of Asteroids , with ray-traced graphics and extra features that include weapon upgrades and bosses.

There are two Thrust -style levels where the ship must navigate caverns. The most impressive and memorable section is seen in four tunnel sequences. The ship flies into the screen, avoiding incoming obstacles. The background is formed of only six frames of animation with four colors, but the effect is spectacular in action.

Skip to main content area. This article originally appeared on Den of Geek UK. Stardust was a spiritual successor to vintage space shooter Asteroids set against an energetic techno soundtrack. What's not to love? Back in , the game was considered a perfect amalgamation of old and new, combining Asteroids ' shoot-em-up gameplay with enhanced graphics and a boatload of power-ups. It Came From the Desert. B-movies have always been a guilty pleasure of ours, and It Came From the Desert on Amiga successfully captured the look and feel of one.

Cinemaware's action-adventure followed a geologist on a mission to convince the residents of a small town in Nevada that an army of giant ants were about to overrun the place. So bad, it's good? Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight. As far as medieval fantasy adventures go, Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight is one of the best we've ever played. Mindscape's action role-playing game followed four knights on a quest to return the mystical Moonstone to Stonehenge.

Standing between them and a place among the gods was a horde of weird and wonderful monsters and a fire-breathing dragon. The swordplay was intricate and the gore flowed freely. Super Cars 2. Top-down racing games didn't get much better than Super Cars , and its sequel went above and beyond with the introduction of split-screen multiplayer. In the vein of other arcade racers like Skidmarks and Micro Machines , Super Cars 2 combined plug-and-play simplicity with smooth handling and a palpable sense of speed.

It left many of its competitors behind in the dust. Syndicate is a real-time tactical offering from Bullfrog Productions that whisked players away to a brutal world of futuristic gang warfare, cyborg assassins and evil corporations.

Games back in the early-'90s traditionally involved wholesome objectives, but Syndicate was different, placing players in control of a shadowy company with ambitions for world domination. It taught us no morality lessons, but attracted a huge following during the Amiga's lifecycle and is still considered a cult classic.

Batman: The Movie. Rocksteady Studios brought use the definite Batman games with its Arkham series, but the closest we got to it back in was Batman: The Movie on Amiga. Based on the original Tm Burton film, the game was an action-packed romp across Gotham City that saw players slinging Batarangs at anything that moved, hurtling along the streets in the Batmobile, and piloting the Batwing. Developer Ocean embraced various types of gameplay, and the result was one of the best superhero games of the '80s.

Alien Breed. Team 17's Alien Breed combined elements of Gauntlet with James Cameron's Aliens , merging these influences to create one of the finest top-down shooters on the Amiga. It was space marine action at its best - darkly atmospheric and an absolute blast both solo and in multiplayer mode.

There are few things more satisfying than laying waste to hordes of intergalactic nasties with a meaty arsenal. Every gaming system needs a cute, cartoony platformer that appeals to all the family, and the Amiga had Superfrog among others. Controlling an anthropomorphic amphibian, players bounced their way across colourful stages, marvelling at the cartoon-quality visuals and flawless scrolling.

Superfrog is a considered a near-flawless example of its genre. Worms took multiplayer gaming to lofty new heights when the original hit the Amiga in It was a unique game that defied categorisation. The graphics were humble, the controls were simplistic, but was there anything more satisfying than smiting your enemies with banana bombs and sheep? The Chaos Engine.

Players were tasked with blasting their way through four monster-infested worlds en-route to dismantling the titular doomsday machine, the source of Britain's woes. There was never a dull moment when the bullets were flying and the pulsating industrial soundtrack was the perfect accompaniment to the chaos. Flashback: The Quest for Identity. Cinematic platformers enjoyed a renaissance in the early s and Flashback: The Quest for Identity served as a showcase for the latest advancements in this field.

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