Amiga/Commodore

[Lex]

I know two people on this board (one of them is me) have at one time in their lives played this most amazing of... I don't even think you can call it a video game console. It was like a fat keyboard and the games were on floppy disks and played using either KBAM or a literal Joystick:

It has an amazing legacy. It gave to the world:

- The very first Lemmings game

- Monkey Island (which was on 12 floppy disks. There was a lot of switching.)

- Chiptune music (now known as "Keygen music XD")

The reason it's used for Keygen music is because they used to write copies of the games and include the "hackers credits" at the start with an impressive piece of chiptune music. Like this one:

And if you like that, you'll love this:

THE AMIGA GAVE SO MUCH TO THE WORLD AND EVERYONE SHOULD LOVE IT

 

[Tetsujin]

My brother used to have one. My father at one point occupied it because he became obssessed with Lemmings (which he beat). Probably the only video game he ever played.

Awesome Amiga game themes (edit: I see those are included in that 3 hour video - would've been disappointed if they hadn't been):

 

[Pixel]

I think I still have my Amiga 1200 somewhere.

Some of my favourite games are on in. Monkey Island and other lucasarts games, Theme Park, Settlers

There was a trolls game that I havent seen since I was a kid, where you attack with a yoyo. I remember it had this sort of spring sound effect.

Another good platformer was superfrog. A frog that drank lucozade and got super powers. I remember saying to my brother, "I'll never get bored of this game."

 

[Lex]

OH GOD TETS LOTUS TURBO CHALLENGE MUSIC

(they're all good but skip to 6:39 for my favourite)

EDIT: OH ALSO ALSO

The first track in this one is good, it was stolen as the "Zool" theme on some other platforms. I've never played Zool.

 

[Lex]

There was a trolls game that I havent seen since I was a kid, where you attack with a yoyo. I remember it had this sort of spring sound effect.

Another good platformer was superfrog. A frog that drank lucozade and got super powers. I remember saying to my brother, "I'll never get bored of this game."

There are so many games that I barely remember now but that made my childhood magical. One was Bill's Tomato Game, which I posted about elsewhere.

There was also the game where you were a bottle of ketchup and you had to shoot McDonald's burgers with the sauce and the mustard as they flew past the screen XD.

It saddens me that so many people don't know it gave the world all these great games first before they were ported or remastered and released on other platforms.

 

[Ghost X]

At some point I'll post a list of Amiga games I have played. The list is quite long .

 

[Cthulhu]

I / we never did have something like this; we started off with a PC when I was 3, the type that didn't have a hard drive but two floppy drives. Years later we visited some relatives, and one of the guys there had an MSX; it involved getting books from the library, copying code by hand, and reading games from a cassette tape. Dude that was awesome, and I wish I was a part of that. Doubly so if I actually understood it, which I wouldn't have until 15-20 years later, . I mean how did he even get those graphics to show up (for a game called Karate, iirc), was that just loads upon loads of code to generate graphics or what?

 

[Mayo Master]

Wow, Amiga, that's an old timer! I didn't have one but a friend of mine did. I got to play Lotus Turbo Challenge Also Crazy Cars II and R-Type-II.

Personally, my childhood was "blessed" with something even more ancient: Sinclair ZX Spectrum! The thing was working with tapes, you needed about 15 minutes of loading (with horizontal bands on the sides and the same kind of sounds 56K modems used to make) before getting to play.

Eh, I even found the very first video game I ever played. We've come a long way.

 

[Lex]

The Commodore had one of those things too, it was called the Datasette. I remember my cousins had one, it was strange.

EDIT: Holy shit, you can use one of those plastic tapes with an aux cable and your phone to load these games on the actual old machine now:

 

[Abortedj]

I know two people on this board (one of them is me) have at one time in their lives played this most amazing of... I don't even think you can call it a video game console.

The term is "micro computer", mostly a marketing term, but it is what they were called at the time.

Used have a C64 and and an Amiga. They were great systems to game on, and do work on. Sadly finding disk that aren't giving in to rot is getting harder and harder as time goes on.

 

[Mayo Master]

The Commodore had one of those things too, it was called the Datasette. I remember my cousins had one, it was strange.

EDIT: Holy shit, you can use one of those plastic tapes with an aux cable and your phone to load these games on the actual old machine now:

Wow I really didn't know that! Yeah, on the Spectrum the games were just on regular cassette tapes. I even had one game where face A was the game, and you could play face B for a rock soundtrack.

Years later, when I got my Sega Master System, my mind was blown away by the graphics

 

[Abortedj]

Datasette always pissed me off. Took forever to load anything, and it rarely loaded right. On top of that (unlike one for other computers) it was proprietary, so you didn't have any other options to load your tapes. Thankfully, at least here in the US, floppy was a much more popular/common storage medium. But I will say this for the tapes, they were better than the rather rare C64 cartridges (only have ever seen 3 of these, even back in the day).

 

[Teioh]

Another good platformer was superfrog. A frog that drank lucozade and got super powers. I remember saying to my brother, "I'll never get bored of this game."

Thank you!! I've been trying to recall the title of this game for ages but could only remember that it had a frog in a cape The whole family used to gather around to watch dad play Lemmings and laugh as he blew them all up in frustration. I remember him playing a lot of games back then but we had a few systems so I'll have to check whether they were for the Amiga or not. Were Bubble Bobble and Loom on the Amiga? They have the special distinction of being two of a handful of games I have seen my mom play. The only game I recall having a go at myself was Marble Madness but wait, was Mortal Kombat for the Amiga? Ah curse this memory of mine.

But yeah the Amiga and those damn joysticks.

 

[Lex]

Bubble Bobble and Loom were on the Amiga, so was Mortal Kombat according to my googling.

 

[Pixel]

Did you play Rick Dangerous. Thats a really difficult game. Another World, too

 

[Abortedj]

If you are interested in playing on an actual C64, your best option is to get some kind of flash memory reader. There are a few different ones out there, and all have their pros and cons. But any of them will be easier and more reliable than old disk or tapes.

Of course if you just want the programs and not the original hardware there are even easier options, but I am not sure how much we are allowed to go into that topic.

 

[Lex]

GUYS OMG

Watched this the other night when I couldn't sleep and it's a really neat history of Amiga:

Worth your time if you've got a spare half hour.

Also I downloaded WinUAE and have been playing old Amiga games for the past couple of days. The nostalgia is real <3

 

[Ghost X]

What site are you getting the Amiga game files from?

Also, I'm still compiling my list. Takes forever .

 

[Lex]

You can get them from anywhere pretty much just by google searching, but Emuparadise is always a safe bet.

 

[Russell]

I had this version of the C64:

I swear the keyboard for it was in alphabetical order, not QWERTY.
I loved it!. My first experience of coding was Basic for the C64. Let me tell you, trying to program graphics in basic is a bitch. >.<

Music for games on the C64 was fucking awesome:

 

[Ghost X]

My brother was into BASIC, and we had a program on the Amiga that allowed you to program with it (Amiga BASIC, iirc ). He made tiny animations out of it. Although I was interested in creating something similar, my younger self was too impatient / found it too difficult. I used one of the drawing programs to create pixel animations instead. I'd only get to about 100 frames before running out of memory though.

 

[Abortedj]

I had this version of the C64:

C64C. Redesigned to look like the new (at the time) C128. The change was only cosmetic, never really understood the point. I know they all so made all the add-on to look like that too, disk drives, and tape drives, etc.

 

[Ghost X]

I've been looking for footage of Vaxine for years, but couldn't since I didn't remember the name of it. Doesn't look like much these days, I guess, but when playing it in my younger days, I'd get so immersed, and my whole body would move without me knowing while playing. When moving forward, I'd lean forward, and when moving back, I'd lean back, and same with left and right, etc.

Gave up on compiling my list, but might do so after mid-year .

 

[Octo]

TOXINS IN THE EYES?!

also I will be forever frustrated that the last star got away

 

[Ghost X]

Of the games I had on Amiga, Wings and Defenders of the Crown were among them, so this news is exciting, as I liked both those games a lot .