James Rolfe / James D. Rolfe / Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) / Rex Viper and Cinemassacre / Screenwave - Now with not much grieving about a 41-year old man still making videos on YouTube. We're the balls on the dick.

[el bandito loco]

They are so consistently nonsensical! How do you flip a wall switch in an Amiga platformer? Maybe by crouching in front of it, holding the jump button, then pressing up? Or just standing in front of it doing nothing for two seconds to activate the animation, or... There's also tons of "wait, that kills me!?" and "wait, that doesn't kill me!?" moments.
Amiga platformers can be fascinating because there's little to no shared design language between them, almost every platformer is the vidya equivalent of discovering the weird evolutionary branch of Australian wildlife.

My only exposure to the Amiga was when I first got a modded original Xbox and it had an emulator with tons of shit on it and I was convinced like half the games didn't work because I didn't have the right keys mapped to the controller or something because of shit like this so I barely really played it. So many of the games looked so cool from the little preview videos and images and then playing them was like reading hieroglyphics.

a lot of retro pc games are kind of like that though. the older I get the more I appreciate just the experimentation with design even though it's almost never any good in practice.

 

[deeman]

My only exposure to the Amiga was when I first got a modded original Xbox and it had an emulator with tons of shit on it and I was convinced like half the games didn't work because I didn't have the right keys mapped to the controller or something because of shit like this so I barely really played it. So many of the games looked so cool from the little preview videos and images and then playing them was like reading hieroglyphics.

a lot of retro pc games are kind of like that though. the older I get the more I appreciate just the experimentation with design even though it's almost never any good in practice.

C64 was worst at it though, If it's not controller port one it could be controller port two, and if the second one is busy the keyboard might not work etc. i think the Nerd talked about it for a good length in his C64 review. I don't have AS MUCH trouble with my Amiga mini. But yeah, it wasn't very user friendly.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

It's weird that Bubsy isn't originally for the Amiga, classic European style shit platformer. Like Zool. A lot of shit games on the Snes originates from Amiga, i think Dennis the Menace is one of those.

I don't have to look it up to know Dennis is an Ocean game, they were originally Amstrad(?) but became a large multiplatform developer/publisher. They actually had a formula for most things or rather a mold. A character will be a certain height and certain width making them pretty stocky and perfectly compatible visually with everything from Gameboy, Amiga, Mega Drive and the SNES. It doesn't matter if you're playing as strangely square Dracula the most common enemy will be rats, bouncing staplers and other clipart they could easily animate. I hate Ocean. And Titus.

edit: Life & Death is a cool game, when me and my friends played it we only wanted to do surgery. A patient came in with a sore throat, tough shit, we're going to see if we can remove your liver and attach it again. This time the patient might survive.

The most Amiga game never released on the Amiga is Dr Franken

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[Van Darkholme]

Amiga games are just... bland. They look and sound great (for the time) but I'm not joking that the average Amiga game is behind Super Mario Bros gameplay-wise. I think it would be hard to find something like Kang Fu in the Amiga library.

Most Jump & Run games are kinda bad on the platform, sadly not every game can be Turrican. But if you look past that genre, you can find some stuff still worth playing. Hilarious games like Moonstone for example, or isometric games like Cadaver or Hero Quest.
But I grew up with Amiga, so I'm probably a bit biased.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Most Jump & Run games are kinda bad on the platform, sadly not every game can be Turrican. But if you look past that genre, you can find some stuff still worth playing. Hilarious games like Moonstone for example, or isometric games like Cadaver or Hero Quest.
But I grew up with Amiga, so I'm probably a bit biased.

Yeah, the Amiga has a lot of great games, they're just not platformers or console friendly games in general. There are exceptions of course and some stellar games got ported, like Another World.

Kang Fu for anyone interested:

 

[Picnic_Boy]

I love hearing about old British computers, it's a side of the video game industry that feels so alien to me. It's one of the reasons I like Guru Larry.

I don't have to look it up to know Dennis is an Ocean game, they were originally Amstrad(?) but became a large multiplatform developer/publisher.

I had no idea Ocean was British until I was playing Addams Family for SNES a few years ago, and noticed how similar it was to old Amiga games that the various rooms and stages all had their names displayed on the bottom of the screen. That's British as fuck.

 

[Not 6 Foot]

The thing is, the tight grip is a temporary thing. After awhile of usage it stops being so tight. It's more like a breaking in process.

Phrasing.

 

[Van Darkholme]

Yeah, the Amiga has a lot of great games, they're just not platformers or console friendly games in general. There are exceptions of course and some stellar games got ported, like Another World.

Kang Fu for anyone interested:
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I see your Kang Fu and raise you a Top Banana:

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I see your Kang Fu and raise you a Top Banana:

Just wait until I remember what that other game was called, it doesn't look quite as bad but... Top Banana is Top Tier Shit though.

 

[TV's Adam West]

when I was in middle school, my Dad worked overnights and so we had opposite schedules. I had hooked the snes up in the living room to play final fantasy 2/3 (4/6) because I got them for 5 bucks at a garage sale. Pop saw the SNES and bet me that he could beat super metroid faster than me having not played it in a decade if we both didn't look anything up. I said you're fuckin' on.

For a few days when he was at work and I was at school we'd play it a bit and look at each other's time. Hours wise I don't remember what my final time was, but I remember it was 12 minutes. I took a picture of it and it said 5 hours 12 minutes or whatever. The next fucking day was a Saturday and I was sleeping in and my dad yelled for me to wake up and come in, he was at the end. I watched him escape and the final screen came in, that motherfucker had 11 minutes. He beat me by one fucking minute. I dont know if he was way ahead and wasted some time to get down to just one minute faster or we just really were that close. he did also have a higher item percentage than me too but it we both had pretty low ones. I think i probably had like 40 and he had 50 or something.

anytime to this day I'm at a family gathering and people are talking about video games my dad will randomly ask 'is there a new metroid? bandito sucks ass at metroid" he came to my house not long after dread came out and saw the box, and went 'oh there's a new one huh? I bet you fuckin' suck at it'

>Dad taking timee out of family reunions to bully you for sucking at Metroid

That's unfathomably based.

 

[deeman]

I'm just waiting for someone to mention Akira for the Amiga... famously bad, even Guru Larry has talked about it.

Oh wait... now I mentioned it... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

 

[Van Darkholme]

I'm just waiting for someone to mention Akira for the Amiga... famously bad, even Guru Larry has talked about it.

Oh wait... now I mentioned it... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

They even ported that shit to the Game Boy, was never released though.

 

[el bandito loco]

>Dad taking timee out of family reunions to bully you for sucking at Metroid

That's unfathomably based.

he used to have this one tape he kept in the vcr from the 90s up through the 2010s and would hook consoles into the vcr and would record what he was playing so the next day he could look at where he was or what he was doing. when I was a teenager he explained to me its because he got so drunk on an average night if he was playing a game he'd have at least an hour at the end where he wouldn't remember anything at all so he had started doing that.

I had a friend in high school that always called my dad 'pro gamer' because he'd come over after school and catch my dad on the couch studying his gameplay from the night before and would always ask him how his training was going.

the funniest stuff was GTA and all of those clones from the late ps2 era he'd go back to see what he had been doing and he'd always just have been running around blowing up pedestrians or setting up other sandbox shit you'd do just to make yourself laugh.

 

[Travoltron]

Gamer dad stories make me feel so old. My dad thought video games were idiotic wastes of time and bad for kids. He was also that "we have [Nintendo] at home" dad that didn't understand that you had to buy new systems/computers every 5-7 years or so.

 

[Caesare]

Gamer dad stories make me feel so old. My dad thought video games were idiotic wastes of time and bad for kids. He was also that "we have [Nintendo] at home" dad that didn't understand that you had to buy new systems/computers every 5-7 years or so.

Same and my dad was a computer geek who would buy us PC games once in awhile as kids yet was still mostly anti game for the same reasons as your father

Remember this one though:

(at the mall) Youth Caesare: "Hey grandma. Can I have a few quarters to play the arcades?"

Caesare's Grandmother: "NO! You have that at home."

Caesare: "But these are different!"

 

[skykiii]

Even though i'm as European as can be, i find Amiga games pretty foreign... "Moon-logic" is a great description of them, watching a "100 games in 10 minutes" of Amiga games can be a blast.

And i would love to know what James think about Moonstone!

The Amiga was a thing that made me wonder if I Turri-can.

And I still wonder if I Turri-should.

 

[Not 6 Foot]

he used to have this one tape he kept in the vcr from the 90s up through the 2010s and would hook consoles into the vcr and would record what he was playing so the next day he could look at where he was or what he was doing. when I was a teenager he explained to me its because he got so drunk on an average night if he was playing a game he'd have at least an hour at the end where he wouldn't remember anything at all so he had started doing that.

This is unironically a great idea. Granted, consoles have built in recording features and there's plenty of PC programs that can do that for you now, too, but there's plenty of games that I would lose my spot in, growing up, that this would have helped a ton with.
Bonus points if you then record yourself reacting to the gameplay with exaggerated cursing, a white shirt, balding head, and then post it to YouTube.

 

[demicolon]

Or, y'know, not get shitfaced before playing?

 

[Noble Redditor]

Your girl James my D until I Rolfe

 

[Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I'm just waiting for someone to mention Akira for the Amiga... famously bad, even Guru Larry has talked about it.

Oh wait... now I mentioned it... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

I'm surprised nobody's done an edit of the "Leave me alone" meme with clips of that game in it.