This is not a great port of Shinobi on the Amiga. A fantastic arcade game is poor on the Amiga, music, graphics, and frame-rate are all pretty horrible.
Equipment:
Amiga A1200 (with extended memory and CF memory card HD)
Player Manager was a football management and sport sim from Dino Dini and Anco, and released in 1990. It was released after Kick Off, but before Kick Off 2, so it uses a game engine similar to the first game, but slightly more advanced, but not as advanced as Kick Off 2 which had things like aftertouch.
You take control of a 3rd division team as a player manager, and it’s your task to take them to promotion and cup glory. You can choose to control the whole team, just yourself, or just see the result instead.
It’s great fun, and I sank hours and hours into this in the early 1990s.
Equipment:
Amiga A1200 (with extended memory and CF memory card HD)
What an amazing game Dark Forces is. Coming from an Amiga to a PC in the mid 90s was a very exciting time! I could suddenly play all the BRILLIANT Star Wars games that were on the PC (made by LucasArts) such as Tie Fighter, X-Wing, and of course, Dark Forces.
A Doom clone FPS, you play rebel Kyle Katarn, and you have to nick the Death Star plans or something like that, yada yada yada, something something dark side. Basically run around opening doors, collecting keys, and shooting Stormtroopers. What’s not to like?!
You can get this off Steam for under a fiver – so if you’ve never played it, or if you want a dose of nostalgia, get it!
Just a quick play of Crazy Taxi on the Sega Dreamcast. This was a big success on the console, being the 3rd most sold Dreamcast game in the United States. I can see why as it looks and plays great – it’s very arcadey and casual players will pick it up and play with no problem. Not sure I’d be coming back to play it week after week though.
The Typing of the Dead on Sega Dreamcast is very unique game (at least, it’s a game like no other that I’ve played before!). It’s a modification of the Sega arcade shooter The House of the Dead 2, but instead of shooting at zombies with guns, you are an agent with a Dreamcast on your back, and a keyboard strapped to your front?!
To kill the baddies, you are given words to type, and you must type them as quickly as possible! If you can touch type, then you will be amazing at this game. I still type like I did when I was 12 (badly), despite using a computer keyboard every day of my life since then pretty much, so I was pretty average.
Much loved 1980s quiz show A Question of Sport on the much loved 1980s home computer the Amiga – what could go wrong? It’s a match made in Heaven surely?
Well, make the questions scroll across the screen, that’s what could go wrong! This makes the game much harder to play as you have to concentrate 100% on all the questions as they whizz across the screen at a rate of knots, and it makes your eyes go funny.
“Quite remarkable!”
Equipment:
Amiga A1200 (with extended memory and CF memory card HD)
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Posted on October 12, 2019
Shinobi – Amiga – Let’s Play
This is not a great port of Shinobi on the Amiga. A fantastic arcade game is poor on the Amiga, music, graphics, and frame-rate are all pretty horrible.
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Posted on October 11, 2019
Player Manager – Amiga – Let’s Play
Player Manager was a football management and sport sim from Dino Dini and Anco, and released in 1990. It was released after Kick Off, but before Kick Off 2, so it uses a game engine similar to the first game, but slightly more advanced, but not as advanced as Kick Off 2 which had things like aftertouch.
You take control of a 3rd division team as a player manager, and it’s your task to take them to promotion and cup glory. You can choose to control the whole team, just yourself, or just see the result instead.
It’s great fun, and I sank hours and hours into this in the early 1990s.
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Posted on October 11, 2019
Dark Forces (1995) – PC – Let’s Play
What an amazing game Dark Forces is. Coming from an Amiga to a PC in the mid 90s was a very exciting time! I could suddenly play all the BRILLIANT Star Wars games that were on the PC (made by LucasArts) such as Tie Fighter, X-Wing, and of course, Dark Forces.
A Doom clone FPS, you play rebel Kyle Katarn, and you have to nick the Death Star plans or something like that, yada yada yada, something something dark side. Basically run around opening doors, collecting keys, and shooting Stormtroopers. What’s not to like?!
You can get this off Steam for under a fiver – so if you’ve never played it, or if you want a dose of nostalgia, get it!
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Posted on October 10, 2019
Bust a Move 4 – Dreamcast – Let’s Play
Decent little puzzler on the Sega Dreamcast – Bust a Move 4 (also known as Puzzle Bobble).
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Posted on October 10, 2019
Who Wants to be a Millionaire – Dreamcast – Let’s Play
Here I join Chris Tarrant and try and answer 15 questions to win £1,000,000. Spoiler – I don’t.
Good fun though. I now hate John O’Groats.
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Posted on October 10, 2019
Crazy Taxi – Dreamcast – Let’s Play
Just a quick play of Crazy Taxi on the Sega Dreamcast. This was a big success on the console, being the 3rd most sold Dreamcast game in the United States. I can see why as it looks and plays great – it’s very arcadey and casual players will pick it up and play with no problem. Not sure I’d be coming back to play it week after week though.
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Posted on October 10, 2019
The Typing of the Dead – Dreamcast – Let’s Play
The Typing of the Dead on Sega Dreamcast is very unique game (at least, it’s a game like no other that I’ve played before!). It’s a modification of the Sega arcade shooter The House of the Dead 2, but instead of shooting at zombies with guns, you are an agent with a Dreamcast on your back, and a keyboard strapped to your front?!
To kill the baddies, you are given words to type, and you must type them as quickly as possible! If you can touch type, then you will be amazing at this game. I still type like I did when I was 12 (badly), despite using a computer keyboard every day of my life since then pretty much, so I was pretty average.
Great fun though!
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Posted on October 10, 2019
A Question of Sport – Amiga – Let’s Play
Much loved 1980s quiz show A Question of Sport on the much loved 1980s home computer the Amiga – what could go wrong? It’s a match made in Heaven surely?
Well, make the questions scroll across the screen, that’s what could go wrong! This makes the game much harder to play as you have to concentrate 100% on all the questions as they whizz across the screen at a rate of knots, and it makes your eyes go funny.
“Quite remarkable!”
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Posted on October 10, 2019
Pub Trivia Simulator – Amiga – Codemasters
This game is pretty shit – but it was a budget game, so I wasn’t expecting much!
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Posted on October 9, 2019
Saint and Greavsie – Amiga – Let’s Play
Saint and Greavsie were what we had for light sport entertainment in the 1980s before Sky Sports came along and changed everything.
This is a fairly crap sports quiz game that, unless you know who won the second division in the 1950s, you will be shit at.
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