Your Gaming History?

[Qix77]

Hi everyone.

I'm just intrested in your memories and exp.(back in the day) when you use to game with the Amiga. I'm a nut when it comes to gaming history and I'd love to hear how you learned about the Amiga and the impact that Amiga games made on your life.

I'll post my own later, just wanting to see where this goes.

Thanks

[Jungle Ninja]

Well, after telling you all this a thousand times before, I will tell this again in another angle!

I, like my brother owned a C64. I whent on a long vacation to my dad in the US. After nine weeks I came back and my brother owned an Amiga 500. He had no games then, but when he whent back to school he got some games and we where in awe. My brother had heard from school how cool the amiga was and worked all summer to be able to buy one with an original 1084S monitor.

We where in awe over the games and more and more came, but my brother had to buy most of them. My brother sometimes wanted to play the good old strategy games on the c64 and would let me play on his amiga. So I had some great fun.
Later on I bought mine and we got all the games for free, because of my connections.

Thus is the legend of my Amiga history. I still have my brothers old Amiga 500! Great family history!
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[EvilCensor]

Amazing Jungle Ninja - you didn't once mention the Amiga version of Pirates!
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[Jim]

Sensible Soccer ensured that as a young teenager when I was with a group of friends we weren't necessarily all the time smoking pot & getting drunk
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[taterchip]

ok well i'll have a go....

My friend had a Vic20 at first and as a result my parents bought me this computer called a Tandy TRS80 (gotta get the kids something different ) which was kinda shitty compared to the Vic20 but i was super young and didn't really care - i had a couple of games to play and some of those totally text based adventure games and i was happy for the most.

My mate then upgraded to a C64 sometime later and the first games we had for it which totally blew our minds were Green Beret, Ghost n Goblins and i think World Games was in there also.

When we would play Green Beret we would have the other guy ready with his hand on the spacebar to shoot the flamethrower - but due to the delayed reaction time between the guy playing to the guy controlling the space bar - this would often lead to a player death which would result in an argument over the fact that i deserved another go cause my mate got me killed cause he din't hit the spacebar fast enough the solution became a kinda angled chair and the guy playing would use his foot on the spacebar.....this ended any further arguments

So that was it - i had to get one of these C64's - i remember buying it (well my Dad bought it for me for my Bday i think) 2nd hand and it came with Fairlight and some other copied games the guy had on tape (everything was on tape) Oh and i had the soccer game that was a cartridge that everybody seemd to have.

As the years went by i totally got into the gaming thing on the C64 (me and this same friend), i used to get my Zzap64 mag shipped out from the UK which always arrived like 2 months late but it was really Zzap that got me into the Amiga as it slowy became more popular and had more coverage in the magazine.

I was into going to the arcades when i was about this age also and loved playing the games there as they always looked and played so much better, and then seeing the wicked graphics on the amiga i thought this just had to be the next step up.

The magazines we're making some comments about arcade conversion being almost "near identical to their arcade counterparts" on the amiga and i guess after sometime (and play testing them in places like Kmart) i just had to make the jump.

I think i paid $1500 at the time for my Amiga500 (external floppy and 1 meg expension) setup and it came with R-type, Space Ace, and a few others which i cant quite remember at this time. But i remember thinking that R-type was pretty much arcade perfect.

Anyway so yeh...i pretty much stayed with the Amiga till it's popularity started to
decline but still totally loved the games - played just about all of them (almost), kept getting my Zzap's and life went on this way till the likes of the NES and Megadrives started popping up on the scene.

After that i totally fell out of computers and only just in the last few years have picked them up again....and thats my story

[James Bond]

Once upon a time

My friend got an Atari 2600 and I played a few games that are classics nowadays...Space Invaders...Combat, etc. Later, I got a Commodore 64, and later, a NES. When the Commodore Amiga came out, I upgraded my C-64 to that and the C-64 lived in the attic for many years. Later, upgraded the NES to a SNES. I upgraded the Commodore Amiga every now and then and finally stopped using it around...1992ish. I then upgraded to a 386 or 486 (Can't remember which - think it was 486) and played the greatness of Wolfenstein 3-D, Spear of Destiny, LucasArts games, Doom, etc. Used the 486 for awhile and then basically forgot about computer gaming and decided to move onto consoles. I got me hands on a Nintendo 64 and played that until 2001, when I decided to join computer gaming again after purchasing Ghost Recon and finding out that it wouldn't run on my elite P2 with 128MB RAM. Then, me got a GameCube when they came out, still have it, and I still have the computer I got in '02 although the video card and RAM have been upgraded. And somewhere in the mid to late 1990s I got a GameBoy. I've also had experience with but haven't owned:

Apple II
Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, 8-BIT
Colecovision
Dreamcast
Nintendo DS
GameBoy Color
GameBoy Advance
New GameBoy thingy
GameGear
Genesis
Intellivision
Macintosh
MSX
N-Gage
Neo-Geo
PlayStation
PlayStation II
PlayStation Portable
Saturn
Sega 32X
Sega CD
Sega Master System
SG-1000
Turbo CD
Turbo-Grafix CD
VIC-20
VirtualBoy (Ugh...the nightmares...the nightmares...I'm gonna cry )
X-Box
Methinks I also used a Trash 80 one time or another...

Methinks that's it

[zeropolis79]

I first saw an Amiga in use in 1990 when a friend brought the Flights of Fantasy set and I was impressed, espeically F29 Retaliator..
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[Predseda]

I think it was written ten-thousand times and I don´t want to repeat, so if you want to know my Amiga-gaming early days, try other topics here on Lemonamiga.
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[Jungle Ninja]

[Predseda]

A lot of related topics about nostalgic Amiga memories, dude.
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[Jams]

My brothers got an amiga when i was 5 since i have played i have a lot of computing memories remember when i was blowed away by impossible mission for c-64 remember nes and of course the amiga,think i can easily put up a top 100 amigagames list that would not be so easy to do on pc I think the best pc games are from the time when commodore just had left us games like daggerfall and master of magic

[Scarface]

Well put simply I got a CD32 for Christmas. I always remember Superfrog though, and me, my mother, and 2 cousins would all take turns playing it. We used to rush back home form school to play it everyday. We never used to care about eating either, my mother would just quickly make us some Tuna sandwiches so that we could all start playing it again. I think thats one of the reasons I love Superfrog so much, is because I have all the great memories of it. I also used to be really scared of Microcosm when the ship blows up, I would always run of screaming. Bare in mind though, I was only 6 at the time.

[Jungle Ninja]

That is fun Scarface! Such nice memories should be cherished real good. It's nice to hear that your mother even played the game. Fun to hear. Not many parents did that.
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