Important missing games - CLOSED

[DeAdLy_cOoKiE]

Galaxy Force II. I loved this game in the arcades.
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[Anubis]

I've not seen Wing Commander.

It's great game on miga.

[KombatSanta]

[Kim Lemon]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

The next game update might take a while as I will also add all Amiga games featured in Zzap! magazine advertisements. This is because I prefer to have all these games online before I add advertisement scans to the site.
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[Andrea Rosa]

Cybernetix, a shareware game from Vision Software. It's a nice and challenging space shooter.
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[romanista]

llamatron, reinforced the whole shareware scene, and still a strong community around jedff's games: see www.yakyak.org

grafity force ii/gravity power...endless duels in the sky..

scorched tanx, deluxe galaga ... shooting on each other, and classic respect, i wrote this article on it (concept form)

It was 1994. The world was just like a slippery, slidy world from a badly designed platform game. It was the day Johan Olav Koss won the 10.000 metres speedskating in a little Norwegian city called Lillehammer, leaving the Dutch with a Trauma which would take years to lose.

*picture lillehammer olympics

For me the skating wasn't that important that day. I took my humble A500 with me, after assuring my mum for the tenth time it wasn't too dangerous to bring it. I took it with me on the subway to one of Amsterdam's more shady districts called Gein.

I entered a little community centre. It was filled with geeks and Amigas. Some of them I talked to using BBS's and Fidonet, in those pre-mass internet days. Silently I plugged the power in and switched my A500 on.

I have never having been much of a coder myself. Sure, i made some basic C64 games and dabbled around with Amos, but that was were my programming stardom stopped.

But the thing these people made were simply incredible. It was the time of State of the Art and Jesus on E's, and here were people who actually had worked on those beautful videos.

* image: amiga demo

But for me the games were more important. Surely, lots of Amiga screens just showed X-Copy during the whole day, but the two most important games in the Scene, were two public domain games.
<image scorched tanx>
The first was Scorched Tanx. Two or Four Tanks and you took turns to shoot at eachother A super simple concept, as I played my first game which was like this some day in 1982 on the Philips G7000. This was the Zenith of the genre. Lots of the coders present had activily thought up weapons for the game, from strange gophers to nukes.

It allowed me to gain some respect in this scene, as no one could launch laser like i could. It remains a mistery to me how Team 17 could ruin this super simple concept with quite a few games in later years. How could one worm have 4 times as many turns as the team which was still without damage.

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The second was Deluxe Galaga. It was the time were the Amiga was let behind because of sinister plots by software houses which wanted the higher profits of console games. Progammers followed Jeff Minter's Llamatron example and started to produce games with pure gameplay. some of the most creative games were produced in that phase, next to endless Football Managers and hopeless Doom clones

Deluxe Galaga symbolised this for me. Basically, an update of the classic Galaga, it kept being improved until it was one of the most respected pure shoot'em ups on the Amiga. This was especially true in the demo scene, as the members of the scene felt it was 'their' game, and they shared their passion for it.

Although I never became a member of this scene, Deluxe Galaga and Scorched Tanx awakened in me the passion for pure games, and allowed me to appreciate the games I play on this day, from Gridrunner ++ to Ikaruga. I never looked at a wannabe doom clone again while I had an Amiga.
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[eksosrock]

Dalek Attack

Caesar Deluxe

Eat the Whistle - France 98

[Jams]

DR FRUIT!
and simlife utopia new worlds,western games,winter olympiad 88,rise of the dragon

[Predseda]

[DeAdLy_cOoKiE]

Fighter Bomber
http://hol.abime.net/525

Damn, how could I forget this one.
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[Kim Lemon]

I'm closing this thread as I'm working on a major game update. I think about 90% of the games mentioned here will be included. I will open a new "missing games"-topic once this update is complete.
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