Black Lamp

Karter 2018-12-23
(4/10)
Played the C64 version which was better, also tried the amiga and ST versions. When i first saw it in a magazine, i thought it will be the game of my life, but it was lame.
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rhorschack 2012-10-23
(5/10)
That game's overall look and atmosphere kind of scared me when I was a kid. Too difficult, with bad controls and way too much meanies to defeat, Black Lamp was a frustrating experience that I've never forgotten for some strange reasons.
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FredHall33 2012-09-11
I played this in 1989 or 1990 but regardless it sticks out in my mind.
I was only 10-11 years old at the time and what I remember is I was disconcerted by the many various bad guys. The witches in particular scared me.

Besides that it was a hard game for me. I think I only beat it once. Even today, playing on an emulator, I still havent gone fully through it yet.
Those dragons were tough
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mike_tyson 2012-03-10
Seizure-inducing graphics, almost non-existent gameplay that screams 8-bit but not in a good way... A real stinker, this was one of my first Amiga games.
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stooart 2011-01-19
(4/10)
I saw this on my mate's ST first so I was nearly sick when I seen the Amiga version! I can remember the gaudy, badly animated sprites and generally poor gameplay (climbing a flight of stairs seemed like an immense effort!) so nothing else to say really. 4.7 is generous!
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ElB 2010-08-27
Also available on Atari 8-bit, and was probably one of the prettier games for the platform; the Amiga version is nothing special.
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mondo 2010-02-28
This game confused me so much as a kid.
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Chuckles 2009-10-06
(10/10)
I'm going to play this again sometime just to re-visit memory lane as I'm wont to do--but at the moment I remember 'Lamp' being a really difficult game to get ahead in, and, as I was playing it I wondered if it was really worth finding out

Nevertheless, I think it deserves better than a '4'.
[EDIT] - This game is annoying.(
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Scrawffler 2008-09-17
(4/10)
Never played this on the Amiga but I had the Atari version. Nothing really special and it was frustrating (I never got very far) but I liked the main character and the game had some interesting level designs. I enjoyed exploring for as long as I could, but this was never for very long because I always died quite quickly!
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Kodoichi 2008-06-04
(2/10)
Unplayable, as the enemies keep respawning at very short intervals.
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marquisor 2007-09-09
Augenkrebs!
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Wandus 2005-06-02
I surely appreciated the meticulously crafted visuals, which had their very own, unique style. As the overall design emulated a comic book look, the graphics may appear somewhat simplistic in comparison to those releases that went for photorealism.

gameplay, I must agree, is unfair and frustrating, in some part due to the unreponsive controls, but the look and the theme (why, u get to play a court jester!) kept me going for some time. I didn't finish it though.

good to look at and thus fondly remembered.
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Dirk_the_Daring 2005-04-27
(9/10)
Black Lamp is a game with own light. Althought being a direct Atari ST conversion may be a little disappointing at first, this game was a master piece on the ST, and on the Amiga is as good (or better) as on the Atari .

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Trantor 2005-02-11
(3/10)
While the C64 version still had some relatively cool graphics to fall back on, the Amiga version just came off as a bit poor. The gameplay on both versions was still horribly unfair and impossible to play without cheats.
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Inferno 2005-02-10
(3/10)
Boring, pointless, overcrowded, unfair and visually unappealing, this was totally unnecessary. And that red border was a true eyesore...
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