Lots of great games in 1988, across all genres... Amiga was the place to be in the late eighties.
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but wait till we get to 1991-1993, those years were just bonkers good. IMO 1993 was by far the best for the Amiga but since I've learned quite a lot making the last few videos, a lot I didn't know about before, I may end up changing my mind. We'll see.
@lukegarner6948
2 жыл бұрын
Randomly found this series last week and already love it. Don't think I ever actually played an Amiga lol
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! I upload at least one video a week. Usually three per two weeks. I know, it's odd. And now I'm doing the series so if you liked it, there's more to come in just a few days. :) And 1989 had many more really strong picks... Also, Amiga was an amazing system but sadly never could really tackle the popularity of 16bit consoles and hence forth most snes and genesis owners of yesteryear did not had one. It's better time now than ever to try it out though, I've a video on this channel on how to play Amiga games on your PC. So, if you're interested, give it a try!
@desiv1170
Жыл бұрын
OMG, SO MANY incredible games on this list!!!! What a year....
@OldAndNewVideoGames
Жыл бұрын
Yep
@nicholsliwilson
2 жыл бұрын
Barbarian may not have been the most advanced game but my goodness my friends & me spent hours decapitating each other & marvelling at the voice samples taken from Red Sonja. Super Hang-On seemed great at the time. Great Giana sisters may not be graphically impressive but yeh, it was so much fun. I don’t know Ebonstar? The great thing about videos like this is I can still get game recommendations even now. The Armageddon Man is truly original which is not that common, even in 1988. Battle Chess remains my favourite chess game, even if the AI can take it’s time deciding what to do, it has style. I love the original Elite. I loved it on the BBC & the Amiga game was much of the same, just more colourful. IK+ was Awesome & another I hammered with freinds! FYI the gift code that pops up is for GOG, not steam. Great video. This series is working out really well & as I said I’m getting the odd game recommendation, thanks. 😊
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
Ebonstar is really nothing special alone. But with a friend it's really cool! Funny how some games deserve two different scores, one for played alone and one when played with someone else. Like I said in the video, I didn't have much experience with Elite, not nearly as much as it deserved. But it's cause I never had it on C64 and when I had an Amiga I didn't remember it existed until I got Frontier which had Elite in its name. But as soon as I started playing Frontier I sunk in it... I loved nearly all space/life games after that. They're still some of my most favourite memories. IK+ was a killer app on C64 but was equally as fun on the Amiga and until we got Mortal Kombats, Shadow Fighters and such, me and my mates mainly played IK+ too.
@ArttuTheCat
2 жыл бұрын
These are my favorite Amiga games of 1988: - BARBARIAN: THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR (I drew a fan art CAT BARBARIAN and shared it on my KZitem channel) - STAR WARS - SUPER HANG-ON - THE GREAT GIANA SISTERS (I better draw a fan art of this classic game) - SPEEDBALL - PAC-MANIA - TIMES OF LORE - BATTLE CHESS - ROCKET RANGER - ULTIMA IV - ELITE - ZAK MCKRACKEN AND THE ALIEN MINDBENDERS (I definitely would like to draw a fan art of this classic game 😺👍) - IK+ - DUNGEON MASTER Amiga rules 😺👍🕹️!
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
You have my sub, sir! :)
@ArttuTheCat
2 жыл бұрын
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Thank you 😸👍!
@Shabbyorange101
2 жыл бұрын
Enjoy your transitions between games, feels as if all the relevant info was said and then smoothly onto the next. The content all time stamped as well is just above and beyond, you do put some good effort into these vids. Glad you put an outro as well, too many videos just "showcase" the games and that's it.
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I appreciate it! I actually work quite hard on these. But I enjoy it and it's all because when I was a young lad one of the gaming magazines I purchased, don't remember the name now, released a special that was something like "200 best games of the year" or whatever, and it covered both PC and Amiga, and it was just couple of screens per game, and literally 6-7 sentences each. But for me it was like a small compendium of what's interesting, what's worth getting, which games are not for me, etc. So, based on that memory I made this series by focusing on most notable (not necessarily best and definitely not my favourite) games on the Amiga over the 10 most important years of its existence. Oh, and btw. there will be some minor, cosmetic changes coming to the format with the next video I think. And when I started researching titles for it I've ended up with like little over 50, so had to shrunk it down. But when we get to 1991-1993 period, it will be difficult. That however, is a problem for another day. ;)
@Shabbyorange101
2 жыл бұрын
@@OldAndNewVideoGames The hard work shows, looking forward to seeing how you refine the videos as you go. I tend to binge watch a lot of content like Accused Farms (Ross game dungeon) and Retro Ahoy, etc etc; And i have to admit your vids give me that engaged feeling that those do. I can see the history and memories you have with this industry means a lot, it shows with your "Compendium" style approach with the info for each game + notable historical things that tie into the year/period of release, i think that's what makes these vids have that personal feel without you sharing your life story at every turn. I was thinking about what you said about the later periods and your work flow toward it all. Perhaps your approach to treating each game as a segment, you might find it easier to do a "This day in Amiga history" and drop a shorter vid? Sort of how that WW2 historical YT channel does, that may help with the content flow plus give certain games a little more attention as well as draw in viewers? Hope some of that is helpful, i really like what you're doing. :)
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
@@Shabbyorange101 @Shabbyorange101 Thank you! When I'm done with the series so in 7 episodes, unless I make a special or something for let's say after 1994 or whatever (but I wasn't planning on it), I'll be back to shorter more focused video for a short while. A top 10 here, a review there, my former usual. But I've couple of big projects like the current one planned and would eventually want to get those too. For now, I'm on this one and I want to land it home eventually. :) And don't get me wrong, it's hard work, and sometimes takes long hours after I'm back from y day job but I actually enjoy it. It's not work same way as my job is. It's not something that I do because someone pays me cause they don't wanna do it themselves. It's something I put time and work in, because I like it. And when someone watches and likes it too, it's even better. :)
@Retro_Royal
2 жыл бұрын
Nice Video and a positive surprise finding a new channel where the person knows what he is talking about.
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! Appreciated! Tomorrow I'm dropping Part 4: 1989 and it was a good year for Amiga, I gotta tell you. Some real gems there. But even more so, in 1990, cause I've started drafting a games list for next week and I've already 75 amazing titles to shrunk to something more manageable for the video. 30-40 at most I think. But that one's for next week.
@jrherita
Жыл бұрын
+1 for mentioning Frontier First Encounters :)
@OldAndNewVideoGames
Жыл бұрын
It's an underrated gem. Was it a bit buggy? Sure but no more than the original was and no less than thy random Bethesda game is.
@nossy232323
Жыл бұрын
Barbarian the Ultimate Warrior was the first game I played on my Amiga! Not much better than the C64 version but I was in heaven :)
@OldAndNewVideoGames
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, they haven't learned how to squeeze all that power from the Ami yet, but it was bound to come soon. My first game, well, not mine really, as it was few weeks before I had my own Amiga, but the first game I saw on the Amiga was P.P.Hammer. And it blew me away.
@simonebernacchia
2 жыл бұрын
You might need a part 2 for 1988, there are other titles like Starglider 2, Carrier command,hybris,zoom...
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
I'm trying to keep the videos at reasonable length so I suppose 30-ish titles per video it will have to be, I'm afraid. That said, Hybris is coming in the 1989 video, as both LemonAmiga and Wikipedia state its release date as 1989. HOL says it's 1988 though.
@simonebernacchia
2 жыл бұрын
@@OldAndNewVideoGames i got it in October 1988
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
@@simonebernacchia Oh, dang it. I'm gonna have to add a note or something to the video.
@adb888
2 жыл бұрын
Hmmm, have my old Amiga down in the basement somewhere - probably wouldn't work without getting some parts replaced, but the nostalgia factor alone...
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
I have mine in full working condition. My biggest problem however is that I don't have anything to connect it to. xD
Barbarian - There was a fan version of this a few years ago that had better graphics and more variety to the opponents. Unfortunately the author(s) decided to add a stupid timer to the fights. WTF? I want to win by beating my opponent, not because I'm ahead on points when the game arbitrarily decides that we've fought long enough. Super Hang-On - I used to be able to beat the Novice track, although I couldn't beat any of the others. I liked it, although one thing that always annoyed me was how every computer rider was constantly trying to crash into you. This problem only affects the Amiga and Atari ST versions, no other version behaves like this. Speedball - in single-player mode, I actually find this to be more playable than Speedball II, where the computer cheats. Rocket Ranger - All the ads and reviews of this game emphasized the action scenes. I was quite disappointed to find out that the bulk of the game is played on a strategy map. F/A-18 Interceptor - You can land the plane on the water or on land, upside-down. You can't land on bridges though. Ejecting from any height is always successful, even if you're 10 feet off the ground and upside-down! There's also a height limit to the world. If you fly straight up, you will eventually stop and just hover in place. If you then go to an external view and fire a missile, it will just sort of float away from the plane. Elite - The Amiga version kind of sucks. The rendering is fast and smooth, but the gameplay is a downgrade from the 8-bit versions. There's only one type of station, not two. Thargoids show up alongside human pirates when they should be extremely rare outside of witchspace. Enemy ships are immediately marked as such rather than waiting to see if they'll fire on you, making it easy to pick them off from a distance. If a ship follows you inside the safe zone and you return fire, the police will come out and kill YOU. Manual docking was quite easy if you knew how. It also crashed on me quite a few times.
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
/Barbarian - Adding time limit is one step towards making Barbarian same as all other VS fighters. Which originally it was definitely not. /Super Hang-On - the crashing thing is probably the best they could do back then to add to the difficulty without breaking the rules of the game itself. /Speedball - I never noticed the cheating but I played it most with others and very rarely alone. /F/A-18 Interceptor - Seems like you've played a lot of it back in the day. :) /Elite - Never noticed but like I said, I preferred Frontier to Elite as it was much more of a complete game. Despite it's own list of nuisances.
@lurkerrekrul
2 жыл бұрын
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Barbarian - Some versions of Barbarian had a timer. Personally, if a fighting game allows you to adjust the time limit, I always set it to the longest time it allows, preferably unlimited. Speedball - What I mean by cheating in Speedball 2 is that when the computer player throws the ball down the field toward my goal, one of his team members is always in the perfect position to catch it. When I throw the ball down the field toward his goal and it comes down, my guys are always off on the edges of the screen. Any members of your team who are off the screen or not directly controlled by you, are controlled by the computer. So when throwing the ball down the field, it's the computer who would be in charge of making sure that one of your guys is in position to catch the ball. It does this for its players, but not for yours. Also, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when the ball is served, his guy plows through my guy like I'm a tackling dummy, every single time. Frontier - I thought this was a very impressive tech demo, but as a game, I never found it any fun to play. The realistic motion of the planets and moons meant that trying to fly anywhere manually was virtually impossible. You needed to use the autopilot, but the autopilot had a bad habit of crashing you into planets. Because it used realistic physics, you had to use ridiculous speeds to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time. You also had to use time acceleration so that your journey wouldn't take literal days. Unfortunately, when you encountered a pirate, it would shut off time acceleration, but you'd still be traveling at about 5,000,000KPH, which meant that you couldn't maneuver. You could only turn and SLIGHTLY affect your course. "dogfights" turned into jousting matches where you rarely got to see the enemy ship as more than a dot in the distance or when it went whizzing past you at blinding speed. Trying to shoot it manually was next to impossible and if you used the autopilot, it would just crash into it. Even fights at normal speeds weren't much fun. I started fights near the station just to see how it handled and the fighting felt really awkward and difficult compared to Elite, where it was an enjoyable part of the game. Even though I had issues with the rest of the game, that was one of things that I thought was perfect in the Amiga version of Elite. Then there were the bugs. Like the passengers that wouldn't leave. Star systems that would instantly crash the game if you tried to get info on them. Needing to click once for each unit of hull damage rather than just being able to repair it all at once (OK, that one is just an oversight). I was also disappointed to discover that none of the structures on the planets were solid and you could fly right through them. You could also fly through the 'boxes' on those big spaceships (like the one in the intro). The whole thing just felt kind of unfinished and unpolished. Plus, it was pretty choppy on a stock Amiga. I had a Supra Turbo 28Mhz accelerator, so it was smoother for me, but even at the faster speed, I had more fun just flying around looking at stuff than actually trying to play it.
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
@@lurkerrekrul I actually knew how and always flown and docked all by myself. But I spent hundreds of hours playing it on Amiga and probably thousands on PC, where it run smoother. So it was also much easier. And while there were some oddities in the game I never really encountered any game breaking bugs. Perhaps I had more recent patched version or something. Still, one thing I always looked for and never found were the famous wormholes that I used to read about in magazines but never found a single proof of existing in the game. Overall space (life) simulations are among my most favourite games of all times. So first it was Frontier on Amiga and then much longer on PC, then I played First Encounters for a little while, finally moved to Freelancer and then Freelancer with Discovery MOD and then Elite Dangerous. They've recently ceased development of Elite on consoles so I will have to get back to it on my Steam Deck. I played No Man's Sky Last year a little too. It's fun but Frontier/Elite it is not.
@lurkerrekrul
2 жыл бұрын
@@OldAndNewVideoGames If I remember correctly the "wormholes" in Frontier were just a bug in how the game calculated distance, which may have been fixed in a later version. I believe if you scrolled the star map over far enough, like a ridiculous amount, the fuel requirement would reset to zero and start counting up again. Also, if you zoomed out far enough, you could see "other" galaxies, but these were just copies of the main galaxy being repeated because the routine for zooming out couldn't handle extreme distances. To be honest, I haven't played a lot of space simulations. I like them, I just haven't played that many. I played Starfox II on the C64 and Amiga, plus I played through Wing Commander on the Amiga (at 28Mhz). I have a copy of either Starlancer or Freelancer (I forget which) as well as Freespace: the Great War, but I've never gotten around to playing them. I played the demo for Tachyon: The Fringe, and liked it, but I never got the full game. I have played a bit of Oolite, which is like an updated Elite. It can be unfair though. There are times you jump into a system and emerge in the middle of about 20 pirates. In those situations, running away is about the only viable strategy, if you have the fuel for it. It was also a bit frustrating that all the jobs offered to the player require a bigger ship and/or more experience. By the time you qualify for any of the jobs, you don't need to take them as you can make more money just trading. The jobs would be more helpful to new players who need to make money, but you can only really take them when you no longer need them.
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
@@lurkerrekrul Yep, wormholes were a bug. But since that you've reminded me it kinda makes sense. Cause if I didn't have issues you mentioned before then clearly in a patched/newer version of the game, that bug must've been removed too. Well, if you ever get a chance Elite Dangerous is really good. That is if you don't mind spending countless hours alone in vastness of space. ;) Cause on some odd days you may actually not meat any other people or if you fly off too far chances of encountering anyone are very slim.
@TeaAndFloppyDisks
Ай бұрын
Even if there was no Maniac Mansion, it's good that the Amiga got its share of great point and click adventure games. :) Oh, no, your hobbits got killed in Middle Earth. Does that mean the preciousss ends up in the wrong hands and evil prevails? As in, game over?
@OldAndNewVideoGames
Ай бұрын
Oh, Amiga had some of the most amazing point'n'clickers, quite a few exclusive ones too. Like the Universe, without "the". :) It was also a technical marvel of sorts as it displayed 256 colours on a basic OCS/ECS Amigas, those that could theoretically only used 32 (well, 64) in games with moving graphics/sprites.
@TeaAndFloppyDisks
Ай бұрын
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I'm sure I've played a lot of ports of games, but of course the exclusive ones have been eluding me until now. I saw some screenshots of Universe. Wow! You weren't kidding about the marvel in terms of graphics. O.O
@OldAndNewVideoGames
Ай бұрын
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks It was a marvel because it looked the way it did on seriously underpowered hardware. By PC standards it was so-so. :)
@TeaAndFloppyDisks
Ай бұрын
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Aww. Well, whether a marvel or so-so from a technical perspective, it's still very pretty. :)
@OldAndNewVideoGames
Ай бұрын
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks I agree :)
@Arivia1
2 жыл бұрын
Hey I'm watching this whole series and it's great even though I have literally zero Amiga nostalgia. One helpful tip, you keep mentioning "b-class movies" and I think you just mean B-movies. I think it's just a translation error or something, no big deal, just trying to help because English discussions just call them B Movies.
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you like it! Thank you! And thanks for pointing the b-movies thing. Clearly English is not my first language so I appreciate the help. :)
@henriklarsen1504
2 жыл бұрын
great videos but what about sword of sodan or baal?
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
Well, honestly I did't think Baal was the game to define the year. But in the end, those videos are just a baseline which everyone can mentally customize adding or removing games as they please. And you did, by sharing it here in the comments. When it comes to Sword of Sodan I was on the fence. Perhaps I could've included it because of huge sprites and pretty amazing for the time graphics. The sprites especially were something unseen at the time. But clunky controls and odd gameplay stopped me from doing so. Like I said, with this one, I might have made a mistake. I agree.
@ameriscm7351
2 жыл бұрын
tried the code and it didn't work - maybe someone else used it?
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
It looks like it, it's one code per video. There'll be another one in around 4 days in the next video.
@Sataaa
2 жыл бұрын
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Actually I think you missed the last 5 letters of the code, because the code is in a wrong format according to Steam. It doesn't say the code was claimed before, unlike the previous codes; it just says the code is invalid. According to Steam the codes can be on either 15 letters or 25 letters, never just 20 as the one you listed on the video. If you check it and realize that was really what happened, I can test if the correct code still works if you know what I mean ;) Just PM it to me if I'm right or let me know here if I'm wrong and that's really the correct code, because I really made sure I typed it correctly and steam just said it was invalid, but I still might be wrong.
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
@@Sataaa If you don't mind, check if it's not working in GOG, I have some of those too and they might have gotten mixed up. :)
@Sataaa
2 жыл бұрын
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It worked on GOG! Doom 64! Thanks!
@OldAndNewVideoGames
2 жыл бұрын
@@Sataaa Yeah, sorry, I think I've made that mistake once or twice where I've written Steam when in fact it was GOG. xD
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