Top 10 Commodore Amiga Games

[devilman]

I'd add Moonstone, Covert Action and Captive to the list. Sank a huge amount of time into the latter.

[Atarileaf]

Wow, people angrily disagree with a top 10 list. That almost NEVER happens.

[Leo_A]

An Amiga top 10 list without a single Lotus game is no top 10 list.

[Alianger]

Speedball 2 - Only played this properly on the MD, but the control was a bit stiff and it was pretty easy to score from the other side of the field because the opposing player couldn't see his goalie in time. Meh.

It Came From the Desert - Visually impressive adventure game with a well made oppressive atmosphere, decent tactical elements, and pretty bad action sequences. Haven't played it enough to tell if it's top 10 material, but it seems reasonable.

UFO: Enemy Unknown - This is an inferior version of a great game, save for maybe the music. Needs an A1200 and a HD to run well.

Dune II - This is of course a groundbreaking game, but honestly its hard to go back to seeing as the genre has evolved quite a bit since then in terms of control, AI, balance and gameplay depth. Amiga version sounds great, but seems to run kinda slow.

Lemmings - Didn't care much for Lemmings back then, unlike most people around me it seemed. It's good, just not that entertaining to me.

Pirates! - Good port of a classic, from the looks of it. I think I only played the Gold version myself, but it's been a while now. Combat seems rather sluggish now, but they really squeezed a lot of cool stuff into it considering its age.

Theme Park - Good idea and execution, and surprisingly funny too. Not sure how it holds up though, haven't played it in years and never on the Amiga.

Sensible Soccer - Yep, good soccer game with a unique feel to it.

Worms - I dunno, preferred Scorched Tanks back then. Maybe it's the voices. Not sure I'd like this much at all now since it's kind of random and casual.

Civilization - I've yet to really give this series a chance, always seemed rather convoluted and drab to me... I've also read recently that this is a really slow version.


So it's a decent list of games, though the Amiga isn't the best platform for all of them. Mine would look something like this:
1. Cannon Fodder
2. International Karate +
3. Another World
4. Sensible World of Soccer
5. Toki
6. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
7. Benefactor
8. James Pond II
9. Turrican II
10. Gravity Force
11+ Rodland, Chaos Engine, D/Generation, Chuck Rock II, Paradroid 90, Shadow of the Beast III, Pinball Dreams, Pirates!, Secret of Monkey Island, Parasol Stars, Scorched Tanks, Micro Machines, Dynablaster, Flashback, Disposable Hero, Bubble Bobble, Exile

[Neb6]

That writer clearly has just a cursory knowledge of Amiga games.

Here's my top 10 list:

Commercial:

Hired Guns
Speedball 2
Assassin
Armour-Geddon
Rodland
Stardust
Pinball Dreams
Robocod
Simulcra
Vital Light



PD:

Deluxe Galaga
GravAttack
Transplant
Asteroids II
Knights
Vektor
Deluxe PacMan
Satan's Smileys
Defender
Matrix Blaster