Amiga game impressions

[le geek]

I've recently been spending more time with my trusty Amiga 2000 and have been going through some of my games that I collected years ago, but never really played. Here are some of my impressions (assuming the disks still work)...

Pictures added courtesy of Lemon Amiga


Mr. Nutz
After fiddling with my PAL Boot disk and waiting forever to load the game, the title screen comes up and some snappy MOD music plays. The game starts in an overworld similar to Super Mario World, but it involves bits of story and a few light puzzles. Once you get to a stage, it devolves into a bad Sonic clone. The game was obviously designed for the AGA chipset so everything is downgraded is a orange and yellow duotone mess...


Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon
Man, not all Cinemaware games are created equal! Crude yet colorful, the graphics in the game scream Deluxe Paint. After the title screen I stared at the status screen wondering what to do. I finally selected a choice from a drop down menu screen and I had to switch to disk two for a swordfight, then switch back to disk one. There may be a decent game buried somewhere in here, but back to the bottom of the pile it goes...