These games were fun, funny and, due to the typically young nature of the people making the games and the similarly immature nature of the games industry, it really could seem like anything could happen (even if it usually didn’t).Īs you can see, it is easy to get nostalgic about this time, I was young, the world was ahead of me. Ron Gilbert told a fantastical and genuinely funny adventure that seemed to somehow raise itself from the beige plastic confines of my Amiga 600 and into my imagination. On the Amiga the best example that springs to mind is the Monkey Island series. ![]() This goes a long way to explaining why the point and click adventure game was so incredibly popular at the time and really captured the imaginations of people “of a certain age”. Lucky for us, the Amiga was capable of looking quite pretty (as long as games were not too demanding) and we had wonderfully creative people using imagination and humour to tell stories through games. Having said that, it is incredible how games designers of the time managed to work within the very tight limitations to make something like Frontier: Elite 2 (and get that out on a floppy disk in a day when patches were not a thing). I had Streetfighter 2 on the Amiga and amid all the disk swapping between bouts your mind will explode when I tell you we used to play Streetfighter 2 on a joystick with a single button (what madness was this? How did you manage to precisely move the character on a single joystick and 1 button!). This was naturally very limiting in what games were likely to work well and were not. ![]() It also had two distinct things holding it back – it didn’t have a very powerful processor and those dodgy floppy disks were also unable to store a great deal of data. ![]() The Amiga was a brilliant machine, with terrible anti-piracy protection, but to be fair the state of the games on those floppy disks was so poor you genuinely had to back up your purchased games if you wanted any degree of security. I am a 30 something (pushing 40 something) who owned an Amiga and wasn’t allowed to own a games console back when the Amiga was a thing.
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