What Amiga games did you buy?

[edd_jedi]

These days with ROMs readily available online it's difficult to comprehend what life was like back when you had to physically own games and didn't have thousands you could instantly access. Like most Amiga users I admit to having many copied/pirated games and tended to spend my 'pocket money' on magazines and blank disks rather than games, but I did buy a fair few too because they either couldn't be copied or I wanted them when they first came out. Can you remember which games you actually bought or legally owned back then? And roughly how many? These are the ones I can remember, in no particular order:

Dennis + Oscar (free with A1200)
Aladdin
Morph
Skidmarks
Mortal Kombat II
Simon the Sorcerer
Alien Breed 3D
Christmas Lemmings
Out to Lunch
Soccer Kid

I can almost still smell that fresh box after opening the cellophane

 

[-Acid-]

I can remember actually buying these

Xtreme Racing and the update disks (still have these in the boxes)
SWOS 96/97 (as much as I loved it I hit hard times and sold it to a friend 2 weeks later for the retail price)
Ruff N Tumble (like an idiot I sold this on ebay for buttons a few year ago, you almost have to give up a kidney to get it now)
Roadkill (CD32 version still have it)
Pinball Prelude (sold it to Zerec on here a few month ago)

Think that's about it for back then, I have about 45 CD32/Amiga originals these days though, I just didn't have the disposable income that I have these days to spend on games when I was a teenager.

 

[Sensi]

I bought plenty of games in 90s for PC , only one for Amiga system: SWOS (New Improved SWOS). I want this one so bad. But only NOS and the reason is...

I can almost still smell that fresh box after opening the cellophane :smile:

 

[davideo]

I'm of the age that I wasn't a teenager when I got my first Amiga (2000HD)

So most of my software was purchased until the latter years when it became hard to get software and then it was sourced from elsewhere

 

[roy_bates]

i bought loads of amiga games in the day,too many to list here bud.

i still have a lot of them,there are a few im still after.

 

[Templar]

When I visited London in 1994, I paid a visit to Virgin Megastores in Oxford Street back then. Games I bought were James Pond 3, Arcade Pool, Seek & Destroy and another one I cannot recall right now. But I had some original games before then, like European Dreams and some others as well.

 

[Monkeh]

I bought quite a few, went to my local dude for a pound a disk a lot more - but if I really like the game I bought the original. Ones that stick in my mind are:

Simcity
Civilisation
Colonistaion
UFO
Wing Commander
Deuteros
Utopia
K240
Roadkill
Elite
Frontier
Dune
Dune II
Transartica
Megalomania

Will be a load more but thats all I can think of in a couple of minutes, one I want to get which I didn't officially get in the day is the The Clue!, loved that game.

 

[zethib]

I was a kid on the PC scene at the time but same story: my dad got me Monkey Island before i could understand english.
That helped me a lot to learn compared to school especially when Monkey Island 2 came about with the full graphics interface.

I remember buying magazines where all the tests were for games that was not available on pc
i was envious and suddenly those magazines changed contents and switched to pc.

As for buying the games, the superstore in France called "Fnac" used to be the place to be back in the day with range of joysticks and mouses to try.
It was the routine trip on weekends to checkout the new stuff, bought so many games from then. Lucas Arts, Sierra, still have them somewhere, I remember the sleepless nights I played Alone in the Dark as well.

 

[Harrison]

I bought a lot of games back in the Amiga days.. way too many to list here as it reaches in the 100s probably. Blame the mail order gaming company Special Reserve for a lot of them, but also store discounts in Southampton. I probably purchased games most weekends!

I do however remember the first Amiga game I owned was Lemmings as it came free with my first Amiga.

The firm favourite I owned/still own has to be Frontier: Elite 2.

And I actually wished for an Amiga long before I owed one so had a wish list of games long before I could play any of them. Mainly due to buying into the Atari ST and then wishing I had saved the extra and got an Amiga. Although I did still enjoy the ST too.

 

[Kyle]

My original Amiga games back in the days were:
Gobliins (italian version)
Flashback (italian version)
Assassins


I don't remember if I bought other

 

[edd_jedi]

I just didn't have the disposable income that I have these days to spend on games when I was a teenager.

Yeah, I just don't know how young people were expected to buy games back then. Amiga games were usually £25-30 each, but SNES games were up to £60 each! Before I was 16 and could get a 'proper' part time job I used to earn £6 a week doing a paper round, and got no pocket money from my parents. So buying even one game was a big deal and required weeks of saving. Games should really have been priced more inline with movies and CDs, I'm sure they sold similar volumes back then.

 

[slk486]

The only game I remember actually buying myself, was Defender of the Crown... on C64
Not knowing any better, I'd rather spend £35 on 50 floppies containing my latest pickings.

I did by BlitzBasic 2, though.

 

[BrooksterMax]

I had more floppy disks with hand written labels and plenty of magazine cover disks from CU Amiga, Amiga Format and Amiga Power.

However I did buy a few games.

Hunter (as per my avatar)
SWOS
Beneath a Steel Sky

were some of the highlights.

 

[roy_bates]

back then i was picking up amiga games new for about £8 - £25

and c64 games for about £2 - £12

back then having the original was better for me,not having bits missing from the game etc.
i actually like the copy protection on a lot of games.
some games had story books to get the feeling of the game before playing like role playing characters that you could actually do some of the storys in the game itself! i thought that was awesome to actually be able to do some of the things mentioned.
or massive posters!
im one of those that liked the artwork on the big boxes,some was really nice.


i only ever had the copys to have a rough idea what the game was like before i buy,like demos on cover disks...although alot of the time time the demos changed from the released version so the pirated copys were a bit better to see what the game was like.

so..as soon as ive seen the demo or "copy" i would pop out to get the official version to drool over,lol.
if it was to my liking,and of course get some others if i had change,lol

 

[Firthy2002]

First time around we had mostly original games. And a fair stack of coverdisks.
Some highlights:
Lemmings
Captain Planet
Bart vs the Space Mutants
Civilization
Colonization
Dune II
F-15 Strike Eagle II
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Knights of the Sky
Lemmings 2
Monkey Island 2
Sim City
Sim City 2000
Populous 2 + Challenge Games
HistoryLine 1914-1918
Yo! Joe!
Prince of Persia
UFO: Enemy Unknown
Jimmy Whites Whirlwind Snooker
SWOS

And loads more I can't remember.
Of course we "acquired" some pirated games, but then everybody did back then.

 

[DojoDan]

The Amiga days were the most exciting times for me as a child. I didn't really know my parents were planning on buying one but they thought we should have a computer so we wouldn't get left behind at school. They bought an A500+ Cartoon Classics pack and the excitement and amazement while we hooked it up was fantastic. We played Lemmings as a whole family till 2am, I remember it vividly. We were very lucky to afford one. Most of the games i had (and still do) were birthday and Christmas presents. I use to use pocket money for the small flat box budget releases, were they 7.99 or something like that? I also use to buy Amiga Format, I just loved the way there were Christmassy versions of games on the cover disks come Christmas. Was there Christmas Lemmings? Anyway, ones I can remember:

Titus the Fox
DojoDan
Captain Planet
T2 Judgement Day - was so excited to get this but damn was it hard
Voodoo Nightmare
The Running Man
Worms
Project X
St Dragon
Cannon Fodder
Syndicate
Cliffhanger
Jag XJ220 - loved it
Lotus games

And a few more! Can someone name some Christmas games or demos, I'd love to be reminded of a few.

 

[NinjaRabbit]

Really sorry, guys, I can't respond usefully here because I never owned an Amiga back in the day. I'm only here because DojoDan mentioned the topic of seasonal games.

Was there Christmas Lemmings?

No less than four different ones, for the Amiga, technically. Two promotional demos, Christmas Lemmings '91 and Christmas Lemmings '92*, and two retail releases, Christmas Lemmings '93 and Christmas Lemmings '94, the latter of which contained all of the '93 release's levels as a bonus.

There was also a spiritual successor in the form of a Lemmings 3D demo for MS-DOS, titled Lemmings 3D Winterland, which contained a set of exclusive wintery levels not included in the retail game. No Santa outfits, though.

And a few more! Can someone name some Christmas games or demos, I'd love to be reminded of a few.

I can. I made a post about this very subject on Lemon Amiga recently, in fact. So as to avoid taking this off-topic any further, I'm going to bring the same idea over here, as I had meant to do so anyway. Eyes on General Chat - it'll be there shortly.

 

[DojoDan]

Fantastic, your info is always interesting! Shame it's so late I really want to try those out now. Sorry for the thread hijack.

 

[Nobby_UK]

I made a Spreadsheet (as I do for DVD/HD-DVD + Bluray now) of Games :
A - Train
Alien³
Alien Breed 3D
Alien Breed 3D2
Another World
Apache
Arabian Nights
Assassin
Beneath A Steel Sky
Benefactor
Body Blows
Body Blows Galactic
Breathless
Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder 2
Captive
Chaos Engine
Chess Player 2150
Civilization
Clue !
Corporation
Cruise For A Corpse
Curse Of Enchantia
Dawn Patrol
Dennis
Drivin' Force
Dune
Dune 2
Elvira: The Arcade Game
Epic
F-15 Strike Eagle 2
Fears
Future Wars
Globdule
Hook
Humans
Immortal - The
Indiana Jones - Fate of Atlantis
Indiana Jones - Last Crusade
Innocent Until Caught
James Pond 1: Underwater Agent
James Pond 3: Operation Starfish
Jungle Strike
Jurassic Park
K G B
Kings Quest 5
Kings Quest 6
Knights Of The Sky
Legend Of Kyrandia
Legends
Lemmings
Lemmings 2 - The Tribes
Liberation
Loom
Lure Of The Temptress
Maniac Mansion
Mega-Lo-Mania
Monkey Island 2
Mortal Kombat 2
Myth
Nippon Safes
Nitro
Operation Stealth
Oscar
Pinkie
Pipe Mania
Populous II : Trials of the Olympian Gods
Power Monger
Rick Dangerous
Road Rash
Roadkill
Rock`N'Roll
Rome AD 92
Sabre Team
Settlers
Sim City Deluxe
Simon The Sorcerer
Sixth Sense Investigations
Sleep Walker
Space Crusade
Space Hulk
Space Quest 4
Speris Legacy
Street Fighter 2
Super Frog
Syndicate + Data Disk
Team Yankee
Theme Park
Trivial Pursuit
U F O - Enemy Unknown
Utopia
Valhalla
Viro-Cop
Walker
Worms
Zak McKracken

Alien Breed 3D CD
Battle Chess CD
Big Red Adventure CD
Bubba `n' Stix CD
Castles II - CD
D-Generation CD
Deep Core CD
Dizzy - The Big 6 CD
Diggers & Oscar CD
Fury of the Furries CD
Grandslam Collection CD
Heimdall 2 CD
Liberation CD
Litil Divil CD
Myst CD
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy CD
Oh Yes More Worms CD
OverKill & Lunar`C CD
Quake CD
Rise Of The Robots CD
Sixth Sense Investigations CD
Speed Ball 2 CD
Ultimate Body Blows CD
Whales Voyage CD
Zool 2 - CD

 

[Monkeh]

And a few more! Can someone name some Christmas games or demos, I'd love to be reminded of a few.

Pretty sure I had a Christmas Cannon Fodder demo from Amiga Format.