Hello, I'd like to get a list together of some more 'off the beaten track' Amiga releases. Games that are great but didn't quite get absorbed by the mainstream. This is potentially for an article for over here RacketBoy Hidden Gems depending on how the list comes out. So which games do you think should be on the list?

Post them here and I'll add them to the list :rtfm:


To get things started I'd say Base Jumpers is pretty fun for a platform mash-up and didn't seem to be picked up my the magazines at the time.

Me and friends had a lot of fun with PD games.

Droidwars5(and its prequels) was a hit in my cycle,
how every battle was different and thrilling
because you never knew what would happen.

My brother says it is atleast 90 percent luck
but I like to think that the droids
I choose to beam into the arena at the right time
is a good strategy, but its really hard to determine
what can or will make a good strategy in this game.
one of my younger friends always beamed in crappy droids
because they were cheap,
while I beamed in sophisticated killer droids.
Often his strategy just collapsed
coz my droids blew them away, but sometimes he would get lucky and all my droids would get erased.
REALLY exciting.

I agree that Nuclear War was under-rated.  Another good game that didn't get it's share of the spotlight was Batman the Movie game from Ocean.  That was the best movie conversion game ever

Captain Blood. Fly around space meeting aliens and learning to communicate with them, blowing up planets.

Turrican 2

oh, ehm, wait....

Terse wrote:
Nuclear War never got the credit it deserved.

Ahh yes! Happy memories of nuking neighbouring continents *contented smile*

Nuclear War never got the credit it deserved.

Of course.... Nuclear War is a classic.  But it got more attention than a host of other brilliant half-strategy half-humor games also of that timeframe.  

"North and South" was always a humorous play.  A fairly typical "move the troops and fight the battle" type game, but it had some interesting twists with the Indians running around and certain squares that collected various bonuses.  (Troops, Gold, etc)  Also, the other minigames always kept things lively.  (Train-robbing and whatnot)

No one EVER remembers "Conflict!"  Possibly for good reason.  It WAS rather dry on the surface, but digging into it a bit revealed the tight balancing act you have to walk as Israel to keep from pissing off the US too much while still getting your way with your Middle-Eastern neighbors.  The headlines in the newspapers it displays each month always worth a chuckle, as well.

"Big Business" is another one that never gets remembered.  Probably because it rarely completes a full game without spiraling deep into insanity.  But to me, that's the charm of it.  You end up with players borrowing billions of dollars from their parents, and prices going wonky in the M.U.L.E. style auctions each turn.  Heck, you can blow through MaxInt and end up in unexpected negatives!  But still, I can't remember a time I've sat down with a few friends and played a round when we didn't finish with our sides hurting from laughing so hard.

4ppleseed wrote:
To get things started I'd say Base Jumpers is pretty fun for a platform mash-up and didn't seem to be picked up my the magazines at the time.

Never played it, but I remember reading a review of it in one of the Amiga magazines I bought. Thought it was a great concept for a game, came up with a similar game concept of my own (but that's AWOL in the Internet somewhere).

4ppleseed wrote:
Wizkid

That was going to be my suggestion, so much fun and pretty original, while being unappreciated outside the Amiga world.