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What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
phinix:
--- Quote from: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 30 March 2023, 17:53:22 ---
--- Quote from: phinix on Thu, 30 March 2023, 17:35:32 ---I never had Amiga. My first computer was Commodore 128, then after 2 years PC, 386SX. For those 2 years I wanted to buy Amiga 500, I even already collected over 50 games on floppy discs :) Then my dad said that if i want PC we can buy it, so it blew my mind and got PC.
I want to buy Amiga mini to play all those famous games, which some I played on PC.
Fury of the Furries, Super Frog, Pushover, Cannon Fodder, Chaos Engine, Another World, Lemmings, Flashback, Cadaver, Gods, Monkey Island, Zak McKracken, Indiana Jones...
To name a few :)
MiSTer sounds good, but just looked and its over £200. To expensive. Recently I spend more on camera lens, so £90 for Amiga Mini is max I would go :thumb:
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Oh wow! So kind of reliving a childhood/past that never was. :D That's really fun. Pretty similar to how I enjoy so many retro games now that I missed out on when I was younger - only difference is you actually bought the games!
Thank you for the list of classics! I know I can always google similar lists, but it's fun to get peoples' perspectives on what they would play, etc.
From your list, I've only played two - Lemmings (who hasn't played some version of lemmings) and Monkey Island (really only started a game, I need to finish that...). And holy crap, the Amiga version of Monkey Island compared to PC... the audio on the Amiga is SO GOOD! Where on the PC you needed the Roland MIDI add-on, or whatever the actual implementation was, the Amiga by default was just great. :O
I think you'll really enjoy the Amiga Mini ;)
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"bought"... hmm... how should I explain it :)
You see, back in 80s in Poland there was no actual way to buy original game. They were all pirate copies. Nobody had an original game, we had communism, only way to buy original game was to trip abroad, like to Berlin. So when I said I gathered those games - I meant I got copies from my friends who actually had Amiga (also pirate copies, as nobody had originals). I even remember that I had all those floppy discs in a plastic container after some fruits, like this one below, it had perfect width for 3.5" floppies :)
HoffmanMyster:
--- Quote from: phinix on Sat, 01 April 2023, 17:54:34 ---"bought"... hmm... how should I explain it :)
You see, back in 80s in Poland there was no actual way to buy original game. They were all pirate copies. Nobody had an original game, we had communism, only way to buy original game was to trip abroad, like to Berlin. So when I said I gathered those games - I meant I got copies from my friends who actually had Amiga (also pirate copies, as nobody had originals). I even remember that I had all those floppy discs in a plastic container after some fruits, like this one below, it had perfect width for 3.5" floppies :)
Show Image
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Haha, clearly I have forgotten about the prevalence of piracy during that time, and especially in that region. :)) So, much less of a loss than I initially thought, but still it must have taken effort and time to collect all of those! ;)
phinix:
--- Quote from: HoffmanMyster on Sat, 01 April 2023, 18:02:48 ---
--- Quote from: phinix on Sat, 01 April 2023, 17:54:34 ---"bought"... hmm... how should I explain it :)
You see, back in 80s in Poland there was no actual way to buy original game. They were all pirate copies. Nobody had an original game, we had communism, only way to buy original game was to trip abroad, like to Berlin. So when I said I gathered those games - I meant I got copies from my friends who actually had Amiga (also pirate copies, as nobody had originals). I even remember that I had all those floppy discs in a plastic container after some fruits, like this one below, it had perfect width for 3.5" floppies :)
Show Image
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Haha, clearly I have forgotten about the prevalence of piracy during that time, and especially in that region. :)) So, much less of a loss than I initially thought, but still it must have taken effort and time to collect all of those! ;)
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Ooh, of course! Imagine 10 year old boy, dreaming of his computer and all the games he saw at friends' houses, just waiting for that moment in the future when maybe he will have his own Amiga. I bought floppy discs, labelling them with titles of games I wanted to play. I was saving money to buy every single floppy, I remember even taking a trip to city center to buy just a few (back then you could buy floppies per piece, not whole boxes). Taking tramway 30 minutes to city center to buy 2 floppy discs, going back and thinking what games I will get on those :))
Funny times...
Findecanor:
When I was young, I wanted an Amiga for years. Not for the games but for CAD. My parents got me a C64, a disk drive and then an Atari STe, because they didn't understand.
I had to buy an Amiga for my own money once I could, which was quite late.
But the journey introduced me to games, and to programming, and I found what I wanted to do with my life.
--- Quote from: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 30 March 2023, 11:17:00 ---What are your favorite Amiga games? I've played around a little bit with the Amiga core on MiSTer and love the system but don't always know what to play. Any recommendations?
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Many old games I remember fondly seem quite primitive by today's standards: not just in graphics and sound but also in the gameplay department.
I played a lot of Worms and Roketz against friends. The latter was late in Amiga's heyday and shareware, each copy registered to a paying customer, so it might be hard to find.
iri:
--- Quote from: phinix on Sat, 01 April 2023, 17:46:15 ---
--- Quote from: iri on Sat, 01 April 2023, 03:49:15 ---
--- Quote from: phinix on Thu, 30 March 2023, 17:35:32 ---My first computer was Commodore 128
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Wow, someone is posh. My first computer was a Sinclair Spectrum 48k :'(
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Nah, you know our situation back in 80s. I was 8 years old and had to take a trip to Berlin with my father to buy Commodore, cause there was no way to buy it in Poland.
I remember those 24 hours trips - get to Berlin in a bus full of people going there to buy stuff, have 4 hours for shopping in city center and back to the bus. People were buying everything, from VHS, computers, satellite dishes to chocolate, orange juices, toys etc. Then sit on those boxes while getting through the borders, make sure customs officers won't notice anything :thumb:
Beauty of communism era ;D
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Wow, someone is posh. You could get to a capitalist country without an exit visa!
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