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Amiga Games Coming to iOS 7 Later This Year, Will Include Controller Support
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Beneath A Steel Sky is already available for ios:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/beneath-steel-sky-remastered/id331733638?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/beneath-steel-sky-remastered/id331733638?mt=8
And the award goes to....
I had an Amiga 500. A friend had an Atari ST and another had a Mac. You only get one guess which one was the best computer in its day.
I had an Amiga 500. A friend had an Atari ST and another had a Mac. You only get one guess which one was the best computer in its day.
The Amiga. It pretty much beat the everliving hell out of every other computer in its day.
...and I say this as an old Atari ST owner.
If only I could play on my iPad:
Rocket Ranger
Fairy Tale Adventure
Indiana Jones and the Fate of the Atlantis
The Pawn
Frontier: Elite II
Sierra on Line games (Besides Leisure Suit larry)
Captain Blood
I can dream, can´t I?
Rocket Ranger
Fairy Tale Adventure
Indiana Jones and the Fate of the Atlantis
The Pawn
Frontier: Elite II
Sierra on Line games (Besides Leisure Suit larry)
Captain Blood
I can dream, can´t I?
It Came From The Desert
International Karate and IK+
Cannon Fodder
Mega Lo Mania
Populous/Powermonger/Populous II
Supercars/Supercars 2
Speedball/Speedball 2
Sensible Soccer
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Nuclear War
Ultima 4
All of LucasArts
Ahhhh.... such fond memories.
International Karate and IK+
Cannon Fodder
Mega Lo Mania
Populous/Powermonger/Populous II
Supercars/Supercars 2
Speedball/Speedball 2
Sensible Soccer
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Nuclear War
Ultima 4
All of LucasArts
Ahhhh.... such fond memories.
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Any Geoff Crammond games! I spent hours playing his Grand Prix Games! Great physics.
This can (and most other LucasArts adventures can be played on pretty much every OS known to man but needs a Jailbreak to run on iOS
http://scummvm.org/downloads/
The Kings Quest/Space Quest/POlice Quest games can be played using Sarien:
http://sarien.net/
HTML5 versions for iPad: http://ipad.sarien.net/
Just to pile on...
I don't think this company, bearing the Amiga name but not being the Commodore of old, will have any of the great IP we remember from our childhoods. I would love to be wrong.
I'm glad Lemmings is getting a lot of love. I believe the original PSP Lemmings was a direct remake of the Amiga original, albeit with updated visuals, audio and a few modern comforts. I enjoyed it at the time, but that was years ago.
It's a shame the folks who own the IP aren't all over iOS. There are so many franchises that would work great on the iPad, and I'd pay good money for them. A true Syndicate title instead of the FPS EA recently released is high on my list.
I don't think this company, bearing the Amiga name but not being the Commodore of old, will have any of the great IP we remember from our childhoods. I would love to be wrong.
I'm glad Lemmings is getting a lot of love. I believe the original PSP Lemmings was a direct remake of the Amiga original, albeit with updated visuals, audio and a few modern comforts. I enjoyed it at the time, but that was years ago.
It's a shame the folks who own the IP aren't all over iOS. There are so many franchises that would work great on the iPad, and I'd pay good money for them. A true Syndicate title instead of the FPS EA recently released is high on my list.
Another game that the iPad would be perfect for is Marble Madness. It is almost criminal that this hasn't been ported.
(There is a 'Marble Madness' in the iTunes store, but it is nothing at all like the original game)
Unlikely they will publish many of the very good games. Most IPs are still owned by their respective owners or those who swallowed the companies.
Lemmings/Shadow of the Beast: Psygnosis, recently trademarked by Sony who own Psygnosis. Also, they announced a Shadow of the Beast remake exclusively for PS4.
Turrican is still owned by Factor 5, AFAIK.
Well, ain't nothing better than having the real hardware in the collection
Yup - "Amiga" was the brand-name used by Commodore computers for their high-end computer line. Commodore didn't do a lot of first-party publishing, most of the good games for the Commodore and Amiga computer lines were by third parties.
As noted here, many of those are still around. If we go by one source's list of "Top 100 (Amiga) Games of All Time", many of them are by companies that are still around.
Of course, the new owners of the Amiga name (I think this is the sixth company to hold the trademark "Amiga",) could sign licensing deals with the original publishers to bring the old Amiga-era works to market in an emulator. (As some other 'vintage' gaming companies have done.)
Here you go.
It's Syndicate in everything but name only. Made by the same guy and everything.
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This.
I'm surprised we haven't seen many more roly physics games like Marble Madness on the iPad. I was thinking the other day how Mercury would be another good game to play with a touchscreen. We do get a good bit of games like Puddle, but...they're not quite the same.
Also, I want to see a port of Qbert. We've got just about every single oldschool arcade game accounted for on the iPad, except for it.
Same. I got my Atari ST back in 1987 I think. They were £299 back then from memory. The Amiga 500 was £100 more expensive. (It might have been £399 and £499 I can't remember which)
All of us ST owners kept trying to convince ourselves it was better than the Amiga - we all knew deep down the Amiga was better than anything else on the market.
I can't believe you diehards haven't mentioned probably the most groundbreaking Amiga game of all time: Out of this World / Another world. Luckily it's already been remade for iOS!
Blows my mind that the game was programmed and ran on a Amiga 500.
Blows my mind that the game was programmed and ran on a Amiga 500.