Best Amiga Games Ever: Amiga Power All-Time Top 300
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- Do you want to know what the best games on the Commodore Amiga are? Well, it's entirely subjective, but one popular source was Amiga Power, a UK-based magazine. They compiled the Amiga Power All-Time Top 100 in 1991, then decided to do it again, every year until the magazine's end in 1996. There are 292 unique games that were chosen, and I've used a simple algorithm to rank them and present them here, along with eight Honourable Mentions to bring the total to 300.
To find out more about the algorithm I used and other details, head over to my Amiga Power All-Time Top 300 blog:
amigapowertop300.blogspot.com...
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Wavosaur & AudioMass (audio editing)
Virtualdubmod (lossless video encoding)
WinUAE (emulation) - Hry
Hello everyone! I just thought I'd write a single comment, a year after uploading, to address some of the things you've all been mentioning in your comments.
- I only chose the eight Honourable Mentions! I didn't choose any other games! I disagree with quite a few titles, but the video clearly has Amiga Power in the thumbnail and title, so don't shoot the messenger.
- The algorithm I chose was very simple but did a reasonable job of ranking the games ACCORDING TO AMIGA POWER'S WISHES. If a game you don't like is high and one you do like is low, it's not my fault. For example, Frontier: Elite 2 was included at the bottom of ONE of the six lists, so naturally it's extremely low in my list. Nothing I can do about that.
- Don't take the ranking so seriously: it's just a rough way of putting the 292 games from Amiga Power's lists in some kind of order.
I'm glad you all enjoyed watching all these great Amiga games - even if you didn't agree with their place in my silly list! Happy new year! 😃
How can you have a best Amiga games list without Moonstone, that's blasphemous!!!
Because Amiga Power were as much idiots as the reviewers at Amiga Format that gave Deluxe Scrabble 25% more than Shadow of the Beast 1 in the same issue despite it costing only 7 bucks less and it was a game for LOSERS! ;) Few people had the IQ and technical knowledge to review Amiga 1000/500 etc games properly.
@@madcommodore lol
Moonstone fing rocks. We know this to be true!
@@madcommodore this is true
@@garyhay6771 I remember their review of Fears I think it was and all they could moan about was "it isn't Doom so it's crap" but actually Fears had much more creepy ambient background sounds on the level of Blair Witch creepiness. I had already stopped trusting reviews when in 1989 Amiga Format gave £27.99 Deluxe Scrabble 87% but only gave Shadow of the Beast 65% or something. I bought an Amiga to play arcade quality games not scrabble! lol I had a 520ST for that :)
Most obvious to me missing was MOONSTONE.
Unbelievable that it wasn't on the list, probably one of the best Amiga games I've played.
Maxis' Robosport, DataStorm and also Z-Out, the latter worth it just for Chris Hülsbeck's incredible soundtrack alone also strangely absent.
Eye of the Beholder 1 & 2 would also have fit right in.
I too was going to mention Moonstone, honestly my favourite Amiga game of all time
My favorite Amiga game too. The reviews at the time weren't too good though. But I played it a lot and it still stands strong today.
I have a huge problem with this list. I’m wondering, if the author is trolling us, to generate controversy. In separate comment I’ll put my missing games, but I just wanted to tell You, that You’re completely right. Moonstone is easy a top 10 Amiga game for me, but a 300 titles list without it is wrong. Simple as that.
I'm pretty sure there was some rule barring certain games for one reason or another.
I was just as surprised to see that xcom / ufo: enemy unknown wasn't here, and I'm sure there are many others.
You're right about z-out (and huelsbeck) too!
I completed Moonstone 3-4 times to prove it wasn't as hard as people said.
The ranking of Frontier shows that the algorithm must be severely broken.
Pong was higher somehow
I couldn't believe it at 285. Should easily be in the top 10.
Beaten by Bills Tomato Game
It Came From the Desert / II Ant Heads and Moonstone are criminally missing from this list.
And Unreal and Wrath Of The Demon
So Amiga Power decided to put 4 Defender games on this list, but no Datastorm…
They also put both Kick Off and Kick Off 2 on the list, but no Goal…
They also put a number of manager games, but not one of the absolute best - Championship Manager…
The fact that you had to put on Turrican 2 and Superfrog as honourable mentions is… well, typical Amiga Power.
Some games that I think are missing apart from the above mentioned - ATR, Space Hulk, Floor 13, Dreamweb, F-117a Stealth Fighter and more.
Oh Well…
Dyna Blaster was brilliant in that not only could you play 5 player, but the game literally INCLUDED the 5 player adapter in the box!! We played the hell out of it 🖤
Was very surprised Marble Madness didn't make their cut. So many hours spent on that. And Battle Chess is def one of my best remembered. (And TY for posting this list - so many I'd never heard of even!)
also Impossible Mission 2025..
I watched the entire video and thoroughly enjoyed every second of it. Thank you so much for taking the time to put together something truly wonderful.
I watched the entire video, it was a good look at 300 games. In this list, some games that I personally consider as milestones are missing, even if I'm not sure how AMIGA Power classified them: Mean Arenas, Turrican III, Arabian Nights, Woody's World, Simon The Sorcerer, Hybris, Brian The Lion, Lost Vikings, Battle Chess
I'm surprised Wings ranked so low I thought it was a great game back then I spent many a hour playing and enjoying it.
Same
One of my faves was Nuclear War .... a zany game by the folks that did the card game "Nuclear Escalation" ;-)
Don't forget to check out the blog which goes into far more detail about every single game in this list:
amigapowertop300.blogspot.com/
I totally agree with your list… i cant tell how much these games were so important in my teenage years
22- The secret of Monkey Island.
I Feel insulted.
Mega Lo Mania is one of the most underrated games of all time. I am so glad Speedball2 was number one, would have been a travesty if it didnt place top 5 with Cannon Fodder and The Chaos Engine. A lot of fantastic titles that brought back the feels... but so many Amiga original titles that were freaking awesome were sub 100 which is a real shame. Project X by Team17 was an incredible shooter, as was X-Out and Z-out. Rainbow Arts and Factor 5made a large number of awesome games. Remember Great Giana Sisters and Katakis, obvious clones but as good if not better than the originals. Also did not see the Psygnosis mentioned much, like Agony and Beast 2, Atomino also highly underrated.
Amiga could do some amazing things when put to task.
Mega Lo Mania is one of my all time favorite games... So sad so many people will never get a chance to play it..
Yeah I liked Meglomania. I liked going through the different tech ages from cavemen to flying saucers. I think this would make a good multiplayer game with some very tense gaming.
Mega Lo Mania was one of the Amiga games I know I completed, Dune II (which whould have been a top 3 for me) Civilization, Laser Squad/UFO and Hired Guns were amongst my favourites.
Very very good video. I like that you put the rating system at the beginning and that you put the points and the game names always up. And: Thank you for using the 4:3-Format. Because that's what it was like!
Great list and thank you for all the time and effort in putting this together. I loved my Amiga, but I didn't have too much money for games, so a lot of my favourites are coverdisk games and PD ones, so I didn't expect them to make the list. My all time favourite is Scorched Tanks, can't tell you how much time me, my brother and my friends spent playing that one. Also, surprised that Battle Chess didn't make the cut either - it holds a special place in my heart as it was my first Amiga game :)
Certainly worth mentioning that the intro and the end music is "Space Debris" module composed by Captain aka Markus Kaarlonen / Poets of the Fall.
Good point, I forgot to include it in the description. It's one of the most famous MODs out there, so I figured it would be a good choice, but I'll mention it in the description. Thanks!
40 Hunter, I loved this game, on my A600 it had a bug where I could only walk in diagonals to the right and no diagonals to the left. Still loved it, so many cool things to find. The sun bather or the shark.
It’s got to be The Secret Of Monkey Island for me. Memories of that game are as good as anything since. Happy to see Speedball II at the top spot. That game was addictive and drove every competitive instinct. The Amiga was a ground-breaking platform. Amiga Power added another dimension to it.
Even though the order of games felt totally random it was nice to be reminded of how many great games there actually were for the Amiga.
Awesome vid, thanks for doing this. It must've been a huge effort!
Thanks! I was working on it slowly throughout the year, as I wrote the blog.
Just to name a few memorable mentions of my own:
Benefactor
Space Taxi
Magic Pockets
Cosmic Spacehead
Lethal Weapon
Moonstone
Super Methane Bros
Quak
Test drive
Alfred Chicken
Robin Hood
ATR
All Dizzy titles
Elf Mania
Rise of the Robots
Great Giana Sisters
Midnight Resistance
It came from the Desert
I spent a lot of time on Space Taxi. Not sure if some of you would remember it. Very addictive.
Midnight Resistance. One of my all time Amiga favorites.
Yes this was great. Played it alot with my brother.
Pretty solid, yet random-order list. Moonstone and UFO: Enemy Unknown, that are the most obvious ones missing (and appearing in most other top100), plus those being Honorable Mentions = CRAZY :D
Great video! Thanks for putting it all together.
There are so many games that I only remembered by seeing them again in this video... How many hours did I spend in front of my Amiga 1200❤ ... A big thank you for this video...
Great video, but where the heck was It Came From The Desert? One of my all time favourite Amiga games.
Great job putting it together!
Great video! Love Amiga games, still play them!
Amiga: the best computer all time!!!
GODS... at number 208?? What madness is this?!! Easily number 1! :)
So I just saw this video and instantly subscribed. So so happy.
Amiga power were smoking crack with some of these
Damn straight
Probably with a mix of LSD and some tabasco.
Hugely enjoyable, thank you 👍
Great games, great video. Some games I never played, didn't even known about them.
Typhoon Thompson is one hidden gem.
Yeah, noone seems to ever talk about it, though it was so well done in every aspect.
I miss Giana sisters, Ports of call, and Hostages. Beside from that, a very good presentation. Thank you!
My fave mag back in the day was The One - Amiga. I'd love to see a list like this based on that mag!
An honorable mention should've been The 3 Stooges.
That blew me away as a kid despite the lackluster gameplay
Worms Directors cut was my most played game (maybe equal with Alien Breed 3d and 3d2). My PC and console owning mates and brother had normal Worms but directors cut was what brought them to my house, and with custom voices for the worms each team picked their worms and voices. Ah the glory days. and maybe dune II. Maybe do a follow up of Shareware and Freeware or PD games? Galaga, Deluxe Galaga, Tanks.
It was hard enough doing 300 games from Amiga Power, I don't think I'll be doing any more for now. 😊
I sang the Xenon 2 Megabalast melody today, thanks for reminding me from where it was :)
great video thankyou, really enjoyed it :)
Out of all the games on the list my personal favourites were lemmings, mortal kombat, another world, desert strike, flashback, sensible soccer, micro machines, monkey island 2, f1 grand prix and rainbow islands. But my number 1 game that I played so many hours playing that isn't on the list is my beloved championship manager.
The movie as a list of 300 random Amiga games would be ok.
However, the order of these games is so strange that it's hard to agree with such a choice.
Tetris Pro higher than Slam Tilt? My god who made this order?
Great list of Amiga games and I've played most of them on the list to varying degrees. I know this is Amiga Powers rating but man I disagree with the placing of a lot of the games. Elite, Wings, Defender of the Crown, Rick Dangerous, SWOS and Populous are to name a few way out of where they should be. They are easily top 30. And no Eye of the Beholder 1 & 2 🤔
Eye of the Beholder is 167
Super video qui m'a été très utile pour alimenter mon A500 mini. Merci.
Hero Quest was awesome, I still play it sometimes, back in 1992 or so I bought it. I had to go downtown to the bank and buy a money order in British sterling (pounds) and mail it to a store in England. I live in the US so it was a bit of a chore. I knew of the game from my Amiga Power, or maybe Amiga Action or some other mag. I have the board game so of course I had to have the computer version, it was so fun.
Captive down at 216? Madness, pure and simple.
This is a decent wee retrospective and does give an insight into the workings of Amiga Towers. I don't agree with their ratings much at all but these guys (and they were guys) lived and breathed Amiga games so good for them.
Very nice Video and games 👍🏻 Amiga forever
Top for me were The Settlers and Pinball Dreams/Illusions/Fantasies trio. Turrican II deserved a place on the list for the soundtrack alone!!! Yeah, I spent most of my time writing music with Protracker so I am biased :D Still have my A1200 sitting in a cupboard but sadly not my old original A500.
Great list but still sooo many great games missing
thx for da upload ... your Nr.1 would also be my Nr. 1, that's just an awesome and original game for the Amiga500.
Imagine coming across an Amiga All Time Top 300 list and you haven't even heard of probably half of it while also half of the games you had and loved are just blatantly missing... (too lazy to list them all, others have mentioned most of them in the comments, probably)
That just proves there's been so many great games, what a time in gaming!
I have an old Commodore Amiga 500.It's 36 years old and works.I'm going to throw it away.
I will add that the Amiga 500 could be connected to another Amiga 500 via a self-made cable and played not only against the computer, but also against another player. This is how my son and I played.
I'd say there were a few games that I loved that didn't make your list but I guess thats the beauty of nostalgia and how things were back then. You would never have been exposed to all the games because unless you had deep pockets or friends that had a copy it was a case of just loving what you had.
Great list though, thank you for sharing. Are you going to get the A500 mini?
Were you around? Every one I knew had every Amiga game! :D With the C64 it was the same story.
Great video. I missed Emerald Mine, Eagle's nest
F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 with superb graphics on AGA. Wings of Fury was cool, Mr. Nutz Hopping Mad was fun (at least my sister loved it), GeeBee Air Rally. Nuclear War was a game in its own genre. Others to mention Wayne Gretzky Hockey 2, Indy Heat, Colorado and Weird Dreams. Ugh. So so so many memories of good games not making it to this already extensive top 300 list.
Wish I had one back in day. It was the ultimate hobby computer
I got Every-Single Amiga Power Magazine Boys and Germs...
Lemmings and Sensible Soccer and Flash-Back were up there In my Top-Ten Kidz...
I had some of the last "Big" Amiga games from ClickBoom, including their port of "Quake" and that RTS "Napalm"
Thanks for the video, great job! It kicked me back in time :)
If, i didn't miss it, here is a few that i played an nobody mentioned it. Some of them are crappy some really playable :)
• Crystal Hammer (1988)
• Fright Night (1988)
• Wayne Gretzky Hockey (1988)
• Budokan: The Martial Spirit (1989)
• The Persian Gulf Inferno (1989)
• The Running Man (1989)
• Nitro (1990)
• Ooops Up (1990)
• Total Recall (1990)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• Harald Hårdtand: Kampen om de Rene Tænder (1992)
• Red Baron (1992)
• Alcatraz (1992)
• Waxworks (1993)
Nitro! Forgot that even existed!
The missing greats were: Empire, Hostages, Marble Madness, The Fairy Tale, Giana Sisters, Ports of Call. Debate me ;)
Can see giana sisters
Was there something missing? Well...I do not know very much about the Amiga as I grew up in the US with consoles and PC's but I know the Amiga had Xcom. That game was flat out amazing on my 486DX2 back in 1994. It was one of the few games that pulled me away from Doom, Street Fighter 2 (GEN/SNES), and Samurai Shodown (ARC and AES rental). It is still one of the most intense games I have ever played and I have played thousands of games from all genres.
Awesome. I'm trying to remember but heres a few more that I like.
Wings of Fury, Barbarian the ultimate warrior, Ninja Warriors , Indy Heat,
TestDrive,WolfChild, After the War,
,Damage ,knights ,Agony ,
Moonstone , Mortal kombat 2,
Fire Force, Robocop2, Ruff and Tumble, Odyssey, Jim powers, Elvira ,Hostages, Flink-cd32. And game that I never got to play was Genetic species.
Looking forward to the Amiga500 mini that's coming out ,so I can add all these games 👍🏻
I think the only game you mentioned that made the list was Leander, I did think about adding Barbarian as an Honourable Mention, but I figured it's just as good on the C64 really, and isn't as iconic as some of the games I chose.
EDIT: ah, you edited your comment to remove Leander. ☺️
@@psyklaxia3675 @Psyklaxia yepp I editi it out before your reply 🤣
I think Moonstone is iconic also think Battlechess is iconic.
What do you think?
Amiga was my life back in the day. Amiga forever🤘🏻
@@psyklaxia3675 I think you're thoughts on Barbarian can also be applied to Buggy boy. 👍🏻 Both Great Games with better graphics on the Amiga. Really liked your video good jobb 😃
@@AmigaVR Agreed, just that Amiga Power chose Buggy Boy but not Barbarian. They chose a few games that are more well-known on the 8-bits - Head Over Heels, anyone?
I missed Lost Patrol in this List. One of my favourites after the Guybrush Threepwood -Thing
Still have my amiga 500 and games and still works
"Pink Panther" is very tough, but visually appealing; The "Battlechess" port is a little sluggish (still trying to configure some more juice for it); Where was "Marble Madness"? An original classic; "Colditz" is surely worth a mention; But "Larn" is another great classic; As is "Mindshadow", "KGB" & "The Clue"; You had "Balance of Power", but not "Risk"; "Hillsfar" has some appeal; I guess you had the important Sid Meir games present, but missed "Pirates"; Glad you inserted "North & South". A comprehensive list for an underated platform nevertheless - Great to see there's still some Amiga Life out there! Cheers, 🐏
nice list
Thanks brings back memories. Does any one remember a game called transplant? it was a shoot them up.
Nice 👍 I also recommend the video Echa Ekranu
I must have fell asleep in between some gameclips... Did anyone seen Pirates! in this list?
No, sir. It’s why I’ll be showing my dissatisfaction with this list in a separate comment.
Wild. I had over 200 games and never played more than half of the ones shown here
Pirates! was missing from the list... Played dozens of hours on that.
Thanks ..that was entertaining !
Would've loved to see "Denaris" a sort of "R-Type" by German developers.
Thank you algorithm. I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this.
Street Fighter II is missing; I remember at the time people being blown away with how close a port of the arcade it was given the constraints of the system. Also missing is Hybris, an amazing vertical scrolling shoot em up. Some others I played the crap out of: TV Sports Basketball, Eye of the Beholder, Bloodwych, Robocop, Operation Wolf, Sidewinder, RVF Honda. As for football sims; there was this super addictive one that had cards you flipped over, not sure if anyone remembers it - it was great.
Amiga port of SF2 is historically known as one of the worst ports of SF2.
@@Mr_Paw_revised No
Rise of the Robots was worse.
@@AmigaA-or2hj True, RotR was not a good game and mediocre port
Street Fighter 2 was terrible. I remember rushing to load it up when I first bought it to thinking wtf!
Well done and I have played games like Qwak, Wiz & Liz... on an Amiga 500+.
Do you know an Amiga (mini) game where you could create a band (I think it was bears) and get a chart placement 🍹
Cannon Fodder and Sensi Soccer were my top games on the Amiga. I was surprised how low down Fodder was 🤔
I have to agree with Another world being Number 1. What a game that was. It was way ahead of its time. And Cannon Fodder was just so brilliant to play
good old times and fantastic memory's Pinball, Elite, F1GP, Another World and so on
The good old days of gaming,,funit was
I still Miss Rock'n'Roll, transplant, Megaball aga, Goal, wonderboy in Monsterland, Sidewinder, and so on.. but hey, great Times back then..
Nice list that bring back a lot of fun memories :-)
I'm looking for a particular game, but I cannot remember the name. It was a platform game with little war robots that moving around in a grey backgound maze-like future city.
Any ideas?
Impossible mission, perhaps? If you fell to your death it had a very distinct sound effect, is that the game?
@@Turtlehands I've checked it out, and no. That's not it... Thanks
Great video! But was Great Giana Sisters included or did I blink on that one? I remember it being everyone's favorite Amiga game even if it was a Mario knock-off. Also of the games not on this video I loved Licence to Kill, Barbarian 2, Sword of Sodan (mostly because of the amazing graphics) and Bloodwych (first person dungeon game with 2 player split-screen).
Yup, Great Giana Sisters was a hit for sure.
o yes yes yes, thank you for reminding me of licence to kill, that is missing from a lot of compilations...
aaaand now i remembered the spy who loved me, what a game
Great Giana Sisters
Oil Imperium
Ports of Call
Interceptor
Stunt Car Racer
Lemmings
Worms
So many hours spent on those.
Just of the top of my head:
Both Elvira games
Battle Master
Dungeon Master
Lost Patrol
Moonstone
The Lost Vikings
Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark was awesome!!!
I can't wait for the A500 maxi. I didn't miss out on playing with the Amiga as a kid but I never owned one. It's easily the best computer and console from 1987-1995, blowing away sega, nintendo and DOS. Windows 95 made PC king, though.
Software makes the hardware. Without DOOM, Sam & Max and Day Of The Tentacle, the Amiga was doomed.
Chaos Engine....Cannon Fodder....Desert strike....Most definitely....Superfrog...& while not unique to the Amiga...The Sentinel. We all could go on. But where did our youth go??
Wish these lists would start at 1 then go from there.
Thank you for bringing me back to my childhood.
Plenty of french vidéo games, merci. It lacks a bit of Thalion and Psygnosis games to me, but great vidéo.
One of the first games I once had was Wizball, didn't see it on the list.
Wizball was one of my favourite games on the c64. Seemingly the c64 version of Wizball was better than Amiga version. Just got myself an Amiga mini and hopefully be able to play it soon.
I don't know if you're going to answer, but I wanted to know if you intend to finish the translation of super bomberman 5
How the hell is Emerald Mines not in this list??
It actually got rated as the best Amiga game ever once in a popular mag.
Major Motion is probably the BEST Spy Hunter clone ever!!!
Magic Pockets, Wrath of the Demon, Desert Strike, After Burner, Shadow of the Beast 2, Strider…. Nowhere to be seen?! What the hell is this list!
The best magazine was german Power Play! They actually did know what they were talking about!