/vr/ - Retro Games

The reason any of us are here, instead of /v/ talking about The Last of Us or something, is because we care about old games despite their primitive graphics and low production values. We all, at least a little, chose substance over style.

And here's the Amiga, the epitome of style over substance. Its developers started out making low-budget C64 tape games controlled by a single button; with the Amiga, they graduated to low-budget disk games controlled by a single button. They did not have a background in console games (like the Americans) or arcade games (like the Japanese). They played (and copied) Great Giana Sisters instead of Super Mario Bros, or worse. But man, its games looked pretty! Crap developers or not, the Amiga 1000 was the best audio-visual experience 1985 could buy. The likes of Defender of the Crown and Shadow of the Beast were mind-blowing then, even thought their gameplay was complete shite.

The Amiga was plundered by its own developers, and its best games were all ported to every system in the 90s; anything left is just not worth playing. Look at Lemon Amiga's top 100. You cannot seriously tell us that Superfrog (#50) and IK+ (#66) are the pinnacles of their respective genres.

And if pretty graphics and lots of arpeggios is enough for you, then that's okay. Play whatever you want. But don't expect anyone on /vr/ to see things your way, and don't try to tell us that Ruff & Tumble would have been a hit on the SNES.