/vr/ - Retro Games

That's not the "amiga aesthetic", that's Flink.
Pic related is how most Amiga games look like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9UTnUcyED0&ab_channel=niente3

Games for this feel?

>>9723549
Because youtube told you one game was "the 1990s Amiga aesthetic look"?

>>9723557
That or pic related. To be fair, one of the best speccy to 'miger ports ever made.

Brits and Japs both had extremely talented digital artists, and the 90s is (IMHO) when visual art design in games peaked. America on the other hand was very code-centric and it showed. Then the world went 3D and everything became polyjank for 10-15 years. We're only now beginning to truly recover from that dark age.

Amiga had some beautiful games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9UTnUcyED0

>>9723549
Style over substance, the pure definition of Eurojank.

>>9723964
European developers (especially Germans and Russians) made the most autistic and complex games though. Japanese games were actually the most style over substance overall.

>>9723969
The delusions of a bong

>>9723557
Aniga

>>9723549
>soulful
You could tell me this was all the same game and I'd believe it.

>>9724026
It literally is you fucking moron.

>>9723549
That's not the "amiga aesthetic" dummy, this is.

>>9724026
It's the same game blind anon.

Fuck the gay rainbow backgrounds.

Why the Amiga devs were so OBSESSED with toys? It seems that almost every single Amiga mascot platformer has a toy level, while others are completely based around toys.

It's like American devs in the 90's with their "Hollywoodland" platformers or bad fighting games reuniting "the deadliest warriors across the time".

>>9724026

>>9723549
Why is the lightest color in this game basically a dull light gray? Just by punching up the palette a little it would have looked way better.

this screams "Amiga"

>>9723969
Don't forget the French.

>>9724541
Misinterpretation of Japanese mascot platformers, I assume. I imagine someone trying to make Mario, but not understanding any of it's appeal beyond "bright colourful shit kids like".

>>9723969
>Russians
The Amiga was basically dead when the iron curtain fell. Russians never did anything on the Amiga.

>>9724541
damn, Sooty & Sweet looks like something out of a creepypasta

>>9724746
it's because Amiga games were played on bright af CRT screens that punched the palette up on their own. it's the reverse of the thing with early GBA games where they're all very brightly colored because devs had to work around a screen with no backlighting

>>9725971
Amiga sold like crazy in ex-commie countries, anon. only the hardware though, all the soft was pirated

That's just british developers. They were only second place to the japanese when it came to making games in the 80s. Too bad they didn't have the same touch when balancing the gameplay.

>>9723557
The rainbow backgrounds/pallete effects are still awesome.

>>9727197
>it's the reverse of the thing with early GBA games where they're all very brightly colored because devs had to work around a screen with no backlighting

Colours on GBA are my biggest complain. It's all so washed out.

>>9727609
>Colours on GBA are my biggest complain
dude just turn down the brightness or use a filter

>>9724541
Bro, Toy levels are fucking great.

>>9727306
British have always been behind usa don't kid yourself

>>9728564
Not on Amiga platformers. Toy levels are cool in 3D games where you can explore the place.

Amig games are just lame and feel out of touch.

>>9723549
>>9723557

What game has this aesthetic at the peak?

>pic related

>>9727306
>>9723549
The graphics for both of these games were made by Henk Nieborg, who is one of the best pixel artists of all time.

>>9727306
Didn't realize there was a Lemmings platformer.

high contrast, very rich colors were allowed to flourish. eye strain be damned. though it wasn't at all an amiga exclusive thing. contrary to the thread 3d didn't kill it with the likes of dkc3, mario 64 and many others

>>9724746
The picture in the OP is from the Sega CD version of the game, which had a duller palette for whatever hardware reason.

No wonder britfags resent Nintendo if they grew up with the garbage ITT

>>9728573
This
Bongs totally didn't do anything before or after making those colonies

>>9729806
Nothing is good in amiga platformers. The toy level has nothing to do with it

>>9729812
ST2 was a pretty bad attempt at consolizing the Amiga experience, you can tell they wanted to make a Contra killer but they just didn't have the chops. Anyway, Lionheart nailed the aesthetic. Best looking Amiga game along with Agony and Shadow of the Beast.