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8461448 No.8461448 [Reply] [Original]

Ha ha, it's time for Brian The Lion.

>> No.8461450

i am not familiar with this particular scotformer

>> No.8461473

>>8461448
Amiga games love their gradients

>> No.8461478

Classic bit of Bri'.

>> No.8461532

Brilliant bit of Brizza

>> No.8461538

Oi me Amiger

>> No.8461556

What is it about these older euro platformers where they just don't look quite right? Something about the sense of momentum is off.

>> No.8461561
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8461561

Don’t know why the one called Robocod is the Christmas-themed James Pond, but that’s just how it is innit?

>> No.8461590
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8461590

>>8461561
>is a James Bond parody, a Robocop parody, a Christmas game, and a ad for penguin biscuits all in one
Can you?

>> No.8461681

>>8461561
classic euro background design

>> No.8461767

>>8461473
WE HAVE SO MANY COLOOOOURS!

>> No.8461778

>>8461448
These later Amiga games were actually quite an improvement as programmers understood the hardware better and were forced to compete with 16-bit consoles, it was no longer 1988 when making a ZX Spectrum game with more colours was good enough.

>> No.8461819

>>8461590
No wonder it has been ported to every console in existence.

>> No.8461858
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8461858

>>8461767
SNES games are even worst in this regard, as the hardware is only capable of a single background gradient, and it is often used to artificially inflate SNES colour counts, comparatively, the Amiga could freely cycle multiple palettes on a scanline basis.

>> No.8462210

>>8461448
This looks like a Saturday Morning Cartoon where the characters are playing video games.

>> No.8462229

>>8461448
So this is the power of 1994 Amiga
Shocking

>> No.8462247

>>8461448
If Amiga is so great, why does every game posted here look like shit?

>> No.8462253

>>8462229
You mean the power of 1985 hardware. That game was running on an almost 10 year old machine.

>> No.8462283

>>8462247
Most Amiga devs were more concerned with showing off their programming skills than actually making a fun game.

>> No.8462287

>>8462283
Or worse when the publisher dictated a low effort Atari ST copypaste game.

>> No.8462289

>>8462247
because they *are* shit

>> No.8462341

>>8461448
Ok, but can you can make cool music on snes and genesis, can you design sprite work to use in games, make cool demos. If you want you can even type documents and read text files. The amiga even has a couple of games that can do link up play.
By the way super skid marks, t2 the arcade game and robocop 3 are much more advanced that the console versions.
But yeah, brain the lion does have really ugly sprites, same with soccer kid.

>> No.8462361

>>8461858
snes looks better though sorry

>> No.8462371

>>8461858
will point out that the Amiga is far better at pixel art as the SNES's tile graphics are too blocky

>> No.8462537

Haha another game I never played on another system I never owned growing up, because it wasn't widely marketed in my geographical region - it must be shit for that reason!

>> No.8462637

>>8462537
Nah it’s just shit

>> No.8462643

>>8462637
fpbpbpb

>> No.8462660

>>8461858
That's great, Pip. Shame about your shitty games, loadtimes, and gimpy 1 button controls for just about everything arcadey.

>> No.8462664

>>8462537
I mean, unless said game was Japanese, that's a good assumption.

>> No.8462718

>>8462537
nobody ever steps up to defend James Pond, or even mentions having played it

>> No.8462746

>>8462718
I’ve played it, and it’s not good. My girlfriend loves it for some reason. I think she’s unironically on the spectrum.

>> No.8462763

>>8461590
James Pond helped me realize my trans identity.

>> No.8462768

>>8462718
It's too mediocre to remember. Games like James Pond were a dime a dozen on the Amiga.

>> No.8463040

Amiga threads are just an excuse to start retarded country wars on /vr/.

>> No.8463069

>>8463040
We've had a few good ones but it's a crapshoot.

>> No.8463193

>>8462718
I played james pond 3 on genesis and it's pretty good

>> No.8463287

>>8462537
Embarrassing cope

>> No.8463293
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8463293

Euro stuff I can stand to play, or even enjoy:

Sensible Soccer
The Chaos Engine
Fatal Rewind
Cannon Fodder
Mega Turrican

>> No.8463450

>>8462746
Your "girlfriend's" a refrigerator.

>> No.8463481

>>8463450
Kill yourself.

>> No.8463890
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8463890

>what's that? a game from the 90's that isn't by Nintendo? That no one else actually referenced or said was good? AAAHHHHHH I'M GOING INSAAANE! Don't worry Miyamoto-sama, I'll start a thread to defend you!

>> No.8463898

>>8463890
What's your favourite part of Brian the Lion?

>> No.8463902

'oo needs maryor when u got broion da loion

>> No.8463910

>>8462537
So you really need thick nostalgia goggles in order to like Amiga games? Makes sense.

>> No.8463915
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8463915

>>8463898
The end credits

>> No.8463954

>>8463910
That's pretty much true of all retro games though. Isn't that why people play them? To remember when they were happy?

>> No.8463995

>>8463954
No, that's why stupid people play bad games. I like retro games that are good. I wasn't even around for consoles like the NES. Doesn't matter. The games hold up.

>> No.8464002

>>8463995
No offense but dumbass Americans don't get these weren't $60 releases, they were copied to floppies and tapes, piled up in big cardboard boxes and passed around. The games were shovelware garbage but it's the chance you might find an improbably polished shovelware garbage you wouldn't mind trying out for 15 minutes it only cost 30 cents a piece anyway.

It was basically gambling, you never knew what you'd find next and that in itself was addicting. Dumb american.

>> No.8464029

>>8464002
Okay, so there was no standard of quality, but we're still going to sit here and pretend they're great, and "Americans" just don't get it.
You know what was better? Flash games. They were free, and sometimes they had tits in them. They empowered the unbridled creativity of 13 year olds in often hilarious ways, and you could murder Barney the Dinosaur if you wanted to.

>> No.8464037

>>8462746
Oi me spectrum

>> No.8464039

>>8464029
Now you're becoming less uneducated. You wouldn't expect a Flash stickmin game that you'd play for free to compete with fucking Halo 3. But you know playing a handful of those short arcade Flash games is more fun than sitting through boring cutscene in a modern game, in the end playing 100 flash games for 5 minutes pile up and you end up clocking in more hours than you ever did on your Gaybox 360.

>> No.8464046

>>8464039
Or you could amass a small collection of actually good games that you like, which is what people who owned a SNES or a Megadrive generally did, and why people keep returning to those consoles. because the quality is there.

>> No.8464062

>>8464046
Yes your Flash game analogy was perfect. You say you want complex games but I have more fun playing anime idle simulators for 5 minutes on my cellphone everyday off and before work than putting up with whatever pretentious Naughty Dog, Bethesda bullshit is going on with triple A consoles. 5-10 minutes every day add up to hundreds of hours.

>> No.8464074

>>8464062
>Naughty Dog, Bethesda
Or a good game.

>> No.8464079

>>8464074
People say they want hardcore competitive games but it's bullshit, those always under-perform meanwhile anime waifu cookie clicker idle simulator make easy reliable cash.
Piracy was so rampant on the Amiga, Speccy and Commodore they were practically give for free so it's only natural to have lower standards for free stuff.

>> No.8464082

>>8463995
>the creator of these threads is an American zoomer
Go pay another $40 to be able to play 5 NES games on your Switch, fr fr no cap.

>> No.8464115

>>8464079
What does the market have to do with anything? Just play good games.
>>8464082
I'm not American, and NES games have been free for a while now, if you hadn't noticed. If your argument in favour of the Amiga is that it's cheaper than Nintendo or Sega consoles, well that stopped being a relevant argument in what? The mid 90's, when emulators and clone consoles started rolling out?

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8464121

>>8464115
Gtfo here with your meme games I just gambled SSR Mayano.

>> No.8464124

>>8464121
How is this retro?

>> No.8464125

>>8464124
MAYANOOOOO

>> No.8464179

>>8462361
lawl

>> No.8464228

>>8462660
Only if you're not really known with the library, true. But HDD games with 6 button controllers, what a great world.

>> No.8464454

the best Amiga games were sit-down ones that make use of a keyboard/mouse, it wasn't really designed to do Mega Drive kinds of stuff

>> No.8464590

>>8464454
This. I loved my Amiga for stuff like Syndicate, Theme Park, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Gunship 2000 etc. Sure, they were also on PC but we didn't get one until 1997. And yes a lot of these games had console ports but they were greatly watered down and kinda clunky without mouse support.

>> No.8464668

>>8464590
Same here, loved my Amiga.

It came from the desert
Lemmings
Cannon Fodder
Worms
Civilization
Desert/Jungle strike

>> No.8464713

>>8461590
Wtf didnt james pond used to be a frog?

>> No.8464731

>>8464713
No but there was a playable frog character in James Pond: The Aquatic Games

>> No.8464747

>>8463915
It seems like they only had one level's worth of design ideas.

>> No.8466801

>>8461590
>advert comparing new wannabe mascot to sonic or mario
There were many of these, they were insecure cringe and we could smell it at the time. See also zool, bubsy the bobcat etc

>> No.8466810

>>8466801
Zool 1 was probably the most hated game on the Amiga.