Amiga games

The Amiga was an important platform for computer games in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was the first home computer to gain major success as a games machine due to its graphic and sound subsystems, which were widely considered to be far ahead of their time. A game made for the Amiga platform generally had much better sound and graphics than the same game running on a IBM PC.

At its zenith in the early 1990s, the Amiga became the platform of choice of many games development companies. At that time virtually every game destined for the PC was first released on the Amiga to test the waters due to cheaper development costs.

The Amiga gaming scene was responsible for the rapid growth of small gaming companies including Electronic Arts who were contracted by Commodore International to produce the Amiga's standard graphics format IFF, and Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint was included as standard with many Amigas thus giving them early access allowing them to gain a major foothold.

Table of contents

1 Important Amiga games 1.1 Early games 1.2 Popular games 1.3 Historically significant games 1.4 Games that have been distributed with the Amiga 1.5 RPGs 2 Amiga game developers 3 External links

Important Amiga games

Early games

• Mind Walker -- Commodore -- (1986)
• Arctic Fox -- Electronic Arts -- (1986)
• Marble Madness -- Electronic Arts -- (1986)
• Archon -- Electronic Arts -- (1986)
• Defender of the Crown -- Cinemaware -- (1986)
• Faery Tale -- Microillusions -- (1986)
• The Pawn -- Magnetic Scrolls -- (1987)
• Maniac Mansion -- Lucasfilm -- (1987)
• Silent Service -- Microprose -- (1987)
• Starglider -- Rainbird -- (1987)

Popular games

• Zool -- Electronic Arts
• Prince of Persia -- Broderbund
• Utopia -- Gremlin
• PowerDrive
• Cannon Fodder -- Sensible Software
• Mega lo Mania -- Sensible Software -- (1991)

Historically significant games

• Elite -- Firebird -- (1989)
• Populous -- Electronic Arts -- (1989)
• SimCity -- Infogrames -- (1990)
• Lemmings -- Psygnosis -- (1991)
• Monkey Island -- Lucas Arts -- (1991)
• Civilization -- Microprose -- (1992)
• Syndicate -- Electronic Arts -- (1993)
• Hired Guns -- Psygnosis -- (1993)
• Dune 2 -- Virgin -- (1993)
• Mortal Kombat -- Virgin -- (1994)
• UFO -- Microprose -- (1994)
• Theme Park -- Electronic Arts -- (1994)
• Lotus Turbo Challenge

Games that have been distributed with the Amiga

• Shadow of the Beast -- Psygnosis -- (1989)
• New Zealand Story -- Ocean -- (1989)
• Zany Golf -- Electronic Arts -- (1988)
• Ports of Call -- Aegis
• Rainbow Islands -- Ocean
• Batman The Movie -- Ocean

RPGs

• Bloodwych

Amiga game developers

Many famous game developers first established themself on the Amiga, although some such as David Braben has already established reputations from the 8-bit computer games. Famous Amiga game developers include:

• David Braben (Elite, Frontier, Virus)
• Sid Meier (Civilization, Railroad Tycoon, Pirates)
• Jeff Minter (Llamatron, Grid Runner)
• Peter Molyneux (Populous)
• Will Wright (SimCity)

See also: list of Amiga games

External links

• Amiga Games Database
• ExoticA!
• The Hall Of Light (HOL) database of Amiga games
• The English Amiga Board (EAB)