What is Amiga Games Overview?
Well, just as you may guess
from the name, it is a list of nearly all games which were ever published on
Amiga. You will find commercial games in general, but some of the highlights
from the shareware scene are also included and especially marked.
Why
such a list?
As a freelancer for various print and online magazines
I was often asked if I knew game X or developer Y. I wanted to make a record of
all games to quickly look up for such cases. I didn't know that there would be
such an amount of games in the end ... and so much work :)
Who made
this list?
My name is Nico Barbat, also known as Dire / Eremation
in the demoscene. By the way - if you want information about the scene, visit
Scenet. I got my first Amiga
back in 1986, a good old A1000 with incredible 512 KB! Later on I bought an
Amiga 500 and entered the Amiga demoscene (that was in 1989). Since this time I
am - as many people - fascinated by games and the possibility of Amiga. Between
1992 and today I am working for several online and print magazines as an editor
and for several companies from various fields as a programmer and webdesigner.
Currently my main project is amigaOS. Together with four other guys I am
organizer of the Cologne
Conference demoscene-party, held every year in November parallel to the big
fair in Cologne. You can send me an email of course -
nico@barbat.de.
What the heck
is an Amiga?
Amiga was once the most popular home computer, back in
1985-1992. It was developed and released by Commodore - you should at least know
this name. Commodore went bankrupt by mis-management, as well as the later owner
Escom. After a short-time period at Gateway 2000 Amiga Inc. is an independent
company again. If everything works as planned, there will be new, revolutionary
Amigas in the end of 2000. Amiga was the first computer with real multimedia
for a low price - everybody could effort an Amiga
and that was it success. Many people remember the good old times of Defender of
the Crown or Marble Madness. And for sure they remember it with wet eyes ...
I
don't have an Amiga, but I want to play one of the games ...
Then
buy an Amiga! Or you may try it and test the wanted game with UAE, an Amiga
emulator available for various operating systems like Windows, Mac or Linux. But
don't complain about missing the real Amiga-feeling ...
Where do I
find sources for Amiga?
Many, many people asked where they to find the
games listed in Amiga Games Overview. As you read above, these games are
commercial. Due to this - with a few exceptions - you won't find them in the
internet or any of its sub-services. Copying, hiring and leasing of commercial
software is strictly forbidden, both illegal and immoral. So you have two
possibilities to get hands on the games listed here: 1) call your local Amiga
dealer and buy it there or have a look at the hotlinks collection of amigaOS,
where you will find dealers on the net and in your near; or 2) put a free
advertisement in one of the known web or print magazines like amigaOS (just send
it to me and I will forward it) and try your luck. I am sorry, but I can't send
you any of the games listed above.
© 1999-2001 Nico "Dire"
Barbat.