Amiga Exclusive Platform Games

Great video, Pete. I was amazed with the graphics on many of these games. Parallax scrolling, reflections, rotations, incredible use of color. I can now see that many arcade ports to the Amiga were very, very, VERY half-assed jobs. The Amiga is an amazing machine. I've never seen one in real life to this day, but I would have given a kidney to have one as a teenager. Amiga computers were very uncommon where I live.

Brian the Lion - "very basic graphically"? This is an absolute gem! Even the ECS version looks like the AGA version, or the SNES game. So many parallax layers while preserving the colors. It's fun to play, it's easy to control, and it has fun bonus games. I'm glad you mentioned Benefactor - one of my favorite games on the Amiga. Very neglected. The game can be completed due to the fact that you can't practically die and the code system allows you to continue at any time.

Tearaway Thomas is such a great game, I could get to stage 4 on a single life back in the day.

This was a fantastic overview of a lot of games that I never knew existed. Very nice summary and overview for each game.

Banger video, dude. Your videos always give me a few games to go away and check out. This time it's Benefactor and Odyssey. Both look wicked!

You missed Ruff 'n Tumble, which was a truly beautiful platformer with great gameplay. Great video. Thanks!

Blob is such an hidden gem. You can count with the fingers of one hand, the number of videos on youtube. There's no longplay which is weird because we assume that every game has a longplay.

Thanks so much for these reviews! You really give us a nice dive into what works or doesn't work in the games, giving us a good idea of which ones we'd want to check out most.

Brilliant video! Brought back a lot of memories 😊 although I now can't unhear draw jopping @7:48

Awesome video Pete!

Another good journey through some Amiga games Pete. 👍👍

Most of these look really good! I have to try them out soon :)

Great video as usual! Thanks! I think that Yo! Joe! and Ruff'n'Tumble could be your numbers 20 and 21. I have them featured in my Amiga gaming history parts for 1993 and 1994 if you're interested. Both solid titles, both exclusives and worth re-visiting.

Thanks for this video Pete! I’ve been willing to delve into the Amiga and perhaps buy the mini (dare I say) as it was one of the few amazing computers I just missed out during my childhood.

platforms were and always will be my favourite style of games bitd I never owed an Amiga but did play on my mates a few times Recently pick up a mini so will be playing a few of these when I get the chance Another great video Pete look forward to the next one 👍

always wanted to finish premiere didn’t get on with most off these but Yo-Joe is fantastic great music and brilliant in 2 player enjoyed this Pete

Great video, wasn't aware of some of those games.

Great work mate

Thank you for this great video. It was a real blast to watch it. I am always surprised how many devolopers just borrowed elements from the early sonic games. Cheers mate.

I love learning about British games. Over the years, after having watched vids from people like Ashens, Kim Justice, Larry Bundy, etc. etc. I've really come to appreciate the picture they paint of this alt-universe of game consoles (micro computers) from the Sega VS Nintendo war going on in the 'States, with completely different devs & publishers putting out completely different games. Definitely keep these coming; it's a great way to show off retro games that deserve more love from the retro community. I mean seriously, haven't we mined the Master System, NES, SNES and MegaGen enough? That being said, I will say that looking at even a handful of titles like this in a group, it's clear the influence of Sega's blue blur was BIG over in the UK, lol. I love Sonic as much as the next guy - or more than the next guy, usually. There are still way too many haters out there - but man, not everybody needs to run fast. There's so many critters and kids that run so fast on British computers! I'm glad even you would call out things being too fast like when talking about Tearaway Thomas, or Mr Nutz Hopping Mad, and that Kid Chaos would've been better if it focused on polishing up those level designs instead of having you gun it like a madman. It's actually really weird to see UK devs seek to copy Sonic so much but not give a sh** about Mario, lol. No mustachioed carpenters, no mustachioed construction workers, no mustachioed pizza makers or bakers... it really is odd how little impact Mario had on the gaming scene over there (Giana Sisters notwithstanding). Seriously, showing these off is great! Thanks for putting together these vids.