Top 10 Amiga Games You've Never Heard About - 3/3 - by LemonAmiga.com
510Top 10 Amiga Games You've Never Heard About - 3/3
In this bumper edition, we check out the final three categories in our compendium of the Top 10 Amiga Games you've hopefully never even heard about.
3D Games:
0:19 - The Shadow of the Third Moon
8:36 - Star Fighter: D´Yammen´s Reign
15:41 - Genetic Species
Racing Games
21:37 - Street Racer
27:17 - City Cars
31:29 - Aerial Racers
34:24 - Automobiles
35:00 - Burnout
37:07 - Desert Racing of BarDos
44:11 - Turbo Racer 3D
49:33 - Flyin´High
55:49 - Virtual Grand Prix
Strategy Games:
1:06:13 - Foundation
1:11:35 - Red Mars
1:17:10 - Moonbases
1:19:24 - Napalm: The Crimson Crisis
I know most Amiga users will get a kick out of these, although there are still a few games (Foundation?) that are still common enough to recognise. Each of our top 5 categories play for 30mins, and at the end of each section we'll see the game I think deserves the award for the virtually unknown gem in the pack. I've saved a few good games (and a few bags of tripe) for last. Thanks for watching these films, and I hope you get as much enjoyment out of these as I do watching them back. ;)
Editors Notes:
This video took about a week to make once all the raw footage has been gathered - although there were a few bits I noticed didn't rip very well. Some bits I had to go back and rip again. The bug fixes took just three days this time, so that's good.
The Story Behind the Videos:
In the middle of July, 2012, I decided to run my own competition on the Lemon forum. I chose F1GP - and the whole thing (after a few hickups) went well. A few weeks later I got to wondering if F1GP was the only polygon 3D F1 racer on the Amiga? I'd seen Grand Prix Circuit from my C64 days, and Revs, Indy 500 of course on the Amiga, and well.. not much else. In my search I found out about a mythical 'Alien' Grand Prix. I then discovered the full game was known as Virtual Grand Prix, and found it as a CD on the internet. The game was a B#STARD to get going; an absolute PIG! I wanted to love it but the game was just not giving. A week later I discovered the patch and gladly upgraded it to 1.0D - where the handling of the vehicle, plus the workability of the Monza track, made me think WOW - I need to get this out to people.
Weeks later I started my long trawl through archives in seach of things I'd never heard about before. Yes, you guessed it, ALL of the games in these videos were all games I'd never even heard about before (except Virtual Ball Fighters, Generic Species and Foundation - which I'd seem in mags). Now just the simple matter of installing them all (Shadow Of The Third Moon was another PIG!), and having a go at them one by one. These are my very first goes you can see in these videos. Nowt taken out, but speeded up. ;)
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Last notes:
In retrospect, here in 2015, you can hear in my voice I wasnt having a good time sometimes with this, perhaps the depression I had at the time, plus some of the games were crap or boring sometimes which didnt help. Hearing my voice now, I can hardly believe I got so low. This series was the first, last, and only experiment in 'video game review therapy'.
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