Amigos: Amiga Game Reviews

Metal Gear finally made its way onto the Amiga in 2021 thanks to the tireless efforts of programmer/musician Hoffman. How does it compare to the MSX original or the NES game so many of us played, and how does this 1987 title hold up today?  🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Frid...

On Amigos Halloween Spooktacular VI, we take a look at Bloodfest, a PD dungeon crawler from Finland, and the aptly named Horror Zombies from the Crypt! 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:00 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Top 3 Reasons Halloween Rules 6:11...

One of the earliest space 4x games, Millennium 2.2 is easy to learn, has a great UI, and fantastic art. It's worth checking out to see the roots of one of the most popular computer gaming genres today! 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:00 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/ami...

Another World boasts one of the most iconic introductions and atmospheres of any Amiga game. Almost exclusively the work of one man over the course of two years, it is still considered a classic by its fans.  🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:00 Eastern on https://t...

The first Bitmap Brothers title to be developed for the Amiga first, The Chaos Engine represents what could be called their most complete effort from an artistic, musical and gameplay perspective.  🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:00 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/am...

Hunter achieved what many thought was impossible in 1991-a free roaming, sandbox adventure game set in a procedurally generated world. A true hidden gem in the Amiga library! 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:00 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 When was th...

Primal Rage was released in 1995 by Probe, and and doesn't have the best reputation as a fighting game. Today, we're hoping to change some minds in that department!  🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:00 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Dino Talk? 5:44...

Trex Warrior was released in Germany in 1991 by Lionheart label Thalion, and appeared to much more fanfare on an Amiga coverdisk in 1993. Fast moving, colorful, and an "interesting" control scheme make it one to check out today.  🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:00...

It's eduCANEment week on Amigos, and that means Fun School is in session! Delivered on a variety of platforms, Europress's school-friendly collection of mini games makes learning fun! Maybe! 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:00 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast...

Diggers attempted to add some depth to the Lemmings formula of "control little guys to do stuff." How well did it succeed, and should it have been a CD32 pack-in?  🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:00 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 What's the deepes...

Epic is an Amiga title with a prolonged development history, complicated by early alpha releases to magazines that might have not reflected the final game. How does it hold up after all these years? 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:00 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigos...

Amiga Public Domain games are sometimes hit or miss, but we have two winners here with the multiplayer BiPlane Duel and a 3D Defender that plays smooth as silk, Alianator!  🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast Thanks to our...

Ports of Call was one of the games included in the very first Amiga 500 bundle. Is this maritime shipping simulator still as much fun now as it was in 1987? We discover the answers on the latest episode of Amigos: Everything Amiga! 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Ea...

Gremlins 2 was a hilarious combination of dark humor, wacky antics, and fourth wall madness. Did all of it translate into the Amiga version? 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Ridiculous Banter 2:27 Amiga News 15:40 Retro...

Turrican II definitely has a hallowed place among the hearts of many Amiga enthusiasts. This week, we take a second look at the masterpiece. Have our views changed since episode 19? 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Amig...

Gobliiins is a single screen adventure/puzzle game hybrid that set the stage for Samorost and Machinarium. We give it a full rundown as well as our usual roundup of the week's Amiga news on this edition of Amigos! 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://t...

The Castle of Dr. Brain is a unique puzzle game published by Sierra for the Amiga in 1992. Are you up for some brain bending fun? 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Ridiculous Banter 6:59 Amiga Scene News 27:49 RetroRewin...

Dyna Blaster showed that pixel perfect ports from the PC Engine were possible on the Amiga--why didn't we get more? 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Ridiculous Banter 8:03 Amiga Scene News 23:00 RetroRewind.ca - AMIGOS1...

Gunship 2000 is Microprose's magnum opus--all the lessons from Knights of the Sky and the first Gunship title to produce one of the best flight sims on the Amiga. 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Ridiculous Banter 5:21...

It's new Amiga games week, so we're taking a look at the 2018 Flashtro release Alco-Copter!  🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Ridiculous Banter 5:30 Amiga Scene News 29:42 Alco-Copter Review 50:16 Community Updates...

Sim City was the game that launched a thousand sequels and put designer Will Wright on the map. Is the original version as much fun as its later incarnations? 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Ridiculous Banter 2:21 Amig...

Switchblade was Simon Phipps' first game for Core Design. Was the Amiga port an improvement over the ST original? All this plus the latest Buffee and PiStorm news on this episode of Amigos: Everything Amiga! 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch....

Five years. 300 episodes. Countless displays of wacky antics. It's a very special episode of Amigos: Everything Amiga! 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Show Open 13:57 Retro Rewind Unboxing 17:40 Amigos Quiz Round 1! 28...

Pinball Dreams set the standard for pinball computer games for the rest of time. Where does it rank in the Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions trifecta? 🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast 0:00 Ridiculous Banter 8:03 Amiga News 37:41 Wh...

Monkey Island 2 is the rare sequel that improved on every aspect of the original. Join us as we return to Scabb Island!  🏆 Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Watch LIVE Fridays at 5:30 Eastern on https://twitch.tv/amigospodcast Check out our other shows! Our Sinclair: A ZX Spectrum Podcast ht...