The best Amiga platform games

[Ghost]

Hello guys,

I have been going through the list of platform games that have been released for the Amiga and the sub-genre such as platform/beat-em-up and platform/shooter.

There have been so many releases that it is quite difficult to determine which ones are really good, and I mean games that are still good today.

Which ones do you think still count?

Well I take it that the following are still relevant;

Super Frog
Turrican 2

Edit:

Would Fire Force and the James Pond games also still count?

[Quagmire]

I like Fire and Ice, still play Killing game show too

[Zetr0]

Personally I LOATH the Platform genere, however there are some games that just get into your heart...

I loved Super Frog, dispite of myself!

however to be honest.... I would say that the BEST (at least for me) would be FlashBack .... if there was ever a word created to explain that game it would be

Sublime!

[sarek2k]

Some of the titles i like are :

Flashback (as pointed out by Zetro Awesome game)
Turrican 2/3
Robocod - (simply cause of that infectious tune i even bought it for my ps2 )
Super Frog - (as above amazing tune and a lot better game)
Soccer Kid AGA or ECS - a brilliant mix of football and platform game.
Lionheart - Awesome graphics great if a little hard game.

I'm sure is many more that i can't think of right now just a few echo'ed already here and a couple i picked out from memory.

One more i can think of was Wacko Jr in WonderLand it was only ever a demo on a 17bit pd disc but the tune again was infectious (alister brimble). Would have been a good game if they'd finished it!

[Ghost]

Well I was looking at the Amiga at the perspective from the gamer that I am now, thinking what games I would have gotten for the Amiga had I been around at that time and I realise that while I was quite into platform games back then I am not so much into them anymore.

Well not the average run-of-the-mill ones, and the Amiga had quite some of those games.

I guess I would have gone more for the great Amiga games such as:

K240
Starflight 1&2
Mega Lo Mania
Chaos Engine
Cannon Fodder
Walker
Captive/Liberation
North & South
Desert Strike
Apocalypse
Alien Breed /92/2/Tower Assault/3D
Lemmings

Regarding platformers I would stick to the following

Turrican 2
Super Frog
The James Pond series
Fire Force
Impossible Mission 2025
Lost Vikings (though I have that on the PC)

[Zetr0]

@Ghost

I think that perhaps you are the ONLY one whom would choose Impossible Mission 2025...

my god is that a chor!.... i wouldn't even call it a game.

[Ghost]

Hi Zetr0,

I admit it wasn't really that good but I liked it for some reason.

People might ask why I put 'Apocalypse' or 'Fire Force' in this list but I personally liked them.

On hindsight I wouldn't have bought arcade conversions or cross platform games unless they were originally released on the Amiga before being ported to other machines. (Desert Strike being the exception)

I have also ignored all the adventures because I simply enjoyed those more on the PC, same goes for games like Sim City, Wing Commander.

Just the games that were great on the Amiga.