The best Amiga platform games

[Harrison]

How about Rainbow Islands? I love that game and it is still as good as it ever was. And Bubble Bobble can still be put into the Platform genre, and is still really great simple fun.

Wolfchild is another favourite of mine that hasn't been mentioned yet.

I would also say Flashback has to be one of the best games on the Amiga, and the best platform game for sure. Superfrog was a great example of a console style platformer, and very polished too. One of the first arcade platformers of that type I finished without cheats!

How about Diggers? Does that count? Kind of a platformer/RTS.

[Zetr0]

@Ghost

Indeed Apocalypse is an AWESOME game.... i loved it from begginng to end! a great game... and some what under-rated! maybe because its a re-hash of an old C64 game. personally i felt it was better made!

@Harrison

Ahhhh Rainbow Islands... how could I not of mentioned that!??!?!

Loved it.... and beat it!!!!!

[Sharingan]

I liked the following platformers as well:

Rodland
Parasol Stars
Toki
The New Zealand Story
First Samurai
Second Samurai
The Great Giana Sisters
Another World

[Harrison]

Was Another World strictly a platform game? It had many platform elements, but it was more an adventure in my view. Although I suppose you could say the same about Flashback. A case of games starting to cross genres.

[Ghost]

Was Another World strictly a platform game? It had many platform elements, but it was more an adventure in my view. Although I suppose you could say the same about Flashback. A case of games starting to cross genres.

Yeah I think it does, I had something similar with Fire Force which is also difficult to classify.

[Cammy]

I really love the platform game genre, I think it's my favourite out of all of them. I still can't decide which game is my favourite so I'll list a bunch of them.

Ruff 'n Tumble
Zool 1 & 2
Bubble 'n Squeak
Mr Nutz: Hoppin' Mad
Brian the Lion
The Chaos Engine
Lionheart
Leander
Whizz
Superfrog
Bubba 'n Stix
Wolfchild
Fire & Ice
James Pond: Robocod

There's so many more, but those are the ones that jump to mind first.

[Puni/Void]

Here's some of my favourites:

- Parasol Stars

Excellent two-player mode makes this a winner, but it's of course fun in one-player mode as well.

- Superfrog

One of the best platform games I've ever played. Nice detailed graphics, cool music, and fine gameplay. Also enjoyed the arcade minigame.

- Rodland

Like Parasol Stars, this game has a brilliant two-player mode.

- James Pond

Great game.

- Giana Sisters

Classic. Are we going to have a competition in this game soon?

- Damage

Brutal game from Finland. Keywords; Narcotics and baseball bat.