The most broken game

[slicer1000]

Theme Park was also a buggy game on an A500 version the grass was not green and if you made your park to big the game would become unstable. That was the retail version as well. Just to point out that a lot of bugs in amiga games only appeared in pirate versions of the games

[Vangar]

I've always had trouble booting Bubble Bobble, and when I did the game's physics and speed seemed to be flaky compared to the Master system or Arcade versions.

[Harrison]

I've always had trouble booting Bubble Bobble, and when I did the game's physics and speed seemed to be flaky compared to the Master system or Arcade versions.

Bubble Bobble is quite an early Amiga game and was released for the first A500's with Kickstart 1.2 and 512KB of chip ram. If running on an A500 or A600 it runs at the correct speed, but it hates having fast ram present. On a newer setup it is very unstable and doesn't load very well. On an A500+ or A600 it sometimes loaded fine with relokick, but not always. It doesn't need to like newer chipsets. Sometimes it would crash during loading. And on an A1200 I don't think I ever got it to run from disk, but it does using WHDLoad.

These issues were true for many early 1986-1988 games on the Amiga and not really bugs as such. Rather the programs not complying with coding standards and hitting the hardware directly.

When running correctly it is a great version. Although you can't beat the game running on MAME.

[Harrison]

Just to point out that a lot of bugs in amiga games only appeared in pirate versions of the games

Yeah, most pirated copies of games that appeared were cracked versions of pre-released versions of the games. Often the versions of a game sent to journalists for review. Most were still not quite complete for retail as the reviewers needed to review the games months in advance to make sure the magazine review was in the issue that coincided with the game release.

I'm surprised the publishers and developers didn't realise where the sources of the pirated copies were coming from. A lot of pirated versions often appeared even before the official release dates. And in fact that still happens for new games.

[Teho]

Oh, they knew. I know one reviewer who mentioned that with an early Id Software game - I think maybe it was Quake - all review copies were unique and had the actual name of the reviewer hidden somewhere in the code. So if a review copy got spread to the pirates they could find out who it originated from. I never learned if this was actually true or if this was a bluff to discourage reviewers to spread their copy though.

[Phantom]

If Rise of the Robots is really crap, then what about Dangerous Streets?

Even Renegade series on Amstrad CPC 6128 is far better than this crap from Flair Software.

[Harrison]

At least Dangerous Streets had more than one move per character ... but yeah, I got it free in the CD32 retail bundle and remember how bad it was. There are much worse beat 'um 'ups on the Amiga though. What about PitFighter. Now that was a dire game on any platform!

[Phantom]

No, you've to believe me. Pit Fighter is slightly better than Dangerous Streets.