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[Drixxel]

The Amiga was home to some pretty cool stuff back in the day and it was fortunate for non-Amiga owners like myself that a host of Amiga games saw home console ports during the 16-bit era. The look and feel of many Euro-developed games of the era are quite distinctive and it's usually a cinch to guess a computer-to-console port without any prior knowledge of its origins. That combo of vividly colourful, deeply shaded, high detail graphics with slippery platforming and a peculiar lack of knockback from collisions tended to signal something. What are some of your favourite Amiga-to-console ports and, for those with computer gaming experience, how do they compare to the originals? A handful I enjoy that spring to mind:

Brutal Sports Football, Jaguar - Quite an entertaining entry in the Jaguar library. While it doesn't do much to push the hardware (like so many of its peers on the Jag), this one's well suited for play on a console and I'm happy it made the jump.

Gods, Genesis/SNES

Lotus II RECS, Genesis

Mega Turrican, Genesis - As I understand it, Mega Turrican was in development prior to the Amiga's Turrican 3 but the game first saw release on computer. While this means Turrican 3's console twin doesn't really jive with the other selections here, it's an interesting case of Amiga/console relations.

The Legend of Galahad, Genesis

Soldiers of Fortune, Genesis/SNES - In my opinion, this is one of the most entertaining overhead shooters of all time. Equipped with a lot of personality, a great soundtrack and a high challenge.

[high voltage]

I quite like the stuff like:

Syndicate Amiga / Jaguar
Theme Park Amiga / Jaguar
Cannon Fodder Amiga / Jaguar
ISS (Sensible Soccer) Amiga / Jaguar
Lemmings Amiga / Lynx
Desert Strike Amiga / Lynx

All these are excellent conversions of British games from Amiga to console and don't have any disk swapping or loading times. That works for me...

Edited by high voltage, Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:32 AM.

[Prab]

Monley Island was originally an Amiga Game, thats been ported to everything

Fate of atlantis originally on the amiga was unlockable content on Staff of kings on wii

[Seob]

cannon fodder is a all time favorit of mine. I recently got a amiga cd32 for free. For now i got a compilation disk to try the system out, since i don't have any games yet, but i really like this system. Also Rainbow Island is a great game.

[thegoldenband]

I tend to enjoy the Amiga ports on Genesis. Faery Tale Adventure, Risky Woods, Shadow of the Beast, even Sword of Sodan.

I haven't played them much on Genesis, but I loved Flashback and (especially) Out of This World on SNES.

[Austin]

Shadow of the Beast - Love both the Genesis and Lynx ports.

Risky Woods - Just noting this because it was mentioned already, I figured its origin was a computer of some kind, either an Amiga or the IBM compatibles. It's a great game on the Genesis.

[Drixxel]

thegoldenband, on Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:07 PM, said:

I tend to enjoy the Amiga ports on Genesis. Faery Tale Adventure, Risky Woods, Shadow of the Beast, even Sword of Sodan.

I haven't played them much on Genesis, but I loved Flashback and (especially) Out of This World on SNES.

Austin, on Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:16 PM, said:

Shadow of the Beast - Love both the Genesis and Lynx ports.

Risky Woods - Just noting this because it was mentioned already, I figured its origin was a computer of some kind, either an Amiga or the IBM compatibles. It's a great game on the Genesis.

The Genesis did get some great Amiga games and, at quick glance, seems to have received a greater number of ports than any of its contemporaries. I didn't realize that Faery Tale Adventure started off as an Amiga game - unsurprising, though, as EA handled publishing on a whack of Amiga-to-Genesis ports. Battle Squadron's another good EA published one that comes to mind.