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Given the Monkey Island HD redo and sitch.

Beneath a Steel Sky - A no brainer. Still looks gorgeous today.
Ruff and Tumble - Beeyowtphul platform blam blam.
Soccer Kid - I thought it was a nice gimmick with the ball and stuff.
Flashback - Tempted to say Another World, but this has more of a game in it.
Assassin - Stop making Worms and remake this Strider clone.

Go!

Gravity Power, arguably the greatest two player game of all time. Thrust in style, destructible scenery, special weapons, killer bunny rabbit that just sits there, "BINGO!" "TOUCHDOWN!" and precisely the right feel for everything. Desert levels, snow levels, lego levels...

It was glorious. I miss it deeply. All hail dual top (Swedish?) blokes Prince Jan and Princess Jens for delivering it to us.

Rise of the Robots Cannon Fodder.

Actually, yeah. Cannon Fodder would make quite a fantastic twin stick shooter.

Morph - Puzzle platformy thing where you had to transform between a metal ball, rubber ball, water and gas cloud.

This was a great game! Came free with my A1200.

Quite surprised we haven't seen Beneath a Steel Sky, actually. It's out on the iPhone along with Broken Sword. Seems like a no-brainer to port them to XBLA, especially considering they've already got a "HD" version of Broken Sword for the iPad and presumably they'll be doing a BASS one.

The hugely underrated Sensible Golf.

Ruff ("And" - Ed) Tumble was terrific fun. Feasromely hard towards the end, though, with swinging platforms over seas of spikes and annoying hover-owls attacking from angles you couldn't directly shoot at.

All but one of the bosses had a massive exploit that rendered them all but harmless, though. I'm not sure if that was good or not, but I do remember getting into a position with the final boss where I could simply stand still and hold the fire button down until he died. Not that I was complaining, because it took me fucking forever to get there.

I would love to see Flashback remade for the title music alone. Proper dramatic stuff, that. Never mind the strong level design and terrific animation.

mega-lo-mania

Malc

Hmm. Hrmrrmmmm.. I'm struggling to see a workable control method with that one.

Elite and Guardian.

EDIT: Yo Joe! ?

Gravity Power is a obviously great choice.

Walker - It would work perfectly with the twin sticks! One to walk, one to aim and the shoulder button to fire.

Exile

Yes! Exile would be bloody awesome. Mentioned that last night while playing Gears of Warring Two.

I'd like to see Midwinter re-done. It seemed a little too ambitious for my poor old Amiga. Oh, and Moonstone too.

Virus
Stunt Car Racer
Flood

Personally I think that the 3D games would come out the worst in a remake. Most were just bordering on tech demos. Stuntcar Racer really didn't have much of a game to it as such.

Also.. Lotus Turbo Challenge and Supercars would tempt me into online multiplayer.

It did.

My fave Amiga games don't really crossover well (Syndicate/King's Bounty) but I'd like Pinball Fantasies et al. Crazy Cars 3 also.

Also, Turrican 3.

Fight me.

I did - you could also switch between classic mode and A1200 mode a la Monkey Island.

I wonder who holds the rights for all of these now.

Did ye ever play it multiplayer?

Yeah. It was just as cack via null modem cable.

Half of the difficulty in Cannon Fodder was the fact that you couldn't aim in one direction and move in the other :O

I want Syndicate and Populous for the iPad. XCOM too. And Laser Squad.

Trackmania is Stuntcar racer, innit?

Of course... Shadow Fighter! That was ace.. even if it was a complete rip off.

Yeah, the Street Fighter 2, Doom and Zelda clones wouldn't come out great against the originals already available on there.

And Another World while their at it.

And Moonstone (Hey, Castle Crashers did well).

Oh and Dungeon Master, 'though the controls might be a bit shit.

If you want Another World just play Limbo. It's the exact same memory trial Dragon's Lair button pressing gameplay.

I was just this minute going to post in that thread, since, I'm sorry, but I couldn't disagree with you more about that. But it did remind me of Another World.

So you say it reminded you of Another World but reject that it's a memory test game? Hmm. Nope, can't see anything else in Another World other than that.

Anyway Cruise for a Corpse! That'd be brilliant. In fact, I'm going to WinUAE that right now to see how the graphical style holds up today.

Have you said Dreamweb yet? We talked about it last night & it would probably work quite well.

Ah yes! I did like me a bit of that. Cruise for a Corpse looks quite dated now In my mind it was glorious.

Murder would be good too. I used to love that the killer was randomly chosen and you had to interview people and sitch.

Hired Guns for four player co-op?

No Second Prize online?

I've always said Damocles is a much overlooked classic. A modern update could really work.

I loved Shufflepuck cafe. Not sure how it'd work with a pad though

Um... You were playing it wrong.

Also Air Taxi.

Ugh! - similar vein but cavemanny and better.

K240.

Would be the sex.

Why has no one mentioned Plan 9 from outer space yet? That was ace and a faster, more intense remake would be pretty cool in my eyes.

Spindizzy Worlds. (though it became Mario 64)
Bob's Bad Day.
Wiz 'n' Liz.
Bill's Tomato Game.
Exodus 3010.
Bob's Magic Garden.
Trick or Treat.
Arabian Nights.
Benefactor. (though it became Exit)

(one of these things is not like the others)

Y'know, mentions of Amiga software like CfaC really knocks it into me how varied games during that era in terms of settings, concepts, ideas. Everything seems a bit too homogenous these days.

Although...


That's when the creativity of Amiga developers started to decay, when it began to seem that every other Amiga game was all pale imitations of the big games on the consoles and PC (I mean, really, who'd really play Zool if they have access to a Mega Drive?.)

I liked Oscar on the CD32. Very generic collect-em-up but thought it was good fun and looked stunning,

The Amiga jumped the shark when everyone started producing Doom clones. Every last one of them looked fucking pathetic. Whereas I could admire something like Hard Drivin on the Spectrum because it was an achievement, seeing FPS games on the Amiga was like watching your 90 year old granny trying to dance at a wedding.