PERFECT TEN GAMES

Commodore’s Amiga 500 was a huge success, so it should come as no surprise that a variety of superb games are available for it. Indeed, it’s practically impossible to name just ten games, as for every one we put forward, three other titles were just as deserving. After a lot of soul searching, we decided that the following best represent some of the greatest genres found on the machine. How many have you played?

WORMS » RELEASED: 1995 » PUBLISHED BY: OCEAN » CREATED BY: TEAM 17 » BY THE SAME DEVELOPER: BODY BLOWS 01 You’d have thought that by 1995, ten years after the Amiga 1000’s launch, it had seen every one of its defining games already. Well, Andy Davidson and Yorkshire-based Team 17 obviously thought there was room for one more and the world agreed with them. Worms was an absolute sensation and went on to sell millions of copies across countless formats, sequels and spin-offs. It’s important to remember that the multiplayer strategy game began life on the Amiga, however, and was mostly a five year labour of love of just one man and a copy of Blitz Basic. And that was what was really great about the Amiga: it turned…

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