Top 10 'Most Influential' Amiga Games

stacybro writes "There is an article on Wired about the Top 10 most influential Amiga games. As someone who actually programmed on the Amiga way back when, I can attest to how far they were ahead of the clones when it came to graphics and audio hardware. I often wonder where the PC world would be if Amiga or Apple had had the marketing smarts (or maybe it was cut throat attitude) of Microsoft. 'Defender of the Crown (Cinemaware, 1986): Way before the Hollywood-ization of the game industry, Cinemaware evoked the era of classic movies with this game and others, such as Wings and the classic B-movie tribute It Came From the Desert. Cinemaware titles were definitely precursors of the CD-ROM era of flashy titles such as Myst and The 7th Guest. More importantly, they brought strong and realistic characterization and depiction to the world of computer games. Cinemaware is still alive today and currently working on an update of Defender of the Crown.'"

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"Influential" Amiga Games? In 2007?

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

I still own two Amigas, but were there really ANY "influential" Amiga games? I mean, games that were unique to the Amiga platform that anyone outside Amiga cared about? I think the marketplace has spoken pretty loudly on this topic: if there HAD been any influential games, Amiga wouldn't have been extinguished. (Do you know anyone who bought an Amiga just to play game X? Neither do I.)

Innovative sound? Sorry, but I got my Amiga in part to play with music and the 8-bit stuff is what eventually kicked me over the PC world (and then soon into Linux).

And why do we still care in 2007, 15 years after Amiga's peak?

Re:apple should of used some of the amiga hardware

[soft_guy]

What the hell does "should of" mean? I think you failed english.