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Originally named ‘Beast’, the first game was released in 1989 and had twelve parallax scrolling levels that were absolutely jaw dropping. The first real 16bit platformer and its accompanying sequels.

Next up has to be Psygnosis revolutionary Shadow of the Beast Series. It was later ported to the NES in 1987, but failed to capture the atmosphere of the mighty Amiga 500.

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A full 16bit powerhouse of colours makes Defender Of The Crown the first modern animated video game. But it’s the graphics that stands out with this game. Robin Hood also pop’s up to help from time to time. It’s a strategy game that also turns it’s attention to smaller mini games where bys rescuing a fair maiden. For example, the player must build armies to conquer other opponent’s castles and land. Set in the medieval ages of jousting and over-taxing churches in England, the game gave the player control of what he wanted to do. But, when it hit the shelves for the Amiga 500, it’s not hard to see why games consoles of that era such as the NES were made to look ‘primitive’ in comparison.

First released on the doomed Amiga 1000, it went unnoticed to the general populous. Graphical elements of a new era in gaming are the most important, but combining it with gameplay is as equal. Nowadays, it’s not hard to imagine what a next gen game would or could look like. The history of Amiga gaming starts with Cinemawares Defender of the Crown. Apart from its infamous decline into the abyss, it’s remembered for games, games and games. Yet it’s rarely mentioned or marked down in history that this Amiga started a new revolution in home computing history. The Amiga OS, ‘workbench’ is what you are sitting in front of now, Windows. Its keyboard arrangement still haunts the ones we take for granted in every day life. It’s innovative yet modern still to this day.

The aging, yellowing chunk of plastic in front of you is why we as people have a computer at home, work or anywhere today. The feeling you get while playing an Amiga is the feeling of effort. I have had an Amiga since I was a kid, in one way or another.

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Most people opted for the 1MB, 1.5MB upgrade as some games like the outstanding Alien Breed needed that extra power to run it. The machine could be upgraded to possible height of 8MB. The keyboard would be part of the package, simply integrated into the motherboard along with the disk drive. So, in 1987, Commodore along with the master mind and creator of the Amiga computer, Jay Miner, went about creating an ‘all in one’ Amiga which simply plugged into the back of a TV. The A1000 was a big desktop machine that did not have the capability to load into a ROM. The Amiga 500 was the evil child of the 1985 A1000. You could have asked for a Mega drive, but somehow it seems ‘tired already’ in comparison with what you could be doing on an Amiga. Totally blown away by the Amiga, you walk home only to enter your house and say ‘Dad, I want an Amiga 500 with additional RAM and an external disk drive so I can copy games and sell them to my mates in the playground’ Suddenly, the SMS you left indoors becomes obsolete and old. You stare at it… listen to it… then you play it. Then, all of a sudden, the music starts and the main character is running across the screen with it’s vast, complex graphics and colours you have only ever seen in arcade machines in magazines. You sit down and wait for a game called Shadow of The Beast 2 to load while thinking of Double Dragon still. So, off you set, to the next street, knock on the door, enter and go to the room where this so called ‘Amiga’ computer is. What’s the point? But you get thrown out by the parents because sunlight is apparently good for you. It’s a computer, with keys, no Phantasy Star. You debate in your head for a second or two if the walk to the next street is worth it. You get a phone call asking you to go to a friend to play on their new Amiga 500. You are playing on the current gen console, the Master System. But, I am just going to focus on the Amiga 500. Now, I could go into the whole Atari & Commodore debate from which would spawn at least seventy pages of how Commodore as a company came to be. I want to talk about another type of games console, though it’s the description ‘console’ is far from what it was. Not because they are mainstream, but simply because they synonymous with word ‘games console’. This is an obvious choice of console discussion. When discussing the 16bit era, most people jump to the subject of the SNES or Mega Drive. What is RGC? What is Retro Games Collector and who is behind it?.

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