Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS

great video. I am the author of the Strife AGA port. thanks for giving it a mention :)

"Those that could wrangle raw machine code and make hardware sing" That is an incredible quote.

Everytime i watch Ahoy's Vids, it feels like well-made professional documentary unlike other youtube videos.

I had an Amiga 500 and then an A1200 during the platform's "golden age", and at some point I was absolutely FANATICAL about it. But then I realised I was a diminishing lone voice among PC owners and finally chose a 486 PC over a CD-ROM add-on drive for my A1200. Doom is actually the reason why, since I saw it on a friend's PC and was absolutely blown away by it.

I'm on a binge tonight-- every single one of these is just brilliant!! PLEASE make sure they're never deleted, gamers of any age will find all of it useful <3

I had an Amiga 1200 with an 020 accelerator card and I remember how much I enjoyed playing all of Alien Breed 3D. First Team 17 released a tech demo for the game and I finished that one over and over again. Once I got the full game, I had an amazing experience and I can still remember how happy I was once I defeated the gigantic robot on the last level, grabbed the key from it and almost got a heart attack when I opened the last door and was attacked by the most basic alien enemy some evil developer had hidden there.

A500 owner here, it's still working :)

I went to school with an Amiga nut. How we laughed when, circa 1999, he announced he was getting a new Amiga with "a hard drive and everything".

You loved her, didn't you Stu?

11:16 "'Testament' was a satanic take on the genre..." What was Doom then, wholesome family fun?

Perfect video! The Amiga is more about feeling and community than hardware. That's why people still using it for making demos and sometimes games.

I had Gloom for the Amiga CD32, the co-op was a lot of fun and required genuine teamwork and a tactical approach.

Amiga 1200 owner here. So many good games that I miss.

Really interesting. I'm an old school Amiga owner into the mid 90s, and even I hadn't heard of all of these. I never owned an accelerated Amiga, so I remember struggling with postage-stamp sized Gloom and salivating over AB3D and Breathless. Would love to see some more Amiga videos. Might even do some myself :)

Ow, how i remember me as a 12 year old child, with a dictionary next to my amiga, playing adventure games! Those were the days, and nights. I was a "late adopter", i bought my A500+ on 1992 and man it was a ride up until 1998 (still got her of course), for me it wasn't about the FPS or doom clones, for me it was about the point and click adventures and Dungeon Master.

I played all of them back in the time, going from a 500 to a 1200, to an accelerator card ... This is quite a trip down memory lane...

I used to have an Amiga ... now I only have a computer.

Very well researched, ultimately entertaining and informative!!! Very much enjoyed, thank you Mr. Brown!!!

Ahhhhhhh SpeedBall. ICE CREAM, ICE CREAM! If you never played it, you won't get that.

I didn't even know much about the Amiga back in the days - it wasn't popular in Belgium (in fact almost unknown among kids) but I did get into PC gaming since 1993 and my first "contact" with the Amiga was through Stuart Campbell who wrote for PC Gamer around 1995. He had previously written for Amiga Power and half the stuff he wrote, was complaining about how bad the PC was, and how great the Amiga was. Sadly, his attitude seems all too familiar - as a retro gamer who has came to discover the Amiga and learned to love it, I encounter far too many Amiga fans who trash talk retro PC gaming which is very unfair - the developers moved onto the PC because the Amiga screwed up, simple as. The games made for PC by former Amiga studios were just as good if not better (Bullfrog for example) - it's sad because it almost put me off Amiga gaming the way its fans attacked PC gaming ...