The first AMIGA game ?
Henry Soszynski
wrote:
>Which game was the first AMIGA game (commercial) ?
>
>I have some quite old games (Seven Cities of Gold , Silent Service , Archon ,
>Hacker ...) but I don´t know ..
>
>ZR
Mindwalker was apparently the first commercial Amiga game according to
Exotica.
Cheers,Henry
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Hidehiko Ogata
> I have some quite old games (Seven Cities of Gold , Silent Service ,
> Archon , Hacker ...) but I don´t know ..
IIRC 7CoG, Archon and Hacker were already available in the spring of
'86, when I purchased my first Ami :). SS came out somewhat later
methinks.
But there definitely were earlier ones... Monkey Business and Delta
Patrol come to my mind (these were *awful* BTW 8). Peter-san?
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Peter Olafson
author). It was one of the first well-known commercial Amiga games, but not
the first.
Peter
"Henry Soszynski" <zzhs...@fox.uq.net.au> wrote in message
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Peter Olafson
definitely the first one Amiga World magazine received.)
Peter
"Hidehiko Ogata" <h...@aqu.bekkoame.ne.jp> wrote in message
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Jools Smyth
> Ttbomk, the first commercial Amiga game was Monkey Business. (It was
> definitely the first one Amiga World magazine received.)
>
> Peter
> Zothen Runecaster wrote:
>
> > I have some quite old games (Seven Cities of Gold , Silent Service ,
> > Archon , Hacker ...) but I don´t know ..
>
> IIRC 7CoG, Archon and Hacker were already available in the spring of
> '86, when I purchased my first Ami :). SS came out somewhat later
> methinks.
>
well.. Although ExoticA doesnt like to be wrong :d I'm sure it has a ?
at the end of the statement about Mindwalker being the first Amiga
game.
Lets try and clarify things a bit.
September 1985 - Issue 27, Vol. 3, No. 9 disk
The New Commodore Amiga: A Hands-On Report, Amiga Software: Something
For Everyone, The Summer Consumer Electronics Show: Beyond the
Shakeout, CES Perspective:
Apl 1986 Crimson Crown Polarware
Apl 1986 Transylvania Polarware
1986 Mindwalker Synapse - Commodore Amiga
May 1986 Seven Cities Of Gold
May 1986 On-On-One
Jul 1986 Brataccas Psygnosis
Sep 1986 A Mind Forever Voyaging Infocom/Activision
Sep 1986 Rogue
Sep 1986 Temple Of Apshai Epyx
From COMDEX in spring 1986 march/april
Hacker Activision
Borrowed Time Activision / Infocom
Mindshadow Activision / Infocom
The Coveted Mirror Polarware/Penguin Software
Frank and Ernest's Adventure Polarware/Penguin Software
Oo-Topos Polarware/Penguin Software
Jewels Of Darkness Rainbird
Monkey Business The Other Valley Software
Delta Patrol The Other Valley Software
Ultima II Sierra on-line
Spellbreaker Infocom
-------------------------
Moonmist Activision
The 1987 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, Commodore Goes Cloning in
the U.S., Commodore's New Amigas, Fine-Tuning the Software Market,
Review: Tass Times in Tonetown,
COMPUTER COMPANY PURCHASED COMMODORE GETS A NEW MACHINE
Commodore International Ltd. gave notice yesterday that it intended
to challenge both Apple Computer Inc. and Atari Inc. in the arena of
high- performance small computers like Apple's Macintosh. Commodore
said it had agreed to buy Amiga Computer Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif.,
which has developed a computer similar to the Macintosh but with
state-of-the-art full-color graphics capability.When it showed the
computer to the trade in June, Amiga said it would sell the machine
for
Thomas Rattagan of Commodore says the Amiga has ''a God-given right to
35 to 40 percent of the market for computers used at home... a dozen
to 20 programs will be available immediately when the Amiga is
released
----
The Washington Post Company
31.12.1985
Electronic Arts has just begun shipments of its first five products
for the Amiga:
Deluxe Paint, Archon, Financial Cookbook, Seven Cities of Gold, and
Julius Erving & Larry Bird Go One-On- One.
Nov. 26, 85 Among the conspicuously absent was Commodore
International, which hosted a 2-hour press conference, not a
hospitality suite, to parade the Amiga. Atari rented out most of its
booth space to 30 software developers and charged them $1,000 for a
40X40 inch
Sep. 24, 85 Commodore has started volume shipments of Amiga computers
to more than 400 retail outlets throughout the U.S. And look for that
$40 million ad campaign to hit the airwaves. Sources say Commodore
will make a big splash on "60 Minutes" and "Hill Street Bl
May. 31, 85 North American business group, Thomas Rattigan (formerly
of Pepsico), in an interview with David Sanger of the "New York Times"
say Commodore will come out with a UNIX-based micro in direct
competition to AT&T's UNIX PC next year and it will be marketed i
Load Archon into hexeditor, and it says 25.11.85
but i think it was released later, december/january
Regards
ExoticA Team
Børge Nøst
<bu...@totem.fix.no> wrote:
>"Peter Olafson" <pnol...@home.com> wrote in message
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>> Ttbomk, the first commercial Amiga game was Monkey Business. (It was
>> definitely the first one Amiga World magazine received.)
>well.. Although ExoticA doesnt like to be wrong :d I'm sure it has a ?
>at the end of the statement about Mindwalker being the first Amiga
>game.
I think Monkey Business might have been very early. Never seen it though. Wish
I had because I'm a sucker for Donkey Kong games (which I believe it is).
MindWalker is said to be the first game, but this might be down to early
versions of it circulating among pre-release developers (or so I've read).
(I seem to remember that the code was not stripped of debug symbols.)
-Børge
Hidehiko Ogata
> MindWalker is said to be the first game, but this might be down to early
> versions of it circulating among pre-release developers (or so I've read).
I did see a dealer demo copy (or whatever it was) of MW in early '86...
not sure about when (February?), but certainly before the official
release hit the shelf.
> (I seem to remember that the code was not stripped of debug symbols.)
Yup, they are in the release version as well 8).