Wired magazine has written an article about the “Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games”

Despite being absolutely true, seeing the pictures of this Computer made my eyes watery..

End of the 80s, beginning of the 90s was the time this computer ruled the (digital) world.
I remember the endless hours of either roaming the telephone system (there was no WWW, yet) or gaming in a world of fantasy.

Games back then had no photorealistic 3D-Animations, no crazy surround sounds, no cinematic effects and movie-transitions… but they had one thing that most today’s games miss: Fantasy!

The designers of these “early” games loved what they did, creating wonderful worlds of fantasy and boy, they had ideas! With 256 colours and 2D graphics they created a colourful world of “Sprites” that probably are a major reason for my love for Anime and colourful things :)

No repetitve killing and wonderfully animated death-sequences but a plot that really “sucks” you in and takes you on a journey into a different world.
It’s a pity this machine died.. I still don’t know why.

Now that I see these games.. Where is ELITE? Where is “The Secret of Monkey Island” ???
What about Dune2 – the father of Command&Conquer… Turrican? Pirates! ???
Oh, how many hours I spent with these…

Well, probably it can’t all fit into a Top 10 ;)