Those "Yeah, #A1200 remake incoming" reviews in renowned tech magazines - all mention a good collection of games that will be included and then mentioning the Turrican Trilogy, Ruff 'n' Tumble or Defender of the Crown. I'm talking about well known tech portals here (German Language: Heise, Golem, Der Standard; international: Toms Hardware) and of course various gaming portals.
Yet, besides the "expertise" one would expect, no one mentions that those are native Amiga 500 (or A1000 with a RAM upgrade... let's say OCS/ECS systems) games. No A1200 needed, no special features of the 7 years younger (!) machine is touched. Yes they run totally well at the younger hardware; yes - those are good or good looking or both of it games - but no A1200 games.
And honestly, there aren't much A1200 "killer" games out there that stood the test of time.
Still. It's like selling a Gameboy Advance Remake and bundling this with Original Gameboy Games with 4 shades of yellowish green like Tetris or the original Pokemon Blue.
The GBA can do so much more! But the reviews would go like: Cool games like Tetris and Pokemon Blue are part of the bundle! Yeah!!
I seriously wonder, who will buy this. People who really and desperately want to play Amiga games have an emulator on their laptop (or hacked game console or PC or raspberry or China portable), an FPGA based system (MISTer) or the original hardware - the best option of all.
If the remake would be FPGA based, that would be interesting, but it isn't. Why the hell would I buy this thing then, that looks like an A1200 but isn't, while I can have it's functionality at any electrified potato?
And less fiddly, when it comes to side loading other games?
Sure, people will buy it anyway, but seriously - their reasoning (besides being not firm with computer stuff - but what Amiga freak is?!) is very beyond me.
#retrogaming #Amiga