Computer and Console Games

Amiga 500

When my parents divorced, my brother asked for an Amiga 500 computer. I would ultimately get the most use out of it. (I’d asked for a £500 Philips VCR because I liked TV and films more than games.)
It was an incredible leap from a Vic20 that we’d not used for many years.
The screen resolution in its most common mode was 640×512. The standard memory was 512Kb.
As well as games, I used the computer for pixel based graphics and illustration, but I don’t have any of the work saved digitally. I only have two examples of the work printed out (badly), like the Aliens one below.
I played probably over 100 different gameson the Amiga, but mostly the platform games Terminator 2, Robocop 2 and especially The New Zealand Story. These might even be the only ones I ever completed.

Not a game, but a print of an illustration I made on the Amiga 500.
A photo of an identical Batman Amiga pack to the one we got.
Terminator 2: Judgement day (1991)
The game was a standard mix of platforms, vehicle chases and puzzles.
A screen from an early level.
Robocop 2 (1990)
This game was also a combination of things like target ranges, puzzles and platforms.
I liked how they managed to c capture a good amount of character style into crappy 8-bit graphics
The New Zealand Story (1989)
I LOVED this platform game. It took me ages to get through it all. I must have started the game thousands of times.
The game spanned many backdrops and environments, but the gameplay was all pretty similar and quite difficult too.

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