Amiga !!! Good times... Played tons of RPGs on it. Still have it on a desk, but my wife insists on throwing it to the dump because it takes space and I only use it once a year or so now
. The PC has definitely won the battle.
I've tried WinUAE a few times, but not very easy to setup, sometimes it doesn't work very well. But there are now 1 or 2 front-ends that help well. I'll definitely play a few games I missed in the past, but I have so many of them waiting on my PS2, Dreamcast and PC...
I played a ton of good RPGs at the time. For what I recall (and looking at my shelf just right next to me
, I still kept most of my amiga games) :
- Dungeon master (everybody knows this one)
- Chaos strikes back (the sequel)
- Dungeon master 2 (quite good actually - although some kind of bug at the very end of the game didn't allow me too finish it
)
- EOB1
- EOB2 (BEST EVER IMO)
- Might and magic 3 (though I don't recall playing it much)
- Amberstar (as above. There was ambermoon, too, but never played it).
- Pools of darkness (and the other gold box series. Good rendition od AD&D rules, and great tactical turn-based combat, but graphically outdated - even at the time)
- Fate Gates of the dawn (looked fantastic, but crashed as soon as I got in the first town. Never knew if it was a bug, or faulty disk
. One of the games i'll definitely play with winUAE in the future, I just hope there is a correct version floating around...)
- Black crypt (fantastic one - BW, if you can give it a shot, do it !. Got stuck somewhere at level 7 or 11, I don't recall, and never finished it.)
- Realms of Arkania - Blades of destiny (good, but too much wandering monsters, and clunky interface)
- Knightmare (dungeon-master-like. quite good, definitely not a kid game. Got stuck at the end of the 1st level - was missing a key or something)
- Crystal dragon (one of the latest of the amiga history. an excellent pseudo3D EOB style game, with only 2 PCs. Levels had often many linked sublevels, mapping it was a nightmare
. never finished it because it got a bit repetitive (only 2 different monster in each level, and you got to slaughter hundreds of each), but very good game anyway. I seem to recall the author distributes it freely, I have the link somewhere...)
- Ultima 6 (never played it. Crashed)
- Ishar 1 (never played it)
- ishar 2
- ishar 3 (only played ishar 2. Good games that I intend to replay one day)
- Legacy of Sorasil (heroquest follow-up, I don't recall much of it)
- darkmere (isometric)
- elvira 3 - waxworks. Cross between adventure and RPG)
- Bard's tale 3 (never played it)
- Dragonflight (never played it - crashed at startup)
And probably a few more I don't recall now...
(Shadowlands ? Cadaver ? Oh, Legends of Faerghail too, similar to Fate IIRC)
I have forgotten so much...