- Supercars 1&2 - top down racers, both really good fun. I seem to remember these sounding particularly good, which was part of the charm.
- Midnight Resistance - as a kid I never played any of the Contra games; when I saw Contra for the first time years later, I wondered if these games were related. I think this was one of Data East's knock-offs, but the Amiga version was a good game I think. I remember that it had two-player co-op too.
- North vs South - A pretty strange game, this was about the US Civil War. It had an overworld map which was turn-based, then a battle system where you controlled cannons, cavalry and footmen; the closest genre I could give it is a "vs 2D shooter" where you directly control the units and have to wipe out the other side before they wipe you out. This one gets top marks from me because of it being memorable; I can't think of anything I've ever played which is quite like it.
- Tower of Babel - A pretty forgettable first-person puzzle game. I always list this with Amiga games because it had a level editor, and was the first 3D game I ever played in which I was able to create my own levels and scenarios.
- Turrican (series) - Doesn't really need explanation.
- Desert Island Dizzy - Pretty well-known.
- X-out - 2D scrolling shooter. Came up in the prior thread.
- Body Blows (series) - These might be pretty bad games by modern standards but they were probably the best 2D fighter on the Amiga. The port of Street Fighter II was quite poor and when considering this, there's more to the comparison than just the quality of the actual game. SFII was split between discs; most of my memories of it involve long load times and disc swapping, whereas Body Blows was on one disc which just meant you got to play more game in an evening. Important for me when I was a kid.
- Bloodwych - Notable as it was the first RPG I ever played of any sort. Would be curious to play it again.
Like most people, I had a box of discs for the Amiga, with literally dozens, perhaps as many as a hundred games, a mixture of genuine and copies... But these are the only ones I remember.
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