ANDY's AMIGA ACTION!

The old Tottenham court road run, I know it well. Saturday was the best day for down there but I worked most Saturdays. The big shop for stuff was Gultronics, but that was more sound gear. I think the other one was MicroAnvika (or similar) almost totally computer gear. The same guy had another shop in Wood Green. Minted he was.

Totty crt road was where I got my 32" Panasonic MASSIVE CRT, 800 notes back then, muggins got it delivered but the y look at my tiny stair running up to the flat and refused. I had to lug it up myself, had to unbox it and carry it, weighed a ton, did it but scuffed the side. Brill TV tho, fantastic picture.

Loved the area for computer gear, you had Software City just off the main road, that later became CEX, well Computer Exchange before they got silly. That was a den of naugty goings on. And small trivia re CEX, there was I think a PSX game that had a huge white guy dressed as a sumo, was a brit advert, was in mags etc. Well the bloke was a worker from the Totty crt road CEX.. Got him TV work as well. Sadly, he was a complete twat..The old noggin is telling me that it was a Mario Kart style game by possibly Virgin

Later in life me and a mate would do a West End walkabout most Saturdays, we would just visit all the old shop (if they were still there). We happened to be there on the day the Trade Centres were bombed. My mate saw a huge crowd around a TV shop and him being mega nosey, we went and looked. Initially I thought I was seeing a film, plane slamming into tower, boom and it just seemed like a film news report.

When we saw it was REAL, the blood drained out of me..

Glad I got the printer model name right (on a roll with names), just nice and compact and great print quality., also liked that it was single page A4, the tractor paper was nice as it made you think of War Games or TRON with the tractor feed program lists, but I liked the clean white (just like Farage).

Back in the day my then girlfriend (Debbie) would just give me a filthy look if the letters BJ was used in the right context., We all like a nice girl, but sometimes you want a little bit of naughty...She was not having any of it..

 

PMSL!!! You lads and your Canon BJs - those gals never had it so good

 

THINK, the game I'm thinking of is Street racer.

 

This title, Paul??

 

Yes, one driver is a sumo, pretty sure that is the game...Not 100% tho..

 

Been having another furtle with me Amiga last night, lads.

Armalyte - it looks to be an R-Type/Silkworm type candidate.

Anyone got any memories of this one, given it some hammer in the recent past.

I'm officially rated as shite at it







I lasted about 60 seconds - even after re-starting 3-4 times.



Found it impossible to get past the 1st attack wave of mutant knackerwadgers... it must be the joystick, yeah, gadgers??!!

 

Deffo the joystick Andy. Must be the same one I used as I had the same problem with Amiga shooters

Not a big shoot em up fan personally, but the Amiga had some great titles. Project X and Blood Money being my own personal favourites. And your fore mentioned Silkworm, that was a belter.

 

Armalyte started out on the C64, from a company called Thalamus, it was programmed by two guys and got great reviews. There was a 2nd game that was initially cancelled but released in the end. It was then port to the Amiga. The Amiga version was programmed by a single person IIRC and not from the original team. Was a nice shooter but a joystick breaker due to its hardness.

Well that's all I remember off the bat..

 

Thanks, fellas.
Both of you guys have nailed it - Paul's background knowledge of the Amiga titles, teams and history is second to none - cheers - and I do find like you, Al, these Amigan shoot em ups have been put here on Planet Retro to frustrate & fry our gizzards out and reduce our retarded reflexes to mere frazzled and fused cannon fodder.
Where do I hand myself in to the ZX80 retirement home for washed out joystick wagglers??