Warhead for the Amiga

mikeuk · Post by **mikeuk** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:11 pm

Hi All
Just tidying out the attic when a came across my old Warhead game for the Amiga still in its original box, anyone remember this one or play it?
I loved the 3d navigation map and the intro music.

You need a powerfull system to play it A500 with min 512k:P

Some clips of it on youtube

WARHEAD

WARHEAD intro

Wikipedia Warhead

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Munshine · Post by **Munshine** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:52 pm

Hi Mikeuk,

Never heard of this game before on Atari St, shame on me.

It's interesting to learn that Glyn Williams is one of the creators of I-War.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:07 pm

LOL....Never heard of it. Never had an Amiga either (at that time I was to young for a Girl friend(actually not really just not lucky enough)).....

:P

sundalo · Post by **sundalo** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:27 pm

Is this game similar to Elite?

EU_NL · Post by **EU_NL** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:37 pm

Elite was the way to go, then, when i was young that is

mikeuk · Post by **mikeuk** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:55 pm

No it was nothing like Elite sundalo , but the space physics were a little like EM or seemed to be at the time. It had real feel of being in deep space.
I did like the 3d nav map would love to see somthing like that in EM;)

Atari Munshine nearly bought one but went for the Amiga.

Yep I loved Elite EU_NL and still have it in the original box:D

LOL Maarschalk

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Raynor · Post by **Raynor** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:35 pm

I fancy myself a bit of a video games "historian", i was born in 1978 so i'm just old enough to have experienced most of video games history firsthand but of course i missed a lot of it too (mainly the very early days). What's fascinating to me is that you realise soon enough, if you start digging into older games, that by at least the late 80's, there was pretty much no game concept that hadn't already been thought of and realised. And what's amazing is that back then of course the technology was sill very rudimentary so it's a testament to yesterday's game creators that they still managed to produce games with concepts that really were ahead (or should have felt like they were anyway) of the available technology.

I mention this because of course this game, like Elite too, were really way ahead of their time.

Shidoshi · Post by **Shidoshi** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:28 pm

Hi all!

I was born in 1973, so I know what you're talking about Raynor. I was a huge gamer when Atari, Coleco/Adam and the other less known systems came out. I loved Elite/Frontier on the Amiga and when I converted to PC I got it for that. It was the ONLY game I thought was worth keeping in the box (with glossy foldout Galactic map!) when I tossed most of my old game rigs. Just to show a bit of my aging self, I also kept the Original Final Fantasy for Nintendo, in the box with all the fold out maps. Favorite game of all time actually. Or was it Ikari Warriors? hmmm...

I also agree with the 'yesterdays programmers' comment because MUCH like EM, graphics don't MAKE a game, it *enhances* a game. I'm not saying EM is not beautiful and the developer (kudos!) is not a genius, but graphically PCs are capable of near-realistic graphics in real time. I run a monster system that kills every game out there. I know a day will come when we have a game as fantastic as EM and it's TOO realistic looking.

I'm not complaining but coming from games like Frontier and X3 scale is a big deal to me. I feel like my ship is a giant in comparison to the stations and planets in EM.

Lastly, I read some comment(s) on here about how shocked they were that the game is sub-300MB. Really? a 100GB install is just a programmer's nightmare. Using some actual brain power games don't have to be giant installs to be giant games. Putting Evochron on Steam was the best thing you can do. ( or prime time advertising during Big Bang Theory? LOL).

OKAY!!! Now I thought you were "safe" when docked in a station? I'm just at the point where you get your first mission to attack some fighters, I'm docked in the station (while typing this out JUST now) and I get attacked and destroyed by two goons. WHAT?!?!?! LOL. Sooooo, you are not safe in a station. The force field did not prevent me from getting wasted. Seriously, I was typing all this out...and this JUST happened in the back ground!

I did save though.

Post by **Marvin** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:10 am

You must go into the hangar to be safe ... and that's good only until you come out of the hangar. To be really safe, build your own trade station.