WAYHAYYYYY!!!!! Nice video bud, knew you wouldn't dissapoint xx

AMIGA CD32 WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE IN MY HEART. That booting/loading screen still sends shivers down my spine.

Man I dreamed about getting a CD32 as a kid but my A500+ didn't disappoint! All my friends had consoles like the megadrive and snes but me with my Amiga I thought was superior. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. It's been about 25 years since I played my Amiga and I'm slowly remembering and looking up the great games from my collection. Gotta say that Chaos Engine music is so good!

The CD32 versions of the point-and-click adventures were a welcome relief from disk swapping.

I was an Amiga owner at the time and each month Amiga format would cheerlead for the forthcoming cd32 talking up it's chances and even abilities vs the forthcoming PlayStation. even then i found it hard to believe. it was like sticking a keyboard on a megadrive and calling it a top home computer

So many great games missing. Defender Of The Crown II, Brian The Lion, Fears, James Pond 2 & 3, Jungle Strike, Pirates Gold, D Generation, Pinball Illusions, Sensible Soccer, Lotus Trilogy, Subwar 2050...

Can I just say, I absolutely adore your videos. I'm a UK based retro gamer and I just love to see my childhood memories (gaming-wise) unwrapped for me to look through. Great channel, top bloke, thank you.

I heard the UK side of Commodore was still highly profitable, it was the incompetence of the US side that dragged them down. It's a shame they couldn't have split. But you must try D/Generation on the CD32 as well sometime!

This is why i enjoy this channel. It shows content from consoles and computers that i never played or knew existed. Even cooler, i get to see games i never seen in my life.

Totally agree on speedball 2. Same as I prefer the OCS version of chaos engine over the AGA which looks cartoon like with its new colours

There's nothing quite like JET STRIKE, a fantastic game especially with a CD32 pad.

I would have added Universe (nice improved CD soundtrack), Pinball Illusions (same), Robocod (same + FMV intro), Liberation: Captive II (not too many RPGs + music + speech), Zool (1 or 2) And maybe Alien Breed 3D or Gloom to have at least 1 FPS on the list :) Of course there's also the proper version of real Amiga classic - Defender of the Crown, but is that CDTV?

What a great review of a quite exhaustive list. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

I think Guardian and Arcade Pool should have been in this list. The first was one of the few original games for the cd32 (only later ported to the 1200), the other one had a great improved cd soundtrack. Even Lotus Trilogy, although just a collection, was no doubt something worth getting.

Great video, but is missing 2 of the top 5 games on CD32. Liberation and Frontier: Elite II.

I remember countless hours playing ufo enemy unknown in Amiga cd 32 when I was a kid... I was so stuck on it I've made a combination between controller and joystick because the controller was damaged to keep playing

Great list, although I would probably included Pirates! Gold and D\Generation. :-) The latter seems to be a bit overlooked, but it's actually kind of fantastic. It's an isometric action/puzzle game with great atmosphere, well worth checking out if that is your sort of thing.

i still love my CD32. :)

Never saw the point of CD32 as for me a1200 owner with a CDrom and joypad - could play the games as well as have a fully functioning computer.

No Dark Seed? "My head is killing me!"

Always good to see Roadkill in the list, great CD32 version (and of course, Fury of the Furries, which is still the best game on the Amiga).

OSG: "Football Manager is the definitive management simulation with realistic stats and a great match engine. The only reason it didn't come higher in the list is the lack of in-game music". (Just teasing - love your videos!)

Problem with the cd32 was that the PlayStation and Saturn were just around the corner and we're leaps and bounds more powerful. The 3DO is out but it was $400 more expensive. Still if you just had to have a CD the Sega CD could be had for around $50 cheaper after including the cost of the base unit. Commodore just wasn't spending enough on r&d. Either because they didn't have it or because they thought they could just repackage older hardware.

Great list, and wow I completely forgot about Roadkill, great game!

Another great collecton Mr OSG. Thanks for all your hard work ;-)

I never had this. But a friend of a friend did. We played speedball II tournaments there a handful of times , and got the chance to try a few more of his games ; Captive 2 , Bubba & Stix , Chaos engine and Alfred chicken. Those are all I’ve played , but I really liked the handcontrol.

Yeah this had problems but damn i loved my CD32 and i was gutted Commodore went T*T's up. Just think if they hadn't we would of got a CD32 drive addon for the 1200 now that would of been so great but it was never to be. Had a fair few of these games on the list think i still have Cannon Fodder in a draw somewhere and your also right in saying that there was a lot of junk that came out as well. Great stuff as always buddy keep it up the great work.

Cracking video....I never owned a CD32 so its interesting to see what was available and what they added to the original disk versions....A1

Of course - the topic is a matter of personal taste, but I have never seen a video on KZfaq (and I have watched many in the last few years) in which so many good games that I have not yet seen are introduced! GREAT!

Nice collection of 16-bit games on a 32-bit console (not being sarcastic). With the jaguar and 3DO just around the corner, I remember being underwhelmed by this console. Nowdays, that is less important and it has nice versions of good amiga games.

For Me : Pirates Gold, Simon, Liberation 32, Tower Assault, Prey, Litil Divil, FotF, Shadow Fighter and Microscom

Still love my CD32 and collection

for me in a hypothetical ranking they should never have been missing: Dune2 - MEgalomania - Utopia - Kick Off and above all Player Manager - Pinball Fantasies - Eye of Beholder and Civilization

Great choice for #1, a great game by itself..sadly I do not have the CD32 version.

its a shame the 1200 and cd32 were never pushed to the limits like the 500. the games available would be so much better rather than just poor hand me downs with a little tweak here and there

Super Stardust title music so much nostalgia listening to it good times me and my cousin with a cd A1200 ad-on ripped the music off as a MP3 Simon the sorcerer is a classic loved Chris Barrie voice over gutted when my mate got it on the CD32 no disk changing and talkie BASS another game which made the use off the CD32 and one of the best ways to play it Alien breed intro total blow my socks off seeing that intro had to tape it again from my cousin RoadKill another game I still really enjoy agree with speedball 2 colours just not right for me same a chaos engine which is one game I can’t get to run on a A1200 cd rom think it use the akiko chip (can’t see were) Thinking IK+ and Lotus Trilogy would be in somewhere But a what a system and with all the new hardware out now and a monster joystick using a special A500 CD-R Cheers Paul

Chris 'Rimmer' barrie was awesome as Simon

Simon The Sorcerer is brilliant. Chris Barrie's voice makes that game.

Another good mark of the Amiga CD-32 💿 is that it didn’t have the NES-Censors

Loved to se bubba n stix on the list. A superb match of puzzle and plattform.

I love My CD 32..... Simon the Sorcerer and Banshee are both Great!

I didn't even know there was that many CD32 games

Nice never seen Jetstrike before, but instantly reminds me of Brotherbunds' 'wings of fury'

Great video mate ..loads to take in and play on the cd32

Cool selection!

nice list, nice video :) yeah, i can confirm that Alien Breed gets better with practice. i played it a lot throughout the years, every now and then, but only recently really got into it. i always thought of it as a shoot-em-up, but it's more like survival-horror. it has a slower rhythm, requires a little bit of restraint. it's a real thriller. :-)

Shame on you for not mentioning that the multi talented Chris Barrie of Arnold Rimmer red dwarf voiced Simon. There was Chris with his fantastic impressionist skills. and there is you, with your red alert bulb!😀

OMG! I never knew when I was kid that Fury of the Furries was on AMIGA! I was so jealous cos my best friend have PC and that game!

I played Heimdall 2 on my friend's CD32 back in the day. We had a great time playing and finishing it. Not sure if it stands up after all this time though 🤔

My cousin bought a CD32 (still has it!) and the only game I remember playing on it was Sensible Soccer.

This is why the CD32 was a nail to the coffin. Almost all games weren't even enhanced for the hardware. They were just A500 floppy games stuffed on CD with added intro or CD Audio music. The Lost Vikings didn't get the backgrounds known from other ports. Also CD medium could fit plenty of games, so they could be released as bundles with like 10 games from the same studio. This really shows the greed and how C= was turned into mess.

It was an awesome machine but...the 1KB rom killed this console for me. if you played Xcom (probably my fav, i played the A500 but CD32 only allowed u to build 3 bases which ramped the difficulty) or any other game, you couldn't play anything else until you finished it as there was only enough memory for 1 save of any game at any time! i had a notebook with the highscores for the pinball, race games and shmups as they were continually being wiped. And Elite frontier was so bugged i actually wrote a letter of complaint to Gametek, i think it was. I still have the A500 and CD32 in the loft..one day i will play them again..or pass them on to the grandkids.

Three consoles I never owned but wish I did were the Neo Geo, Atari Jaguar and the infamous cd32

First comment and like.... great content and video as always ..... I love how your video remind me of games I had forgotten lol... keep it up....

Super Skidmarks was great on a regular floppy - the tracks were all .iff files that you could load up in dpaint and scribble about on - we had hours of fun vandalising the tracks with random nonsense

OSG maybe you should do a run down of all CD32 only releases excluding A500 ports but including upgraded to AGA video that would be awesome and put them in order. I bet your top 10 changes.

No Liberation, a game which used the storage capacity of the CD to masively improve the texture variation over the standard AGA version? Also Guardian is worth a shout - again better than the A1200 version.

Alien breed assault is sooooo hotline miami!!! Damm, HLM is CLEARLY inspired by that

Best list for KZfaq!

liberation was an excellent game too

Also Enemy Unkown.. The starting epicness that is XCOM

I disagree about beneath a steel sky. The dos version is the best because there wasn't the disc searching delay before every single time someone spoke. It didn't bother me too much back then but now it makes the game on the cd32 unplayable.

Many Amiga CD32 games were direct ports from the Amiga 1200 that only used one button. The system was underpowered and the catalog didn't have exclusives with enough weight to be a must-buy. The console was expensive and its lifespan was short. Even if Commodore had survived, it wouldn't have stood a chance against the PSX, Saturn, or N64.

Enjoy how you show the title screen for each game before moving on!

I can’t believe kang-fu didn’t make the top spot!

Another great upload I never had a CD32 so good to see something about it the price put me off getting one.

furries and lost vikings were really fun puzzle platform games 👌 good list btw 👍

Awesome!

D/Generation!

I remember lost Vikings on the snes

I would have put Speeris Legacy as the Zelda-like game on this list. There was only one problem with Jetstrike for me - the climb/dive controls were reversed depending on which way you were flying. However everything else was top-notch. Anyone else enjoy squeezing your plane through the tunnel under the massive hill? Also Simon The Sorcerer = Harry Potter prototype, sorry JK!

I often wonder what the CD32 could have been capable of in the visuals and graphics department. I know AGA was only a minor evolution step over ECS, although m ore noticeable if you can see the same game side by side in both format. But the CD32 must have been capable of more than what the older ported games offered up in this regard. I know it likely could not have matched the PS1, but how could it have compared to the Sega x32 or Dreamcast?

Kinda sad that most these titles are just Amiga 1200 ones anyway. It had so few original games

Best games are: Diggers, Street Fighter 2 turbo, Theme Park.

Great video

You prefer Banshee to Battle Squadron?. Or the second didn't made it to the cd32?. And where's Ruff N Tumble?. Did you know Zool is coming back?. The amazing thing about Fightin Spirit is that it runs on an Amiga 500.

Diggers,Oscar???

I remember seeing the CD32 in a games shop in '93/94, I was ready to upgrade and as I already owned a A1200 and as you've pointed out in this video all the CD32 games were basically A1200 games on CD I swerved it and ended up buying a 3DO :( There's some great games in this list but what a wasted opportunity by the devs to not fully enhance most of em back then, pity. Great vid m8! btw what emulator are you using here?

Hey dude, what about making a video with the "10 best paid c64 musicians" ?? Whould be hard to get some infos, right?

An interesting list, it’s a shame it didn’t last long. Didn’t play the games though.

SURELY it should have been the 32 best games....

I now realize why the system failed. They look bad for what was supposed to be one of, if not the first 32 bit system.

I remember for months all the Amiga magazines at the time were gushing over the forthcoming CD32. Then when it came out a mate of mine at the time got one and it was just so boring The only thing 'CD' about it were the soundtracks, but that wasn't enough. So disappointing.

I just loved SKIDMARKS

Mostly it's the controls that were underutilized but then again the Amiga joystick pinout was already expanded over the C64 yet never seemed to get past one button. O_o??? Nice to see some Jump button conversions but yeah if any genre could use all those buttons it would be the fighting genre. ;) I definitely think voice tracks was something CD-ROMs handled well, even better than FMV in most cases. Much like a CD soundtrack there was probably little to no budget to add anything new to most ports to use all that storage space. :\

I tried looking for a CD32 rom for Super Stardust and can't find one anywhere! Or at least not one that requires a whole work around to get into the right format.

Wait, Chris Barry didn't voice the CD32 version of StS?

how could anyone hate furies ??? it's such a brilliant game

In my opinion Kid Chaos was better than Super Frog and CD32 version has some enhanced graphics and CD mussic

Was PGA European Tour ever released for free after Amiga was discontinued? Shame about Banshee and many others being lost (as sanctioned downloads) when Back to the Roots went down. I got into amiga too late...

Pinball Illusions was BY FAR better than the Fantasy ! ATR should be highter imo, it's a really really good game for this period Shadow Fighter is excellent but got fucked by 2 buttons controller ... Amiga AGA (1200 or CD32) has the best version of all, especially for the colors palette damn, where is Flight for the Amazon Queen game ??? :(

Super Skidmarks. Good game, Bad nickname.

Always thought it was just used by developers to make a quick quid on games they’d already made. Whack some CD quality sound on them and send them back out. I could be wrong, as I only ever played one back in the day, very briefly, but even then, saw it as a pointless system. Maybe if it’d had a longer life, developers would have come up with some impressive new games.

If you like speedball you might like dirty pigskin on mame.

No save feature with this console. How was this even signed off.

a cd game without in game music lol

Odd that you stopped at "30" when you could have gone for the obvious "32 Best Amiga CD32 games"

Fire and Ice is not the same, the original didn't have the parallax scrolling. It's a really hard game though once you get past the Ice stage....brilliant though, love the music.

The CD32 was such a wasted opportunity! Commodore basically did what Amstrad did with the GX4000 & just released old hardware boxed as a console

I know we are all entitled to our opinion, but i am amazed gaming got too where we are now...... Because my god there was some crap about lol. From consoles as bad as the Jaguar, Mega CD, 3D0, CDi....... and this, should have been called the Amiga Platform 32. There were some shocking games too. I think Cannon Fodder and Alien Breed 3D were the only games worth having on this system, which is 2 more than any of the others mentioned.