I AM IRONCLAW! | Amiga Longplay [305] Blocky Skies @iamironclaw | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Cute, simple, and fun, but not easy.
Tutorial levels + normal levels + secret bonus level (press left 7 times and right 3 times on the main menu). I did the secret level without music, as it started to get a bit too repetitive.
The game is free and can be downloaded here: blockyskies.com
Cute, simple, and fun, but not easy.
Tutorial levels + normal levels + secret bonus level (press left 7 times and right 3 times on the main menu). I did the secret level without music, as it started to get a bit too repetitive.
The game is free and can be downloaded here: blockyskies.com
![Amiga Longplay [305] Blocky Skies](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l_gL_BP-Bes/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [305] Blocky Skies
Cute, simple, and fun, but not easy.
Tutorial levels + normal levels + secret bonus level (press left 7 times and right 3 times on the main menu). I did the secret level without music, as it started to get a bit too repetitive.
The game is free and can be downloaded here: https://blockyskies.com/")
![Amiga Longplay [322] Final Fight: Enhanced](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oLPY7ddbE7w/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [322] Final Fight: Enhanced
A more accurate arcade port than the one we got in 1991.
00:00 - Intro
06:29 - Character select
06:43 - Round 1
09:02 - Boss 1
10:41 - Round 2
16:00 - Boss 2
16:57 - Bonus round
17:30 - Round 3
21:40 - Boss 3
23:11 - Round 4
28:06 - Boss 4
29:24 - Round 5
36:11 - Boss 5
37:43 - Round 6
49:44 - Boss 6
51:13 - Ending")
![Amiga Longplay [254] Navy Moves](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oLupODVFzrY/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [254] Navy Moves
Did Army Moves before this one, and next one will probably be Arctic Moves.
07:02 - I enter the code I got earlier when completing part 1. The reason they ask for the code is to make sure you completed part 1 first, as you can select which part to play, and they dont want you to play part 1 first :). Entering the wrong code results in this message:
YOUR CODE IS WRONG
YOU ARE AN ILLEGAL PLAYER
* GAME OVER *
If you dont make it out in time so the bomb explodes, it says this:
THE BOMB HAS EXPLODED
YOUR MISSION HAS FAILED
YOU HAVE LOST YOUR WEAPONS
You cant loot enemies killed with the flamethrower, so better make sure not killing any of the important ones that drop the codes, as they dont seem to respawn. I accidentally killed one while he was on a lift, and doing so make them fall through it and disappear, and couldnt get another one to spawn again, not even after I killed myself so I lost a life. Maybe bad luck, or one has to go completely game over, probably not. Maybe he spawned elsewhere after that. Another one died while I took the elevator up, and when it showed the next screen, he was standing in the air where the elevator would stop, so he fell and disappeared before it stopped. They shouldnt have made enemies spawn on the elevator tiles when entering the screen if theres not elevator there yet.
Cant have more than 5 enemies on the screen, as new ones stop spawning/entering then.
The octopus level was crazy hard. You need to hit them a certain amount of times before they die, and you cant afford to miss too many, because as soon as one appears on the screen, it will just go for you after like 7-10 seconds and crush you. So, as soon as I killed one, it was just like 0.5-1 sec left before it would have killed me. I fought each one many times before I managed to kill them all. Thank god for savestates, of which I try to use as few as possible.
When people die, they sound pretty much exactly like the knights in Elvira - Mistress of the Dark when they die. Probably the same sound sample.
08:05 - STOPED
12:22 - Glitches here and the screen wont move back up by itself, so each enter/space/fire press makes it move a bit each time, which is why its so jerky. Maybe because I died while typing the stuff so it got confused or something. Time should pause when doing it, but dunno. Could have used a savestate to redo that part, but wanted to die at least once anyway to show the submarine/map screen. This screen seem like something you should be able to display whenever you want, but tried all the keyboard keys and controller combinations (AFAIK). Also looked for a manual and found one from the ZX Spectrum version, but it didnt say anything about controls/keys.
13:22 - Waited a bit to show his idle pose before going to the left to finish the game.
Had to censor the outro as the women had huge, juicy boobs, and the guy a long schlong. People love to report/flag videos that have any sort of nudity in them. Could be a few pixels in a low-res game where you barely can make out if its a nipple or not, and yet people report it. If you want to see them naked, look at any other recording of this game on YouTube, as no one else censors their Amiga longplays, and yet nothing happens to them.
The cover (https://imgur.com/a/cUjJvbI) is from Arnold Schwarzeneggers Commando cover (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088944/).")
![Amiga Longplay [308] McGee at the Fun Fair](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oiIqj5vL2tE/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [308] McGee at the Fun Fair
After my pretty hard Blocky Skies longplay where I had to use my poor brain to remember stuff, I felt like doing something a bit easier, so did this McGee series :P
Anyway, heres a quote from MobyGames of what this game is about:
McGee at the Fun Fair is the third game in the McGee series. Like the previous two games it is an educational game for young children that is entirely wordless so that it can be played by the child alone without any help from a parent. The gameplay is identical to the previous games but this time McGee has traveled to a fun fair and along with him comes a friend called Tony. The fair consists of a few different locations and for each there are four icons to click on that cause the two characters to interact with the environment in different ways. This includes watching the various entertainers (a clown, a juggler and a one man band for instance), having fun on the playground and eating ice cream. The game does not have an end sequence so the player can explore the locations freely for any length of time.
I sat it as Made for kids, which this game is, but it disables the comments section.")
![Amiga Longplay [327] Crime Patrol (American Laser Games)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p11y4ComREE/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [327] Crime Patrol (American Laser Games)
American Laser Games are arcade games where you use a gun and shoot stuff on a big screen. These games happen to run on my favorite Commodore Amiga, the Amiga 500. It uses Amigas genlock to display the video.
I like this one more than my previous two ALG-games. They seem to have had a decent budget, the music was cool (they even made it sync to some light stuff here and there, like at 17:08 and 18:54), and it included a strip club :P
00:00 - Intro
01:04 - Rookie missions
03:53 - Undercover missions
08:30 - SWAT missions
11:51 - Delta missions
20:10 - Credits
For info on recording/playing this type of game, check out the video description of Mad Dog McCree and/or Who Shot Johnny Rock?")
![Amiga Longplay [282] Predator (REAL ENDING + BOW now included... RE-UP)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pHRjwlLxNeM/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [282] Predator (REAL ENDING + BOW now included... RE-UP)
I longplayed this game about 5 years ago, mainly because there was no proper longplay of it. Those 2-3 longplays I found were all using trainers (unlimited energy, etc). Theres also a couple of Lets Plays, one used trainer, the other one played legit but after several attempts didnt even manage to finish level one.
Now Im redoing this longplay (well, just the last level, the rest is identical to my previous video) because we finally found out how to get the ending. No one knew if the Amiga version included an ending, and some coder even looked at the code and couldnt figure it out, but he did find the ending picture amongst the files. How to get the ending was apparently messaged to another YouTuber (Zeusdaz) recently whos one of those who has done a longplay of this game before (with trainer, like most do, bleh) and also didnt show the ending. So he just uploaded a new video to show how it was done. He also said he struggled to raise the log and it takes a weird joystick instruction to do it, so its kinda jerky when he does it. Well, for me it was just to press the down-direction, and it worked smoothly every time (must be facing right tho).
I checked a C64 longplay of the game as I was curious what the log and rope etc looked like compared to the Amiga version, and LOL... how didnt people get how to do this in the Amiga before? Wish Id checked it before doing my longplay 5 years ago. So many years and no one figure it out, when its practically done the same way. I mean, its not hard to see in the Amiga version what represents the log, as it stands out from everything else, and then ofc the rope would be somewhere to the left of it, which was also not too hard to spot when you know its supposed to be there. Its a rope on top of a vine, so looks a bit different from the other vines.
So, anyway, that a solution was found came to my attention when a fan of his commented on my video saying my video isnt a proper one as it lacks the ending (well, it WAS the best and most proper one until the ending was figured out) and kept praising Zeusdaz for being the first to do a video of the ending. Well, good for him, and I would have done it too 5 years ago if I just checked a C64 longplay first and didnt listen to everyone who said it couldnt be done as no one had even done a video of it either. So now this new longplay of mine should be the best and most proper one again (always best sound and picture quality too). Im kind of a completionist, which why I sometimes even do an extras video to show stuff I didnt/couldnt do in the longplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMCG5-sJKDg, so I wanted to redo this video with the ending. Maybe my video is the first one to show the bow? :), I checked all the videos I could find on YouTube, no one showed the bow (it exist in two places, both from bushes, in level 3 and 4).
Still tho, seems like a weird ending. I tried everything I could think of to make something else happen. If you wait for the timer to end after trapping the Predator, it just goes to game over and skips the explosion scene. I tried shooting him with all 4 arrows and kicking + punching him while he was trapped, redid previous level without picking up the radio to see if that did anything different, left the cage up when exiting the level, etc. Nothing made a difference, so guess this is what the real ending should look like. Kinda makes sense I guess. I just feel like he got
The C64 version is better than this Amiga version, in my opinion. The controls are not that great. Can only walk up and down if you zigzag. The grenades are mostly useless (only good for taking out the shooting thingy when you are on the log, as you cant shoot it from there - 09:06). The collision detection is crap. The enemies can shoot you while they are outside the screen, but you cant shoot them if they are not at least partially visible. I found no use for the ducking (the game still acted like he was the same height). Blocking is only good for Predators punches, not his kicks (yup, tried ducking and it did nothing). You get an extra life/grenade when completing some levels, but not all of them, like the last level (was probably only this level). I let myself get hit by the laser right before completing level 3, because I knew I would get it back, but nope. Anyway, when you do get more health after completing a level, its 6 health bars, not a life (which is sort of the same). For example, if you finish a level with 2 lives and 1 health, you get 3 lives and one health. If you finish a level with 3 lives and 3 health, you get 3 lives and 6 health.
A common complaint I read was the game doesnt have enough ammo, as you use it up too quickly. Well, it does have enough, you just need to be more careful of when to shoot, what to shoot, and how much. Too bad you cant walk back (game doesnt scroll to the left) to collect earlier dropped weapons/ammo.
Check the pinned comment for more info.")
![Amiga Longplay [267] Beambender](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pI-x2BORE_8/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [267] Beambender
After 5 hours with Deflektor, this game was a breath of fresh air in comparison. I was tired of hearing the same one tune over and over again, and it wasnt hard solve each level, but it was frustrating as those things flying around kept changing my stuff.
Beambender is not a Deflektor clone, but it has similarities and is a much better puzzle game than Deflektor and wouldnt exist if it wasnt for Deflektor, as the idea for the game came from it.
Beambender has many different tunes (a total of 40 minutes, and you can choose which one to listen to every 5 levels), level passwords, better graphics, runs smoother, and even has a pause button (bottom left corner). If I would have one complaint, it would be to rather (or also) have the pause function on a key on the keyboard, as moving the mouse down to the left corner every time after each move so you could plan your next move got boring and annoying really quick. Luckily I emulated this game, so I could use space to pause/resume emulation. This way I could have one hand on the keyboard and the other on the mouse. This way also meant I didnt have to include or edit out all the time I spent thinking while it was paused, as pausing the emulation also pauses the recording. Normally I dont think the pause button was meant to be used after each move, but thats how I used it. I most of the time even paused after I picked up a piece to see if I needed it somewhere, hence why it was so annoying (for me anyway) to move the mouse down there every time.
I had help from one of the devs of the game - Bernhard Aichinger - graphician/musician/misc, according to Hall of Light. His brother did the coding. I was provided with a partial walkthrough, which I took help from every now and then, mainly in the beginning. Before playing I had a quick look through the manual and forgot when started playing that I could double click on cannons and/or exists to stop cannons from shooting lasers three times, as a third time could destroy stuff, which made me fail many times. I learned/noticed it much later tho, so started playing better :)
I kinda took my time on the first few levels, showing the viewers a bit of how the game works. Later on I just go for the correct build straight-up, as its so easy to fail things if I goof around too much, thus taking much longer to complete each level.
Read the manual (http://hol.abime.net/3754/manual) if you want to know more about the game and how the lasers/etc work.
Now when Deflektor and Beambender are done, theres a third similar game left to do: Mindbender, also known as Deflektor 2, which I normally would have longplayed after Deflektor, but as Beambender was a request, I did that first.
Developer comment:
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Beambender was our first and – unfortunately – our last game for the Amiga. 1997, when it was released, the Amiga was already far beyond its best times. It was a typically some dudes come together to make a game, and they have no plan whatsoever project. We started with the design of the playfield and after quite some time we had a few mockups, with all the elements, that should be included in the game. Most of the level design was made with little paper-squares and a sheet of paper with a grid on it. Of course we made more than 80 levels, but we excluded a lot of ideas and variations of levels, otherwise it would be too much of the same. The music was also a challenge. We did not want to have some bugging noise, but also no background, that does not seem to be much. So we ended up with a electro-funk-hiphop-bigbeat-thing. Tracks from Amiga and PC are different. I hope you enjoy.
You can download the Amiga or the PC version and the PC-Soundtrack as mp3: https://amiga-arena.jimdo.com/beambender/
And you can find a detailed Interview (in German) about Beambender on Amiga Arena if you are interested: https://amiga-arena.jimdo.com/bernhard-aichinger/
Last but not least thanks to Olaf, Alexander and Miriam for providing the game on Amiga Arena, and of course Ironclaw for the great playthrough and all your effort.
Kudos!
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![Amiga Longplay [333] 007: Licence to Kill](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pgR6wUjGPlw/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [333] 007: Licence to Kill
Was worse than I thought. Very hard and bad controls. I kinda like the music though.")
