In case you thought Readwrite had got stuck in some kind of weird Space Time Continuum loop and was publishing news from the late 1990s you can all calm down. We are actually talking about a brand new fighting game for Commodore’s classic Amiga – arguably the best 16-bit home computer that was last sold back in 1994.
Even today though the Amiga still has a huge fan base, of which I am one, and the Amiga can easily be emulated using a modern PC, including a Raspberry Pi. For a more bespoke experience, you could try it via the MiSTer FPGA or even the Commodore Amiga Mini that was released a couple of years back.
I still have an Amiga 1200 and Amiga 500 in full working order so news of a new game for the system always gets me a little giddy, so what are we looking at here?
The game is Metro Siege, and the easiest, and probably laziest easy of describing it is that it is a side-scrolling beat ‘em-up akin to the likes of Final Fight.
It is being developed by Bit Beam and they have just released a technical preview (back in my Amiga Action days we would have called it a demo disk) for PAL Amigas (easy to sort if you are using an emulator such as WinUAE.
However, if all this seems like too much fuss, amazingly you can play the Tech preview of Metro Siege right in your browser, as well as by downloading the ROM to play on your Amiga System of choice. It’s great, I have it open on my second monitor as I write this.
Metro Siege looks like an Amiga game and sounds like an Amiga game and that makes me happy. It’s even two-players
Everything at this stage is free but you can support the devs work via PayPal or Bitcoin.
It’s great to see old systems like the Amiga still being developed for and goes to show just how influential they were at the beginning of the home computer revolution back in the day.
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