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A look at Lotus Turbo Challenge II

The first years of the ’90s were a gold mine as far as Amiga games were concerned and developers across Europe consistently released incredible titles. The second Lotus game was one of these, with its focus oriented to an arcade type of gameplay in which you had to complete different tracks in a series of […]

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Unboxing Smarty And The Nasty Gluttons

The AmigaGuru’s gamer blog has certainly had a rough year so far when it comes to the actual content. Writing articles takes time and those that know me well knows that I refuse to post an article just for the sake of posting one, and yes, this is not a news site either which means […]

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A Look At Rodland

Rod Land is a platform game originally developed and published in arcades by Jaleco in 1990. Following the success of the arcade, the game was ported to the Amiga and published by Storm in 1991. The player(s) control one or two fairies, armed with a magic wand (a rod), that has(have) the ability to freeze […]

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Inviyya Unboxing

Despite being announced and made available since last April, the boxed version of the game hit my doorstep only yesterday. It has been a long wait, for Inviyya is one of the most frantic and fun to play titles of the last months. Developed by Tigerskunk and published by Poly.Play, this software is an old-school […]

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A Look At Whirlwind Snooker

“Without doubt, this is a seriously good simulation, but not devoid of humor. If you are taking too long, the snooker balls themselves develop faces and grin, grimace and stick out their tongues. And for those who want to show off their skills, there are numbers of trick shots with which to impress friends and […]

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TOMAAATO MADNESS – TURBO TOMATO Review

I’ll start this review by going back, way back to the year 1995… The Amiga market was drying up and there was a trend of upcoming projects just vanishing from the lists in magazines, on newsgroups and so on which brings me to …  A game by Halibut, yup that was the original team name […]

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Unboxing The Turbo Sprint Big Box

I did a game review of Turbo Sprint at launch (which scored a high 8 out of 10), a game I still play a lot even though I played it way too much before launch lol (tester). The box came a few weeks ago but today is the first day that I actually got a […]

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A Look At The Secret Of Monkey Island

If there is a title that needs no presentation not only to the Amiga fans but to any game player worldwide that is, for sure, The Secret of Monkey Island. Released in the October of 1990 for many different platforms (and many others since), this LucasFilm Games production set new standards on how a story-driven […]

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