Amiga Longplay [158] Lionheart (a)

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Played By: DJThunder

This is the full Lionheart game video, including Intro & Outro. Played in Lionhard.

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• Lionheart

[MastroMissas]

Anybody knows what happened to Thalion software?It exists today?

[cubex55]

Wikipedia :)

[sinisass]

Best videogame music ever !! The composer is a genius !!

[retronostalgic]

@porcorosso81 - It doesn't put the Snes to shame but it certainly gives that ropey old console a run for it's money. And the music wouldn't be as good on the Snes of course....

[retronostalgic]

I still have my original copy of Lionheart from 1993!

[blade004]

Playing this game is like playing a painting and listening to an orchestra. Pure ART! :) 

[hotrodswe]

@retronostalgic As it is with consoles as well as the Amiga the later games for the old chipset really pushed it and this is one example. But yes, I am an Amiga fan, had an A500 back then, then A4000 and now an AmigaOne XE (I like the OS as well). Anyway, Amigas uses sampled sounds for music while SNES used MIDI and it simply sounds much better when done with good quality samples. Compare this game with something from -85-89 and it's easy to see how good this is.

[retronostalgic]

@hotrodswe - On paper the snes may have seemed better in terms of tech specs. But as the Amiga 500 was better designed there was more chance to experiment and push it beyond it's tech specs..... Oh and the Amiga had better sound than the Snes anyway....

[hotrodswe]

@retronostalgic All very true. The NG Amigas are supposed to be better than SNES in pretty much everything technically. 3D graphics the same as the PS1 was possible on Amigas with fast enough CPU and AGA (it was also possible on the PC). As long as you stick with low resolution like 320x200/320x256 like all consoles and computers at the time used you could do 3D games on the Amiga just fine. 2D games was excellent on the Amiga as always even with a slow 020@14MHz used in the CD32

[retronostalgic]

@hotrodswe - The snes was okay i suppose, but the games i remember were hideously expensive and not worth the money at all. I preferred the amiga for its sheer variety of cheaper games and better sound quality. Snes games were very samey overall. But it was the arrival of the playstation in the mid 1990s that blew the snes clean out of the water and showed to the world what a console really should be like.

[hotrodswe]

@retronostalgic The SNES could display 256 colours at once while it was 64 for the A500 (although with tricks some games showed more and Lionheart is one of those games). So in a Amiga magazine they compared the SNES with the CD32 which was based on the NGEN Amiga, ie the A1200 and A4000 that could also display 256 colours at once in standard mode or 256.000 colours at HAM8 mode (not suitable for games). They where released about the same time too while the A500 are older.

[retronostalgic]

@hotrodswe - But i thought the Snes was first released in Japan in 1990. Mate,i reckon you're making the Snes seem better than it actually was. It was only a cartridge based 16 bit console with slightly dodgy sound capability and a slow main processor you know!!!

Lionheart was custom designed for the Amiga and somehow wouldn't be quite as good in any transition to the snes, particularly in sound and animation. I never saw any game on the Snes or megadrive with graphics quite like this....

[hotrodswe]

@retronostalgic That you could play this on the A500 which is close to the A1000 from 1985... well... it would put the SNES to shame. I think the SNES was released at 1991-92. But this game is a masterpiece in every way and one of the best games for the A500. I think that the A500 was released in 1987... need to check wiki... but OMG, this is a great game even to this day. This could've been released on the SNES and be a classic. The NG Amigas was on par with the SNES, not this.

[Co19801003]

Epic music, great graphics, quite credible enemies (camouflaging colours rather than bright red or something), smooth animation, a decent storyline... I just was no good at it, so I played it way too little! I would love to get an unspoilt, complete version of the music for the first stage. I think it is a masterpiece!