Andy Davidson

Digital Punk

[Andy Davidson @totalwormage]

@eurogamer Looks phenomenally good. Like VF, Shenmue and Yakuza have had a baby.

Straight to the top of my most wanted game list.

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Happy International Amiga Day!

The date is Jay Miner's birthday, father of the Amiga.

A literal wizard.

https://t.co/L3474ccNkW

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@MuseumCommodore Hired Guns

Incredibly atmospheric, and still sounds amazing today.

https://t.co/lhRxnqM9At

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@Matthew_Bester It was part of the goodie bag at Team17’s Worms anniversary party.

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Today’s t-shirt.

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@Matthew_Bester Yeah, they did some good ones. I have the Holy Hand Grenade hoodie

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@exQUIZitely Jim Sachs is the best pixel artist of all time in my opinion. The artwork he made using the graphics package Brilliance on the Amiga has never been bettered.

Simply stunning.

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@Amiga_Square @CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @nyimski @CommodoreKazz @CommodoreLad Yeah, platformers weren’t the Amiga’s greatest strength despite there being a lot of them. They just didn’t have the polish, playability and level design of their console counterparts. So BC Kid was very welcome.

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@Amiga_Square @CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @nyimski @CommodoreKazz @CommodoreLad By Factor 5, so quality was basically guaranteed. They also ported PC-Kid which was automatically the best platform game on the Amiga.

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@Wario64 First I’d heard of this.

Now I’m sad 😭

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@MuseumCommodore The first game that completely captured my imagination. I poured hours and hours into it.

The addition of the Blue Danube when using the docking computer in the C64 version was also a genius idea.

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@exQUIZitely Geoff Crammond’s masterpiece. Arguably the most original game ever made, it was an inspired idea.

I thought the Amiga was the best place to play it, with mouse controls, faster redraw and the very atmospheric David Whittaker soundtrack.

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Really lovely surprise arrived today from @Team17

Thank you for believing in me and my game, and for all the support you have shown over the years.

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@SwedishGamester @MuseumCommodore You also get a real sense of how passionate the software and hardware teams were about the Amiga. Everything they wanted to do was thwarted by management. It’s very sad, and makes you wish for what could have been.

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32 years ago today Commodore went bankrupt.

It broke my heart at the time, without the Amiga I would never have achieved my dream. It opened doors in the industry for so many people.

Here’s to all the crazy, passionate people that gave us the most beloved computer ever made 🍻

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@MuseumCommodore Bubble Bobble.

Superb conversion of the best single-screen platformer there is.

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@g04tn4d0 It was an inspired concept, and yes I had the original disk version for the C64.

One of the most memorable experiences of the 8-bit days.

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@KariLawler Blitz Basic 2 on the Amiga was amazing. Optimised for games development by the late great Mark Sibly, with a ton of good ideas and took full advantage of the Amiga’s custom hardware.

I wrote Worms in it.