Seeing that the thread converted from emulation to nostalgia to Amiga/Consolegames, I thought I should make another post.
I grew up with C64 and Amiga but surprisingly I find it difficult to remember games that I liked that is today best played on Amiga. Thanks to my failure to produce good tips on Amiga games despite my long history with it, I will return later to comment on Commodore 64 and then on console games. I had a look at HiddenX list and he mentions some games which I would really encourage to play the PC version instead, such as Syndicate.
Part of my problem with the platform is that I generally prefer RPG's and adventuregames, genrés of which PC was king.
One major thing bad with Amiga versions was reduced graphics due to a 32 color palette and an insane amount of discs to shuffle. At first this wasn't a problem since the PC ports were awful but later on it eventually killed the Amiga (as well as the Amiga lacking upport for Chunky Pixels during the DOOM era). Adventure/RPG titles such as
Monkey Island,
Rise of the Dragon or
Eye of the Beholder II is today better to play in the DOS version. The PC version with it's 256 color palette simply looks better.
Look at Space Quest IV as example. Actually, the Macintosh version was sometimes even sharper due to being produced in a higher resolution... On a positive side, the Amiga often had better music than PC during the soundblaster era when PC games generally used horrible midi instruments.
Cut content was another problem in Amiga versions of multi-platform games. One of my first favorites was
Golden Axe, but the Genesis version is superior, primarily for having a whole extra level that wasn't present in the Amiga version (not counting that the Genesis version got 2 sequels).
But what games do I remember besides that?
Well, I find it difficult to mention cargames, sportgames and shooters since I frankly wouldn't play them today at all. I guess this is my problem since the Amiga was filled with them.
I actually enjoyed
Turrican. The second game in particular. The best thing with the game was the awesome music. I still have the 7 minute
intromusic in my mp3 player. Try to find any 16-bit console capable of even producing a song like that, I dare you.
I could mention
Moonstone, but frankly, that game never worked for me. I usually got a GURU Meditation when trying to play it.
Two games worthy of recognition are
It Came from the Desert and it's sequel
Antheads. Those games actually looked better on Amiga than PC with better music as well.