Developed by Commodore in the mid-1980s, the Amiga is an iconic platform in computer gaming history. Due to its maturity, excellent graphics and audio capabilities, it became home to many innovative games that shaped the future of the gaming industry. The Amiga offered developers and gamers new possibilities for interactivity and visual presentation, setting a high bar for future gaming platforms. The Amiga never completely fell into oblivion, and many people who adored it in their youth still return to its games. 516t9

Amiga was the starting platform for many young players, and its innovative and iconic games won the hearts of gamers around the world. Thanks to its technical capabilities, such as high-quality graphics and sound at the time, the Amiga became the ideal platform for various genres of games, from arcades and action-adventure to strategy and logic games. Unique titles such as "Lemmings", "The Secret of Monkey Island" or "Turrican" were created on the Amiga and became legends and are still considered jewels of the gaming industry.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s the platform became particularly popular for gaming, demoscene activities and creative software uses. During this time commercial developers marketed a wide range of games and creative software, often developing titles simultaneously for the Atari ST due to the similar hardware architecture. Popular creative software included 3D rendering (ray-tracing) packages, bitmap graphics editors, desktop video software, software development packages and "tracker" music editors. Until the late 1990s the Amiga remained a popular platform for non-commercial software, often developed by enthusiasts, and much of which was freely redistributable. An on-line archive, Aminet, was created in 1991 and until the late-1990s was the largest public archive of software, art and documents for any platform.

Thousands of games were produced. At the time it was common for games to be produced for multiple formats. Since the Amiga hardware was the most advanced, games were usually developed on an Amiga, and the Amiga version would be the "gold standard" of the bunch.

Game developers often pushed the limits of Amiga's hardware to achieve visual and sound effects that were impressive for their time. This emphasis on innovation and creativity helped shape the gaming industry and inspired many later game consoles and platforms. Amiga games were known for their variety, offering something for every player - from fast reflex arcade games to challenging strategy games that required careful planning and tactics.