Poll: The Bitmap Brothers

[haruvister]

Once gaming pioneers, now gone. But let's not forget their amazing legacy - they created some of the best, most polished games ever. Period.

My personal favourite is The Chaos Engine, thanks to its awesome steampunk atmosphere, context-sensitive music, brilliant graphics and super-intense gameplay.

 

[Mariena]

I've actually only played one Bitmap Brothers title, and that's the one you named. The Chaos Engine on the SNES.

Awkward and pretty damn difficult, too. I got to the end boss a few times, but always died within seconds.

 

[Andy_Panthro]

I've played most of those, but put the most hours into Xenon 2, which was a classic top-down space shooter.

Gods gets a special mention though, it looked absolutely beautiful at the time, and was one of my favourite platformers.

Never got into the Chaos Engine though, I found it quite difficult at the time.

 

[Antiparticle]

Of those games, I only played Z (and also a bit of Z2), but that was a lot of fun. "Territory taken!" Ah, good times.

 

[Starnerf]

I've never heard of any of them. Were they only released in Europe?

 

[rutherford]

Wasn't Magic Pockets a BB creation? Think it appeared UK Saturday morning TV too. You know, where you phoned in and had to yell out instructions to the character while watching it on the box!

One of the original PC platformers that. When Amigas were still all the rage and PC games came in those hoofing A4-sized containers

*Edit - ah see you've updated the poll

 

[teh_gunslinger]

Had to go with Speedball 2. Wasted so many hours on that on my Amiga back in the day. Though Xenon 2 is a close second. Chaos Engine never really did anything for me.

 

[megapenguinx]

Is it bad that I've never heard of them or any of their games (least the ones on the poll)?

 

[haruvister]

Is it bad that I've never heard of them or any of their games (least the ones on the poll)?

Not really because it probably makes you way younger than me. Along with Sensible Software, these guys really did set the standard in the early to mid-nineties though, honest.

 

[megapenguinx]

Is it bad that I've never heard of them or any of their games (least the ones on the poll)?

Not really because it probably makes you way younger than me. Along with Sensible Software, these guys really did set the standard in the early to mid-nineties though, honest.

Eh entirely possible as I was born in 1990. But I would have remembered something from the mid 90's. Maybe I just didn't play any of their games? (my main console was a Sega back in those days)

 

[haruvister]

Is it bad that I've never heard of them or any of their games (least the ones on the poll)?

Not really because it probably makes you way younger than me. Along with Sensible Software, these guys really did set the standard in the early to mid-nineties though, honest.

Eh entirely possible as I was born in 1990. But I would have remembered something from the mid 90's. Maybe I just didn't play any of their games? (my main console was a Sega back in those days)

I think they primarily programmed for the Amiga - not sure how many of their games were ported to the Megadrive.

 

[bjj hero]

speed ball 2 was the one for me. It was horrible when you first got promoted to division 1 and half your players would get carried off in pieces in your first match. I played a lot of chaos engine too. I actually beat that.

The OP mentioned sensible, I still smile when I think about playing cannon fodder. The game was amazing. Best shooter ever.