13 great games for a great price from a great company. While there's some titles missing, most notably The Three Stooges Amiga game (perhaps due to copyright reasons), it's still great to have some of the classics here. Although there's some configuration issues, here and there, and you could technically pirate these games very easily nowadays, I bought it to support Cinemaware in general, because I would like a new title from them, plus I like all my stuff in one package under a neat launcher (which the game comes with). So if you like Cinemaware in general, I would say get this pack.

Ehh. It's okay. The games are definitely colored a lot by nostalgia. The controls are kind of crap, the speed and timing are decidedly "off" on a modern machine, and the graphics aren't quite as good as I remember them being. That said, I'm reminded of how much I enjoyed these games in the past, and I'll definitely sink a bit of time into each one. It's a good chance to play all of these in the Amiga versions as well, which I never have done for all of them, for whatever reason.

I wouldn't go out of my way to buy these without either the nostalgia factor or a keen interest in playing classic games. They're not the remakes - these are the originals. They were great at the time, but a lot of the interface improvements and so forth that you're used to seeing just aren't there; these games are 20+ years old, after all. Even so, it's a nice trip into history.

I used to work for a company that was an offshoot of Cinemaware, for whatever it's worth; I've worked with several people who you'll see in the credits of these games. It may bias me one way or the other. I'm giving it a thumbs-up, but take that with a smallish grain of salt.

Brought this mainly for "It came from the desert" and Wings. Both run well and were easy to set up to work on a 360 controller.

Sound is authentic to Amiga versions.

Great way to play some of my favorite Amiga classics.

Only recommended for those who played these back in the day, I really don't think they would hold much appeal to anybody younger. The controls can be spongy, the gameplay objectives can be obtuse and a few of them just weren't very good games even in their day. I purchased this primarily with the following five titles in mind: Rocket Ranger and Defender of the Crown (which I originally played on the C64) and TV Sports Basketball, Wings and It Came From The Desert (which I played on the Amiga). Wings and It Came From The Desert still hold up respectably well. I've found that DoC and RR are a bit too frustrating thanks to the squishy controls. TVS Basketball was a fun way to waste an hour, ahh the memories of that darn Cinemaware team shooting 70% from the field every game... but it's not something with any real staying power.

So I would give this a tepid recommendation to old school C64/Amiga owners who enjoyed some of these back in the day. Even if I'll likely not spend much more time with this collection, I've done worse for $8.

LOVE IT .. no three stooges though.. cant really speak for the Dos games but the amiga one are extreamely close to the old sounds .. strange that f12 is to leave a game and take a screen shot. but yes a good buy ...

Wings finaly can play wing with out draging the old Amiga 500 conecting it to my new tv and wait wait til game is loaded

Ten dollars for this collection is absolutely stellar. They are what they are... Emulated classic games, with all the pros and cons of the originals, including floaty controls and lengthy load times. But the emulation is spot on, and the graphics remain surprisingly decent given their age. I would have a tough time recommending it for anyone who had never experienced these games, but for someone aching for nostalgia of some of the best games of the Amiga era, I can't recommend this package enough. Ten dollars is a steal for such a compilation of Golden Oldies.

Jacko Rating
8.5/10
A pack of old school goodies with both the Amiga and PC versions, thank you Cinemaware for releasing these classics in original format. Playing It Came From the Desert again made me feel like I was back in high school with a opened Jaw expression due to the top end graphics and game play back then - this was one of the best games of my youth.

If you are an old school gamer like me then just buy this now and be done with it :) A true trip down memory lane to be had here.

For those PC lovers out there who questioned us Amiga 500 gamers back in the day take a look at the difference in versions of these games and tell me you wouldn't have gone Amiga for personal home computer during this era of games.

My only hope is that Cinemaware releases updated versions of these as they did with Wings recently, if this does happen I can die a hapy man.

Old Schoolers Enjoy!

Well, I only played It Came from the Desert and was very disappointed in the lag between scenes. The music is not playing when it should, but the visuals and context of the story are all there. I would probably need more time to see if I would really recommend this to my friends.

I can honestly say I played this when it was new on my Amiga 2000 (I still own this game), so I have a good starting point for my review.

I have played this on emulators that worked better than this version.

This collection is too horrible to waste anyone´s time and money on. The Amiga game versions have better graphics, but that´s where the differences end - the games (both PC and Amiga) have terrible loading times (often I did not know, if the game was loading or froze), confusing and/or unresponsive controls (for instance it´s "great" to save a steam screenshot everytime you close a game - you do this by pressing F12) and confusing gameplay. I am sorry to say it, but I regret buying this collection. They should have at least optimized the games for modern PCs, for god´s sake! Cheers. :)

For the nostalgic only. All of these games are horrendous by today's standards and have aged even worse than 90s FMV adventure games.

Each of these game takes a setup of half strategy game, half adventure game, and has different minigame portions. Each portion is terrible. There is no strategy to the strategic portion, the adventure portions are barely there and feel like they were written by 10 year olds, and the minigames are worse than 90% of any free Flash game on the internet.

For example, the minigames in Wings are full of anti-aircraft guns that you cannot avoid. A fatal hit can kill you in the first 5 seconds of a mission. One strafing mission saturates the area with anti-aircraft guns and it's impossible to not get shot down even if you ignore the targets and constantly move around, which is what the manual tells you is the way to dodge AA fire. And that's the BEST minigame of the bundle. Most of them just have you wait and push a button at the right time. One button push. That's it. End of minigame. They're shallow and short to the point of being Warioware levels, except you have to wait several minutes between games.

And yes, the waiting. The emulation is perfect in that the load times of 1980s computers is just as long. Every time you change a screen, be ready to sit through 5-15 seconds of loading. Need to hop into your spaceship to shoot down enemies? You have to wait 10 seconds to watch your guy go down an elevator, then another 10 seconds of him running down a corridor. Every time. Several times.

Then there's the emulation. You're given the choice between the Amiga versions and the PC versions. The problem is that the Amiga versions lightyears better looking graphics (PC versions are 4 color CGA most of the time, all the screenshots here are the Amiga versions) but the PC versions are lightyears better in the gameplay department. Most the gameplay in the Amiga versions is so bad it's virtually unplayable. For example there's no way to end your turn in Defender of the Crown (Amiga) other than invading a territory or holding a tournament. Attacking every turn before you're ready is suicide, so you have to end most of your turns with tournaments, which means sitting through the looooooong horrible joust minigame every turn. If your character sucks at jousting, your fame and leadership stats go into the toilet. The PC version has much better options and lets you end your turn manually, but the graphics are too ugly to look at (even for someone like me who was around in the 80s) and the PC speaker music beeps make your ears bleed. The other problem is that while the Amiga versions function, most of the PC versions do not. It's like they screwed up the DOS Box configurations. I could only get a single game's PC version to run.

AVOID unless you played all these back in the day and are really, really jonesing for a nostalgia fix. Just go watch 30 seconds of gameplay from something like King of Chicago or Sinbad on Youtube to see how truly bad these relics are.

14. November 2014: Bought this to play DoC and It came from the desert. None of them work like they should. Says the amiga-version is for mouse, but it won't register the mouse at all. 1/10.