This batch of Amiga action games runs from compact score attacks to stubborn platform rooms, with several taking a familiar arcade idea in an unusual direction.

007: Licence to Kill

In Bond’s six-stage pursuit, Bond alternates between on-foot, vehicle, and aircraft stages while pursuing Sanchez after Felix Leiter’s death. The vertical scrolling keeps ammunition crates, incoming fire, and changing enemy patterns in view, with the pressure rising sharply after the early levels.

1st Person Pinball

the first-person pinball table lets players switch between a behind-the-flippers view and an overhead layout, then adjust game speed and ball bounce. Put its first-person angle beside the overhead mode and see which one produces the more reliable high scores.

3D Galax

In this cockpit alien shooter, aliens approach the cockpit and any survivor that passes by returns for another run. Formations change every four waves, while asteroid-field bonus sections briefly interrupt the repeated work of aiming before a collision.

5th Gear

the armed off-road maze race combines timed route-finding with a vehicle-mounted machine gun, putting dead ends and rival vehicles on the same cramped courses. Compare a run spent hunting the quickest route with one that clears threats first, and see where the timer becomes harder to manage.

9 Lives

In Bob Cat’s rescue run, holding the joystick longer changes the length of Bob Cat’s jump, while rotor blades allow temporary flight. His ball of string stuns enemies, and the four levels ask for careful handling of the energy bar and nine available lives.

A Frog Game

the frog’s fly chase turns jumping and tongue catches into a speed-focused score contest, with a 20-point multifly bonus for ten consecutive flies. A two-player round is the obvious comparison point: does the streak survive once someone else is competing for the same lunch?

A Prehistoric Tale

the time-travelling egg rescue uses fixed-screen rooms filled with eggs, dinosaurs, and mice that can frighten the enemies away. Jumping over a hatched dinosaur cages it temporarily, making each screen a choice between stomping, dodging, and setting up a safer route.

A-Type

the 32K shooter demo is a single-level shooter built for the 1998 Mekka/Symposium demo party, using autofire and weapon pods rather than an R-Type-style Force pod. Its play area gradually closes in until the run ends at a greeting message instead of a boss encounter.

A.M.C.: Astro Marine Corps

In the Astro Marine assault, three lives are each backed by an energy bar, with E pickups restoring energy after enemy or hazard contact. Three-way fire and an overhead shield sit alongside hazards such as carnivorous plants and dragon jaws, so power-up timing matters as much as shooting.

AAARGH!

the monster egg hunt has an ogre and a dragon wreck buildings in search of a particular egg while catapult crews drain their energy and food restores it. Finding the egg shifts the game into one-on-one monster fights, where five round wins settle the rivalry.

Which of these would you return to for a score challenge: the returning aliens of 3D Galax, A Frog Game’s ten-fly streak, or 1st Person Pinball at its fastest setting?