I got my first Amiga computer – an A500 – in 1990, initially to pursue my interest in computer graphics. However at 12 years old, it wasn’t long before I also became absorbed in computer games, arguably one of the things that the Amiga did best.
I was always a big fan of the shoot ‘em up genre – in particular sideways scrolling shooters like Menace, Blood Money, R-Type, Apidya and Disposable Hero to name just a few. Being a science fiction fan, the notion of piloting your own space craft through alien worlds and fending off the enemy was always appealing (Apidya aside, where you flew a wasp through a more Earthly environment). There were fewer vertical scrolling shooters, but titles like Battle Squadron and Xenon II were excellent.