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Blocky Skies - Amiga Review

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Blocky Skies – A 2016 Commodore Amiga Game Review Originally published August 27th, 2016 *My Video Review Of Blocky Skies *The Blocky Skies Website Where The Game Can Be Downloaded For Free *Next article *Previous article *Alphabetical list of writings I’m always on the lookout for newer Amiga games. I love seeing a small or single programmer push the limits of classic systems. When it comes to systems like the NES or C64 it’s possible for one person to accomplish things an entire company couldn't do when the system was new. Unfortunately this has not seemed to extend to the 16-bit systems, with many new Amiga games being worthy of nothing more than public domain release. Many are simply bad games you wouldn't want to play for free. Some of them actually are quite good but due to what I imagine is the use of a newer programming language, a good chunk of these games are not capable of running on an Amiga 500. A game like Flappy Bird has seen retro ports to almo...