Agony (game)

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Agony
Title banner, shown before title screen.
Developer(s)	Art & Magic
Publisher(s)	Psygnosis
Release date(s)	1992
Genre(s)	Shoot-em-up
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	Not rated
Platform(s)	Amiga

Agony is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up game, released by Psygnosis in 1992 for the Amiga platform.

Featuring three floppies and an end of the world theme, the game ran in all Amiga computers. Our main character metamorphoses into an Owl, and fights his way through an earth breaking to pieces, being invaded by a hoard of demons.

The game has gathered a strong cult following, primarily due to its rather unique theme and appeal. The music and artwork is above average and the game makes great use of many Amiga features such as scales of colors done with raster lines, HalfBright graphics mode, three level scrolling, good use of sprites, in-game palette swapping and continuous flashing of the background colorscale.

The title song, sampled here was adapted without giving the proper credit by the metal group Dimmu Borgir in the song Sorgens Kammer from their Stormblåst album. In a nod to the creator, Tim Wright, the band did not include the track on a later re-recording of "Stormblåst."

Title screen image. Credits appear there, eventually.	Image which appears while first stage loads.
Fighting, in the first level.	Boss of the first scenario.

[edit] Cheats

Type fantasy at the title screen in order to enable cheats and disable low-pass audio filter. (most Amiga games, including this one, sound better without it)

Then, while playing, you can press the following keys: