Comparison

Many games were developed for multiple plattforms. The different technical capabilities of the individual machines led to interesting versions of the same image. Ranging from fewer or more colors, to completely different interpretations of the original motif.

The Atari ST was the Amiga's main competitor in the 16bit era. The main differences of the Atari ST were:
Maximum of 16 colors on screen at once.
Color palette only 9bit deep, 512 colors in total, versus 12bit and 4096 colors in total on the Amiga, resulting in rougher gradients and simpler hues.
Resolutions only available in NTSC (i.e. 200 or 400 lines per image)
You can switch between the plattforms by clicking on the "Amiga", "AtariST" buttons in the top right menu.

Starray - Level 1

Amiga

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (28 used)

AtariST

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors (13 used)

Starray - Level 2

Amiga

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (19 used)

AtariST

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors (10 used)

Starray - Level 3

Amiga

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (15 used)

AtariST

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors (8 used)

Starray - Level 4

Amiga

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (22 used)

AtariST

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors (12 used)

Advertisments and box art for Starray seem to show an early version of the level 4 background. The numbers next to the shapes made them look even more like electrical circuits than in the final version.

Starray - Level 5

Amiga

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (21 used)

AtariST

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors (5 used)

Starray - Level 6

Amiga

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (30 used)

AtariST

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors

Starray - Level 7

Amiga

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (13 used)

AtariST

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors (9 used)

Starray - Panel

Amiga

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
256 colors (21 used)

Amiga

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
256 colors (21 used)

AtariST

Andreas Voigt
Starray
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors

Chessmaster 2000

Amiga

Art Huff
Chessmaster 2000
1986
Lowres (NTSC)
Comparison
32 colors (31 used)

Variation

Art Huff
Chessmaster 2000
1986
Lowres (NTSC)
Comparison
32 colors (30 used)

AtariST

Art Huff
Chessmaster 2000
1986
Lowres (NTSC)
Comparison
16 colors

King Tutankhamun

IFF
Amiga

Avril Harrison
Deluxe Paint
1985
Lowres (NTSC)
Comparison
32 colors

IFF
AmigaAGA

Avril Harrison
Deluxe Paint
1985
Lowres (NTSC)
Comparison
256 colors (138 used)

The iconic Tutankhamun mask used as cover for many Deluxe Paint versions.

The Amiga AGA version looks like it was created by smearing around the golden parts with the Deluxe Paint smudge tool.
Not really a high class way of upgrading an image.

Venus - Loader

IFF
Amiga

Bernie Drummond
Venus The Flytrap
1990
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors

AtariST

Bernie Drummond
Venus The Flytrap
1990
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors

Barbarian

IFF
Amiga

Garvan Corbett
Barbarian
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (28 used)

AtariST

Garvan Corbett
Barbarian
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors

Barbarian - Loading

IFF
Amiga

Garvan Corbett
Roger Dean
Barbarian
1987
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors

AtariST

Garvan Corbett
Roger Dean
Barbarian
1987
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors

Obliterator

Amiga

Garvan Corbett
Roger Dean
Obliterator
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors

AtariST

Garvan Corbett
Roger Dean
Obliterator
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors (15 used)

Infestation

Amiga

Herman Serrano
Tim White
Infestation
1990
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (27 used)

AtariST

Herman Serrano
Tim White
Infestation
1990
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors (14 used)

Based on original art created by Tim White

Starglider 2

Amiga

Herman Serrano
Steve Weston
Starglider 2
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors

Original

Herman Serrano
Steve Weston
Starglider 2
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
2 colors (236 used)

Based on original art created by Steve Weston

Astaroth

Amiga

Lloyd Baker
Astaroth
1989
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (61 used)

AtariST

Lloyd Baker
Astaroth
1989
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors

Thalion

IFF
Amiga

1990
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
128 colors (79 used)

AtariST

1990
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
64 colors (42 used)

A variation of the droplet logo with only blue droplets.

Afterburner

IFF
Amiga

Mark A Jones
Afterburner
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (29 used)

AtariST

Mark A Jones
Afterburner
1988
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors

Stormlord

Amiga

Mark K Jones
Stormlord
1989
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
32 colors (21 used)

EU version

The highly optimized 16 color version was upgraded to 32 colors, but only a hand full of those colors were actually used and even those could have been further reduced.

US version

Mark K Jones
Stormlord
1989
Lowres (PAL)
Comparison
16 colors (17 used)

US version

Sadly some really poor edits were done to the US version of the title. Not sure why, but maybe someone felt the image was a bit too agressive / explicit.