Although they were only founded as a true developer/publisher in the 1990s, Team 17 quickly got relatively famous in Amiga circles. Their credo was to develop games which actually made use of the Amiga's power, as opposed to using the Atari ST (or even the C64 or IBM) as limiting factor. How do you show off technology? Obviously in fast-paced action games. Many of the common concepts were picked up and given their treatment.