Doody Calls: Turd World War gives Amiga owners a new AGA action game

A new Amiga 1200 game has arrived, and its name leaves little room for confusion. Doody Calls – Turd World War is a top-down squad shooter built for AGA machines with 2 MB of chip RAM, mixing a nine-sector campaign with AI squad mates, vehicles, boss fights, career progression and local multiplayer for up to four people. Yes, toilet jokes are everywhere. They’re baked into the names of weapons, enemies and military hardware. Strip away the comedy theme, though, and there’s a fairly substantial action game sitting underneath, with a campaign built around short stages and changing objectives rather than one endless stream of identical firefights.

Nine sectors and plenty of shooting

The main campaign follows Squad Alpha across nine sectors. Locations range from the Sewage Works to beaches, mountains and a ship, with each sector split into five stages before a boss encounter.

Mission layouts change as progress continues. One stage might focus on clearing enemy troops, another can place heavier vehicles in the way, and later areas introduce environmental hazards. Rain and snow appear during missions, and a moving train can turn part of the battlefield into a timing problem rather than another simple shooting gallery.

Enemy transport plays a part too. Jeeps, tanks and Poo-copters enter the fight, giving the larger encounters more moving parts than the early infantry battles. It’s fast, busy and easy to read from the overhead viewpoint.

Squad Alpha doesn’t leave you fighting alone

Single-player doesn’t mean running around solo. Three computer-controlled squad members join the player, filling out Squad Alpha as the group moves through each combat area. The AI soldiers can move, attack, flank and use cover. Their presence keeps firefights active across a wider part of the screen, rather than leaving every enemy focused on one character. Radio chatter runs during missions, fitting the military spoof without getting in the way of the shooting.

Weapons keep things straightforward. Four main guns make up the standard selection, joined by Air Freshener grenades, a toilet brush for close combat and the Poo-zooka for heavier opposition. Players can stick with joystick controls or use keyboard input. Mouse aiming is available too, giving Amiga owners another control option for lining up shots.

Four players can share the same battlefield

Local multiplayer is one of the bigger items on the feature list. Two people can play through the Amiga’s normal joystick ports. Add an Octodapter from Alinea Computer and the player count rises to three or four.

There’s no split screen here. Everyone fights on the same battlefield, so the group has to stay within the active play area as enemies arrive and objectives move forward. It keeps the multiplayer setup close to old arcade and home-computer action games, where one display handled the entire session. For an Amiga 1200 release, four-player support gives Doody Calls – Turd World War a fairly unusual extra mode beyond its solo campaign.

Career mode keeps track of progress

The game doesn’t stop tracking progress once a mission ends. Career mode contains 200 ranks, giving players a longer progression system across repeated sessions. Medals can be earned, callsigns can be selected and results appear on a local leaderboard. Career data can be saved to disk, so ranks and records carry across future sessions.

There’s an attract mode too. Leave the title screen running and the game starts playing on its own, much like an arcade machine cycling through a demonstration before someone picks up the controls. It’s a small feature, yet it fits neatly with the game’s direct, arcade-focused structure.

AGA hardware is the target

Doody Calls – Turd World War targets the Amiga 1200 and AGA chipset. The minimum setup calls for a 68020 processor and 2 MB of chip RAM, meaning a standard Amiga 1200 can run it without a Fast RAM expansion. Extra memory can improve performance, but it isn’t required.

The hard-drive installation takes roughly 1.2 MB. Two floppy-disk images are included for players using a more traditional disk-based setup. Those requirements make the game accessible across a broad range of Amiga 1200 configurations, rather than asking for an accelerated machine packed with extra memory.

More going on than the title suggests

Doody Calls – Turd World War is clearly built around one long toilet joke, yet the actual game underneath has a sizeable set of systems. There are nine campaign sectors, boss battles, squad AI, vehicles, several weapon types, changing weather, environmental hazards, local multiplayer and a 200-rank career mode.

Its structure stays simple. Enter a sector, fight through five stages, complete the objective and face the boss before moving on. For Amiga 1200 owners, the headline feature is straightforward: this is a new AGA squad shooter built to run on a standard 2 MB machine, with single-player AI companions and support for four people sharing one screen.