I remember an interview with the developer of the Amiga port of Great Giana Sisters and he said he couldn't live from it but the paycheck was good enough for a

I remember an interview with the developer of the Amiga port of Great Giana Sisters and he said he couldn't live from it but the paycheck was good enough for a decent car. But remember that this was obviously contract work. On the Amiga you had an impressive range of freeware developers to commercial developers. The commercialization had already reached levels where companies had their own development teams but you also still had companies that just paid some developers to develop a game for them.