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If you weren’t around at the time it’s hard to understand just how much beyond every other home computer platform the Amiga was. Yet another data point that “be

• Moru 9y ago
  It's never the best thing that wins. It's whoever has the best marketing budget that wins :-)
• KozmoNau7 9y ago
  In Europe in the late 80s to early 90s, the Amiga was the computer everyone wanted, both for graphics, music and especially games. It was a natural successor to the C64, which obviously also had a gigantic following. We never really got into the Apple II and its successors like the US did.
• AndrewStephens 9y ago
  The Amiga was "winning" for a few years but, in hindsight, it is easy to see why it was eventually eclipsed. PCs in the mid-80s were slow, boring, and expensive but the ruthless PC-clone market had lowered costs and increased specifications so quickly that around the early 90s games actually started looking better on PCs. Although the base Amiga500s were cheap, adding things like hard drives and more memory were always expensive. The bigger and more capable models were just as expensive as their PC counterparts and Commodore were slow to react to competition. In the end it was one struggling company against many PC Clone makers and they just couldn't compete on price or features. The final nail in the coffin was when Windows95 came out and Microsoft started focusing on the home/school market.