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The NES is very significant. But without it the Amiga kept gaming going happily. It was a great system. I remember the first time I saw an NES and the comparis
by sien 8y ago
The NES is very significant.
But without it the Amiga kept gaming going happily. It was a great system. I remember the first time I saw an NES and the comparison to the Amiga wasn't great.
The Amiga had a lot of great games in the 1980s too. Kick Off, Speedball, Xenon, Marble Madness, Bubble Bobble, Populous, F18, F16 Falcon, the Lucasarts Adventure games.
- occams_chainsaw 8y agoHow did it keep it going?
- ekianjo 8y agoYes, and much earlier than the SuperNES too, which came out quite late in comparison. As for the NES you could also take the C64 as a comparator that had a very decent library of original games too.
- dleslie 8y agoThe Amiga wasn't nearly as influential in NA as it was in EU.
- sien 8y agoSure. But it would have kept the industry going in the US as well. Electronic Arts targeted the Amiga quite a bit. As did Spectrum Holobyte.
- opencl 8y agoThe Amiga was a fantastic machine it was far too expensive to be anywhere near as mainstream as the NES. If it would have kept the industry going it would have been in a far more niche fashion. $1300 Amiga 1000 (without monitor, $1800 with it) vs $200 NES. The $700 Amiga 500 helped but the NES had also dropped in price by then. Sales figures for the Amiga do not seem entirely reliable but supposedly ~8 million vs ~60 million, and obviously not all of the Amigas were used for games.
- digi_owl 8y agoYeah, the 500 was what kept the Amiga going in the home market afaik (i didn't even know the x000 range existed until years after i had gone PC, all i knew was the 500/600/1200). All in all the NES was more akin to the C64, while the Amiga was more akin to the SNES.
- orionblastar 8y agoThe Amiga CD32 was going to dominate the industry but had an IP suit against it. When the Amiga 500 dropped below $300 in the USA it entered video console territory.
- jacobush 8y agoCD32 was launched a bit late, but also marketed too little. Commodore was dying by then, too many business jets, too few financially sound decisions.
- detritus 8y agoThat's not at all how I remember it - the CD32 was a last ditch effort, and one which whilst trying to maintain some sense of heritage (mainly in the awful styling - even at the time I wondered what they were doing) entirely misplaced the value of the Amiga in teenagers minds: creativity and piracy, neither of which were to be found. For me the CD32 was a final confirmation that the haydays of my beloved Amiga were past. At that point, I'd already seen Comanche running on a lowly office PC and knew that things were fast changing.
- sametmax 8y agoYes but the nes was faster to setup, more child proof and had better joypad. Even without the fantastic games, it made a huge difference.
- Keyframe 8y agoAmiga 500, which launched the same year as NES was also 4 times the price of NES.