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Heh, I was so proud of my Amiga which was the best thing here in europe at the time, I had a buddy over who's parents were from Japan and tried to impress him w
by gillianseed 13y ago
Heh, I was so proud of my Amiga which was the best thing here in europe at the time, I had a buddy over who's parents were from Japan and tried to impress him with the quality of the graphics and sound, he was like 'yeah it's ok but my machine is much better'.
I remember scoffing at his statement saying something like 'dude, only the arcades are better than this', he then invited me to his place where he had a Sharp X68000, I remember being totally stunned.
This was a home computer with arcade perfect ports, he showed me ghouls'n ghosts, gradius, space harrier, r-type, they looked (and to my ears sounded) exactly like their arcade counterparts, it was apparently never sold outside of Japan.
- bane 13y agoNot only were they arcade perfect ports, many arcade games coming from Japan used the Sharp as a dev environment...so they pretty much were the arcade games.
- gillianseed 13y agoAh, I didn't know this, makes sense though as they were 'perfect' (as far as my memory goes). Typically the arcade to Amiga conversions were ranging from so-so to downright awful (with some notable exceptions like Pang which as I recall was very faithful), so I was amazed at seeing him loading up these arcade perfect versions on his X68000.
- Flow 13y agoSilkworm on the Amiga was slightly better than the arcade, IMHO.
- danmaz74 13y agoOk, but that was much later! :)
- gillianseed 13y agoAh yes, my response was more in the context of me having the same inaccurate sales pitch as that of your friend, but I realize that my 'best thing at the time' came out wrong as I was referring to the time at which I was proud of my Amiga :)
- danmaz74 13y agoOh ok I see now :) BTW I've been an Amiga enthusiast almost to the very end...
- agumonkey 13y agoThe case design is timeless http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/307077SHAx68000XVI1D.jpg http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/307077SHAx68000XVI1D.jpg
- bane 13y agoIt's probably one of the most beautiful computers ever made IMHO. Also the perfectly square screen with square pixels, incredible sound hardware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLJhPvI-H9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLJhPvI-H9A It's kind of like the Lamborghini Countach of the computer world. Iconic and timeless.
- agumonkey 13y agoSomehow the x68000 gave genes to wii and ps4