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Never caught on ? No traction ? That certainly wasn't true in Europe. It seemed like every kid around me in the early 90s had an Amiga 500, a few years after t
by renaudg 12y ago
Never caught on ? No traction ?
That certainly wasn't true in Europe.
It seemed like every kid around me in the early 90s had an Amiga 500, a few years after they all seemed to have an Amstrad CPC (wildly popular in France, even though it was a British computer. The Spectrum was the UK darling, and the C64 was the more popular one everywhere else)
A generation of game publishers (mainly in the UK and France) thrived on the Amiga and went on to become household names today (UbiSoft comes to mind)
As the article notes, there were even Amiga magazines on UK newsstands as far as Y2K, years after Commodore's demise.
So yeah, pretty big deal over here.
In some ways, the Amiga reminds me of Techno music : invented in the US, but found its true home in Europe.
- krylon 12y agoI had an AMIGA 500 in the early 90s. Sadly, I only ever used it to play video games, got bored eventually and then sold it. I knew several people who did, too. I remember part of the reason to sell it was classmates mocking me for having a machine that was only good for playing video games, while they owned real computers, i.e. IBM compatible PCs. In retrospect this seems kind of funny, given that they usually had 286 machines with EGA graphics cards...
- kenjackson 12y agoYes, in Europe it did catch on. In the US we used to say, "See how popular it is in Europe!" to our naysayers. Unfortunately, it never got traction in the US.