Jack Tramiel made the Atari ST as a spoiler product, and it worked, since early games were held back by the need to be compatible with both. Just a couple of years after Amiga was released, even more impressive home computers came out that made less of a splash than Amiga. It was a very competitive market back then for different platforms.
More like NES to SNES, I'd say.
Snes went out 5 years after the Amiga.
The goal of Spectrum and Amiga was totally different. Spectrum was meant to be a bare-bones platform, so people could get their first experience of computing. The Amiga was designed as being a workstation capable of doing the 32bit addressing required for windows based operating systems. A full competitor to Apple.
SNES to Playstation was arguably the biggest jump in console generations. You went from an essentially 2D machine that could display a handful of unshaded polygons at sub 20 fps, to a console that could handle Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy VII. It was from a different planet.
This. All of this.
Snes went out 5 years after the Amiga.
Amiga was technically superior in a lot of features to Snes, being released 5 years before.
Are you telling me that we could BUY Amiga games? Get out of here.
I'm not really sure why you're comparing those. Spectrum was a dirt-cheap, barebones computer built for the masses. It was less powerful than many of its direct competitors.
I bought a few, but sometimes copied them and took them back to swap for something else. The best scam I had going, for games with the latest copy protection, was to slice down the side of the disk case with a razor, take out the disk inside, swap it with the failed copy, and take it back because it didn't work.
In Spain and Europe was typical that a Spectrum user upgraded to an Amiga. Spectrum was the most successfull 8 bit computer in Europe in the 80´s. Amiga was the same but in 16 bit range.
Bought loads. Had access to copies but I liked my simulation games back then (microprose) so tended to buy those big boxes. Instruction manuals were amazing.
That’s harsh, they published lots of games:
Amiga Games by Psygnosis - Lemon Amiga Game Database
Amiga games database with information about every Amiga game ever released!www.lemonamiga.com
But Agony had issues no doubt. Even the much talked about Shadow of the Beast was mostly played because of the graphics and parallax scroll. 1 and 2 were insanely difficult games, even the git gud crowd would struggle.
I loved Lemmings though, one of my favs. I really liked Killing Game Show too, incredibly difficult but it was so unique, was made by the founder of Bizarre Creation btw. And Blood Money was lots of fun. Nitro was a great top-down racer, fun with friends. Walker was unique too.
For those who haven't tried it there is a playable demo of Hamulet that uses this same engine, it doesn't have the bobs or the parallax but it's a great looking and playing game and some of the intro pictures are fantastic. You can download it here https://aminet.net/package/mags/misc/WhatIFF2.10 Here's a video of it:
I actually remember a ton of them, getting nostalgic from just seeing some of the pics there lol
The Amiga was ahead of its time, unfortunately after the A500, Commodore stopped investing in technology. Had they managed to complete the AAA chip in time for the A1200, the A1200 would have been an extremely powerful and competitive machine.
Apologies for the necro reply, but was this really the case? Speccy certainly was very strong in some countries, but I was under the impression C64 was overall more popular in Europe. At least here in .fi, it was all the rage at the time.
