Age 20, 21 next month.
First Amiga experience: Playing on a friend's A500+ with Commodore 1084S monitor around 1994/95. Used to love Lemmings, McDonaldLand, SWOS and Ultimate Soccer Manager. I used to love the purple Workbench disk prompt screen, and the fact that you could use a game save disk to save where you were up to in a game (I was used to the cartridges of the Sega Megadrive/Genesis, where such a thing was rarely possible).
I got around to getting my first Amiga in 1999, an Amiga 600 for the price of just £6 + a 2MB PlayStation memory card. Bargain! Came with some great games too.
Unfortunately the day I got it the F4 key went missing. I also bought my first Atari 520 ST at the same time, which I preferred at the time because I had a lot more games for it. I didn't have many disks for the Amiga. But it was obvious to me that the Amiga was the more powerful machine with better sound and better graphics. Better games too.
I used to love playing on Cannon Fodder and was amazed even in 1999 with the graphics on Beneath A Steel Sky. 15 disks! :-o That amazed me too hehe.
I swopped the Amiga 600 to a friend in 2000 in exchange for an Amiga 500 because I preferred the A500, but I then swopped that A500 for a SNES. I sold the SNES, and got an A1200 in Christmas 2000. I used this and upgraded it into a tower with 8Mb RAM, 030, CD-ROM, 1Gb HD and OS 3.9 but sold in 2002, it was a VERY unstable system!!!
After a brief run-in with the AmigaOne in 2002/03 I left the Amiga and switched to Mac.
I now use a PC. :-P
Last year I became re-united with the same Amiga 600 and it is currently hooked up to the TV, still with the missing F4 key. I have a lot of games for it now :-D
PS.. If anyone has a spare Amiga 600 keyboard please PM me!
