Which were the best software publishers that changed Amiga history?

[SlimJim]

Tigger wrote:

Roj wrote:
Surely these are deserving as well:

Hyperion

You can tell the newbies by there lists.    I think listing a company that was formed 5 years after Commodore went under as a software publisher that changed Amiga History is more then a little strange.
    -Tig

 
Whereas I agree that many other companies (Electronic
Arts certainly being one of them) have shaped the history
of Amiga in the past, Hyperion can claim some fame, not for
their games, but for AOS4 - the only thing is that the
mention is a little premature, since it is not yet released...
(but maybe the very knowledge of them being in the
works of developing a new AmigaOS has shaped this
community and the Amiga future already? I'd say it has).
 
I would add Haage & Partner to the list since, despite the
Amithlon thing, they did put out AOS3.5 and 3.9 which breathed
new life into the Amiga (3.9 is very nice in my opinion).
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

Honest question : How many of us here would have
bought their 1st Amigas, if there hadn't been
those "free" games ?

 
I can honestly answer "I would" to that question, as I bought the
A500 (with 1MB RAM) in order to buy and play Dungeon
Master - and bought the game at the same time (oh my,
that is one super classic piece of gaming history). Never
had many pirate games later either. It's way more fun to
have a manual to read, a box to bring forth.
 
I cannot really understand why people pirate most PC
games these days. Unless you want the very latest
(something I've learned not ot crave as an old Amigan), you
can get excellent PC games only one or two years old for
less than $10 off the shelf. That's pocket money for most
people. It's just plain cheap to go and pirate something like
that. People seem to pirate just out of habit these days.
Brand new games - well, I don't have the computer to
run them anyways...;-)
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

@Kronos
 
Must have posted without noticing it - because when I thought
I posted my message you had already replied to it... Scary.
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SlimJim