Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?

[Crom00]

Amiga was damned if it did and damned if it didn't.

Great repuation for games...
But then no one took it seriously becuase of the Commodore association with cheap game computers. Retailers wanted a plug in replacement for the Commodore 64 a refresh item. The Amiga was too expensive in comparison... the Amiga 500 needed to be a $200 item with backwards compatiblity to C-64 titles... Including a cartridge slot would have gained support from publishers due to the hacking issues with floppies.

Great Graphics for Productivity
Yet...I remember PC trade show folks saying stupid things like "who need 4096 colors and sound.. it's a toy"

PC caught on because Work PCs were all IBM then folks got home IBM PC's beucase they could bring software home.

Just a lot of weird bad energy towards the Amiga machine and their makers.

[Crom00]

Also most American game companies were PC based. So when the Amiga offered more colors and sound not all of then used the advanced capabilities.

You have to realized that consoles had the benefit of a cartridge format. If they NEEDED to they could add more features into the console. Nintendo and it's Super FX chip was a good example of this. Also... the load times were faster on the carts.

Anyone remember sawpping floppies... I got  3 disk drives only to realize many games didn't support multiple drives... or how about getting to disk 3 of your game and realizing it's corrupted..?

I bought my games but when Who Frammed Roger Rabit had a faulty disk I was accused of being an Amiga Pirate at Software Etc. becuase I wanted an exchange.

Meanwhile I don't know one mac or Pc person that has EVER purchased software unless they had to... even then they do so kicking and screaming.

[Crom00]

Had the CDTV actually been CD32 spec device released in late 91 instead of 93... well it makes you think. What a difference just 2 years could make.

I think C= did a good job on the CD32, just a bit too late. It got good reviews in the jaded US game mags (not an easy thing, then ornow) CD32 was touted as offering the best value for dollar. something Sega should have looked at when developing MegaCD and hinting at expansions that allow tapping into the hug floppy library...

you'd have had folks buying cd32's and turning them into A1200's.

[Crom00]

The Sharp X68000 was a great machine. Check out the Emulators out there. This machine had pixel perfect conversions. I liked the dual tower case design with the handle.

[Crom00]

Exactly. I had a fella try to sell me an A500 game setup when the SNES hit the scene. He was sick of swapping.

[Crom00]

It's a shame Amiga never got that level of support from the original arcade makers, recording arcade footage on blurry video and approximating it in Dpaint was the norm,

Tell me about it. I work in toys and we wroekd on the first round of Marvel Vs. Capcom figure. We got a vhs tape off the coin op. By the second wave we had a PS1 with a Snappy frame grabber. Later on a flyer to do FMV caps.