3 days of hardcore amiga gaming lead me to think....

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Well I actually bought my first Amiga (A500) thinking I would play plenty of cheap and easy to get games compared to expensive SNES cartridges.

Hardly actually played any, once I bought my first Amiga mag (Amiga Format with Real 3D and that silver 3D head cover).  And then amazing app after amazing app followed for free on yet more cover cd's.  Games on the Amiga?  What were they?  Too busy rendering, getting the most from DPaint, Scala, PPaint, ImageFX, Photogenics, Wordworth, Imagine, Drawstudio, Cinema 4D, Shapeshifter (Photoshop, MS Office 6, Quark).  This is what made me upgrade the A500 with a GVP '030, then A1200 with '030, A1200 with '040, then A4000 with '060 and CV64, and later upgraded the A1200 '040 to an '60.  None of these upgrades made any sense to play games, but the apps sure were motivation enough for me.

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Commodore would have gone bust a lot quicker if there were no decent games for the Amiga and A500 was never dropped to £399. It's that simple. Dpaint sold a lot of machines, Cinemaware sold a lot more though.

Amiga was the best of both sides, which was the reason the A1000 was the best machine in the world you could buy. Best creative, corporate and leisure software running on the best desktop OS.

I think we are getting off topic though, why were games like Lotus II technically so good and yet all the driving game coin-op conversions barely acceptable at best and downright crap at worst. Greed is the answer greed and incompetence with people like US Gold and Ocean.

PS I would like to see which arcade style games improved with a CPU upgrade.

One racing game that benefits from a faster cpu is Nigel Mansell World Championship.  I only noticed that when I tried to play it on a 1meg A500.  The frame rate dropped a lot compared to the 68040 A1200 I was running it on.  I have this game on the SNES as well, and the Amiga version on a faster CPU is smoother, has better parallax scrolling, and more background details, and better sound.  It really is an under-rated racing game on the Amiga.  Its my favourite Amiga racer.