Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?

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wretched?
Any product that sells millions and millions of copies and spawns multiple successors can't be that bad, it might not be your cup of tea...

such as my disdain for all "hardcore" games

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I think the home computer crash and susequent rise of the pc affected us more quickly than Europe too. By the end of the 80's it was consoles and pcs. Atari and Commodore limped into the 90's as far a popularity here.

I had my 8-bit ataris and commodores but what I really wanted at the time was a TG-16, I had a Genesis and my brothers had an nes and snes.  I only remember a couple of ads and articles on the Amiga, and I wanted one but I had to wait till I got my 1st a1000 with 2.5megs of ram. I liked the others, I loved the Amiga!

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Most amigas here in the states used one button joysticks, and even if you had a two button that was pitiful compared to any console. The nes had 2 action buttons plus select and start. The genesis had a,b,c and start for the 3 button.

I saw an article in Amiga Format once about how amiga users were shooting themselves in the foot by not upgrading, with hard drives etc.etc. and said something about the "wobbly old one-button joysticks" from the early '80s still being used.

There were some games of course that used two, but the fact that it was an option, and almost all games defaulted to the one button says something.

I hated up for jump...

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About the floppy weaknesses and cart durability, I know it doesn't directly relate but several of my kids GBA games went through the clothes washer and dryer, one of them twice, and they still work perfectly.

Try that with a floppy:)