Seeing a demo of the game Walker in a computer shop sold me on the A1200. I'd had a Atari 1040ST until that point and yeah it had 1Mb of Ram but it was increasing obvious by 1992/93 that is had had its day! The most obvious evidence of this was the awful lack of channels and tinny music on Lemmings 2 on the ST and the fact there was no intro cartoon :-( Seriously, having the music actually cut out so that you could have a sound sample of a Lemming saying "yippee" was unbearable! It makes me shudder to this day. To think that most people fondly remember the Atari ST for music and MIDI and yet it had a pitiful sound chip makes be yearn for a time line where the ST and Amiga were a point project under Jay Miner / Jack Tramiel at Atari. Atari might hav been able to beat Apple in that time line with the name and video game pedigree in the USA with a proper games capable computer like the Amiga being marketed as a multimedia / gaming platform to smash the NES. The cost reduced A500 would have been a priority under Jack and may mave come out in 1986! That could have worked out ok?
