Initially I was going to buy my best friends C64 after having played games at his and numerous other friends' houses. But then my father brought home an issue of Svenska Hemdator Nytt, a computer magazine focusing on 16-bit and 8-bit computers like Amiga, Atari, C64, and alittle bit of PC and Mac.
Despite the screenshots of various apps and games were in black and white and very low quality I couldn't believe the amazing "photo-realistic" quality I was watching. So I requested an A500 from my parents. My friend (whose c64 I was going to buy) got his A500 a few weeks before me.
Anyway, when I got mine I couldn't believe the graphics (We had NES at that time) in games like The Spy Who Loved Me. It felt there were actually people in there
And when my friend got his first pirated game
, a game you played a barbarian of sorts with a sword, jumping down in caves and climbing ropes etc (I'd like to know which game that was) I realized I needed to buy diskettes to copy it myself. And those delicious diskettes, each in one color of the rainbow spectrum, I could almost eat them.
Several months later my friend got some games we both agreed to buy from a pirate via bbs: Turrican, Shadow of The Beast, and another one I do not remember. Sad that someone else got a fraction of the money of which the developers didn't get any...
We got pretty insane watching those games in action as you can imagine.
When I saw pictures of 256 color VGA graphics I couldn't the Amiga started to feel dated. Seing fast vector graphics (4d boxing) on my classmates 286 and the seing Eye of the Beholder 2 on a dude's PC made it clear the Amiga needs to evolve or there won't be a future for it. But we didn't get that until A4000 which was too little, too late, and too expensive. I didn't let that bother me much and bought an A1200 one (or two) month(s) after it hit the stores. I loved it but as game developers abandoned it and then experiencing a shock called (Amigas ultimate) DOOM, it was over. I sold the A1200 and bought myself a 486, installed the adventure games I wanted (including sam and max), had some fun, and sold that too after a few months. I didn't touch computers for many years until my brother gave his older P4 machine 2+ years ago.
I still have my A500, but unfortunately I gave all my bloody diskettes to the bloke to whom I sold my A1200. These days I only visist amiga.org (including a few others) and install a new WinUAE and have a little fun every year or so. And that's about it.
If anyone ever wants to do an interview with me just copy and paste this spam without censorship
(yawn)
