What was your "Whoa s**t!" moment?
 

I was looking back through some old magazines and came across an advertisement for DigiPaint and it took me back to when I saw first used the programme in `87/`88, what comes back to me was just thinking "Whoa s**t! This can`t be happening on my computer?!", it was so unbelievable to me that a home computer could display graphics like this AND you could alter them and make new graphics. It was when I felt the Amiga really was something way beyond what had come before. What software on the Amiga made you think, wow I have never seen this before?

For me it was ProTracker.

The Walker demo, 1988, by Imaginetics.

Seeing Defender of the Crown screenshot in the ACE mag, and Lost Patrol's digi movie sequences at a local computer fair.

When I finally got an Amiga, F29 Retaliator. Fast 3D, oh my!

Probably this - the one with the catapult in front of the castle. The Pawn as well - all around that same period

The intro for Shadow of the Beast II, after having a ZX Spectrum:

http://hol.abime.net/pic_full/screen...92_screen3.png http://hol.abime.net/pic_full/screen...92_screen6.png http://hol.abime.net/pic_full/screen...92_screen7.png http://hol.abime.net/pic_full/screen...2_screen11.png

Probably Another World or Wrath of The Demon's intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1te-VBsmXRA

It has to be the juggler demo for me. I thought I was seeing some sort of magic. Not long after that was seeing the Defender of the Crown demos running in the shops.

Probably the intro to Another World.

Must admit, even though the intro technically is simplistic beyond belief, it was the atmosphere and the attention to detail that caused me and a friend to watch it about 5 times before we even bothered to play the game.

Psygnosis knew the power of something attention grabbing

Blood Money intro when those meteroites bounced off the screen I though was superb.

Lotus II intro probably.

Same for me. Saw my first Amiga at my uncles house. Was on a huge (for the time) TV with the sound through his proper separates hi-fi system - epic.

Bodacious Bodean's Bordello Beauties

Reading about Marble Madness in a german home computer magazine called "Happy Computer" in 1986.

Those screenshots were like something from a different planet back then.

And the second time I had that effect was when watching the "Wild Copper" demo in a local computer store.

Was the first real demo I saw, I think.

I had seen Intros and demos before, but this was on a whole different level.

Crazy times.

One moment I still remember aged 8 or 9 going to a local kid's house who was selling a whole load of C64 tapes off cheap as he'd moved on to an Amiga. This was playing in the background and I couldn't keep my eyes and ears off it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvha_2hAzq0

First moment was seeing the juggler demo in the store.

Second moment I remember vividly was watching the Enigma demo for the first time.. my mind was completely blown by the tv-box effect (and the rest of the demo as well). At that point I had started taking my first wobbly steps towards demo programming, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing, it was magic to me.

https://youtu.be/iGpU3DicbLQ?t=68

For me it wasn't on the Amiga. I never had a windows machine < 98me, but at some point i got my hands on a Nintendo64. Only knowing Amiga and snes games Mario64 and Mariokart really blew me away.
Decided to get a gaming pc after that.

Just now after working out how much I have spent on Amiga kit in the last 6 weeks....

But previous to that there were many moments, FA18 Interceptor in a shop window in Germany in 88/89, seeing an animated Starwars AT-AT in an Amiga demo at a computer show in London in the late 80's when I was an ST owner still flash into my mind now and again.

And anything that scrolled smoothly! After a Spectrum and ST that was new :)

Hearing the "World of Wonders...ahahaha" sample on the Dungeon Master crack, when I owned an Atari ST at the time which could only go BEEP! :P