Did you get an Amiga because of the C64 legacy?

[Oriens]

Answer is no.

After C64, I briefly went to Atari ST. I say briefly because the computer was not running fine (lot of bug). We had to bring it back to ship weeks later. And in that time interval, my eyes saw the Amiga (I can remember, I saw the game HYBRIS). So back to the shop, they asked us if we wanted again an Atari ST and the answer was no. We wanted an Amigaaaaa.

Amiga was mindblowing. That's surely why lot of people here chose it.

[CCCP alert]

I knew the specs of the Amiga in 84, Digi-View is the reason I bought an A1000. Nothing else under £15,000 came close.

[NovaCoder]

No, I actually did it the other way around I recently built my first C64 because of the Amiga legacy






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[Megalomaniac]

I got my first C64 some years after the Amiga era as well, having started with a second-hand Spectrum before moving onto the Amiga. It definitely belongs in every retrogaming collector's games room. There are plenty of classics that neither the Amiga nor the Speccy ever got, from Wasteland and Project Firestart on the serious disk-based side (not that I actually have a disk drive yet, they cost a fortune) to Creatures 2 and Raid on Bungeling Bay on the action side. Add the games that are better on C64 than either, from Last Ninja 2 and Turbo Outrun to Wizball and Armalyte, and those sheer technical achievements (mostly 3D, the C64's natural weak point) like Mercenary, Spindizzy and Stunt Car Racer, and it had a fine catalogue of games.

[CCCP alert]

I would go with an SD2EIC rather than a real disk drive.

[lordofchaos]

To the posters original question, I'd say yes. There was always a Commodore Machine at the family home, the first being the Vic20, then the Plus4, followed by the C64. So I suppose the Brand just stuck. Not to say I wasn't envious of other machines out there, as they all had their little quirks and such, one machine I regretted owning was the BBC Micro, the keys had such a satisfying clunk to them.. In short, bias for the Commodore was real in our house growing up.

My in-between machine was the Atari ST, felt good enough and special in it's own way to be a worthy upgrade from the 8bits, but my brother ruined it by getting the A500 for his Birthday. I was more than happy playing Turrican 2 on the Atari, thinking it was the best of the best, lisntning to that amazing music from a small portable telly with a mono speaker, then my brother bought a Magazine with the Demo version of Turrican Amiga.. To make things worse (or better) he had it coming out of a Stereo HI-FI.. That sound! My destiny was then sealed in my eyes, I would have to get one! Such as my envy I would sneak into his bedroom after school along with a few friends just to show that Amiga off, very carefully putting everything back afterwards for fear of getting found out hehe. Oh happy days.