Did you get an Amiga because of the C64 legacy?

[Megalomaniac]

16-bit games (be they Amiga, SNES or Megadrive) generally hold more appeal to me than 8-bit games (be they Spectrum, C64, Master System or NES) or indeed later consoles (by which time using 'bits' as a measure of system power really doesn't work. I think it's a consequence of having got my Spectrum when it was quite old and I was quite young, whereas I got my Amiga in its heyday when I was slightly older (and kept it for a lot longer). If you were born in 1972 and got a Spectrum when they were quite new, replaced it with an Amiga in 1988 but was moving on from games by that age, it may well be the exact reverse? Interesting to find someone who likes the look of Spectrum games - when I had one I often envied the C64 (and, if there were any, Amstrad) screenshots on the box (if you wanted an arcade machine in your home, the C64 was the theoretical better choice) , but the Spectrum's resolution advantage means that some games can look better on the Spectrum, if designed within its capabilities.

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Originally Posted by Megalomaniac

If you were born in 1972 and got a Spectrum when they were quite new, replaced it with an Amiga in 1988 but was moving on from games by that age, it may well be the exact reverse?

That was me, but '73. And yes I'm still a huge Speccy fanatic even now and have a few ongoing projects that fall into that category

The A1000 had more to do than the Speccy did (though Speccy BASIC beat the pants off AmigaBASIC, I have to say) and for a long time I was exclusively Amiga until later when I returned to the Speccy in a big way.

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I got into the 64 in late 83, played Atari 800 in 81 first but they were mega expensive.

8bit library is very diverse and the difference between badly coded and banging the chipset games on 64 is smaller on average than ST and Amiga as many of those were C compiled dual dev (shit idea).

Unless you wanted to play games like The Pawn/Carrier Command the ST was inferior to a C64 game done well. Depends what you came from, most Amiga games fall well short of 50/60hz game engine coding of Atari/64 too. Before 3DO 3D games looked shit anyway. The 64 was a real hassle for ST sales (shit sound, shit scrolling) and the ST port job sickness meant the Amiga games were mostly shit before 1990 too for people coming from Atari 800/C64 back then unless you wanted to play different kind of ST/Amiga games.

Gauntlet 1 on the ST is sort of an exception, sure the scrolling stuttered but who wouldn't prefer that gorgeous sample sound based version over the 64/ZX/CPC ports?