Which game made you defect to PC? - Page 3

gimbal · 15 July 2012, 17:13

Doom, X-Wing, Lost Eden, 7th Guest, Warcraft 2, C&C...

although to be fair I didn't "defect", I simply had both an Amiga and a PC for double the fun

Eventually my Miggy broke and I didn't replace it, leaving me with only the PC; the dark side was too strong for me to resist.

quahappy · 15 July 2012, 17:36

Funny enough. I didn't actually defect to the PC. I went from Amiga to Playstation (and PS2 after). It wasn't until around seven years ago after messing about on my brother's PC and exploring the world of the 'net for the first time and becoming addicted, I invested in a PC for myself. A friend of a friend built me one £50 and he had kindly put on MAME and tons of games. I became hooked. After a while I started searching on the 'net to see if the Amiga and other systems had been emulated and was well chuffed to find out it had! Since then, my collections of emulators and games had grown a fair bit.

mikele · 16 July 2012, 14:15

PC wasn't any viable gaming platform for me until the introduction of Win 9x. DOS was such a pain in the neck: IRQ conflicts, memory configuration etc. that I sold my 486 dx4/100 after 2 months and chose Playstation as my gaming device, while my Mac was used for serious tasks.

Went back to PC world again in 1999 when got seriously interested in emu scene - WinUAE, besides it was able to play (divx) videos. It was PII 333 Mhz (cpu looked so cool!) Half Life was one of the first titles run on it.

merlin1968 · 01 October 2012, 14:28

I got my first 486 and sold my Amiga 1500 when I saw Doom at my mates computer shop.

lifeschool · 01 October 2012, 16:10

I bought my first PC in 2004 after struggling to make hand-coded web sites and do word processing on the Amiga. I basically bought a PC for Word (for college/uni/work) and the internet applications. Almost as soon as I got the PC I discovered WinUAE and I bought a 2.5" -> 3.5" IDE converter so that I could plug my A1200 2.5" HD into the PC. The HDD only returned to the Amiga when I sold all my 1200's and equipment in 2009, so it lived inside the PC as my Amiga drive for a while. Then I simply made a HDF and copied all the stuff over.

Never been interested in PC games, although I remember playing Doom2 on 4 player deathmatch mode (on a hacked college network) almost every lunch hour for about 6 months until we got bored with it.

Games wise, from the Amiga I went to a PS1 (Die Hard Trilogy, Dino Crisis 2, Parasite Eve 2 - all still TOP games), PS2, then Xbox 360.

EDIT: I just remember one PC game I used to play: Diablo II (completed it many times), but that was much later.

DDNI · 01 October 2012, 17:30

Delta Force 2.

Online play. NISnipers. We rocked

Predseda · 01 October 2012, 18:40

Never sold my Amiga, but kept it abandoned in wardrobe for 2 years. My father had a PC for work and the first game that attracted me to PC gaming was Warcraft II in 1999 and Starcraft the very same year. But I was never a real PC gamer, I rather seconded to my younger brother playing those games, I created levels for him and watched him playing. In 2004 newly launched lemonamiga.com brought me back to my wardrobe to dust off my trusty A1200 and I have been using it again since.

In last few years I played only few PC games, but I bought them all as originals - Project Eden, Machinarium, Botanicula, Broken Swords and few others. And recently I supported Project Giana on Kickstarter. My main gaming machine is Amiga, but there are few exceptions for PC.

Paul_s · 01 October 2012, 19:05

Games didn't swing me to a PeeCee. It was the Internet/comms that made me jump ship and the Amiga back then wasn't supported that well (compared to OS4 nowadays) for the WWW. BBS's - the Amiga was a dream... I miss BBS boards

I did hang onto the Amiga as a daily computer until 1999 so it served me rather well!

Never been into gaming at all on the PC or anything else other than Amiga. GTA series was fun (especially Vice City). But kind of boring now... I can't sit in front of a screen for 1 - 4 hours straight like I used to playing games (unless it's cannon fodder - the only game I can play for endless hours!!)

Mrs Beanbag · 01 October 2012, 19:22

No games did. The only PC game I ever had was The Sims, which did kind of take over my life for a while, but it wasn't what I got the PC for. I got a PC hoping to get into OpenGL programming, but it didn't really keep my enthusiasm.

Jope · 01 October 2012, 20:55

I wasn't really swayed over by any games, but in 1996 the Amiga was dead and Linux was rather interesting.

Never sold the Amiga though, instead I accumulated more as they became cheap around 1998-2000.

fishyfish · 01 October 2012, 22:07

Funny enough it was older games that made me finally get a pc. Nothing could touch emulation on a pc (still true to this day). M.A.M.E. was a big one for me. Being able to play "the real deal" rather than crappy ports of Strider, Street Figter/SF2, Final Fight, Forgoten Worlds, Dragon Ninja, Altered Beast, TMNT, and a shedload of other games that Id previously pumped a lot of coins into, not to mention megadrive, snes, nes, etc.

I tried to make do with the '030 amiga I had at the time, but its like chalk and cheese for emulation.

I moved on for a few years, but ironically it was the pc, through amithlon that ended up getting me back into the amiga.

ptyerman · 02 October 2012, 05:46

It was Frontier: First Encounters and Railroad Tycoon II that convinced me to get a PC.

lesta_smsc · 03 October 2012, 00:17

Street Fighter 2... I never had AGA version and PC version (despite pixelation) was a lot more 'interactive' - and it had the 'bosses'!

dirkies · 03 October 2012, 00:25

I was not into gaming, only reason was I could not share word/wordperfect documents on a floppy with colleagues at university. But I had some coming to my place playing pinball games on the Amiga "because pc had nothing as fun as I had". I 'converted' to NT3.51 in '95 for professional reasons but kept using my A4000 until it was mothballed in 2001 due to the dominating hi-bandwidth internet/mp3 frenzy. I still have my trusted A500 & A4000 today, although no clue if they actually still fire up... They were my first digital love, and no Android/iOS will ever replace that "wow!" feeling.

DonAmiga · 03 October 2012, 00:35

Quake for me, another game I couldn't put down for awhile was network q rally with the escort cossie flat out

06 October 2012, 23:54

Not a game, but a BBS

PC hardware was far cheaper when you were building up a BBS.

Muzkat · 07 October 2012, 03:58

It was Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, and the First Person Shooter genre in general that made me want to get a PC. Apart from a few titles like Behind the Iron Gate, there was nothing really else like them on the Amiga at the time, and my god was I envious. In particular, it was Doom that captured me, and I remember going over to people's houses just to be lost in its beautiful misery. My love for FPS remains strong to this day.

While the Amiga was, and still is, my favourite gaming machine of all time, I have always lamented that it never gave me much in way of my two favourite video game genres - these being FPS and beat 'em ups of both the Street Fighter and Final Fight variety, all the while being flooded with the game type that I hated the most - sport games. Ah well, it still provided me with a wonderful childhood, though.

Having said all that, it wasn't a particular game that made me jump ship - I stubbornly clung to my miggy until 1999, squashing all my envy for its PC counterparts for years on end. I'm like that - I'll stick to technology until it other outright dies, or isn't supported anymore. I finally made the switch when I could no longer deny that PCs were the way of the future, and that's when I purchased a 200mhz 686. Loved it, and I still love PC gaming, but it doesn't give me the buzz that the Amiga did.

amiga_Forever · 08 October 2012, 01:22

I leave on my own accord.....

Nothing really made me leave at all,

I guess, i just decided to switch, when my favourite repair shop went out of business. Any by then, i didn't really wanna spend money to get it fixed, as I already had a PC (486)....

I think also, at the time i "just lost interest"

But its like one if those things... you loose interest, but after a couple of years or so, you go back again with emulation

Drucifer · 08 October 2012, 13:52

Yup was same for me, the X-wing and Tie Fighter games made me forget that life existed outside for a while, still kept my amiga for a while, only got rid of it when moved out of my parents and only had enough room for my then new P2 pc, so gave my a1200 and all my games to my mate for his kids! what a mistake lol

fryguy · 08 October 2012, 15:35

Well, i bought a 386 (all i could afford for the money i would get for my A1200). I tried Alone in the dark and some other games. But i never really liked playing on PC because most games were made for keyboard. I was going to sell my A1200 later to pay for the PC, but instead i sold the shitty 386. I started playing on consoles insteads.

It wasn't a game which made me get a PC later, but my A1200 with PPC card and Bvision was so unstable.

01 October 2012, 16:10	#45
lifeschool Local Moderator Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Lancashire, UK Age: 48 Posts: 1,616	I bought my first PC in 2004 after struggling to make hand-coded web sites and do word processing on the Amiga. I basically bought a PC for Word (for college/uni/work) and the internet applications. Almost as soon as I got the PC I discovered WinUAE and I bought a 2.5" -> 3.5" IDE converter so that I could plug my A1200 2.5" HD into the PC. The HDD only returned to the Amiga when I sold all my 1200's and equipment in 2009, so it lived inside the PC as my Amiga drive for a while. Then I simply made a HDF and copied all the stuff over. Never been interested in PC games, although I remember playing Doom2 on 4 player deathmatch mode (on a hacked college network) almost every lunch hour for about 6 months until we got bored with it. Games wise, from the Amiga I went to a PS1 (Die Hard Trilogy, Dino Crisis 2, Parasite Eve 2 - all still TOP games), PS2, then Xbox 360. EDIT: I just remember one PC game I used to play: Diablo II (completed it many times), but that was much later. Last edited by lifeschool; 01 October 2012 at 20:24.

01 October 2012, 18:40	#47
Predseda Puttymoon inhabitant Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tromaville Age: 46 Posts: 7,555	Never sold my Amiga, but kept it abandoned in wardrobe for 2 years. My father had a PC for work and the first game that attracted me to PC gaming was Warcraft II in 1999 and Starcraft the very same year. But I was never a real PC gamer, I rather seconded to my younger brother playing those games, I created levels for him and watched him playing. In 2004 newly launched lemonamiga.com brought me back to my wardrobe to dust off my trusty A1200 and I have been using it again since. In last few years I played only few PC games, but I bought them all as originals - Project Eden, Machinarium, Botanicula, Broken Swords and few others. And recently I supported Project Giana on Kickstarter. My main gaming machine is Amiga, but there are few exceptions for PC. Last edited by Predseda; 01 October 2012 at 18:49.

01 October 2012, 19:05	#48
Paul_s Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Amigaville Age: 46 Posts: 3,337	Games didn't swing me to a PeeCee. It was the Internet/comms that made me jump ship and the Amiga back then wasn't supported that well (compared to OS4 nowadays) for the WWW. BBS's - the Amiga was a dream... I miss BBS boards I did hang onto the Amiga as a daily computer until 1999 so it served me rather well! Never been into gaming at all on the PC or anything else other than Amiga. GTA series was fun (especially Vice City). But kind of boring now... I can't sit in front of a screen for 1 - 4 hours straight like I used to playing games (unless it's cannon fodder - the only game I can play for endless hours!!) Last edited by Paul_s; 01 October 2012 at 21:02.

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15 July 2012, 17:13	#41
gimbal cheeky scoundrel Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands Age: 42 Posts: 6,946	Doom, X-Wing, Lost Eden, 7th Guest, Warcraft 2, C&C... although to be fair I didn't "defect", I simply had both an Amiga and a PC for double the fun Eventually my Miggy broke and I didn't replace it, leaving me with only the PC; the dark side was too strong for me to resist.

15 July 2012, 17:36	#42
quahappy Born again WinUAE user Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: South Yorkshire, UK Age: 56 Posts: 1,667	Funny enough. I didn't actually defect to the PC. I went from Amiga to Playstation (and PS2 after). It wasn't until around seven years ago after messing about on my brother's PC and exploring the world of the 'net for the first time and becoming addicted, I invested in a PC for myself. A friend of a friend built me one £50 and he had kindly put on MAME and tons of games. I became hooked. After a while I started searching on the 'net to see if the Amiga and other systems had been emulated and was well chuffed to find out it had! Since then, my collections of emulators and games had grown a fair bit.

16 July 2012, 14:15	#43
mikele Registered User Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: poland Posts: 307	PC wasn't any viable gaming platform for me until the introduction of Win 9x. DOS was such a pain in the neck: IRQ conflicts, memory configuration etc. that I sold my 486 dx4/100 after 2 months and chose Playstation as my gaming device, while my Mac was used for serious tasks. Went back to PC world again in 1999 when got seriously interested in emu scene - WinUAE, besides it was able to play (divx) videos. It was PII 333 Mhz (cpu looked so cool!) Half Life was one of the first titles run on it.

01 October 2012, 14:28	#44
merlin1968 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Derby, UK Age: 56 Posts: 55	I got my first 486 and sold my Amiga 1500 when I saw Doom at my mates computer shop.

01 October 2012, 17:30	#46
DDNI Targ Explorer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 5,433	Delta Force 2. Online play. NISnipers. We rocked

01 October 2012, 19:22	#49
Mrs Beanbag Glastonbridge Software Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Edinburgh/Scotland Posts: 2,243	No games did. The only PC game I ever had was The Sims, which did kind of take over my life for a while, but it wasn't what I got the PC for. I got a PC hoping to get into OpenGL programming, but it didn't really keep my enthusiasm.

01 October 2012, 20:55	#50
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,879	I wasn't really swayed over by any games, but in 1996 the Amiga was dead and Linux was rather interesting. Never sold the Amiga though, instead I accumulated more as they became cheap around 1998-2000.

01 October 2012, 22:07	#51
fishyfish Banned Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Australia Posts: 475	Funny enough it was older games that made me finally get a pc. Nothing could touch emulation on a pc (still true to this day). M.A.M.E. was a big one for me. Being able to play "the real deal" rather than crappy ports of Strider, Street Figter/SF2, Final Fight, Forgoten Worlds, Dragon Ninja, Altered Beast, TMNT, and a shedload of other games that Id previously pumped a lot of coins into, not to mention megadrive, snes, nes, etc. I tried to make do with the '030 amiga I had at the time, but its like chalk and cheese for emulation. I moved on for a few years, but ironically it was the pc, through amithlon that ended up getting me back into the amiga.

02 October 2012, 05:46	#52
ptyerman Registered User Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Worksop/UK Age: 59 Posts: 1,328	It was Frontier: First Encounters and Railroad Tycoon II that convinced me to get a PC.

03 October 2012, 00:17	#53
lesta_smsc Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 3,178	Street Fighter 2... I never had AGA version and PC version (despite pixelation) was a lot more 'interactive' - and it had the 'bosses'!

03 October 2012, 00:25	#54
dirkies Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Belgium Age: 51 Posts: 1,297	I was not into gaming, only reason was I could not share word/wordperfect documents on a floppy with colleagues at university. But I had some coming to my place playing pinball games on the Amiga "because pc had nothing as fun as I had". I 'converted' to NT3.51 in '95 for professional reasons but kept using my A4000 until it was mothballed in 2001 due to the dominating hi-bandwidth internet/mp3 frenzy. I still have my trusted A500 & A4000 today, although no clue if they actually still fire up... They were my first digital love, and no Android/iOS will ever replace that "wow!" feeling.

03 October 2012, 00:35	#55
DonAmiga Registered User Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Scotland Posts: 523	Quake for me, another game I couldn't put down for awhile was network q rally with the escort cossie flat out

06 October 2012, 23:54	#56
Blacklord Posts: n/a	Not a game, but a BBS PC hardware was far cheaper when you were building up a BBS.

07 October 2012, 03:58	#57
Muzkat Into the Wonderful Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Earthrealm Age: 42 Posts: 1,429	It was Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, and the First Person Shooter genre in general that made me want to get a PC. Apart from a few titles like Behind the Iron Gate, there was nothing really else like them on the Amiga at the time, and my god was I envious. In particular, it was Doom that captured me, and I remember going over to people's houses just to be lost in its beautiful misery. My love for FPS remains strong to this day. While the Amiga was, and still is, my favourite gaming machine of all time, I have always lamented that it never gave me much in way of my two favourite video game genres - these being FPS and beat 'em ups of both the Street Fighter and Final Fight variety, all the while being flooded with the game type that I hated the most - sport games. Ah well, it still provided me with a wonderful childhood, though. Having said all that, it wasn't a particular game that made me jump ship - I stubbornly clung to my miggy until 1999, squashing all my envy for its PC counterparts for years on end. I'm like that - I'll stick to technology until it other outright dies, or isn't supported anymore. I finally made the switch when I could no longer deny that PCs were the way of the future, and that's when I purchased a 200mhz 686. Loved it, and I still love PC gaming, but it doesn't give me the buzz that the Amiga did.

08 October 2012, 01:22	#58
amiga_Forever Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: kkhkj Posts: 323	I leave on my own accord..... Nothing really made me leave at all, I guess, i just decided to switch, when my favourite repair shop went out of business. Any by then, i didn't really wanna spend money to get it fixed, as I already had a PC (486).... I think also, at the time i "just lost interest" But its like one if those things... you loose interest, but after a couple of years or so, you go back again with emulation

08 October 2012, 13:52	#59
Drucifer Registered User Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: London Posts: 15	Yup was same for me, the X-wing and Tie Fighter games made me forget that life existed outside for a while, still kept my amiga for a while, only got rid of it when moved out of my parents and only had enough room for my then new P2 pc, so gave my a1200 and all my games to my mate for his kids! what a mistake lol

08 October 2012, 15:35	#60
fryguy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Skarabörg, Sweden Age: 44 Posts: 1,020	Well, i bought a 386 (all i could afford for the money i would get for my A1200). I tried Alone in the dark and some other games. But i never really liked playing on PC because most games were made for keyboard. I was going to sell my A1200 later to pay for the PC, but instead i sold the shitty 386. I started playing on consoles insteads. It wasn't a game which made me get a PC later, but my A1200 with PPC card and Bvision was so unstable.

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