Did you get an Amiga because of the C64 legacy?

[ancalimon]

In Turkey, a computer shop was a place that had a Commodore 64 which was used by the shop owner's daughter to play Giana Sisters. There was also always an Amiga 500 with a 5.25 disk drive. There were two huge color catalogs for Amiga and C64 which you could browse and note down the numbers for the games and programs you wanted. After that, you could buy noname or branded disks and the shop owner started copying the games using XCopy. One day, I was browsing for a game for my C64 and the shop owner loaded a game on Amiga and everybody was in awe. From that day I started going to the shop not to buy any C64 games but to see the Amiga in action. The shop owner started to complain and occasionally I started buying a game for the Amiga I did not have. In return, the shop loaded the game and allowed me to play for a few minutes.

[Rob68K]

No. I had a C64 but as I'm the least brand loyal person you can imagine, the fact the Amiga fell into the hands of CBM was neither here nor there.
If Atari had released it, I'd have jumped ship without a second thought.
I bought the Amiga A1000 in September of 1986, pretty much at UK launch, simply because is was the most eagerly anticipated piece of computer hardware in the history of the world and promised the moon on a stick. The fact that it didn't quite deliver didn't really matter as it was still way ahead of the competition in terms of creative personal computing for at least 5 years and gaming by at least 2.
Of course, the fact that even the Master System and NES could do things the Amiga couldn't, there was still enough the Amiga COULD do that they couldn't so I was okay until the release of the PC Engine, Megadrive, then SNES, at which point I lost most of my interest in it because those systems just made it look totally lame by comparison.
TL;DR No.

[Megalomaniac]

What could the Master System and NES do that the Amiga couldn't? There are individual games that were better on those systems than on the Amiga, but those were lazy ST ports rather than Amiga titles developed from scratch.

[Reynolds]

I had a quite typical path to walk on I think, way back. I got A c64 as my best friend way back had it years before me. In 1986 I got my C64 with a cassette tape, then had to wait for ages till a 1541 drive... then sold the whole lot and bought my A500...

[mr.spiv]

I came from Spectrum camp (had even floppy drive & proper keyboard). Could not think anything good about any CBM stuff and was heading to ST... until I saw Axion's demopack with Thrust's Hypnotic Circles, Knight Hawks' Mordillo etc demos

[Axxy]

I also came from the Spectrum camp, 48k, +3 and then an Amiga. Up until Quake, Duke Nukem and online gaming started in early to mid 90s, been using peecee's ever since, so the rest is history so they say...

[Coagulus]

I went to Amiga from Atari 8 bit and ZX Spectrum. It was the sound that sold it for me

[KONEY]

I had a C64 but wasn't even aware the Amiga existed. This was until 1989, when I saw an A500 running Shadow Of The Beast and my life first priority switched

[Mr-Z]

When I saw an Amiga in action for the first time I was blown away like most at the time.

So for me it was the next logical step to take after the C64 and had nothing to do with it being Commodore branded.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Mr-Z

So for me it was the next logical step to take after the C64 and had nothing to do with it being Commodore branded.

That sums it up pretty nicely Same for me.

[source]

For me it did have a strong influence but a friend had an A500 that sold me. I even had 10 bootlegged games before I even got my machine. It was an A2000 with a bridgeboard.

[Megalomaniac]

While I like and respect the ST as well, I don't think you could go from C64 to ST, simply because of the music and sound hardware would have been a step down, not just because both were Commodore.

Otherwise, there was a case for choosing an ST until at least 1988. It was cheaper and/or came with more games for most of its lifespan, and had more games released until maybe early 1988 (by late 1989 they seemed to have a similar amount of games), but right from Defender of the Crown there were games which showed off the Amiga's graphics and sound advantages, though I'd say Hybris is the first one that would have really wowed me as a game as well. Longer term, the Amiga was obviously the right choice, unless you were mainly buying it to make music, or maybe for office-type productivity where the Amiga's extra abilities were little use but added to the cost.

[Rob68K]

The ST was literally half the price of the A1000.
Admittedly with the mono monitor but I seem to remember that the colour monitor was only 100 quid more.
Paying double the price when 750 quid was already a massive amount of money to ask for a home computer was a no brainer for many.
I know many who bought an A1000 because we all gravitated towards each other at that time and none of us paid £1700/£2000 cash.

[aeberbach]

I'd seen the Vic 20, thought it was unbelievably lame except perhaps for Gridrunner. Because of the similar appearance I never really looked at the C64, I was more into Atari 8-bits. (Many of the Atari engineers, notably Jay Miner, went on to design the Amiga. I didn't know that at the time of course.) Once I saw a friend's A1000 there was no question about which computer I was going into debt for.

[Geordie-Jedi]

No the C64 never inspired me to get an Amiga.
I started off with a ZX Spectrum 48K

What did inspire me was spending a lot of time around one of by best friends
house who (IIRC) had an Amiga 500+

It blew me away with its arcade quality GFX and games.
I knew then, that I HAD to to own an Amiga of my own.

I eventually got an Amiga (which was shared with my younger brother).

[Korban]

While I had a C64 and was (and still am) a big fan of it I had a Tandy TRS80 CoCo before that, which I still had and used sometimes still. My brothers teacher at the time was one of the people we got out pirated games from, so when going with my Mum to pick my brother up from his teachers house one day my brother quickly showed me the brand new Amiga 1000 his teacher had bought and I was instantly hooked.
So while I did go from c64 to Amiga I didnt go to Amiga because of C64. If anything it was because of the CoCo I wanted an Amiga, but really I just wanted the new shiny machine that was doing things I never even imagined.

[lyzanxia]

We had a c64 and I especially liked the demos/crack intros.

My mind was blown when my friend bought an a500 and showed me the rotating square slideshow (demo?) with the running cat..

Parent begging for an a500 had begun

[damiraga]

I did have a C64, so when my friend got an Amiga, I knew I had to have one. Being around 12 at the time, and living in a country where Commodore and Sinclair were the main two players, this seemed like a natural progression. Of course, I was aware of Atari ST, but it was in such minority that I never gave it any consideration.

[Hillsy_]

Short answer - No.

[outsiderz]

amiga 1200 was my first "computer". after the amiga i got an 386