How did you get your first Amiga?

[Harrison]

Definitely sounds like a brilliant Christmas, especially if you had been expecting an ST and instead got the much better Amiga.

Did you also have access to the games in your Dad's shop?

[FOL]

Definitely sounds like a brilliant Christmas, especially if you had been expecting an ST and instead got the much better Amiga.

Did you also have access to the games in your Dad's shop?

I did indeed, . Ah, those were the days.

[Submeg]

Damn that is extremley cool...thats like expecting an Xbox and getting a PS3!

[Demon Cleaner]

That must have been some real golden years I suppose. We didn't have a lot of shops here in whole Luxembourg.

[Bloodwych]

mmmmm what memories! My very first Amiga.

While I was at junior school, my friends older brother had an Atari ST. Once I saw Defender of the Crown, Plutos (yes PLUTOS!) and Time Bandit I knew the spectrum had to go. Bought one of them to start with and spent many hours on Barbarian, Star Wars, Super Sprint (what a game), Captain Blood, Livingstone I Presume and many other classic titles.

Then, a few years later at comprehensive school, I came across the first Amiga 500 I'd seen. Man, I was blown away by the sound and graphics of the Blood Money intro, the full screen smooth scrolling of Hybris and left gobsmacked at seeing 32 (yes 32!) colours onscreen. I knew the ST had to go.

Got the Batman pack for xmas after selling the ST to some poor sucker. Hope he was a midi fanatic because he should have been looking at the Amiga before parting with his hard earned cash.

Best xmas ever! F-18 interceptor for most of that day! A few months later Bloodwych was released...

[Harrison]

I went the same route as you, starting with an Atari ST before later ditching it for an Amiga. My reason was more the cost and my lack of money when I bought the ST, as the Amiga was £200 more at the time. I only paid £199 for an STFM, while the A500 was still £399. I still regretted buying the ST soon after once all the games started appearing on both platforms and I could clearly see the ST was very inferior with it's huge 8-bit like borders around the screen, unlike the full overscan screens of many Amiga versions. Plus the better graphics and sound. I still enjoyed the ST but wished for an Amiga the whole time.

[Bloodwych]

Yep, Amiga's were not cheap. Started out at £499 with Kickstart 1.2 in the UK, jumping down to that magical £399 mark by the time I picked one up. Considering inflation, that's a lot of money!!! Wonder what the equivalent price would be now? £799?

Makes you wonder why people complain so much about the price of the PS3.