How Doom didn't kill the Amiga

Re:How Doom didn't kill the Amiga by flomo on Saturday February 03, 2024 @11:54PM (#39247729)

I remember someone saying "There was no market for 'Amiga games', there was a market for Amiga 500 games." If you look at it that way, it had a nice long run as a game machine, while failing in most other segments.

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Re:How Doom didn't kill the Amiga by icedchai on Sunday February 04, 2024 @09:44AM (#39250541)

That makes total sense. The A500 was the most popular machine, with a 68000, 512K RAM. If your game required 1 meg, you'd lose a decent number of potential customers. (My A500, circa 1989, was souped up! 3 megs of RAM and a hard drive!)

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Re:How Doom didn't kill the Amiga by flomo on Sunday February 04, 2024 @11:05AM (#39251349)

Meanwhile, there was a market for high-end PC games. If you bought a better PC, you could show it off. That was important to the type of person who owned an Amiga (they always wanted to show you).

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