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Nobody Knows How Many Amigas Commodore Sold

🕑 Added 2024-08-29 23:53:20 +0000 UTC

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Miy Eterp

Due to budget issues, won't be here for a while...

Miy Eterp

WOW amazing! Hope for vid about M2 Browning 50 cal HMG in the future!

Andrew Laing

This is interesting! As a tyke, I’d never heard of processors, just went purely on graphics, and it usually followed that the Amiga had the edge here. The Bitmaps captured ‘cool’ for a while. Their branding and image was on point and made you feel like you were also cool. I’m calling up decades-old childhood memories here of course!

Alex Limi

Agreed, even Speedball 2 was mediocre at best, and most of their games were… not great, Chaos Engine was probably the exception. But the style influence is undeniable! I would also argue (as an Amiga user, no less!) that Xenon (the first one) looks better on the Atari ST.

Alex Limi

I find it funny that after hundreds of comments, nobody has pointed out the hilariousness of this video — all the work, all the effort of reading the reports, reverse engineering the annual report numbers, the obsessive and amazing quality of the presentation here — we arrive at a number that is about ~1% off from the random magazine quote. (Yes, thatsthejoke.jpg) 😄 But, class act leaving it hanging in the video. 😄

Lunar amethyst

I enjoy a good investigative numbers-crunching video in a world where facts matter a little less every day.

Ahoy

I think the ST was the better platform up until around 87/88 - it had more support, and the slightly higher clock speed gave the ST an advantage in some games. I have huge respect for the Bitmap Brothers and I'd like to do a video on them. But to my secret shame, I never enjoyed Speedball 2 all that much. Wasn't my jam. Still, a vid on the Bitmaps isn't out of the question. I'd quite like to talk about how their art style influenced other games.

Ahoy

Fun fact - the paper texture footage I shot is actually the back of the 1993 report. The small black mark was unintentional, but I'm sure it will annoy a few folk.

Adam Leyshon

Am I the only one who tried to clean my screen? 😂

Andrew Laing

I mean this with the greatest of respect when I say that your presentation style, and quality of the art style, means that I’d probably watch you give a history of the phone book. That said, as an ST boy, I was always slightly envious of the Amiga’s power. It made every game we had look slightly better. If I can be so bold as to request a video type - please could you look at Speedball and it’s incredible sequel ‘Brutal Deluxe’ - it was a fun game, but it was the world building and absolutely banging theme tune and soundtrack which drew me in. Always thought it would make an excellent movie.