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Wolfenstein was one of those games where you walk into the store and see it running and you immediately realize this is going to change everything. Same with Doom.
But I don't think anything really killed the Amiga. It was dead on arrival. When it didn't catch on in America that was it. By that time you just were not going to be able to keep up with the PC manufacturers if you were only selling in Europe. Also if you look at who was willing and able to spend $1000+ on a computer at that time, a large part of them were programmers or running a small business. No matter how much they liked games, these people were going to get a PC because they had to for work.
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I think a bigger question is why it took off in Europe but was dismissed so hard in the US. Objectively the Amigas were drastically better performing at a lower price point, so something Commodore did must have really fricked up their marketing or product strategy or something
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I'm guessing more Americans had bought IBM PCs in the early '80s and wanted something compatible with that. Also computers were so darn expensive back then that you couldn't just get a new one every few years. So if you already had bought one in the early-to-mid '80s you were probably not even considering a buying a new one during that period where Amiga was superior.
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Yeah, you don't say?
Almost as if Commodore was dogshit at everything except computers and then various factors kept the Amiga hardware from evolving as the competition caught up and leapfrogged them.
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The VGA card with its 256 colours really killed the Amiga, as suddenly PCs weren't so terrible atg graphics. It came out in 1987.
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Yeah, when you can just put a card in the computer you already own for business there's no reason to get an Amiga.
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Another factor is that PC clones were available, which freed users from the dictatorship of a single company. I had PCs as a kid in the 80s for that reason.
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Shut up and post some Amiga tunes
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Were you even alive yet, you big nerd?
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There's no 3D game...do you play it like wearing those red and blue glasses?
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Buy our home computer or we'll keep playing that shitty song,
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