Hi Ryan, The Amiga was a revolutionary computer system by Commodore that came out in the fall of 85. I was 13 at the time and somehow managed to convince my family to chip in and buy one for me at a cost of around $3500 as I remember, very expensive for our family. The revolutionary thing was the graphics chipset, which was entirely independent of the main CPU, which had not been done before in a personal computer. I taught myself a lot of graphics programs, which later on led to my becoming a visual effects artist for a living, so it was a damn good investment as it turns out. And as a game system, it blew every thing else out of the water due to the graphics abilities. Electronic Arts was a fledgling company then, and they got on the Amiga bandwagon big time with titles like One on One with Larry bird and Dr. J., artic fox the bard's tale and so forth. Eventually due to Commodore's crappy marketing and lack of development, the Amiga fell to the wayside, last I heard of it gateway had bought the patents on their graphics technology, but not sure if they did anything with it. Ah, memories. Later Che
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