Amiga Story Part 2 (The 90s) | Nostalgia Nerd

Thanks for having me play a small part in this video! Just excellent work you're doing, sir :)

Your long-form documentary content is seriously better than most of the documentaries on Netflix.

I used an A500 to make the video animation graphics for the film, Murder by Moonlight (TV Movie 1989 with Brigitte Nielsen) Great machine.

As an American Amiga owner, it was depressing to watch such an advanced machine be so mismanaged. There was a brief period here where the Amiga was considered the top of the line for games, but it didn't last long before IBM clones and VGA started to take over. I knew the writing was on the wall the day I saw a printed ad for Wing Commander. The graphics looked amazing and it wasn't available for the Amiga (then). Next came the golf game Links. For months I looked at the full-page ad on the back of magazines and waited for the promised Amiga version to show up. When it was finally released, I thought "At least now the Amiga will be listed in the ad and IBM owners can see that the Amiga can handle such games!" Literally the very next issue that came out, the ad for Links had been replaced by an ad for Links 386 Pro, which was IBM only. :( By restricting the Amiga only to authorized dealers (of which, there was only one anywhere near here) and having virtually no advertising for it, most people had no idea it even existed. Mention Mac or even Atari to people and they had at least heard of those machines, but say "Amiga" and they had no idea what you were referring to. Combine that with Commodore U.S.'s apparent hatred of games and you have a perfect recipe for failure.

The effort required to put this 2-part series totalling 1 hour & 50minuites together must have been immense. Massive thumbs up!

I worked for Commodore Australia, We sold the A1200 & the A4000, so Commodore Australia was still running long after what you said, Amiga's sold good in Australia, not as good as the UK but sometimes better then the US, Commodore US mismanaged was it down fall, we copied the UK with game bundles as well. Commodore Australia was also big in selling 386-486 PC at the same time, it was a great time & a great job, I got paid to play with Amigas.

I have a huge box of game magazines that start in the late 80s and go all through the 90s. Also I came across some old radio shack catalogs from the early 90s, I couldn't get myself to throw them away. They just remind me too much of what things were like back in those days. The memories all come back just flipping through the pages. Great time time to be alive, there was a lot to look for.

I think I've watched this series half a dozen times now. I'm not sure why I love it so much.

Can't believe I just watched a 2 hour video about Amiga!!! Awesome work, probably took you over 200 hours to edit and create!

Oh I remember the time I spent 2 days typing in code from an Amiga Magazine to double the speed of all games. Only to discover it was an April fools joke.

Ahhhhh..... this is the Amiga video I've been waiting for. It's the era of the Amiga I got into, but also the era that's most ignored by retrospective videos. Great work!

As part of my upbringing, Commodore played a great role in my formation as a computer enthusiast, i remember all the pre internet with the bbs and all the dedicated comunity.. i want to go back..

In the 80's the ultimate wow-experience was walking through a mall and seeing an Amiga setup in a store, playing game demos. Personally, it was the most mind-blowing thing I saw until, believe it or not, the Sega CD a couple of years later.

This should be a Netflix documentary, I love it. Thumbs up

Thank you for mentioning my Checkmate Digital 1500 it was mine and James Campbell's company and we had fun selling them.

The Amiga was a magical machine in the early-to-mid 90's. Even all these years later I've yet to find a flight sim that captured my attention like Battle Of Britain: Their Finest Hour, or Koala and many of my early years playing PC games was spent with things like Syndicate, Speedball 2, and Cannon Fodder - mostly wishing for the heady nostalgia (a word I probably couldn't even pronounce back then) of just a couple of years ago.

The Amiga 3000 was a beast. Easily my favourite computer of all time. Got mine in 1991 and it is still in operating condition!

The MD / owner of a small company I once worked for told me: “accountants are necessary, but they should never replace visionaries as the leaders.” Sounds like Commodore missed this, unfortunately.

Fantastic video. I worked at a company called Play, Inc. in the mid 90s that was founded by Paul Montgomery and Mike Moore (of Video Toaster fame). In fact the gal in that Toaster video, Kiki Stockhammer- was sort of the spokesperson for Trinity, one of the products we made. Paul used to say that coming from the Amiga market was like coming from the future. How true indeed.