Amiga around the world

Haydn · Groupie Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 117 Location: Melbourne

Hey I'd thought it would be interesting to get a feel for how internationally renowned the Amiga is.

Why not list the countries that you've either used an Amiga in, or have heard of Amigas being popular in?

I'm in Australia where the Amiga was immensly popular, but never as popular as the C64 was in it's day.

I have recently come back from China where the Amiga never took off. There's no Chinese character set for the Amiga though it's lack of presence in China would have been for economic reasons at the time.
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Antares · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:36 pm Post subject:

I'd say that the Amiga was the most popular 16 bits computer in Spain. Funnily enough, its older brother, the C64, was the least popular 8 bits machine in my country.
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Timo · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject:

Amigas were literally everywhere here in the UK. Smile

Most of my friends had an Amiga, and we were like a big group really. Used to use them, or talk about them, nearly all the time!
C64's were popular too, as were Spectrums. I had a C64. Smile

Makke · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:05 pm Post subject:

Yeah, the Amiga was wellspread in Sweden as well. I think 5 of 6 kids on my street when growing up had one. And at least 6 guys in my high school class had one.

Btw. I know the Amiga (or any Commodore system for that matter) weren't that popular in the US. Which 16 bit platform was the biggest on the other side of the pond? PC? Or were they all console kiddies? Wink

EDIT: Just changed were to weren't, which was what I mean and quite changed the semantics. Smile

thechap · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:10 am Post subject:

I think the Amiga was popular in its early life in the states, but all the best, later software came from, UK/Europe.

TWR · Groupie Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 163 Location: RÅSUNDA

I think the best amiga users are from Sweden... Cool

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shteev · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

Oceania? Where the hell is Oceania? Only place I've ever heard of it is in '1984'
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Haydn · Groupie Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 117 Location: Melbourne

Haven't seen 1984. Oceania is the area of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
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Thunderer · Groupie Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 109 Location: Macedonia

shteev · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 11:08 am Post subject:

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thechap · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:46 pm Post subject: No Tanks

Are Americans not into Retro gaming (Too bust playing Quake VI/Unreal Tourny 2010), was the Amiga never a big hit in the states, or do we just have no readers from across the pond?

denoxis · Newcomer Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 12

C64 and Amiga were definitely two of the most common home computers during late 80's and early 90's. It was the same in Turkey and that's why I switched from C64 to Amiga (well, easy access to pirated software was another criteria Embarassed

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tony.rc · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:48 am Post subject: Re: Amiga around the world