Next-gen console war: The verdict by mcvuk.com

[MikeB]

@ sieanr

No, you're completely ignoring outside factors. Sure, managament was shit and that raelly hurt the brand, but just as bad was competition. PC was evolving rapidly while Amiga languished in performance. to make matters worse PC was decreasing in cost whereas Amiga prices stayed fixed. Now you can argue those points were due to dumb management, but the fact that the platform failed to adapt and advance is unavoidable.

Agreed, the management pretty much sucked. Not enough focuss on Amiga R&D and marketing. The original Amiga devs and some of the Commodore-era devs were great.

Its odd that you mention Amiga games being released well into the 21st century, whereas just a few post back you seemed to make the argument that the Amiga had its gaming heydays in the late 80s.

Being past your heydays, doesn't imply a platform is completely dead.

when its really no different than the homebrew scene for 2600 titles

Good commercial releases followed even years after Commodore's downfall, not just PD games.

According to MobyGames
http://www.mobygames.com/stats/top_games/k,by_year/listType,1/p,-1/

Amount of games in multiplaform top 10

1992 10 out of 10 are Amiga games, first DOS game at shared 13th spot together with another Amiga game.
1993 7 out of 10 Amiga games, 2 DOS games, one Genesis game.
1994 4 out of 10 Amiga games, 3 DOS games, 1 Windows 3.x game, 1 Snes game, 1 Jaguar game. (Commodore RIP year)
1995 2 Amiga games in top 10, 6 DOS games, 1 Windows game, 1 Saturn game
1996 Only 1 Amiga game left in the top 10...
1997 No more Amiga games in the top 10...

You can judge above when it started to become interesting to own a gaming PC. I was never a fan of MSDOS, I bought my first PC only in 1996. That didn't mean there weren't any good commercial games released anymore...

1996 Alien Breed 3D 2, Slam Tilt, Capital Punishment, Xtreme Racing, Pinball Prelude, Burnout, Wendetta 2175, Chaos Engine 2, Nemac 4, Fightin Spirit, etc

Slamtilt Pinball:



Capitial Punishment:



1997 Worms Director's, Myst, OnEScapee, Shadow Of The Third Moon Black, Blade Flyin High, Final Odyssey, Pinball brain Damage, The Strangers Ablaze, Uropa 2, Trapped 2, etc

Myst:


OnEScapee:


1998

Quake, Genetic Species, Sixth Sense Investigation, Foundation, etc.

Genetic Species:





1999 Napalm, Wipeout 2097, Wasted Dreams, T Zero, Phoenix Fighters,etc

Napalm:





2000 Heretic 2, Nightlong, Exodus The Last War, Bubble Heroes, Simon The Sorceror 2, Hell Squad

Exodus:



2001:

Payback, Earth 2140, Shogo, Descent : Freespace The Great War, Puzzle Bobs, Land Of Genesis, etc

Payback:



2002: Tales Of Tamar, Quake 2, Crossfire 2, etc.

Tales of Tamar:



I think I have demonstrated well like I stated priorly the Amiga commercial gaming survived Commodore bankruptcy well in the new millenium!

Did you read my original post? I said right there that the DOS version was released the same year as the Amiga version, 1991.

Then some websites incorrectly state 1992.

http://www.uvlist.net/game-42097

If I remember correctly the Amiga original was released well before other versions. In any case I didn't buy the PC version because I didn't own one and had no intention to as MSDOS was the most limited and handicapped operating system I had ever used!