Conina 11 hours ago
I bought my first home computer in Q3 1987 and had to choose between an 8-bit computer (Commodore 64/128, Atari 400/800, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari 400/800) and an 16-bit computer (Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS PC, Apple Mac).
The Amiga 500 was already available in Q3 1987, which was much more affordable than the Amiga 1000 in 1985 - 1986. The Atari ST was also affordable.
Nevertheless I settled for a cheaper Commodore 128 (full compatible to C64 games), since many of my friends and class mates had huge libraries of C64 games I could lend/copy.
I never regretted that decision. If I had gone straight to 16-bit games, I probably would never have played many of the great 8-bit titles.
