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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.games,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <00668305744@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 91 00:29:04 GMT
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From article <23550@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by ccastcr@prism.gatech.EDU (Russo, Chris A.):
> robbins@arcadien.rice.edu (Thomas Robbins) writes:
>>only for games, but I worry at buying a machine that's already four
>>years old, what with computer equipment being obsolete even before the
>>ink on your check is dry. And heck, it's only about the price of a good
>>modem!
> Nah, buy one of the newer game systems like Genesis or Turbografx.  They're
> pretty awesome too.  Or better yet, wait until the Super Nintendo comes
> out later this year.  I think it's called Super Famicom now.  Don't despair
> too much, tho.  I bet you Apple puts a graphics coprocessor in one of their
> machines before the turn of the century.

The problem with all those newer game systems is that none of them have the
number of games available for the Amiga 500. If you're buying a system
to play games on, it's hard to beat the Amiga 500. There will always be
more games for the 500, because it takes much fewer resources for a
developer to WRITE games for the 500... I remember one developer who
wrote a decent game using his Amiga 1000 with two floppy drives, 512K,
and Aztec C 3.4. Then he got jacked out of his royalties by the publisher,
but that's life... anyhow, it's not like with the dedicated game systems,
where you have to buy a very expensive developer setup in order to get
things done. (My current Amiga setup, about $3,000 worth, is more than
enough to do Amiga development).

I've seen hundreds of good, playable games for the Amiga. You'll have a
hard time convincing me that the Super Nintendo will have hundreds of games
anytime in the near future.

As for obsolescence... game machines don't become obsolete. Commodore sold
over 250,000 Commodore 64's in Germany alone last year. We're talking about
a limited 8-bit computer that's MUCH older than the Amiga 500 (which was
released in ?'88?). The only thing that will make the Amiga 500 obsolete
will be some other computer with much better graphics selling for the same
price. And they'll have to be MUCH better, because otherwise it won't
overcome the difference in available games software.

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