Commodore 64/Amiga converts -- Who else?

[Gamevet]

I'm used to thinking of C64 as a blockbuster, yet Amiga as a commercial failure. Then again I'm sure many europeans can relate by not quite getting our mass NES popular culture.

It was a home computer pop culture here from late 82 to 87. Once the NES started becoming really popular in early 88, the 8-bit computers started fading fast.

I grew up in a small town of about 4,000. I had one friend with an Amiga 1000 in his house. I really didn't get to touch it though, because it was his father's. I would not see an Amiga again (Federated), until I moved to Phoenix for school in 1986 and later when I moved to Dallas in 1989. I never thought the Amiga was even a 1/4 as popular as the C-64 before it, but I thought it had sold at least 3 million in North America. I had PC friends that would tell me the Amiga was nothing more than pretty graphics and sound. I was lucky to live in large cities, where there was plenty of places to purchase software for it, even in 1990. I guess it just never became popular enough to reach the smaller urban areas.

ah, the innocence of youth.

That, by the way... is me presenting

(Seriously, it is me. I did two sets of filming for the BBC last May and June, and the finished piece was made available on the BBC News portal on August 1st)

It's a small world, isn't it?