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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 96 14:17:02 GMT
- Organization: a Graveyard of Empty Bottles
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- psychoholic (toddm@cencom.net) wrote:
-
- : Whoa, can't we all just get along? I figure I should add my two cents.
- : I was a commodore user from my old 5k vic20 to my former Amiga 1200.
- : In theire times, each was at the top of the class but if you say the
- : Amiga's dead then commodore killed it. I'm sure it's different in
- : Europe, but it's about impossible in the US to find any Amiga stuff
- : except by mail and most of that comes from overseas which means higher
- : shipping and heaven help you if you need tech support. I stuck with my
- : Amiga while all my friends with PC's bought cool new games and
- : software, while I watched store after store discontinue their Amiga
- : lines. I am a hardcore gamer and the current crop of Amiga games
- : really suck with a few exceptions. They are still trying to come up
- : with a decent DOOM clone, while that game is old news to PC's. In
-
- If you want to play games, get a Playstation. It makes P6 166MHz systems
- look sad and it only costs 290UKP.
-
- Isn't it funny how the Amiga used to be derided as a 'games machine'. Now
- that the PC games market is buzzing it's suddenly a case of 'Amiga games
- are no good'. Some people make you want to chuck.
-
- C-YA
- Jon
-