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Doom was the coup de grâce, but yes, this game showed that the Amiga hardware was a dead end.

Make Game Pass have a few-month delay on new games, drop the sub price down again, add Activision Blizzard games to it.

They never had a way I don't understand why this megacorp always gets a pass it's nice to see after generations of screwing over customers going back to the rrod people finally understand how Shitty MS actually is!

Was 120£ and my single mother never afford it

i remember when i was 11 when this thing came out and saw ads on tv of this phone i wanted one so bad it was something amazing for me seeing playstation controls on a phone coming from an symbian and ios user at the time but i think i didn't get because it wasn't on my cell phone carrier if i remember correctly i miss this time of mobile phones because every phone you had looked different unless you had an iphone

Ironically, Netburst is probably the most RISC-like x86 microarchitecture.

Speedball 2 on Amiga 500 is still the greatest game ever made, it's a pity that most joysticks weren't Tonka enough back then haha

I think that history will show that Amiga died for a lot of reasons, but most of them had to do with the approach used to accomplish things that Commodore chose. the PC world was mostly fairly simple and straight forward hardware with (for the time) a lot of processing power. Amiga was a collection of relatively custom graphics chips with a lot less processing power. It seems like a battle of two different ways to accomplish a similar goal, but that really wasn't true. The Amiga was essentially capped out and limited by what it's graphics chips could do. They were amazing at certain things, and terrible at other things. They were in fact an evolution dead end, the very best of what could be tracked all the way back to the Commodore PET. They had evolved, evolved, and continued down a path that gave a lot of good results earlier than the others but in the end limited their abilities. You can look at the history and see what really won: expandability and development within a standard. The PC (and the Apple II at the time) very specifically featured expansion slots. To this day, the PC is made up of parts often added via expansion slots. This is a winner because it allows for both evolution and specialization. If you wanted a computer to do a lot of storage, you could add in extra cards to be interfaces. If you wanted network, or if you wanted graphics, you could do it. Companies like 3DFX brought a pretty decent version of well rendered 2.5D to the PC world for a price. It was awesome (I htink I still have my card here somewhere). Amiga was pretty much dead ended at that point. It represented the end of the line for a style of system and graphics that quickly fell out of favor. It was easily dismissed as being an out of date home arcade machine, and to be fair it still had a hard time to beat things like the playstation or even the original nintendo machine in this regard. So it was too computer to be a gaming console, and too gaming to be a good PC. Commodore literally drove into a wedge that was always going to get smaller. By the time they realized, the walls had already closed in and the fun was over. Basically, it is the story of open development vs closed development. You know how that turns out.

I bought a North American Net Yaroze Suite a rather long time ago and absolutely love it! One day, I would love to make a game with it as I always wanted this suite after seeing one of my best friends in Japan have one and when he had me hold the system I knew it was time :D

STFU. All the "3-D" garbage that started coming out is what in fact killed gaming, because it was trash compared with hand-drawn, graphically awesome, so-called 2-D games, period. Both doom and wolfeinstein were and still are garbage games for the blind.

A lot of Amigans happily blame Carmack for not trying hard enough, while pointing at the SNES which got both Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom, but here's the thing: The SNES had a *gigantic* install base, and publishers who were willing to fork over the money for the licenses.

Hi Modern Vintage Gamer, I recently watched your video, and I wanted to share some thoughts. With games like 'Dread' and 'Grind' demonstrating that even an Amiga 500 can run a decent Wolfenstein or Doom clone, it seems the Amiga's potential might have been underestimated. These examples show that the issue wasn't the hardware itself but rather that developers at the time didn't have the know-how to program these types of games. I believe this insight might provide a great opportunity for a follow-up video that highlights the Amiga's capabilities in a more positive light. As a fellow Amiga enthusiast, I think this would resonate well with the community

now i got a fat ps3 and i found out that you can't play ps2 games with 3rd party controller would jailbreaking be away around this

Amiga was already dead when doom came. Wing Commander and Wolfenstein 3d was two examples where the amiga wasn’t the shit anymore

RIP Amiga, you were so far ahead of your time.

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I will never lease hardware or software for my own. Consoles? Only if I can hack them. Subscription? Wait seated.

SNES ended my Amiga!

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It really was an “overnight change” I had an Atari 1040 ST then a PC and never looked back. Don’t remember the transition. But it was a quick leapfrog. 286 to a 486 and then a Pentium 2.

lol. the amiga doom clones were...pathetic. that machine doesn't seem particularly more powerful than a c64.

For me personally it was Doom that killed Amiga. I only had seen Pac-Man before this run on a PC. Doom was mind blowing. Before this I was a C64 and later Amiga user. That being said, I loved the Commodore computers.

What's crazy is devs basically had to start from scratch with engines and editors for each game on the n64 and ps1, and even then we still got quality games. Today, devs have unreal engine and unity and somehow we end up with lower quality games being released

I absolutely love that you said "moving house" like 100 times. I'm moving house rn and never thought I'd be a home owner And I keep saying Moving House because I remember this video. It sounds silly but I love the semantics.

Me had 2 Amiga 1200 with Turbocard and 32 MB Ram and 4 GB HDD, one from Commodore and one from ESCOM. I learnt so much from them: coding, making 2D/3D Graphics and Animations and making Music.

I hope the online gaming in console has a smaller amount or free. $11AUD for a month is really steep.

The only thing I really knew about the Amiga (back then) was that it was the computer used to render the cg title sequence for STTNG.

I'd argue that this, alone, did not kill the Amiga. Having these problems while investing everything into a game console version of the CD32 did. It was a market they had no business trying to enter and they invested everything they had into it.

Commodore & Amiga died due to the Accountants taking over they dismissed alot of the development staff which ment the next gen custom Chips was delayed to the point AGA was rushed out as a half house stop gap. I read the intended replacement chip set was twice as powerful as AGA or four times of original chipset more than capable of keeping up with a pc with 3d graphics and 386or 486. Also Commodore were late paying bills so suppliers increased minimum order sizes and asked for part payment up front. They were still trying to sale the C64 as a computer & console when Amiga had supplanted it in the market, had a pc arm that were losing money for many years but amiga cash kept afloat so Commodore could say they did business machines instead of pushing amigas to video and graphics that mac took over when amiga disappeared.

Don't quite agree with you for me that was MegaRace, when I saw that I knew the Amiga days were numbered.

Being a child of that time, many people forget how big an impact the first Wolfenstein was. You had boomers and kids both wanting to take a trip to Wolfenstein.

Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness used the expansion pak. But I preferred the framerate to the resolution.

Consoles have never made any sense anyway for anyone who had enough technical knowledge to assemble a PC.

I am really surprised that Doom came to Amgia in 1997, because in 1998 the PC saw the best 3D game ever Half-Life and this one was a real game changer. So it was pretty to late.

486 dx2 66 just made the Amiga feel slow. TrueType fonts in Windows 3.1 looked massively better. Way more than just Wolfenstein that killed the Amiga. Even games that were released on Amiga were suddenly better on PCs and unlike Amigas PCs were getting faster and cheaper all the time. Original Civilization was what replaced my Amiga 2000 with a PC. VGA and XGA were better displays, and hard drives were suddenly "normal".

Amiga was great tbh pcs in comparison are just boring

The only electronic device that can't play Doom

I remember the amiga owners bragging about all the stuff they could do with their systems which, to be fair, was pretty advanced for the time including graphically. The PC's in general where intended as business machines originally and weren't made for advanced graphics. There was still PC games being made but they where limited to whatever the main processor could dish out. Wolfenstein might of done it or at least legitimized PC as a gaming platform. Once video cards started being made for PC, you stopped hearing about AMIGA entirely. I remember getting into some debates with amiga fans back in the day but now you almost never hear about it nowadays. Now, it's console vs PC.

Watching this on a 75in 4k TV really makes the contrast between the PC versions and Amiga clones pop, probably much more than it would have at the time. Doom and Wolfenstein look totally playable, the Amiga clones I had to squint and lean back to tell what I was seeing, it looked like something being censored.

the games on the ps1 ps2 era were different .... i even played a few on my channel and they were amazing.

Wolfenstein 3d was the first PC game I actually got into and then doom,Duke nukem etc etc

Less is more. Going back through old game libraries and playing games I never had before, the games felt like better quality than today and were great. Sometimes they were shorter but felt finished. It wasn't nostalgia.

I have just had discussion about this under some video 1 week ago saying that Amiga was murdered within 1 year by deadly combo of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Mortal Kombat. PC was pretty under the radar till this trio of top games.

Were you born in your mid-70s?

Wolfenstein killed Amiga and Comanche buried it!

Amiga missed the train in technology, it is no longer possible to catch it

I worked at Computer Showcase in San Francisco which sold Amigas and Video Toasters from NewTek.

Is that a C64 in John Wick?

In my life, It was DESCENT that killed the Amiga, the Atari ST and even the Atari Falcon. Descent was the next big step after Doom for me and I built a cheap 386 especially for this game.

So the Amiga was your personal computer. So doesn't that make it a PC?