marurun wrote:I think part of my lack of perspective comes from the fact that the Amiga was decidedly an also-ran in the US. It was superior to all comers when it first came out, but the PC rapidly caught up and surpassed it, at least for audio and visuals. So the US was largely defined by the Apple II series on the low end and the PC on the high-end, with the Commodore 64 and the Macintosh being the primary underdogs in the low and high spaces, respectively. I know the Amiga didn't bomb in the US, but it didn't have a comfortable niche, either.
The UK computer market was much broader, with the Commdore 64 and ZX Spectrum still having a place in the market in the early 90s, and computers like the Amiga, Atari ST and PC also competing in the market. As far as games go, the Amiga was the clear winner here in the earlier part of the 90s. Things changed as PCs became cheaper, Windows 95 happened, Commodore went under and all of that jazz as the 90s continued.
At the time, I was pretty young though, so a lot of my info is second hand. My family also didn't make enough money to afford any of those computers or enough technical know-how to set one up and use it. I was a console kid. I actually got my first PC at the age of 14 or 15, sometime around 2002