Welcome, Guest. Please login or register. Pages: 1 [ 2 ] 3 Go Down. Author Topic: How did the Amiga fare in Australia? Read times. Quote from: Fairdinkem; Quote from: Kesa; It makes it look very secretive. Entrance to the batcave? Superheros secret layer? Mafia meet up place? Nope it's just the amigans annual laminton drive! WOW didn't know they were still around I wonder what i should tell the wife I have owned a A and A Yep, at its peak the Amiga was very successful in Australia, with sales reaching 1 million units just as it started to decline.
By the time AGA was released things were already done and dusted, and I remember seeing new a's and cd32's being cleared at big discounts more than a few times. There mustve been a small handful of australian amigans who stuck with it though, as while Ive not seen an Aussie amigan in real life for many years we do appears to turn up pretty regularly on the net.
Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look. Fingers Sr. Quote from: tasmanian guy; The following users thanked this post: Slattery. Yeah, the A was very popular. My mates brother had one of the first As too Cost a small fortune back then. Not longer after, 's with SVGA became cheap.
Still, I held out until before I moved to a wintel box I'd noticed while gathering all those old Commodore TV ads for my site, that there were quite a few Australian ones. Seems since the days of the C64 Commodore really pushed sales down under. Reckon the 'Are you keeping up with the Commodore' Jingle would have begun to grind after a while though Yep, as a gaming platform it was very big.
Many stores carried them. Not at the same time obviously. Can't remember the store at which I first saw the A but I do remember the amount of drool. The A was promoted heavily as a gaming computer. I remember even one of the Kmart TV promos covering all of their various departments included a quick shot of the A and some gameplay for 'Entertainment'. I think even the 5 A's sold were all in Australia The Amiga also did well as the system to apply to any use you can think of, as it was relatively inexpensive.
