Your first Amiga "wow!" moment...?

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Speaking with the folks at A-EON (of X1000 fame) at VCF recently, I mentioned that the new beast is going to have to launch with some really impressive demonstrations of "software defined silicon", or risk "my PC can do that, but cheaper". I think it really must have a "wow!" factor to encourage hard earned pounds to be spent on the new kit, and give it a long-term future.

Reminiscing, my first Amiga "wow!" was seeing King Tut from DPaint on my friend's brand new A500. This was compared to the "highres" 240x200pixel two colour screen on my Atmos. I just had to have one, and guess where the next year's hard earned cash went?

So what was your first Amiga "wow!"? Boing Ball? Miami Vice on 4 floppies? Juggler? I'm interested to hear how the original inspired people...

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Newtek Demo Reel 1 was the first thing I ever saw running on an Amiga and it blew me away. The local computer store in the small town where I lived was about 90% Commodore and 10% PC products. :D I couldn't believe my eyes and ears when I saw that A1000 for the first time.

Heather
 
Accolade's Test Drive........... Wooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! :) Just the looks of those cars!!
 
Playing Turrican 2 on the a500, i was t2 addict on the c64.
 
SkydivinGirl said:
Newtek Demo Reel 1 was the first thing I ever saw running on an Amiga and it blew me away. The local computer store in the small town where I lived was about 90% Commodore and 10% PC products. :D I couldn't believe my eyes and ears when I saw that A1000 for the first time.

Heather
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What do you think it is now? It is A W S O M E :D

My wow time on the amiga was late, i always admired the Amiga 500 because mainly most of my friends had one.
But my time was in Darkseed, the sound..was just in my ears...just. WOW!:)
 
My first WOW moment was hearing the Amiga talk to me from the workbench disk.
 
My first Wow moment was seeing a friend play Dragon's Lair before I even knew what an Amiga was. I was still rocking a C64 and when I saw their version of Dragon's Lair (not to mention some of the other titles he showed me that day) I was sold and bought an Amiga a few months after. I seriously rocked an Amiga as my main computer here in the States until about 1996-97. My first experience on the Internet was on my Amiga as well.
 
Mine was my first round in.. james pond.. :) (which was one of the bundled games)
 
Can't remember the first one, I was just a gamer, new to computer so basically anything I played had the "wow" factor. Not to mention those programs you could create stuff, Deluxe Paint, ProTracker.
I can name a few "wow" moments when I re-discovered the Amiga along with the Internet community some 9/8 years ago.
- getting a HD for the first time and installing workbench on it
- discovering WHDLoad the best utility in the world for an Amiga gamer that every true Amiga games has to register and own ;)
- playing mp3's on my 030 (yeah, so I could play them only in mono to have a reasonable quality, but anyways, wow)
- building my own multiplayer adaptor and playing Dyna Blaster / Master Blaster / MegaBlast with 3 other friends

... those are just a few, I don't remember any others now, but I'm easily amazed when it comes to Amiga and every time I thought I saw everything, I've read on the internet or tried for my own that it can do much more.
 
I never knew you could link amiga>st until i saw that vid recently..

My mate had a cable running up onto the roof and along the roof of 3 houses to another amiga for playing lotus2 linked.. had to use walky talkies to say when to start games etc..:)
 
The first time I saw the amiga 500, it was on display running the juggler animation, I was amazed, coming from the CPC464 it just looked really impressive. There was an Atari and a C128 if I remember correctly, set up along side. I cannot remember what they were doing.

The next time I saw it, it was running Marble Madness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWrZiDii3Xk.. wow. I immediately indicated that we should get one of those, dad said it was good but too expensive. We also looked at the PC 1512, it had a picture of a tiger on it, I remember thinking it odd that you need a disk to get it going as I was used to the instant useful prompt of the 464.But my eye kept drifting back to the Amiga, of course the price according to my dad was a bit high. :(

Sometime later might have been a year or more, I got the screen gems Amiga for Christmas.
 
sorry I am a C= fanboy, and to be honest Tramiel Fanboy, since he managed properly.. So i should marry an atari to, but I am not going to do that ;)
 
First moment was when I show a friend my pc software and he put the disk on his "keyboard" and run it smoothly. After a few minutes he grabbed the mouse and rolled the screen down to show the Workbench screen running behind!

I got hooked since then.
 
For me it has to be Jesus on E's and then discovering OctaMED 4.
Sigh....8bit sound madness and mashups, those were the days.
Then i got the ol' A1200 online and discovered Aminet....woohoo:)
 
I'd have been about 11 or 12, one of the 'Big Kids' from our street had an A500 (at the time I still used my spectrum)

He showed me Test Drive and Silkworm I could not beleive my eyes :blink:

But he didn't let me play :(
 
Video editing on a 500 :thumbsup:

And of course playing the games in between :)

That was about 1986+

Dave G :cool:
 
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