The AMIGA A500 mini review - Is it worth $140?! 

That’s really cool of you man!

I hope my eventual step-kids are as cool as you.

Does she still go for guys with Amigas? 🤔

@@Will45_ lol 💘

Very nice! My dad got me one in 1990 to replace my aging Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Lotus turbo 2 was me and my brother’s

The deluxe paint pack with the Pharaoh picture was always advertised on the back of my zzap 64 magazine

Moonstone for me lol...and yes lotus 2 was badass on 2 player

Lotus 2 was also class. And Sensible Soccer!

You're all wrong, the greatest Amiga game was clearly Speedball 2 😎

Oh look! It's a blithering, blathering, blobbedy blob!

We love new things that are old. So cool.. and stay safe Chris. Cheers.

@@drdysl3xia596 thanks mate, you too.

I really like that series too. And it looks gorgeous on the Amiga

​@@MetalJesusRocks Sure does. Have you seen the Sega CD port of EotB? They were so eager to show off the CD audio that they decided to give the game a full soundtrack... of *intensely* 90s house/techno music by the composer from Streets of Rage! Such a bizarre choice for a slow, medieval dungeon crawler. 🤣

@@GMJ7 but also freaking awesome!

I remember standing in line at the launch of EOBII - It came with a D&D Poster ("The Magister") which is still hanging up today :)

@@torilath You sure got your money's worth out of that poster! I looked up the image and recognized it straight away. It's even featured briefly near the beginning of Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead!

Not sure about you, but I think the Amiga 500 is one the most beautiful computers. I remember wanting a 3.5" drive on my C64 so bad. lol

I also recommend awesome video *Echa Ekranu* 😊👍

if only you owned a c64

@@MephProduction I sold my C64 when I bought the Amiga. What's kinda odd though.... when my parents moved a couple of years ago, we found the 5,25" disk drive on the attic. I somehow must have kept it.

Yeah I had the A600 then soon moved onto the A1200 with the AGA chip, awesome computer at the time

ok the music is good of Turrican 2.. but whats to miss here?,.. no one thinks Turrican 3 is good? Always wondered why so many liked T2 over T3 or T1

@@Tech-geeky yeah one and three were decent but I always felt there was something special and turrican 2. Just felt a more all round polished game to me. You're not missing anything my friend just my opinion 👍

I thought Commodore was an English company back in the day (I know now it wasn't)

Amiga was at least somewhat popular in America. My hometown had a dedicated Amiga store in the early 90s and there were dozens of Amiga BBSs in the Chicago area. I had a 500 and my dad had a 2000 with the XT card. I even traded in the 500 for a 1200HD which was my main computer until 95. Still have it today with a compact flash drive and 8MB trapdoor ram expansion.

Poland had some great Amiga hackers like Mok/Prestige and the Wanted Team guys. And of course, Polish "hackers" started by breaking the first versions of Enigma in the 1930s!

@Danny P I'm glad to hear that :-) By the way, then (at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s) we were fully focused on the USA. The idea of ​​freedom, democracy, but also a free market and civil liberties was what most Poles wanted back then. The 1980s were very hard and depressive for us. Of course, as a child, it didn't feel that much, but it wasn't fun. Western music, movies and ... computer games were our window to the world :-) I remember the VHS era as an absolutely magical period. We watched all these American blockbusters with bated breath :-) Anyway, one of my favorite movies from that period was and is "The Goonies". Besides, I could list the American titles of films from that period eeendleeessly ;-) When it comes to computers, I started with the Atari 800 XL. I saw Commodere 64 only in a friend's house. I also played a bit on the Atari St also. Our parents (those who could afford it) bought Western electronic equipment in special stores, where you didn't pay in zlotys, but... dollars (!). These were the so-called Pewexes. So some kids were lucky, some kids weren't lucky at all. And, of course, there were salons with arcade machines (especially in tourist resorts, e.g. in the Polish mountains or at the seaside). Playing the arcade version of Missile Command was an amazing experience. This game has also a political dimension and is a child of its time, but that's another matter :-) Computer exchanges were yet another phenomenon that arose in our country on the wave of political and economic freedom. These were ordinary bazaars, i.e. open-air shacks and tents, where you could buy pirated games. Yes, there was some access to the original games, but due to the loopholes in the intellectual property law, everyone was buying illegal games anyway, unfortunately. Today the legal issue is completely regulated and linking illegal games or software is something in a bad tone.

@@ericfresh I had the Amiga until 1994. Then my father bought me my first PC. It was the 486 SX, pretty good hardware at the time. It is known that even then the Amiga still had some potential, but its time was clearly running out. I really regret getting rid of the original games from that period. I had, for example, Strike Commander, S.E.A.L. Team, Syndicata and some others.

Thousands of more games just a few clicks away on the internet.. If you want to discover some new games or games that ran or sounder better on the amiga at that time, it sure is worth it.

I love these mini consoles

I also recommend awesome video *Echa Ekranu* 😊👍

How do i load my old original floppy amiga games to it though. I have 100s from years ago.

@@raggersragnarsson6255 Well i think it´s easiest with amiga explorer from Cloanto. You can just put your floppy in your amiga (i used a 1200 with Lan cable) And copy it too pc. In Amiga explorer you can see the actual drive as an ADF file. Ihope i explaned myself .

@@raggersragnarsson6255 via an amiga floppy drive and and adf image creator or pc drive and GreaseWeazle snd an adf image creator

I have two Raspberry PI's.. they are cool.. but yea that Mini has me all excited like a little kid.

Maybe in the US, It was very popular in Europe!

Underrated? By who? It is constantly rated as being one of the greatest systems of its era.

It was massive all over Europe for 20 years

Underrated? No.

@@MikeD-bu6hr People are saying underrated all the time even on famous musicians that were super stars since 1960's. lol Elvis and Beatles were so underrated. Yeah sure.

Want to sell it? hahha JK.. I sure wouldn't. :)

I went from a 464 to a 500+, what a leap and what fabulous times!

Go for it!

@@MetalJesusRocks sure thing metal Jesus! And since you saw my comment, I’ll let you know that I got my parents to start watching your videos, and my parents love watching your videos with me! It’s like a routine at this point. My dad has a lot of nostalgia for the Commodore 64 and amiga A500. He had both growing up!

Yes please!

Why? This is what the Commodore gamepad looked like.

@@Bembel81 Because the original Commodore gamepad was not a good design and suffered from poor build quality. And even if I want the Amiga’s strengths to be replicated, I don’t want its weaknesses replicated too, so I believe the gamepad had to be given an overhaul.

Yup the A1000 was far too expensive and Commodore made the mistake so many other companies seem to make back then in not realising people wanted a games machine sequel to the c64. Advertising it as a business machine destroyed it's chances. Commodore UK saw the right way and the A500 was a huge hit. When Commodore imploded they wanted to buy out the company but sadly it went elsewhere. Who knows what bright future Commodore and the Amiga might have had had that gone through 😞

Eh! That would have been cool! 🤘

Maybe, but who uses full-size SD cards these days?

@@MetalJesusRocks where can we find .lha files of the music demos please? I have some but state of the art doesn't work 😕

I wonder if Nintendo is apprehensive because they'd have to make a new N64 controller?! Not sure...

@@MetalJesusRocks That, and the NES and SNES Classics were done out of desperation due to the Wii U's poor sales. Now that the Switch is a huge success, they probably don't see a need to make a N64 one.

I agree, love the c64 mini for what it is, a cute gadget that makes emulation super easy at an impulse buy price. This seems to be somewhat expensive in comparison. I can easily emulate Amiga on pc, or maybe build a dedicated Raspberry pi retro gaming station for less. Or, get my original Amiga 500 working with modern displays:)

Agree with Marnix just get a Pi set up I have over 40,000 games on mine they are great . I loved my 500 but just don’t see the point in paying that price for it but for some it is a must have I can see that.

For 140? Lmao stop

@@clintperez8874 yeah for $60 sure I would get one but that's a Lotta dough for ancient tech

“Agree with JohnRiggs i do” -MY INNER YODA

@@fritzthecat8158 I feel like they be having stakes in these companies

I agree. Get a Pi400. It's cheaper, more powerful and has a functional keyboard. $140 for an Orange Pi with a nun-functional keyboard is a total ripoff. Not to mention that Amiga CD controller was considered the worst of its generation back then.

Clearly you aren't familier with current Raspberry Pi prices. The chip shortage has pushed prices up. Either way the Pi or a PC is the optio for the technically minded of us but those who want a plug and play machine have this as an option. Much like how all the othe rmin consolses are for those who can't or won't set up various emulators.

@@Martipar Clearly I am. I got a raspberry pi zero 2W which just came out not long ago. For 15 bucks total.

@@Lenmaer Yeah. Absolutely zero reason this should be over $100 at the very most.

@@Martipar Check the prices again. I just did right now and the Pi400 is still cheaper. You can buy the complete Pi400 bundle for $120 right now. And the Pi400 only for $90.

Oh yeah! 🤘