I never had an Amiga, but it was always a dream of mine to own one. I think I had every other Commodore computer except for the PET. We owned a Vic-20, 2 C64s (why two? well, I had a accident with a paper clip), and a C128. Saving my money and purchasing an amazing Vic-20 from the BX at Hickam AFB when I was 10 was a turning point in my life.
Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games: http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2007/04/gallery_amiga0411?slide=1&slideView=2
I remember playing several of these back in the day, Defender of the Crown on the C64. That, The Bard's Tale 1-3 and pretty much all of EPYX's games still stick in my mind as some of the best games of all time. Remember when EA was EOA? Man, I wasted a ton of graph paper with The Bard's Tale.
I played Another World (US: Out of this World) on my first IBM 386sx. My friend Will brought it over and we had to much around with various memory conifgurations just to get it to run.
Remember config.sys and himem.sys? What was it, Dos 6.2 that finally had a memory configuration tool that would muck around with your autoexec.bat and config.sys and through trial and error get an optimal configuration for your system?
Earlier this year, I bought a C64 retro gamepack that hooks directly to your TV. It has Jumpman, Summer Games, Mission Impossible, Pitstop, and many others. I remember enjoying Pitstop more than I do now, but Jumpman is still awesome.
What about Lode Runner? I still have the Win95 box of the update to the game Steve M and I played quite a bit. I can't seem to find the floppies, but the box is still cool.
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