I saw this picture on IndieRetroNews and was like... MEMORIES!! Any 80s/90's gamers in this group? :)

This is GOG. The average user age here is probably 40 or so. ;)

I'm actually a little disappointed, because I was expecting to see a real screenshot from the time!

Never had an Amiga myself though, I only know this from playing at schoolmate's houses.

I'm 43, does that count? :D

Yeah 80s + gamer here. From the Vic 20 to the Specturm 48k+ then to an Atari ST, STE and Falcon (loved these computers. The Falcon was a great machine just came too late in the day).

Then i moved onto pc's in 1996 onwards.

For me some of the best games came out in the 80s & 90s as programmers managed to pull off impossible feats on limited hardware and used every trick to produce those games.

Mind still boggls when you think of how Elite was made on a BBC micro with only i think 32k of ram a whole universe less than the size of a word document.

Back then games where about gameply and where more fun than most of the AAA games that come out nowadays.

Went straight from A1000 to A1200.

To be fair, never liked is A500/A1200 design, with the keyboard being part of the computer. Way too consoley, way too amiga-is-for-games, which was, in my opinion, one reason for its downfall.

Me too was expecting a photo but the picture is cute nonetheless.

Ahhhh not much to connect with here.

First off, I had an Amiga 600.

The Zool action figure is welcome, because my Amiga 600 came with Zool. ;)

TSoMI was of course on my screen all the time.

Lemmings! Of course I played Lemmings.

Loom wasn't my Amiga time ... in fact, that was much later, during the PC era.

The joysticks shown have little resemblance to the ones we were using (round red buttons, etc.).

Ghostbusters, Alf, Snoopie, TMNT, or the Simpsons have no connection to my Amiga times.

Bubble Bobble takes me back to my C128, not my A600.

With the exception of Monkey Island, the picture doesn't display the games that made the platform for me: The Chaos Engine, Dynablaster, Dungeon Master, Burntime, Cannon Fodder, Kyrandia, Fate of Atlantis, Syndicate, Speedball 2, Flashback, Moonstone, Alien Breed, Wings, Simon the Sorcerer, Pirates!, Darkmere, and many more.

I don't see any RPGs here, and I *know* that there were RPGs released for the Amiga.

(With that said, they weren't always the best versions; Bard's Tale 3's Amiga port has the same major issues that the DOS version has, and Ultima 5 has only one song that plays through the whole game. On the other hand, I hear Pools of Darkness lacks a bug that makes the final battle harder in the DOS version.)

The Amiga is my favourite computer of all time (specifically the A500).
Between us, me and my brother went from ZX81 - Commodore Plus/4 - Spectrum 48k and then we went our separate ways with my brother getting a Spectrum 128k and then a Spectrum +2 (both great computers), while I was lucky enough to get an A500 for my birthday.

The Amiga was a game changer, people who didn't live through the 8 bit and 16 bit eras don't realise just how mind-blowing the leap in quality was. Most of the games released early in its life didn't even touch upon what it was capable of (damn you crappy ST ports) but it was still full of WOW moments coming from the Spectrum/C64/Amstrad.

I've been gaming my entire life but it's been mostly consoles until recently. That being said, it is hard for to escape the obvious nostalgia of stuff like this and long for those times (times, again, that I never experienced firsthand).

Well, I got my Amiga 500 1992 so I was a little bit late for the party. As always...

Nope, sorry. Had a SNES. And having seen various games ported from the Amiga to the SNES, I've developed this headcanon: The best Amiga Game was a good SNES game, but by the sheer gulf in quality and (let's face it, the Amiga's library was 90% platformers by weight) relative lack of variety in the genres means that while Gods might be a grand time out on an Amiga, it's a beyond mediocre game on the SNES.

Oh well, at least it wasn't the Mega Drive with a variety of dark muddy games composed in GEMS, relying more on shock value than competent gameplay.

Great image! A lot of nostalgia from the games, movie / TV characters and those old joysticks and mouse. I never had an Amiga computer, but I remember it from Commodore 64 magazines like RUN and Compute!'s Gazette; the games ads used to have both C64 and Amiga screenshots, and the Amiga versions always looked so much better. :)

From the 19 Amiga games I named here yesterday, just two were platformers, and one of those only in the loosest sense of the word. ;)

I have to pay respect to the platform for introducing me to the point and click adventure especially – a genre the wonderful Super Famicom unfortunately sported a jack shit number of games from.

I have to strongly disagree with you as the Amiga was known for being strong across a number of genres but weak when compared to consoles in platformers and fighting games.

Here is a rundown of what are commonly considered to be among the best Amiga games and you will notice that most are not platformers - Monkey Island 1 & 2, Lemmings, Sensible Soccer, Settlers, IK+, Cannon Fodder, The Chaos Engine, Turrican 2, Ambermoon, Hired Guns, Stunt Car Racer, Worms, Pinball Fantasies, Slamtilt, Wings, Flashback, Speedball 2, Syndicate, Lotus Turbo 1,2 &3, Eye of the Beholder 1 & 2, Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight, It Came from the Desert, James Pond: Robocod, Populous, Banshee, Frontier: Elite II, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Alien Breed, Rainbow Islands, Super Cars II, Battle Isle, Simon the Sorcerer, Midwinter and so on.