LoboBlanco: Well I skipped the "Amiga 1000".
Went from the "Amiga 500" to the "Commodore CDTV".
Wishbone: Wow, you actually had a CDTV? I guess they sold at least one, then :-D
blotunga: Since I grew up in the ex-commie block, could someone explain what's the fuss with Amiga? I know they made some consoles (and consoles I think first appeared around 2000 in my country... and I never had any). Though I vaguely recall some cartridge based console that a friend had around 1995, with some crappy tanks game that we played to death, but I think PCs were far more impressive.
Wishbone: The Amigas were not consoles, they were computers (well, most of them were), and none of them were cartridge-based.
Also, until around 1993, the Amiga beat the crap out of the PCs, gaming wise. It had much better graphics and sound. For most games that were released for both Amiga and DOS, the Amiga version is the best, hands-down.
Yep, they actually sold 5 around here at the time I got mine :P
The CDTV was far more powerful than any PC at the time, so much that they were even used as edition isles and you could even do on-the-fly video edition with a "Genlock" accessory.
Nobody would believe me when I told them my computer had 4092 colours, they laughed and usually said I should be mistaken because that was too high of a colour range support for that time (PCs were around 256 colours).
I remember I got a 20GB double sided, double layer DVD with it :D (So even if it was called CDTV it had actually a DVD player). Those things were future tech then :P The funny part was that on one side was "Wing Commander IV" in full DVD resolution glory and in the other side................. :P .................."Captain Claw"..........a 55MB game :)))) It was really fun though.
I can´t count the amount of joysticks that fell before it, between "Street Fighter 2" matches and frantic gaming.
There I fell in love with "Monkey Island", "SWIV", and trackballs.......................I can´t say how weird it was after some years of trackballing, to transition to a mouse, it seemed as if I had a drunk hand at first.
Good times.
blotunga: Since I grew up in the ex-commie block, could someone explain what's the fuss with Amiga? I know they made some consoles (and consoles I think first appeared around 2000 in my country... and I never had any). Though I vaguely recall some cartridge based console that a friend had around 1995, with some crappy tanks game that we played to death, but I think PCs were far more impressive.
Maybe you got it mistaken for the "Atari 800XL"( which was in the same shape of an amiga ), I had one and it did have a catridge slot in the middle, facing upwards.
Never really used it though, only the casette player.
OHHHHH THE NOISE FROM THE CASETTE LOADING.......................14400 baud modems which came long after didn´t even start to get near that haunting sound :P
Ohh, and the post Soviet Union console thing you mention, I got to know that from an
awesomly funny documentary from Kinaman