I chose a Commodore 64 over an Amiga 500 and I don't regret it

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Gave up the Amiga for the C64 myself back in the day, and honestly my fingers still hurt thinking about how slow the disk drive was. Loading a game meant making a sandwich, eating it, then waiting another 10 minutes just to see a loading screen. But hey, at least I could type up my school reports on it while my Amiga-owning friends were actually playing games. I guess we all have our priorities, even if those priorities are built on self-sabotage.

leow9024d ago

Haha, that reminds me of the time I borrowed a friend's C64 for a weekend and spent half of it just listening to the drive click and whir. I think I got one game loaded before bedtime, and by then I was too tired to actually play it. Those old machines really taught you patience, whether you wanted to learn it or not.

wyatt_shah851d ago

A buddy of mine tried loading a game on one of those and forgot about it entirely, came back an hour later to find the screen had glitched out halfway through. He just sat there staring at it like it personally offended him.

jesse_craig261d ago

So, what drove that decision to go from the Amiga down to the C64? Was it the software library, or just a better deal somewhere?