Commodore Amiga Commercials
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Commodore adverts and commercials were heavily used in the 1990s around the world to promote the Commodore Amiga 16 bit computer. During the 90's Commodore was heavily into their world wide marketing campaign for their 16 bit home computers and 32 bit consoles. this included commercials and adverts for the Commodore Amiga A500, A1000, A600, A1200 and the CD32. Some of these adverts where by Commodore directly however it wasn't unusual to see adverts by independent retailers also.
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Unless you were there in the late 80s and witnessed for yourself what an atomic impact the amiga made then you will never know the love this machine has..i proudly still have 3 amiga 500s and all in original packaging..love the amiga.
AMIGA the BEST
I had an Amiga 600 and it was like an old friend who I sadly lost to the mists of time and house moves.
That's sad a600's are expensive now mine is valued at twice its original price in 1993 its got a 68020 graphics accelerator, 11mb of memory 64gb SDXC card hard drive converter, RTC backup and gotek drive replacement.
“Only Amiga Makes it Possible.”
These commercials don't show how awesome and cutting edge machine Amiga was.
Blame Irving Gould about that.
@@FunLobbyDE The whole Commodore sucked at advertisement and development. They acted like they didn't know the potential of their flagship products. Imagine having a computer that was like 10 years ahead of it's time and being so fucking dumb, pissing of the Amiga team and missing the opportunity to develop another great Amiga. The technology was already there. It needed development. We could have an Amiga 6000 with PowerPC processor on board "Paula plus" sound chip with 8 or even 16 sound channels, and SuperAGA graphics chip. Another thing would be AmigaOS that can handle file formats from PC by default, higher resolutions and top notch productivity software. That would be something. The old software could work on new hardware using compatibility layer in the software.
The Retro Byte thank you for this video, I saw that you also added the advertisement of my country Greece! Nice...
This was such an amazing computer in its day. Nothing could compete with it.
Owned an A 500, A1200 and CDTV. Ran a BBS and used the CDTV to put the Fred Fish collection on-line so people could download it at 1200 Baud. Man those were the days. Computers were such a new thing and every advancement was so amazing.
Still got my a1200 Amiga and games
I still have the Commodore 64C and
Amiga 500 + games.
And i'm not going to lose them 😸😺👍🕹️.
Sunshine on a rainy day, ooh really wanted one back in the day, I did get a c64 for Xmas still
Wanted one also, bought it way later 2nd hand. Never enjoyed it because had a pc already. Just got it too late.
I remember for cd32 ads, in tv. Maybe on sky or super channel i saw in my childhood.
Thanks for the look back.
I still miss my Amiga 500.
Some games are still good today, like parasol stars, rodland...and new games too.
kauf dir einen auf Ebay und co :) habe noch mein amiga und jetzt sind es 2
@@Audispeedquattro Zu viele Betrügereien bei eBay oder ähnlichem, besser, um die Computer der Zeit wiederherzustellen.
These Commodore Amiga TV commercials are retrospectively awesome 😺👍🕹️.
In fact, i still own the original Commodore 64C and Amiga 500 computers + games 😺👍.
I even have the Commodore 64 games on the tapes and disks 😺👍🕹️.
Thanks for showing this awesome retrospective video 😺👍.
Greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.
I miss the Home Computer years, also showing my age now, damn, seems like only yesterday :)
And was the best machine for that time....
That very first advert was the beginning of the end.
If you mean the 3D , I agree
0:22 to start seeing the commercials/adverts
4:40 Apple fanatic Stephen Fry doing an Amiga advert?
I remember seeing that first Amiga 1000 commercial on MTV, but I wasn't really paying attention... and I was just confused! Too bad it was such an incredible machine!
thought it is Rick Flair in the beginning :D
I thought it was Rutger Hauer
No one's gonna mention the Exorcist music at 5:22 ? lol
Now, I have been researching the Commodore Amiga as I we plan on getting one for our retro game room. Neither my fiancee nor I ever experienced any of the micros but I plan to start here. I first began gaming in 1986 with the Nes and Master System. She started much later as she is younger than me with the PlayStation and N64.
What really fascinates me about the Amiga is a complete shift in what Commodore had done before. With the 64 and 128 it was all about power on a budget while they took on everyone else. With the Amiga it was power first and Atari led the market in price with the ST. I heard the Amiga 500 at launch was stupidly expensive. What I don't understand is how was Commodore near bankruptcy here? They literally led the generation before in sales.
Addendum- I can't believe the atrocious Amiga 32 was the world's first 32-bit machine. That thing was absolutely terrible.
Thanks for taking to time to watch and comment. You are definitely right in regards to the Amiga being a complete shift in direction. That's mainly to do with the fact that Hi-Toro initially developed the Amiga. Commodore didn't come along and buy the company till 1984 Commodore then struggled a little to get the marketing right with the whole Multi Media thing but that's another story.
It was the Amiga 1000 that launched at a high price. The cutdown, more affordable a500 was launched in 1987 and that’s when things really started to pick up for Amiga sales.
In the UK Commodore was profit making and almost survived. Commodore actually went bust in the USA, and in the UK the management tried to do a buyout to keep Commodore alive. But a German company came in, outbid them and never really looked after the brand
Who thought that was Roy Batty at the beginning?
Amiga's marketing was a mess from start to finish, trying to out apple apple. it was confusing and missed the real market, upgrade your 64. But commodore wanted to be serious.
It was good up until medi Ali took it on he scarified quality for greed in my view and didnt have the right people yes it wasnt great but with the right improvements the A600 is a little powerhouse
In their defense they didn't know what they were selling with the A1000, it was that advanced. By the time they had carved out two solid niches in video work and gaming they were virtually nonexistent in North America in terms of market penetration.
Commodore was really a wonderful company, but unfortunately it went bankrupt.
In America, yeah. The UK side almost survived, but German company bought it out and gutted Commodore for IPs and patents
Was that Ruby Dee doing the voice in that first Amiga commercial?
Ahh the computer that advertised its whiter then white keyboard...and target base.
Wut?
@@steven-vn9ui keyboards are racist. Didn’t you know?
Will the last person in advertising to leave please turn off the lights.
The price was expensive for the time 600 pounds, these means that only privilege people can have one...is difficult to understand nowdays because the computers are cheap and every body have one, in those old times was a very clouse community of people
Yeah, it was definitely a different time, I consider myself lucky to be able to get an Amiga non of the friends I grew up with had one unlike today where people often have multiple consoles
Yeah, almost a full month salary back then.
5:21 Can someone name the track please, ive been searching for it for years now
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells.
They tried to hype the CD32 and failed miserably.
The SEGA Saturn was it’s competition
The Commodore advertising was really ugly on television. They had no taste and no clue about professional users. The Amiga hardware was having so much potential but Commodore was going the cheap way. All they understand is selling a product and be done with it.
I never saw any of these commercials in my country. But I am in Scandinavia + Finland (Commodore central command) and the advertisements were really by word of mouth back in the 80s and early 90s. The users were the salesmen. For all Commodore computers. Up until everything went belly up in 1994 when Commodore didn't know what the hell they were doing. I am still happy to see that 3rd parties are supporting the A1200 and to an extent the A4000 with hardware to this day though.