I've tagged the Amiga checkbox, but I might be cheating - I had a 1200, which had a fully 32-bit '020 processor. 

Well I was lucky to have both, a 1040st and Amiga a500 but late on moved on to the Amiga a1200 with an 8mb viper card and an 80meg hd ohh the memories, but my roots where most definitely Atari based, until my ST died, did I take off with the Amiga , producing great art and musical work, but played allot with microdeals Quartet , amazing..even nowadays.

I had the Amiga 500, I remember it costing my parents around £400, how they afforded it back then I will never know but I was a very lucky boy.

Atari 520STFM with upgraded RAM (2.5MB), 4096 colour chip and upgraded TOS.

I voted for Amiga.

Wasnt the RISC CPU in the Archimedes 32-bit?

Wasn't the RISC CPU in the Archimedes 32-bit?

Yeah but I think it ran on a 16-bit bus and the competition for the Arc was the ST & Amiga

Wasn't the RISC CPU in the Archimedes 32-bit?

Yeah but I think it ran on a 16-bit bus and the competition for the Arc was the ST & Amiga

Just been checking them out, from the ARM2 CPU (Archimedes onwards) is a full 32bit data bus, so even though some stated it was in-competition with the Amiga and ST, the price range was more in competition with lower end PCs and Macs.

Wasn't the RISC CPU in the Archimedes 32-bit?

Yeah but I think it ran on a 16-bit bus and the competition for the Arc was the ST & Amiga

Just been checking them out, from the ARM2 CPU (Archimedes onwards) is a full 32bit data bus, so even though some stated it was in-competition with the Amiga and ST, the price range was more in competition with lower end PCs and Macs.

Yeah that's true but the A3000 was clearly designed to look like the ST & Amiga

Yeah that's true but the A3000 was clearly designed to look like the ST & Amiga

Yeah I totally agree, of course by that time the Amiga and ST had a couple years head start and the name BBC wasn't associated with games mainly school computers!
It wasn't until the A3010 when people started taking notice of what a Archimedes was games machine wise, but again the A1200 and Snes were released the same year so it's not surprising it got bypassed, a shame in hindsight as the A3010 was powerful for 3d games.

Was a 520STFM man myself, can still recal going into The Computer Shop (store name) and buying the ST, along with M1 Tank Platoon and a compilation that had 4 games on (Xenon 2, Lombard RAC, TV Sports Football and something else).

Did think about the Amiga, but since it was MY money being exchanged, thought i'd save money on hardware and put it towards games instead.

Amiga might have had the Blitter, more colours, better sound etc, but it was'nt that big an issue for myself.

The ST delivered in spades:Hunter, Captive, Starglider 2, Dungeon Master, Oids, Midwinter 2, Llamatron, Gods, the P.D scene etc.

It was the most cost effictive way for myself and friends to get into 16 Bit gaming.

Picked up an A1200 Amiga years later and then went through process of seeing which A500 games would run ok.

Amiga for me. I took my C64 with all my disks to Wants in Plymouth and did a straight swap for an A500 with a handful of games....worst mistake I ever made as within 6 months I bought a new C64 as I missed playing my tape games lol

Actually, when I was really young, we had a C64 set up in the living room, and I used to play a lot of --

Ahahahahahahaha, I'm just messing with you. Had you going for a minute, didn't I? Yeah, I had DOS. I think we started off with regular DOS for a while, and eventually we upgraded to Windows 3.1. Before this, I'm fairly certain I learned how to use a command prompt. When I was 4. Yeah.

For me there were no 16-bit computers. I played my brother's C64, he never bothered with a 16-bit computer but switched to a PC eventually and moved out... I was only a console guy. And to be honest, to this day I find the 16 bit home computers rather unattractive. In general I think that gaming was just better on consoles at that time save for a few genres like adventures or simulations. The glory days of computers were on the 8-bit-machines.

Actually, while I did play on a PC occasionally at friends' places (rarely) I did not buy one before 2006. So I went from the C64 straight to modern PC.

... In general I think that gaming was just better on consoles at that time save for a few genres like adventures or simulations.

As a 16-bit home computer owner in the early '90s (plus a Lynx) I'd agree there's much truth in that statement, generally speaking.

That said, not all of us could afford and/or wished to spend the £40+ on a mere videogame back then that it cost for most Mega Drive and SNES titles. I very rarely spent £20 on an ST game back then as I'd always shop around and there were always plenty of bargains to be had plus a range of budget games too.

(£40 in '92 inflation adjusted = £68 now!)