Amiga 500 Advert

[xxXGazziusXxx]

piracy killed the amiga. Anti-piracy saved the xbox. loved my amiga

[potty127]

The Amiga was a great computer, and this was a superb bundle. But this advert... WTF?!?!

[Picarusslim]

I got the 500+ with lemmings for Xmas. Best Xmas ever! Moonstone was my favourite game i think.

[LoveoftheRoach]

Miss my Amiga, Even the 12 disks for Monkey Island 2!!!! LOL

[FreeZey78]

When I was a kid I never felt the desire to own anything until I saw the Amiga 500 in this advert, even now it's what I think about when I hear that song :)

[slimshady102414]

I got cartoon classics for Christmas 1990 my grandad bought it me before he passed away in the December.

[Kie77]

I remember this advert being on in the build up to the christmas that we got our Amiga. It was the most exciting advert ever

[thegreathead]

dude... you're getting a DELL.

[davvvideos]

gaming addict..

[pitstopjohn]

I cried when I opened my Amiga 500 Cartoon Bundle, too much excitement!

[NorthernStar1982]

nerdgasm i remember this advert!

[HateFenians]

What year was this?

1990 or 1991?

[leemarvinuk09]

I "begged" my mum and nan to get me one of these for Christmas when i was 13 after seeing this ad! Everyone had one at school. I had to make do with an Atari Lynx! :-l By the time I did get one 2 years later, the Amiga was irrelevant.. Ah memories. Haha

[amigapoika]

Sunshine On A Rainy Day :D

Btw isn't this actually A500+

[sk8ernij]

i have been looking for this advert for soooooooo long. Reminds me of when i was little!

[masterkudjo]

@sk8ernij Same here, just found it now and now it just looks stupid and gay lol

[strunway]

lol do we all get hair like that...

[nightSpiritUK]

sweet memories...I remember seeing a friends A500 and thinking it was greatest thing in existence, I got an A600 for christmas and after much gaming spent many hours going blind on DPaint 4 and Octamed :) good times.

[DrawTreep]

i wanted an amiga for christmas hen i was young but got a bloody c64

[nightSpiritUK]

@DrawTreep Count yourself lucky...I started with a C16, the negative version of the C64

[DrawTreep]

@nightSpiritUK

I'm sorry to hear that lol

[nightSpiritUK]

@DrawTreep Haha! the old snobbery about the A600...just because you had a keypad ;)

[SamusDrake]

I remember this ad! I wanted one so badly but alas the parents said "tough"! O_O

If the lad hadn't been acting so "hip'n'radical" this would have been a top advert. Love the song too!

[mattacuk]

I had the Cartoon Classix pack, I loved it to bits. That kid however is SERIOUSLY gay! LOL

[MrWoodyCool1]

I remember this all too well. I got an Amiga 500+ Cartoon Classics pack for Xmas '91, mostly based on this advert. My folks took me into Dixon's and NEARLY got me a ST, until I reminded them of this advert and that I wanted an Amiga.

[MrWoodyCool1]

This sure does bring back some nostalgic memories.

I remember asking for an Amiga 500 for xmas, and I got a Cartoon Classics pack (same as the one advertised) BUT it turned out that I actually had an Amiga 500+ (so had 1MB RAM instead of 512KB RAM)

My xmas was great that year.

I've been after finding this commercial for ages, I remembered Zoe's cover of 'Sunshine On A Rainy Day' which was a top 40 single at the time as well.

[hollowman742]

I remember asking for an Amiga for xmas and when I opened it up my parents had bought me the "education pack". So I had no games on xmas day to play and I was wearing a fixed smile hiding my disapointment. I had to go to my friends house and he gave me some copies of games. It was a great machine for it time. Strange the way the company kept making bad choices with the multimedia systems they made. I suppose their cd32 couldn't compete with other consoles.

[jackedup447]

@hollowman742 hey at least you got one i however wasn't born of the era, but i want one

[maxlogica]

when they bundled 'new zealand story' with the amiga one xmas...i remember machine flying off the shelves..

coming back in january and literally everyone in school had an amiga whereas only a few months before only the rich kids had it!!

[maxlogica]

was LAST NINJA on this or the 64...the memories of those glorious machines etched in my memory

[StRoRo]

It was on both but I think its more famous for being a C64 game.

[strunway]

i would pay anything to get that feeling again... Alll the copied games and being in that little Amiga club. Its a great computer well designed and well produced... dunno why it died...

I mean those designers could have waited 3 years and made a playstation clone or whatever?....

Maybe all the copied games killed them?

[bazfanv2]

@strunway Bit late, but you answered your own question in two words "copied games". Yes i was responsible too.

[strunway]

@bazfanv2 yeah but copies are everywhere. The sold more consoles at £399 than anyone cos of the copied games...

Id say in the time I was growing up 1 person in that early teen age group had an Amiga... and that means disks, mice, replacement PSUs, ??

[darkwhitty]

I don't remember seeing this ad at all..... yet that song and the amiga are inexplicably linked in my head...

Whats also wierd is i had all 3 of those games + Deluxe paint, in those small boxes. But im sure i did not have that bundle set.

infact im sure i originally had the simpsons big box version but it didnt work for some reason so i had the small box as a replacement. (can anybody confirm if there was a bigbox for the simpsons?)

[pigman2222]

This ad dates from the second half of 1991. I know cos we got our Amiga for Xmas 1991 - based primarily on the excitement created by this ad! We had the Cartoon Classics pack. Zoe's cover of 'Sunshine on a Rainy Day' also another personal nostalgia favourite for me. Thanks for upload!

[Paulostar]

O my god this brings me back into the year 1992 - 1995. I played it alot. Hab about 250 games <3

[crazynighthawk]

This brings back memories.

Fire and Ice, Lemmings, Jaguar Racing, Indiana Jones, Settlers.... and how without fail, the system would crash right before you were about to save a game. :)

[wootlanter]

God, I remember this, especially for the song that went with it

[ganjam0n]

wooow i never thought i`d find this advert, thanks so much for the post, i was only 7 at the time this came out and i still remember it fondly, amiga is by far the most fun i have ever had with a computer, i had the a600 and a1200, still got the a1200, i 030 50mhz 18mb ram, hd, cdrom, towered it back in the day it was my DO all machine, i did everything with it.

Soooo many good memorys :)

[flibblesan]

and this is how the Amiga won and the ST lost the UK market.

[maxlogica]

The 2...and i mean 2 boys in our entire school who got the ST had the piss taken out of them incessantly throught the early 90's!!!!!!

one of the claimed it was 'good for music mixing' or something and the other one claimed his parents got mugged by some rudeboy at dixons brent cross who convinced them the atari ST was better..

[Stevieboy74]

@maxlogica - basically that kid at school was right, the ST had built in midi which meant it was a great machine to use for music production along with the likes of Cubase for ST and so on, but it was only good for midi control / sequencing etc. With regards to direct recording and playback of 8-bit sampled sounds then the Amiga blew the ST out of the water, and then did a little shit on it's head for good measure!

[tlachta]

fantastic, i loved that ad, thanks for posting

[fayik123]

I got one when i was 10 with the cartoons classics pack. MY first big comptuter after the c64 & megadrive. THen in 1996 i got my first pc

[00Aim00]

Ive just got mine out of the loft :)

Oh the memories!!!

Toki, Turrican 2, New Zealand story, Bubble Bobble, Rainbow islands, Treasure Island dizzy!

Made me wee myself with joy!! lol XD

[grahamgregson]

oh amiga i love you :)

where would i be without you :)

[Harrysound]

Rememebr it so well.Used to love the song.

£400!! though that must be at least a grand in todays money!

[handsprings333]

happy memories

[benervous]

This is fantastic! this is the sunshine on a rainy day Amiga ad i been lookin for... forever! Thanks for posting :)

[bakhtn]

even for today that was expensive brand new.

[joegrafter]

very cool computer, very cool ad thanks

[betsycoates]

good pregnant pause at the end

[jontay5]

great computer