Here’s a look at some of the more innovative entries in the Amiga game canon. The computer’s custom chipset and advanced (for the time) graphics capability led to sumptuous 2-D titles in a variety of styles, and even some basic 3-D games. Its usefulness in the field of animation – from Babylon 5 and early works by the creators of Wallace & Gromit to Andy Warhol’s You Are the One – was equaled only by the smoothness and realism the computer brought to games.The heyday for Amiga games was the late ’80s and early ’90s. The computer’s consumer price point belied the Amiga’s prowess as a rendering tool for realistic audio and eye-popping visuals. When it was unveiled 22 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was instantly recognized as a groundbreaking multimedia machine. Credit Photo: © Bill Bertram 2006 The system that launched a thousand games.
