Don Reisinger on the Amiga's Innovation | The Commodore Amiga 500 Story | The Gaming Chronicles

Don Reisinger, the Former Head of Marketing for Amiga Inc, talks about the original innovative approach behind the Amiga project, which was an attempt to totally revolutionise the market based on what was around at the time.

The business machines of the early 1980's (lead by IBM and it's various clones) though leading the market didn't feature particularly impressive games, whereas the Commodore 64 though amazing for games was not exactly a business computer! The newly formed Amiga team knew that to create some for of computer that could sit in-between both markets could well corner it. This was the starting point for the Amiga Project.

This year is the 35th Anniversary of the Commodore Amiga 500 (released in 1987) and we have
decided to launch a new series of documentaries called The Gaming Chronicles where we can use our fairly large archive to focus on specific subjects from within gaming or hardware history and for the first episode we have decided to focus on the Amiga 500.

The A500 computer when released in 1987 went onto be the most successful of the Amiga line and played a significant role in the video games industry due to the number of fantastic games created either for it or because of it.

This project will focus on why the Amiga 1000 struggled and why the Amiga 500 with it's simpler manufacturing and cheaper retail price finally saw the Amiga name really catch fire and combined with a fantastic line-up of games and other software is still so loved today, some 35 years later!

This project will cover the hardware story of the Commodore Amiga 500 and the later Amiga's in the line including the CD32 as well as what actually happened to Commodore which eventually went under in 1994.

As well as the main Amiga 500 Documentary we are also making 6 featurettes that dive deeper into specific Amiga subjects such as games, music, graphics and the Demo Scene. In addition if you can't wait until Christmas for your slice of Amiga entertainment then you can also pledge to receive a monthly Backer Pack download of Amiga Game Making ofs to give you a monthly Amiga nostalgia fix!

We have just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to make this new project happen, if it's for your love of the Amiga or you just want to help us realise this brand new series then please do consider supporting us by visiting our Kickstarter campaign.

We have some amazing perks which include having your face immortalised as a Cannon Fodder or Sensible World of Soccer character and the opportunity to talk to some of your Amiga heroes, artists, animators, musicians in some amazing online Q&A's and lots more!

Please consider supporting our new Commodore Amiga project here: https://t.co/BYy7CSf6NT

Featured music: The End of The Tape by Anthony Caulfield

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