Star-Studded Amiga 2000 Commercial

A late-80s commercial for the Amiga 2000 featuring Tommy Lasorda, several NASA astronauts, The Pointer Sisters, and Tip O'Neill. Background music sound familiar? It's from the "Goonies" soundtrack. Strangely enough, they used that track in several Amiga commercials, including the following:



Indeed Steevie, you are a rodent.

Amiga Longplay - Apidya

And when I say long-play... I mean LONG-PLAY. This video is about 45 minutes long.

It's a really great SHMUP, tho, with amazing music, gorgeous stages, and huge, mind-blowing bosses.

And the bonus stages are just nuts. The one at the 4 minute mark, where you are suddenly randomly capturing cherubs and avoiding demons, or at the 15 minute mark, where you traverse the guts of a fish, and then blast him once you come out the other end, and then at the 19 minute mark, where after blasting the giant maggots out of a dead rat you apparently decide to search through it's guts as well... wait, the boss of stage 3-2 is an inexplicable face at the bottom of a Pepsi can?

If you've never seen or heard of this game, I'd reccomend jumping straight to the middle of the video, where you fight the giant doll.

And then the music for the next stage, which could easily have been an Information Society B-Side.

Crazy, crazy game.

Last Day Of A Commodore Amiga Factory - April 27, 1994

A Commodore employee taking his camera and recording his last day on the job. Poignant.

Teenager Makes Fun Video For School, MTV Threatens To Sue.

So this cat was apparently 16 in 1995, which would make him my brother's age. This video was made on an Amiga 500, by the way.

Now that I think of it, I wonder where this cat went to school. He was in a Computer Graphics course his sophmore year of high school, working with Amiga 500s? My senior year of high school (the same year), I was writing dumbass Visual Basic programs on a 386 with a 16 color screen in THE MOST ADVANCED COMPUTER COURSE MY HIGH SCHOOL HAD AVAILABLE!

Dammit, it sucks being white trash.

"Weird Dreams" for the Amiga 2000 - Full-Game Longplay Video

It is incredibly tragic that with all the technology that video game systems possess, there hasn't been more games with this much imagination involved. This game is truly gorgeous, and it is almost 20 years old!

Check out the stage that kicks in at the 5 minute mark! The music, the concept... There is nothing about it that is not just amazing.