In all these years of thinking I'd seen everything ever made videowise concerning the the Amiga, then much to my surprise I discovered this little gem just uploaded a few days ago on YouTube by MrVinamp...

Amiga The Movie (1987)...

Talk about a trip back in time...

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@Franko
Thanks for sharing this long video

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@Franko

Fab movie, if a little long. Really showcased the qualities of the A500 though.

Miles ahead of IBMs and Apples for the period.

Shame the marketing wasn't better.

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@Franko

The guy playing the keyboards...a bit too excited...

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Cool! I've never seen this one. Started my day off with a retro fix first thing.

@Franko

Ah yes, I remember those days when I got my Amiga 1000 in 1986 and my IBM PC friends were both shocked and wierdly hateful towards me when they saw things like Deluxe Music, Deluxe Paint and Defender of the Crown, for example. I vividly remember one Pc guy telling me the Amiga was just a game machine, a toy. No IBM ever needs to have so many colors for graphics or so many channels (4) for sound - that was just "toy" stuff like space invaders and pong. He kept asserting how much better the PC was, so I showed him the PC Emulator at the time (what was that called?). It was a simply task for an Amiga 1000 to emulate a 1986 PC that had only DOS!
I think the thing that amazed me the most was how years later this same guy told me that PCs were so superior BECAUSE they now had millions of colors and 16 channels of sound.

Go figure.

Just bringing back memories from the past.....good video.

Scott

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Excellent! I see the video touches on all the points that a user would use the Amiga for. I'll show this at our next FCUG meeting.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

@RobertB

Fab video!

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Seen it before but still great to watch and remember why I bought my A500 with 40mb hard disk no less.

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Franko, thanks for posting the link, and thanks to Mr.Vinamp for the upload. I had seen all this before but not all put together on one tape with the dude providing the introduction and sales pitch.

I always thought the "I am Amiga/Only Amiga makes it possible" campaign was the one shining moment in Commodore's marketing of Amiga, and the company certainly had its best Amiga success marketwise in this period with the A500. At least that was how things looked to me in the U.S at the time.

Most of what was to come later regarding marketing and development can pretty much be summed up in one word: disaster.

Anyway, I enjoyed watching this video. Can't believe I don't currently have an A500, and I need to do something about that.

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@mbrantley

I too had seen various clips posted on the net but never knew until yesterday they all came from that one video. It's definitely one of Commodores better campaigns as It really shows off (for the time) just how far ahead the Amiga was against the competition...

Personally though I reckon Commodores greatest advertising campaigns were the ads made for the Vic 20 & C64, now those were neat & clever back in the day, they used humour and had a dig at the competition by directly comparing their products head to head (which at the time caused a bit of an uproar with the likes of Atari & IBM)...

One of the more clever aspects of the VIC 20 & C64 campaigns though was the way CBM always pushed them as "Educational" in their official ads, reckon myself it paid off for them and helped make the C64 the worlds best selling home computer of all time (shame they didn't do the same with the Amiga)...

VIC 20 Advert Collection (11 ads)...

C64 Advert Collection (26 ads)...

PS: If anyone knows of better quality versions of the above ads could you please let me know, as the ones I've found are in most cases already of such bad quality it's kinda hard to restore them...

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