Nice to see the chart I found years ago still knocking around. Of course you have to take into account despite the CPC and ST being tied, ST games were alot more profitable! - ThreadSky

chinnyvision.bsky.social • 63 days ago

Nice to see the chart I found years ago still knocking around. Of course you have to take into account despite the CPC and ST being tied, ST games were alot more profitable!

Reposted from Keezees!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Counter argument: UK game sales figures, in percentages of the market, from 1991. A year after the Megadrive was launched.

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keezees.bsky.social•63 days ago

I was wondering who I had pinched it off of lol

chinnyvision.bsky.social•63 days ago

It's fine. If I find something like that the aim is to get it out there rather than hoard it like some people do. The more information the better!

markpitt.bsky.social•63 days ago

It shows 8-bits we’re still very relevant into the 90’s even though at that point I had moved onto 16bit machines.

dairycontrary.bsky.social•63 days ago

Amiga for the win, for me - played decent games, and I sampled/remixed/wrote a TON of music.

markpitt.bsky.social•63 days ago

I started with a ST which I loved but moved over to Amiga because everything seemed to go that way and I didn’t want to be left behind.

dairycontrary.bsky.social•63 days ago

Yeah I didn't see the ST until years later, in a studio. Was pretty decent running Notator (I think?) but I never played games on one.

Good times...we were so lucky to live through that whole 8-bit to 16 and 32-bit hardware explosion.

markpitt.bsky.social•63 days ago

The ST was an amazing music machine with its built in MIDI. The games were amazing but not quite as good as the Amiga, also the demo scene was much bigger for Amiga which meant more cracked software available.

merseymal.com•63 days ago

It played nicer with pc formatted floppies, which was a godsend as I could write PASCAL & C programs for my computer course.

Though I then had to ftp over the PASCAL files to the PRIME system, which I had to use for PASCAL programming when I got into the Wolves Poly computer labs

chinnyvision.bsky.social•63 days ago

I wouldn't say there is a shortage of cracked software for the ST. In fact I'd say the ST scene was bigger. If you want a trained game to this day you still look for Pompey Pirates, Medway Boys etc disks where you don't bother for the Amiga.

iffyboatrace.bsky.social•63 days ago

Amazing that even in 1991 the C64 and speccy were still 40% of the market

chinnyvision.bsky.social•63 days ago

Sheer number of machines out there.

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