The Story of the Commodore Amiga In Pixels

by Chris Wilkins, Roger M. Kean

This book charts the history of the Commodore Amiga, celebrating many of its classic games and includes many memoirs from those that created them. This 296 book is will take you down a nostalgic memory lane when Sensible Software ruled.

Genres: Nonfiction, Computers

287 pages

Published June 1, 2017

About the author

Lives in Kenilworth, with his wife and 3 children.

Reviews

[Lewis Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely little read that's split into 3 parts; a short history of the Amiga, a section dedicated to various games released on the computer and a section containing lots of interviews with various programmers famous for their Amiga work. Due to the nature of cramming 3 parts into a sub-300 page book, it often feels like the ideas are a little under-cooked, with the interviews often feeling like they've been cut short. The magazine-style nature of the presentation also makes it difficult to find your flow when reading as the main articles are often interspersed with screenshots, captions and inserts. But overall it's a nice little love letter to a fantastic machine that is fondly remembered and I enjoyed my time with this book on the whole.

[Ian · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're going to read this book, try and get the updated version that has the reviews re-written. The original reviews were thrown together in a hurry by someone that didn't speak English as a native language - they were by far the worst part of the book. In fact, apart from the Kieren Hawken reviews, the book is good. The updated version is fine as the terrible reviews have been re-written by somebody that at least played the Amiga games.

[Ietrio · Rating 2 out of 5]

A rather simplistic work of exploitation. The data is there, but it's not much. Probably getting the pictures took some effort, but there are some YouTube channels that have far more information in a more pleasant package. And, yea, I get it, it meant years of the lives of a few, but compared with anything today Amiga is not worth looking back.

[Johnny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Never had an Amiga, but this was pretty good introduction into these pieces of tech. More articles and historical cuts, than ZX Spectrum books have. Great visuals, interesting info pages, good even if you're not in this kind of nostalgy.

[Alex Montoya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Genial y atractivísimo libro sobre el sistema Amiga, con su genesis y montones de imágenes alucinantes.

[Hubert Taler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting, though chaotic and selective history of cult Amiga Computer.

Lots of interesting information of Amiga post-mortem life and demo scene.