way ahead of its time. Some of the most enjoyable computing I ever had. Thanks Commodore!

The sight of an A500 still makes me excited. It just looks great.

My first computer

Damn, brings a tear to my seeing that..

Great ad. I would have gone nuts with an A500 back then.

Time goes by fast. The amiga is history. Although I loved the machine. I had an amiga 500 in the early 90's. Fantastic, incredible. I also had a commodore 64.

Goonies!

I used an Amiga at the Ray College of Design in Chicago back in the 90s -- it was a likable computer. Studied Deluxe Paint, of course. I still have some of my printouts from the class. Amiga also found a niche in video production.

also it was widely used by graphic designers, TV Networks and for Movie special effects.

Goonies! :D

Cool, love it !!

Just to play the old games i'm going to buy one for myself for Christmas!

What can the amiga do? What you want it to do. Damn that was the only time you would ever get to say that, period!, that is how good the Amiga was...... Now in our present time, PC what do you want it to do? stop sending me fuckin pop-ups and system updates and shit, leave me the fuck alone, I just want to play with my computer is that too much to fuckin ask.... Turn PC on, 'donk', error message..... Turn on Amiga, Hell Yeah!, this game rocks, wow listen to the awesome music sweet... "Simple".

yes... It's called something like "Fratelli Chase".... definetly from the Goonies :)

LOL.. By the way, i called the 800 number at the end, and it's one of those numbers now where "Talk to ladies who want to meet you" type of things....

Goonies soundtrack is cool too

Looks like my friend Reichart did all the art direction, software, and effects on this

Yes it is.

These were great ads, and some of Tip O'Neill's greatest work. Lol. The Ghost of Ronald Reagan agrees.

Well it actually was cheaper and easier to use and had better specs than PC's back then. You know ther is also a thing called marketing also. Offices tended to use PC. Also most normal grown up people got into their heads that it was a gaming computer...

The A1000 was, the A500 was 1987 though

the Goonies intro music?

@snake2006 . . but dont forget the fun of BeOS ;-)

@mo0tube Yea it is : )

@darkwhitty - lol...me too. Anyone remember a PD style range of disks called Sexy Slide Show? They contained primitive scans of filth in slideshow format, like gold dust to a horny 17 year old! I always had a terrible urge to play PP Hammer and his pneumatic weapon afterwards as well...

Lionel Ritchie?=

Haha I used to animate all my fave ideas on Deluxe Paint 3, it was ace... Well except my attempts at porn:P

@manikdj123 i play it using winuae and lemon amiga frontend on my pc and uaex4all on my pandora or you could buy amigaforever serach how to use winuae on here

@manikdj123 have u tried the amiga emulators yet?

Of all this is the best amiga Commercial PS is the monitor sitting on the 500 ? would it break it ?

Nice commercial but why 1989? Amiga 500 was released 1987, the first Amiga 1985. Few more commercials like this and the Amiga line would maybe exist today.

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Took too long for Commodore to get off their ass to actually promote the thing to the masses in the US. They were trying to hard to muscle in on the IBM PC's space, which was a disaster. No one was going to overtake the PC in the office. Really, Commodore should have focused in the US on the art and production market. They would have wiped Apple off the face of the earth with the Amiga.

it was released in 1985 actually.

@dawgzy24444 No not yet... wouldn't know where to start...

Pointer Sisters

Buzz Alden

@manikdj123 really easy use just download something called winuae.. (google it) and dowload amiga games/roms (before people get all legal, some are freeware now) youll allso need a workbench kickstart... and wolla you can play the amiga on your pc... sounds difficult but really it isnt

The 2 persons who don't like it are maybe still stucked with their Atari ST ^^ ?!

micheal jackson? roflmao