1. Did you consider buying a CDTV or CD32; why or why not?
2. What CDTV or CD32 games would like to see reviewed (or video reviewed!!) here at AA? Or, better yet, why not review it yourself and post it for all of us to enjoy!!
3. Was the CDTV and/or CD32 a brilliant concept or a really stupid mistake on Commodore's part?
4. Why didn't these units succeed better than they did?
5. What are the advantages or disadvantages of buying one of these platforms vs. a standard 500 or 1200?
1 - No, the CDTV was.. too much like an overpriced cd player. I didnt really geat what Commodore was going for with the device. It may not have helped that I was not a console guy, so I didnt go 'Ohh its NES like but better!'. I just went.. ooh.. it goes in the lounge.. where the family sits and not here in the computer room... plut it ran the old kickstart 1.3 when machines were coming out with 2.0 on them...
The CD32, well it looked awesome but again, I was not a console gamer so didn't see the point. The world had yet to see the playstation.. and really thinking about it, it was defintly 'old'. Sure it had colours but there was no 3D awesomeness that the playstation would exploit 12 months later.
Why buy a CD32 when you can buy an A1200 and do more with it?
2 - Id like see some CDTV stuff reviews as the CD32 had nothing... great. Was there anything that was not just a port of a standard Amiga title? I thought most things were just pressed on CD and voila. CD32 title!
3 - CDTV was more like.. a vision. a prototype that shouldnt have really hit the market and CD32 was.. well it was way underpowered. Everyone knew the rumours coming out of 'fantastic new games machines'. Atari was hyping the Jaguar 64. People knew the playstation was coming.
Compared to what was in the market (SNES, MegaDrive, TurboGrafix), it could compete but it came too late in the cycle of that gaming era.
4 - They didnt succeed because people wanted an Amiga.. not a games console. It had no killer title. Wolfenstein was blowing minds and 3D was suddenly hot... and the Amiga had a hard time dealing with realtime 3d like PC's could. I also dont remember much in the way of advertising.
5 - CD32 vs A1200? no comparision. A1200 beats it hands down, since CD32 is a cutdown A1200... and the CDTV an A500... Anytime commodore made a "cutdown" anything it was next to useless. The A500 was the only "cutdown" model to be of any use. Look at how may cutdown models of the C64, VIC20 etc they made...
1. Did you consider buying a CDTV or CD32; why or why not?
2. What CDTV or CD32 games would like to see reviewed (or video reviewed!!) here at AA? Or, better yet, why not review it yourself and post it for all of us to enjoy!!
3. Was the CDTV and/or CD32 a brilliant concept or a really stupid mistake on Commodore's part?
4. Why didn't these units succeed better than they did?
5. What are the advantages or disadvantages of buying one of these platforms vs. a standard 500 or 1200?
1 - No, the CDTV was.. too much like an overpriced cd player. I didnt really geat what Commodore was going for with the device. It may not have helped that I was not a console guy, so I didnt go 'Ohh its NES like but better!'. I just went.. ooh.. it goes in the lounge.. where the family sits and not here in the computer room... plut it ran the old kickstart 1.3 when machines were coming out with 2.0 on them...
The CD32, well it looked awesome but again, I was not a console gamer so didn't see the point. The world had yet to see the playstation.. and really thinking about it, it was defintly 'old'. Sure it had colours but there was no 3D awesomeness that the playstation would exploit 12 months later.
Why buy a CD32 when you can buy an A1200 and do more with it?
2 - Id like see some CDTV stuff reviews as the CD32 had nothing... great. Was there anything that was not just a port of a standard Amiga title? I thought most things were just pressed on CD and voila. CD32 title!
3 - CDTV was more like.. a vision. a prototype that shouldnt have really hit the market and CD32 was.. well it was way underpowered. Everyone knew the rumours coming out of 'fantastic new games machines'. Atari was hyping the Jaguar 64. People knew the playstation was coming.
Compared to what was in the market (SNES, MegaDrive, TurboGrafix), it could compete but it came too late in the cycle of that gaming era.
4 - They didnt succeed because people wanted an Amiga.. not a games console. It had no killer title. Wolfenstein was blowing minds and 3D was suddenly hot... and the Amiga had a hard time dealing with realtime 3d like PC's could. I also dont remember much in the way of advertising.
5 - CD32 vs A1200? no comparision. A1200 beats it hands down, since CD32 is a cutdown A1200... and the CDTV an A500... Anytime commodore made a "cutdown" anything it was next to useless. The A500 was the only "cutdown" model to be of any use. Look at how may cutdown models of the C64, VIC20 etc they made...
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