LGR - Amiga 500 Computer System Review

Every time I come back and watch one of these videos, it's such a nostalgia trip; it's like watching classic cartoons recorded on VHS. It isn't just classy, it feels like modern LGR that is still being made today, and that's what makes this channel unique.

"expect to pay 50-80 dollars for a complete example" -2010 Cut to 2019 "Expect to pay anywhere from 200-700 dollars for an Amiga 500 or for that matter any old computer nowadays"

The reason that the Workbench color scheme is the way it is, is because they designed it to be clear on the worst possible tv ever. In fact, the engineers when designing the Workbench, went to the local TV shop and asked for their worst TV. The sales guy kept on trying to sell them a good TV but they kept on telling him "No no! We want your WORST TV!" :)

I feel like I've written this before: I will never be as impressed with computer graphics as when a friend brought me along to visit a guy who had an Amiga 1000. Defender of the Crown, Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon, Deja Vu and Deluxe Paint II were the first software titles I ever saw and boy was I impressed. I couldn't sleep that night. I finally found someone who would buy my C64 with disk drive so I could save up to get a used A500, later upgraded to 1Mb. It was a really cool platform while the PC really sucked with EGA graphics and a beeper.

The true magic of this machine was how the custom chips worked together with DMA. For instance the blitter chip handled lots of software sprites and also handled the floppy disk reads and writes without tying up the CPU. The Copper handled scanline changes to the video hardware. It was all these little touches that made it feel more powerful than you would imagine a 7mhz machine to be.

Like Europe, the Amiga 500 was incredibly popular in Australia and New Zealand as well. Thanks for the video, very nostalgic to watch :)

Hey LGR! I've been watching your channel for 13 years, 7 months, and 27 days, and this was the first video of yours I ever watched! I remember booting up my Wii and entering the Youtube channel to watch your vids (alongside AVGN) for HOURS on end! Thank you for making my childhood!

Because my father had a C64 and an Amiga in my youth, I have a career in computers today (specifically Networking). My memories of my father dialing up to the local BBS in Edmonton to download video games off of our US Robotics 9600 baud modem to download cracked video games (by crews like Razor 1911) to play, were some of my fondest memories as a child. My older brother and I used to fake being sick together so we could play split screen Battle Isle on our A500. The Amiga was ahead of its time... too bad it had a swift death. Thanks for the video. I have been a very long time watcher of yours and love your content. I thought "I wonder if he did a video on the Amiga?"... sure enough you did. I love your work. Keep it coming. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

When I went to elementary school (1995-ish) I took a video editing class as an elective and we were using Amiga 2000 computers and Video Toaster to make school videos. It was a small class, 5 students and 1 computer. About 3 weeks into the class one of the components of the computer broke and all 5 students got transferred to other electives. I transferred to an architecture class, and because of that class I went on to be an architect and have been for the last 12 years. To think that if that Amiga 2000 didn't break, today I would most likely be a film editor (I grew up in Hollywood CA, which would have made it even more likely)

OMG! I JUST FOUND A PAL AMIGA 500 FROM MY GRANDMAS STORAGE ROOM! AND I FOUND PINBALL DREAMS DISK 1&2 AND THE PSU AND THE MOUSE AND JOYSTICKS AND IT WORKS!!!!

I can tell you that these computers were popular in Canada. Everyone I knew had Commodore 64 or Amigas back in the day. You really can not appreciate what it was like to use one of these machines for the first time when they were released. The jump in sound and graphics quality was life changing (at least it felt that way)

I loved my A500... such a great machine... the games were amazing for the time

We used to write music on the Amiga with Octamed. In a time where DOS 6.0/ Windows 3.11 was about as good as you could get on a 386/33/4MB RAM/130MB HDD, seeing what the Amiga could do (''91--'93) was ground-breaking. I've had dreams of owning an Amiga 500/1000. Only my coolest friends hand one. And they always had all the extra peripherals.

This is another great review! A pleasure to watch and very informative.

Lazy Game Reviews my childhood called, it wants it's amiga 500 back.

I still have 2 USA Amiga 500 computer systems. Back in the day we had a simple fix for PAL games on NTSC Amiga systems. A swapper disk that would load a program that would swap it to the 50HZ the PAL games used (you needed a good monitor for it, which we did), so we had no problem playing any game that had english as a language on it. I frickin love this computer as it was my childhood. I really should plop the cash down on Amiga Forever someday...

best computer I ever had Amiga 500

LGR i love how you answer any comment even if it was posted like 6 years ago (totally not talking about the guy that said he didn't know how the Amiga didn't dominate)

2020, this video reminded me of how old I really am, my early teens were spent with mainly the 600 version as my 500 broke. Was pretty much the same though, the amount of time I spent on that beauty was worth it. All of my spare time job money went to various upgrades and you could get a ton here in Europe, almost everyone I knew had a 500.

Still got my Amiga 500 and 1200 in my moms house somewhere.. along with all the games I had back then, which was hundreds and some cool demos. This video brought back some very fond memories. Thank you.