Original upload date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 08:47:13 GMT
This is a project I pushed to get manufactured in 2005, but was canceled due to the cost of flash, "lack of fan base" and the declining plug and play toy market.
The games for the Amiga were usua
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lly a single floppy disk or more and would take up too much space in flash. It was difficult to convince the toy manufacturer it was worth paying for more than 2megs of storage.
The manufacuter also worried that the name Amiga was not as recognizable as Commodore C64.
The year the c64 joystick came out the market was flooded with really bad plug and play games like "Spider Man" and "Sponge Bob", which pretty much wiped out interest in this type of toy.
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