Is Gloom supposed to be better than Doom because it has a rudimentary (pelt along at the top of the screen, firing, to win) Defender clone in it?
Well no it's better because it was a better game - it allowing for dynamically changing the walls texture makes it technically superior as well - never mind that you could play it with a VR headset and head tracker so you could look in a different direction to where you were shooting (oh - another Amiga first, how sad). Even if that were true on a top spec Miggy, which it isn't
I don't know if you consider a Vanilla A1200 a "top spec" Amiga, but if you do what would my A4K be then? Run well on a stock A1200, did it?
Dunno - never really had one - that I used. That's a piece of hardware that most Amiga owners didn't have, though
I don't know about "most Amiga owners". I know everybody I knew (which at peak times was probably about 500 people) had one. Without exception. Even my little sister had one in her A1200. That'll be why I've never seen a copy of it anywhere ever.
No. That'll be because it's One of the most unknown underdogs ever.
I'm not sure what the points in defence of the Amiga are supposed to achieve
I just thought your points where ridiculously unfair. Slanting the Amiga because a 1987 computer (the A500 which you state "most people had") could not run a game from 1993 (or later) is absurd. When Doom was released a PC that could play it, cost nearly twice as much (roughly £2600 GBP in Denmark) as an A4000 (mine cost about £1600 GBP), and six and a half times more than an A1200 (which debuted at £400 GBP in 1992).So yeah, you're right that a PC in 1993 could play DOOM and by 1995 (when Amiga DOOM clones started appearing) the A1200 could "only" play Gloom and Alien Breed 3D (and maybe not even in full-screen). But for the £2200 GBP price difference, you could probably get a pretty tricked out Amiga - the fact that most people chose not to seems somewhat irrelevant to the merit of aforementioned games. Those of us who did spend more than a weeks salary on our computers, could most certainly play Alien Breed 3D as it was intended, on our "still half the price of a PC" computers.
And it 'ruled' the flight game world!
Yes it did. Getting 81% from Cam Winstanley of AP is quite an achievement. Worms if memory serves, got about 50%, Rise of the Robots got 5%.