A friend and I looked at the specs of Atari and Amiga and concluded that the Amiga had better graphics capability (by far) and they had the same RAM (512K) and similar processors but the Amiga had much better sound capability + I loved my C64, so I got an Amiga. It was a logical choice. My mate down the road had an ST and it was "interesting" to me, but it simply wasn't as good.