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The ] was an important platform for ]s in the late ] and early ]. It was the first ] to gain major success as a games machine due to its ] and ] subsystems, which were widely considered to be far ahead of their time. A game made for the Amiga platform generally had much better sound and graphics than the same game running on a ].


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At its zenith in the early 1990s, the Amiga became the platform of choice of many games development companies. At that time virtually every game destined for the PC was first released on the Amiga to test the waters due to cheaper development costs.
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== Important Amiga games ==

=== Early games ===

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== Amiga game developers ==

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== See also ==
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== External links ==

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