The Amiga 500 in pictures and videos

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It's 30 years to the day since Commodore unleashed the first in a long line of its Amiga machines onto the market, and while the initial Amiga 1000 made a fair technological splash of its own, it was the chronologically awkward Amiga 500 that was to cement the hardware maker's place in the annals of gaming history, shifting around six million units.
Much has changed since the Amiga's more innocent pre-internet days, not least in the way that games are bought, sold and marketed. Here's a quick look in video and pictures at the Amiga's finest hour.
To the delight of children everywhere, Commodore championed the Amiga 500 as a serious machine for serious business, every bit as much as it did for its gaming capabilities. Thus the foundations for the most crucial lie of childhood gaming in the 80s were laid.
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