Feature: Shadow of the 16-bit Beast: an Amiga gaming retrospective

Jun 14th, 2010

Tags: atari, limits, rest

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Author’s note: I want to personally thank the literally hundreds of people who replied to my call for stories from Amiga game developers, without whom this article would not have been possible. Unfortunately, it was not possible to include everyone’s stories in the article, but I did make an honest attempt to reply to every email I received. If I missed you, I apologize

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