Yeah well, with a 386 and VGA you could do things you couldn't even think about on the C64. But that also came at a price - the programming was a lot more difficult.

I have moved on to the Amiga and made a surprising discovery (for me). The Amiga Software entered the market later. It really started, when PC also started to gain momentum. So some Amiga releases of the late 80s are preferable to PC versions, due to CGA/EGA vs Amiga.

But aside from the big blockbusters, some of my favorite Atari ST games were not even released on the Amiga. Despite having much in common with the Atari ST, the Amiga seemed to cater to a different audience.

It will be interesting to compare some 1989-1991 releases on PC and Amiga. Perhaps with some, the Amiga will still win out.

I can kind of see what happened (to me) back then. My Atari ST had reached the end of it's color palette use in 1990. Also games would usually be released for PC or Amiga, as both platforms had better color render options. PC quickly outran the A500 and became the better alternative.

I'll bring this up again after having viewed a lot of C-64 games as well as others from the 80s.
I have deleted nearly all C-64 samples again because they just didn't really matter to me, neither then nor now.
I came to the conclusion, that with most of the C-64 titles I was familar with, briefly watching a youtube video is all I really want. See and hear it played briefly, not to worry about the keyboard or manual, just a reminder of what it was.
As I mentioned in the opening post, there are 3 games that I bought from 85-86 and those still interest me.

But I also found that I really liked nearly all publications by SSG. I did buy "Europe Ablaze", "Carriers at War" and "Russia, the great war in the east" in 1990 and played them on a used C-64 I picked up. I must say that I really liked their games for the way they handled AI. Their games were set up that you could not micro manage every detail. Hence it wasn't too hard to come up with an AI that would be a fair opponent. Which made the games tense.
I actually kept the first two Battlefront games for the C-64 too, as I might enjoy playing that.

Is anyone here a fan of SSG games too?