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I happily played Sierra and LucasArts' games on my Amiga 500. Here is a list of Amiga Games on wikipedia showing the King's Quest series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amiga_games_(I%E2%80%9...

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I know, but as far as I could tell, Amiga had the better music, while PC/VGA had the better graphics (and sometimes more content).

It depends on your time frame. The Amiga got lots of nice stuff in the beginning, and got a whole bunch of great developers, mainly from the UK, but over time the PC market was much bigger and PCs were always getting more powerful.

For me the turning point was Wolf3d. After seeing it running on all the PCs on the tables in the old computer shows at the Cow Palace, my days on the 500 were limited.

Amiga 500 had great graphics and music for it's time (1987-) Is there even a comparable PC at that time? I believe we had the Atari ST, Apple IIgs, and Acorn around the time.

I had to make do with a Commodore 64 until around 1993 I think, by which time PCs were comparable with Amigas or exceeded them.

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