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My undying love for the painfully uncool Amiga


It may have looked like something you’d see a bank teller use, but it withstood heavy battering. And it ran the coolest games

But people use things every day that they don’t love: electric shavers, patience, door handles, the train. The Game Boy looked like an alien artefact from a trendy 70s sci-fi show; the PlayStation was what you’d get if a high-end record turntable had mated with the sexiest sandwich maker imaginable. The Atari ST was no great looker either, but at least they angled the top row of function buttons to make it look like they considered its aesthetics.

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