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Personally, I'm not *too* worried about the game market decline. Yet… <g> My guess as to what we're seeing is that the larger US game companies don't see the *old* Amiga machines (A500, A600) as profitable anymore because, while there are enough machines to sell the games, they just don't have the processor power or the hard disk space or the ram space or the 256 colors support or a combination thereof to run the games they're making nowadays, and reducing the game to fit that market is a *real* pain in the neck. And on the other side, the AGA machines, with faster processors and more ram and more hard disk space and support for 256 colors (Commodore ought to stop selling A1200 machines without a hard drive ASAP – ALL Amigas should ship with a HD if at all possible…) are definately capable of running the games being made today, but they don't have enough of a market share yet to justify porting the game for AGA owners ONLY. So I fully expect the decline to continue until the AGA base gets larger, then we'll hopefully start seeing the US game companies testing the Amiga waters again… –>Steve Bennett