Quote Originally Posted by AdamAnt316 View Post
I don't think it was used much as a gaming machine, but I do have an Amiga 1000 setup with several boxes of software (much of it from an Amiga-related disk magazine), as well as an external hard drive full of various programs. I'd like to find a newer Amiga model (especially a one-piece model, like the 500/600/1200), but haven't had much luck in the wild as of yet. As far as why the collecting of Amigas isn't that popular, it could have something to do with the high price (the Amiga 1000 originally cost $1,295 in 1985, when a C-64 was selling for less than a quarter of the price), and therefore was rarely bought to use merely as a gaming machine; also, the fact that the PC and Mac had firmly taken hold of much of the computer market by that time. Just my 1/50th of a dollar...
-Adam
Isn't it amazing how it's different from Country to Country, here in Europe the Amiga 500 (Batman pack) took over as a gaming computer fromt the ST, C-64, Spectrum (UK). For years it was the gaming computer number 1, until the PC 'retired' the goold old Amgia between 92 - 95.