> (Also, secondarily, wtf mom? Where the hell else am I going to get a new-in-the-box Amiga 500 now?)
There was a warehouse full of unopened Amiga 1200's discovered recently... A new-in-the-box Amiga 500 might be hard, but there's plenty of Amiga gear for sale still, including FPGA reimplementations (with or without improvements).
Thought frankly, at this stage, if you were to consider buying one for the nostalgia, avoid machines that has not been owned by enthusiasts, as there are known problems, such as capacitors that are likely to leak acid and damage motherboard traces, so if you want to pick one up you'd do better picking one up from someone who is/has been aware of the problems and has dealt with them already...
There was a warehouse full of unopened Amiga 1200's discovered recently... A new-in-the-box Amiga 500 might be hard, but there's plenty of Amiga gear for sale still, including FPGA reimplementations (with or without improvements).
Thought frankly, at this stage, if you were to consider buying one for the nostalgia, avoid machines that has not been owned by enthusiasts, as there are known problems, such as capacitors that are likely to leak acid and damage motherboard traces, so if you want to pick one up you'd do better picking one up from someone who is/has been aware of the problems and has dealt with them already...