Man! you had a great childhod! hehe, I can relate.........I am 29 now and I was introduced to Amiga by my Commodore 64 freak cousin. We used to go to his house to get free games and saw his Amazing A1000. To my surprise, a few weeks later, somehow My older brother convinced my dad to buy it for about $650.00 from my cousin.............the mere fact that my cousin even sold it was amazing! and thats where it all started approx 1987. Then in 1991 I fried the A1000 and didnt know what the heck to do. I was about to abandon the Amiga until I walked into an Amiga shop and saw the most loveliest Amiga ever.the Amiga 600!!!  I bought it immediately, even though the A1200 was released already (I hated the A1200 because it was huge like the A500 which I also hated)
haha, but now I have owned almost every Amiga ever made, except the CDTV and 4000T and 3000T (but those dont count since its the same mahine but just n a tower).