Which Amiga Model(s) are you considering a MUST for Nostalgic pursposes

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Nostalgia and collecting are different things.

For Nostalgia, it’s any Amiga you have a fond memory of using.

For collecting, it’s a boxed Amiga 1000 system, since the original of any platform is generally the most desirable.

The 500 could also be considered collectable, as it goes right along with the Atari ST and the C64 as one of the most influential home computer game consoles of all time.

Other Amigas can be very desirable to collectors based on their condition and their relative rarity. For example, An NTSC Amiga 600 complete in box is surprisingly rare in the US, but a PAL 600 complete in box is common.  The 3000UX and the Commodore-Amiga 4000T are also rare.  

There’s no real set value range for any Amiga, despite eBay auctions.  The 4000 is still generally the most expensive, since it’s still used as a daily PC.  In 15 more years, we’ll have a much better idea about which Amigas are hard to find (and fetch top dollar from collectors.)

As I think I alluded to in another thread, sometimes it’s the add-ons that are most desired by collectors.  I paid more for my circa 1985 Los-Gatos Amiga “boing” logo plate (the badge that is affixed to the 1080 monitor’s bezel) than I did for a circa 1985 new-in-box 1080 monitor

[FastRobPlus]

..and once you complete the collection, you can start in on collecting the spiritual ancestor of the Amiga - the Atari 8-bit.  

[FastRobPlus]

Minion wrote:
Simple.  The A500.  Why?  It was years ahead of its time.
And the A1200.  That was also years ahead of its time.
You could say the 2000 and the 4000 but they didn't make any kind of real impact allthough they were superior machines aswell.
The A500 plus, and A600's were only slightly better than the A500.  The A1200 was a big jump.  Just like the A4000 was to the A2000.
Other models were still good for their time, but nothing compared to the A500 and the A1200.  I ignored the A1000 because almost nobody bought one.

Its just a shame that some people seem to think they are still superior to everything else now

Though you don't have a location under your screen-name, I can safely guess you are not from the USA.  Over here, the 1000 was too expensive, but generally in wide use (enough for several magazines) and the 2000 (and even to a lesser degree the 3000 and 4000) were not-uncommon small business machines.  

I guess my point is that Amiga peaked in enthusiasm in the USA well before it did in Europe.  So the skew in the US may be towards the older and/or big box Amigas, where Europe has fonder memories of the newer and cheaper console style Amigas.