New guy with lots of questions

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Howdy everybody, my name is Michael and I am a 3D modelling student from Ohio.  I just discovered this whole Amiga business, and am looking to possibly get into it a little.  I will be making a post soon with some general questions, but now I am at work - and should probably go do some.  

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LOL, no, no Lightwave.  My college teaches 3DMax exclusively, so that is all I have messed with.  They don't get into MaxScript either, (at least for my degree), so I really have only a dabbling of VisualBasic for my programming experience.  I think programmers are all insane personally.  

Truthfully, I am interested in the Amiga strictly for it's games.  There seem to be sooooo many amazing games for the older Amiga's, a lot of 80's and early 90's Cyberpunk too - which is my favorite genre ever.  I NEED to get access to these games - they are haunting my dreams now!  LOL!

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I just love collecting too much to settle for an emulator.  I like the feel of looking at the system, or holding the controller/joystick and sitting on my couch.  

As of now, I am going to keep my eyes open for either an NTSC 1200, or an SX-1.  The CD32's seem to get sold often enough, and though I will one day want both the 1200 AND the CD32, I am going to wait to get the CD32 after I find the rarer SX-1.  
Whichever comes along first, the SX-1 or 1200, will dictate how I begin playing my first games on Amiga systems ever.  

Strangely, most of my favorite games were ports of Amiga games!  Out of this World is my favorite game OF ALL TIME, and low and behold - Amiga.  I tell you, I cannot WAIT to get into these games, there are just soooooo many.  

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Also - and this might sound patronizing, but I assure you it isn't - how old are you? I'm just curious since you haven't heard about the Amiga.

I am 26 now.  Now, I have HEARD of Amiga, however I had no idea what it/they actually were/are.  I always assumed that there were some kind of Atari type system.  I was always into video games, but I only ever had access to what I saw on the TV, which was pretty much the standard consoles.  I had NO IDEA there was so much to offer from these machines.

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For some reason, possibly geographically, all anybody my age was interested was Nintendo or Sega.  That was about it, and since I didn't get a computer until I was around 13-14ish, I missed out on a lot of integral steps.

When I look at Atari, and I look at their games, it doesn't even seem to be in the same league.  The styles even seem different.  I mean, I have never heard of a point and click adventure game on an Atari, or even a good old fashioned dungeon crawl RPG.  Maybe, like this whole Amiga scene I seem to have stumbled into, they are out there - I just haven't found out about them yet.