Was this a good buy?

[ArchM]

I have been wanting to get an Amiga 1200 for awhile now, and I just got a little money back from school that I was going to use for it, and right then this auction came up.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Amiga-CD32-SX-1-fully-loaded-and-28-Games-A-Conditio_W0QQitemZ200026635443QQihZ010QQcategoryZ4598QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

In case the link doesn't work, it was for a CD32 + SX-1 (which is the setup I REALLY wanted but figured would never come my way).  It also comes with an external 3.5, 4Mb of added memory, and an IDE Hard drive.
The buy it now was set at $450, and since I NEVER see SX-1's for sale, I couldn't resist and I went for it.  

What do you guys think?  I don't really care if I overpaid, I just don't want to get it home and find out I misunderstood and can't actually play old Amiga games on this setup.

[ArchM]

Yeah, I figured that I hadn't seen but one SX-1 in about 2ish months, and I just couldn't pass up the chance to be playing Under a Steel Sky from my couch.  (That WILL be the first game I get).  I really just wanted to make sure that everything in the auction will suffice to get me playing original Amiga games.
Oh yeah, and I'm sorry I forgot, but there is also 24 games with the auction, lol!  Can you tell where my emphasis was for making the purchase?  I didn't even read the list of the games that came with it, I wonder if there are any good ones.....

[ArchM]

The big reason I didn't just try to bid higher, was because I didn't want anybody ELSE to use the Buy It Now option.  I was considering bidding 400, and then with the way Ebay worked, I would only have to pay as much of that 400 as the next highest bidder pushed me to.  But again, there would have been a chance that somebody else could have come along and bought it out, then I would be stuck playing other consoles.  I figured, what the hell, I can pay a little extra for the peace of mind that comes with knowing I will be playing Amiga games for the first time in my life in less than two weeks.  
As long as it works, and I don't end up needing anything else to get started, I am a happy camper.

[ArchM]

Sorry, one more question.

Can I play PAL CD32 games on this machine?  What about PAL disc games?

[ArchM]

See, for me, I am interested in the style and quality of the games.  The games that come out these days, I would say about 1 in 20 is worth a crap at all.  With the cost of game production going through the roof, and not showing any signs of slowing down, companies won't take a chance on an inovative game idea, they have to stick with what is tried, true, and safe.  There is so little real innovation in games anymore, and they all just seem to be clones of each other - the quality is dead.  
I don't really care about all the new bells and whistles the graphics and sounds have these days, its all about the heart and soul of the game.  For instance, "Out of this World"?  BEST GAME EVER.  That game had magic to it, no other way to describe it.  It was perfection.  Now, if somebody would give me another Out of this World, with today's technology, I would be happy.  But they won't, they will give me Grand Theft Auto 6, or Tony Hawk 12.  

I am buying this machine simply and solely to gain access to the Amiga's vast library of games - pure and simple.  The days when a group of friends could make a game in their garage over the course of a year - that is when magic happened.  *sigh*   Done ranting....