I never had an A500, my first Amiga was the A600. I upgraded from a SNES, as my friends all had hundreds of disks full of games that I could get for free, while SNES games sosted £40 or more, I bought a few originals too, though.
Later I got a 1MB expansion. I only kept it for a year and then the A1200 came out so I sold the 600.