@lord-denning
NTSC CD32's are very plentiful. As an American who witnessed and purchased straight from the warehouse Amiga vendor in Miami Florida.... A company owned by Alex Amor back the days when Commodore was being auctioned off, I personally saw nothing but pure NTSC CD32's being sold. I owned about 4 myself and still have one wich will be for sale soon, when i fix the busted capacitor.
And by the way, I was always trying to put together the best Amiga for gaming, and as an owner of an Amiga 1000, 3000, 4000, 2000, 500, 600, and CD32 with 2 SX32 Pro's and 2 SX-1's...... I can personally tell you, that the best possible single Amiga you could own for games, is an NTSC CD32 (NTSC because you will be using it on NTSC equipment and it will also enable you to record screen captures of your games to post on YouTube and project on NYSC Projectors etc.....)..... But here is the catch: you must have an SX32 Pro with a 68030 processor....and this is the best set up..... Here's why:
Will play CDTV games
Will play A500/ECS games
Will play A1200/AGA games
Will play CD32 games of course
And.... Will play PAL games from all these machines
Has official 6 button Joypads
Has 3 video outputs at the same time
Can play CD quality sound when playing CD games (leaving the CPU more power for gfx)
And my personal favorite: its a 100% Karaoke Machine that plays CD+G discs ( so if you never use your CD32 for anything at all, and have not upgraded it at all...you can just order or walk into almost any music store and buy Karaoke CD's.... Really fun when you have guests over.....and contrary to what most people think.... The CD32 plays CD+G discs right out of the box.... Nothing required. You will be amazed how many Karaoke CDs exist.... They sell them at Target even....but buying online at official Karaoke stores is best way to find the songs you want.)
NO Other Amiga can do this because you need extra stuff to play the CDROM versions of the games. The CD32 covers all grounds.
But incase you cant get this.... I will give you a list of which Amigas are best to own in decending order starting from 1 being the best:
1. CD32 with SX32 Pro 68030 @ 50mhz
2. CD32 with SX32 Mk 2
3. CD32 with SX-1
4. CD32 with Pro Module (rare)
5. CD32 bare with a compact flash or hard drive (difficult without and SX-1 or IDE)
6. A1200 with a 68030 @ 50 mhz
7. A1200 with a 68030 @ 40mhz
8. A1200 bare bones with 4mb ram but the 2 mb it already comes with will suffice
9. A600 with 68030 and some ram
10. A500 with a 68020 and a hard drive
All of these of course include coming with hard drive and some RAM so that you could install the games on the hard drive.
Big box Amiga's such as the A2000, A3000, A4000 are usually not as good as the models I listed, they have so many issues because of the internal ad on cards.
Now to summarize this a bit and make it simpler.... I personally would choose these two as my top options:
CD32 with SX32 Pro
Or
A1200 with 68030@50mhz and 4mb RAM
Also remember that a CD32 has S-Video built in.... Makes a Massive difference when using it on a TV.... A CRT TV that is, because it looks almost as clear as a 1084s RGB monitor. nice when using the OS on a TV.
Now also keep in mind... No matter which Amiga you got from the list, they are ALL good for gaming, since Amigas have so many games anyway and there is usually 2 versions of each game.... (16 bit and 32 bit aka ECS and AGA versions). And many times i have discovered the 16 bit/ECS versions to be better...just because they ruin the AGA versions with stupid intros and fixing things that aint broke.
