/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1987839
>the "full" experience
For games I'd say an A1200, though an A500 with the ram expansion in the trapdoor would probably play 90% of what's out and worth playing. Those are also probably the most common Amigas available.
I never had either of the CD consoles but I'm pretty sure you can get drives for the computers that will let them play CDTV or CD32 games.
If you intend to play with early-90s video production, though, you're going to want one of the big-box systems for all the Zorro expansion cards, hard drives and miscellany.
If you're trying to build one up to something (faintly) approaching a modern-level PC (hint: don't bother) you'll have to get an A4000 (or A1200 motherboard in a tower case), a PPC card, a RTG video card, buttloads of ram, and a very overpriced network card, and that's just to get you somewhat competitive with the old blueberry iMac you could buy secondhand for $20. The computer you're reading this on right now can probably emulate a better Amiga than you could possibly build even with an unlimited budget.

For what it's worth, the vast majority of people with Amigas I knew in the 80s-90s had an A500 with 1MB ram, an external floppy drive, and a modem. You could skip the modem.