Yeah, prices have shot way up over the last 2-3 years, and not just for the big-box Amigas, even A1200 prices have got fairly silly. But people have a whole lot of love for the Amiga, it was a revolutionary machine at the time, and for many people it was their introduction to doing creative things with computers, as well as the gaming.

And retro gaming/computing is a growing hobby. There's so much new hardware and software out there for old platforms now, letting you add never-before-possible upgrades (e.g. PiStorm for the Amiga), get decent output to a modern TV, and sometimes give them shiny new cases and keyboards. Which is great if you already had a collection of retro machines, but not so much if you're trying to buy them now, with increased demand and ever diminishing supply.

Is USD 1-1.2k for a clean, recapped Amiga 1200, with newest ROMs, updated PS and TF '030 accelerator horrifying? If so, call me a fool!

(FWIW, I acquired mine two years ago, and it looks like recent sales on ebay are in the same ballpark...)

NeXT workstations and cubes on eBay are also quite ridiculous, compared to what they were 15 or 20 years ago.

They've been horrifying since about 2020. I could sell up and put my kids through a good college!