The sweet spot for home turntable enthusiasts on a budget seems to be the $200 mark. This might be the best of the bunch.
One can only imagine the sake-fueled club hopping that led to the development of the Seiko Frequency drum machine watch.
The Last Amiga
By James Grahame
The Amiga CD32 was a last-ditch effort to make money from the aging Commodore Amiga line in the early 1990s. It was basically an Amiga 1200 repackaged as a CD-ROM based game console. The unit was actually pretty slick and featured Kickstart 3.1 in ROM, a Motorola 68EC020 processor, 2MB RAM, and the capable Advanced Graphics Architecture chipset.
I think the CD32 was a wickedly clever way to recycle the dying Amiga platform. The home computer market had already swung heavily toward PC clones and this inexpensive gaming platform was probably the best chance to get Commodore hardware into the family room. There were many existing games to draw from and several features were added to turn the Amiga into a viable stand-along gaming platform: 1MB flash memory (to store high scores and game states) and a double-speed CD-ROM drive to load games. It linked to your TV via an S-Video cable and stereo audio outputs.
The CD32 reached the European market in late 1993, although an unresolved patent lawsuit in the USA prevented Commodore from marketing the system in North America. Even though it was the most popular CD-based console of 1993, the Amiga CD32 wasn't successful enough to save Commodore and the company filed for bankruptcy in April 1994.
The Amiga CD32 (Amiga history guide)
