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[metareferential]

Sega Saturn, I was 12 (money raised from gifts, little works, etc.).

Pretty expensive, but worth every penny.

 

[nabe_shogun]

My playstation that I bought in 96. I also sold a couple of snes games to help buy it, which I regret doing.

 

[Begaria]

I bought a launch edition PS2, back when I was in highschool working a part time job.

 

[bryt]

Xbox 360 Arcade

 

[Beck]

PlayStation 2. I was about 14 and here in Canada it was like $449.99, too.

 

[Roddslayer]

OG Xbox with Halo. Money well spent.

 

[LOLDSFAN]

3DS. I'm sure I could have gotten stuff as a kid but I was always stingy with money. That's why I haven't owned that many systems.

 

[secretanchitman]

$500 PS3 60GB back in 2007.

 

[fluffydelusions]

First system I bought was the N64 in this bundle.

Best $150 I ever spent.

n64 here too though not that bundle.

 

[FairXchange]

It was the 360 for me, I camped out at Walmart with a tire iron and a wad of cash waiting for that awesome, and soon to be defective, console.

 

[daveo42]

The PS1 with the dual shock controller and FFVII.

Best purchase I ever made.

 

[DaciaJC]

PS3. Got the Slim for $300, but soon after I traded in my PS2 and all of its games. That was an awful mistake.

 

[Drakeon]

Dreamcast I think. Then Xbox 360.

 

[sajj316]

PS1 but that was due to trading in my older systems and gift money for the difference. Dreamcast with Soul Calibur with co-op money when I went to university.

 

[Subaru]

Playstation 2 (2003).
The PS2 was about R$ 1200,00 (U$ 400,00) at the time and I've divided the payment in six months (R$ 200,00/month).
The first payment was with my first paycheck in my first internship. ;-)

 

[DigitalRicket]

I believe it was Gamecube. Did odd jobs here and there and even traded in my Dreamcast. I was so stupid then...

 

[Sp33Demon]

Techically the Playstation 1 but I also bought the Sega CD and 32X (addons) on my own. My parents stopped buying me game systems after the SNES/Genesis, everything since has either been purchased with my own money or gifted (or some combo of the two).

 

[Chucker]

NES. I even have a newspaper article from a local tournament where it talks about my mom making me use my own money to get it at age 8. I'll see if i can find it.

Found it!

Full article, holy 80's batman.

The easier to read text.

My parents were always hard nosed about buying video games, I remember walking away from Final Fantasy 3(SNES) when it first came out over $4.

 

[Piggus]

PS2 a few months after they came out. Took me ages to save up for that back then lol.

 

[Red Liquorice]

<3

 

[shinobi602]

I was only about 13 when I first got an Xbox, so had the folks pay for that one.

360 was the first console I paid for with my own cash.

 

[Flux]

The original GBA at launch with Super Mario Advance and F-Zero. Plenty of yardwork and snow shoveling went into saving up for it.

 

[DidntKnowJack]

Sega Genesis.

 

[That1BlackGuy]

Black Gameboy Pocket, still own it.

 

[SoraanTribal]

Hmm. Dreamcast, I think? I usually got consoles as Christmas gifts prior to that.

 

[nintendors]

So hardcore...I was the coolest kid in high school T_T

 

[rudieboy77]

Genesis.

 

[Shaanyboi]

Wii at launch, with a DS Lite 3 months later.

 

[Hey You]

360.

 

[Artorias]

Playstation 2.

I got a summer job at Jamba Juice that year to pay for it. I kept working because my school hours fit perfectly with it, and bought a Dreamcast when PSO launched as well. It was also the first time I got to buy whatever launch games I wanted and I blew a lot of money on crap. And DVDs, haha.

 

[Neferteetee]

GameCube. I was in high school and worked two different after school jobs.

 

[FrankNitty]

lol in that article she called it Adventures of Bully Bayou lol

First system I paid for myself was a PS1 in 95 I think...Whenever it came out. Battle Arena Toshinden sold me lol

 

[family_guy]

With money out of my own pocket it was Dreamcast. With the money I got from selling my SNES, Genesis, and games that my parents bought me it was PS1.

 

[McHuj]

PS2

Last console parents bought me was a TG16.

 

[FantasyFreak07]

Xbox 360 was mine.

 

[beast786]

Ps2

 

[Zee-Row]

PS1 , I was only 13 and still too young to get a real job. I mowed many lawns to make that purchase a reality?

 

[Ashtar]

<3

Me as well
Well me and my bro honestly, with money from my paper route.
I think it was 299 with virtua fighter 2 Daytona and virtua cop.
Then dreamcast, Xbox, ps3

 

[MAX PAYMENT]

It's......uh........paid.
It's paid.

 

[kittens]

Does birthday / christmas money count? I saved up for an N64 for over a year when I was ten and eleven.

 

[Moon_frogger]

An og Xbox along with 1 year Xbox live, the original splinter cell, ghost recon, and morrowind. It was gaming bliss.

 

[Bururian]

I bought a Sega Genesis with my own money. but it was years after the system.

 

[Rastafarian42]

A PS3 slim for my younger brother it was his going away present.

 

[Kabuto]

Built my own gaming PC - August 2012

Bought my own PS3 Super Slim - Black Friday 2012.

 

[Blue Submarine No. 6]

With my own money? All of them. I left home at 17 back in '79 and have been paying my own way ever since. Bought a NES for the band in New York that first Xmas Nintendo had them in America and have owned every console sold in North America since (along with a handful of Japan-only ones)...

 

[theviolenthero]

Nintendo 64. Bought it in November 1996 from a store called "Software Etc". Game i got with it was Wave Race 64.

 

[NZNova]

I've bought every console I've ever owned myself.

 

[Barry Burton]

N64. Well, technically my brother and I split it.

GameCube was a gift, so the first system I bought entirely with my own money was the 360.

 

[Wafflecakes]

DS Lite I think.

 

[Relativ9]

My "own" money in the sence that I got it from my mom every week for doing chores, saved it up and bought a Sega Master System. It had a Batman game that played kind of like Bionic Commando, was freaking epic!