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First console you payed for your own money?

I traded in my NES and its games to Funcoland to get an SNES when it came out, does that count? If not, I guess it'd be the Wii.
 
nes. i was 12 years old, and had saved up enough allowances for one, two controllers, a zapper, mario/duck hunt, smb3, and dr. mario. also, my parents finally let me have a console that day, which was more important than having the funds to purchase the thing. they had always been against it until then.

that christmas, my gift was the allowance money it took to get it. they felt like i had earned it by then, and that i would be responsible with my time and my future.
 
Dreamcast would be the first I truly think I bought with my own funds. I picked up a PSX and FF8 before that, with Christmas money, but I don't count it as 'my own money'.
 
This thread made me realize that the first console I paid for with my own money was this used PS3 Slim I bought about a month ago.

SNES - Parents
N64 - Parents
PS1 - Parents
PS2 - Parents
Xbox - Sold an old dirtbike that my parents paid for (it was a little Honda 50, so I had outgrown it).
Xbox 360 - HS Graduation Gift (Parents)
Xbox 360 S - Girlfriend
PS3 - Me
 
PS2.

Actually my father bought me the first one.But it kept breaking even after a couple of repairs and maintenance so I saved some money to buy a new one.

Had no problems with the new one so far.Feels so good.
 
GameCube. Payed for it with a bunch of single dollar bills I had saved up. The GS employee was pissed.

Before that a friend gave me his SNES, and my parents got me a PlayStation.
 
The first console I purchased entirely off of my own income was the Xbox 360 back in 2007. Prior to then I used a combination of my own cash and gift money or just had my parents foot the bill. It's nice being independent.
 
The Wii. I started buying most of my own games around the time the N64 was around, but I'd usually leave the systems as Christmas presents. For the Wii I couldn't wait to play Zelda. With the Cube I was able to play Melee on my brother's, even though I had to wait a month or so for mine.
 
My own money was an N64 so I could play OOT. A year or so later bought a ps1 to play MGS1. Some of my most favorite gaming memories were on those systems.
 
My parents wouldn't fuel the "addiction" that they believed video games were back in the day, so every game and system I've ever owned were purchased with my own funding. The first of these was a Gameboy. I mowed yards all summer as well as worked at a restaurant as a busboy under the table to be able to save up that coveted $99.
 
Jawabreaker said:
My parents wouldn't fuel the "addiction" that they believed video games were back in the day, so every game and system I've ever owned were purchased with my own funding. The first of these was a Gameboy. I mowed yards all summer as well as worked at a restaurant as a busboy under the table to be able to save up that coveted $99.
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My man
 
I was a ballin' 10 year old with some serious paper route fliff, bought my Playstation and a copy of Tomb Raider in 1997.

I still have that specific model, it works fine.
 
MCXC Pioneer said:
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I later traded that Gameboy with 3 games for an NES with 10. I was a happy kid, as I'd already beaten Link's Awakening, Mario Land 2, and Mega Man 3(GB). I had another Gameboy before Pokemon Red launched, so I was fine with the trade. I still have that Nes in it's original box to this day...
 
I bought a Dreamcast using a $300 jackpot from a slot machine. I quit gambling that day, figuring I was ahead.

It was a good decision. The games were all 60FPS back then. Must've been that blast processing engine...

Thank you for saving me from becoming a degenerate gambler Sega!
 
Back in the day my dad owned a window business. I worked with him for a few months before I was able to purchase the NES, SMB, and the gold cartridge Legend of Zelda. I really wish I would have kept it....

Not a console but I did buy plenty of cheap games for Commodore 64 which got me into gaming to begin with. Biker Dave fuck yea!
 
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I think I still have that box somewhere. It was both the first system I bought myself and the first system I bought on launch day. I remember my mom having to drive me around everywhere to find one.

Since then, I've gotten a PS3, 360, Wii U, 3DS, and a Vita, all of which I paid for. Consoles are just too expensive to get as gifts. The ones we used to get were always family presents and that was when I was a kid.
 
My brother and I grew up gaming together. We started with an Atari 2600 our mom picked up at a yard sale with a box of games (this was after the NES had been out for a few years) when I was maybe 8 years old. When I was 11 or 12, he and I saved our allowance money ($5 a week each if we cleaned up the house every day) to get an NES from one of my brother's friends for $50, plus a copy of Mega Man.

After what seemed like forever, we finally saved up enough and got the Nintendo. It was cracked on top and really finicky to get it to work right because his friend had spilled milk on it, but damn did we have fun with that thing.

I remember reading Nintendo Power after we bought the NES, and drooling over how awesome the SNES graphics looked. I vaguely remember trying to talk my dad into letting us buy it after he asked why we needed a new system by telling him the graphics were so realistic, you could see the fingerprints on Mario's hands if they zoomed in close. Not a lie--just an excited kid who bit into the hype.

After that, we saved up and got a brand new SNES a year or so after it came out. I'll never forget the smell of that console when we first pulled it out of the box. Amazing.
 
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