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[genbatzu]

hmm.. got NES, Gameboy (in green <3) and PSX from parents (all of them for x-mas, ofc different years).

Bought and built my own PC and 1st console I bought with my own money was PS2. earned money as paperboy (6month, 5h hours on wednesday and saturday after school... man that sucked :S but worth it. PS2 ftw.)

 

[davidbloop]

N64 and Mario 64


Those were happy happy days.

 

[Aostia]

Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur

 

[NinjaCarrot]

PS3

 

[Spongebob]

Gamecube.

 

[red731]

PS2 and from there on, I spend my own money on this hobby of mine.

 

[casablanca]

PS1.

 

[Succinct Verbosity]

Nintendo 3DS. The PS4 will be my first home console purchase and I'm really looking forward to it. Stuff seems that much sweeter when it comes from my own hard work.

 

[GlamFM]

SNES with Super Mario World, F-ZERO & Pilotwings.

 

[Djin1979]

gamecube with Mario kart for 99&#8364;, good stuff

 

[jinnosuke]

sega megadrive with sonic

 

[Lord Phol]

all 599 us dollars. First big paycheck.

Everything prior I was able to get through birthday/christmas

Same for me! Or it could have been the Wii, don't remember which one I got first oO.

 

[Art Teitlebaum]

I forgot how much it was back then, but it was really expensive for the poor schoolboy I was. It was money from a holiday job.
But THE FUN it was. Unbelievable.

 

[waru]

Game Boy

 

[hertog]

Sega Dreamcast with resident evil code veronica.


Still have it too

 

[Goodlife]

PS1

 

[Black Republican]

GBA SP

 

[Duxxy3]

Genesis. The nes was a gift.

 

[Lapidus' Beard]

As a kid I bought an Atari 2600 along with Combat, Asteroids and Pac-Man from my neighbour.

 

[kinoki]

Anticlimactic but I bought a NES for €5 around the time the PS1 was new. Next up was a PS2.

 

[the_batman]

bought a PS3 when MGS4 came out with my own money. my dad had to drive me to Best Buy though.. lol.

 

[doniewhalberg]

This is kind of embarrassing actually now that I'm thinking about it. Think the first console I paid for was the 360 slim, somehow acquired a ps3, 360 and wii without putting one penny towards, despite being 17/19 respectively when I got those. That's pretty bad. A bit old to be allowing your parents to spend such an amount on you without contributing at that point.

 

[dc89]

With Mario 64 DS. I regret nothing.

 

[Lemonte]

PS2 and couldn't even afford to buy game with it. I played first month only the demo disc.

 

[crazy monkey]

wii,

 

[Vexxan]

Game Boy Pocket if we're counting handhelds.

 

[master_emman]

2 PS3 and 2 PS Vita

 

[MrCunningham]

The Gameboy (this actual system here) was the first game system which I purchased with my own money. First game? MegaMan Wily Wars.

The system is still in excellent condition, I think, for being 23 years old.

Those old Game Boys were built to last. I remember when I was younger and hiking up a mountain side with friends, I had an old school Game Boy in my backpack and the thing fell out and dropped down into a fairly large cave. I thought my Game Boy was toast, but I managed to retrieve it and it still worked, outside of the casing being banged up.

There was a time when Nintendo would build the most durable products on the planet that were built to last. The North American SNES and Gamecube were like that too. The original NES was pretty flimsy however.

 

[Amon37]

SNES SF2 Bundle.

 

[robertsan21]

Snes!

 

[K1ng P3n]

Sega Dreamcast. Just got out of high school and jumped straight into work.

 

[mrmickfran]

Nintendo 3DS XL

 

[Roxas]

I did a paper round for like a year to buy a PS1 with Wipeout and Lemmings 3D.

 

[The Real Abed]

GameCube. Brought it home with a copy of Pikmin and Smash Bros Melee and it was the greatest day ever.

 

[Bundy]

SNES (Street Fighter 2 bundle)

 

[BloodOmenPT]

The original Xbox. Was saving for another PS2 (original died), Ninja Gaiden and Halo said otherwise at the time...

 

[oVerde]

Original Xbox, before it had a PC, but just bought some parts with my money.

 

[ArchedThunder]

And then my brother stole it from me.

 

[dreamfall]

PS1!

 

[Soodanim]

My second PS2 (slim). Bought it with San Andreas, after the original stopped reading discs.

Edit: actually, I bought an N64 from a friend a few years before with my own money... I think.

 

[CronoShot]

With my own money, Xbox 360 I think. Came out not long after I got my first job, so that's where my paycheck went.

 

[AkimbO_Arcana]

Technically an used NES. New the N64, what a glorious day!

 

[Garcian]

Snes with SMW, F-Zero & Super Tennis. Worked some long hours in a local bakery to make the money for that lot. Worth it

 

[JaseC]

PS3, AUD$700. Bought it on a whim and it quickly became my platform of choice for a few years despite having a not-too-shabby PC and later purchasing an X360.

 

[KillerMan91]

GBA. We had just adopted euro here in Finland (2002 if I remember right) and it costed 99€. It was a lot of money for me!

 

[Orbis]

PSP for me. That was one of the first 'big' purchases I made with my own money. I was 14 at the time; before that I'd had a Gameboy, Dreamcast and Gamecube as presents. And also a couple of handed-down PCs.

 

[Dunkers92]

The Xbox 360. I got a paper round so that I could build up enough money to buy it.

 

[zsidane]

I became a man with the DC!
The SNES, GameBoy and PSX were all mine thanks to my parents.

 

[Corto]

Playstation 2. Had it for years with only a game of FIFA, a demo disc of some games I can't remember and without a memory card to save. I used it as a DVD player at the time and when I played FIFA I just left it on for a few days as I couldn't save.

 

[SneakyStephan]

My psx, the consoles I had before that were all gifts from my family. Good times.

In the store I hesitated to buy a saturn for a moment , did I ever dodge a bullet.

Best times was the first pc I bought for myself, an ahtlon xp 2800+ with a radeon 9800pro, at the tailend of the glorydays of gaming (rtcw, cs, ut, quake, painkiller, bf1942)