First system you bought with your own money.

[snes_collector]

What's the first the system you bought with your own money? Not your parents money, but your MONEY. And ofcourse, pre-owned systems do not count.

For me, it would be the Game Boy Advance. Boy I was happy when I bought that baby at Wal-Marts, and when I first opened it at home.

So what was your first system you bought with your own money?

[Darren870]

Gamecube, My parents wernt fond of upgrading systems because you had to buy all new games.

My mom bought the NES for herself. Then we got a genesis for my brother and I. Then I convinced my dad to let me get a nintendo 64. He bought it though but it took a lot of convincing.

Then I was going to buy a dreamcast but my dad told me to wait because he read about the sales and how sega might call quits. Thats when I decided to put $ on my gamecube and I bought it. Few months later my brother and I bought an xbox, boy was he pissed. Then the ps2 came, then the neo then 1000+ games, lets just say he says i waste my money to much.

Haha

[anagrama]

The SF2 SNES pack in early 1993. £114, if I remember correctly.

[Emuaust]

Sega Master System for me, I cant even remeber what I paid
for it either all I know is it took me along time to deliver enough
newspapers to pay for the sucker

[dojosky]

For me

it was the Sega Msster System back in 1988 cuz i wanted to play those RPG's so badly ! I already had the nes ever since 1986 or 1987 ... it was $79.99 I bought it at Toys R us along with Quartet . then borrowed Miracle warriors and phantasy star from a friend of mine at that time ... then it went on from there I always bought my systems ever since 1988 ...

[Cryomancer]

Probably the 32x, but that WAS birthday money.

Don't regret it either.

[BrokenFlight]

I haven't bought a new console yet. My parents bought my Megadrive and original PS2 new. All my other consoles were used and I bought them myself.

My most expensive console I've bought was a used slimline PS2 just after Christmas for £80.

[Vroomfunkel]

Sega Megadrive with Sonic the Hedgehog and Tazmania, and two controllers. £149 as I recall ... all from hard-earned paper round money. 4 months worth of it, to be precise.

Oh boy, was that a happy day!

Vroomfunkel

[Slimedog]

I had to take a paper route to get enough money to buy my NES and a few games. That took about two months since I had to split the money with my mom (she drove). After that, I sold candy bars to get the money to buy a Gameboy. It took a few weekends, but it was worth it.

[Flack]

If used doesn't count, the first one I bought for myself with my own money was the SNES. I got the Donkey Kong Country package right after Christmas of '94.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Holy shit. I just realized that I have not bought (a non-pre owned) console other then a GBC. Wow. NES was bought by them, SNES was an x-mas gift from them, same with the N64, as with the PS1, and the PS2 was a reward for good grades. The genesis I dont remember why it was bought, but they did it, or maybe my brother. I still have all of those except the NES SNES and Gen, I sold those. But, I bought back older ones. Would've been nice to still have all that stuff before I sold it. Oh well. Oh, and also, I bought all the games for the systems, aside from one game with each system. I dont remember some of them, but the ones I do are Starfox 64, Omega Boost for PS1, and Red Faction for PS2. My dad also bought 'Sky Odyssey' for himself, if that counts.

Man, that makes me sound sooo spoiled.

[evil_genius]

Sega Genesis model 1 w/ Sonic the Hedgehog. I was in 2nd grade. I wrote up an ad in the paper to sell all of my NES stuff for fundraising, my father gave the ad to the newspaper company. Luckily my grandmother stashed a few games which I still have to this day.

[vahn401]

I remember saving up to buy a game boy color bundle that came with zelda DX at a sam's club years ago. I believe that was the first system bought on my own. After that, I bought my 2nd PS2, gamecube, and my DS.

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think I saved up for my PlayStation. N64 was a present, that I remember for certain.

After that...um, the next system I bought was a GameCube. Aside from retro purchases (including a Saturn/Dreamcast stuff here), I haven't bought anything else at retail unless you include the Game Boy Player (and I got that at the same time as the GC, as I bought the system within a few weeks of the $150 GBP + GC deal's announcement).

[smokehouse]

I worked for a summer to buy a SNES, Final fantasy II and a 19” color TV. I was 15 and it was 1992. A family had given us a NES for Christmas back in 1989 so the SNES was my first purchased system. The sad part was that at the time my family did not own a TV so within a week I would come home from my paper route to find my family in my room watching TV! Bummer…

Needless to say every system I've had since then with the exception of a Gamecube (birthday present) and an XBox (Christmas present) I've purchased myself.

[almostgotthemall]

My brother and I mowed lawns for an entire summer in 1982 to earn enough money to buy our Atari 2600. I was 12 years old at the time.

We saved up $250(canadian funds) and when we went on holidays to California we stopped in Bellingham, WA and purchased it. (for the life of me, I cannot remember the name of the store)
The 2 weeks we spent in the states allowed us to bring it back duty free.

I remember the exchange rate killed us, but my dad was kind enough to buy Defender for us.

-It was $199.99us.
-Defender was $49.99 (i think).

I can only remember wanting to go home early from holidays to play it!

[tom]

XE in 1985, with Sanyo monitor, 1050, XC11, and a Seikosha Printer (connected to XE without 850)

C-64 in 1986 (to have the best of both worlds)

[Lord Contaminous]

Playstation 2

On September 10, 2001. what timing

[jcheatle]

First one I bought kind of with my own money would've been an original PS1 in August of 99. My roommate and I split the cost then, and at the end of the year, he paid me off and took it with him.

A year later, I bought a redesigned PSOne right after they came out, so that'd be my first personally fully bought system.

[AB Positive]

I didn't actually buy a system with my own money until the Xbox launch. Left work at 6 AM (graveyard shift) to sit next to my friend who saved me a spot in line. A lot of coffee later, we had ourselves two xboxes, I got DoA3 and microsoft's NFL game for it, he got DoA3 and Halo.

To this day, I still don't own Halo

-aB+