What was the first platform you bought with your own money?

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#51  Edited By Dimsey

The original Xbox was the first console I got with my own cash. Remember not having enough money afterward to get a game with it and renting Buffy or something.

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#52  Edited By SMTDante89

The first one I paid for with my own money would be the PS2. Everything before then was pretty much a birthday or Christmas gift.

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#53  Edited By Masha2932

Playstation 2

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#54  Edited By Johno

PS2
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Huh, come to think of it... I've never bought a console with my own money. I did buy buy several hundreds of euros worth of pc hardware, though.

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@Rolyatkcinmai said:

Game Boy Advance - Used it once the day I got it, never touched it again.

I paid for some PC parts and built a "gaming PC" when I was like 13, so that would have been first I guess.

First actual console would be the Xbox 360.


...but the GBA had so many good games :'( 
 
I bought my PS3 myself about 3 years ago. That's probably part of the reason why I love it so much. Bought it purely for MGS4 and have used it ever since. 
 
Might have to retire it soon in favour of a Slim; that'll be a sad, sad day. 
 
Then I spent a fortune, and continue to, on my current PC.
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#57  Edited By AndrewB

PC, Gamecube (depending on if you allow PC as a console choice).

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#58  Edited By nintendoeats

A Gameboy Advance with a copy of Golden Sun. That was a great frigging day.

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#59  Edited By johnny961

The original NES. Damn i'm getting old. LOL 
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#60  Edited By blueaniman93

Xbox 360, at the age of 15

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#61  Edited By project343

Umm, I guess the 3DS. 
 
I was lucky enough to get every other console I've ever owned for Christmas/birthdays.

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#62  Edited By James_ex_machina

NES

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#63  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

The Nintendo Wii, it took months of saving up to get it.

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#64  Edited By Bass

The first console I bought was the Nintendo Wii. Everything up to that point had been a birthday gift or something similar to that. I have purchased all of my system's since that point (360 and DS)

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#65  Edited By YoungFrey

Nintendo 64, the fall it came out even.  I was fresh out of college.  It's why I got a TV. 
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#66  Edited By JJOR64

Playstation 2.

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#67  Edited By The_Painted

PS2.

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#68  Edited By penguindust

Sega Genesis to the best of my recollection.

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#69  Edited By crusader8463

Probably the N64.

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#70  Edited By saethir

After mowing many lawns, I bought that kinda purple, kinda clear gameboy advance. Playing mario kart advance in my hands blew my adolescent mind. And widescreen being new to me, running horizontally in Pokemon blue seemed super fast. Good times.

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#71  Edited By Yanngc33

My 360, won my PS3 and got my wii for Xmass

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#72  Edited By RE_Player1

DS

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#73  Edited By thornie_delete

N64. I remember buying it to play all of those awesome THQ Wrestling Games and Goldeneye.

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#74  Edited By NickBOTT

Playstation.  My brother and I split it and also got Twisted Metal 2 and Tekken 2 with it.

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#75  Edited By Twisted_Scot

PS1 (although I bought my SNES from selling my NES and master system so if that count then a SNES. Wish I could have afforded to keep them all but there you go).

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#76  Edited By OldGuy

PC. An IBM XT w/CGA card and an AST Six Pack Plus (DOS 2.0 baby!)

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#77  Edited By BonOrbitz

Super Nintendo.

During the summer of '91 I would record hours upon hours of McHale's Navy episodes for my Dad's co-worker who would gladly shell out $25 a tape and all that money when to my SNES.

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#78  Edited By Chummy8

Almost every one of my consoles were bought by my parents.  I'd say the Xbox, but I traded in my PS2 for it, so that doesn't count.  The 360 it is then.  
 
If we're counting PC's then I bought mine shortly after starting college back in 1998. 

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#79  Edited By Sayishere

Hmmm prolly the 360, bought it by saving up.

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#80  Edited By Badhands

Xbox original

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#81  Edited By FluxWaveZ

Nintendo Wii

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#82  Edited By Colin

PS2

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#83  Edited By Kyreo

@Galiant said:

My first paycheck: PS3.

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#84  Edited By awesomatic

Sega Master System II - in the mid 90'

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Preloaded with Sonic and a generic soccer game. Dont think I every bought another game for it.

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#85  Edited By FateOfNever

Original xbox.  Well, the Limited Edition Halo XBox.  I went for a walk one day, during the summer, down to a local game store, saw the LE Xbox and on something of a whim went "You know what, I have the money for this." and bought it.  And then proceeded to carry that thing the like, two miles back to my house.

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#86  Edited By PhatSeeJay

N64.

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#87  Edited By dirkfunk

I wanna say Gamecube? . . . I got everything else as Christmas or Birthday gifts. . .  or they were purchased with Christmas or Birthday money.
 
Gamecube is the first one I remember actually going do the store after cashing my paycheck and buying. Not a whole lot of great memories actually playing the thing.

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#88  Edited By Claude

My family bought the Atari 2600 and the NES. My girlfriend and now wife bought me the SNES. It would have to be the N64. I was married by that time, so it was our money.

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#89  Edited By PrivateIronTFU

Gamecube!

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#90  Edited By Sin4profit

Sega Genesis

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#91  Edited By PeasantAbuse

Gamecube.  However that is the only one so far, I have received both an original Xbox and an Xbox 360 as gifts since then.
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#92  Edited By Red

I guess my PS3, although that was from selling my Wii and a bunch of its games, and the Wii I had gotten for Christmas.

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#93  Edited By sirdesmond

Surprisingly to me, now that I think about it, the first console that I bought with entirely my own money was the PS3 and now my 3DS. Both my 360 and Wii had some parental holiday money involved.

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#94  Edited By BoG

The Nintendo Gamecube. I mowed so many lawns to buy that little purple box. I earned just enough money to buy the system, and nothing else. I spent around two weeks just turning it on daily to look at the main screen before I purchased Super Mario Sunshine on launch day.
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#95  Edited By dillonwerner

Xbox 360

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#96  Edited By bassman2112

Game Boy Color.

I mowed lawns for quite a while and then bought it with Pokemon back when it came out =)

No regrets

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#98  Edited By onarum
@Kaungo said:

Gaming Rig (if that count)

if not NDS

yeah, exactly the same with me, when I got me a job I started building sick gaming rigs, when the NDS came out I though it was a pretty sweet concept so I got one as well.
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#99  Edited By Mike512

Handheld: PSP (Launch 2005)
Console: Xbox 360 (A month after launch, 2005)

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The Playstation 2.  Thought I was done with video games since I was an emancipated minor at 17 with no money working a crappy job as a dish washer at a knock off hooters who could barely make ends meet.   Until I played an in-store demo of Devil May Cry which was mind blowing at the time that I decided to give up cigarettes to afford a PS2.