What was the first gaming console you purchased with your own money

[Chris Cool]

A snes in 2012. If new consoles it's Vita, then Nintendo switch.

shouts out to Mom.

 

[Captain Crunch]

PS3 in 2011, I was 19

 

[TransJenner]

washed cars the entire summer and saved up for a PS2. right before school started moms took me to the bank to open an account and stash my money away so i wouldn't blow it all before the console came out.

This is what I did when I first gotta job

I saved $50 every paycheck for a new console and they ended up putting pre orders up the 3DS

 

[TransJenner]

sega genesis

I’ve owned a sega genesis at least over 7 times by now


You use to be able to find them at garage sales for $10 back in 2005

 

[Killer Instinct]

 

[NZA]

This was actually the first system I purchased brand new with my own money. I bought a used PlayStation with my own money before it. The GameCube also has the distinction of being the only game console I ever sold off and never got another one.

I've had 6 PS4s for example and sold 4 of them but I've always had at least one at all times since launch. I sold that GameCube to a coworker and to this day I've never owned another. The Wii playing GameCube games saw to that. Still have my SNES and N64 but left the NES at my folks house.

gba adapter can make gamecube worth keeping. i dont have one (i do have the hori gba pad controller), but i do sometimes consider getting it since i have some gba games. gba game collecting would be a pretty easy thing to get into and playing them on a tv seems more enjoyable to me...

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

N64 at launch. Reserved it a Toys R Us and picked it up on luanch day after I got off of work from my part time job as a grocery store cashier I hopped on the city bus with a N64. Been buying all my console at launch ever since. With the exception of Xbox and PS2. Disappointment in the GameCube led to my Xbox purchase, and disappointment in my Xbox led to the purchase of my PS2. Been PlayStation ever since and never looked back.

 

[the_FUTURE]

crazy. every console was gifted to me. lol all i did was buy the games myself with paper route money and other job money.

Switch is the only console I bought myself.

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

N64

 

[CarltonJunior]

If it counts then the nintendo DS

 

[daze23]

SNES

 

[patscorpio]

OG Game Boy

 

[315]

PS2 at launch

 

[Illuminatos]

Xbox One
That shyt felt good as hell too.
I had a long walk home carrying that heavy ass thing but when I got home and finally set it up.

 

[LezJepzin]

PS2 first gen.