First system you bought with your own money

none yet

A used Gateway desktop, which I still own and currently use. However, lots of parts were replaced after they died (some replaced with cheaper ones because I couldn't afford them).

Current specs:
OS: Windows 7
GPU: Radeon HD6450
CPU: Intel Core i5 750 @2.67GHz
RAM: 8 GB
HDD: 2 TB

Basically, the only thing which needs upgrading is the GPU. To get a GPU I need money, to get money I need a job, and to get a job, I need to get my shit together. And I suck at getting my shit together.

First game system I bought myself was a Gameboy Advance SP. Any previous systems I had were purchased by parents, even if I worked around the house to 'earn' the cash for them.

First PC that I bought was laptop HP pavilion g6, 3 years ago. Was need it for work to play games at work lel.

The Clear Original Gameboy, with christmas money.

As for money I actually worked for, I want to say Dreamcast. I had just started working after school, around 6 months after it came out.

First PC i bought with my own money was a used thinkpad from a friend at school, 100$. It was so old it had the old rubber nipple used to control the mouse!

First Gaming PC, in 2009. From IBUYPOWER.
Original Specs:

AMD Phenom x4 965 Black Edition.
Asus Mobo
AMD Radeon 5670 (Shortly thereafter replaced with a 560TI)
4GB Corsair Ram
640GB HDD
Generic 700W PSU. (It was a free upgrade lol, Massivly overpowered for the system.)
Thermaltake V9 Black Edition Case

860$, 920$ shipped.

Still using the Mobo and CPU from that build. Have replaced everything else.

Current Specs.

AMD Phenom X4 965 BE.
Asus Mobo.
EVGA 970 SSC
8 GB Gskills Ram
120 SSD for OS.
Original 640HDD, and new 2TB HDD
Thermaltake 650W PSU
Rosewill Thor V2 Case.

Commodore Amiga 2000, with hard drive. (Parents)

Followed that up with a purchase of a NEC laptop with mediadock + CD ROM. (Funds)

• Pentium chip
• 16Mb RAM
• ~200 Mb HDD
• ~1hr battery
• Mediadock
• 4x speed CD-ROM
• Creative SoundBlaster

Edit: Remembered how

wii

Parents bought (in order):
Gameboy
Snes
N64
Windows 95 based PC with 2 Gig hard drive

Bought myself:
Playstation 1&2
First Xbox
Dell Inspiron 9400
Wii
Dell XPS

First system with my own money = SNES

First system from parents = Intellivision

First PC I built = I don't remember. Whatever was a good "bang for the buck" in 1999

Probably the 64, but my parents gave me 100$ for every A I got in elementary school so I'm not sure if that counts...Otherwise it'd be the 360.

Don't remember the first computer I bought with my own money as I constantly swapped out parts but I gave it to a family member who is still using it. I think its using a i5 750 and a gtx 260 atm.

What was the first system you bought with your own money? Xbox 360
First system your parent(s) bought for you? SNES

Specs of first PC that you bought with your own money?
Phanteks Enthoo Pro (Black)
Hydro Series™ H105 240mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
G.Skill Trident X F3-2400C10D-16GTX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
ASUS Maximus VII Ranger
EVGA SuperNOVA 850W G2 Gold
MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4GB 2-Way SLI
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
Samsung 840 EVO Series 500GB SSD / x2 Western Digital WD Black 1TB HDD
ASUS VG248QE 24in Widescreen 144Hz 3D Monitor

First system I ever bought with my own money was a PlayStation 3.
Well, technically both my brother and I bought it, but he chipped in, like, $10, so I don't think he really counts here.

I can't quite remember which I got first, but I purchased a Macintosh LC and IBM Personal System/2 (The computer that started the PS/2 keyboard/mouse port standard).

My school at the time was also using 68k Macintosh computers, so I'd go there with stacks of floppy disks and grab all the shareware games and junk off of their server. Mostly ended up playing Oregon Trail and a fun puzzle game called Diamonds.

The IBM PC was my first time really delving into a computer on my own. When I received it, it was a bit of a mess. OS/2 was never bootable and the Windows 3.x side was barebones. Whoever owned it prior didn't get the chassis back together quite right, so in order to power it on I had to stick my finger under the plastic plate and manually press the power switch, haha. Took me forever to get the sound card working within Windows (I could only download software when I went to the library as I didn't have an Internet connection of my own). It didn't have quite the gusto to run DOOM, but it could run Wolfenstein 3D and most of the shareware of time. Had fun running tons of random shareware not knowing what to expect.

1. C64

2. 486dx4 100, 8 Mb RAM, 512Kb VGA

   Yeah, you'll never need more than 8 Mb of RAM!

1. PlayStation 2 (bought as a going away present when we moved.)
2. Xbox 360 (bought by our parents for Christmas a few years ago.)
3. PC (paid for almost entirely by myself with summer job money, hand-picked and put together all of the parts, got a monitor for Christmas last year.)

Specs:
3.2 ghz Intel i5-3470, quad-core
Nvida Geforce GTX 660, 2 Gb
8 Gb RAM

360

1. Ohio Scientific C1P
   2 (ref #1) A ripping 6502 CPU (just like an Apple ][!) and 4,096 bytes of Static Ram.

PS3 Sony 500GB

I bought the Super Nintendo with my own cash. My parents' first console for the home was the Atari 2600.

And first PC i bought? a 386SX-25 homebuild.

Ah yes that memorable PSP2000. Loved that handheld, a proof of my hard work (saving up).

bought a used N64 (like new) with Ocarina of Time, from the money from my paper route (which I started in order to save up for that N64, and then buy games)

First system my parents purchased for me: NES

First system I purchased: I waited outside Best Buy the night before release to buy a PlayStation 2

The first PC I purchased: Pentium III 500Mhz with an ATI Rage Fury card.

A laptop back in 2009 then my current desktop back in 2013.

First system system I bought with my own money: Playstation 3. Gosh, I was obsessed with playing the last of us. Turned into a COD freak too along with it. Glorious days.

First system my parents bought me: I believe it was the Sega Genesis. It was Christmas morning and they had the Sega along with like 30 games scattered around the tree. I was freaking estatic.

PC specs: Intel i5 w/ AMD Radeon 7870-8 GB ram. Still my computer ^.^ I a recently born PC gamer :D