What game made you buy your consoles in all console genaritons?

[Comrade Tovya]

Mattel Intellivision> Christmas present when I was 4-years old...but really my father just wanted an excuse to buy a game system so he could play it.  what a sap.

Mattel Electronic Football> Hand-down from my pop... had great LED action, so real that is was, uh, well, like a few LED lights playing chase

Atari 2600> It was the hot system at the time, got it because all my friends in kindergarten has one

Nintendo DK Game & Watch> Ahead of its time.. two screen clam shell handheld from Nintendo. concept was later re-used to make the DS... Got it for christmas from some family friends

Sega Master System> I loved Alex Kidd game & Spy vs Spy (plus system was superior to the NES)

NES> Everybody had one, and of course the Mario phenomenon

Atari 7800> I thought it would be a cool upgrade to the 2600, but it sucked.. dumb comic book advertisements made it look so awesome, what a crock of sh....

Gameboy> All the great titles it had, we traveled a lot when I was a kid

TurboGraphx-16> Bonk.. I bought it 2nd hand off of my friend who didn't like it

Sega Genesis> Sonic the Hedgehog

NeoGeo> TONS of great fighter games (got it off of a friend whose parents wouldn't let him keep it... they said it was too "violent" of a gaming system, traded a spare NES and 10 games for it)

Sega GameGear> Sonic portability, and it played my old Master System games that I loved.

Super NES> Super Mario World, Mario Kart, and Legend of Zelda

3DO> Bought for me for Christmas by parents, but system wasn't very cool, actually it sucked

PlayStation> No game in particular, but I knew it was the next big thing

Nintendo 64> Brand loyalty?  It's still my least favorite system of any generation.

NeoGeo Pocket Color> The old great NeoGeo fighter games in the palm of my hand

PlayStation 2> Just had to have it because it was so state-of-the-art.. but I have always been a Gran Turismo guy, so that weighed pretty heavily

GameBoy Advance SP> Bought it for my toddler to get him interested in games, he still plays it 5 years later, and is now a gaming freak just like his dad

Nintendo GameCube> I knew that Nintendo couldn't make a system worse than the N64... mostly for the Zelda & Mario titles when it came to games

XBOX> Halo series, plus all my friends played on that new service called "XBOX LIVE" so I wanted to join the fun

XBOX 360> Tons of games that I love, and of course the greatness that is XBOX LIVE

Nintendo DS> Mario games, plus the concept sounded really awesome just like the DK Game & Watch I had when I was a kid

PlayStation 3> I was still satisfied with my PS2, but bought the PS3 for the Blu-ray player initially

Wii> Really bought it for my wife more than myself, but now I hijacked it, and so what was her's has now become mine (see how that works kids?  If your wife won't let you have something, buy it for her, and then take it back when she isn't looking... learned this move from Sun Tzu)

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I have a bunch more systems, but I bought them off eBay to add to the collection, so I don't count those ones.  I only count the systems that I bought during its on console/handheld generation.