What was the first console you bought with your own money, and why did you choose it?

[farlaff]

SNES, back in 1991. Yeah, I'm old, and was 15 at the time, working at a video rental. I had a NES Brazilian 'rip off' called Phantom System, first video game I ever had that my mom gave me, had been impressed by Genesis at a point, but once I saw F-Zero running, I had to have THAT. Like, not even arcades (the benchmark for great graphics during that age) had anything that looked like F-Zero back in the day, and I simply had to have the console. And I played the heck out of it lol.