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

[freedquaker]

My first console (if you count the handhelds as well) was a "Donkey Kong Game & Watch", a dual-screen one-game Nintendo handheld. My first real consoe was ps1 (the original). Then I bought a dreamcast a few years later. Incidentally, I bought a Saturn right after Dreamcast to satiate my Sega franchises. I never bought a ps2 in its heyday but only a decade later, after ps4 was launched, I bought 3 ps2s over the years (two original models, one modded with an hdd, and a slim model).