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silent h3ro
11-01-2004, 02:11 AM
It all started a Gamestop for me. I was sick of my 233mhz computer and shitty playstation with no games. I brought in my playstation, all of its games and controllers and looked at which console I wanted to buy. I had a brand new Gamecube. Playstation 2, and Xbox in front of me (I was overwhelmed :w00t: ). I came into the store wanting a Playstation 2 but I looked at my other choices. I was then ready to grab my brand new PS2 but then looked more at Xbox and was thinking more about the PS2 (after my mom started yelling at me cause I was staring at the consoles for like an hour, I looked like a dumbass :ermm: ) when a guy told me about Halo (:01: :D :01: ) and introduced me to an Xbox. I was amazed at how good Halo looked. I owe my life to that guy, btw. :whistling Anyways I got a price for my Playstation and its games and only ended up paying $80 for a used Xbox and a copy of Halo. I went home and quickly unwraped the mighty box and connected it to my shitty t.v. I played Halo all night and morning and played it for many nights and days to come. I pretty much only bought an Xbox because of Halo but I'm glad I did. ;) :)



For what reason did you purchase that first console? (Xbox, Gamecube, or PS2)

Timz
11-01-2004, 02:23 AM
i got my PS2 for the sole perpose of GTAIII. First played it at a friends and was hooked. To this day all i have ever bought for my PS2 is GTAIII and VC, and SA soon

orcutt989
11-01-2004, 02:46 AM
Same here.

Guyver
11-01-2004, 03:09 AM
nes for mario :P

twister
11-01-2004, 03:26 AM
i bought my xbox for the awsome online play on XBox live, my first game was Unreal championship which is still a sweet game. i dont really play my xbox offline because online is soooo much fun, i play games like UC, CS, R6 3, Splinter Cell PT and Mechassault

Tifosi
11-01-2004, 03:46 AM
Atari for some really poor F1 game...and Lombard R.A.C Rally too (at least, I think Lombard was on Atari)

Afronaut
11-01-2004, 04:32 AM
I had PS1once, gave it away to me sisters kids.
I still think them boxes are kinda lame with graphics etc (too use to PC's)
But im guessing they're gettin' pretty good...

asmithz
11-01-2004, 07:10 AM
NES = only one i knew of at the time
Gameboy = Handheld, had to have it
SNES = Mario of course
Genesis = Sonic
N64 = Mario Again
Gameboy Color = Color handheld
PS1 = Metal Gear Solid/ N64 broke after 2months
DreamCast = Sonic Adventures
PS2 = MGS 2
GC = Got it for my younger brother (barley played it)
Xbox = Umm... no reason just needed to complet my colection

ofbz
11-01-2004, 08:40 AM
it seems im the only one who bought a console for other things rather than games...

i was gonna buy a dvd player... then i decided i wanted it with divx support... the cheapest i could find was at 200 us dollars... i don't know why, but doing a search google sent me to xbox-scene forums to the xbmc section... only then i realized i could mod an xbox, install xbmc and play any type of audio and video currently supported on the pc, and with the ability of updating codecs n' stuff.... plus i could install a bigger hd and save all my movies in there...

games were just a secondary reason...

in the next couple of weeks i might be buying a ps2 *JUST* for GTA: San Andreas...

Busyman
11-01-2004, 09:59 AM
I've bought them all just to play different games.

I even have an Atari Jaguar. :sick: POS :angry:

The only system I never got was an Intellivision. :dry:

Cheese
11-01-2004, 10:18 AM
The first, though not the last, console I ever bought was a 3D0. Another POS. It's pretty unforgiveable that I bought it because I worked in a computer shop so I should have known. I ended up swapping it with a mate for his Amiga. :huh:

I haven't bothered with the current generation of consoles. Though maybe Santa might leave me something under the tree this year?

Celerystalksme
11-01-2004, 10:40 AM
My parents brought me an Atari 2600 for me for x-mas way back when they came out...Because i saw someone playing river raid and bugged my parents for ages...So yes i got the Atari 2600 for River Raid :D

The first console i brought with my own money was an x-box...and i brought it for V8 Supercars 2 (at the time it was an x-box exclusive)...halo 2 coming out in november, fable & the GTA Double Pack...and the only reason id want a PS2 is for the GTA series but it was always gonna come out on x-box anyways...so the choice was easy...also Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 are coming out next year on x-box...(well Half-Life 2 isn't conformed just yet)...but yes...x-box has everything i want in a system...it even comes in handy as a coffee table :D

ApacNTS
11-01-2004, 09:07 PM
got a ps2 for RE: Outbreak, got an xbox for halo, got a gamecube for RE: Zero. i'd say halo was the only one not to dissapoint :p

Peerzy
11-01-2004, 09:38 PM
I brought an Xbox becuase i was going to chip it and never pay for a game. I dont care how good it is, i ain paying for it :01:

silent h3ro
11-01-2004, 09:44 PM
got an xbox for halo It's a good choice for Halo 2 also. :01: :D

DDRFREAK1030
11-01-2004, 09:53 PM
nes-my 1st sysem
snes-wow amazing. i was appy ^_^
n64-wanted for reasons unknown
sega genesis- a gift
gbc-Pokemon!
psx(ps1)-got it for xmas 1999. for the game i waited a loong time to buy..ff7
ps2-i wanted that so bad and got it after i got out of 8th grade
gba/sp- stole it
xbox-bought for $80 iono why tho. its only collecting dust
DreamCast-traded gbc for 1 ^_^

thats what i remember in that order too

silent h3ro
11-01-2004, 09:55 PM
The reason I bought SNES was for Donkey Kong Country. :)

silent h3ro
11-01-2004, 09:57 PM
gba/sp- stole it
xbox-bought for $80 iono why tho. its only collecting dustTell me how u stole it please. I wanna grab myself one of those. :01: O yea and u should of boughten Xbox for Halo. ;)

twister
11-01-2004, 10:06 PM
i bought my gb advanced sp for 20 bucks from a kid who stole it :) so im not the criminal!

silent h3ro
11-01-2004, 10:10 PM
i bought my gb advanced sp for 20 bucks from a kid who stole it :) so im not the criminal! :cool: You are his accomplice for buying it. :whistling

orcutt989
11-01-2004, 11:47 PM
Gameboy Color= Pokemon
N64= Mario
Dreamcast= Sonic
Ps1= Dino Crisis/Resident Evil
Gameboy Advance= Mario
Gameboy SP= Pokemon/Lit up screen!
Ps2= GTA 3

cpt_azad
11-02-2004, 12:39 AM
bought my XBOX cuz N64 was boring as shiite. Why? 2 reasons, I played Halo a week b4 i purchased the xbox (thank god for my friend) and cuz it was superior (i don't give a rat's ass about PS2 and it's many mediocre selection of games) to the other consoles out on the market at that time (and still is) :01:

silent h3ro
11-02-2004, 01:19 AM
bought my XBOX cuz N64 was boring as shiite. Why? 2 reasons, I played Halo a week b4 i purchased the xbox (thank god for my friend) and cuz it was superior (i don't give a rat's ass about PS2 and it's many mediocre selection of games) to the other consoles out on the market at that time (and still is) :01: Damn strait. :cool:

abu_has_the_power
11-02-2004, 01:22 AM
my 1st console was a genesis, or maybe it was a snes, forgot. i don't remember y i got it. think it was a present. then i got n64 from my uncle as a present. then i bought gbc with $$ sent to me by my grandparents as a christmas. so i didn't spend any $$ on consoles. i havn't bought any of the trio

silent h3ro
11-02-2004, 01:27 AM
PS1 was pretty cool. U needed a good imagination though.

abu_has_the_power
11-02-2004, 01:31 AM
PS1 was pretty cool. U needed a good imagination though.

lol. i remember the original ps1 controlers, with just the 4 directional buttons. lol

Adster
11-02-2004, 03:26 AM
Simple PS2 because they have better games I like

I personally hate FPS games

XBOX are full of FPS and war games.

XBOX didn't have cricket Madden Final Fantasy. and several other sporting games when it first came out.

I am a RPG die hard fan and other then fable which just came out XBOX has no other good RPG I can think of which PS2 would not have

but now I'm more of a PC gamer

cpt_azad
11-02-2004, 03:47 AM
PS1 was pretty cool. U needed a good imagination though.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

bujub22
11-02-2004, 04:03 AM
i got my PS2 for the sole perpose of GTAIII. First played it at a friends and was hooked. To this day all i have ever bought for my PS2 is GTAIII and VC, and SA soon
same here ;)

and now have all 3 :01:

Keikan
11-02-2004, 04:25 AM
Come to think I never had a game console before

Monkeee
11-02-2004, 04:56 AM
Come to think I never had a game console beforepoor thing :crying:

cpt_azad
11-02-2004, 06:18 AM
poor thing :crying:
lol, the "Keikan doesn't have a Console" charity. Who shall donate?

10% of all profits go to cpt_azad.

ofbz
11-02-2004, 06:28 AM
if somebody gives me a ps2 with gta SA, then ill throw a couple of $$... other than that NOOOOO!!!!!!! hahaaaha

Duffman
11-02-2004, 06:48 AM
Bought an XBOX so I could put a modchip in it, play downloaded xbox games, cause I don't have shitloads of cash to drop on new games, play dvds, and music, I awnted an all around media center. I love it, just finished resoldering the buttons for its new case.

muchspl2
11-02-2004, 07:13 AM
atari 2600
then the next console was the coloco vision, then intelvision, then nes, the snes, then 3d0, then ps1,then n64, dreamcast, then ps2, and ps3 again as I sold my old one.

cpt_azad
11-02-2004, 07:18 AM
atari 2600
then the next console was the coloco vision, then intelvision, then nes, the snes, then 3d0, then ps1,then n64, dreamcast, then ps2, and ps3 again as I sold my old one.
how's 2006 like?

muchspl2
11-02-2004, 07:23 AM
mame ???? check it out, it sucks now but back then it was the shit

ofbz
11-02-2004, 07:28 AM
ohhh man!!!! i forgot about the atari....!!!!

that was the first console i ever had and played!!!

the only games i remember was galaxy and pacman....

man... weren't those times cool... all you had to worry about was a stick and a red button...


... imagine playing halo with that controller...

Celerystalksme
11-02-2004, 10:24 AM
ohhh man!!!! i forgot about the atari....!!!!

that was the first console i ever had and played!!!

the only games i remember was galaxy and pacman....

man... weren't those times cool... all you had to worry about was a stick and a red button...


... imagine playing halo with that controller...

The funny thing is you could still play Doom 3 with an atari controller :D

BawA
11-02-2004, 12:26 PM
Atari = Randomly bought it from a market
SNES = was famous at that time
Ps = Won it in Prize
DreamCast = Ps got Old and boring, acttualy i was pissed at some1 who had sega and jumped to DC.
Full Stop when i bought PC, games dont look good on Console after playing them on PC, for example Driver :lol:

mr. nails
11-02-2004, 12:54 PM
NES = dragon warrior
Gameboy = Handheld, had to have it
SNES = squaresoft
Genesis = phantasy star(s)
N64 = zelda
Gameboy Color = Color handheld
PS1 = resident evil
Saturn = shining series/panzer dragoon(s)
DreamCast = phantasy star online
PS2 = upgrade from ps1
GC = just cuz
Xbox = panzer dragoon orta
GBA = BACK-LITE (sorta)
PC = counter-strike/quake iii/sof2

Timz
11-02-2004, 01:34 PM
it seems im the only one who bought a console for other things rather than games...

i was gonna buy a dvd player... then i decided i wanted it with divx support... the cheapest i could find was at 200 us dollars... i don't know why, but doing a search google sent me to xbox-scene forums to the xbmc section... only then i realized i could mod an xbox, install xbmc and play any type of audio and video currently supported on the pc, and with the ability of updating codecs n' stuff.... plus i could install a bigger hd and save all my movies in there...

games were just a secondary reason...

in the next couple of weeks i might be buying a ps2 *JUST* for GTA: San Andreas...

if you can wait, just d/l it when it comes out for pc in 9 months

Tormentor
11-02-2004, 03:22 PM
I've bought them all just to play different games.

I even have an Atari Jaguar. :sick: POS :angry:

The only system I never got was an Intellivision. :dry:
Yous dissin jaguar!:ohmy: That thing rocked!

Formula1
11-02-2004, 03:32 PM
i got my PS2 for the sole perpose of GTAIII. First played it at a friends and was hooked. To this day all i have ever bought for my PS2 is GTAIII and VC, and SA soon

Same here. When I read a review of GTA3 I was so overwhelmed and excited about this game. Ended up paying a total of 350$ for Playstation 2 and GTA3

maskawaih
11-02-2004, 03:33 PM
i bought my gb advanced sp for 20 bucks from a kid who stole it :) so im not the criminal!
no, you arent. but you will be the suspect for stole it. :shifty:

DDRFREAK1030
11-02-2004, 06:52 PM
i stole it at a stor caleed costco

^_^

i got skillz

killer04
11-02-2004, 07:25 PM
PS= That thing was very good when it came out
GB= Handheld, had to have it
GBC= Pokemon games
GBA= Nice rpgs

silent h3ro
11-02-2004, 07:41 PM
i stole it at a stor caleed costco

^_^

i got skillzI have a few Costcos in my area. :cool: Don't they usually come in big pakages? :blink:

orcutt989
11-02-2004, 10:50 PM
Yeah i probably wont buy anymore console games after San Andreas. A computer can do so much more.

dsa16
11-02-2004, 10:54 PM
I bought my Playstation 2 back when Xbox was just released, I bought it because I didn't really know much about the Xbox,PS 2 played PS one games, and DVD playback

DDRFREAK1030
11-04-2004, 09:01 PM
I have a few Costcos in my area. :cool: Don't they usually come in big pakages? :blink:

i use a knife to cut the package open then i leave the packaging behind.

yea they come in like a bonus pack r something

silent h3ro
11-04-2004, 10:00 PM
i use a knife to cut the package open then i leave the packaging behind.

yea they come in like a bonus pack r something Ill try that the next time I go there. :devil: Nah too risky. Ingenious idea though.

Smith
11-04-2004, 11:14 PM
PlayStation, the original.

cause my neighbour had it and i thought it was so cool.

ahh the classic days of crash bandicoot :01:

killer04
11-05-2004, 03:24 PM
Yeah i played Crash Bandicoot a lot