When did you buy/receive all of the consoles you've owned/own?

Born 1985

• Atari 2600 - 1989
• Nintendo Game Boy - 1990
• Commodore SX-64 - 1990 (PC, however "portable")
• Nintendo NES - 1990
• Sega Genesis - 1991
• Nintendo SNES - 1994
• Sega CDX - 1995
• Sega Saturn - Launch
• Sony PlayStation - Launch
• Nintendo Virtual Boy - Launch
• Tiger - Game.com - Launch
• Nintendo 64 - Launch
• Sega Dreamcast - Launch
• PSone - 2000
• PlayStation 2 - Launch
• Xbox - Launch
• GameCube - 2003
• Xbox 360 - 2006
• Wii - 2007
• PlayStation 3 - 2009
• Nintendo 3DS - 2011
• PSP - 2014
• Wii U - 2014
• Xbox One - 2014
• PlayStation 4 - 2014
• Vita - 2016
• Project Scorpio - Launch (money set aside)

I've actually lost track at this point. I guess I'll just do the last two generations? Or purchases made since 2006, those are the ones I actually remember:

Born 1991, in case that matters

• Xbox 360: 2006 w/ Oblivion
• Nintendo DS Lite: 2006
• PSP 2000: 2006
• Wii: 2007
• PS3: 2010
• Gamecube: 2010 (purchased for the second time, mostly to play Kart and Smash in college- at this point, all my home consoles were back home in India, so I had none of them, except for the handhelds)
• Nintendo 3DS: Launch (what a terrible fucking idea)
• Wii: November 2011 (for Skyward Sword)
• Xbox 360 S: 2012 (I had been using my roommate's until then)
• PS Vita: October 2013
• Wii U: December 2013
• PS4: Launch (what a terrible fucking idea)
• PSTV: Shortly after launch (I don't even know why...)
• New Nintendo 3DS XL: Q2 2015
• PS Vita 2000: Q2 2015
• Switch: Launch (I never learn)

No idea.

Switch is next, I know that much.

Gives the dates listed some context, that's why I listed mine.

Couldn't possibly remember all the years.

• NES - 1990?
• Sega GameGear - ????? - I just always remember having this.
• Playstation 1 - 1997?
• Playstation 2 - Birthday in 2002, I believe. Received the console with Final Fantasy X and Need for Speed Underground.
• Xbox - Gift from grandparents in 2003 after playing Halo and Fable at a friends and instantly needing the console.
• Gamecube - Picked this up in 2004 for $50 used with Wind Waker and Metroid Prime.
• DS - 2005 - Don't remember the story here.
• PSP - 2005 - Really wanted Tony Hawk's Underground 2 on the go, and the prospect of great games to come for the system.
• PS3 - 2007 - A few months after launch I purchased this. I was big into gaming at the time and couldn't wait. If I was where I'm at now, even though I could actually afford this thing now I wouldn't pay this price for a console again.
• 360 - 2008 - A friend in college wanted to get rid of his so I picked it up, finally able to play a number of games I had been waiting on.
• Wii - 2010 - Birthday gift from the wife, then girlfriend. Finally caught up on a number of games I missed out on.
• 3DS - 2011 - A day before the legendary price drop since Wal-mart dropped the price early. Got the discounted 3DS and all of the Ambassador games.
• Vita - 2013 - Picked up for $80 used since it was a good deal at the time. Worth it as an RPG machine. So disappointing.
• PS4 - 2013 - First launch day purchase for me. Midnight release.
• Wii U - 2013 - Picked it up on a deal.
• Xbox One - 2015 - Purchased on a deal in summer 2015 to get ready for Halo 5, and has since become my Halo machine. Wish it could come full circle and bring back the joy of Fable.

And soon, the Switch on March 3rd, 2017.

I figured :P Also, I figured putting that down would explain why I don't remember anything before, I was like 14 or younger haha, and never kept track of that shit :P

• Nintendo 64 - 1997 (Received it randomly from distant relatives in February, hard to remember though)
• Nintendo GameCube - 2002 (Christmas present)
• Game Boy Advance - 2003 (Christmas present)
• Xbox - 2005 (I think, it was that year, also birthday present)
• Nintendo Wii - 2006 (Birthday present)
• Xbox 360 - 2006 (Christmas present)
• PlayStation 3 - 2014 (First system I bought on my own)
• PlayStation 4 - 2015 (Second system I bought on my own)

Will eventually get an Xbox One and Wii U. If the Switch turns out alright, I'll get that too down the road.

Well I was a pc gamer as well but I won't start listing all my pc's. Still, I will mention the ones from the pre windows era.

born 1977

- Atari 2600 - 1985

- Commodore 64 - 1989

- Amiga 1000 - 1990

- Nintendo gameboy - 1990

- Sega gamegear - 1991

- Sega genesis - 1992

- Snes - 1992

- Amiga cd 32 - 1993

- Wii - 2007

- Xbox 360 - 2007

- Wii family edition (yes, I know I bought two freakin wii's) - 2011

- ps3 - 2012

- xbox one - 2014

- ps4 - 2016

Wow, you skipped the entire 5th and 6th generation? You missed what was literally the best two generations in gaming...

Born 1991, here are all my consoles:

1998 - Gameboy Pocket (Sold in 2012)

2002 - Gameboy Advance

2002 - PS2

2005 - Nintendo DS (Launch in UK, why the hell did I do this?) (Hinge shattered breaking console 2008)

2007 - PS3 (Yellow light of death 2009)

2008 - Nintendo 64

2009 - Xbox 360 20GB (Sold 2009)

2009 - PSP 3000 (Sold 2012)

2009 - PS3 Slim (Launch)

2011 - 3DS (Just after launch, @charizard1605 convinced me to buy it... why did I listen?) (Sold 2013)

2012 - PS Vita (Launch)

2012 - Xbox 360 Slim (Sold 2014)

2013 - 3DS XL (Sold 2015)

2013 - PS4 (Launch, Sold 2014)

2014 - Xbox One (Sold 2016)

2014 - PS4 (White Destiny)

2015 - New 3DS XL (Launch)

2016 - PS4 Pro

2017 - Switch?

Like I said I was a pc gamer as well, especially during those years. These are the days of quake halflife, unreal and fear. The consoles could not run those games or at least not until several years later when a new generation was started. These were not the best generations to have a console imo, the pc had way better games or they had them a lot sooner.

But it's only obvious you didn't know any better, I mean how old were you when halflife released, 12? Not exactly old enough to build a pc in the nineties

PS4 and the Pro version are the only consoles I've ever bought at launch. I'm to much of a stoner to remember dates for the rest ;)

Atari 2600 - 1982

Atari 800XL - 1984

Nintendo Famicon - 1986 bought it in Asia trip.

Pc engin - 1988 or 1989 bought it in Asia trip.

Nes - 1991 about

Snes - 1993

Sega genesis- 1993

Neo geo gold system 1994

PS1- 1996 about

Sega Saturn - 1997 about

Sega nomad - 1998

Neo geo pocket - 1997 or 1998

Sega dreamcast - 1998 (about) import from Japan.

Ps2 - 2001

Xbox- 2002 or 2003

GameCube - 2002 or 2003

PC gaming 2003 or 2004

Psp - 2005

Xbox 360 - 2006

PS3 - 2007

Ps vita - 2011 about

PS4 - 2013

Nintendo wiiu - 2014

PS4 pro - 2016

A handfull of older consoles I bought as an adult to collect.

Last new console I nought was the ps3, no interest in this generation consoles or any of the updated versions yet. Maybe Ps4 for bloodbourne, and if Final Fantasy VII remake ends up being exclusive.

I admire your tenacity at continuing to buy and sell the 3DS.

@drrollinstein: I believe the repeated selling/purchasing is just him upgrading his system- 3DS->3DS XL->New 3DS XL

@dynamitecop:

Damn, how do you remember that?

My first was a vic 20. I don't keep consoles or games. I just move to whatever is new.

Ones I own right now.

Wii - 2011 maybe

Wii U - 2014

PS3 - 2014

PS4 - 2015

Gamecube - 2016

New 3DS XL - 2016

Xbox 360 - 2013

You're right.

Face meet hand.

Gaming has been a big part of my life for 27 years of my life, more than specifically remembering the systems themselves outright I remember specific events in my life, people, interactions, experiences and things going on during the time I owned all of these consoles which allows me to correlate an accurate timeline.

Born 1975 1985 1 amstrad CPC 6128 2 game boy color 1991 3 1997 PSX 4 1999 dreamcast 5 2001 PS2 6 2002 xbox 7 game cube 2002 8 2005 Xbox 360 9 2007 PS3 10 2010 wii 11 2014 ps4 2016 ps4 pro 2107 switch or project scorpio undicited choice

2017 i mean sory for my mistake switch or project scorpio not sure

@dynamitecop:

That's impressive!

I hope that doesn't mean I'm losing my memory with age :).

Although, I know what you mean, I have fond memories of my entire family (mom, dad, aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins) all gathered around playing text adventures together.

Good times.

Don't remember, but I don't buy systems when they release. Buying at launch is for fools.

Game Gear-X-mas 1991
PSX- X-mas 1996
GameBoy Color- Launch 1998
DC- X-mas 1999
GBA-End of school year 2001
GCN- X-mas 2001
Xbox-Birthday 2002
NGP Color (JPN)-2003
WonderSwan Color-2003
Sega Saturn (JPN)-2003
Sega Saturn-2004
NES/SNES/Genesis-2004
NGP Color-2004
DS-Launch 2004
PSP-Launch 2004
PS2 Slim-2005
N64-2006
Wii-Launch 2006
Xbox 360-2009
PS3-2011
3DS XL-2013


That's about it. No PS4/Wii U/Xbone because...pfft, I've got a PC now. Get that scrub console shit out my face.

Born on May 20th, 1985. Gamer since 1993:

• SNES 1993
• Sega Genesis 1994
• Gameboy 1995
• Sega Game Gear 1995
• Nintendo 64 1996
• PlayStation 1997
• Dreamcast 1999
• PS2 2000
• Xbox 2001
• Gamecube 2001
• Gameboy Advance 2001
• Nintendo DS 2004
• Xbox 360 2005
• PSP 2005
• Xbox 360 2005
• PS3 2006
• Wii 2006
• PC 2007 (it was the first time I ever build and got into PC gaming)
• Xbox 360 Slim Halo Reach special edition 2010
• PS4 2013
• Xbox One 2014
• Wii U 2014
• 3DS 2014

I was in my teens when I started gaming on the arcades. So, no point in giving my birth year. Never received any console from my folks. I did have friends who were Commodore users. They were the ones who exposed me to computers.

My entertainment stuff only (not including the kids' gizmos or my early BASIC non-gaming stuff):

• Atari 2600 Jr 1985
• Commodore C128 1986
• Commodore Amiga 1986-1995
• Tandy 1000SX PC 1987
• NES 1987
• Leading Edge IBM-compatible PC 1991
• DIY PC (first assembled PC) 1992 to current
• SNES 1992
• Game Gear 1993
• 3DO 1994
• PS1 1996
• N64 1996
• PS2 2000 - current
• Apple iBook G3 (first laptop) 2002
• HP Pavilion ze5270 (first Windows laptop) 2003 - current (I still have it here)
• PSP-1000 2006 - current
• PS3 2009 - current
• Toshiba Mini NB305-N600 (first netbook) 2010 - current
• Hisense Sero 7 Pro (first tablet) 2014 - current
• Apple iPad Mini 2 (first iOS tablet, hand me down) 2015 - current

I actually have two iPad Mini 2 8" tablets. The wife upgraded to a bigger iPad last year.

I also didn't include stuff I had for less than a year (eg Apple IIGS).

I couldn't possibly remember all of them, or in what exact order, but these are the console I've owned:

1. Gameboy

2. Gameboy Color

3. Gameboy Advanced (+ SP)

4. Playstation

5. Nintendo 64

6. Playstation 2 (2003 ?)

7. Nintendo Wii (2007)

8. Playstation 4 (2015)

9. Nintendo 3DS (2015)

SNES around 1996.

PS1 around 1998.

N64 around 1999.

Gameboy Color when pokemon yellow launched.

PS2 the same year as launch.

GameCube around a year after launch.

Xbox 360 on launch date.

Nintendo DS on launch date.

PSP and PS Vita on launch date.

PS4 in 2014.

The first PC game I could run was Sim City 4 and it was for $20 so the game had to of already been a couple years old.

The only systems that survived the test of time were PC, PS4, PSP, and PS Vita.

Born 1990

• SNES - 1992
• N64 - 1998
• Gameboy Color - 1999
• Gamecube - 2001
• GBA SP - 2004
• Wii - 2008
• PS2 - 2008
• Xbox 360 - 2009
• PS3 - 2012
• Wii U - 2013
• Xbox One - 2015

I had Intelevision, NES and Genesis/ Sega Cd/32X, dont remeber the years

I only remember

original xbox in 2003

360-2007

PS3 2008

PS4/X1 2013

I got everything a month ago

Ah. Memory lane. My first DIY PC. Photo circa 1993 when I added my first CD-ROM drive. Fricking cassettes and VHS. ;) My Amiga 1200 was on the nightstand next to my bed.

I was born in 1986.

NES - About 1990 (My future Stepdad had a NES and once he and my Mom's relationship started getting serious, it essentially became mines.)

Genesis - 1991 or 1992 (I won it in a school raffle)

SNES - 1992 or 1993 (Christmas present)

Playstation - 1996 (Christmas present. I actually wanted the N64 this year, but my parents got me the Playstation instead because they said "it had more games and the games were cheaper", that may be true, but it did not have Super Mario 64 which is what I really cared about. I ultimately ended up enjoying the Playstation, but my parents have a video tape of me doing a poor job of hiding that I was obviously kind of disappointed this Christmas that's amusing to watch now.)

N64 - 1997 (Christmas present. My parents got it right this time.)

Dreamcast - 2000 (Christmas present)

Gamecube - Launch Day 2001 (Christmas present that my parents let me have early.)

Xbox - 2002 (Christmas present)

Playstation 2 - 2003 (Christmas present)

Xbox 360 - Launch Day 2005 (The first console that I saved up for and bought with my own money. From this point on, I bought all consoles with my own money)

Wii - Launch Day 2006

Playstation 3 - 2009 (After Uncharted 2 was released and the price got down to $300)

Wii U - Launch Day 2012

Xbox One - Launch Day 2013

Playstation 4 - 2014 (Shortly after The Last of Us Remastered was released. In retrospect, I wish I would have just played The Last of Us on my PS3 and waited until 2016 before buying the PS4.)

Nintendo Switch - I already have it pre-ordered to receive it on Launch Day.

Born in 1981 and been gaming since 1986 on my dad's Com64. Any system with a "*" after it's name, I still have the hardware. I still have 50+ PS1 game discs to work on PS2.

NES - Gifted in 1991
Game Gear * - Gifted 1992
Genesis * - Gifted 1993
PS1 - Worked summer jobs to pay for half; Christmas present for other half - 1995
Virtual Boy - 1996; bought for $25 new on clearance
SNES - Gifted 1996
GBC - 1999
Dreamcast * 1999 Launch; first system I bought myself
Sega CD - 2000
32X - 2000
PS2 * - Mar. 2001
Game.com - 2001
Gamecube - Gifted Christmas 2001
GBA - 2001
GBA SP - 2003
3DO - 2003
Jaguar - 2003
Xbox - 2004 w/Halo 2; owned for one month
PSP - 2005 Launch
PS3 - 20GB Launch 2006
PS3 - 60GB 2007 (free upgrade)
PS3 - 120GB 2010 (replacement of 60GB's death)
Wii *- Gifted 2010
PSV *- 2012 Launch
PS4 *- 2013 Launch

Next up is the Switch but I'm playing the wait and see game. It may end up a family Christmas gift this year or next; not sure.

Most of them I can only remember according to what game released at the time. And sure, I could look up those years, but nah.

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2600 - Hand me down from my older bro.

NES - Shortly after Double Dragon 2 released.

Genesis - Shortly before Mortal Kombat 1 released.

SNES - Shortly before Super Street Fighter 2's release.

Saturn - Launch.

PS1 - The day Final Fantasy VII released.

N64 - Shortly before Ocarina of Time.

Dreamcast - Launch.

PS2 - Launch.

Gamecube - Dude traded it to me for some bud around the time Metroid Prime released.

Xbox - Dude owed me a lot of money and kept ducking me, so I kicked in his door and took all his shit, Xbox included. Truly the OG Xbox. Shortly after launch lol.

PSP - The day MGS:PO came out.

360 - Launch.

PS3 - Launch.

Wii - When Metroid Prime 3 released, I think about 9 months after launch.

PS4 - When Ground Zeroes came out.

WiiU - Shortly after launch.

Switch - Pre-ordered.

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I've owned all the Nintendo handhelds and Genesis add ons, but can't really nail down dates on those.

Born in 1982.

Up until 5th gen, i usually got a console the year after it was released.

After that, i usually get one at launch or shortly after the holiday rush.

360, PS3, Dreamcast, PS4 were all bought at launch

Xbox One bought Feb after its release

Just built a new PC in August with 1080, just expanded to 24GB RAM, I5 6600K @ 4.5 ghz

Born 1984

SNES Christmas 92 from the folks.

Atari 2600 94 an old system from my uncle.

PS 2001 an old system from my neighbor.

PS2 2007 an old system from my neighbor.

Last time I checked only the Atari 2600 still works.

@drrollinstein: yeah i keep wanting to have the latest 3ds model. I never learn really!

@jun_aka_pekto: I love that photo, so much nostalgia!

Born in 1996 .

2002 : My cousin gave me his Play Station ( the first one )

2004 : Family bought me original Xbox along with Halo 2 .

2007-2011 : Mostly played on an old PC . Family couldn't buy me a Console during this time , Or Upgrade the PC , So I really didn't play games in this period . Played most of the good games released in this period when I bought Xbox 360 .

2011 : Bought Xbox 360 . Actually the first thing that I managed to buy with my own money .

2014- till Now : Well I became a university student and I game on a fairly decent lap top in dorm . Good enough to run Witcher 3 on medium settings .

1992 - nes

1996 sega genses

1998 - ps1

2003 ps2

2008 ps3

2010 psp

2011 nds

not exactly sure if i'll ever get a current gen console or not. I'm not too excited for the games coming out or those that are already out.

Born in 1964

Got PS1 slim when my nephew was less than a year old, that was 18 years ago

Got PS2 fat at launch, so that was in 2000

Actually I have acquired all my stuff in the last 5 years ( old and new systems ) give or take.

I played at Arcades during my teen years, then took a long break from gaming until recently, I was too busy attending college and creating my business to play games.

The only ones I remember are switch , which I just preordered ....Wiiu a week after launch because of new super Mario bros you...Atari Jaguar was the first purchase with my own money and a pong console that came with a new TV bought in 1980....I still use the TV to play ps 4 games with an adaptor....

Ahhh a thread that @tormentos will avoid like the plague...lol.

Born in 1989

NES (Gift from my older Brother)

Super Nintendo (My older Brother & I traded it our NES for this to our neighbor...lol)

Playstation 1 (Another neighbor let me borrow his Playstation since he always worked at the time; eventually let me kept it)

Gameboy Color (Birthday gift from my older Brother)

Playstation 2 (Cousin gave this to me as a gift for my Birthday)

Xbox 360 (I was 18, saved up my paychecks working my first job)

Playstation 3 (Close friend let me borrow it, months later he asked for it back, I eventually bought one again; sold it months later, a girl I dated at the time bought me one again, sold it months later as well...lol)

PSP (Bought the God of War edition, owned it for a few months; sold it later on)

Nintendo 3DS (Bought it for a few months; sold it later on)

Xbox One (My ex bought this for me on launch day, played it for a few months, sold it)

Playstation 4 (Bought this with what I made from selling my Xbox One, played Infamous 2 when it came out; sold it later on)

Wii U (Bought a Wii U with what I made from selling the Playstation 4...lmao. Played Donkey Kong and ZombiU, only owned it for a month; sold it)

Ehh from here, I legit picked up an Xbox One again, from trying out all 3 next gen systems at the time, I thought it was the one I was most satisfied with and fit my needs. Plus all my friends had one. Funny enough, I was with another girl for almost 2 years, so I took a break from gaming and ended up selling my Xbox One. 2015 came around, and it was Christmas, she bought me a white Playstation 4, I broke up with her the next month in January and sold that too...lol. The year of 2016 I pretty much spent all my time PC gaming, until the girl I'm with now, she got me an Xbox One S for my Birthday, last October, and I've been taking a break from PC gaming and just been playing that now. I know, I'm one indecisive asshole...lmfao. Now I'm just waiting for E3 and seeing what each company brings and go from there, but I'm leaning more towards Project Scorpio!

Not listing handhelds or windows pc gaming purchases, dates are fuzzy at best, and like another poster did, * for currently still owned

atari 2600 - got it when it no longer mattered though i recall the "under $50" rap ad airing on tv

c64 - pops bought it from "crazy eddie's" around 1986 possibly even before the atari, thoroughly enjoyed it and its shitty space harrier port

nes - when Rygar was new

master system - tag sale tantrum, came with 3d glasses, around mario 3 release date (lol i needed to use nintendo game as a mnemonic device for when i got this)

amiga 500 - a few years before shadow of the beast

Snes *- launch day purchase from Child World with the combined allowances of my bro and i with parents covering the rest (our contribution was minor it turns out)

Genesis - a little after sonic debuted and during the blast processing days, loved me some "inferior ports" and phantasy stars

Turbo grafx 16 * - pawn shop purchase with a whole bunch of games (a fairly complete bundle with like 50 carts) for like $120.

3DO - Father purchased and returned it 1 day before return policy from Walden Software, Crash n Burn was kinda cool at the time

Playstation - my 1st console purchase without parental help, me and my bro split the difference on release date then i later bought my "share" from him

N64 - few months after launch

Saturn * - gen was winding down and DC was already announced, bought used very cheap with expansion pack, kicked myself for not giving it a shot earlier, still play dragon force from time to time

Dreamcast *- release date, masterpiece of a console. Sony did Sega dirty announcing ps2 way before launch and during the 1st DC holiday, i worked at toys r us at the time and that announcement killed much of the buzz dc was generating

PS2 * - release date, bought 3 re-sold 2, great system

Xbox - not on release but close enough, loved it, beta tested live and have been a member since

GC - don't even remember when i bought it, got it second hand with that lcd monitor lid (came in handy)

360 * - release date, bought 2 re-sold both, repurchased during GeOW and ps3 launch window

PS3 * - release date, bought 2 re-sold 1.

Wii (lol) * - release date, bought 4 re-sold 4, eventually repurchased after it stopped selling well and pawnshops were dumping them for $60

PS4 * - release date

XB1 * - release date

Wii U (lolx2) - release date then sold within a month, re-acquired from a craigslist trade for a gtx 970 mini days after Switch presentation

@dynamitecop: I guess you had no reply after you realized I was playing halflife when you were still stuck with that ps1 lol. yeah that's right , I didn't skip two generations, I experienced them a lot sooner. STill I would gladly trade in those experiences to be 10 years younger :)

Those were the days when the pc was the superior system by far, hardly the same situation as today, where games are made for the consoles and then ported to the pc, back then it was the other way around, and the console ports came years later. It wasn't that easy to build a pc then as well, but I was lucky enough that I was stuying to be computer technician/network adminstrator. You should have seen my friends faces (who were ps1 owners) when they saw unreal running on a voodoo sli system...

You only got up to speed with the x360. But then I went full console again as well, no way I was going to buy a 1500$ pc when I could get similar power in a 400$ console. It was then that the console manufacters made a coup for the pc market and they succeeded.

@ni6htmare01:damn, I'm jealous you could afford a neo geo, I only realized later in life you could actually buy that as a home console, I only knew neo geo from the arcade.

@jun_aka_pekto:so you never bought any consoles?

Dates are a bit fussy at best, and mainly a pc games and not going to bother adding all of those...

C64: amazing system! Got It in 1986 or 87 for my birthday. Only had the cassette player, and still remember all the work it was to find the correct game on tapes with more than one game on:)

Amiga 500, not sure when I got that one to be honest, was also a birthday present from my parents and it came with an extra 512kb of ram for a grand total of 1mb!!! Was pretty cool since I could play a few games that didn't ran on my friends amigas:)

Ps1: got it used from my older brother sometime in 2001 I would guess. I played ff7 on it, which started my love for jrpg!

PS3: bought it close to launch in 2006, and god that was such a mistake.... would take several years before this system had any games worth playing.....

If you're referring to the post with my first DIY, you need to look at my other post earlier in the thread. I started out on consoles. But, I had to wait until I was on my own before I can indulge with gaming at home. My folks never bought me a console.

@commander: lol I actually spend my whole paycheck on it. It was my first full time job after I graduated. I figure I should reward myself. Lol