Ever bought a system on the strength of one game alone..?

[Garrett]

My system seller was donated to the charity shop I volunteer in today (along with the machine & a handful of other quality titles)

..just couldn't resist! (too many memories) & have only just recently extracted the controller from my sweaty paw.

I'll give you a clue.. the system wasn't exactly known for it's aesthetics & it's probably not the game most would immediately think of.. (at least have a guess first!)

???

 

[vcoleiro1]

Most link Halo as x-Box systems seller. Was pretty much the only game I played on it

 

[Wrath Of Khan]

Yup, I bought an xbox for Halo and frankly it was awesome, particularly in co-op mode.

Bought an amiga 500 on the strength of shadow of the beast 2.

 

[LTStone]

I was thinking of getting a Wii for just for Xenoblade Chronicles.

 

[TrashyMG]

yep.

SNES: was more of a Genesis guy. bought a SNES  years later for Metroid alone.

Playstion 1: Abe's Odyssey(late to the sony party) still only have four games for it.

Wii: Zelda Twilight princess

 

[comradekingu]

"Super mario land 3 : wario land" on gameboy

At least thats what i want to remember, but i think my first game was one of those many in ones

 

[ekianjo]

Ps3 for mgs4 but i was sorely disapointed.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Imported the Jap Dreamcast just for Jap Shenmue.  

 

[ekianjo]

Imported the Jap Dreamcast just for Jap Shenmue.  

That was clearly a good choice

 

[Ian J]

Not a game but I was into music & saw the Fresh House MOD running on an a500 Amiga, I only went in the shop to get a disk drive for my C=64 but ended up forgetting that & bringing home the Amiga.

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[KickAss]

Halo truely redefined the genre at the time. Not just because it was a great game, it also worked so very well with the huge original xbox gamepad.

i was used to gamepads anyway, but with halo a FPS felt better on a console than on a pc for the first time.

i bought the Sega saturn only for virtua cops. later on i bought tomb raider and was disappointed that the psx version looked a lot better.

i bought the xbox and xbox360 to mod them and figure out how things work.

a couple of years ago i bought a secod hand ps2 slim. only to play sing star (or whatever its called). never really used it.

i was thinking about building a new pc system to be able to play the day z. but thats not gonna happen.

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[CAZMIESTER]

Sega Dreamcast for soulcalibur

Snes for Axelay

And Ps3 for Uncharted

 

[Asmo]

I decided I had to buy a ZX Spectrum when I saw 'Arcadia' ( http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000237 )


- not the game, the title screen where the Imagine logo scrolled on screen. That was the moment 'high resolution graphics' suddenly made sense to me as a ZX81 owner.


Then Ridge Racer on the Playstation. I would have bought one eventually, but as I loved RR in the arcades, I had to get a Japanese Playstation ASAP.

 

[milkshake]

Nintendo 64 super Mario 64?

 

[ekianjo]

Then Ridge Racer on the Playstation. I would have bought one eventually, but as I loved RR in the arcades, I had to get a Japanese Playstation ASAP.

I bought a PSX for Tekken 2. At the time it was the best looking 3D fighter ever, and I spent countless hours on it. After, Soul Blade came out and it became my favorite 3D fighting game.

 

[rError]

Never bought a system with the intention of only ever buying that one game, but these are the games that had me NEEDING the system:

GBC for Link's Awakening DX

SNES for Donkey Kong Country

N64 for Super Smash Bros.

First PC I built with my own money: Counter-Strike

PS2 for GTA: Vice City (and for modding-SNES emulation specifically)

XBox 360 for GTAIV Multiplayer

XBOX for hacking/modding/experimenting, only commercial games I really played were Halo and Crazy Taxi 3, the rest homebrew

PS3 for Uncharted

i bought the xbox and xbox360 to mod them and figure out how things work.

+1

 

[Stainy]

I think I bought an ST for Super Sprint

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[Ziz]

I bought a Gameboy Color to trade secret gifts with friends over IR with Pokemon Silver/Gold/Crystal, although I owned a Gameboy Classic, on which the rest worked quite well... However awesome times...

 

[panik]

Without blinking twice, I bought a Playstation when I saw a demo of Wipeout2097 (That's WipeoutXL in the US) in a game shop. The next day I had to take a 'sick day' from work.

I played that on a daily basis for almost 2 years. Pretty single minded if I look back at it now.

 

[CocoCreekFisherman]

I bought a Gizmondo to play STICKY BALLS :unsure: