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vertygo:

Great topic..

One Christmas we got the Apple II+ with *2* disk drives.. it was amazing. My brother and I played multi-floppy games for years on that thing. He also managed to hook it up to a tv (the monitor was amber only) and we played color Pac-Man for FREE.. WOW!

Then many moons later, we got the coveted commodore 128 (tho we only used it in 64 mode) and something called a modulator de-modulator that could transfer 300 bits per second over the telephone line (until someone picked up a phone on that line +++ NO CARRIER)

Cheers!

Thurman:

I always tried to wake up as early as I possibly could.  So one Christmas I made my way downstairs at about 4am to find the most beautiful site.... a Sega Genesis under the Christmas tree.  Hooked it up to the tv and played Lakers vs Celtics until the sun came up.  Good memories.


bishmasterb:

Two videogame Christmas presents stand out for me.

I received an Odyssey^2 for Christmas 1981 (or maybe 1980) which unfortunately wasn't a surprise, as I found it several days earlier, hidden in my mom's closet.

Then in 1984, I received a set of Coleco Super Action Controllers, which, while my mom was away on Christmas Eve, I took from underneath the tree, unwrapped and opened the box, hooked it up to my Colecovision and played for about an hour, before carefully re-wrapping and placing back underneath the tree. Good memories.

Havok:

Definitely the 2600 console - I got Asteroids, PacMan and Combat. PacMan really sucked, but I loved Asteroids, and Combat was great fun - it was cool that two people could play together at the same time.

On a side note - wow, can you ever see the age difference here...

Jack Burton:

Oh man, definitely getting Super Mario Bros. 3. 


I was 5, and it is still my favorite game of all time.


Close second is getting my N64 years later. I think I was twelve then.  I remember getting sweaty hands after playing for an hour or so and having to switch controllers.  that is the only time that ever happened to me.  I was truly convinced that I had the most powerful revolutionary game system of all time.

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