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Jeffy:

Def the year my dad bought a Sears Atari--awful controllers that had a paddle built into the joysticks, not the 5200--anyway. He got Centipede for it and he played a lot with me, that was the year the parents got divorced--a cool memory from a painful year. Defender had that glitch where the ship disappeared when you fired--he watched me roll the highscore. that's love. He also used to read lines of code to me from RUN or Compute! magazine while i typed them into the C64. I was 13. Hours and hours of his visitation time he spent we me and a 13inch tv and two Wico Commad Controls... Good times.

Thanks for the memories.

jeffy

DonkeyKong:

My most memorable video game Christmas was when I was 5 years old my dad got me (himself) a Vectrex Home Computer Arcade system.  I can remember playing it at Sears and it was $199.99.  I would grow up to play Minestorm, Scramble, Berzerk, and Star Trek a lot!  I got the Berzerk cart in a big bin of clearance Vectrex games that were $5 each at Toys-R-Us.  I was there with my Grammy and cousins and I asked if she could get it for me.  She asked me why I wanted it, thinking it's a clearance item... surely it's no good.  If only I knew then and had the money I could have bought the whole bin of mint games.

The next system I remember having was NES, and it was SOOO awexome.  I still find myself singing the Super Mario Bros. 2 theme song and level music at random, now 20 years later.

The only other system I remember getting for Christmas was the Sega Gamegear, and boy did I love it.  I had a ton of games for it, and even the Master System adapter and games.  I was old enough then that I started understanding the value of clearance items at Toys-R-Us and would buy a lot of them!

I also remember getting a Bandai Packri Monster game for xmas one year, and I would play that game for hours at my Grammy's house.
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Bandai/Packri.htm

A lot of my games from childhood had broken or disappeared along the way, and now I have purchased plenty of spares ;)

Oh yeah, and the best Christmas gift of all is the one I just bought yesterday.  I got a Donkey Kong 3 arcade machine and a Donkey Kong kit (4 pcb stack, marquee, bezel, CP) and will be restoring the DK3 (DK jr. cabinet actually) to a DK machine for my gaming pleasure!  This is my first arcade machine and I'm so happy about it.  If anyone needs a DK3 kit, PM me your offer.  I won't have the machine in my possession until wednesday, so I don't know the exact condition but it's a working PCB, and everything else looks clean with minor scratches I think.

97thruhiker:

It's funny how you can see people's age by the system they got for Christmas as a kid.  For me it was an Intellivision.  I remember playing auto racing to 3:00 in the morning (we were allowed to open it on Christmas Eve) trying to steer that car with that disc controller.

My favorite "system" of that time was my Apple II+ which I got a year later.  Still one of my favorites as I fire up that emulator all the time to play Crisis Mountain.

Jdurg:

Heh.  My first computer was a Commodore 128 system with an Okidata printer.  I remember it cost my parents about $3,000 for it at the time.  I played Ghostbusters on that thing non-stop.  Ahhhh, the memories.......   ;D

albybum:

My best video game related Christmas was when I got my SNES (Xmas 91 or 92 - somewhere in that range).   

Everyone met at my parents house for the usual Christmas dinner deal.  By then, I had already opened all of my gifts that morning (from immediate family).  I wanted a SNES, but I didn't find one under the Christmas tree. So, I was a bit bummed.

My half-brother came over with his girlfriend (he's about 20 years older than me - I'm the youngest), and he had a gift for me.  He is an awesome brother, but we have never really exchanged gifts. So, it was a bit surprising.

I opened it to find Super Ghouls and Ghosts for the SNES.  I was a bit confused and again bummed because I didn't actually get a SNES to play it (I didn't put 2 and 2 together there).  Before I could explain to my brother that I couldn't actually play the game,  my mother walked out of her bedroom with a big package. She said I would probably need that gift to play my brother's present.

They had conspired against me.  Apparently, the SNES had been sitting under my aunt's bed since October of that year - a bed I used to sit on all the time and watch tv (she had cable and MTV).

They got great pleasure out of torturing me that year, but I didn't care because I had Super Mario World and Super Ghouls and Ghosts to keep me company.


My Atari 2600 and 7800 were memorable gifts, but the SNES was probably the biggest/ most memorable. 

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