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DaveMMR:

Toss-up.  In 1981 (or 82), me and my sister received a Colecovision and a copy of Mousetrap.  I held onto that until maybe a couple of years ago, when I was running out of space and had to sell it.

Then, in 84, my parents had bought a Commodore 64 and set it up for me in my room. We had to exchange the defective disk drive six or seven times, but we passed the time writing basic programs that displayed profanity on the screen infinity times.  (10 PRINT "WHATEVER", 20 GOTO 10).  I still have the C64.

Good stuff.

DaOld Man:

I grew up dirt poor, my single parent mom had 5 kids to buy Christmas for when I was young, so needless to say, I didnt get much, but it was great anyway.
Video games didnt come along anyway until after I was pretty much grown.
I do remember Mom buying us all a game that was like pong, but also had a hockey game on it.
It was a huge console that supported 1 or two players, with a knob you turned to move the paddles. It plugged into our tv and was in black and white.
We pretty much wore that thing out.
Then, in Christmas of 1983, I "bought my son" (who was not quite 1 year old yet) an Atari 2600.
It came with Ms Pacman and Zaxxon carts.
Needless to say, I wore that thing out before my son got old enough to even hold the joystick controller.
Since then, I never bought a Christmas present for myself and claimed it was for my kids.
Also, my son has received Nes, Super Nes, gameboy, gamecube, and several others I cant remember.
My daughter has gotten several systems too, last being a Ninetendo DS.
So I have payed dearly for my old Atari 2600  ;D
But since that first system, i have bought myself Timex TS1000 computer, Commodore 64, Radio Shack color computer, then I moved up to PCs.
Now I have come full circle and am playing Ms Pacman and Zaxxon again.. What goes around comes around.
Thanks for starting this thread, its nice to remember things sometimes..
Merry Christmas to all!


SavannahLion:

My family was generally a practical bunch and my father never really grasped the concept of video games. Watching me play as Chun-Li on Street Fighter especially confused him because he couldn't figure out why I kept hopping of the side of the screen instead of standing there and duking it out, "like a man."  ::)

Until I moved out, I bought every single one of my consoles with my own money which actually worked to my advantage because my parents couldn't rightfully punish me by taking away what was mine.

The first time I got a console for Christmas was the PS2 from my ex. It kind of sucked in a way because it wasn't a surprise by a long shot and it arrived about four or five days after the 25th. The BEST is from my current girlfriend. I've been bumming over the Wii because it was too close to Christmas for me to afford it. Most of family have their birthdays within three months of December with one on Christmas Eve. So my finances are typically drained starting around September and don't recover until March if I manage everything well. That year was particularly harsh because I had to pay for a new dishwasher after I already purchased some very expensive custom gifts for my immediate family. So buying a Wii was out of the question. However, my GF offered to buy it for Christmas, so she got in touch with her sister, who ran a loading dock, to intercept a shipment. For two weeks, she gave me this whole song and dance how the Wii's still haven't arrived and it didn't look like they were ever going to arrive until after the holidays. I was pretty bummed. Meanwhile, her sister was holding a Wii for me while my GF went dumpster diving for a big box. She found a box for a cordless tool set, stuffed the Wii with stuffing inside and wrapped the whole mess up... did I mention she sucks at gift wrapping?   :laugh:

I was bummed it was a cordless tool set. It was nice and all, but I was pretty happy with my mishmash of corded tools. So come Christmas time, I put on my best fake smile. Ripped off the Christmas paper (by this time the 6 year old, four dogs and the snow got it before I did), smiled and put it off to the side. My GF was all, "C'mon open it up!" "Alright, alright, whatever makes you happy." Open the box and inside was a towel... WTF? Pull it out and it's the seven year olds towel. She's screaming. "WOW! You got the same towel I have!"  ::) Pull out a few more towels and down inside this big ass box was the pristine joy of a brand new Wii.   ;D

tommy:

The original NES was great during Christmas time as a kid, I remember playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out and other games at that time. You couldn't beat that.

Jdurg:

For me it was getting an SNES the year it came out.  I remember putting it on my Christmas list but my parents saying that it wasn't easy to find.  So I put some other things on my list not expecting to get an SNES for Christmas anyway.  I basically figured I might get an "I.O.U." which was okay, but not as good as getting it on Christmas.  Still, the old TV I had couldn't hook-up properly with the SNES so it didn't matter anyway.

Christmas morning I go out in the living room and under the tree is this HUGE box.  I figured that was something my dad got for my mom so I said "Hey Mom, this one's yours."  I remember her smiling an saying "No, that one's for you."  I opened it up and it was a 21" brand new color TV.  I couldn't believe it.  She then said "This is for your next present".  The next box I opened up was my SNES.  I was stunned.  That will forever be the best Christmas ever for me.  To this day, I still have that TV.  It's up in my office and still works perfectly.   ;D  (Though my 42" High Def 1080p LCD TV down in my living room gets far more attention.   ;D )

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