Whats your fondest 'Christmas Present' memory ?...

Paddy20

My fondest memory of a Christmas present. Has to be the train, it was made of red tin with carriages and a round track. It kept falling off the track, and was a wind up type [no batteries]. Such a fond memory. How magical everything seemed then.

What is your fondest Christmas present memory ?...

P.;) :ninja:

sunbeam

My dad used to work in England for most of the year so the best Christmas present used to be him coming back for Christmas. He'd take Christmas pressies with him, so his arrival was almost more of an event than Christmas morning.

Toywise I most remember my walkie-talkie doll. You could put little records in her back and she'd sing nursery rhymes and tell stories-the height of early 70s technology. Never got her to walk though.

tman

super metroid - 9-10 years ago...
man, i ****ing 'ed that game:)

shame that i won't have the surprise of getting metroid prime for crimbo this year:(

DriftingRain

My fondest memory was the last christmas before my parents got a divorce. I remember everyone was so happy. We got our first computer that year and I was the higest scorer on Space Invaders....:D
I also remember getting some sort of doll that was sorta like a dinosaur but she was blue and her tummy opened up with only a special key and I could keep things away from my brothers.....YEAH...I though I was so cool with that doll.
Nice memories :rolleyes:

embee

V-Tech Pre Computer 1000.

Do ye remember it? Blue and grey with a single line LCD display with a slot on the side for cartridges.

Brilliant.... I had that for years.... In fact, it was only last year that, in a fit of sheer boredom, I took a screwdriver to it, then slung it out.

I wasnt into barbies and stuff like that.... I loved practical and educational toys.

I also had one of those toys you can lock stuff away in DriftingRain.... I do believe they were called 'Keypers'. Mine was a horsey called Diamond who was purple, pink and white and whose saddle lifted up to hide stuff under.... I liked that one..

weemcd

im 15 like so most of the presents im on about u mite not know, i had a long chat about this in school last week (if only nobody told me about santa) among my faves were a toy work bench, sounds **** i kno but i ****in loved it, then a batmobile with a plane that came outa the back of it that was ****in deadly too, and probably the best was the biker mice from mars hide out, it was a basketball arena but with a secret gargage round the back and the bikes flew outa the scoreboard if u wanted.



one of my first moments of nostalgia there christmas isnt nearly as good now


sigh :dunno: :dunno:

sionnach

amiga 600 when i was 7 or somethin..... good god what an amazin present to get....... james pond....superfrog and ofc the legendary putty.......good times

weemcd

http://www.bikermice.org/afsbh.html not quiet as good as i remembered but at the time it was unreal, ah well i still have the memories.

ixoy

I'm ALSO going to back up my Amiga (An Amiga 500 - Screen Gems pack) as my best present ever. God, I remember wanting to race home from my Granny's to set the thing up and practically hoping up and down. I had seen the ads for "Shadow of the Beast II" (the intro movie that took up half of Disk 1) and my job practically dropping - thinking "I! I will be playing THAT!" Not old enough to feel the cynicism, not young enough not to appreciate it - great pressie. The Amiga still rocks!

The Beer Baron

Personally I think there's nothing more comical than watching drunk relatives try and figure out how to make a Transformer transform. (One of those non-specific "he wasn't in the cartoon" transformers" but a transformer all the same- AND shiney hi-tek looking transformers stickers to put on everything and make really hi-tek and 80's looking.

That was when all my family came over for xmas, which was crazy, then tried to play Monopoly and bitched at each other, one guy taking them all to the cleaners getting indignant as they were too tipsy to give a **** about the rules of the game.

I also got my C-64 that year- my 1st ever computer and Jesus-H Christ, I powered it up and it went:

****COMMODORE 64****

64K RAM

READY

it was the most amazing thing ever. (The wonder I experienced then, of course, could never have prepared me for the horror that computers were just about to become.) I could print out my name a thousand times, all over the screen forever and ever- that was more than enough to impress my family members. Plus, it made beepy noises when I "poke"'d it, and I could put in a tape and in 5-10 minutes I could play a game \o/

Best of all, I could make it even more hi-tek by putting transformers stickers on the Datasette.


what an age we lived in

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by The Beer Baron
I also got my C-64 that year- my 1st ever computer and Jesus-H Christ, I powered it up and it went:

****COMMODORE 64****

64K RAM

READY

it was the most amazing thing ever.

ditto, best present ever and the coloured bars when a game was loading. i'm going to watch the opening piece to Vice City

dod

Meh. C64. Posh 'n'all.

I was given a Sinclair ZX81. No time for any of this colour screen Spectrum pansy stuff. I remember being given the 16K RAM add-on...

/me wipes a nostalgic tear from my eye

Spawn

Has to be the my first mobile phone

Nokia 3210 <<-- Me was all happy got it when it was just released

The Beer Baron

Meh. C64. Posh 'n'all.

speccies were cool.
least it wasn't wunna dem V-techs.

Actually when I think about it one of my favourite xmas moments was, well, most interesting was a good few years ago when it was almost hurricaine winds, I was alone in the house on xmas eve looking out the back @ the galvanised roof on the shed/garage/whatsit and the wind was blowing it going, "that's gonna come off any minute"

Sure enough it did, right through the window taking the powerlines, the phonelines with it and only inches from taking my head also- not many people can say they narrowly decapitation on xmas eve.

Later, freezing cold I decided to light a fire and some candles- bad idea.
The draft blew the smoke back into the room and I, finding myself growing quite tired and lied back on the couch. It was someplace in alpha-sleep I think they call it- wallowing in that thin line between semi-consciousness and sleep that an alarm went off in my head prompting me to jacknife up from the couch and stumble to the floor- I was slowly being suffocated.

2 near death experiences in the space of 2 hours- now if that ain't the spirit of xmas I dunno what is.

The following day managing to get a battery-operated radio out of sheer boerdom and growing weary of reading by dim, flickering candlelight I decided to prop myself down in a sleeping bag and listen. (Even Willy Wonka would have been a godsend) This bitch ringing into a talkshow going on about how the powercuts were bringing families closer together and closer to the real meaning of xmas. Sure Sitting smug in yer central-heated semi-detatched house in schmockville- bet you weren't passing out due to smoke inhalation. Bet she was able to do even the simplest things like cooking. So I wished a swift decapitation upon her, being as it was xmas,

So yeh- the French Revolution meets Backdraft Christmas- great stuff.

Faust

I remember i got a megadrive, which was my first console ever, with sonic&knuckles, it was so much fun as i had never had any real type of computer game machine before... Twas So great!

I wish i still believed in santa clause ignorance is bliss!!!

blondie83

Probably the best would be one I got from my brothers god father when I was about 4 years old. It was a drawing set with 10 crayons, 10 markers and ten colouring pencils. It had a deadly crayon sharpener to that was shaped like a crayon itself. I actually got to open the present on new years eve cos that was when he came over, and I remember just sitting on the ground in the sitting room all evening sharpening the crayons. I was probably drawing stuff as well, but mostly sharpening the crayons! The Christmas tree was up, and we had a fire in the fire place, tpyical cosy Christmas Eve! (we still have a picture of me and my little sister that evening, it's sitting on the mantelpiece right now!). It's funny the way little things are so memorable. I had other great presents too though, like a little cooker (when I was 5), and my first real bike (when I was 9). Couldn't beat that crayon sharpner though!:D

echomadman

A remote control KITT, from Knightrider.
It still sits atop my TV.

Exit

In no particular order:

Star Wars toys

An Amstrad computer - I knew nothing about computers so I didn't know if it was good or not, but me and my brothers loved it. Spent hours playing 2 player Bubble Bobble.

Sega Mega Drive

Not all the same Christmas!

Ichiro

It was way, way back twas when i was a wee lad,
But i got this Action Force Hovercraft, it was huge guns and all "wow"
I had a few figures to go aswell, Loved it.
And i set it up b4 xmas mass and could'nt wait for mass to end
That was a Legend of a Present
Where is it now..................................:(