Christmas Memories

da gamer · 14-12-2013 04:33PM #1

A new Zelda, Mario and Mario Kart this year;
The Perfect Christmas:)

J_E · 16-12-2013 04:23PM

My best Christmas was getting a Game Boy Color and Link's Awakening. Playing in a tent with a torch and thinking it was the coolest thing ever...

DoctorEdgeWild · 16-12-2013 04:29PM

Got Mortal Kombat on the original Gameboy. Convinced my parents to let me make sure it worked on the 23rd so there was time to return it in case they got the wrong one. Said I'd just turn it on to make sure, they got distracted, I kept playing. Completed it that night, meaning I was a bit disappointed by the big day.

Moral of the story - Don't give presents early!

murphyebass · 19-12-2013 08:29PM

DoctorEdgeWild wrote: »

Got Mortal Kombat on the original Gameboy. Convinced my parents to let me make sure it worked on the 23rd so there was time to return it in case they got the wrong one. Said I'd just turn it on to make sure, they got distracted, I kept playing. Completed it that night, meaning I was a bit disappointed by the big day.

Moral of the story - Don't give presents early!

I have great memories of the Amstrad Xmas and N64 Xmas. There's pics somewhere at home of us in the Amstrad. Burnin rubber baby!!

I opened the N64 while my parents were at work and had to close it back up again and hide it before they got back. ISS 64 and Duke Nukem.

Still loved them Xmas day.

This year I opened the wii u early. In fairness though I have loads of games on it and the vita to keep me goin over Xmas including tearaway that the misses won't let me open till Xmas day. It's wrapped and everything. Boooourns.

Mr.Saturn · 20-12-2013 05:30PM

DoctorEdgeWild wrote: »

Got Mortal Kombat on the original Gameboy. Convinced my parents to let me make sure it worked on the 23rd so there was time to return it in case they got the wrong one. Said I'd just turn it on to make sure, they got distracted, I kept playing. Completed it that night, meaning I was a bit disappointed by the big day.

Moral of the story - Don't give presents early!

I had the GB version; you should've let them return it.

Casey120 · 20-12-2013 07:39PM

I remember once playing at Christmas in the early eighties on the Atari 800 late at night, the Christmas tree still on and my parents already sleeping so I could use the big telly playing one particular game I just got from a friend, it had something to do with a wizard and looked fantastic for that time .
Had this memory for some time but could never remember the actual game until last week when I found out it was Necromancer .

It still looks good !

richymcdermott · 20-12-2013 09:12PM

My favourite christmas was the year 2002 and I had Playtstaion 2 with this is football 2002 and gran turismo , the sports games I dont normally like but had awesome times playing that with my dad and gran turismo was just amazing

deathrider · 21-12-2013 02:08AM

I remember the years that I got Duke Nukem 3D and Twisted Metal for PS1 being vastly superior to the year that I actually got my PS1.

Maximus Alexander · 21-12-2013 02:18AM

PS1 with G-Police. Epic.

CiDeRmAn · 21-12-2013 08:25AM

The Christmas I got my Spectrum was pretty amazing.
The game pack that came with it was pitiful though.
I played Chequered Flag a lot though, and Horace goes Skiing.
There was a good version of Breakout on the demo cassette too.
After that I bought my own consoles so Christmas and gaming ceased to be linked

But there was the year that I asked my parents to pick me up the Crash magazine Christmas special. I couldn't contain myself so I found where it was stashed away and read it cover to cover in sneaky bouts.

eddhorse · 21-12-2013 09:48AM

I got a Commodore 64 with night moves and the mind benders packs for Christmas when I was 10 I think. See attached.

First game I tried was NightBreed.
The loading screen was a bit creepy, see attached. That game was very difficult.

Best games from the Night Move packs, Midnight Resistance/ Sly Spy secret agent. Shadow warriors was hard.

MindBenders had Snare which was great, Split personalities and Confuzion weren't great as far as I remember.

Deep Thought · 21-12-2013 12:03PM

Zx Spectrum..

Spent hours playing Harrier Attack and another game where you were a dune buggy and had to capture flags in different American States...

Optimus Prime · 21-12-2013 12:11PM

Getting Astro Wars for Christmas, my first ever game. Loved it, i could clear the whole thing in one go. My parents got it for me after I had played a space invaders cocktail cab the entire time we where on holiday in galway that summer. Guess it was the closest thing to space invaders they could find! Still have two of them, one boxed.

I also remember "testing" a nes I got for Christmas before Christmas haha the old test excuse to make sure it's working.

CiDeRmAn · 21-12-2013 12:47PM

I used to love Tornado Low Level on the Speccy as well as Trashman.
Tau Ceti and Academy were fantastic and there was a good version of Mercenary too.
Knight Lore never floated my boat but Head over Heels and Batman were remarkable feats by Jon Ritman.

I used to get the electro mechanical arcade toys as a kid, including Space Invaders clones and I think I got Astrowars or something like it.

Jack burton · 22-12-2013 04:37PM

The first gaming christmas memory to me is getting the PS1 masterpiece "Cheesy " and playing that.

I've had plenty of great games for Christmas but that just seems to the one I always remember. Looks like my mother was right, Children only remember the bad stuff! haha

Shapey Fiend · 22-12-2013 10:57PM

Year I got my Mega Drive... '91 I think? It wasn't quite a full on NINTENDOOO SIXTY FOOUUUURR meltdown because such obnoxious American outbursts of emotion weren't my style but there was definitely a hushed, reverent awe that hung over me for about a month afterwards. It was like getting an arcade cabinet after being stuck with an Atari 2600 and stack of fairly ****ty games like Double Dragon for the previous couple of years.

LoGiE · 24-12-2013 03:29PM

I was given the Light Fantastic c64 bundle. It had Batman the Caped Crusader and S.U.C.K so I got a blasted with the Ocean Loader Christmas morning.

Optimus Prime · 24-12-2013 03:32PM

I had that bundle too, think i got it for either my communion or confirmation. I loved that Batman game, still do.

LoGiE · 24-12-2013 03:42PM

I only finished the joker and Penguin capers last year! I could never manage it back then.

Optimus Prime · 24-12-2013 03:47PM

me too, i could never figure out how to get Robin off the rollercoaster!

OwaynOTT · 28-12-2013 11:22AM

Mega Man on the Gameboy was the best Christmas present.

osprey · 29-12-2013 12:02PM

Christmas holiday 1992 and Super Mario Kart (Japan version). We hardly slept!

CiDeRmAn · 29-12-2013 02:34PM

I remember I got this for Christmas in 85, and being quite ignorant of what Spy Hunter was supposed to look like...

Arcade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC4tYBtDABQ

Awesome C64 edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii4VPkBa0tY

I played it to death,
On the Spectrum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AGTU-JHGnY

Oh dear....

Shapey Fiend · 29-12-2013 05:42PM

We used have the C64 version back in the day. I was a bit too young to play it properly (I'm guessing 4 or 5 years old) but my brother was a huge fan.

CiDeRmAn · 29-12-2013 05:47PM

TBH I was a bigger fan of the Peter Gunn theme, mostly due to the most awesome Art of Noise version,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH33RIfi2KI

Yes, that is Rik Mayall

Ironically, the Speccy game didn't have the music..... not during gameplay anyways

Firefox11 · 02-01-2014 08:18PM

Deep Thought wrote: »

Zx Spectrum..

Spent hours playing Harrier Attack and another game where you were a dune buggy and had to capture flags in different American States...

Wouldn't have been Tranz Am by any chance.

I remember many a Christmas glued to the ZX Spectrum.

Ken Masters · 02-01-2014 09:37PM

My Fav Xmas of all time was when i got the Snes and the greatest game ever to grace this planet Bundle, Street Fighter 2, gives me butterfly's thinking about that morning. prob would have been around 94/95

CiDeRmAn · 03-01-2014 10:12AM

Well, have that feeling again and buy another Snes!
Bundles including SF2 are not terribly expensive and it's a great gateway drug into the broader area of retro gaming!
Plus, its cheaper than buying into the next gen, where you'll only be disappointed, hurt and ultimately a burnt out shell.... Maybe....

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