Whats Your Fav Xmas Video Game Memory?

[AceAerosmith]

I remember getting the Atari 2600 for Christmas and running downstairs to hook it up to the TV. My folks bought a few games too. I was down there for hours that day and many a day after. Way too much time spent on those stupid games.

[tom]

christmas 84, my wife getting Spike's Peak/Ghost Manor and Sir Lancelot/Robin Hood for me

[jonebone]

Christmas 1996. I asked for a PS1 that year, even though the N64 was brand new and just came out. I had played the PS1 at a friend's house and enjoyed it, and also assumed the N64 would be sold out everywhere for Xmas (and it was).

Low and behold, I got a N64 + Mario that Xmas. I was in amazement / disbelief / shock, all at the same time.

I was mentally prepared for a PS1, so there was a bit of disappointment. But then I also got the newest Mario that I had seen tons of commercials for, so I was excited about it.

I got to hookup my system in the Living Room that day, quite amazing because all of my gaming was previously kept to the bedroom. Must have played Mario for a long time with my dad that day, and I'll never forget those memories.

[j_factor]

Christmas '95, I asked for money/gift certificates from whoever would be willing to do that (which did not include my parents). So I got a couple nice Genesis and SNES games, and a big stack of cash. A few days after Christmas, I headed to the local used game store, armed with my Christmas money, my own money I'd been saving, and my 8-bit consoles and games for trade-in, and walked out with a used Sega Saturn, memory cart, Panzer Dragoon, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Fighter 2, Virtua Cop with gun, Rayman, Gex, Solar Eclipse, Astal, Shinobi Legions, Bug!, Daytona USA, Thunderstrike 2, and Mystaria. I spent everything I had, and had a hell of a time thereafter.

[Sunnyvale]

Christmas of '83 or '84, can't recall which. Man-o-man, call it a crash all you want, but to an 8 year old, it was heaven! I got a stack of games for my 2600, and I only had about 10 or so before that. Highlights were:

Chopper Command
Dark Caverns
Empire Strikes Back
Indiana Jones
Cosmic Ark
Ms Pac Man
River Raid
Turmoil

It was awesome! Every family member's house we went to gave me a cart or 2. I had over 40 by the end of that Christmas, if memory serves. Enough we started using an old makeup chest to hold the carts in. I still use it today to hold my play games

[Kevincal]

1989 my first gaming system. NES

[BlastProcessing402]

Christmas 89, opening up a package to find Super Mario Land, knowing that meant somewhere under the tree was another package that must have a GameBoy in it.