Stupid gaming gifts

I've only been given gaming gifts a few times in the past. They were surprisingly well-chosen...I didn't complain about receiving Sonic the Hedgehog 2 or Thunder Force IV as presents. :)

It wasn't Christmas, but try getting a book entitled, "How To Be The Best At Videogames" from your part-time boss. He says, "I know you like videogames, so I figured you'd want it". I smiled and accepted it.

Odd Part about it - the book covered Atari 2600 games. The year was 1995. :)

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Originally posted by Melf
I've never had that happen. Everyone in my family (my wife included) mostly refuses to give me anything game-related. I always end up getting useless things like clothes and perfume! :mad:

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This is me as well. The only game I've ever recieved from my parents was Super Mario Brothers 3, and I asked for that.

My dad asked me what games I wanted for christmas, I wrote them down on a peice of paper:

- One
- Oddworld


Instead of getting me the game "One", he thought I only wanted one game, so he just got Oddworld.

I was very dissapointed.

To this day he still brings that story up, and laughs and laughs. I wish he would just not bring up such a crappy memory.


Also, I remember asking for "Rescue Rangers" for the NES, but I got "Rocket Ranger" instead. If you're one of the few people out there that had the misfortune of ever playing this pile, you can imagine how devistated I was.

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Originally posted by Regus
My dad asked me what games I wanted for christmas, I wrote them down on a peice of paper:

- One
- Oddworld


Instead of getting me the game "One", he thought I only wanted one game, so he just got Oddworld.

I was very dissapointed.

To this day he still brings that story up, and laughs and laughs. I wish he would just not bring up such a crappy memory.


Also, I remember asking for "Rescue Rangers" for the NES, but I got "Rocket Ranger" instead. If you're one of the few people out there that had the misfortune of ever playing this pile, you can imagine how devistated I was.

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Lol, whenever my mom brought me a game, I'd give her a mini-cut picture of it from the sales paper, with clear instructions on what to do when she gets it. I've also told the rest of my family, "if you think of buying me games, just give me the money instead". that saved me a lot of headache, I believe, especially from reading your story, Regus :D

I've had the opposite happen. My aunt had no idea that I loved Street Fighter 2 so much. So for X-mas, she gave me this long Sears clothing box. Before the big day, I snuck a peak and I found... clothes. Shit. X-mas comes and and I open it up to find a sweater and SF2! I fucking shit myself. Unfortunately, I didn't get to play it cuz I had to go to church.

The next X-mas that same aunt got me JJ& Jeff and my clueless god-mother (videogame wise) got me Soldier Blade. Holy shit!

Well, it wasn't game-related (the only game-related gifts I ever got were from my parents and my brother, who always got me EXACTLY what I asked for.) But when I was like 8 or so, a cousin of mine bought me a combined Christmas/B-Day gift (my B-Day is 3 days after Christmas). It was a Hawaiian shirt...which was ugly as fuck...and didn't even fit me so I gave it away to someone else. To this day I still kind of hold that against her :sweat:

I remember as a really little kid getting NES games for Christmas and not caring what they were. Mad Max? Awesome!

I try to tell people that if they want to get me something gamerelated... just get me a gift card to any place that sells games. That makes me happy. Someone in my gf's family gave me a 25 dollar EB gift card-it went to GTA3, and there was much rejoicing.

My girlfriend has gotten me a few related things, most of it is really cool (I got Soul Calibur and Shenmue for xmas last year, and a SFA wallscroll) but she doesn't hit the mark 100% of the time, usually with accessories.

My GF's brother got us some Casper: Haunted Whatever game, for the PSX. We didn't even break the shrinkwrap when we traded it in at Babbages.