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When I was little my mum's family was very good to me. They knew that the only thing I really wanted was videogames... so - I almost always made out with 3-4 games from them on Xmas... but undoubtedly they would be lousy games (I can't remember any in particular). So, every year on Boxing Day it was off to the game store I went to exchange them for the games I actually had on my freakin' Xmas list. No-one minded though. They usually gave me the receipt on Xmas too. Hehe. :)
My mom used to ask me what I wanted, and so she always knew what games to get me. She understood that, which always brought me great joy every Christmas. Sure, I always knew what I was getting, but it was always something I really wanted and couldn't afford myself.
And then came the time my grandparents were going to get me Myst, but she talked them into Doom 2. Not only was I happy enough to start bouncing off walls, but I had beaten Myst a couple weeks prior at a friends house, so it would've been doubly-horrible to recieve that. Thank the Gods I've got her as my mom.
Lucky you Mech. :)
My parents have always done a good job as well. In fact, I am 26 and they still do! To this day my parents and my sister realise the only damn thing I want for my birthday and Xmas is videogames so they ask me what I want, errr, or I tell them... and thus I usually get good stuff. Last year my parents got me Advance Wars and Golden Sun and my sister got me Klonoa - all for GBA. :)
Ha! I beat you all!
I got this for Christmas once!http://www.liquid2k.com/genesisrevie...ws/shaqfu1.gif
Dark Castle for Genesis. Like a slap in my face.
Squaresoft games. :p
:lol: Damn, X, he must have found that for 50 cents in some bookstore bargin bin! Nice boss.Quote:
Originally posted by FighterX
Odd Part about it - the book covered Atari 2600 games. The year was 1995. :)
Damn, I always feel bad for people whose birthdays are on or right around Christmas. You poor guys always get dicked out of so many persents. Thankfully, my birthday is in August. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Ragnarok the Red
(my B-Day is 3 days after Christmas).
The rest of my family is clueless, but my mom is pretty good at getting me exactly the games I ask for, bless her soul.
Frogger [PSX], which I was very disappointed to receive but then played it and it's not that bad... really...
Ninja: Shadow of Darkness [PSX] - Now this is complete crap and it's very hard on me having a nine year old boy who has uncles and a step-family and blah blah blah... They buy him this stuff and then I have to sully my collection. Ug.
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing [PSX] - I should have sent letters out this year begging people to not get anything that Tristen [my son] did not ask for. If I get something like this again this Christmas I'm making some nasty phone calls.:mad:
I mean, I have a brother-in-law I'm visiting in California this Christmas and I bought him a Gamecube, Wavebird, Mem Card 251, Resident Evil and Super Smash Bros. Melee. Even if he's lukewarm to those games, that's a hella haul for Christmas if you ask me. He's *just* my brother-in-law.:p
--Scourge .
This must have been circa 1992, because Sega Power has not been around for ages, and 'Piggin'' well, nobody says piggin'.Quote:
Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
People used to give me British gaming mags like Sega Power for my birthday. I don't buy fanboy mags like that myself(half the mag is Nintendo-bashing) but they were still entertaining because they used limey-slang like "piggin'" to describe games.
I got Golgo 13 for NES one Christmas.