Holiday video games

I haven't done it yet, but I think I'm going to play Snatcher sometime this month, it does have a lot of christmas stuff in it, and a chinese santa!

I've made a tradition out of playing Christmas Nights. I don't play it more than maybe an hour, but it just gets me in the mood. The one thing I hate about the game though, is that horrible narrative from the girl. No emotion at all. :yuck:


I've actually thought about playing the original Shenmue, around Christmas, or on Christmas day. I loved playing it and seeing the people dressed up as Santa and hearing the X-Mas music playing from within the convenience store. I might just adjust the clock on the old DC, just to experience that moment.

Christmas Nights is definitely the way to go.

I always have to play RPG's come Christmas time.


---B.j.

Sakura Taisen 2 still has one of the best Christmas scenarios out there.

Otherwise it's gotta be platform shooters or anything with lots of red blood flying about. My fondest Wolf3D memories are of me playing through all the original 6 missions while carols came in on the radio.

Animal crossing has become that game, but prior to that i had played christmas nights, but i kind of fell out of that.

A lot of Genesis games seem to have a Christmas-y feel.

Christmas Nights just seems lame and cheesy to me. I'd rather play a game with a great snow level - Saturn Rayearth and Daggerfall during the winter are good examples. I'd play DC Kanon, too, if my Japanese comprehension was up to it.

Perhaps I'll play the snow level of Panzer Dragoon Orta this year. Beautiful.

Shenmue. My perfect fall game.