Blindkarevik
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Post by Blindkarevik on Dec 24, 2021 12:09:11 GMT -5
I'm definitely gonna have to go with my NES. About a month prior, I was having a really bad day and my mom spilled the beans that I was getting one from my grandparents. But I couldn't let on that I knew. So, of course.. every time we went up there, I found the box that looked NES Control Deck shaped and chilled with it. This was when the only options for the system were the Deluxe Set and the Control Deck, and the Deck didn't come with a game. So, since I obviously wanted something to play, I immediately turned my attention to asking my mom for Kung Fu for Christmas. ... as that was the main game I wanted, at the time.
So the time came to open everything and I was legit surprised it turned out to be the Deluxe Set.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 24, 2021 12:50:41 GMT -5
Just saw OP stated it didnt have to be a Xmas gift.
1992 as my gift for graduating High School my father gave me his 1984 Oldsmobile Delta 88.
Big huge boat of a car that I kept and drove off and on from then until 2008.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 25, 2021 0:17:43 GMT -5
Probably SNES for me as well.
For me it seemed like most of the 1990s my big gift was always a videogame system. I wish my memory wasn’t so shitty. I think I got NES, Sega Genesis, SNES, Turbo Grafx, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and Nintendo 64 as the big gift, all in different years.
Also in the 1990s I got a Game Gear, but I can’t remember if that was the big gift that year. I had Game Boy too, but bought that for myself. X-Box was the first console system I think I bought for myself, which I’m pretty sure I got on launch day with my own money I had saved up.
I have no idea which year I got what. For the most part I think each was when it was still the new hot system. Except for Sega Saturn. That was like already a dead system when I asked for it. As far as the big console gifts go, here are some thoughts on getting them as gifts…
NES: Honestly I can’t remember offhand if I ever had my own or if it was just a non-Christmas released hand me down from my brother. I’m pretty sure I did get one of my own for Christmas one year. I remember the day it died was a sad day. This is why I can’t remember if my brother and I just had our own or not. You’d think if we each had one, after mine died he would let me use his, but he was kind of the stereotypical older territorial brother.
Sega Genesis: This was a great gift. I really enjoyed this. For about a year. I still loved it afterward, but it wasn’t my top system for too long.
SNES: This was the greatest thing ever when it came out! That’s the big reason the luster of Genesis wore off so quick for me. I remember my uncle got this for his birthday a few months earlier and we played it a bunch on his birthday. When I got mine I had just as much fun though of course the first day I think it was just that same Mario game from months before.
Turbo Grafx: Honestly, I can’t remember if this was even a Christmas gift. I’m pretty sure it was. Even though it was an unsuccessful system, it was still a system after all. I ended up getting literally two games for it. The one it came with and a Pac-Man game.
Sega Saturn: I loved this one a lot too. I knew that it was a dead system when we got it. I first played it in my house though back when you could rent video game systems from the video store (remember that?) and fell in love with it.
PlayStation: This was a great one too and would probably be my number two gift. But I was a little older by that point. PlayStation had been out at least a couple years by the time I got one, but it was still such a great system. I’d rank SNES above it partly because I was younger and more in that prime time of getting gifts as a kid.
Nintendo 64: This was the last system I got that felt like a big gift that I can remember. I remember it was the first one I hooked up myself. Prior to that my mom and brother would make it seem like hooking up a system was the hardest thing in the world to do. It probably didn’t help that our TV set ups where always a tangled mess of wires. I remember how easy it seemed to hook up when I did it myself
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Post by edgestar on Dec 26, 2021 16:48:13 GMT -5
When I had to get my shunt fixed, my parents got me a Kevin McCallister doll, and one of my uncles got me a Steve Urkel doll.
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pinja
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Post by pinja on Dec 26, 2021 16:56:47 GMT -5
My best worst gift was a remote controlled bulldozer. It took both batteries and fuel, but the fuel was only used to produce smoke from the little exhaust. My parents returned it right after christmas. ;(
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J. Hova
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Post by J. Hova on Dec 27, 2021 16:56:32 GMT -5
Since just about everyone else has said a gaming system, I'll go with something else that I still remember vividly when I was 3 or 4. I was huge Ghostbusters fan when I was a kid and one Christmas my parents got me like the entire Ghostbusters gear stuff.
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Dec 27, 2021 18:05:54 GMT -5
Uss flagg
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