Christmas Gaming Memories

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I would always feel guilty gaming on Christmas, but it’s not like the family didn’t basically just go back to business as usual anyways.

Also felt more awkward asking for games the older I got.
 
The one that always stuck out with me was 2001. I just got a brand new PS2, GTA3 and MGS2. Although I couldn't play much of them for a few days since I was given an off brand 16mb memory card and I couldn't figure out to get it to fucking work.
 
I got my Playstation for Christmas in 1999, with Metal Gear Solid, Command and Conquer, and CnC Red Alert. MGS I play once every year to this day, and I only just recently went back to the CnC titles - hard as nails compared to the PC originals, but really cozy.

Oddly enough, Silent Hill 3 on PS2 is my go-to game every December. Played it one December back in 2006 and it just became a tradition. Christmas just wouldn't be the same without it.
 
I got both the nintendo wii and ds for Christmas in 2006. I asked my parents to get one or the other but was totally fucking shocked they got me both. Played wii sports all day long.
 
Dark Souls 3 is still my favorite (gaming) Christmas present. I played the shit out of that for a couple years.
 
Convinced my mom that to let me open my present (which I knew was Zelda 64) a few days before Christmas because school resumed the Monday after Christmas for some dumb reason and family was going to be around on the holiday.

I think that was the single longest I have ever played (or will ever play) a video game uninterrupted. I think I put 30 hours into that game in two days. Christmas with my cousins was fun afterwards and the school was 70% absent on Monday with several of the absences being confirmed cases of Zelda 64.
 
Christmas 2000, I got a Dreamcast with Shenmue. It was such a comfy game, and really felt like the future. Such an optimistic future, too, with how much care and effort was put into every little facet of the game.

22 years later, and there's still really nothing like it. You can easily tell how Yakuza was built upon Shenmue's foundation, but it doesn't have all the cozy little details like letting you look through every single drawer in Ryo's house and talking to every last person you see.
 
Family was never one for fiscal frivolity, a new book, a nice card and some candy was the primary fare most of my young life, but when i was very young my father got me a board game called the omega virus that had just come out and it was mindblowing to my barely awake brain, and for vidgya gaymes it was the first christmas with the woman who i would marry, between her, my sister and my best friends i got like 5 AAA brand new games in one year and i remember tearing up because i knew i could have never asked for such a thing growing up.
 
When I was young (like maybe around 7 or 8 ), my parents kept the Nintendo in the living room so the whole family could play it. We used to live in an old apartment in Flushing Queens back then. My dad months ago got me this bootleg cartridge (Supervision 76-in-1, also called MEGACOM) and at the time I thought was the coolest NES cartridge ever (even though the front cover looked "off")
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One night with the living room lights out and the christmas tree lit bright, my mom sat with me in the living room as I played StarForce on this cart. It was pretty comfy. Became one of my favorite space shooters just for the music alone.
 
Our daughter begged us to play minecraft for Christmas a couple years ago, and honestly it was a pretty great family memory. My wife is terrible at games but she mostly did her own thing while everyone else ran around optimizing
 
My mom was overly protective and didn't allow me to play violent video games. One year on Christmas Eve we went over to a family friends house and I played GTA Vice City with their son for the whole evening. My mind was completely blown by the level of violence and absolute freedom to do anything in game.
 
Videogames were never much of a Christmas thing for me. But one Christmas+Videogame memory I have is we went on a family trip for Christmas, and when I get back, call a friend to say I'm back. "Dude, come over, NOW!" Dude got Smash Bros. Melee, and with me there was 4 of us. Good memories.
 
I received a TurboGrafx 16 and Splatterhouse one Christmas. That game was the reason I wanted the system and it was totally worth it though my father saw some of the monsters on the screen and was worried about it being too scary for me. I admit that the scene with Jennifer creeped me out at the time but that's what made the game so good (also the Poltergeist). The arcade version would have blown my mind because it has more gore and offensive stuff, but I don't believe it ever released in the U.S.
 
One of my earlier gaming memories was getting a PS2 for christmas. I remember playing my dad's PS1 before it and a PS2 racing game at a neighbor kid's house before it as well but otherwise it was my first gaming console.
Don't remember the exact first PS2 game I played but it was probably one of those shovelware games I was to young to notice or care.
 
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