Holiday Vidya Stories

[Magus]

Depressing ones, happy ones, retail horror stories.

Share 'em, Pav.

[John Mora]

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My aunt and uncle got me Sewer Shark for Christmas. And I didn't own a Sega CD.

[Alex]

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My mom got a hold of a stolen N64 in 2000 or so from a friend and told me I was getting it for Christmas until I said it needed games, and we couldn't afford any so she gave it back to her friend.


I eventually got a 64 but damn. I even got to hold the box.


Months later, when I did get the 64 with Super Mario, it was missing a controller. I stood standing in front of the TV at Mario's giant polygonal face, sad and disappointed. I had to ask my uncle for a ride to some junkie's house to pick up the controller to actually play.

[John Mora]

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Oh my god, that's an awful childhood.

[Shard]

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That's depressing as hell.

My best X-mas was a SNES when it was relatively new, with Super Mario World, Super Castlevania IV, and Drakhen (pass on that one).

No real tragedies to speak of. FF6 as a X-mas gift would run a pretty close second place. Mostly because of my age at the time.

[DK]

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Hmm, I think the Christmas I remember most was me and my brother both getting Mortal Kombat 2 for the respective systems we had (me and Genesis, him an SNES) and noting how the SNES version was SUPERIOR. It was the first time I had really noticed a difference between the two systems. Regardless, we spent all of the day in our rooms playing the game and shouting down the hall how far we had gotten ("I just beat Scorpion!").


My brother is now a drug addict.

EDIT-he really isn't it was kinda a riff on smurtle's story. Uh, I guess it was in pretty poor taste

[Caciss]

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I think you mean funny taste.

I can't remember any stand out christmas. I guess popping in OoT on a Christmas afternoon is maybe the most memorable.

[highwind]

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I GOT BRAVE FENCER MUSASHI.

[Nixon]

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I remember begging my dad to get a SNES for me and my siblings for christmas. He said "OKAY, but only if this is the last video game system I ever have to buy for you." I had no idea what the hell I was talking about at the time, but I agreed wholeheartedly (smiling and nodding) and thus the deal was done.

And he never had to get us another game system ever. So it worked out.

[Duel]

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Someone gave me Time Crisis 4 last Christmas.

[Sivart the Sloth Trencher]

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I got a NASCAR game for a system I didn't own one Christmas.

I exchanged it for Evil Genius. Which gets too slow too early on in the game on my computer.

[marcus]

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I walked into a store a week after the Wii was released and jokingly said "Hey. Gotta Wii?" and the store clerk is like "Yes" and I'm like "Cool."

I then got buyer's remorse 30 minutes after beating Twilight Princess, the only game I bought.

[Riotsword]

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I saw Earthbound for sale at Wal-Mart some 11 years ago. I begged and begged for it, even though I only played it for maybe an hour despite renting it for one weekend(it was a busy weekend). Then, Christmas morning, I spy a box that matched the size of the game's box and got all excited. I unwrap the present and underneath it was... a shoebox? Earth Shoes? The HELL!?

Mom tells me to keep going, so I open the box...

And inside it's Earthbound, in all its giant-colorful-box-y glory. I proceed to get past Giant Step and beat the cops all before I have to leave for my grandparents' house.

[Kefka Jr.]

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Getting Xenogears for Christmas and playing it for 10 hours and believing that man had the right to ascend, as their work on Earth was clearly finished.

[Toaster]

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Getting Final Fantasy VII as an early Christmas present from my Mom & Dad because I begged them to let me play it, and playing it all night well into the wee hours of the night.

I got to the part where you had to break into ShinRa headquarters until I decided to go to bed.

...

It was fun!