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Yes its December, here's a thread for your game related christmas memories. It might be the first game or console you recieved for Christmas or a game you played nonstop through boxing day.
One Christmas in the mid- 80's young Elrod21 had asked Santa for Xevious for NES. On an evening shortly before Christmas, Elrods parents went out for the evening. Elrod noticed one of the presents under the tree had a distinctive shape he had seen before. Would he actually peak just to make sure it was what he had asked for? Whats the harm in a small tear. Sure enough Xevious was the contents of the gift. Well......his parents were going to be gone a few hours....hmmmm...... He wouldn't!!!!!
Elrod opened the game, plugged it in, played it until he finished it and had it re-wrapped under the tree in time for mom and dads arrival. Watching him pretend to be excited opening it on Christmas morning was something I'll never forget.
I remember getting NBA JAM for the SNES for christmas from my grandmother. When I opened it up I found out to my horror that someone had already bought the game, took out the cart and replaced it with baseball cards, repackaged it and returned it to the store.
She said she returned it to the store and got a new one the next day. Later on in my years I've realized that the store most likely would not have taken it back and she must have bought me a second one. It's too bad that I never got the chance to properly thank her and my grandfather for all they did for me when I was a kid.
I remember one year when my parents got the Sega Genesis for christmas. Every christmas since then they would add on to the collection. now we no longer have it, which disappoints me
She said she returned it to the store and got a new one the next day. Later on in my years I've realized that the store most likely would not have taken it back and she must have bought me a second one. It's too bad that I never got the chance to properly thank her and my grandfather for all they did for me when I was a kid.
I'm sure the joy they brought you was worth having to buy that game all over again.
All I wanted for christmas was Zelda 2: The adventures of Link, so before christmas I had been eyeballing that familiar shaped box, then I got to thinking... "Wait.. what if it's not Link, and instead another game..?" Eventually I snapped, I needed to take a peek, so I gently tore back the paper a bit looking for that gold box... Low and behold it was gold!!! Finally christmas arrives and I rip into the present only to find:
I remember asking for Mega Man X 2 for Christmas one year and opening stuff Christmas morning I got Mega Man 2 and I was disappointed. It did introduce me to original Megaman so that was good.
Remember when Pokemon was in full swing and I wanted Pokemon Blue. One year my Dad actually got something. got Pokemon cards and then.. Pokemon Red and my brother got Blue. We traded and he returned Red since I already had it.
I remember when my brothers and I had been bugging our parents for the NES for years. I thought we would never get it. But then, one night, I heard a sound coming from my older brother's room. I could hear the bed creaking and so I took a quick peak from a crack between the door and the wall. What I saw got me so excited. That's right! I saw my brother playing on an NES! The sneaky bastard was playing OUR NES two weeks before Christmas and never told me! But it's ok. I found out where my parents were hiding it. I started playing it while making sure my parents nor my brothers found out. On Christmas Day, we opened our NES and could finally play it out in the open without fear of being caught.
I don't recall if he knew about it, but I know I didn't tell him about it since I thought he might blow my cover. And no, Preach is not the eldest. He's the youngest of three.
1. Optifine - allows you to tweak display settings and certain game elements giving excellent game performance even on 32 - bit systems. http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...and-much-more/ 2.Custom NPC's mod - create your own NPC characters in Minecraft.
Fully customizable, meaning you decide everything: type, size, skins {compatible with most skins made for 'Human Male', like Steve, so you can use skins people upload to PMC and other sites}, assign jobs, factions, etc, etc.
All this and it adds numerous items such as weapons, armor, food, quest items, and more. http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...-npcs-splanmp/ 3.MACE city generator mod - a standalone program which generates worlds with cities. {NOT just random like it says, they're fully customizable with dozens of city options - why do they say random when itisn't?}.
There are 3 basic themes {desert, medieval, and Novv - sort of medieval with lots of detail} and you can insert 1 - 100 cities of your choosing into generated worlds.
Name the world or leave MACE to give it a random name, insert a world seed, tweak the options to make them contain only what you want them to, then create a profile so you can duplicate your favorite cities again later! http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...ies-generator/ 4. Tale of Kingdoms mod - I consider this to be part mod, part city generator; the mod inserts a medieval style building {into either a new world or an existing save file}called the Guild.
The Guild is the starting point of the RPG aspect of the mod.
NPC's in the Guild inform you that you are the King who must complete certain tasks in order to gain the trust of your people.
Once you gain their trust {by gaining enough in - mod 'EXP', basically} you can then choose the site of your Kingdom, which you provide the raw materials to build.
There are 3 tiers to the Kingdom, expandable as soon as materials become available.
IN CONCLUSION:
These mods used together hold HUGE potential both on or offline and the best part is that you can do what I did:
Use MACE to create a world with a city {or cities}, then install the TOK mod, play to gain the Kingdom, and then uninstall TOK and use the Custom NPC's mod to make your own characters, storyline, whatever!
And in case you were wondering it is possible to have both mods running at the same time, but your custom characters better be tough enough to stand up to the TOK hostile mobs!
No, Atari 2600 version of Pac Man was the real abomination.
I believe I've said before how I felt bad that my parents had spent their hard - earned money to buy it for me.
{you know it's gotta be bad when a kid starts thinking of it in financial terms} Pac Man » Atari 2600
I don't think anything conjured up such feelings of disappointment in me during my entire life.
This is it, the biggest let - down there ever was: Atari 2600 Pac Man.
I agree with Ten, in fact I find space invaders to be highly over-rated, despite it's impact historically. The game was just too slow, that coupled with the limit of one on screen shot at a time made it a chore to play.
But it's ok. I found out where my parents were hiding it. I started playing it while making sure my parents nor my brothers found out. 
On Christmas Day, we opened our NES and could finally play it out in the open without fear of being caught.
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