67726e wrote:
Oh I know, I just love calling it that. I really couldn't care less about Christmas. Its just one big celebration of consumerism.
That may be true... And as much as I usually dislike the Christmas season and its rampant consumerism...
I received my NES at Christmas in 1987. I was quite surprised. Winters in south Texas were usually cold and wet, with little snow. That year we had snow for Christmas too.
My parents were adamant that video game made people stupid and that the world had no use for them. My dad actually called my Atari 2600 and NES "the idiot box".
The NES came with
Super Mario Brothers. My parents also gave us
The Legand of Zelda and
Kung Fu. Our first purchased game a few weeks later was
Wrecking Crew. I don't remember the game order after that. LOZ was the first game that I "beat" (first quest).
This year my wife and mother-in-law had a "failure to communicate" and they BOTH gave me the collector's edition of the
Metroid Trilogy for our Wii.
I'll play one and keep the other MIB. Two years ago I gave to my mother-in-law 4 NES games for her collection (she has almost 300 unique titles):
Fire 'n Ice,
Bubble Bobble,
Rainbow Island and
A Boy and His Blob. My mother-in-law is awesome. We often play
Tetris Attack on her SNES (both gifts from my wife and I) when we visit.
My mother-in-law also gave me five wrapped gifts: All various bags of Reese's Pieces candies, including a 6-pack bag of huge peanut butter cups. Now I must defend my prize against my wife and her sister.