What’s the best Christmas present you ever received?

[Dog Eater]

I remember getting a PlayStation and Spyro the Dragon one year and being genuinely shocked that my parents would buy me something so amazing.

 

[guest]

I remember getting a PlayStation and Spyro the Dragon one year and being genuinely shocked that my parents would buy me something so amazing.

Similar. I think I was 10 and I got a Megadrive (Genesis) for Christmas. Most presents I usually got were books, clothes I didn't care about and a toy or two similar to something I actually wanted, so when I tore off the paper and saw Sonic the hedgehog looking at me, it seemed almost unreal. Like someone had made a mistake. I still remember the feeling, like my heart was going to jump out of my mouth.

A few months later, my mother stomped the shit out of it when she asked me to do some chore while I was playing on it, and I told her to piss off or something

 

[Say “Cookie”]

New clogs, funsters.

 

[aRTie02150]

Dreamcast. Christmas 2000. Sure when I got it when it was on its last legs, but it was still cool at the time. I also couldn't comprehend how my parents were capable of choosing a cool gift. Gifts stopped after that though.

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

A first pressing of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

edit: mono

 

[Build Black Better]

I told her to piss off or something

The British have the best sounding insults, especially when it's a wee lad to his mum It's like music to my ears.

 

[Leonard Rhomberg]

I remember getting the Nintendo NES towards the end of its run so I got a shit ton of games with it. I was a dumb kid so I could never beat any of them in one sitting.

Nothing like running up your parents electric by leaving the console running for days straight just to complete a single playthrough

 

[SoloJoeAcousticShow]

The fat iPod with 80GB and the clicky wheel was fucking mind-blowing to get, I still have it and I think it works.
I was hot shit for that at school for about three months after christmas, before everyone realized how garbage my music taste is and how I still suck.

Head-to-head with when my parents, geniuses they are, decided I could get the old family tube-TV for my bedroom when they upgraded to plasma. Almost ripped my fucking dick off the first few months. Many loads blown to muted, scantily clad euro trash women with fat silicone bolt-ons late at night.

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

A Kustom guitar amp with built in effects that I had been wanting. I think it was around $400 so it blew my mind that they got it for me. It sounded like shit and the effects sucked but I loved it. When I eventually realized it didn't sound good, the upgrade was an old model Peavey Bandit that I paid like $60 for.

Pellet gun was a big deal too.

 

[PogromStallone]

When I was very young, my grandmother got me an N64. One of my other cousins also got one and another cousin got her old NES because she knew he liked it, lol. I got home and played Mario 64 but it was too scary for me so I didn't play it for some time after. What especially scared me was the two final bosses in the first two worlds.

But I think I was most excited when I got a toy castle as a kid. Another year I got this bag of Legos I had seen at a thrift shop that I really wanted.

 

[The Talking Dead]

Dreamcast. Christmas 2000. Sure when I got it when it was on its last legs, but it was still cool at the time. I also couldn't comprehend how my parents were capable of choosing a cool gift. Gifts stopped after that though.

I got one for Christmas '99 and remember being one of the only kids in my school who had one. Such a great console that was just unlucky to come out a year before the ps2. If it would've had a DVD drive, it might've actually succeeded in competing with it but who the fuck knows.

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

The only game system my parents ever got me was a Playstation. I had a Super Nintendo up until then. Playstations were pretty old by the time I got that. I loved Wild 9. The PS wasn't a special occasion thing either. A girl down the road was selling hers and I straight up asked my mom if she'd give me the money for it and she was immediately like "Yeah, sure." which was shocking as hell.

After that they made me figure out how to get enough money together and they'd pay the tax. My dad would buy me games all the time because he thought they looked cool and he'd watch me play them because he clearly wanted to play them but thought video games were for children. He did buy a racing wheel and a Nascar game along with a bunch of other games for the computer when we first got it but he used the wheel once and was like "this is nothing like driving a fucking car." and never played a video game again.

 

[WifeStoreWill]

Sega Genesis. Those EA Sports games were PFG back then

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

When I was very young, my grandmother got me an N64. One of my other cousins also got one and another cousin got her old NES because she knew he liked it, lol. I got home and played Mario 64 but it was too scary for me so I didn't play it for some time after. What especially scared me was the two final bosses in the first two worlds.

But I think I was most excited when I got a toy castle as a kid. Another year I got this bag of Legos I had seen at a thrift shop that I really wanted.

Was it the fucking Fisher Price castle with the cannons that shot and shit? Because I totally forgot about it, but I got that for Christmas the one year and it was a huge fucking deal to me. I ended up getting the pirate ship and the western town too. Those toys were the shit.

 

[PogromStallone]

Was it the fucking Fisher Price castle with the cannons that shot and shit? Because I totally forgot about it, but I got that for Christmas the one year and it was a huge fucking deal to me. I ended up getting the pirate ship and the western town too. Those toys were the shit.

Oh wow, I think it might've been.

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

The cat I had as a kid.
I've been thinking about her a lot recently. I'm still not over her death.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

Similar. I think I was 10 and I got a Megadrive (Genesis) for Christmas. Most presents I usually got were books, clothes I didn't care about and a toy or two similar to something I actually wanted, so when I tore off the paper and saw Sonic the hedgehog looking at me, it seemed almost unreal. Like someone had made a mistake. I still remember the feeling, like my heart was going to jump out of my mouth.

A few months later, my mother stomped the shit out of it when she asked me to do some chore while I was playing on it, and I told her to piss off or something

That story was a rollercoaster of emotion. I’m assuming that she broke it?

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

Oh wow, I think it might've been.

 

[guest]

That story was a rollercoaster of emotion. I’m assuming that she broke it?

Oh she smashed it to pieces. Quick to anger that woman

 

[Jenna]

I was big into wrestling figures back in the day, but it was usually a "one at a time" thing from Toys R Us on special occasions and such. Anyway my mom went to a flea market or yard sale and stumbled upon some other kid's entire collection of figures. After dividing it up with the brother I had like 20-25 new figures which was unheard of. I didn't give a shit that were used.