My favorite memory of playing video games during winter holidays is playing Cool Boarders 2 with my dad after he got me a playstation for Christmas. The dude was not at all a video game player. Crushes a double backflip and beat me in the Competition Mode. Still blows my mind!
I love stories like these. My brother and I used to try to convince my mom to play Street Fighter II with us...and she'd inevitably button mash her way to a win. Always a good time!
It's on Steam, and there's a sale going so...DO IT
A little birdy told me that they might be remaking it? I'll have to take a look!
Pitfall ..... And I got it. I played that game for thousands and thousands of hours
My VERY limited experience with Pitfall involves playing it on an Atari console dug out of a closet in a room with VERY old shag carpeting. The aesthetic is forever connected for me. I love the audio in this game!
A video game I remember asking for as a kid was...Duck Hunt!
The best video game gift I ever got for Christmas was...Duck Hunt!
Man, Duck Hunt was pretty influential as a kid. It seems like an entire generation was trained to feel anger at that laughing dog!
Star Raiders
Tele-Games(Atari)
Dominating my cousins on their Atari
Thanks!
Interesting - now we are into some games that I'm not really familiar with, even listening to a lot of retro games content. I'm sure I've heard something about Star Raiders before, but I'm not sure. Is Tele-Games a "digital sports compilation" sort of title?
Duck hunt
Duck hunt
Duck hunt
Played that game all night the first night. Probably first couple of nights. On our tiny little tube tv. Maybe 15”.
Another vote for Duck Hunt! Maybe this could make for a fun custom chip set...or at least some dealer buttons!
The best video game gift I ever got for Christmas was the original Nintendo entertainment system! Our family wasn't rich and we had that console forever. Didn't really replace it until I was in my teens and got a pc and was playing counterstrike alpha. I'm partial to SMB2 personally, really enjoyed playing that game!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Seems like this crowd is averaging out to the NES for their first console, which makes a lot of sense giving general demographics. I too cut my teeth on the NES, and that was only because my brother and I were able to share gifts for Christmas and our birthdays - it was a valuable factor in getting video games as kids because on our own it would be too big of a gift!
A video game I remember asking for as a kid was... Pokemon Yellow for my gameboy back then!! Man time flies!
It is amazing. I joke with my younger friends that I'm amazed that there are more than 151 Pokemon now. I never played Yellow, but my cousin got it to differentiate between the Red and Blue pairing shared by my brother and I. I always thought it was a cool way to differentiate the games with Pikachu following you around on screen.
The best video game present I ever got was my XBOX 360. Growing up my parents never let us know that we struggled. But I knew not to ask for something like a game console because it was just out of the question, too expensive. We had a used Playstation 2 that was plenty good enough, if I wanted to play video games that's what I could play. But by this time they had already stopped production of PS2 games, and it was getting hard to get new games. My dad is a high school drop out and has always worked factory jobs until this particular year he got a very good job working for a medical supply company in my home town. Well his company was very small and threw a huge Christmas party for all the employees and basically hosted there version of a game show and my dad won us an XBOX 360 along with a bunch of other toys and gifts. My parents came home from the Christmas party and was so excited to show me and my siblings what they won they decided to give it to us that night (Christmas Eve). And so that Christmas eve as a family we played our new Xbox 360. Still to this day my favorite gaming console.
Damn, man. It's stories like these that bring a little emotion to the table! It sounds like a lot of people here can relate to family members scraping together video game memories. Just goes to show the value our families can have in our lives.
A video game I remember asking for as a kid was... Mega Man!
The original? That is quite the throwback. My neighbors were REALLY into Mega Man 2, and I ended up getting Mega Man 3 as a used copy early on. To this day 3 is still my favorite, but I really love the classic Mega Man series. The first one has some really difficult parts, and it also has a crazy speed run scene!
The best video game gift I ever got for Christmas was a Nintendo 64 from my dad. I haven't even asked for it but he knew everyone has or was going to have one. It was the best gift I ever got.
I feel like I had to wait a while before we could get a 64, but it was such a magical system. Being able to jam four player games with friends was just so great. Do you remember what launch game you ended up with? I remember my uncle playing Wave Race 64 - the water was mesmerizing!
Thank you to everyone who is sharing! Great nostalgia vibes!
