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This week we ask Kotku: What is the best (or worst) gaming gift you’ve ever received?
Fehe
This one is simple. For years my family has been conditioned that if I want a video game, I buy a video game. If I need hardware, I’ll find a way to afford it. I’ve been blessed with the means to get what I want, but there was one piece of hardware that always took me away: the translucent pink Japanese Hello Kitty Dreamcast.
Not that the special-edition console, which is packed with a pink VMU, keyboard and A Hello Kitty Typing game was especially expensive. You can find them on eBay for a few thousand rupees retail. That’s because as much as I wanted the beautiful pink thing, I couldn’t justify buying it. I have many dreamcasts. I didn’t need another, even if it was gorgeous.
Enter my parents. In 2018, even though there was practically nothing on my Christmas wish list, I suggested they pay attention to eBay for my pink plastic prize. Huge help from my spouse (my parents are in their 70s and 80s), they managed to get through the two transactions even though they merged into their eBay auction.
Relay
For my birthday in 201, a bunch of my friends tied up some money together and gave it to me to make a gaming PC. Before that, I was playing stuff on a gaming laptop that burned out really quickly, and I was able to work it with a machine, but not play games with it. It was a really sweet gift – I cried a lot – and they helped me pick up the pieces and make the whole thing. Having a gaming PC was great for a freelance career after that, as I could play games I used to play before, and it definitely helped me get on this job, so it’s really the gift that keeps giving.
Alexandra
My family was friends with two other families, whom we knew through my father’s job. Dad from the same family – everyone was a hero! Always buying the latest tech gear including video videos and at some point started giving gifts to my family in his hands while the latest and oldest were interested. Known. His first donation to our clan was one Balcony 800 computer, The first game playing machine at home. I loved it.
It came with 15 or 20 cartridges, mostly games (one programming language was BASIC). I quickly joined the fantastic Atari 8-bit versions Donkey Kong, Robotron 2084, Centipede, Missile command, Star Raiders (I remember receiving the end-game rating “Space janitor”), and the final secret gem, River rescue. I also played a lot Ms. Pac Man, Today I don’t care about any game, because I was absolutely fascinated by anything and everything that excites the beautiful glowing phosphors of the TV screen.
That was it: I was officially a video game kid. About 15 years later, the ultimate technological gift of this kind of man – straightforward for me this time – will be his old Neo Geo AES console, which makes a cigarette sound. It was a surprising surprise but the smell was so unbearable that I sold it for a copy of the PC engine. Tatsujin. (Which, of course, made the video an overnight sensation.)
My other best gaming gift must be the NES. Despite my Atari love affair I was slow in cotton there were other, new video game systems. In the summer of 1987 or 1988 I stayed with some cousins and they had dozens of common games with NES: Kung Fu, Super Mario Bros., Double dribble, Ice hockey, Etc. It was the closest thing I ever felt to love at first sight. (I don’t remember Punch-out !! First, though.) After returning home I’m sure I was vague, all “friendship ended with Atari, now Nintendo is my best friend.” My bereaved parents soon made an impact again and another Nintendo Zombie was born.
Speaking of bad gaming gifts, at one point I asked my grandmother for NES Friday the 13th, One of the more famous bad games for the system, After I rented once. Children are sometimes indescribable.
Erie
Which kid wants snow boots for a birthday present? It is a gift in practicality, without a gift. Maine (the same place I grew up) is known for its severe winter punishment. Walking on the school bus in mid-December makes it easy for a child to get frostbite, especially if the child is a petulant child who prefers a paper-thin van over more seasonal footwear.
So, yes, for my something-birthday (try nice; telling you the exact number will soon carbon-date me), my mom bought me snow boots. Boots. For some-grader. A practical gift, sure, but not a nice one.
Turns out, my mother copied one of the new two Pokemon Versions, Gold And Of silver, In each boot. Now That It was cold. The less cool situation was that, once I picked one, I had to send it all the way to the Elite Four before starting another and play it. In other words – and this is just flashing on me now as a result of the double-edged power of blurred vision – my mother apparently dreamed of becoming Pokemon Professor. Gave this verdict, apparently, as I was finally able to put on a roster with both Lugia And Ho-oh on that, which I briefly crushed everyone PokemonThe child is playing at school. And I don’t get skin swelling from frostbite there.
Czech
It’s simple: Sag Genesis is the best gaming gift I’ve ever received. I remember thinking at the time that this was the best, most amazing console ever. I don’t have gaming magazines or YouTube to tell me. This Sega Genesis console in my house was amazing and I could play Power Rangers Game on it. (It was too The first game I ever beat, By the way.)
However, what I didn’t know was that my parents were very smart and friendly. Playing back in the middleLike the 90s, like today, was very expensive. So my people my brother and I will buy older consoles and games. We didn’t care. They were new to us. And it saved my parents a lot of money, which was good because we didn’t always have much to save. It also means that I grew up playing stuff on the Atri 2600 and NES, even though I was born years after that console was compatible or new.
As I got older this strategy would eventually become inadvisable, as I started learning more about the hobby and asking for new consoles and games. But for a variety of reasons, I never got another Christmas-gift console after that Genesis. So it has a special place in my heart and it is my best gaming gift to date.
Ethan
It is very difficult to choose. In 1998 I got a crimson Game Coloring boy And Pokemon Yellow. I was glad. Ultimately my own handheld, to sit alone and play games in any small corner of the world. The following year my family bought a Nintendo 64 and got it The Legend of Zelda: Time Karina. A few years after that, in a feat of pure magic, my brothers and I somehow got both PS2 and GameCube that same year. One Christmas, two systems. My brother bought me last year Kartiya For the PS1, complete with a gem case and booklet. I hadn’t played it in decades. Enjoyed holding it.
But my favorite gaming gift came again in 1995. I think it was like the year we got Super Nintendo. My parents handed me a big package, much bigger than being a video game. It looked like it could be clothes. I tore the wrapping paper with half a heart to hide a big black starfish with a black b reveal. “EarthPound Earth શું What? I had no idea what it was. My parents picked it up at a nearby clearance Best department store That business went out. This Sticker. 19.99 said.
I finally realized through that huge guidebook that it came to understandingH.. I started playing later that day. I scratched and sniffed the scratch ‘n’ sniff cards in the package. A monkey chewing bubble gum smells sweet; It smells like chili thrown by a dog on fire. Over The next days and weeks I slowly realized what it was Earthbound Was really, And since then he’s been with me … at least the cartridge. Box x and everything that came with it was lost long ago. At one point I cut everything out to make a collage to hang on my wall. I lost that too. Maybe one day they will come back to me.
How about you
KotkuIs weight, but what is yours? Looking back, what was the best sports-related gift you ever received? Or, if you want a dish, the worst? Your say! We’ll be back Next monday In two weeks to deliberately and discuss the issue of the second week. You will see in the comments!
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