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Best Holiday Gaming Seasons Ever?

Posted by simoniker on from the ho-ho-half-life dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for their feature discussing the best videogaming holiday seasons of all time, as they point out: "Most of the biggest and best games, and many of the best game consoles, have all come out during the final months on the calendar." Their nominations include 1982, in which "Ms. Pac-Man ruled the arcades, and the previous arcade king, Donkey Kong, could finally come to our homes, packed in with the snazzy new ColecoVision", and 1996, where: "With the introduction of Mario 64 in September, gamers discovered the joys of games in 3D. With the release of Tomb Raider that same month, gamers discovered their hormones." What was your all-time favorite gaming Christmas?

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  1. 2003! by PatrickThomson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Half-life 2!

    Oh. Wait...

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  2. Re:1994/1996... by Echnin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you play Alpha Centauri? I assume you would, being a Civ 2 fan. AC really had that impact on me. I just loved it. Still install it about once every year. But really, it's not very recent. Halo and NOLF 2 are the only games which have given me that feeling in the last couple of years.

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  3. Christmas 1999 by MORTAR_COMBAT! · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had bought a PlayStation earlier in the year, but had to return it when I really needed some money. Then for Christmas, I unwrapped a PlayStation game from my fiancee's mom and thought, oh geez, what am I going to do with this, while thanking her a lot and saying I could play it on somebody else's system. I didn't get it -- my fiancee's gift which I opened next was a PlayStation. Pretty cool gaming Christmas, especially since my fiancee bought herself Tomb Raider for us to play also :)

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