Come on you remember those Chirstmas mornings where you stared at that "big present" wondering what it was. Or looking at those small ones wondering if it was possible that the gift you were begging for was in one of them. This thread is dedicated to those amazing Christmas mornings.
#1 Playstation - I originally wanted a N64 but my brother kept saying "no you want PLAYSTATION!" He talked about the system as if it were a mythical technology, especially since I didn't know what a Playstation even was just that it was a gaming system. When I got it I was amazed and those 3D games were just wow. I couldn't believe what I was playing (before I use to just play my SNES and watch my Genesis collecting dust). But Gran Turismo (demo), Tekken 3 (demo), Crash Bandicoot Warped, and Rugrats was just amazing. I spent hours sitting in front of the TV and playing the games. Oh and my Sister then discovered that she had motion sickness as she couldn't play 3D games. Truly amazing time.
#2 Playstation 2 - As everyone always says this had to be the biggest jump in 3D graphics EVER. Seeing Madden 2000 in action at the demo kiosks was just jaw droping. The players actually had FACES and I can see the mesh on their jerseys! When I got the system with Crash Bandicoot, NFL 2K2, and Tony Hawk 3 I was amazed. It wasn't as awesome as the Playstation (I was older probably) but it still was awesome.
#3 Razor Scooter - While kids were either into bikes or skateboards I was in scooters. When I go tmy first scooter I was so happy. I never got that good as the best I've ever got was doing 6 inch gravel grinds, 5 second manuals, and 180's. But it definately gave me a lot of fun in my younger years.
# 4 Family DVD Player - While it wasn't for me after the worst Chirstmas morning ever (I only got pajamas...no really that's all I got). Though after seeing my mom's cousin's DVD player she really wanted one. After seeing the clarity and just the coolness of them I really wanted one. Eventually we got a really high quality one with The Lord of the Rings movies in which ended up being my favorite of all-time (well so far at least and maybe The Dark Knight may have topped it). But yeah it was cool but not as awesome as the others.
I never got games consoles for Christmas, just games.
I think my best Christmas present was my very first dvd player, it had 5.1 speakers too, it was a budget set but still cool. It came with some shitty movies, Charlies angels.
In hindsight, the SNES had probably been my best Christmas present to date. After that, my gaming chair that I use at my computer desk, though the speakers are starting to go after two years. And though I hated it when I first got it, last would be my 512MB MP3 player that's still in perfect condition and only half full to this day.
My first bike is a close second.
NES visuals blowing you away?
Fucking NES. I can't even touch the VC NES games.
A few stand out, Sonic 2 way back in the early 90's. I got the game and this Sonic 2 T-shirt. I was dying for that game, I had to wait from when it came out a few months earlier till christmas to get it.
I got my Saturn on christmas, that was huge for me. I thought the Saturn would be the most incredible console ever, it was the height of my Sega fanboyism. I got Panzer Dragoon and Sim City 2000 with it. Meanwhile my brother got the PS1, I laughed at him and his dumb choice... a few months later he got Resident Evil... I stopped laughing.
Christmas 1999, the Dreamcast. Sega's big return, and how glorious it was. The DC actually did live up to the hype. I got Sonic Adventure, NFL2k with it and my dad got me VF3 instead of SC like I wanted.Oh well. Didn't matter, the DC was the largest leap in graphics ever (sorry Punk, PS2 was late to the party), when I first played Sonic and NFL2k it was unlike anything I had seen before.
^^^Yeah I meant to say the last generation was.
Vader, you can't deny how amazing seeing mesh on Jersey's was.
Please tell me you still have that T-Shirt. Pics please.
Dude that is the thing I remember most. I remember seeing NFL2k and seeing the jerseys and having my jaw drop on the floor. Yeah last gen was an amazing leap, this gen is so meh in comparision.
No I dont have it. But it was all white and in the middle it had the Sonic 2 logo which was Sonic and Tails in front of a giant 2.
Damnit, I wanted to see a tiny T-Shirt stretched over your manly chest with your midriff exposed
I used to have Spiderman PJs as a kid, I would wear them under my normal clothes.