Your best X-Mas Present

PostYour best X-Mas Present by **Hexx** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:22 pm

6 years old - hadn't asked for anything. Random gift from parents (awesome taste!)

It fired little missiles at the top and out the back (you can see the switches to release springs on the top!)

The "middle" bit dropped out the back to form a land rover like thing...and the top of the rover broke off into another ship.

The "purple" bits on the side (that look like engines) could be pulled out into 2 man crafts - all did different things based on the fold out wings (drill like Thunderbirds' mole, fly, underwater etc).

And there were dozens of "little" men to put in, play with etc (you can see the cockpits open up etc).

It was AMAZING.

Yours?

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Memento Mori** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:23 pm

Ocarina of Time.

Thunderbird Island.

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Cropolite** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:30 pm

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Count Nood** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:30 pm

It's amazing to think that there was a time when Hexx wasn't a raging gayer.

On topic though, for me it would probably be my Mega Drive. Got it when I was 6, and it came with Sonic, Streets of Rage, Prince of Persia and a couple more I think. I'd played Prince of Persia on the SNES before and loved it, so it was amazing to get that. Probably the console that kick-started my gaming "career" in fact.

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Tafdolphin** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:30 pm

Hexxmas wrote:

6 years old - hadn't asked for anything. Random gift from parents (awesome taste!)

It fired little missiles at the top and out the back (you can see the switches to release springs on the top!)

The "middle" bit dropped out the back to form a land rover like thing...and the top of the rover broke off into another ship.

The "purple" bits on the side (that look like engines) could be pulled out into 2 man crafts - all did different things based on the fold out wings (drill like Thunderbirds' mole, fly, underwater etc).

And there were dozens of "little" men to put in, play with etc (you can see the cockpits open up etc).

It was AMAZING.

Yours?

Holy gooseberry fool! I had one those but had totally forgotten about it until now. Thanks Hexx!

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Pedro** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:43 pm

One Christmas me and my brother awoke to find our entire front room was decked out as a Lego city, SO much lego it was strawberry floating awesome.

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Cuttooth** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:47 pm

A little manual spin art table, which was quite nice.

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Shadow** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:47 pm

Boringly, I think it was probably my Mega Drive, playing Sonic for the first time was just incredible.

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **PuppetBoy** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:50 pm

Fruits Punch Santa wrote:Thunderbird Island.

I got one of those too. Loved it.

Actually, I probably played with it for all of a couple of weeks before getting bored as there is remarkably little you can do with a toy island, but it was great fun while it lasted.

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Cuttooth** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:52 pm

puppetBoy wrote:
Fruits Punch Santa wrote:Thunderbird Island.

I got one of those too. Loved it.

Actually, I probably played with it for all of a couple of weeks before getting bored as there is remarkably little you can do with a toy island, but it was great fun while it lasted.

We just made the Blue Peter one. 8-)

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **darksideby182** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:55 pm

think i was 8or 9 , me and my brother got a NES for xmas 1 year with turtles, gunsmoke and duckhunt

i could believe my luck , although should have know because a few weeks before we were in toy'r'us looking at them with my parents

still have to this day but it doesnt seem to work anymore which is a shame

Without a second of hesitation:

You can tell the Engineers/geeks early, I guess. I loved that present. Plus I really believed I wouldn't be getting it.

My girlfriend just got me this for christmas, too:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130258746018&indexURL=

Woo Yay!

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **coldspice** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:04 pm

Nintendo Sixty Foooooooour!!!!

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Vermin** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:07 pm

My Amiga 500, in 1988.

The start of my love affair with gaming in earnest (seeing as the Speccy I had before that was a temperamental piece of shite that could have put me off gaming for life).

N64, but non-games related...

It was badass

pedro wrote:One Christmas me and my brother awoke to find our entire front room was decked out as a Lego city, SO much lego it was strawberry floating awesome.

That. Sounds. Fantastic.

I would easily have as much fun setting that up any child who played with the Lego.

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Rax** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:23 pm

A lego pirate ship. Sadly it didnt float but the rudder moved when you turned the ships wheel, was the best thing ever when I was 7

PostRe: Your best X-Mas Present by **Cropolite** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:48 pm

Herbi wrote:N64, but non-games related...

It was badass

What was that about again? My friend had one.

Its a giant Mighty Max isn't it? I got that one. The main bad guys lair I think.

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