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Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:41PM swalke39 said

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playing some call of duty or halo with the cousins all day.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:40PM Twinkling82 said

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I had my x-boyfriend coming over (yes we're still friends, the break-up was smooth), as the online Splosion Man was so laggy, and I wanted to finish the game up.
We had some great time while beating those levels.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:40PM ChooChooCharlie said

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I got my mom and grandparents to play Wii Sports the Christmas before last. That's about it.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:41PM (Unverified) said

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Pretty much just the one time I got an N64 for Christmas, and my dad set it up and played Mario Tennis with my sister and I.

He lost. Repeatedly.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 7:13PM Sunari said

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I game'd my parents wondered why I played such violent games, and then I had turkey .. it was awesome

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:40PM GameboyHippo said

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My fondest memory of gaming with the family during the Christmas season was when we hooked two GameCubes together with a crossover cable and had a very rare session of 8 player Mario Kart Double Dash. It only took two Gamecubes ($300), two copies of Double Dash ($100), two TVs ($500), 8 Gamecube controllers ($200), and two very hard to find broadband adapters for the cube ($100). Total cost of 8 player Mario Kart on the cube? $1200! (not including the crossover cable which I simply made myself)

Ah but listening to my brother-in-law and sister complain on how everyone else were cheaters because they've had practice made it all worth it.

The amazing thing is that the game supported up to 16 player. Outside of a college dorm, who had that kind of setup!? And yes, it does make me mad that you can't use the Wii's wifi to play Mario Kart Double Dash. At least Mario Kart Wii has 12 players wifi.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:41PM (Unverified) said

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Me and my family always have some kind of video game tournament during the holidays. Last year it was Double Dribble for the NES. I won with a last minute half court 3 pointer.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:41PM stubby boardman said

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Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey for N64 is our family's past time. A lot of old games go bad with age *cough* Goldeneye! *cough* but that game is timeless fun.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:41PM (Unverified) said

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I once spent most of spring break playing Bomberman and Turtles in Time with my cousins and sister. They still talk about Bomberman-break today.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:41PM Protostar said

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My aunt wouldn't let my cousin play Mortal Kombat so I would sneak it over his house and we would play after she went to bed.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:41PM (Unverified) said

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My best family gaming memories are from the year my cousin brought his Wii to Thanksgiving. Everyone from my 4 and 6 year old cousins to my mid-50s former NASA engineer uncle who had never before played a video game in his life were joining in the fun. We bowled for hours, one of my cousins showed that his long-past high school baseball skills did translate, the aforementioned NASA uncle kept trying to figure out what buttons he needed to press in boxing (he refused to accept that the answer was "none"), and my late-50s mother enjoyed boxing too much, until one of her matches went to a second round and she made me fill in for her. She also wasn't too happy when we went one-on-one and I knocked her out!

Now my mother spends 30 minutes on Wii Fit everyday, and my NASA uncle needed me to hook up my cousin's Wii for him (my cousin left it there when he moved to China) so that he could continue bowling.

That's in addition to my mother buying a GameCube and Animal Crossing on her own after playing it once (and AFAIK she'd only played a video game once before that), and turning into an addict who had ~10 characters spread across 3 cities.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:42PM ciscomancer said

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Last Christmas is was 35 below at the cabin so we had 2 days of epic Dance Dance Revolution and Wii bowling.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:42PM mikeone said

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my whole family have been playing new super mario bros wii since we got it early yesterday (brother works at gamestop).

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:42PM ch3burashka said

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My parents don't play video games. Period. So, I'm kinda screwed. Maybe it's because we don't have enough controllers...?

Either will suffice, thanks.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:46PM puuya said

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mom really liked the boxing game in wii sports. Liked it too much, I say.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:42PM Bacon Deity said

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This year will be the first time I'll game with the family. My mom got a DSi, and we'll be playing around with some multiplayer games and whatnot.

But if that doesn't count, last year, my ex and I would LAN CS:S in my room. She'd be on my sick ass PC, and I'd be on my sick ass Laptop. We had lots of fun.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:42PM Nebenator said

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My sister plays Wii upstairs, I play Xbox 360 downstairs.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:42PM (Unverified) said

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We used to play games together, in the last console generation. Sadly, 90% of games today don't have local multiplayer.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:43PM (Unverified) said

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I got in a fight with my brother over who got to play as peach in SMB2.

I won... kinda

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:46PM MassOne said

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I brought my Dreamcast over to my gramps house and we all (me, my 2 brothers, and 3 cousins) ended up playing MvC2 till 11:00 on Thanksgiving as a way to see who gets the last slice of pumpkin pie. Later, we found out Gramps ate it at 10:00.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 7:03PM Hunter X said

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back in the day I played xmen against my older (girl) cousin even though she hated videogames, she loved passing the time with them..?

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:43PM Rockgamer said

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I had my little cousins over for Thanksgiving last year, and of course when they saw I had Rock Band that's the first thing they wanted to play. They were terrible at it as expected (though I'm no expert at it myself), but it was still fun playing with them, if only to hear their childish glee.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:44PM (Unverified) said

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Back in the day I had saved up all my pennies for a playstation, all based on one time that I saw a copy of FF7. I could afford no games for it, and bought it in September. After playing the crap out of a demo disk, I was finally able to open FF7 on Christmas Day. I was never so grateful to my parents on Christmas (until they bought me a ps2!). Then I realized I was five hours away from my playstation and wouldn't be home for two weeks.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:44PM (Unverified) said

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Last Christmas i had a lot of fun playing Buzz with my family on ps3 for hours on end. That game was pretty fun to play in groups and im usually not a casual gamer type of guy.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:44PM Covarr said

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Got The Guardian Legend for Christmas one year. Played it all day.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:44PM andrew632 said

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Last year got Guitar Hero: World Tour for Christmas and myself and all of my roommates played until 5AM the next morning. XD

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 7:57PM (Unverified) said

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last year i got a new 50'' plasma tv and a shitload of games like l4d and lips and guitar hero. and all me an my cousin did out of all the good games i got was sing lips from dusk till dawn. our voices were gone after that :p

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:45PM (Unverified) said

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My mom bought me an Amiga 500 when i was 5 years old (in 1991). My first game was Prince of Persia. Although i loved the game, i was never able to get past the "cutters" (that was the name i call them) and my mom was helping me getting past them. :)

Later, (2 or 3 years later) she bought a RAM upgrade for A500.

I just love her. Who wouldn't? (:

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:44PM neftones said

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I used to make my brother level up my party in FFIII for SNES while I played with new toys. That's how I do.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:45PM NervousDan said

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My brother bought us Guitar Hero 3 one Christmas. We played for like 8 hours straight.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:45PM (Unverified) said

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I think the best experience was two years ago. I was at the grandparents house, and my little nephew (yes, I'm that old) had gotten a 360 for Christmas.

About twenty of us played rotating matches on Halo 3 multiplayer for ELEVEN hours straight. Then, if that wasn't enough, someone had to pull out the DDR set afterwards, which went for another three hours.

I was surprised the console didn't red-ring shortly after that.

The other great time was Christmas '99, when I finally got my N64...Goldeneye is all I have to say.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:45PM quiggy said

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I do remember the Christmas when I first got Guitar Hero and sat around watching the rest of my family utterly fail to play anything on easy. That was a good time.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:57PM bsieve2 said

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staying up all night as a kid playing ff1

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:45PM CoryNewb said

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I was 4 and my family got an nes. The rest is history.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:45PM andysexton said

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I remember getting an Atari 2600 and playing Asteroids....

I'm old.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:47PM RockinOscar said

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i remember my first NES like it was yesterday

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:47PM (Unverified) said

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yeeeaah, me singing on GH:WT while my brother was on drums, and my uncle was on guitar wasn't the best set up really....................

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 10:33PM smartrthanu said

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Go Bucks!

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:47PM (Unverified) said

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Brought my Wii over to my girlfriend's house for a Christmas party one year when Wii Sports was still the shit. Girlfriend's relatives went bananas over that game and next week they bought their kids a Wii just to play with it themselves.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:47PM arnavdesai said

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Am a lonely man, play most of mygames solo.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:47PM shafnitz1 said

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When I was 13 we got an SNES for Christmas along with the Super Scope. We didn't do anything else that day but play Super Mario World and Super Scope 6 games.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 7:11PM KillerRamen said

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My mommy got me a launch PS2 for Christmas with Tekken Tag Tournament and SSX in 2001. She purchased some dude's line ticket for $50. (I have the best mommy ever!)

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:49PM N8RT8R said

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Christmas Night, 10 years old maybe, I'm woken in the middle of the night by my mom and sister playing Mario in my room on the Nintendo I got for xmas and laughing hysterically at all the dying and running and jumping.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:48PM heypaul said

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I got my original NES for Christmas when I was six. I had somehow gotten my parents to cave and let me open my presents early, at around 6PM on Christmas Eve. Problem was, we got a faulty unit and my dad had to drive back to the store (which was in the middle of nowhere since we were poor and Dad was hunting for a deal), and by the time he came back, it was minutes from my bedtime. I got in one game of Super Mario before I was forced to bed, too excited to sleep and could still hear my parents playing and laughing (probably at that darned Duck Hunt dog) in the living room. My parents never played a game again, but I'm a dedicated gamer to this day, probably due to this tragic memory.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:50PM (Unverified) said

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Well we had waited in novemer back in 06 when the wii came out and spent the night in line and we fianlly got the wii. Although i couldnt open it untill Christmas so we put it in the closet untill then. Christmas day was a blast and we finally opened our precious wii of course my folks wanted a picture of us with it before we set it up so my 8 year old sister wanted to hold it, being the clumpsy girl she is she dropped it while holding it... i had to wait another year to buy another wii....

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:48PM jigsawhc said

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We play Rock Band all the time with the family. But extra controls would make playing other stuff possible.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:48PM aaronxx said

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vodka.. oh & some halo 3 with me bros.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:48PM Ninja said

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When I first got my Xbox years ago, I would play Jet Set Radio Future (the game that came in the bundle) all day until I eventually got dizzy from motion sickness. Then my sister would take over the game until I felt better again and I wanted to repeat the process.

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:49PM Justravis said

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Christmas of 08', I called my grandmother to come over and she played bowling on the wii with my girlfriend and then she got a few strikes here and there...
We then sat down watched a bit of t.v and decided to turn my 360 on :)

Once the 360 turned on UNO was on Spotlight and grandma said "UNO" like she was already playing the game or something lol then she stayed up for about 3 hours on xbox live camera playing uno with random people in ranked matchs!

(There went my leaderboard ranking)

Posted: Nov 14th 2009 6:48PM (Unverified) said

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I always play with my cousins during the family get togethers, we all hook up our xbox 360s and have good old LAN parties. They never let me and my girlfriend play on the same team, because we dominate, or maybe it's cause they want her on their team.

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