Swag Saturday: Soul Calibur / Kingdom Hearts travel pack (DS/PSP)

by Ben Gilbert on Dec 5th 2009 9:30PM

Update: The comments have closed and the winner will be contacted shortly. Thanks to everyone for participating!

If you're anything like us, you'll be spending a decent part of your holiday stuck in the seat of a train, bus, automobile, or aeroplane, heading towards wherever "home" is for the upcoming holidays. We know how nice it can be to pick up a new game or two for the travels ahead, and in the spirit of that we're giving out a DS/PSP travel pack for this week's Swag Saturday including both Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Tell us your best (gaming or non-gaming) holiday travel story (keep it clean, folks! -- no "mile high club" stories!) and we'll pick one winner at random to receive the travel pack early this week. As always, keep an eye on the email address tied to your commenting name to find out if you've won!

Leave a comment telling us your best (gaming or non-gaming) holiday travel story.
You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec -- which may have to do with the Ubisoft Petz franchise)
Limit 1 entry per person per day
This entry period ends at 9:31PM ET on Sunday, December 6
At that time, we'll randomly select one winner to receive one copy of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for Nintendo DS ($35 ARV) and one copy of Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny for Sony PSP ($40 ARV).
For a list of complete rules, click here

Tags: DS, giveaway, joyswag, kingdom-hearts, kingdom-hearts-3582-days, Nintendo, soul-calibur, soul-calibur-broken-destiny, swag-saturday

Reader Comments (574)

Traveling on airplane for practically a whole day....good thing I had my psp with an extra battery or else I would have been bored as hell.

When Reggie Fils-aime and I camped out in the woods.
It was when he still worked at pizza hut

Lame Brodo, trying to get to the top of the page won't help you.

I love Gimmicky-ness of DS games,
They let me make an ass of myself anywhere in public.

When I took my Xbox camping. That's about it.

Not much of a travel story, but whatever.

I played pokeman blue all the way to tahoe and all the way home.

i never travel too far, just a few hours here and there. i guess my best story kinda sucked. :(

We played Monopoly on the iPhone like 10 times during Thanksgiving break.

We were going out of state and our vehicle broke down half way there. At the time is wasn't funny but looking back it was hilarious.

Playing MGS:PO on the flight from NYC after searching all over Houston to find it, which was a failure, and found it on my Xmas trip, ol. That was so great.

my travel story is traveling to Arizona where my car broke down in rural New Mexico and stranded for X-mas Day

I played Pokemon on the way to my grandmother's house. Right before I got there, I caught a shiney Weedle. Best day ever.

Last minute decision to go shopping in the States. Drove for a few hours going south at 10 pm; didn't get there until 1 or 2 am. Oh well, all worth it for the outlet malls and GameStops of course.

Flew into Ireland thinking that the converter I bought would work perfectly with my DS. It didn't. I looked around forever trying to find a DSphat/SP charger in an Ireland toystore- they didn't have it. So, I trying to conserve as much battery as I could, on the 3rd day we drove into Dublin. Luckily, they had AMERICAN electrical outlets. I finally got to charge me DS and continue Professor LAyton #1.

That time I went to india back in the year 2000. It was just me, my gameboy color, gold version, and a ton of batteries. My mission: Catch Marril from that mountain after the ghost gym leader.

Unfortunately, my plan fell through since I didn't bring enough batteries and it was hard to find some decent ones in the village I was staying at ( plus my parents at the time wouldn't get me more since I was spending most of my vacation on that little game). Its too bad I never got the marril.

holiday gifts randomize!

It was Christmas day and most of the presents had been open. This was the Christmas that was post-Wii release. My parents had been searching for a Wii throughout almost every store in the state. Having no immediate luck, I assumed I would have to wait for a month or so for one. Anyway, back to Christmas Day.

I was told by my father to go put a bag of trash outside, so I ventured outside the living room. When I came back suspicious looks faced my way. A little confused I scanned the room for any relation. Sure enough a neatly wrapped box lay on the couch. I darted towards it and tore the reindeer paper clean off. The Wii logo shined as I picked the box up. I quickly unboxed it and connected it to the tv. The next 8 hours consisted of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and happiness.

Unfortunately that was the last 8+ straight hours of Wii game time I ever spent.

Cool story, I can appreciate creative ways to suprise people with gifts.

traveling to texas and playing verses gameboy (with that goofy cord) with my sister in the backseat

Yo, i am a gamer, i don't travel for holiday, i rather stay home playing with PS3.

Back in the day when I was camping I brought my Sega Nomad and an extra controller (it was amazing idea to have a controller port for a 2nd player!) and we played Streets of Rage and Gunstar Heroes. Hellz yea!

Traveling an hours and a half to wait outside of a store for 3 hours in the cold for a Wii. Worth it methinks.

Last year I remember flying into christmas :]
I was on a plane from California all the way to Florida on Christmas Eve. I was playing Animal Crossing on my DS and then all the celebrations started in my AC town (neighbors we're wishing me a merry christmas, santa passed by ;D) and I then realized we were right over Florida which is 3hrs ahead of California. I flew into Christmas day =]

Watching A Christmas STORY KINGDOMHEARTSOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!

getting snowed into detroit and driving to Iowa with 5 strangers overnight

PSP, 10 Games, And Vegas (from L.A.). Long trip, psp made it shorter.

Went cross country a few years back to visit my brother traveling via "greyhound". I was going through Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and the people around me started watching. Like there was nothing better to do. I actually beat it and they liked it!

Playing Patapon next to my sister a few Thanksgivings back on the way to my aunt's house and not realizing the headphones weren't actually plugged in all the way. To this day she winces when I even mention the title.

Never traveled for xmas, people came to my house!

Haha, I beat Golden Sun 1&2 in Florida when 2 first came out.

Last year I played so many games during the holidays my eyes started to bleed.

For Christmas, my family and I went to Vegas. I packed Puzzle Quest for the DS and that made the tedious hours between awesomeness pass away; gambled and saved the world, not bad.

My best holiday travel story is my best one because it's full of firsts. It was the first time my family didn't spend Christmas in our hometown with my dad's extended family. It was the first time I went to the movies on a holiday. And it was the first time I got to see my cousin's wife and baby.

I got laid.
Does that count?

we usually host holiday gatherings at our house, no traveling required.

Do want...

When I was a kid, we traveled by plane a LOT (all our family is in the US, but we lived in Indonesia because my dad worked in a mine there), and my brother and I each had a gameboy (yes, the grey bricks). We also had a carrying case each, and we split the games between us for carrying. Sadly, one year, I left my case in an airport :( Fortunately, I was taking my gameboy out, so I was holding that when I forgot the case, but all the games that were in it were lost for all time.

They were mostly the games I liked, but I still felt terrible for losing games I shared with my brother. To this day, I have no idea what continent they were even on.

I never traveled for xmas! People came to my house.

A college buddy was getting married and I was the best man along with two other of our friends from college. Well it was a modified catholic service so we sat for much of it....and myself and the other groomsmen proceeded to play Mario Kart on the DS while seated. The bride would of never known if I would of paid more attention. She got a tad upset when she had to ask if her wedding was bothering our game and if I could pause and bring her the ring.

Upon retrospect I should of said something other than "Can it wait a minute, this match is almost over and I am winning."

Pokemon Yellow on a 12 hour trip to my Grandmas. 'Nuff said.

zelda marathon on plane to hawaii

does a 30min car ride count?

i had a gameboy and pokemon red at the time...which i played the heck out of.

Playing fire emblem for the GBA. Best 9 hour trip evar~!

I went to my aunts in toronto for xmas, and she gave me a lime green gameboy colour and a copy of pokemon blue. best present she ever gave me :D

I have a similar story. My brother and I opened our gifts one Christmas morning, he got Pokemon Blue, I got Red. Traditionally, after presents and breakfast, my family hits the road and drives all over Jersey (we're from PA). The entire time my brother and I are playing these games. He chose Squirtle, I chose Bulbasaur (one repeat playings I always take the Fire type now), and I remember after hours of driving up and down the Garden State, I had made it through Mount Moon and was raising a Magikarp I bought from some guy to become a Gyarados (I had seen one evolve in the show and wanted one bad). Best Christmas travelling ever.

Not really an impressive story, but I once vomited all over the back seat of my parents car while traveling for thanksgiving. In highschool I was really into DDR and could not get enough. i ended up buying a $150 travel screen that sat ontop of the PS3 so I could play DDR with a controller on the way. Less then 30 mins in the arrows scrolling up the screen plus the road scrolling past wrecked my equilibrium and insta-vomit all over the place! Needless to say, I didnt play anymore games for the remainder of the trip. Waste of $150... :(

I don't think it was the screen's fault...

to be clearer, those screens are very useful, dunno about $150 worth, but I would like to have one. Was it under warranty/return policy?

3 hours of Advance Wars on an airplane. I started out already having reached the final battle vs the Black Hole Army. By the end of the trip, I still hadn't beat it.

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Swag Saturday: Soul Calibur / Kingdom Hearts travel pack (DS/PSP)

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