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

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Leaving my DS in a hotel room the first day of a trip and not having anything else to do at night since I didn't plan on bringing anything else since I'd be gaming. That was awesome.

Hm probably when I rode the Amtrak to my sisters house for the summer, I had my ds and went into pictochat and found like 3 other people in there... and I was like "Are you guys on this train!?" and sure enough I got to meet them in person :)

Best was the year we had to rescue my Brother-in-law. He was driving from Indy to NJ, and his dog got sick in the car. He got lost, called from a truck stop on a highway we couldn't identify. The truckers had competing ideas of which wasy he should go to a main road, while we were offering to find him and drive with him.
Dinner was late.

X-mas 1988. I was 8 years old and Super Mario 2 was waiting for me under the tree. Enough said!

golf at the inlaws.

Umm I guess surprising my fiance by driving 400 miles on christmas eve to be at home instead of at the business meeting.

I went to a friend's house for a visit and left with the best tasting bag of ginger snap and chocolate chip cookies I'd ever had.

I remember when i was very young wanting an NES for christmas. my family was poor at the time and wheile i wanted one very badly i didn't talk to much about it because ii knew my mom couldnt afford it. when i went to the tree on christmas morning i saw a box that i figured came from a department store and was a new jacket or something, i ripped open the box and right there was an NES bundled with the light gun and mario/duck hunt. i believed i cried abit and played the greatest game ever all the rest of the day

I traveled to the store and boughts some games, they were awesome!

Going up to my dad's on a bus alone for the first time, with nothing to keep me company but my GBA and $20 for food. Fun times.

Well now, I'm in quite a pickle, don't really have much of a story I can tell...

Guess the best one would be when I got Pokemon Blue and Red as an early Christmas present, and ended up playing that game all the time, especially when I was forced to go somewhere, k-marts, targets, doctor appointments, and visiting some family in Ohio.

Driving home from college with the car full of presents and laundry is a fond memory for me. I always played Christmas music the whole way.

Hm, well, I can't remember any holiday traveling, but I did have my first handheld system, the yellow & blue GBC packaged with Pokémon Yellow Version, during vacation (or some drive). I remember being in Mt. Moon, having chosen my fossil (dome, all the way!) and run into Team Rocket for the first time. We had to get out around that point, IIRC. Anyway, just one of those things that's stuck with me.

Tangentially, it's a shame Versus Books fell through. Damn good Pokémon guides, even with the occasional typos or screwups.

I played Mario Kart on top of the pyramids at Tikal, just to say I did. And now I have.

beating my friends in risk

went through two hours of just playing rock band unplugged once i have arrived and got off i find out when i tun on my psp that none of my progress has been saved

Beating the GBA Kingdom Hearts game as soon as I got to the cabin, which is where we were staying in North Carolina. It was also my birthday. It was pretty awesome.

Not my travel story, but my Freshman year of high school, I asked a teacher that was going to NYC for the holidays if she could pick up a copy of Pokemon Box for GameCube from the Pokemon Center there (Before it got turned into Nintendo World). When she got back, she had gotten the copy of Pokemon Box, and I paid her for it.

Even though that teacher was a terrible teacher, she's awesome for getting me that copy of Pokemon Box.

fighting over who gets to play pokemon puzzle league next on my honeymoon cruise.

meee

playing mario kart DS with my brother for 8 hours on the way to florida. that game never gets old.

I have never traveled for the Holidays.

I remember playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan for my Game Boy back in the good old days. It was during a 16 hour plane ride.

Christmas one year, where I was bored on a car ride up to my mom's boyfriend's house (about 3 hours away). Had my Gameboy Advance SP, with Golden Sun 1 loaded in it, and plunked away at it until we arrived. I had actually taken my PS2 and Digital Devil Saga 2 up there with me, so I could play it on a small TV Christmas Eve, since we were staying the night.

First, I have extreme luck with games when I travel, so I was finally able to beat the final boss in the game (who I had been stuck on for about a month).

Then, Christmas day, I open my presents, and lo and behold, a brand new, shiny, recently released PSP-1000 (the first model), with Untold Legends 1, and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (movie). I was so excited.

Watched the movie later that day, and when we drove back home the next day, I was playing Untold Legends the whole way.

I was on an airplane on my way to Panama. I was bored as heck and all i had was a laptop with no internet, and a DS. After a while of boredom i got up for drink and noticed a kid down my row that had a DS as well. Luckily he also had the same game as me and was a real cool kid, i got off that plane with more shinies than i knew what to do with. Lucky day for me, seeing as i had barely gotten the game.

PSP on the plane! Ha, didn't even know I was on an Airplane.

ninjatown on a long drive to a renaissance festival :3

The one where my future self won joyswag just before Christmas!

when I was around 8 yr old me and fam when to north Carolina for Xmas and my step pop rented a van but neat thing bout the van it came wit a tv hook up to a sega genesis with alot of game so my whole trip there was very fun

I took my DS camping once. Best alarm clock ever!

My best travel story that is video game related was dated a few years back when I visited the Nintendo Store in NYC. Not only it was my first time there, it was also the day Miyamoto-san flown in due to some kind of special event! Of course I tried to get him to sign my DS, but was pushed away by the crazy crowd there. Nevertheless, it was awesome to see Mr. Miyamoto in person. :)

Went to Louisiana over thanksgiving break, played Little Big Planet on the PSP the whole way there :)

When I was in college, I used to briny my gamecube back and forth between home and my dorm. I actually liked that handle!

I was on a plane to Las Vegas-Miami doing a stop in Texas, long traveling day. Fortunately, I had my PSP and God of War CoO and I rocked it out beating the hell out of Persephone.

i once was going home form Fresno from LA the day af, which is a 3 and a half hour drive but since it was the day after Christmas their was a lot of traffic so it ended up being over 4 hours long but luckily i got an all new DS with Pokemon dash but because their was no more our van so i was in the trunk of the van with no room to move and when we are barely an hour driving i was already close to beating the game so i decided to turn it off and go to sleep and when i wake up we still have a hour to get their so i decide to turn it on and play some more and when i get home i was like 1 levels away form beating it and after i beat it i wanted to buy a new game but wasn't allowed to buy a new game for about a month but some how i was able to last that month and get super Mario 64 DS

Just got a DS at Wal-Mart for 98 bux! Still gameless .

I once took a trip to my aunts house and my family didn't argue it was amazing

Every Christmas Eve my parents host a party where our ENTIRE family comes over. I'm talking about immediate and extended family. Needless to say, the house gets crowded really quickly. So as a defense mechanism, my cousins, brother, and I would retreat to the television room when we were kids. We would then watch watch nothing but this tape of Christmas specials and play Super Mario Bros. 3. Now that we're older, we stay with the family and intermingle. It's fun, but I still have a kind of vauge longing for the time when the kids had their own little club....

The only time my family has traveled over the holidays (over than drives back and forth from college, which were before holidays and pretty uneventful) was when I was 7 and we went to Florida for Christmas vacation. It was a fun trip with highs and lows, but at my age, I was just really happy to visit Walt Disney World for the first time. Also, very happy to escape the snow and cold of the Midwest for the warm weather of Florida.

I stayed at home.

Probably when I flew to the other end of the country to visit my mom, brother and friends down there, after Rock Band came out. I have a Guitar Hero II guitar carrying bag that holds two guitar controllers, though my Rock Band controller sticks out the end slightly, and I checked the box in which the drums originally came, in the full band kit.

There was much playing after the two hour flight and three hour drive from the Memphis airport.

I was like 7 years old and I spent the entire plane ride playing Zelda Link's Awakening DX. 6 hours after playing I had only made it to the 3rd dungeon. >.

Road trips with my Gameboy.

I usually play DS in the car while going to visit my family. Also, the year my roomate got Rock band for Christmas we played it for some hours.

I brought my psp and ds on my trip. Get to the destination only to find I didn't bring the power cords. 8(

every christmas when my girlfriend and i drive home we play 20 questions for the whole trip...it's a long drive.

in this

Taking my Gameboy (the original) with me on a holiday trip from Cincinnati to Balitimore many years ago. I even had the Light accesory so I could play in the dark. How I am not blind from that, I will never know.

I bought my PSP with the idea of taking it on train trips from Seattle to Portland just in time for me to move back to Portland and not have to take anymore train trips.

Unfortunately, I didn't realize what a colossal pain in the ass it was to put movies on a PSP.

Getting stuck in the snow in Sierras on the way to a Tahoe Xmas weekend. Will never do that again without 4WD.

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