Where you guys at for christmas / What was under your tree?

My parents and I drove down to Biloxi Mississippi to see my sister for christmas and her 24th birthday (dec 22). So she was going to come over today to the hotel we're at but she's staying home and my parents went to Walgreens, so alone at a hotel drinking Pepsi Jazz : Blackcherry, eating Pepperonis and they have a free broadband internet box with a cable that gives free internet and so here I am. With the Laptop I got for Christmas,along with my Laserdisc player and 8 Master System games that all have their respective box and manual (I'll never know how my folks got them because they said they picked them up at a thrift store all for 9 dollars)that are.

Blade-Eagle 3d
Rambo 3
Outrun
Zaxxon 3d
Wanted
Captain Silver
Choplifter
and 1 other I'm going to have to remember when I play them later.
(I'll post pics in the "Haul" thread)

but yeah, all have the box and manual and they are in great condition, somehow my mom obtained them at a thriftstore all for $9, they were a tad on the dusty side but NO stains, rust, sharpie or cracked carts at all ! I've had a great Christmas :D I wish everyone a great holiday.

I went back to NY, while Brandi is stuck in Maryland. :(

I flew home, but if there wasn't any snow in NY, I would have driven home, and been able to transport some stuff I wanted to trade off.

I got some clothes that I wanted, a book I wanted, and another book I never knew I wanted until I got it, and some $$$ for a new stereo in my car that I will get and install when I get back in DC area.

I'm back home at the center of the universe (Huddersfield) for a week over Christmas. Hopping back to Sheffield for some new years's par-taying :D.

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Originally Posted by sega fan

Zaxxon 3d

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For the 32X?

Anyway, I've got a Virtual Boy, Classics Collection for Genesis, a Super Mario T-shirt and some other weird stuff. ^^

Zaxxon 3D is a Master System game... I recall it being decent, but I may be wrong.

$50 Visa card
Spider-Man and Venom: Seperation Anxiety ( From a random stranger apparently )
Weird Al Music Video DVD

So it's Christmas Day and I never received no email to send too, so I got two presents and never bought anyone a gift, so I feel like a real douche right now.

Anyone in Secret Santa this year that received no gift please tell me so I can straighten this out.

Spiderman was from me VinnyT...lol I didn't get the memo about people getting assigned one another so I bought at Random! Enjoy!

Elusive: Thanks so much for the book!! You rock! Couldn't have hoped for a better gift!

Here's what I got from family and close friends:

$25 Shell Gas Card
$25 Gift card to B.J.s pizza/bar
Virtual Unrealities of Alfred Bester (His short stories)
An old school japanese Sonic the Hedgehog shirt from a friend who just got back from Japan but he mailed it and it hasn't come yet :?
A Street Fighter (old school yet again) shirt my mom gave me...its pretty awesome
A Terminator T-Shirt
Money
My mom gave me almost all of her/my late father's vinyl collection which was pretty awesome
Clothes
Shoes
2 pairs of glasses to be picked up after january 1st (I needed these so damn bad, ugh.)

It sucks being older and actually appreciating practical useful stuff...

Gifts to myself with extra $$:
Several NHL games for Genesis and Saturn
Colorado Avalanche hat/jersey...

The Mrs bought me an r/c apache helicopter, bloody cool! Ended up with lots of clothes, alcohol, chocolate, foreign money for our up comming trip, smellies!

Do we have someone over in the UK who can take out the creator of Thomas the Train?

They still make that crap?

Ugh...when I was a kid I got one and the face on it gave me nightmares...

That damn Thomas has been around since I was a kid. I remember watching it on Shining Time Station (with George Carlin, remember?)

Sadly I think Thomas the tank engine is here to stay!

I certainly hope so; there may be a little boy in your future who makes that discovery no matter how hard you try to shelter him from it.

I got:

Xbox 360 60GB
Sonic Unleashed (360)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (360)
My brother bought me a copy of Pokemon Gold. I lost my copy 7 years ago, so w00t.
Wall-E 3-disc edition (DVD)
$15 iTunes card
and $80.

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Originally Posted by MrMatthews

I certainly hope so; there may be a little boy in your future who makes that discovery no matter how hard you try to shelter him from it.

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lol, most likely... I might have to play with the trains as well!

A belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of youse!

Well, I got what I asked for: a new digital camera and 'The Best Of' Zig and Zag DVD (puppets/characters of a show I used to watch religiously as a kid). I got the obligatory New Clothes/Pyjamas/Shoes/Chocolate/Books/Arguments/Art Materials/other DVDs as gifts too.

Sega-related stuff: Eternal Champions CD and General Chaos. Woot! :D

Right back at you probablee!

I havn`t seen Zig and Zag in years!

I got liquor candies and Canon Powershot A75 which is quite nice compared to what I used to have :)

I got clothes, cologne, and a buttload of Marvel comics trade paperbacks!

Good times.

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Originally Posted by MrMatthews

Do we have someone over in the UK who can take out the creator of Thomas the Train?

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Fie, sir! You could at least do Mr-The-Tank Engine the courtesy of referring to him by his proper title. And besides, it was some of Ringo's best work.

Anyway, I received such things as stationary, one of those little i-penguin speaker thingys, a dvd, and various moneys, which I've already begun putting to good Sega-related use :)

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Originally Posted by Smii

Fie, sir! You could at least do Mr-The-Tank Engine the courtesy of referring to him by his proper title. And besides, it was some of Ringo's best work.

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Damn right, Smii. Thomas the Tank Engline deserves the maximum amount of respect possible. I think a warning with peace and love is in order.

I got a box of Jelly Babies for Christmas.

I got some DVD's and some money.


And an escape pod for the Zeppelin.

In my house in pain because I got my wisdom teeth pulled (Yes, all of them) on Monday and still swollen and thursday.

What did I get?

Pants
$20
A Book
A Sweater Jacket

I only got one thing: money. I'll be spending it on an Intellivision II and possibly a PC Engine SuperGrafx, Atari 7800 or a working Sega Genesis 3 with whatever I've got left.

Oh, forgot to mention that I also got a movie: Top Gun.

Highway to the Danger = Good Song

I think that was a pre-Scientology movie?

Oh yeah, I got this too:

Black SPORTS Dreamcast
...something else from my girl friend ;)

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Originally Posted by David J.

Oh yeah, I got this too:

Black SPORTS Dreamcast
...something else from my girl friend ;)

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You have a very, very , very cool girlfriend. I approve.

We pretty much became a "couple" like that night... as we have been hanging out/dating for a month at that point. But the something else sealed it, oh wait it was the Dreamcast. That I wasn't expecting...

Ahhh... when video gaming brings two people together... it brings a tear to ones eye!

Her mom is a HUGE gamer, but Sony :(

Sony = Wrong

Dreamcast = Right

Tell her this. If you need help just copy and paste this and print it out.