Ever bought/received any Genesis-related gifts for Christmas?

[Aarzak]

As I witnessed my younger cousin go crazy over the 360 Slim he received for Christmas, I thought back to the many times I had done so as a kid, especially with regards to the Genny.

1995 - After bawling my eyes out over receiving nothing that Christmas (my family's pockets were tight at the time, what little they had was spent on an SNES bundled with Super Mario All-Stars+SMW for my cousins), my dad essentially told me to stop acting like a bitch and placated me with a used copy of Mortal Kombat II ($30). He followed it up two weeks later with a brand-spankin' new copy of MK3 ($70). Both gifts more than made up for that disappointing Christmas.

For that same Christmas, my mother wrote to this "Secret Santa" organization they had here in NYC. I requested a Sega Nomad, a Sega Saturn (w/Virtua Fighter), among other ridiculous demands. Unsurprisingly, I received nothing.

1996 - Received a new copy of Sonic 3D Blast ($65), which I'm writing about for this month's Roundtable as we speak. I'd been increasingly clamoring for the game for months, and begged my dad to give it to me on Christmas Eve rather than the next morning. I quickly grew bored of the game, and found myself more interested in the used copies of Golden Axe II and Fatal Fury which my dad bought me in the days following Christmas. He was less than thrilled at me paying more attention to these older, dusty carts rather than the one he had paid 65 smackers for. I ended up redeeming this folly 16 years later.

1997 - Wasn't exactly for Christmas, but my dad bought me a CIB copy of Strider ($7) earlier that December. I wanted it after seeing it ranked #42 on EGM's 100 Best Games Of All Time List (Issue 100, November 1997). The game revived my interest in the Genny after having sold off my 1995-1997 collection (some 20-25 games) in favor of store credit towards SNES games.

How about youse guys?

[Zebbe]

I got lots of Sega and Sonic stuff for Yule back in the day. The Mega Drive I'm still using was a Yule present in 1994 I think. I got Sonic 2, my brother Sonic 1, both from my now dead grandmother (late grandmother in gooder English???). Got Sonic & Knuckles the next Yule, had received Sonic 3 before that I think, and Sonic Spinball too. Got Sonic 3D the Yule 1996. I got other games as well, but some where birthday gifts.

[ApolloBoy]

I got my first Genesis for Xmas in 2001, back when my game collecting really started to take off. I picked up my first SMS in August that year and I really wanted a Genesis so I asked for one and got it! It was a VA7 but it was nice to have and I also got a good amount of games for it too. I don't use it now but I still have access to it as it belongs to my brother now.

Just this year I got a couple of Genesis/MD games from AlecRob who was my Secret Santa this year, Thunder Force II MD and Ultimate Qix.

[Tsar]

Got my genesis I think back in 95. Got Mk 3 and Tale spin. Then in 96 I got x-men2 clone wars and earthworm jim 2.

[sheath]

Strider in 1990 is the only one I can remember getting for Christmas. I only got games as gifts for my Birthday and Christmas and they blend together though. Anyway, I do remember being WAY worse than the N64 kid when I got Strider that year. It had already received the game of the year award from, you know, everybody and I had been playing it in the Arcades for over a year. Fricking awesome game too.

[Sky Llama]

Nah, no video games for Christmas. My parents at the time were heavily against such things and I had no chance of getting something like an N64 so I never asked. Heck, we didn't get a computer until 1999 and that was met with heavy resistance.

I guess that's not totally true. In 2005 or so we (me and my younger sister) got a PS2 along with two games, but we never bought more for whatever reason. I still don't know how we managed to convince them to get the damn thing though.

I've also never bought anyone any games or systems, unless buying for myself counts

[tz101]

1995 - After bawling my eyes out over receiving nothing that Christmas (my family's pockets were tight at the time, what little they had was spent on an SNES bundled with Super Mario All-Stars+SMW for my cousins)

Say what? Your parents neglected you, their own kid, and spent big dollars on a SNES bundle for your cousins? 'Wow' is all I have to say on that one.

I have never received anything Genesis related for Christmas, but bought various Genesis games for our son for Christmas back in the 1990's.

[Aarzak]

Say what? Your parents neglected you, their own kid, and spent big dollars on a SNES bundle for your cousins? 'Wow' is all I have to say on that one.

I have never received anything Genesis related for Christmas, but bought various Genesis games for our son for Christmas back in the 1990's.

Heh, not quite. My aunts and uncles were the ones who usually bought me gifts as a kid, my parents not so much due to their financial situation. They chipped in to buy my cousins that SNES that year, as they previously didn't own any systems. I on the other hand had gotten my first Genny back in the summer of that year (1995). Granted it was a used, dusty Model 1 that cost my pops $65, but still.

[Aarzak]

I got lots of Sega and Sonic stuff for Yule back in the day. The Mega Drive I'm still using was a Yule present in 1994 I think. I got Sonic 2, my brother Sonic 1, both from my now dead grandmother (late grandmother in gooder English???). Got Sonic & Knuckles the next Yule, had received Sonic 3 before that I think, and Sonic Spinball too. Got Sonic 3D the Yule 1996. I got other games as well, but some where birthday gifts.

Yay, we both got the same gift that year! Your gift had inferior box art however (creepy 3D-rendered angry Sonic face!).

[Moirai]

when it comes to Sega, I've only ever received Saturn games on Christmas. But like ApolloBot said, I have bought a few

[Saturn Fan]

Just my model 1 w/Sonic 1 system. Don't remember what year exactly, but it was the Christmas AFTER the SNES U.S launch.

I admit i didn't know much about Sega at the time, aside from Sonic and those earlier arcade favorites like Two Crude Dudes that never got a Nintendo release. Just wanted to broaden my gaming horizons and i thought the model 1 looked really cool.

It soon became my favorite of the two, while my brother's primarily bought SNES games.

[DarkDragon]

Genesis with Sonic bundle 1 year. Sega CD another year(92 or 93?) Eternal Champions and Landstalker another year(94?)

[Slutty]

Funny you mention that. My mother bought me a new Genesis Model 1 this Christmas because my other model 1 has been acting fishy. We thought it was funny how 20 years ago she bought me the same Christmas gift. Only difference was, it was a model 2 and I was like... 6 or 7. I'll never forget that Christmas. My cousins and I would always trade information as to what we were getting for Christmas. I found out about the Sega Genesis and about died. My cousins were getting one as well and I informed them that they were getting Streets of Rage 2 and Skitchin' with theirs. My cousin informed me that he "thinks" I got X-men with mine. I was so excited. The next morning I ran to open my Genesis and X-men game only to find that I did not get X-men. Instead I got -



My parents took the rap cd away because it cursed and after playing it I soon realized that it wasn't the best game in the world. My poor parents having saved for a long time to give their kid the best x-mas gift... What kind of kid would I be if I was disappointed? So. I learned to love it. ^_^

[stlpaul]

1989, Genesis with Altered Beast. Thanks, Santa.

[GohanX]

My parents didn't have much money, but they went all out for Christmas and that was usually the time I got systems.

I got the Model 2 Genesis with Sonic 2 and a 6 button pad whichever year the Model 2 came out

I got a 32x with Doom the year it came out

I don't remember if it was before or after the 32x, but they couldn't afford a new Sega CD, so one of my buds arranged for my parents to buy a used Sega CD 2 from someone for $30 (a ridiculous price at the time) and they grabbed a pile of inexpensive used games from a local shop that included Final Fight CD, Terminator CD, and Dune. I was sneaky and found the Sega CD stuff 2 weeks before Christmas, and one night while my parents were away I hooked it up and had a couple of hours of awesome.