It didn't happen to me, but a girl from my class on third grade asked her grandma for a GameBoy Color for her birthday.
She got one of these:
My aunt knew I liked racing games.
It could be much worse TBH
Such a simple post and it got such a big laugh out of me.Christmas gifts:
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Friend bought me a fighting game. Something about the fighters being werebeasts or something.
Barely touched it.
My grandma is very religious and knew I liked video games. She bought me a game with "God" in the title for christmas.
It was God of War.
I was 15.
Well intentioned, misguided, but man was it awesome!
That seems a tad harsh. It's nice she did some research on looking up critically acclaimed games for the system she just bought.
The holidays following the Vita launching my girlfriend got me a grip attachment/case........... For PSP. :/
I have only received absolutely awesome games for gifts, but my best friend (who is a CoD casual gamer) received a PSP with Metal Gear Acid as a gift from his wife.
She bought him the PSP, and then picked out Metal Gear Acid because it had a high metacritic score. That was so not his type of game and he busted her chops immensely about buying a game just because a score was high.
No joke this happened at christmas to my cousin
I had one of these but a 999 game version (or some other lower number). Tetris and many repeats of a few slight rule changes of Tetris.It didn't happen to me, but a girl from my class on third grade asked her grandma for a GameBoy Color for her birthday.
She got one of these:
No joke this happened at christmas to my cousin
Idiot Child Skik: Tell Santa that I want Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Tak and the Power of Juju for Christmas!
Parents: ok
*Christmas Day*
Idiot Child Sklk: WOW I wonder what SANTA put in my STOCKING.................
Idiot Child Skik: .....close enough
It didn't happen to me, but a girl from my class on third grade asked her grandma for a GameBoy Color for her birthday.
She got one of these:
Me "Yo dad! I want SSX on Tour for Christmas!"
Dad: "I got you son!"
SSX 3 is amazing but dammit I wanted the SSX game with skis.
My girlfriend asks me atleast once a week if I'm playing my switch still.
A couple summers ago, my godson (son of my 1st cousin) turned 13. He has an X1 and I thought "What better way to bond with the kid than to send him Destiny?" which I was playing the hell out of at the time. So I packaged up the game, as well as a letter saying "I look forward to adventuring with you this summer!" and sent it on its way.
A month or so later I received a hand written letter from his mother thanking me for my "thoughtful gift", but noticed that it was never brought up again and he never ended up playing with me.
Turns out upon receiving the game, his parents promptly tookthe violent game away. Which I thought was ironic considering the kid is allowed to play Battlefront (Star Wars doesn't count as violent apparently...) and his dad was the person that introduced me to Mortal Kombat 2 back when I was 10. C'est la vie I suppose, I tried.
Wow at the entitled jerks in this thread.
Growing up, we were really poor. We seldom had gifts for christmas nor birthdays. One christmas my brother and I got Zelda 2 and Metroid. Albeit they were used, we were incredibly happy about it.
My ex bought me AC Unity