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A History of Holiday Games (1980-2007)

Relive 30 years of Christmas past with our collection of retro TV commercials and childhood wish lists

Words: Charlie Barratt, GamesRadar US
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oryandymackie  - 11 months 3 days ago 
Oh God, Avsareone, get over yourself you fanboy.
mcdukefan823  - 11 months 3 days ago 
the halo story overall was kinda dumb, but i think it did a good job of bringing you to cool places and moving the story along...
BigBossOSE  - 11 months 3 days ago 
Bernie, you moron, all you did was offer a completely worthless comment that might as well not exist. So basically, you're every bit as bad as the "first" retards.
georgeguy  - 11 months 2 days ago 
wow. i remeber like 2 of these but thats makes sences becvause i wasn't even alive for the first portian.
georgeguy  - 11 months 2 days ago 
god i suck at spelling
GIJoe01  - 11 months 2 days ago 
I remember long ago when I didn't even know what a playstation was and my father had given me one for christmas along with a copy of Spyro 2 and Crash team racing. I still think Spyro 2 was the greatest game ever made.
Tomsta666  - 11 months 2 days ago 
WOW thanks for that trip down memory lane.
I enjoyed it imensly, even though your obviously American, and that article was for an American audience. But everyone has got to love retro junk!! Also I was born in 1983 so thanks for making me feel old too!!
Moschetto  - 11 months 2 days ago 
No 2008?
Red  - 11 months 2 days ago 
And here I thought I grew up at the start of...well gaming in general. I didn't start getting into gaming until about 1995.
GoldenMe  - 11 months 2 days ago 
Of course.....

Any article with Halo in it and people start going "gaylo" and flame.

Seriously people, just shut the fuck up and find other games AND ignore fucking Halo. It's good, not great, but good.

On a side note, Sonic 2 commercial FTW!!!!!!
phoenix_wings  - 11 months 2 days ago 
Hehe, I remember the majority of these games. And the majority of these commercials...I don't. I don't remember if it was Christmas or not, but I remember my parents brought home an SNES with Super Mario World, and a voucher for Super Mario All Stars. And it was a good year ^-^ Great article.
PerezI  - 11 months 1 day ago 
You dumb people. Halo was and still is one of the best games every made and I know the story can be confusing at times but it is still fun to play. Does Gears of Wars story make sense? No it doesnt so why do millions of people play it? For the multiplayer. Halo is still good no matter what retarded people say.
Kirbykiller4  - 11 months 1 day ago 
Nobody wanted kirby's dreamland for christmas.

Nobody.
foarthelulz  - 11 months 1 day ago 
lol sonic 2 can cover bald spots
VladMethos  - 11 months 1 day ago 
Sad to say that I was playing games when Yars Revenge and Frogger were the shizzle (I have the Pacman them song on vinyl along with the title cut to Berserk). Those years were as good as today simply because we never saw games like that before (Monopoly board game anyone) – today, we look for evolution in gaming – during the 80’s it was a revolution since computer gaming was in its infancy. The commercials and games from the 80’s bring back memories and reminded me that I still have most of those games in my closet with a working Atari 2600!

In 20’s years, the tweeners to 20 something’s today will remember COD4 as fondly as I remember Missile Command and the hours I would sit playing the games. Thanks for a trip down memory lane and reminding me how dang old I am…
SuperSubGaz  - 11 months 1 day ago 
Apparently, before consols, there were these things clled 'Home Computers' (!?!?!?!?!). Not that you would know that from this article...
peteypablo2624  - 11 months 1 day ago 
damn good job GT. although i can't remember anything up until about '98-ish, it brought back good memories. ahhh the good old days of goldeneye and n64. i never really made the connections of how fast gaming evolved in a matter of like 5 years. awesome!
hectorv1979  - 11 months 1 day ago 
god this makes me remember how old i am. i had every game and watch and yet it never dawned on me till now that the ds is based off of them lol
jonfitt  - 11 months 1 day ago 
It was going well up to 1998 and then it went all modern and boring.
It would be nice to see this done with the UK Christmas games of yore. Over there they don't have such a fat plumber fetish. There'd be lots more Spectrum, Amiga, and Commodore ads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPpPDih1Qo
Wizrai  - 11 months 1 day ago 
Now you are playing with [PORTABLE] Power!
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