The game box that dropped our jaw.

[TheDarkSun]

Magic Kingdom for Sega. One of the very true RPG dyngeon crawlers with an actual save function. Could not get a hold of the cartridge for a year or so and I was just reading 1 review that I had.

Was totally worth it. Good old days.

PS: When we first got a PC, the day before, I went out and bought C&C and Dungeon Keeper. I probably played Dungeon Keeper for eight hours straight before my parents told me to go to bed.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

First game I bought with my own money: Starsiege: Tribes. My computer could barely run it but the thought of an FPS with jet packs set my 12 year old heart a-flutter. I still even remember the side-story that came with it.
Capping flags, building elaborate base defenses, decapitating polygonal opponents with the spin-fuzor....good times.

 

[Safaia]

Jeez, eight years or so ago, my brother and I did not in any way get along. We are five years apart so we were at that age when we would bicker constantly. However we would get along swimmingly if we played co-op in any game. We played a lot of Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles on car rides and my parents would turn around to stare because we weren't fighting.

When we got our Wii my parents kicked said brother and I upstairs to clean Christmas dinner while they played Wii Sports.

When said brother was very little, like two, we had two copies of Super Mario Brothers. He managed to get a hold of my dad's copy and erase the entire game where he had everything unlocked and completed. I remember him holding two games to my brother and saying 'this one is yours and this one is mine.'

Back in the day when my dad worked for Acclaim we got a N64 before it was released in America. My dad and I played through Mario 64 with Japanese text trying to figure out what the hell was going on before the days of the internet and gamefaqs.

I love that I've grown up on games.

 

[PatchlingZoon]

1995, Christmas Day: Chrono Trigger. You know, the one with Crono, Frog, and Marle fighting off the Lavos spawn. I love Akira Toriyama's artwork and that cover just blew my eight-year-old mind.

 

[DR3AMCATCH3R94]

i remember gettin my 360 for christmas a few years ago and the game that brought me into the second best console evar, (first bein the n64). the game: Bioshock. i looked dumbstruck at the game case in awe

 

[CAPTCHA]

Most excited I've ever been for a video game was back as a kid waiting for a box set for my Amstrad. It had Golden Axe, Crackdown and Shinobi on it as well as a few others. Bought it mail order and I think that was the longest week of my life. I remember dreaming about that package arriving, fighting octopus guardians who were withholding it from me.

 

[Jumplion]

I remember one time, during Hannukah, my best friend's grandmother bought Jak 3 for me.

It was kickass, both the game, and the grandmother.

Gilf lol. Sorry had to.

OT: Nope. Never happens for me. Being somewhat dead on the inside does that though. Nothing really makes me go "I WANT!" lol.

Oh god no, I wouldn't hit her with a 10 foot pole.

She was still kickass though. I doubt she even knew what she bought for me.

 

[RelexCryo]

Pokemon for the Gameboy Advance. Perfect Dark for the N64. Wild Arms for the PS One. I played the Atari 2600 and the NES, but didn't really like any games on them. For me, the magic started with Playstation, Gameboy Advance and N64.

Edit: When I amd my Brother were kids, we got a playsation for Christmas/Birthday. (My Birthday is December 2.) I had played games for along time, since I was a very, very little kid, but I moved to Arkansas without actually owning a game system. We eventually got an Atari 2600 and a NES from relatives as hand me downs. We kept bugging Grandma/Mom for a Sega Genesis/Saturn, we didn't even know that Playstation existed. We got Playstation from our other Grandmother, who we never saw...and it was amazing. It kept freezing until we turned the damn thing upside down, but when it finally worked, it was magical. I still get a flood of feelings when I turn on my PS3, play a PS One game, and see the PS one symbol and music.

 

[subject_87]

The Orange Box

I have never been so happy to love video games as the day that I picked up that box.

Same here. I managed to snag the very last boxed copy they had, amazingly enough. I mainly wanted Portal, but the other stuff is great too; I just read the short blurbs on the back over and over.

 

[UnderCoverGuest]

Driving home with a copy of Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast sitting in the passenger seat...

...what a wonderful introduction to video games...modding, online social interactivity, FFA, TFFA, CTF, clans...it was everything online video games should be. And then the single player...immense, good story, wonderful characters, coherent plot spanning many varied and unique environments...it was everything single-player video games should be...

...if I had known or recognized all of that on that wintry Alaskan afternoon, I would have gently fastened the seat belt around it. Good times...damn good times.

 

[Istanbul]

Phalanx.

Shooting game!
Spaceship!
Gunfire!

Old man!
Banjo!

...wait, what?!

 

[linkvegeta]

i know exactly what you mean, i used to live far away from a city and it was torture, because yif you got the game i had to end up waiting like 5 hours in the car until i got home, then it was to late and i had to go to bed, then go to school the next day. it was the worst ever, but on occasion if i wanted to play a game bad enough i would make it look like i went to school and hide till my parents left then i would play the game........ it was sooo worth it.

 

[Layzor]

Guild Wars Factions for me, the game I love so much was getting twice as big.

 

[The Red Spy]

Gears of war (1) limited edition, I got it on Boxing Day for £40 when the normal game was selling for £45. I was already sold from the Mad World trailer, so having my first LE looking like this was terrific:

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I'll be 21 in a month, and I still look at the box the whole way home. There's just something special about bringing a new game home from the store while it's still in the box. I think the last time I did that was earlier this month, when I found Baldur's Gate II, the Throne of Bhaal expansion, Unreal Gold, and Bushido freakin' Blade for less than $15 total. It was a thrift shop and record store run with my roommate and a friend, which happened immediately after I finished my last final of the term, and I spent most of the car ride home staring at my complete copy of Bushido Blade, which was in excellent shape and only cost me $5 at a record shop. I don't care how good the price is, digital distribution will never give me a feeling like that.

 

[V TheSystem V]

Super Smash Bros Brawl. Me and my friend had a day off on the day of release, but this club we were both in wanted us all there for this really important meeting with war veterans, so we had to get my mum to pick up our copies, as we were going to be gone the whole day. We got back to my house, waited 2 hours for my mum to get home from work with the games, but it was so totally worth it. This sounds sad, but that night we both reached a place which we both call 'Brawl-vana' (we ate a lot of pizza, drank a lot of Coca Cola and played a lot of Brawl). We often joked about Brawl-vana, saying it was a place where, on your Wii daily stats, it would say you had been playing Brawl for 25 hours, when there are only 24 hours in a regular day. THAT'S how hooked on that game we were.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

I believe I was similarly excited after receiving Sonic & Knuckles one Christmas however many years ago. Now out of curiosity, what game was the kid staring at?

 

[The Wykydtron]

The double box art for Catherine that was on this site a few weeks ago...For obvious reasons XD

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

My parents hardly ever get games to my annoyance, and when they do it's never the game I wanted above all others.

Well, for a close one it was when I unboxed a shiny black PS3.

 

[rhyno435]

I remember when I was about 7 or 8. I asked for a PS1, and I got a PS2. I only got PS1 games anyway, but I'll never forget opening Final Fantasy VIII and seeing that case.

I lost the game, and bought it again a couple years ago, and I felt the same way again, after all those years.