It’s Christmas eve so we thought it would be really cool to share with you, our readers, our most favourite Christmas gaming moments. Still, and as you may have noticed, we are not going anywhere and we’ll be here sharing interesting stories the entire holiday season (and no, we won’t have dedicated stories for Best Action, Best RPG, etc). So, from the entire DSOGaming team, Merry Christmas everyone.
Nick McCaskey:
“Hi everyone, I wish you all the best holidays! Merry Christmas (if you celebrate). Happy New Year (if you recognize years, ha!). Thank you all for letting me be a part of your online life this year! Hopefully my writings and reviews have inspired good video game thoughts for us all. As far as a holiday video game memory goes, I was 11 and got the newly released SNES JRPG Breath of Fire II for Christmas. I was blown away by the heart and depth of that game! I still have the cartridge, box, and manual in near-perfect condition. We’ve come a long way, but the epic journey still continues! See you in 2019!”
Pieter Naude:
“Ahh, Christmas. The time of year when people feel the need to stuff one form of poultry into another one, and then another, only to feed this culinary violation of nature to relatives they avoid 360 days of the year.
It gets even weirder here in South Africa. As I am writing this, it is 40 degrees Celsius outside. The gardener also told me ten minutes ago that he saw the tail of a Cape Cobra disappearing between the shrubbery, so now the all of the dogs have to stay indoors. Hey, it’s home!
Ironically, for me, Christmas has never been about gaming. It is the ONLY time of the year when I switch everything off, and just luxuriate in the presence of my loved ones. Come to think of it, I have never even received a game for Christmas. Once my New Years Eve hangover dissipates, I blow the dust off my monitor and begin my gaming anew.
But that’s just me. I hope you have been good boys and girls so that Santa can put that crisp, new DVD box you have been looking forward to under the tree! I wish all our readers a happy holidays and festive season. Thank you so much to you loyal folks who click on this awesome website day after day. It is an honour to be writing for you, and we love doing it!”
Stephen Yap:
“Hello everyone,
I don’t have any specific memories gaming Xmas memories that come to mind, but I’ve always been gaming over Xmas and into each new year for as long as I can remember, across so many different platforms. My Atari 2600, Creativision, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Sega Megadrive, Playstation 1, and then to my very first PC.
Games have changed so drastically over the years. Back in the days of my ZX Spectrum games loaded off tapes, and could take upwards of 20 min to load, so it was conceivable to start loading a game in 1985 and only get to play it in 1986 🙂
However, whether I was playing Asteroids on my Atari 2600 with a 1 button joystick or Prey on my PC with a 17 button mouse, one thing remains the same; games have managed to capture my imagination and immerse me in unknown worlds, give me a medium through which I could share experience with my friends and family and offer me countless hours of entertainment, and I look forward to what will come next and wonder what I’ll be playing this time next year.
It’s been a pleasure to be able to share my opinions of games with you all through my reviews, and also have the opportunity to be part of the great team here at DSOG.
I wish you all have a wonderful Xmas and a happy New Year!”
Chris “Skull” Kountouras:
“Oh yes, Christmas…honestly I don’t really really like Christmas, but I do love seeing my whole family in one place (please don’t bomb us 😛 ) and I do like gifts. My full name is Christos (from Christ) so Christmas is also my name day but I always get one present, I blame my parents for naming me Chris, my grandfather who was named Chris, and his father for choosing to name his son Chris. 😛 I am kidding of course since I have no parents, I was spawned. 😛
I will never forget the Christmas day of 1990, when my father came up early in the morning and woke me up, made me breakfast and then gave me my present. I thanked him and quickly ripped apart the wrapping. I opened it and it was like white light coming out of the box, just like when Kabamaru (from the Manga TV series) opened the packed launch box for the first time. It was a glorious Gameboy and that was probably my first time I almost passed out. It came with Super Mario Bros and Tetris and… man… the amount of batteries I used on that thing made my general store owner rich.
I really wish each and every one of you to have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year. May all your wishes come true. All the best guys, take care and have fun!”
Mathieu Renaudat:
“My dear readers, this year is an important one because MANY great titles which came out in 1998 are now celebrating their 20th anniversary. 2018 was the year to re-live some of the old titles (Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot 3, Ocarina of Time, etc.) while, in real life, many changes arrived. The memory I want to share is the time I bought Grim Fandango with the money I received for Christmas; a game that showed me videogames can have a deep story and great voice acting (I am talking about the Italian version, of course, which was incredibly well voiced!). The sad part was that I had to buy a controller which could be plugged into my PC through a serial port on the sound card, because I had no USB ports yet, unfortunately.
Day by day, I played Grim Fandango to finish it, but I was never able to. The game could be loaded directly from the CD, there were no patches, my CD reader was super slow, and the disc even got some scratches. So, Grim Fandango stayed with me and every single day I kept wondering when I could finish it. This finally happened in 2005 thanks to unofficial patches and a more modern PC. And the wait was worthy.
Morale: a great game, even buggy, remains a great game in any case. Replay Grim Fandango and many other games which, even if old, are still great. And hey; they can be even better when they are remastered. Play good games with family and friends this Christmas.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.”
Spencer:
“My top gaming Christmas memory? I received a few gaming systems for Christmas over the years. Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Sega Dreamcast (with my brother), Xbox (with the famed Jet Set Radio/SEGA GT dual pack), etc. but the most memorable is probably the Wii for me. Reason being I waited 8 hours in line for that thing in near freezing temperatures when I was 15 years old, I was even interviewed by a local news crew during the wait. I made a deal with my mother so I could have the Wii; I had to wait to open it until Christmas day. I did and I grabbed Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess with it, which I proceeded to sink my life into post-December 25th until I beat it — and it was excellent sans that tutorial. The Wii had some exciting releases, the ones that stand out to me the most in retrospect though are Legend of Zelda at launch, Super Mario Galaxy, Galaxy 2 and Brawl. I also spent a lot of time in the 1up.com community around this time talking to other fans, some of whom I met on that site and still keep in touch with to this very day — I tried to talk one of them into being my roommate a year ago in fact.
Not much has changed, this Christmas I got my hands on a Switch (this time courtesy my lady) and I’m enjoying Mario Odyssey and Smash Ultimate — after Mario I’ll probably get onto Breath of the Wild and I’m looking forward to doing so. PC wise I’ve been boring guys, a lot of Dota 2 and some South Park Stick of Truth (what year is it?).
Anyways, sorry I’m not writing pieces as of late. I keep trying to get back around to it but what with the day job plus I just bought a house this year and my Girlfriend just moved in…. Time’s been a limited resource, John asked me to write this and I thought it best I do so to check back in. I am still around the DSOG community. Lately I’ve been in charge of moderating our Discord which has become quite popular. We’re now nearing 200 users there, you should come join us some time! Have yourself a Merry Christmas!”
John Papadopoulos:
“As I’ve said numerous times, back when I was a kid I was a die-hard console fanboy. So when I was a kid, I always dreamed of playing Mortal Kombat 2. Back then (I was seven? I don’t really remember) I only had a SEGA Game Gear and I didn’t even know what the game was called (all I knew was “that fighting game with the blood effects”). You have to understand that back then we didn’t have the Internet so it was really difficult, especially for small kids, to keep up with all the video-game releases. But anyway, when I found out that the game was called Mortal Kombat, I kept asking my parents to buy it. One Christmas day, that wish came true. However, it looked nothing like the game I was playing at the arcades. Obviously, I knew that the Game Gear was not powerful enough, but it wasn’t what I had dreamed of. Still, at least I was able to finally play my favourite game on my console so I was really happy. I kept playing it, with my Game Gear plugged to a power adapter, next to our Christmas tree and it was magical.
Then, I bought a SNES and although I was wow-ed by Donkey Kong Country and Jurassic Park (HUGE Jurassic Park fan here), I kept playing Mortal Kombat 2 and 3. Still, though, they were not as good as the arcades. And… well… my initial dream finally came true when I got my first PC. The first thing I did was to grab a special Windows 95 compilation of Mortal Kombat 1&2. These PC versions of Mortal Kombat were perfect arcade ports, with all the blood, the speed, the music and the violence uncensored. And it was glorious; I was finally playing my favourite games in their full glory. I kept playing these two games over and over and over. I still remember a lot of fatalities (Baraka’s for example is back-forward-down-forward-low punch and Sub-Zero’s exploding uppercut is forward-forward-down-high kick to freeze the enemy and then forward-down-forward-forward-high punch). It was a really magical moment and I wish you all to make your gaming dreams come true… even if it takes ages to accomplish them. Merry Christmas everyone and happy holidays!”
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Merry Christmas everyone. I hope everyone has a happy and relaxed time 🙂
Time to eat some nice food now eheheh. (and play a game!)
Merry Christmas!
christmas is stupid af, messiah was a middle easterner and he’d be a muslim if you dumb whites wouldn’t have made up a low iq story about him.
akcuatly..he was middle eastern.
You don’t need to be religious to enjoy Christmas, obviously you have no morals on the internet and can’t even bring yourself to be nice at any time.
i’m nice, i just don’t show it to others. i have a benevolent soul.
i’m sure an online troll who cries about a website not hiring him to write articles is a chad. also real beta losers like you show emotions, i’m chad and you’d be crying if we met irl.
i’m sure that made sense in your small brain when you posted it.
muslims who are the only one who believe in true god don’t care about shetmas because it’s heresy and stupidity of whites
Thanks, guys. I’m eating a whole birthday cake to commemorate the fleshy transmogrification to Earth of the son of the guy who makes all of the hurricanes and flesh-eating bacteria.
*tips humongous fedora*
stfu, you have no right to be enjoying your life because of a middle easterner, you hate us but when it comes to getting holiday you sure don’t mind taking advantage from a story you made for one of us ( low iq story you made about messiah)
He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy. Now go away!
then why do only christians celebrate christmas? ban christianity, it’s a white propaganda against brown master race, you whities want to suck our pee pee but you don’t want let anyone know about it, that’s why you love messiah but you don’t want to believe he was a brownie master race , gg noobs.
Stop putting us in one group because we’re white. I’m a Messianic Christian, so I don’t celebrate Christmas. Also, not every white person believes Jesus is some fellow white guy with great hair.
christianity is the dumbest religion ever. everything about christianity is dumb, EVERYTHING. whereas you cannot find a single fault in quran or Islam.
BY FAR MY FAVORITE TROLL.
One of my neighbors was a devout Muslim. He went on a shooting spree and killed 4 unarmed Marines at a recruitment center. He asked his Priest beforehand if he did this would Allah forgive him for his drug abuse. The Priest said yes and didn’t report him to the police.
Your Prophet Muhammed would be considered a pervert today. He married his wife and had s*x with her when she was 9 years old.
Clean up your own side of the street before slamming other religions.
there are no muslim priests, gg lying noob.
that girl was offered to him because of his status by local arabs to gain muhammed’s favor, our beloved prophet married mostly widows and poors to help them out, he never touched that 9 years old girl, he never had sex with her, he never had any child from her, you’re just ignorant and believe whatever a low iq republican tells you.
let’s hear what else you have against islam
You really don’t know much about Muhammed. He married Aisha when she was 6 years old. She remained in her parents house until turning 9 when he moved her in with him and had s*x with her.
Muhammad also owned slaves and forced s*x on them.
he never had sex with aisha, he never had any child from her and aisha killed muhammed’s grandsons, stop shetting propaganda. prophet muhammed is pure and has never committed a sin in his holy lifetime.
“Muhammad also owned slaves and forced s*x on them.”
are you sure?because i’ve been a muslim for 30 years and i’ve never seen that written in ANYWHERE from the countless books i read about him. prophet muhammed freed countless slaves and gave them everything, his slaves were those who kaffirs were going to kill, his slaves were those who did not have anything to eat, his slaves were those who fought by his side after he told them that they’re free to do as they please after prophet muhammed gave them money, same slaves later on became his generals. those slaves are same people who our prophet cried for them when they died on battlefield.
stop reading nonsense, your source must be low iq pakis. they know nothing about islam.
FinalInfernus 3+
” it’s a white propaganda against brown master race, ”
Thats the indian aryan race. Ironically through trolling you said something that is true.
are you serious?i’m sure even arabs are superior compared to indians. that aryan thing is just a word and doesn’t mean anything regarding superiority of a race like it does in west.
The aryan race is literally an indian thing i am not kidding look it up. Also they still got a caste system. Hmm.
aryan is the same name as iran, i read that persia was always called arya by persians and the word persian is greek and unknown to persians themselves. i know there are shetload of different races living in iran but i doubt indians are considered “iranic” culturally or genetically so not sure if it has anything to do with india.
i watched a video on this while ago, i’ll link it if i find it.
/watch?v=jALT8BAFCdY
i just checked wikipedia and it’s too long, i’m not going to read that.
but i found this : ????
these are apparently ancient persian letters.
My neighbor 4 houses down the street from me was a devout Muslim and he went on a shooting spree and killed 4 people. He asked his Priest if he murdered unarmed Marines at a recruitment center would Allah forgive him for his drug abuse. The Priest said yes.
You need to clean your own side of the street before slamming another religion.
The traditions of Christmas predated Christ and were pagan rituals in their origins. Same goes for Easter. The early churches didn’t practice these rituals as holidays until the Catholic Church adopted these rituals into Christianity in order to lure pagans into the Church.
Some things that the Early Catholics did didn’t even make sense. They changed the Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday. Jesus said he would be buried for 3 days and 3 nights. From Good Friday to Sunday isn’t 3 days and 3 nights.
Then strangest of all. Jesus said to not call any man Father. Catholic priests want to be addressed as Father.
i wish i could get white poosy for my birthday since christmas is a low iq story that whites made about a middle easterner (one of us)
BY FAR my favorite troll.
give me your address and i will take you to allah myself you fat basement dweller.
hahhahaha
upload a video on youtube of your home and i will be there, i’m from saudi arabia, this address doesn’t make sense to me. if you’re in london i can tell my cousins to give you a visit.
Mississippi, USA. Here’s a map:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4c872538de60e4df943f715bd7138467738c00999a19bf48b6d5b2209e10ed9c.png
still could be fake, i need him to upload a video of himself and his home so i know who we’re going to target.
no one was talking to you
why? you want to blow me?
why?
DEFIANTLY not one of YOU!
Happy Holidays to everyone 🙂
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SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS…SAY IT.
MERRY CHRISTMAS for You 😀
JOKES ON YOU, i aint even christian.
Muzie?
it’s CHRISTmas
or Yule if yer Scandinavian
“happy holidays” is verbal cuckholdry
Happy holidays to the whole team of DSOG !!
And f*** the haters, the flamers and the crying babies
Ahahah sure… KYS
Merry Christmas. Thanks. Great site!
Merry Christmas to you too!
not my favorite troll
everyone else “happy holidays”, dso “merry Christmas…and happy holidays”
Also i can picture it right now everyone looks at the weather “snow, yay Christmas” and john in Greece “snow,rain, too cold, damn it, its gonna be a cold Christmas”, any Australians in the the comments can relate to John and Chris.
Merry Christmas! 🙂
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i was planning on blocking you, but you are entertaining even in these days we still needs a village idiot i guess.
happy holidays to the DSOG crew and to you all ^^
All I am doing these next few days is frying a turkey and playing some games. Happy Holidays.
Merry Christmas and happy new year to dso crew best site for gaming news
Merry Christmas to you all 🙂 Best wishes from Turkey.
thanks. you too.
DSO member,I hope santa give you a present shiny chicks a*s coated in Ray tracing, 8x SMAA smooth skin,lovely hair as good as Lara Croft TressFX hair effect, and a tight p*ssy that you can bang in constant 60 fps…enjoy!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/918f98a6b15704a044b8343c7203810c0c3612d2f7797ed1cc38d24760eff197.jpg
Merry Christmas to everyone at DSOGaming and Happy Holidays.
Merry Christmas to you all guys 😀
Merry Christmas!
Whats Christmas?
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Merry Christmas and happy new year John and friends.. keep up the good work..
I respect your service, but not all vets should come home