What are your favourite memories of Christmas?

I just remember waking up real early in the morning (80's) and settling down to watch all the Christmas films and shows. Stuff like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Close Encounters/Third Kind (it was on today!) and the all time great - Santa Claws the Movie....followed by Gremlins in the late evening.

We weren't a well off family back then but I recall opening my pressies and getting Perfection (MB games), and Battleships, which made my day. I recall one Christmas also getting Zoids toys, including that massive T-Rex that cost my late father a fortune back then.
 
Got an Amiga 1200 when I was probably about 8-10 years old.
Didn't even know I was getting it

My older brother had an Amiga 600 or so, I guess he advised them which one to buy :D

Christmas gets boring when you get to the age you can just say what you want
 
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After a night of heavy snowfall one Christmas Eve, I built a large snowman. At the stroke of midnight he came to life so I showed him around the house. Then he flew me to the North Pole where we met more snowmen and Father Christmas. After we got home the snowman became lifeless and the next day he melted, leaving me with just a soggy scarf and PTSD. Although to be fair I was doing a lot of acid back then.
 
I recall the magical feeling waking up on Christmas Day as a kid, there would be a stocking of sweets and goodies at the end of our beds (my brother and I shared a bedroom growing up). Then after scoffing the sweets and having waited for my parents to say it was ok to go down stairs, the feeling was amazing once we got downstairs to the tree and presents. We didn't have much money as a family but my parents always seemed to be able to buy us nice presents we were very lucky.
 
arknor said:
Christmas gets boring when you get to the age you can just say what you want
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We never really knew what we were getting for Christmas. We’d write a letter to Santa and I’m pretty sure drop really unsubtle hints all year - we were kids after all - but there were no guarantees.

E.g. Christmas when I was 9, I had begged my Dad for an Amiga 500 - my cousin had one and it made my poor BBC Model B look rather anaemic. Dad always knowing better (!) I received a BBC A3000 instead. I had no idea what it was and felt a bit gutted, but I didn’t show it. I came to realise it was a technically a better machine overall, but the software library was quite limited. Many of the games it did have were awesome though: Zarch, Conquerer, Chocks Away and Mig29 to name a few. It also had a software PC emulator that kicked off my early PC lust. I still have the A3000 now, plus the 386DX that superseded it when I was 12.

I still bought an Amiga 1200 myself, many years later. I won’t ever part with it, but I’ve since realised I probably would’ve been disappointed in the long run, had I got it back in the day. Thanks Dad.
 
GGizmo said:
But I think the memory that stands out was when I was quite young, maybe around 9 or 10 years old, when all the family would meet up at my grandparents house.
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Similar for me - the best Christmases where when I was around 8 or so when we had a big meet up and staying Christmas Eve through to Boxing Day at my grandparent's big house with lots of relatives.

Christmas generally has become more and more of a sad affair over the years and nothing like the happy time I remember from my childhood.
 
naefeart said:
E.g. Christmas when I was 9, I had begged my Dad for an Amiga 500 - my cousin had one and it made my poor BBC Model B look rather anaemic. Dad always knowing better (!) I received a BBC A3000 instead. I had no idea what it was and felt a bit gutted, but I didn’t show it. I came to realise it was a technically a better machine overall, but the software library was quite limited. Many of the games it did have were awesome though: Zarch, Conquerer, Chocks Away and Mig29 to name a few. It also had a software PC emulator that kicked off my early PC lust. I still have the A3000 now, plus the 386DX that superseded it when I was 12.
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Things changed quite a bit when the A3010/20, A5000, etc. came along with a much software library available by that point, etc. sadly my A3010 rotted out in my parent's loft while I was living elsewhere.
 
Getting a new bike for Christmas, turning too tightly on it at speed and requiring stitches on my chin.

I rememebr spoiling one of my presents by leaving hte big one to last and opening another smaller box, which was a a controller; Think that was the SNES.

Remember picking up a playstation 1, with my paper round money - picked it up with TR1. What a game that was.
 
I have a distinct memory of getting a PS1 and a WWE game (was one where you could go behind the scenes and drive a forklift and a hospital stretcher) think it was smackdown.
Me and my brother played all day on inflatable chairs we also got.

No idea what year it was but I was under 10y old (90s)

That's the only one left in memory banks.

We don't really bother nowadays as it just got to a point of "what do you want"...."nothing"..."what do you want"....."nothing". If you don't have kids it's just pointless.
 
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