Five Christmas Presents
Jan 1st, 2008 by jeremy
I’ve got some great Christmas presents as an adult, but it isn’t the same when you actually have money and can buy something. Usually for Christmas now I ask for something we need, last year was money to work on our basement. This year I decided to ask for fun stuff, no more things that I need. So I got a couple of great Wii games that Sid and I have already had fun playing. There usually just isn’t as much excitement as there is when you’re a kid. So these five presents are the gifts I still remember after all these years.
- Yellow Lego Castle. I’m not talking about the lame castle with it’s castle-specific parts that they make now. It’s all done for you and requires no imagination. No, I’m talking aobut the greatest Lego Castle in the world. It looks small in the pictures, but it looks huge in my imagination. And this castle became cars, trains, tie-fighters and guns. I thought Santa was a genius for getting this thing assembled and ready to play with Christmas morning. Lousy jolly elf taking credit for my dad’s hard work.
- CD Player. No big deal these days, but I was a technology geek back then as well. CD players were the big new thing, and they were hundreds of dollars. It was probably the only thing I got that year (along with my first CD, Van Halen’s 1984), but it was totally worth it. It had a play button, a stop button, and forward and back. That’s it.
- Star Wars Snow Speeder. Empire Strikes Back is the first movie I can recall seeing. I remember sitting in the theater watching the scenes with Yoda. This toy was from the movie, and became part of a collection of Star Wars, G.I. Joe and Transformers that I coudl use to create huge battles between good and evil. The snowspeeder had guns on the side that would light up and make lasers sounds. Awesome.
- Speaking of Tranformers, Optimus Prime is number four on the list. The new Transformers movie isn’t great, but I sure loved the series as a kid. I remember watching the cartoon at a friend’s house after school.
- Simcity. The old-school version that you had to type in codes from a red-on-red paper to play. I loved this city-planning game. I played it for years.
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How well I remember the Christmas of the Lego castle. Dad was so tired that night and stayed up and put it together. It was so fun to see your expression when you found it.