Parents buy a shit game for christmas

Super Pitfall

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I never really got any bad games as gifts. If I got a bad game it was something I bought.

My parents got me a bunch of unrelated Tycoon games after I spent a gorillion hours on Rollercoaster Tycoon and some of them were fucking awful
I don't think Business Tycoon's scenario mode even worked, you couldn't complete half the stages even if you hit the goals

Don't know if this counts since it's a good game, but my lawyer parents got me the first phoenix wright game as a joke and I still think it's one of the best unguided purchases for me they've made.

Wasn't a holiday, but for whatever reason, my mom thought I was a big Sonic fan, and surprised me with sonic 06 when it was released.
Had no idea what I was getting myself into.

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that's not the kind of game parents usually buy. you were lucky

my parents would just buy me what i wanted or give me money and drive me to the store to pick something out

Kinda. My dad played SNES rpgs like breath of fire, final fantasy etc. Dad probably saw the name and bought it.

Bad Boys Miami Takedown for PS2, I wanted San Andreas

My mom took a risk and got us an N64 with Mario 64, even though we had no previous interest in video games. I should call her…

Holy shit same. Even funnier cause my dad bought it when I was already on 360.

My parents were reluctant to buy a console cause they thought I'd get bored with it too fast to be worth it, but my grandma bought me a SNES for christmas without telling them

When I was little I didn't understand generations or porting. My aunt had a playstation and of the games she had the space invaders remake was probably my favorite.
So what do I ask for for Christmas one year? Space Invaders, for the only console I had at the time, the SNES.

Lo and behold on Christmas day I was completely let down that I got a bare minimum standard port of the classic Space Invaders.
I think I threw a tantrum or some shit.

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I remember being mean to my parents when I got my dad's music amp/cd/speaker system for christmas one year when I really wanted a gamecube. I would later learn when I got older my parents was broke because the government took my dad's business (for the land) and gave him a payout so small he couldn't setup shop again elsewhere then the tax man rinsed him whereby he had to pretty much pay most of the money he got back.

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>parents buy me midnight club 2
>bring it back and tell them the game has bad words in it
>my mom says she's proud of me for coming forward and telling them
>dad takes me to the video game store and returns it and lets me pick out anything else
>I get Tony hawks pro skater 3 instead
>mfw there wasn't actually any bad words in midnight club I just wanted Tony hawks pro skater 3 instead

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Same.

My mom knew I played GTA at an older friend's house and so got me pic related as the "kid friendly" version. I resented it for a while but came around once I realized it was actually a cool little game. I still played GTA at my friend's though but mostly as an excuse to go suck her brother's dick

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My parents got us a kid friendly GTA also, pic related, and I'm honestly glad they did because this game was actually great.

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Fag.

rockstar used to make such good games

This was long ago and I still feel bad about it but that's how I felt when I got Baldur's Gate 2, I don't even remember why I got stuck in essentially the tutorial and almost gave up on the game but tried again a few weeks later and it quickly became my favorite game of all time but those couple of weeks where I didn't enjoy a game my parents bought me on their own despite neither of them really knowing anything about games and me not feeling grateful for that attempt I really felt terrible and it's one of the few times I ever felt guilt.

My uncle who knows nothing about vidya unironically bought me Deus Ex because a Best Buy employee recommended it to her. Genuinely one of the best gifts I ever got because I was genuinely surprised how fun it was.

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I need to know wether ''she's'' a girl, trans or gay because that ending was like chris rock getting slapped

Damn this is slick. You must be a surgeon now or something

that best buy employee deserved a raise

Warcraft was the shit back then so I would ask for something "Warcraft-life" and I got this.

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fellow poorfag. i got coloring books for christmas one year.

>xbox hueg and ps2 era
>parents buy a bunch of new and used games for christmass
>don't know these games but thanks them anyways from the joy
>they are all awesome and fun games

Parents got me a Gameboy Advanced one Christmas and the game they got me to go with it was the movie tie-in game for the Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

My parents never bought me any games, not even shit ones ;(

I asked for a Resident Evil game once and they gave me Darkside Chronicles

>grow up poor, have a single mom
>beg mom all the time for a gamecube when it released
>finally get a gamecube after a year of saving but with a game I didn't want
She passed away in her mid 50s from cancer a few months ago, I dont think she was ever happy because her whole life was working to make ends barely meet, coupled with the fact she was raising a neet. Be good to your parents, bros.

And I fucking beat it

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Looks creepy

FFX-2, it came with a poster too
thanks dad

>Be me, lad of 8 or 9
>Hear about RE Outbreak.
>Find guy on trade site with a PAL version
>"Mommie mommie ples mommie dearest"
>"Hmmm ok user I'll ask santa :^)"
>Christmas day rolls around.
>Get PS2 game-shaped package
>Open it
>It's pic related
>"Oh look user, Santa brought that game™ that you wanted."
>Oh t-thanks, I l-love it!

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I don't remember very well, but I'm pretty sure Metroid Other M was a Christmas gift. I didn't know it was shit before I played it, so it was steady disappointment as I progressed.
Still thanked my mum for it though.

My mom got me fucking great games that shaped my taste in games to this day. Off the top of my head I remember:
>Dark Cloud
>Golden Sun
>Monkey Island 4
>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
>Spiderman Cartoon Maker
>Maximo
>Dawn of Sorrow

My mom is the best. I need to call her.

>My uncle who knows nothing
>Best Buy employee recommended it to her.
>Uncle
>Her

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I'm not sure if it was Christmas but my parents got my brother this fucking game, what did I get? A talking fucking Elmo doll.
Elmo stayed in the closet and I played the fuck out of this game.

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wait that's not the right one, fuck you gamefaqs

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Why, Airboarder 64 of course.

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>dad refused to get me GTA because he was a prude who wouldn't buy me M rated games
>instead did the research and bought me something else that turned out to be pretty great, even better in its own ways
thank you for getting me Destroy All Humans 2 that christmas, I didn't realize it at the time, but the young, brooding, edgy me of back then needed every single laugh I got out of that game.

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I was a dumb kid but luigis mansion. I watched my older brother play RE so I wanted something like that, and they thought luigis mansion was a good kiddie alternative. As an edgy almost teenager I thought it was too childish for me, but I played it and enjoyed it in the end.

Pic related was pretty awful

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my dad had a ton of pirated pc games burned to discs that i'm not sure where he got it from, gta 3 included

Wow, that's actually striking gold.

I genuinely can't remember the last time somebody bought me a video game
that said, my grandma gave me the Aqua Teen movie, unprompted, a couple years ago for Christmas, which was pretty great and so out of character for my grandma that it made the whole thing even better

Sorry, for clarity, there was an xbox 360 game of Terminator Salvation that was awful

Parents got me this for a birthday. Thanked them and all but this was one of the worst games I've ever fucking played.

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My mom did this too. She copied them (and DVDs and CDs) from the ones she got at the library. We pretty much had a copy of every disc at the library. A lot of educational games, tycoons, and every backyard sports game.

Not only did this never happen, but my dad turned that shit on its head. Open a gift one Christmas.
>The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
>Zelda? Isn't that a girls name? Sounds fucking weak.
It was not weak

Back in the N64 days I could pretty much get my mom to buy me all the big games that I wanted when they came out so she never knew how to surprise me. One Christmas (or birthday, I don't remember) she literally went into the toy store and said her boy was special and had a high iq and she wanted something with a little more thought than the average game. I got Quest 64 that year and loved it.

Skyrim.