Best Christmas Presents You Remember Getting

[Parafox]

6 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

The Christmas presents I associate most with childhood in the 60s are annuals like The Victor and The Topical Times Football Book. Moving into adult times it would only be right to acknowledge I got engaged Christmas Eve 1976 

Did you go on to get married?

[isaidno]

Nintendo NES in the early 90's.

[tom27111]

I bloody loved the Lego Shell Petrol Station I got in 1986. I still reference it today.

 

Scalectrix and Game Boy get an honorable mention. As does the Sega Megadrive.

 

I was very lucky to be spoilt so much as a child. As a (step) parent, it ain't easy to make Christmas special for kids, especially when they're all teenagers or in their 20's.

 

The Clive Tyldesley notes that my step-lad got me are probably the most thoughtful gift I've ever received. 

 

Been with my Mrs for almost 6 years now and I'm incredibly proud of the young adults that my step kids have become.

[Foxdiamond]

4 hours ago, Parafox said:

Did you go on to get married?

Yes, thanks. June 77 a year to the day we met. Still together 

[Anorak]

16 hours ago, Heathrow fox said:

Brilliant brilliant game.Unfortunately the 2020s version is utter shite

 

This is the one I remember having, it was fantastic. Great memories of playing it with my dad. 

[slymunn]

Like a few on here, my first big present i remember was a Nes in 91. 

[Voll Blau]

Mini snooker table was a belter.

[Pliskin]

Nintendo 64……  things hit different in those days. 

[Flamey]

6 hours ago, Anorak said:

 

This is the one I remember having, it was fantastic. Great memories of playing it with my dad. 

Test Match was great, Im sure I remember Freddie Trueman being on my version?

[SpacedX]

Revolver. 

 

I used to get a Beatles album every year, following spending a WH Smith's voucher on Rubber Soul having watched 'A Hard Day's Night' one Boxing Day at the age of 7. Revolver was the most anticipated and it fascinated me even before hearing it. My Dad was hosting an African academic called Dr. Robert Kuburu and I was playing it when he and his colleagues arrived on Christmas Day. I remember being childishly amused when 'Dr Robert' came on.

 

This was such a remarkable progression in their sound and recording techniques and still completely engrosses me to this day. 

 

My first electric guitar and amp was also very memorable. Even though they were complete piles of shite, I didn't know it at the time. 

[Foxdiamond]

49 minutes ago, SpacedX said:

Revolver. 

 

I used to get a Beatles album every year, following spending a WH Smith's voucher on Rubber Soul having watched 'A Hard Day's Night' one Boxing Day at the age of 7. Revolver was the most anticipated and it fascinated me even before hearing it. My Dad was hosting an African academic called Dr. Robert Kuburu and I was playing it when he and his colleagues arrived on Christmas Day. I remember being childishly amused when 'Dr Robert' came on.

 

This was such a remarkable progression in their sound and recording techniques and still completely engrosses me to this day. 

 

My first electric guitar and amp was also very memorable. Even though they were complete piles of shite, I didn't know it at the time. 

I think you had advanced musical taste at age 7

[spacemunky]

All my friends had Big Wheels and then I got this bad boy. Blew their doors off!

 

[bovril]

Probably two books my girlfriend bought me when we lived in Bulgaria. She was out of town visiting family and I remember sitting alone in our very warm flat for a couple of days, snow and minus five outside, drinking brandy and reading these books. A fond memory. 

[SpacedX]

35 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

I think you had advanced musical taste at age 7

They used to show Beatles films at Christmas. The first one I saw was 'A Hard Day's Night' and it completely captivated me. Without having a clue what I was doing my parents took me to W H Smith's that Christmas and I bought 'Rubber Soul' with a voucher I had received because I liked the cover. I played it incessantly until the age of nine whereupon I got my next Beatles album. I then requested them every Christmas. 

[Foxdiamond]

2 minutes ago, SpacedX said:

They used to show Beatles films at Christmas. The first one I saw was 'A Hard Day's Night' and it completely captivated me. Without having a clue what I was doing my parents took me to W H Smith's that Christmas and I bought 'Rubber Soul' with a voucher I had received because I liked the cover. I played it incessantly until the age of nine whereupon I got my next Beatles album. I then requested them every Christmas. 

I remember seeing Help at age 9 at the local cinema. I recall the young girls screaming at the screen as if the fab four were on stage!  Whatever caught your attention you certainly did well to stick with them. 

[SpacedX]

2 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

I remember seeing Help at age 9 at the local cinema. I recall the young girls screaming at the screen as if the fab four were on stage!  Whatever caught your attention you certainly did well to stick with them. 

This was several years after they had split up. 

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, SpacedX said:

My first electric guitar and amp was also very memorable. Even though they were complete piles of shite, I didn't know it at the time. 

 

That's what Eric Clapton said. 

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, bovril said:

Probably two books my girlfriend bought me when we lived in Bulgaria. She was out of town visiting family and I remember sitting alone in our very warm flat for a couple of days, snow and minus five outside, drinking brandy and reading these books. A fond memory. 

That sounds like a premise for an intriguing, sub-titled, French black and white romantic mystery movie, where nothing much happens.

Edited 26 December 2024 by Parafox

[Heathrow fox]

20 hours ago, Anorak said:

 

This is the one I remember having, it was fantastic. Great memories of playing it with my dad. 

 

13 hours ago, Flamey said:

Test Match was great, Im sure I remember Freddie Trueman being on my version?

The Gower/Botham edition was the one I got mid eighties.My dad invented the under the lights 100 version of the game using the subbuteo flloodlights he got me the year before.You could really hit the ball with some power,unlike the modern version.Arguably more fun playing this than Subbuteo.

[Flamey]

18 hours ago, Heathrow fox said:

 

The Gower/Botham edition was the one I got mid eighties.My dad invented the under the lights 100 version of the game using the subbuteo flloodlights he got me the year before.You could really hit the ball with some power,unlike the modern version.Arguably more fun playing this than Subbuteo.

It was a lot of fun certainly.

 

Ok....so I've found the Freddie Trueman one on Google...but the cricket bat wasn't like the one shown in the pic...it was more like he was holding an old fashion vacuum cleaner backwards as I remember.