Christmas Freebie!!! Winner drawn!!!

[BlueBMW]

Winner has been drawn!  We had 25 entrants total, and of those 25 the one lucky winner is...... 

1980-20..

Congrats!!!!



Ahh the holidays... a time for giving... a time for receiving... a time for obeying...

I'll keep it short and sweet this time   I've got a US duo with a region mod switch, so basically it will play anything I want to play!  As a result, I have this other piece of hardware that sadly gets no love anymore...  so it needs a new home!

So, here's the freebie....

A PC Engine Core Grafx I console
Original NEC A/C Adapter
Original NEC A/V Cable
Original NEC PI-PD6 Controller
A Tennokoe Bank 2 add on unit
A random PC Engine hucard

So, to enter.... tell us the coolest thing you ever got for Christmas (or whichever holiday you choose to observe)

Entrants:

Frank_fjs
ceti alpha
TheClash603
christoph
jperryss
bartre
geralds
Gogan
Duo_R
turboStar
chany60126
Necromancer
nectarsis
Joe Redifer
Arkhan
Starfighter
Official Ninja
finerion
turbografxfan
MotherGunner
1980-20..
Mathius
csgx1
blueraven
Saibot

I think I'll do the drawing Saturday December 11th so that hopefully this can get to someone by Christmas!

[Frank_fjs]

I'm in. I would love to have a Core Grafx!

I reckon the coolest thing I got for Xmas was my Scalectrix kit. Mum remarried and this was the biggest and most expensive present that I had ever received, it was from my new Dad so he got in the good books straight away!

You're crazy generous BlueBMW, I like it.

[ceti alpha]

Sign me up.

You really get into the Christmas season, eh beamler.

Edit: I forgot to tell my story. hehe  :-"

Well, my Christmases where I received my NES and the Turbografx were pretty memorable. But my first real Christmas memory was in Ontario when I was really little, four or five I think, and Santa...I mean my parents...bought me a wagon. I was a little kid and had a thing about wagons. lol. It was obviously too big to put under the tree so they had to put it in the basement. They walked me down to the basement and there it was with a big red bow on it. I was a pretty happy kid. I will say one thing: they don't make 'em like they used to. Throughout the years my brother and I put that wagon through some serious punishment. We would street cart with that thing going down hills, sometimes wiping out. But I still have it and it's in great shape. Some of the paint on the sides is scratched off the wood panels on the side, but overall she's tiptop. I may have to take her out for a spin. 

[TheClash603]

Wow, count me in too!

When I was a kid my family never had much, so it amazes me to no end that I had all those He-Men and Ghostbuster toys under the tree. 

[christoph]

Damn dude, you keep giving away awesome stuff  O:)

EDIT:

I don't know why I didn't put this in the first place. After reconsideration this is definitely my best xmas present:

I use to play my uncle's Sega Genesis all the time when I was at my grandparents house and of course always wanted one. Xmas day comes, upon opening my last gift under the tree, its a Sega Genesis! I begin to open the box to pull out the console inside....low and behold..its filled with clothes. I look at my mom and she says "its your uncles old genesis box we used it for clothes" I'm thinking to myself WTF!?

Everyone is done opening gifts we proceed to have xmas breakfast...................then my mom busts out the genesis console and packing from the closet!

Yee.

[jperryss]

The coolest gift was probably the BMX bike I got when I was 11. The previous summer my dad and I had restored a nice Mongoose which was promptly stolen from a friends house just a month later, so it was great to have a new bike to ride.

Also, it is awesome that you are doing these giveaways!

[bartre]

count me IN!
seriously blue, how can you keep doing this, i mean, it's awesome, but damn!

I never really got any one item that was super expensive or anything, i always had to save and pay for it myself(parental orders).
but still, i've got some neat stuff, probably the best being the Time Crisis 3 bundle from best buy that i got for christmas when i was like 14, still play the thing.
that, or the birthday present when i was 6, it was this plastic castle that went to some action figure set i never cared about.
My x-men had all kinds of battles in that place.

[geralds]

The coolest thing iv goten is a super nintendo when i was little hell that the shit when your little.

[Gogan]

Coolest thing I got was SF2 CE for PCE with a Kisado and 2 Avenue 6 pads! Too bad I had an American TG, and couldn't play with the Ave. pads    , but still

[Duo_R]

Coolest Christmas ever for me was when I was like 4. My dad bought a large Lego train set while we were in Germany and hid it when we arrived back. Christmas morning there was a Lego train going round and round the kitchen counter, with cookies and treats in the middle. That still sticks in my mind vividly, and my parent took a photo of me looking at it in full amazement. Cool thing is I still have that old lego set and going to do the same for my 5 year old this year.

[ceti alpha]

Coolest Christmas ever for me was when I was like 4. My dad bought a large Lego train set while we were in Germany and hid it when we arrived back. Christmas morning there was a Lego train going round and round the kitchen counter, with cookies and treats in the middle. That still sticks in my mind vividly, and my parent took a photo of me looking at it in full amazement. Cool thing is I still have that old lego set and going to do the same for my 5 year old this year.

 

[_joshuaTurbo]

Sign me up Beemler!

The best christmas gift I can remember would have to be video game related.  It'd either be one of my first xmas memories (1984, getting a Tandy Color Computer 2 console/computer with Color baseball and Downland.) or my last childhood xmas memory (1996, I was to turn 18 the following year so my parents said they'd like to get me something big for my last christmas before adulthood.  The offered me an N64, but I told them a couple Turbografx games would do just fine , my mom wound up ordering me Terraforming, Fatal Fury Special, an Arcade Card, Kisado Adapter, Ys IV, and Battle Royale.)  Got it all from TZD on an xmas special.   I'm still not sure what she paid for it all, but she said it was WAAYY cheaper than an N64 and one game....

LOL-

[chany60126]

My favorite gift was christmas of '92 when I got my very first system: the SNES.  The graphics and gameplay just blew me away, especially when I compared it to the NES at the time. I played the heck out of Super Mario Kart and Super Mario World which came bundled with the system. This wasn't quite obey, but hey. The SNES was the gateway that led me to the turbob. 

[Necromancer]

Sign me up, bimmer!  Having a PCE would be great - then I wouldn't have to f*ck around with the converter as much, leaving it for Arcade Card duty only.

I have two Christmas stories that stand out: first, I snagged a GameBoy shortly after launch but sadly didn't have enough money to get any extra games, so I played the f*ck out of Tetris and a buddies copy of Alleyway until the following Christmas when I received Castlevania - The Adventure, Baseball, and Super Mario Land; second, I was given Cosmic Fantasy 2, Fighting Street, and It Came From the Desert the first Christmas after getting a TurboDuo.  As great as the pack-in games were, it was definitely nice to add some variety.

[nectarsis]

Sin me up!!

Best Christmas story....Was probably the year my (ex) wife went out and nabbed me like a half dozen PS1 games.  As hard as she tried she got like 2 right, and she felt so bad, but she REALLY tried to remember the games without asking LOL.