Games you like to play around Christmas time

[Shademp]

A slightly too-late thread, but here goes anyway.

Maybe it is because the games were originally released around Christmas time, or they hold a certain magic that feels appropriate to the atmosphere of the season, or maybe it is a Christmas game outright. What game do you like to play, especially, around this time of year?

To me it's Majora's Mask. While not Christmas-themed, the atmosphere of mystery and magic, coupled with the nostalgia of first playing it during the season, makes it THE Christmas game for me.

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To compare, I always play Super Castlevania IV when Halloween approaches.

 

[Abortedj]

Duke Nukem 3d: Nuclear Winter. It is a bit silly, but I got to play it around this time of year.

I also usually do a run through of Super Mario World. Not sure why on this one, just feel compelled to play it in December.

 

[Carlie]

Kingdom Hearts.

 

[Pixel]

Any Mario game. Ive always received Mario game at Christmas. The opening of Super Mario Allstars always puts me back to when I was 9, hooking up my brand new SNES to a tiny tv in the back room of my grandparents house.

 

[Jason Tandro]

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex be ause of all the awesome snow levels.

I also wish I still had my original PSOne demo disk because I would play the hell outta that. That thing was our playstation game before we could afford a real one,

 

[HylianMogget]

I'll probably always associate Twilight Princess with Christmas time, since that's when I first got to play it and I was so unbelievably hyped for it; Snowpeak Ruins is also a great wintry dungeon. I tend to play A Link to the Past sometime around December (or during the winter in general), too, but it doesn't really make me think of Christmas specifically.

 

[Abortedj]

Always find myself playing some old 4x games. Civ 2, Master of Orion 1 and 2. I think the waring factions remind me of this, the most dysfunctional time of the year.

 

[Drax]

For some reason the snow in Lords of Shadow feels very Christmasy.

 

[Super Mario]

Meh~ Only League of Legends. Every Christmas they have a feature called Snowdown to commemorate it.

 

[Flintlock]

If board games are included, Monopoly. I don't have any particular video games that I like to play at Christmas, usually because I spend all my time with family and don't get the chance.

I always used to play Worms Armageddon on New Year's Eve when I was a kid, but I haven't done so in many years now. I'm always too busy partying

 

[JBedford]

When I first saw this thread I didn't have an answer. But since today is Christmas, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. I actually play it quite frequently 2player, but since my brother has left home we never play 4player, and that is inevitably the game we play.

Around the Christmas time I don't play anything special. I reckon in the past we played more 4 player co-op games around this time but not anymore. And as much as I'd love to play games like Worms Armageddon, TimeSplitters, and the other splitscreen/multi-player games from when we were younger (because they were good then and still are, not because nostalgia) no one else seems to want to. They're all boring now!

 

[Farron]

I seem to get all nostalgic around this time and play those snes/ mega drive games from childhoods, like Sonic, Megaman X and the like.

PlayStation games like CTR, Spyro 1, and Castlevania too.

 

[Shademp]

I seem to get all nostalgic around this time and play those snes/ mega drive games from childhoods, like Sonic, Megaman X and the like.

Megaman X

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Though I play Mega Man X, and get nostalgic for it, at any time of year.

 

[Lex]

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex be ause of all the awesome snow levels.

I also wish I still had my original PSOne demo disk because I would play the hell outta that. That thing was our playstation game before we could afford a real one,

I didn't think I had any until I read this post, and yes, all of that.

I got a Playstation in 1995 and I had this game called Tunnel B1 which was just ridiculously hard and weird. But I spent most of my time that first day playing a demo with some sort of T-Rex type thing on it and a demo of tomb raider.

Then two years later I got Crash 2 for Christmas and spent several cold days locked up in my room just playing it. Nostalgia hit me hard there.

Although the games I play around Christmas tend to be those I don't have time to play during uni term time (as has been the case for the past 4 years at least). Such as Dragon Age, Mass Effect, KH, FF (the newer ones that is, the older ones are far more speed-runnable) etc.

 

[Ghost X]

I didn't realise playing certain games around christmas time was a thing.