We’re all strung out on mall-to-mall-combat and deal-grubbing, so let’s keep this Yuletide edition of PaD short and sweet:

You run down on Christmas Day, tear open your stocking and find something far worse than a chunk of coal…

Dave:

Adam:

Jon:

All joking aside, this is an accurate representation of the video games my parents thought were hot ticket items during my childhood.  So while you guys were opening and playing great games like Yoshi’s Island and Mega Man X, I was wearing my best false smile and reassuring my mother that Cool World was EXACTLY what I was hoping for, and that Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge was an even better game than Demon’s Crest.  Being Canadian, this meant TWO days of keeping up a festive and joyous facade whilst waiting for the stores to reopen so I could buy what I wanted out of my paper route money.  After the Pit-Fighter is just as good as a PlayStation debacle in 1995, I tapped out and just asked them to stop.