Secret Santa 2k5: The cat is out of the bag!

[Lady Jaye]

Well, since we are the 24th today and I'm leaving soon to see my parents, I might as well post who my SS is, and what I recceived.

My Secret Santa was Aussie2B. She sent me the following:

Pokémon Puzzle Challenge for GBC
Commando for NES
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers for NES
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (CD-ROM)
Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer Rounds 1&2 anime (CD-ROM)
Music CD: Apollo Four Forty - Electro Glide in Blue
Music CD: Slaves on Dope - Inches from the Mainline promo EP

and finally...

Final Fantasy X-2 for PS2.

Thanks again!!!!!!!!

[Sniderman]

Guess I'll be next up, as my folks will be arriving soon today and I'll be DP non-grata for the rest of the day.

My SS was Richter, and did he score well with me! I believe I mentioned that I was starting to get into game soundtracks, and I got a massive fist-full of Sega soundtracks (complete with cases) for the following:
*Sonic Adventure 2
*Robotech Battlecry
*The Music of Suikoden
*Space Channel 5 Planet Dance
*Jet Grind Radio Music Sampler
*and Gekimix: Feet of Fury Soundtrack!

And, if that weren't enough, I also got Super Mario Bros. 3 (Super Mario Advance 4) for the GBA, complete in box! Believe it or not, this is the only SMB cart for the GBA I *don't* have! Score for me!

As well as a big 'ol Shadow of the Collosus poster he tossed in, he also did up a sketch of nifty-keen sketch of a zombie videogamer getting blasted. I'll scan it up and post it here when I have the chance.

Thanks again Richter! I really appreciate the gifts and will get a ton of use and fun out of 'em!

And Merry Christmas to all this year!

[HardcoreGamer]

My Santa remained a sekret.

But, he/she did get me Phantasy Star Online Episode I and II for my GC, and a pack of Donkey Kong cards, sealed.

Thank you so much for reawakening my addiction to PSO.

[PapaStu]

Since I just woke up.... Why not!

Firstly I sent my SS present to sailorneorune (Figured I'd mention it since there was no mention in the package). Hope you enjoy!

My SS this year was none other than Mr. DP himself. Knowing that I had a pretty open list of desires Joe put together a nice little PS2 package for me. I got:

Hitman 2 Silent Assassin (First run)
XIII
Splashdown
and Spiderman

4 more games into my ever expanding PS2 collection. Thank you so very much!!!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!

[swlovinist]

Cmosfm was mine, and boy do I feel lucky. Chris O' Sullivan went WAY out of his way to bring someone who was feeling depressed holiday cheer. I feel blessed and very apppreciateive of how hard he worked for my list. I fell like the luckiest person in the world. It really made my day, as it will probably be the only gifts I get that are games.

Here is what I got:
Syndicate boxed and complete for the Genesis
Tempest X3 for the playstation
Puzzle Link and Magical Drop Pocket for the NGP
PS2 demo Gengi
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection Guide w/Soundtrack
Custom Framed picture of nintendo characters(perfect for my room of doom)
Random assortment of Happy Meal Batman Toys, A Spiderman Venom toy, and a Darth Vader Bendem!

Holy cow do I feel lucky! Thank you so much Chris!!!!!!

[Rogmeister]

My turn!

My Secret Santa was Goodwill Hunter!

And inside my mystery package...

F-Zero X for N64, boxed and complete!
MLB 2005 for PS1, new & still sealed!
Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 for SNES!
Tom & Jerry: Fists of Furry for N64!
Desert Demolition (Road Runner game) for Genesis!
Intellivision 10 Video Game System! (Never seen this, it's like one of those controllers you hook up directly to the TV but this is by a different company than most; this has 10 games in it).
And 3 Nintendo Game Packs...they look like trading card packs but say they have 3 scratch off cards and 2 stickers. I've never seen these before.

Thanks a lot, Rich. About half the items you sent me weren't even on my list but they look nice and you didn't send me anything I already have (always a worry in this sort of thing). The item I'm probably happiest about is MLB 2005 since I'm a huge baseball nut and I think this is the last baseball game for the PS1. Thanks again from one happy gamer!

[classicb]

well I opened mine about two days ago since I had to leave for Grandma's house.

my SS was GrandAmChandler and he hooked it up. I took some pictures of it before I left so I wouldn't forget anything since he put so much stuff in it. I got a bunch of stuff off my list which was stuff I've been wanting to get for years. I didn't expect to see so much stuff and I didn't expect to see G Darius it was the first thing I played. Then I played ActRaiser all night. When I get back it will be a Mario Party with the Roomates.

Thank you GrandAmChandler and I hope you have as great a holiday as mine is turning out to be. Also a big thank you to POG who put together the best gift exchange I've been apart of. I've done it the last two years and its been great both years.

Pictures:

[Richter]

And, if that weren't enough, I also got Super Mario Bros. 3 (Super Mario Advance 4) for the GBA, complete in box! Believe it or not, this is the only SMB cart for the GBA I *don't* have! Score for me!

O.O

whoa, I took a gamble with that. It was the only game i was willing to let go.

[norkusa]

Chainsaw Charlie was my SS and he totally overdid it. I was just just expecting a couple cheap games, so I was totally blown away when I opened my package:



The want list CC got was my GameTZ list and had about 400+ items on it. It seems like he read my thoughts and managed to get me the stuff I wanted the most though. And I actually almost bid on a Kagero demo disc on Ebay a month or two ago. Uncanny.

THANK YOU, Chainsaw! You've totally made my Christmas.

[njiska]

Syndicate 3DO
Tom Kite Teaching Golf 3DO
Street Fighter II Turbo 3DO

Dead or Alive JP SAT

Dreamcast Jump Pack

Sealed Inital D CCG cards

SNK Trading Cards

DOA Kasumi Card and Lei Feng Card

3DO Pin

Resident Evil / Apocolyspe Soundtrack Demo with RE4 Ad

Sorry DDCecil if i forgot any thing, but thanks for all the cool shit man.

I'll post picts tomorrow.

[Goodwill Hunter]

A big thanks and Merry Christmas goes out to neuropolitique who very nicely filled some holiday holes in my collection:

NES Day Dreamin' Davey - Complete!
Genesis Double Dragon 3 - Complete!
SMS Wonderboy - Complete!
SMS My Hero - Boxed!

And thanks also for the interesting Christmas card...if there's a story behind the guys putting wreaths around the statues neck's, I'd like to hear it!

Merry Christmas too all and a special thanks to Jamie for doing all of the hard work that made this possible!

Rich

[TEND]

From sylentwulf I got:
Boktai (GBA)
NHL 94' (SNES)
and a ton of extras. Thanks.
Just a message to my secret santa there is one more package on the way, my brother had sent me a game to send but it hadn't arrived by the deadline, so expect another package within the next week or two.

[DDCecil]

Glad you liked the stuff Njiska! My SS was Jgenotte who gave me:

A Sega Master System!
Power Strike
Rambo III
Afterburner
and Pro Wrestling.

Can't wait to hook it up and play. Thanks alot man!

[Mayhem]

My SS didn't put their name on the box, but a bit of detective work leads to be believe it might have been Skoldpadda.

He got me a complete Cosmic Chasm and an almost (minus box) complete Space Wars for Vectrex, along with a couple of random issues of Compute. Cheers

[ubersaurus]

Mine was MGriff, and he got me:

Blazing Lazers-tg16
Rampage-sms
Tokyo Highway Battle-PS1

And an absolute boatload of PS1 and PS2 demo discs. Thanks! You managed to pick off the things on the list I wanted most :P

[neuropolitique]

My SS was Njiska. He got me Jade Empire LE for the Xbox, sealed!. I'm pretty excited to play it once the holiday hubub dies down. Thanks man.

@goodwillhunter - Glad you liked your gifts. I know of no story behind the card, but the artist is Edward Gorey. Look him up, very interesting stuff.

[Drexel923]

My SS was anagrama...I got the following:

Neutopia TG16
Blazing Lazers TG16
Marksman Shooting / Trap Shooting/ Safari Hunt SMS
Nintendo Playing Cards
and a NES controller keychain thing.

Thanks

[YoshiM]

Since I too will be AFK over the weekend, here's what I got from Phreak97.

All are complete!



Astal (Sega Saturn)

And the rest are all Sega Master System

Double Dragon
Rastan
Gangster Town
Fantasy Zone
Penguin Land
Great Football
Alex Kidd in High Tech World
Kenseiden
Choplifter
Time Soldiers
The Ninja
Hang On/Safari Hunt

Thank you very much Phreak97 for greatly increasing my SMS collection AND for finding games on my wish list (Kenseiden, Choplifter and Astal)! Mucho Awesome.

[s1lence]

I have no clue as to who my secret santa was but I got stuff I needed so thanks who ever it was.

Kung FU and Rc Proam for the NES (Dupes but in WAY better shape then mine so thank you)

All Complete Intellivision Game
Motocross
Big League Baseball
sorry I forget what the other one is as I left it in minnesota.

Thanks a Bunch!!

BTW to the person I sent gifts to sorry I didnt wrap them up in gift wrap. I hope you like them.

[rick weis]

my SS was Studvicious!

he got me 9 Xbox demo discs (15-23)
and a gift card to starbucks!

that puts a good dent in the xbox demos i needed.. Thank you very much! and there's nothing like a starbucks drink on a cold winter day.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Rick