heh ... Maria's Christmas box.
Unrelated:
Step one ... put a hole in that box
Step Two ...
Step Three ...
This thread reminded me of all the video games I had to wait until Xmas for. I remember my C64 and Amiga game playing always revolved around Santa and my birthday. There were only three other people in the area who even had an Amiga. Only a dude who called himself 'The Shadow' had any cracked, trained, and copied floppies. Me and a dude named David Hill had Amiga 1000s but we both bought our games. Marauder II couldn't handle games like Shadow of the Beast.
Everyone had a C64. I remember having at least 100 pirated games for that computer. Even my dad would copy C64 games from co-workers. It was the only time where I remember him actively looking for some game. He had games for his TRS-80 and around that time got the family an INTV on which he played games like Utopia and Snafu all the time. After the C64 he became a workaholic ... never saw the man until I was back from NY.