Did your parents gift you the games and consoles you wanted during Christmas/Bithday/other holidays?

[Kane99]

Did your parents always get consoles and games that you wanted for Christmas,  your birthday or other holidays?

I didn't get all the stuff i wanted. I did get a Sega Genesis, Playstation, and 360 consoles over my life. Many games I wanted too. What about you?

[Sharon]

Not typically. It was sort of understood that my parents didn't have a lot of money and unless it was a necessity we've learned to never really ask for anything major like a gaming system. I remember asking my brothers for video games (PC) growing up which now thinking back I didn't really appreciate as much as I should have. Whenever I wanted the newest expansion of The Sims, or if there was a new Playstation game my brothers would hook me up. I usually got their hand me downs but they always did get what I wanted when I asked. For my parents, they supported our hobbies in general but yeah I don't remember us asking for gaming consoles specifically. 

[Razor1911]

Never really, my parents bought me a lot of Toys and stuffs, but never gifted me any console or any other games. Most of the time these are gifted by my cousins and niece. 

[m76]

Not really, I had to wait until my first job to get my first console. I didn't even ask for it, because even things that I did ask for sometimes were deemed too expensive that cost a fraction of a gaming console.

You have to understand that even after the communist bloc has dissolved videogames were prohibitively expensive for us living in the former communist influence. For example a videogame (not a console, a single game) cost almost as much as the minimum wage for a month in the early nineties.

[Kane99]

14 hours ago, Sharon said:

Not typically. It was sort of understood that my parents didn't have a lot of money and unless it was a necessity we've learned to never really ask for anything major like a gaming system. I remember asking my brothers for video games (PC) growing up which now thinking back I didn't really appreciate as much as I should have. Whenever I wanted the newest expansion of The Sims, or if there was a new Playstation game my brothers would hook me up. I usually got their hand me downs but they always did get what I wanted when I asked. For my parents, they supported our hobbies in general but yeah I don't remember us asking for gaming consoles specifically. 

Yeah most of the time I got Toys and clothes. But on those rare Christmases I got lucky and got the consoles I mentioned. 

Hand me downs aren't bad either. Back then I was willing to wait get certain games. And sometimes my sister would just give me her old nes games. 

[Head_Hunter]

My parents never cared about my gaming lifestyle, that's why they never bothered buying me gaming console or any accessories of the console I was playing back then.  So, I'm not expecting such care either at this time, because they didn't show up when I was with them. 

[Justin11]

I've always celebrated my birthday on the low key, I don't out it up as a remarkable da to public people, only my immediate family members knows about that. I don't receive any gift of any kind because I don't inform anyone outside my home about it. 

[Boblee]

Of course yes, especially when I do well come the close session of the year in my academics. They are definitely going to gift me any game of my choice. 

[Scorpion]

I didn’t always get everything I wanted either, but I cherished the consoles I received, like my Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.