These games belong to Christmas for me

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There are video games that can be associated simply with Christmas — for different reasons. This I go to you with personal examples to the bottom.

For me Gaming has always been one for Christmas this — both on the wish list as well for extensive pastime. There are games in which I around just around the holidays come around not.

Why it is like that? There are multiple reasons for this.

matching the feast

Some games do it alone by their setting to ensure Christmas feeling. Frequently, hand me more gentle soundtrack to advance coincide forward to the holidays.

Freeze peak from Banjo-Kazooie is with me at the top of the December Playlist, closely followed by Jangle Bells from Donkey Kong Country 3 and Buried in the Snow from Final Fantasy. 7

But with the Vorweihnacht I connect a flash game called Line Rider from 2006, in which a carriage driver himself drawn lines entlangrodelt. About ten years later, it gained its impressive YouTube creations to classic songs new awareness — necessarily daily, who does not know it!

In addition to a game Line Rider it is for me since last year to me in advance by Animal Crossing: to put New Horizons in the Christmas mood.

There starts in December, the so-called holiday season, shake in which I obsessively tree decorations of decorated pine trees to convert the last seasonal Bastelanleitung in festive decoration and distract me from the fact that I actually quite urgently get Christmas presents in real life got to.

Cozy memories evoke nostalgia by

If the holidays are once there, I sink in homelike nostalgia. The games of my childhood offer me a certain security, and did not think an inner retreat in carefree times where I felt safe unconditionally to the morning.

Some of these retro games I connect explicitly with Christmas. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, for example, because it conjures me a sweet Christmas scent in the nose. The timeless masterpiece was published on 11 December 1998 in Europe, as a fragrant gingerbread house adorned my children.

Ab this year I can Ocarina of Time using the extension package from Nintendo Switch online and enjoy on my switch. Here is the trailer for the expansion pack:

The Donkey Kong Country series is for me to do so. One of my countless memories of the series is, like me cheering my grandpa playing the first part, when we visited my grandparents during the holidays. About DKC2 64 and look for my joy, and later Donkey Kong under the Christmas tree, I will never forget.

A completely unexpected for me Christmas was years later, the PlayStation 2 had folded it and gave me a memorable 2002 Christmas Eve together with Final Fantasy X. My grandmother and parents.

Just the intro sequence of FIX can it still elicit in me the incredible feeling of gratitude and astonished comments of my family.

The same applies to the beginning of The Curse of Monkey Iceland. Thus, the adventure was running on our PC in the first place, my parents had a second Christmas a fortune for a new graphics card spend. Often one notices only in retrospect, how much love you have actually experienced.

Even if I turn not each of these games a year, so help me alternately about to me to be aware of this concern during the festive season and let me bathe in this comfortable and at the same time humble feeling.

Traditionally, multiplayer

In contrast, there are games that traditionally belong every year on the program — no ifs or buts. These are not the sign of silent retrospect, but the joyful gathering in the spirit of Christmas.

When my grandmother could still move correctly, Bowling was in Wii Sports integral part of our family Christmas Eve. In recent years, Beat Saber took his place that just does not cease to provide competitive fun with its simple motion control.

A trivia game should not be missed during the holidays. Trivial Pursuit has been with us a few years ago by knowledge is power, and his successor to the great link principle is replaced.

Dazugesellt in each year a different co-op game. Is at a premium in my family the Tribe series, where we also have a fuzzy fool to Sack boy since last year: ate A Big Adventure.

With my best friends again it goes annually with Bro force, Super Smash Bros. and Worms offshoot something brutal, but not less traditionally.

My parents have to read during the holidays at least once Super Mario World — one of our first video games, which they still play today with great enthusiasm, from which I always gladly infect.

The same enthusiasm developed above all my mother for Castro Bot: Rescue Mission. Since then, she can not wait until I come home to Christmas with my PS4 velvet PlayStation VR headset and immerse them completely into virtual reality — but not alone, because we always save the cute robots together.

Conclusion

So video games contribute to Mir in several ways for Christmas. In advance, they arouse my anticipation and me mentally on my festival.

They allow me to withdraw myself in a homely feeling, to forget everything around me and deal with beautiful memories that make me humble.

Only very specific games really include every year to my very personal tradition — namely those who enjoy together with my family and friends.

Can I introduce Christmas without video games? Of course, after all, they are only one aspect of many of what the festive days make up for me. But fortunately, I do not have to do without you.

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