27 Years Of The Most Awesome Christmas Presents You Wished You’d Gotten

In 1985, the NES was the greatest Christmas present of ALL TIME (and still is).

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Whether you were a cool kid or an adult in 1986, Sony had a tiny audio product for you.

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(Sony released the first portable CD player in 1984, but it was the 1986 launch of the D-7 that really wowed critics and made portable CD players seriously popular.) Source: youtube.com

In 1987, Wal-Mart made sure that EVERYBODY could finally play the “original” Lazer Tag:

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Before the Wii, before the PlayStation Move, before the Kinect, there was the POWER Pad in 1988:

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Tetris was OUTRAGEOUS on the Game Boy in 1989 because it was played by ninjas with LASER FINGERS:

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In 1990, if you got a Sega Genesis, all the neighborhood kids would storm your house:

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(The Genesis came out in 1989, but it didn’t do so well until 1990, when it started being bundled with Sonic the Hedgehog.) Source: youtube.com

Even Paul Rudd wanted an SNES in 1991.

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Game Genie turned everyone into a cheater in 1992.

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Everybody wanted the most annoying toy ever in 1993…

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…and again in 1994, just in a different package.

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Everybody tripped balls for a PlayStation in 1995.

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The N64 did this to children everywhere in 1996…

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…until they were possessed by Tamagotchis in 1997…

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…which led to people inviting creepy Furbys into their house in 1998.

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OK, not everybody NEEDED a Dreamcast in 1999, but I WISH they did because then Sega might not’ve killed it.

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In 2000, the PlayStation 2 was so cool, David Lynch even directed ads for it.

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In 2001, we wanted an Xbox, but really only to play “Halo.”

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If you were a dadbro or businessbro in 2002, all you needed to conquer the world was this BlackBerry:

The BlackBerry 5810, to be precise.

Ipods weren’t just for Mac nerds anymore starting in 2003.

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If you were a cool kid with rich parents in 2004, you got the first COOL cell phone since Zack Morris, the MOTO RAZR.

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Can you believe the Xbox 360 is SEVEN years old? Aghajglhj.

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Nintendo struck again, reducing children to screaming fits of tears with the Wii in 2006.

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Of course this was all we wanted for Christmas (or whatever excuse we could dream up) in 2007:

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I seriously can’t believe we all wanted these terrible things in 2008:

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People finally knew what a Kindle was in 2009 and literacy was saved for Christmas.

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In 2010, YOU got to be the controller, whatever THAT means, with the Xbox Kinect:

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Apple made everybody feel real sappy so they’d want an iPad 2 in 2011:

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And who didn’t wish they got the cutest tablet of the year yesterday?

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