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

Don't love your Christmas present this year? It could be worse. Remember the presents you wanted every single year but your parents never got you until the year AFTER it was cool?

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

(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.)

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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

Even Paul Rudd wanted an SNES in 1991.

youtube.com

Game Genie turned everyone into a cheater in 1992.

youtube.com

Everybody wanted the most annoying toy ever in 1993...

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

Everybody tripped balls for a PlayStation in 1995.

youtube.com

The N64 did this to children everywhere in 1996...

youtube.com

...until they were possessed by Tamagotchis in 1997...

youtube.com

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

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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.

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

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

youtube.com

(Thumbnail image: hezicon)