In context, the best one I got was many many moons ago.
As I kid I, along with about a half dozen or so of my friends, were super big into D&D. Most birthdays and Christmases involved D&D based presents.
One Christmas this new 'official' D&D computer game was released (don't remember which one it was). All of us wanted one because all of us were lucky enough to have a computer in the house. (This was back when no one had multiple computers, and some didn't even have one computer yet.) It even had 'network playing' available, so we could play from home.
Well the parents all decided, instead of the computer game, they went to a game/comic shop and bought D&D gear outfits. Like, each one was a set of clothing and items based on the classes.... a fighter, a cleric, a thief, a wizard, a ranger, etc... the kind of thing you couldn't buy today because it had enough small parts to make a meal and plenty of things to put an eye out if you tried.
Of course we were a bit disappointed, but when spring came we grabbed our stuff and went to an undeveloped area in town. It was filled with meadows, a small forested area, a little lake and some rolling hills.
Playing outside in that 'wilderness', pretending, and just using our imagination blew away any game we could have played on the computer.
As I kid I, along with about a half dozen or so of my friends, were super big into D&D. Most birthdays and Christmases involved D&D based presents.
One Christmas this new 'official' D&D computer game was released (don't remember which one it was). All of us wanted one because all of us were lucky enough to have a computer in the house. (This was back when no one had multiple computers, and some didn't even have one computer yet.) It even had 'network playing' available, so we could play from home.
Well the parents all decided, instead of the computer game, they went to a game/comic shop and bought D&D gear outfits. Like, each one was a set of clothing and items based on the classes.... a fighter, a cleric, a thief, a wizard, a ranger, etc... the kind of thing you couldn't buy today because it had enough small parts to make a meal and plenty of things to put an eye out if you tried.
Of course we were a bit disappointed, but when spring came we grabbed our stuff and went to an undeveloped area in town. It was filled with meadows, a small forested area, a little lake and some rolling hills.
Playing outside in that 'wilderness', pretending, and just using our imagination blew away any game we could have played on the computer.
