27 Years Of The Most Awesome Christmas Presents You Wished You’d Gotten
Whether you were a cool kid or an adult in 1986, Sony had a tiny audio product for you.
(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.) youtube.com
Before the Wii, before the PlayStation Move, before the Kinect, there was the POWER Pad in 1988:
Tetris was OUTRAGEOUS on the Game Boy in 1989 because it was played by ninjas with LASER FINGERS:
In 1990, if you got a Sega Genesis, all the neighborhood kids would storm your house:
(The Genesis came out in 1989, but it didn’t do so well until 1990, when it started being bundled with Sonic the Hedgehog.) 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.
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.
If you were a cool kid with rich parents in 2004, you got the first COOL cell phone since Zack Morris, the MOTO RAZR.
Nintendo struck again, reducing children to screaming fits of tears with the Wii in 2006.
Of course this was all we wanted for Christmas (or whatever excuse we could dream up) in 2007:
I seriously can’t believe we all wanted these terrible things in 2008:
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Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/mattbuchanan/27-years-of-the-most-awesome-christmas-presents-yo
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