Thinking back to the 1999 Christmas season, we were still playing our Nintendo 64 quite a lot, but we were saving up frantically for a Sega Dreamcast. Star Wars games featured prominently in December 1999, but after the massive disappointment of The Phantom Menace prequel released earlier that same year, we steered clear of these games as a matter of protest. It was our loss, as some of these new Star Wars games on the 32-bit and 64-bit platforms were absolute crackers! Other notable games that we loved playing around that time were Driver and Soul Reaver on the Playstation.
Casting an eye over the top 5 December 1999 games charts for each platform, we were mostly looking forward to slicing and dicing in SoulCalibur and shooting zombies in House Of The Dead 2 on Sega’s Dreamcast!
What were your gaming memories from the 1999 Christmas season – tell us now on Twitter or Facebook!
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1) Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace (LucasArts) |
| 2) Driver (Acclaim) | |
| 3) Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (Activision) | |
| 4) South Park (Acclaim) | |
| 5) Soul Reaver (Eidos) |
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1) Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (Nintendo) |
| 2) Star Wars: Episode 1 – Racer (Nintendo) | |
| 3) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time (Nintendo) | |
| 4) F-1 Grand Prix II (Video System) | |
| 5) Quake II (Activision) |
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1) SoulCalibur (Namco) |
| 2) Sonic Adventure (Sega) | |
| 3) Sega Worldwide Soccer 2000 (Sega) | |
| 4) Ready 2 Rumble (Midway) | |
| 5) House Of The Dead 2 (Sega) |
Ms. ausretrogamer
Casen Sperry, Mike Brown and Landon Sperry of 
Panthera
Hot Tour
SMASH!
The Beast
The Shuttle
The Droids Series
The Droid EVII
The Red Droid
R2PO
“On the First day of Christmas my true love sent to me”, No, no, no! There will be no ‘The Twelve Days Of Christmas’ singing here, thank you. With Christmas just around the corner, we thought we would ease the gift buying burden by giving you ‘The Twelve Gift Ideas For Christmas’ to help you get something special for your really cool geeky / nerdy partner.
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Image source: New Zealand Mint via Geekologie
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