Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply

Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply

December 25, 2008

Video games with Christmas themes are in short supply, writes Kombo.com.

In fact the site can only come up with one, Christmas Nights Into Dreams for the Sega Saturn (see video).

The Kombo article discounts games in the Nightmare Before Christmas series as "not produced with gamers in mind."

Via: What They Play

 

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Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Submitted by Jonathan - December 25, 2008 at 11:16 am -0500

There are lots of Flash based Christmas games, but there are not many mainstream Christmas games out there AFAIK.

Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Submitted by CyberSkull - December 25, 2008 at 2:30 pm -0500

I think the fewer Xmas games the better.

Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Submitted by beemoh - December 25, 2008 at 3:33 pm -0500

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Lemmings

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Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Submitted by DannyLedonne - December 25, 2008 at 6:00 pm -0500

Aw c'mon you guys remember Jazz Jackrabbit, right?  Epic published TWO holiday installations for that game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Jackrabbit_(video_game)

 

... and as I recall Ian Bogost wrote about this late year:

http://kotaku.com/336357/where-are-the-christmas-games

Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Submitted by MrKlorox - December 25, 2008 at 8:21 pm -0500

I remember the original Nights into Dreams had a Christmas mode if your Saturn's date was set to December 25. Seems silly that they released a Christmas focused edition of that game. I wonder if setting the Saturn date to Dec 25 in Christmas Nights made it extra-christmasy.

Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Submitted by David - December 25, 2008 at 10:14 pm -0500

Donkey Kong Country 3 had a code for Christmas themed... stuff, I don't remember.  Something changed into Christmas shapes.  But I do remember a jazzy Christmas-y music remix during the bonus stages.

Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Submitted by KayleL - December 26, 2008 at 1:11 pm -0500

But at least there are April Fools games. I like the one by Blizzard for their console game.

Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Submitted by deuxhero - December 26, 2008 at 1:21 pm -0500

Didn't Planescape Torment have signicent graphical differnces if played on chirstmas?

Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Submitted by Lorben - December 29, 2008 at 8:59 am -0500

There's the 'Christmas Carol' episode of American McGee's Grimm

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