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."
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Andrew Eisen: That article is over five years old, Uncharted. A fun blast from the past though.02/12/2012 - 10:47pm
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Zen: I felt Brutal Legends was a funny & beautiful look at the world of rock from Double Fines point of view. The only parts I wasn't hot for were the RTS bits as it felt forced. Otherwise fantastic.02/12/2012 - 1:34pm
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DorthLous: Passed 1.5M$. And I'd also say that Brutal Legend is far from being a bad game. I just think it was a few levels under what people expected from the people working on the project.02/11/2012 - 8:25am
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Technogeek: Brutal Legend wasn't bad so much as "marketing had no idea how the game actually played", causing it to suffer accordingly.02/10/2012 - 10:38pm
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RedMage: It looks the CIA's website has been DDOS'ed. Anon?02/10/2012 - 7:52pm
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RedMage: Brutal Legend.02/10/2012 - 7:52pm
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ddrfr33k: Has anything Tim Schafer ever made been of crap caliber? I'm struggling to think of one...02/10/2012 - 7:37pm
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Guamish: I think it is in good hands. Tim did a game for the GDC award show and that was fun for how short it was.02/10/2012 - 12:22pm
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Andrew Eisen: It'll be tragic if the game ultimately sucks.02/10/2012 - 12:17pm
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james_fudge: $1.3 million02/10/2012 - 11:32am
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Uncharted NES: Germany Says It Won't Sign ACTA [Update: ... Yet]- http://tinyurl.com/7r2twrg02/10/2012 - 11:21am
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Andrew Eisen: Damn. Double Fine's Kickstarter fund has already passed a million dollars.02/09/2012 - 8:16pm
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Andrew Eisen: Audrey didn't quote the sassy parts. Here's IGN's article: http://wii.ign.com/articles/121/1218359p1.html And here's my original post: http://tinyurl.com/7y68a3902/09/2012 - 7:50pm
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james_fudge: I hope you some said something sassy! Where's the link?02/09/2012 - 7:46pm
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Andrew Eisen: Hey, neat. IGN quoted a blog I had writen only two hours earlier. I certainly timed that one pretty well.02/09/2012 - 7:38pm
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Comments
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
There's the 'Christmas Carol' episode of American McGee's Grimm
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
Didn't Planescape Torment have signicent graphical differnces if played on chirstmas?
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
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
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
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
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Lemmings
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Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
I think the fewer Xmas games the better.
Re: Christmas-themed Games in Short Supply
There are lots of Flash based Christmas games, but there are not many mainstream Christmas games out there AFAIK.