It’s day two of the Creative Christmas collaboration, where a group of bloggers are joining forces to tackle 12 video-game-related questions all based around a loose festive storyline. Following on from yesterday’s entry about a gift for someone special, the next we’re facing is:

You’re wrapping presents while listening to cheesy festive tunes, and start to reminisce about holidays past. What’s your favourite Christmas gaming memory?

My answer

A lot of Later Levels visitors will know how much the Monkey Island series means to me. I’ve written about the reasons for this on several occasions: I first played The Secret of Monkey Island after receiving an Amiga 500 for Christmas as a nine-year old back in the very early 1990s, and have loved adventure games (and had a crush on Guybrush Threepwood) ever since.

This isn’t the festive memory I’d like to write about today though. The one I…