Most meaningful childhood Christmas present?

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dcf2 said:
Personally, while I'd like to say it was a book like The Selfish Gene or a chemistry set, it was almost certainly receiving an Atari 2600. Our family could afford it as my mother went to work and it is thus also associated with transition to latch key kid status.

Anything stand out?
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I would say it was meaningful in that sense but my favorite was a Nintendo. I was like now I can play games that are like the ones in the arcades. (That wasn’t really true. More like the games in the arcades a few years earlier but I didn’t understand Moore’s Law at that time.)

The most important was when my brother an I got a TRS-80 CoCo. I didn’t even know what a computer was really. Didn’t ask for it by my brother did and so we got it together. But I programmed on it. Nothing sophisticated but I think it trained my brain a certain way.
 
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BillyL said:
My great uncle who owned an appliance store in Youngsville, NC sent me a transistor AM radio when I was in the 5th grade, it had a closable plastic case that protected the radio, I used to fall asleep listening to the Pholadelphia 76ers game radio broadcasts back in the day when that team had Wilt Chamberlain & Hal Greer on the team.
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Same excepting no uncle

listened to a lot of Chicago radio
 
ChileG said:
Got a BB Gun when I was 10 and I still have it. Only present from my childhood that I still have, so I guess that would be it.
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This would be it for me. Still I have my BB gun and so much of my childhood was spent roaming the woods and goofing off. And I guess maybe more important my 9th (maybe 10th) grade Christmas I got my 30-06. My dad died the shortly after (my junior year in February) so I’ll always remember that. At that point I had moved and really have only hunted with it 4 or 5 times..
 
Oddly enough, mine came from our 80 year old crochety neighbor. Shortly after I turned six, I received a large set of pocket size illustrated classics. I read those stories ragged as a kid. Huge foundation of literary allusions and symbolism when I decided to become an English major/teacher.

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C-Money said:
The original NES was another favorite.
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Same. I was 5 or 6 when I got it. Got a TV that same Christmas to go with it. Thinking back on it, that was a pretty expensive pair of gifts. I'm an only child, though, and that was before my little cousins were born. Being the lone grandchild had some perks.
 
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