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Tell GR: What Are Your Thanksgiving Gaming Traditions?

Posted on Thursday, November 22 @ 12:53:25 Eastern by

For several years, I dedicatedly lugged a gray brick to and from my aunt's house. The Game Boy never left my side. If I was gone for the weekend, I'd load up several cartridges and the magnifying glass that also served as a light source. Then I got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas. Then a Game Boy Color, and a Game Boy Advance, and a GameCube....

The list goes on. Now I'm at home using the Wii U's GamePad and its dedicated screen while football and a parade dominate the screen. If I get control of the TV, I'll use it to push deeper into Halo 4's campaign. Video games have always been a part of my Thanksgiving tradition, whether I was hiding behind my laptop enjoying a few rounds of GunGame on my favorite Counter Strike: Source server or smiling as my extended family created Miis for the first time.

What are your Thanksgiving gaming traditions?
(And if you're from another country, say Canada, share another holiday tradition you have.)
Related Games:   Halo 4, Wii U


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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 1:13 pm
    I significantly remember a lot of Pokemon blue, yellow,and silver growing up

    Past 4 years ive been so far away from family all I did was work. This year I'm working again *sigh*
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 1:16 pm
    Also for my 19th birthday I was up in Canada and I got to experience Canadian thanksgiving. I don't understand why people hate on Canada I loved being up in Hamilton Ontario.
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 1:17 pm
    Drinking age is 19 up there to.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Nov 23rd, 2012 at 12:43 pm
    18 in some provinces my friend. Don't come to Saskatchewan though, and you're going to be flabbergasted by this (trust me even us who live here are) - currently it is illegal here to sell liquor in a venue with stripping women who go topless or more. That's right, DRY strip clubs. Apparently the government thinks men turn into mindless rapists when they drink and see breasts or vaginas at the same time. Unsurprisingly we don't have a single skin baring strip club anymore. Happy thanksgiving indeed...
  • spartan317
    spartan317

    Joined: Dec 2005
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 1:30 pm
    Working so no real thanksgiving day for me. *Football, Hunger pangs, Olive Fingers*

    No tradition in our family. We all can't stand one another. My family though is rife with gamers and a woman who loves to shop so once we're done devouring the food and she takes a nap we'll probably play some minecraft as a family
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 3:22 pm
    I'm a Turkmeister. I know the secret to excellent turkey. You are jealous.

    Only other tradition we have is killing ourselves over Black Friday. We try to stay away from the massive crowds of grubs, though. Most of the headache takes place over scouring the internet.
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander

    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 3:40 pm
    It's called brine and it's not really a secret.
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 5:04 pm
    Oh ye of little faith...WRONG!!!
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 9:14 pm
    I used a brine and a smoker last year. Possibly the best turkey I've ever had. Had to work this year =/
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Nov 23rd, 2012 at 12:47 pm
    Cut up breakfast sausage into your stuffing, baste your turkey well and learn how to make gravy properly, your welcome
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 9:18 pm
    Not really too many traditions as my family availability has been extremely unreliable. My mom is in the military and my sister and I are both military reserve and both work in law enforcement, so in the past 6 or more years if one of us wasn't deployed or working the beat someone else was. Myself and my sister both had to work this year but somehow we pulled off getting xmas off at the same time.

    When I was younger it was off to the grandparents (moms side) up the street or down to North Cackalacky for the other grandparents (dads side).
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Nov 23rd, 2012 at 12:48 pm
    Am I wrong for chuckling at cackalacky?
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome

    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 10:41 pm
    No Thanksgiving gaming traditions here. Just lots & lots of eating and football.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Nov 22nd, 2012 at 10:47 pm
    That sounds great can I come over next year?
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome

    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Nov 23rd, 2012 at 8:15 am
    Or you could just stumble into any house in America.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Nov 23rd, 2012 at 12:31 pm
    Tryed that last year, they called the cops.
  • Heath_Hindman
    Heath_Hindman

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Nov 23rd, 2012 at 4:12 pm
    That's pretty much me. I have Christmas Eve gaming traditions but not Thanksgiving so much. Usually just eating turkey and watching football.

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