My worst present was a pair of rollerblades 3 sizes too small...and pink
Same birthday my auntie made a cake filled with peanut butter - about half the people there were allergic to nuts - fun times

A miniature Coca-cola matchbox type lorry.

I was 16.

Edit: And also the St. Anger album. I'll never forgive my parents for that one.

a game for the Ps3... i don't have and cant afford a Ps3!

Diablo 1.......in the year 2006

Anything other than cash. Cash is the most useful present in the world and can bring the most fun.

box of cornflakes... well i didnt get this, but gave it to my gf for her birthday.... yeah, we split up not long after that.

gussy1z:
box of cornflakes... well i didnt get this, but gave it to my gf for her birthday.... yeah, we split up not long after that.

Genius - did it have a toy inside it??

Halo 3.

I hadn't played a game on my 360 in about ten months, and I was going to give it to my little brother after I bought a PS3. I don't even like FPS'. I never even took the plastic off. He played it, he liked it, and I don't think he's played it in a while.

Best and worst simultaneously was WoW. It's fun as hell, but it steals your soul. Don't fall to the same fate as 10 million people! Turn back! Turn back!

Michael_McCloud:
Best and worst simultaneously was WoW. It's fun as hell, but it steals your soul. Don't fall to the same fate as 10 million people! Turn back! Turn back!

people have died!!!!!

Most anything my grandparents give me involving video games. They don't seem to be in on the idea that not all video games are the same, and that there are lots of differing opinions in gaming. I (an almost exclusively PC gamer, Wii is only good for VC anymore, really) have gotten emails for stupid XBox/Playstation gaming organizations and crap, and they always try to get stuff on birthdays/gifting holidays that is related to games, but is in no way related to my sort of games. I've received about eight RTS games. I don't like RTS games. I tell them this, but they keep trying...

The same way they do with my hobby - programming - so much crap about hacker leagues and stuff. When I tell them that I don't like it, they just get insulted.

Souplex:
Anything other than cash. Cash is the most useful present in the world and can bring the most fun.

I guess you could say that, but it makes unwrapping presents extremely boring. That and gift certificates.

As for the worst birthday present I have ever received, I would have to say socks. Classic.

vdgmprgrmr:
I've received about eight RTS games. I don't like RTS games. I tell them this, but they keep trying...

I'll take them... >.>

I got a 7 year olds science kit from my nan when i was 17, she's a few gun men short of a grassy knoll - to quote ZP

My mom had to have emergency surgery on my birthday, all I got was heartburn.

A copy of one of Starwars Glaxies expansion packs without the original.

Nuff said...

TomNook:

vdgmprgrmr:
I've received about eight RTS games. I don't like RTS games. I tell them this, but they keep trying...

I'll take them... >.>

Me 2, depending on which ones did'nt suck...

Once i received a single cent, wrapped in a box the size of a tv, now that was pretty unexpected. Gave me a good laugh tho...

wewontdie11:
A miniature Coca-cola matchbox type lorry.

I was 16.

Edit: And also the St. Anger album. I'll never forgive my parents for that one.

To make a reference to ZP, you obviously arent white enough to own all three major consoles. Funny thing is, I got all three of them and a fairly decent PC and I'm about 1/3 Hispanic. Guees I'm whiter than you and "Yahtzee".

P.S. LOL

Edit: Srry, wrong person.

CatAttack:
a game for the Ps3... i don't have and cant afford a Ps3!

To make a reference to ZP, you obviously arent white enough to own all three major consoles. Funny thing is, I got all three of them and a fairly decent PC and I'm about 1/3 Hispanic. Guees I'm whiter than you and "Yahtzee".

P.S. LOL

Well, my brother specifically asked for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and he got the original. We already own that by the way, my mom got it to him for Christmas the year it came out.

But the funny thing is, ealier that day I said to him that it would be pretty bad if he got the original instead of the sequel. I had a laugh but no one else did, unless you count an embassed laugh.

EDIT: apparently a third Hispanic is white enough, lol

a broken laptop... that was like 10 years old to begin with. my dad got it for 50 bucks on eBay... i forget exactly what it was but i remember it was an HP... i tossed it off the balcony 3 months later.

once my grandmother gave me an atlas for my birthday. i got it 4 years ago and still haven't touched the cursed thing.

The worst present I ever received was a sparkly silver, girly looking graphing calculator, when I already had a perfectly fine plain black one. And besides, it's an item for use in school, not something fun like a present's supposed to be.

two plastic dinosaurs, who inside the box, looked like one was analing the other. looking back on it though, it was pretty funny.

vdgmprgrmr:
Most anything my grandparents give me involving video games. They don't seem to be in on the idea that not all video games are the same, and that there are lots of differing opinions in gaming. I (an almost exclusively PC gamer, Wii is only good for VC anymore, really) have gotten emails for stupid XBox/Playstation gaming organizations and crap, and they always try to get stuff on birthdays/gifting holidays that is related to games, but is in no way related to my sort of games. I've received about eight RTS games. I don't like RTS games. I tell them this, but they keep trying...

The same way they do with my hobby - programming - so much crap about hacker leagues and stuff. When I tell them that I don't like it, they just get insulted.

amen to that my parents had the same problem, they couldnt differentiate between any video games , they assumed they were all the same. I asked for super smash bros. melee and got luigi's mansion. But somthing is better than nothing

Sometime in junior high I believe;
My grandparents gave me a set of regular hard wood #2 pencils.

Since Jr. High I've never ever used anything other than mechanical pencils >.<;

I got a ruler set from my grandparents but my mom and dad got me like six games so it evened out.

I got a bean bag chair and a box of nilla wafers once. That pretty much sucked. That and a cat peed on the bean bag chair within 15 minutes of me having it.

My sister's birthday this year takes the cake though. My parents didn't give her anything. They didn't say a word about it either. My sister went up to me and asked if they had said anything. They hadn't.

Not really a present, but I got stuck in an airport from around 10:00 p.m. (my birthday eve) until nearly 5 a.m. (pilots decided to not tell anyone they weren't coming and so all the passengers got to sit in the airport until all the staff left and turned off the lights saying, as they were leaving, "Your flight was canceled), then to take a 4 hour bus ride with a bunch of strangers in a disgusting bus and finally ended the day without a single call or card from friends' or family.

Actual worst present would be a single pen. Not a fancy pen, just like a Bic or something.

Back when all I had was a PS2, my mom got me X-Men Legends for the Xbox :P She didn't think the green case was weird? If I can help it, I'll only ask for platform-exclusives so they can't screw it up (like for Christmas last year I asked for Mass Effect).

For some unknown reason, one year my entire extend family got the word I was into star trek, thing is I was the only one who didn't know. So I got all this star treck stuff I politly put in a closet and never let see the light of day.

I got my report card on my birthday and my Dad hit me because I got a C in math.

A gift certificate to a clothing store.

Nevermind the only time I bother buying clothes is when I really, really need them.