It’s that time of year again: the Yuletide. Over the past eight years, I’ve been posting an annual collection of all the Christmas-related tech material I’ve written (both for this site and for others) into one place for easy reading. Below, you’ll find list of off-site Christmas slideshows, other features, and of course, plenty of Retro Scans of the Week.

This year, I updated the PC World/MacWorld/Techhive links to Archive.org WayBack Machine links. The images on all of my old PCWorld features are now sadly broken.

I have a soft spot for Christmas, having been raised with the tradition, so this list is for me as much as it is for everyone else. After going through these things again, it’s amazing to see how much Christmas stuff I’ve posted over the years. I hope you enjoy it.

* = New to 2019 Edition

Christmas Slideshows

• 7 Forgotten Christmas Games of Yore (PCMag, 2018)
  Check out a new crop of obscure Christmas games from platforms as varied as CD-i, MS-DOS, Game Boy Color, and the Sega Dreamcast*
• 7 Holly Jolly Vintage Christmas Demos (PCMag, 2016)
  A collection of still and videos of fun home PC Christmas demos from the 1980s
• A Vintage Mac Christmas (Macworld, 2012)
  A slideshow of vintage Christmas-related Macintosh art and ephemera. (Archive.org link) (VC&G description)
• Opening Computers on Christmas Morning (PCMag, 2011)
  Vintage family photos of kids receiving computers as Christmas gifts in the 1980s. (VC&G description)
• The Ghost of Christmas Graphics Past (PCMag, 2010)
  A compilation of vintage Christmas computer graphics, mostly culled from BBSes and the early web. (VC&G description)
• The Ghost of Christmas Games Past (PC World, 2009)
  A list of vintage Christmas-related console and computer games. There are more than you might think. (Archive.org link) (VC&G description)
• A Very Vintage Tech Christmas (PC World, 2007)
  Vintage computer advertisements with Christmas themes. Sadly, the pictures came out tiny due to technical limitations. (Archive.org link) (VC&G description)
• Ye Olde Vintage Computer Gift Guide (PC World, 2009)
  A Christmas gift idea guide featuring vintage computers. It’s funny how commenters interpreted this as a holy war for/against certain platforms. (Archive.org link — sadly, a few images are now broken)
• 10 Worst Christmas Gift Ideas (PCMag, 2010)
  Not vintage, but written by Benj. Expect ample amounts of silliness, including 2000-watt light bulb and a box of tiny gears.

Christmas Features

• The Oddball, Nostalgia-Inducing Christmas Tech Art Of The 1980s And 1990s (FastCompany, 2015)
  Graphical celebrations of Christmas of yore, from early home PCs to GeoCities
• Popular Tech Gifts of Holidays Past (TechHive, 2012)
  TechHive asked me to figure out the most popular tech Xmas gifts of the last decade. So I did. (Archive.org link)

Christmas Retro Scans of the Week

• Benj’s 1992 Christmas List*
• TRS-80 on Christmas Morning
• Dad’s Christmas Art
• ThoughtWare JingleDisk
• A PreComputer Christmas
• Santa’s TRS-80 CoCo
• Printer Paper Christmas
• Benj’s 1989 Christmas List
• Atari ST Christmas Catalog
• A High-Powered Christmas
• An Analog Christmas
• Merry Christmas From Nintendo, 1988
• Datalife Holiday Pack
• Nintendo vs. Sega: Christmas 1987 Shootout
• Give Your Apple Vision For Christmas
• Kickle Cubicle Blows In
• Give The Gift of TRS
• A Peachtree Christmas
• Santa’s Big Secret
• Hot CoCo (2) For Christmas
• RB5X: Your Christmas Robot
• Castle Wolfenstein: Bring an Allied Soldier Home for Christmas
• A Very TRS-80 Christmas
• Christmas 1983 Challenge
• Your Atari Christmas List

Christmas VC&G Posts

• Prodigy, Christmas 1992
• [ Retro GIF of the Week ] Christmas Fireplace
• The Theoretical Christmas iMac
• May the Triforce Be With You
• Homemade Zelda Ornament
• Animated Christmas GIFs of Yore
• Christmas Music Classics — NES Style
• Eric’s VC&G Christmas Medley
• What’s the Best Christmas Present You’ve Ever Received?
• An OS/2 Christmas Miracle

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Tags: 2019, Christmas, Christmas Collection, freelance work, holidays, Lists, Retro Scan

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