Video Games

Buying a gift for a gamer is something that people think they know how to do until they find themselves staring at shelf after shelf of plastic whilst having absolutely no idea what platform they play on, what they own already and if the thing in their hand is three years old and they bought it day-one. We’ve done it. Trust us, it’s tough. Nobody knows games like you do and that makes buying something genuinely thoughtful seemingly impossible. Unless you’re_OBJ_, of course. So this list is us saying f*** that. We’ve curated every item with one thought of the recipient and another thought of the unlucky soul who has to actually pick something. Both are important. We don’t just pick every big release of the last few years and call it a day. We wanted games and gear for the gamer who already owns everything on the showy end of the spectrum. For beginners. Night owls. Parents that want to play something with their kids on the weekend. Different people, different requirements. Every item you’ll find here is something we care about. Actual controllers. Games that will leave a lasting impression on whoever plays them. Accessories that are useful instead of novelty. We work with this stuff every day so we have opinions and care about getting this right. We don’t attempt to list everything gaming, we only want to list the things we know are worthwhile. Does it scratch that itch? You bet. Picking something that you know the recipient will enjoy is the hard part. You want to be sure, to walk away knowing it’ll work. So we only recommend stuff we would feel comfortable handing over. Stuff we’d buy for ourselves. Maybe something they’ll pick up for themselves down the line but have been putting off. Maybe something they said they wanted years ago and you just forgot. Either way, we picked it. We listened. Gifts for gamers exist. They just take a little know how. You have ours now.

Call of Duty

You know the kind of gamer who doesn’t play casually. They know the maps. They know the loadouts. They have opinions on what titles the franchise got right and which ones missed the mark entirely and they will tell you about it for hours if you let them half the time. Buying that person a gift should be simple. It’s not. Licensed merchandise is littered with garbage that looks good hanging on a shelf in a warehouse but falls apart when someone actually uses it and buying generic gaming gifts, odds are someones going to unwrap that headset or controller…

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Donkey Kong

There’s a person in your life who looks at those red overalls and that barrel careening toward Mario and feels something ineffable and warm that no backstory can truly encapsulate. They played Growing Up with Donkey Kong as a kid or stumbled on it years later and fell just as head over heels. Either way they’re not Nintendo fans by brand. They’re Donkey Kong fans through and through, and that makes a difference when the holiday season rolls around and it’s time to find them something special. We’ve compiled a list of presents for the incredibly specific person who loves…

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Elder Scrolls

There’s a type of person who has either named a cat Mehrunes, or discussed the lore implications of the Dwemer’s disappearance for three hours straight with a stranger on the internet. You know one. I know one. You might even be one. Either way, it’s hard to find stuff to buy them because Elder Scrolls merch ranges from cheap toforgettable and Elder Scrolls fans have very good bullshit detectors. Which is why we compiled this list. If you’ve spent any significant amount of time in Tamriel, it means something to you. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours building your own…

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Fortnite

Every parent who has stood puzzled in an aisle full of toys that are licensed knows the dread of not being completely sure what your child wants. Fortnite’s player base is notorious for swallowing entire generations. Tweens. Teens. Adults that started when Fortnite was funny and never looked back. The issue becomes when you dig into finding official merchandise. It’s enormous. And half of it is straight up uninspired. Funky looking figures that can’t stand up for themselves. Clothes that are off color. Items that look amazing on the store shelf but suck to wake up to in the morning.…

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Game Boy

We're not talking about the kind of nostalgia that affects most people. We're talking about the deep-rooted kind. Not the fuzzy feelings you get from looking at old pictures. The kind of nostalgia that you can feel in your hands; the memory of a button press and a sound alike. The unmistakable weight of something you used to carry around everywhere as a child and then forgot about. The Game Boy can invoke these feelings in people. See an adult in their 30s or 40s pick one up and it's like watching somebody listening to music on a Walkman describe…

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Grand Theft Auto

GTA isn’t something that belongs in a “game series” tab of your shopping resource. Grand Theft Auto is an institution like no other. As a video game series it’s in a class by itself, but the games also hold the title of cultural phenomenon, having been legitimately impacting pop culture for well over two decades. If someone likes GTA, they don’t simply “like” it. When did you first play San Andreas? Were you kidding around with friends when you discovered you could drive around Los Santos for hours without a mission active just because you could? Finding something to get…

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Minecraft

You have a Minecraft child. That should tell you just how much they love Minecraft. We all have one. Heck, it happened to us twice. They play it before school, they Minecraft long into the night when you tell them to go to bed, they argue about it over dinner and they think about it when they’re "studying". Minecraft is their lives. Or at least, it dominates their lives about as much as video games can while still allowing you to call them children instead of addicts. . The problem is, most Minecraft gift guides won’t help you. Most Minecraft…

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Nintendo

There’s someone in your life who gets really excited about seeing a little cartoon plumber. Someone who has strong feelings about which Zelda game is objectively the best. Someone who can still tell you about a Mario Kart race they had ten years ago. Shopping for them should be easy and somehow it never quite is; the obvious stuff either doesn’t feel personal enough or sinks into such niche territory that you find yourself second guessing what you thought was a simple gift purchase. We built this collection with that person in mind. Some of us are that person. Nintendo…

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Pac-Man

Few things in pop culture have remained as steadfastly popular as Pac-Man. It was released in 19… wait, you know the story. Yellow circle with legs. Entire universe recognizes the shape. When we started curating collections like this, we think about that a lot. The easy option is to take a cheap bowl, slap a maze design on it, and send it for production. That's NOT Pac-Man. We wanted to give you pieces worthy of the license. Designed for fans of the game who want to love their purchases, not just accept them. Nostalgia will be different for everyone. Whether…

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Playstation

Gift shopping for someone with a PlayStation seems simple until you find yourself in the store scrolling through titles trying to reason out if they already own said game, or questioning if their headset works fine, or figuring out if that controller is compatible with their console. Hours vanish into YouTube Guides and thread after thread of Forum discussions. We’ve spent many an afternoon down that rabbit hole ourselves. . So we took the time to do it right. We play PlayStation, which gave us a huge advantage compared to a lot of gift guides. We didn’t flip open a…

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Pokémon

Pokémon is one of those things you never really grow out of. Not in some fond look-back, covered in dust way. We mean actually liking it in the present tense, in 2021; folks in their twenties and thirties who are still buying cards, still debating over starter selections, still caring way too hard about a franchise that began in 1996 and yet still feels important. If you’re trying to pick a gift for that kind of person (or a kid who is just discovering it now), it can be intimidating figuring out where to start. That’s why we wanted to…

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Sega

There’s a certain type of person this gift guide is for. The type who had a Mega Drive stacked up under the TV. The type who can recall the boot up noise of a Saturn from memory like other people remember the lyrics to songs. The type who still thinks Sonic was cool (before everyone told them he wasn’t cool) and who is not, in fact, incorrect. Buying for that type of person can be very easy, or agonisingly difficult depending on how diligently you go about it. We like to do things properly so allow us to make it…

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Skyrim

Some games come and go. Skyrim has been quietly running in the background of people's lives for over a decade, which tells you everything about what kind of hold it has on people. We know the type. They've done every questline. They've modded it beyond recognition and then started again on vanilla. They've named a pet after a companion or muttered "I used to be an adventurer like you" completely unprompted at a family dinner. These are our people and we mean that with full sincerity. Finding good Skyrim gifts is harder than it should be, because most of what…

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SNES

We’re buying for one type of person. They spent their childhood glued to a grey controller, roughly learnt how to read and learnt the Konami code at the same time. They still use quotes around some Saturday mornings and listening to them makes you feel like you’ve forgotten something crucial. You. Welcome to the club. Either you or the SNES-lover you’re shopping for, whichever. This is the gift collection for them. The Super Nintendo holds a unique position in folks’ nostalgia that few other commodities have tapped into. It wasn’t simply a console. It was the system that taught people…

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Sonic the Hedgehog

For the person who played on a Mega Drive growing up and never really got better. The one who is no doubt humming the Green Hill Zone jingle in their head as they read this. The one who has strong feelings about which period of the games were best and will explain those feelings to you at great length if you allow it. This is for them. For the collector who would deny being a collector yet seems to find more stuff. The one whose eyes will do that involuntary thing when they see that exact tone of blue. Lots…

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Space Invaders

Meet the person who’ll see a tribute to Space Invaders from twenty yards away and feel an instant and entirely irrational connection to the person who made it. Maybe they lived their childhood by dropping coins into slots. Maybe they stumbled into it years later and got just as obsessed. Or maybe they just recognise those eight oncoming rows of pixilated aliens as something more than a coin-ops game from 1978. They know it symbolises the instant where pop culture and tech blended together and created something that hasn’t really gone away since. That’s who we built this collection for.…

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Super Mario Bros

Mario doesn’t feel like an 80s icon. Sure he has been around enough for a hearty sense of nostalgia to surround him but unlike so many gaming greats of yesteryear he never stopped. Nintendo keeps reintroducing him to new systems and new generations while his fan base gradually grew rather than ever leaving. That is why purchasing a Mario gift isn’t like picking up a retro gift. You aren’t reminding somebody of their childhood, you are gifting something that is still resonating today. Unfortunately, that also means there is a lot of junk to sort through. Mario is big business…

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Tetris

Some games you play, other games you play forever. Tetris is the latter. It launched in 1984 and never looked back. Literally. Okay, that’s nostalgia speaking. What I mean is Tetris came out in 1984 and it has hardly ever left since. The ghostly symmetry of the blocks. That clunk when you finish a perfect line. The techno melody which burrows into your brain and nests there for years. Tetris infiltrated an entire generation’s subconscious, kept selling forever after and went on to capture new generations as well. When we started curating this we weren’t thinking “oh cool, novelty gifts…

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The Last of Us

Sometimes games come and go. The Last of Us is not one of those games. Those that played it remember it like you remember that one book that somehow managed to change you. The story. The world. The gravity of every choice Joel thought to make in that final act. It sticks with you. So when you’re looking to pick a gift for someone who loved it, the expectations are already set high by the source material itself. And we’re not asking you to lower those expectations. We compiled this list with that thought in mind. We didn’t want stupid…

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World of Warcraft

Twenty years is a long time to love something. World of Warcraft has existed since 2004 and the people who play it don't play it casually. They know their faction and their class. They probably have really strong opinions about certain expansions. If you know anything about Warcraft at all, buying a gift for one of these people is either incredibly easy or incredibly difficult. If you put it in front of us. We know WoW. We've spent years adventuring in Azeroth ourselves which is why we wanted to keep this collection small. There's a wealth of Warcraft merchandise out…

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