Man, my mom has always tried incredibly hard to make Christmas special. We never had much money but she always found a ton of little things throughout the year and put hints on them and made it fun. Also cooked/baked up a storm. So shouts to her.
One year, I got Age of Kings which was dope.
Though, the most memorable was when I got a bike one year and I didn't notice it in the kitchen, so I'm eating my breakfast and everyone is sort of waiting for me to notice the bike in the kitchen and my sister who was like 5 couldn't take it anymore and was like., "hey you got a bike dummy"