The 1UP Community’s Thanksgiving Gaming Memories

Our readers share their most treasured stories of Turkey Day gaming.

By: 1UP Staff
November 23, 2011

Everyone’s family and friends do something a little different for Thanksgiving. In celebration of the upcoming Turkey Day we asked our 1up readers to share with us their favorite Thanksgiving gaming memories and traditions. Our entries included epic tournaments, unexpected revelations, cherished childhood memories, and of course family bonding. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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  ThePhr3ak

  Every Thanksgiving, my brother and I would get our whole family together; aunts, uncles, in-laws, stepfamily, and have a bracketed tournament playing a random game. We would draw out on a sheet of butcher paper the individual competitions, all leading to the quarter-final, semi-final, and the notorious final round. We didn’t just play for fun either, cash monies was at stake. To enter each individual was a twenty dollar fee, whether it be a toddler or an octogenarian, with the winner taking home the grand prize of several hundred dollars. I recall in 2006, around forty-plus people gathered around the flatscreen to have an ultimate showdown in Mario Party…

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