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Every year around christmas we hear the same songs on the radio - some love them, some hate them - but you can't escape them. I personally love this time of year, staying at home, nice and warm, while it's so cold and dark outside.

It's also the time of year which recalls many many fond memories of playing games until late at night. Somehow it just makes some games so much more fun. There's several games I catch myself playing each year - just like the recurring christmas songs, they have become part of christmas for me.

For example: Beneath A Steel Sky, a game whose demo I first played back in december 1993, included with the first PCGamer issue.

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Also Micro Machines - another demo with the first issue! So much two-player fun, unbelievable.

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And of course ... Halloween Harry who for some reason just feels wrong to play outside of the holliday season.

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And let us not forget Jazz Jack Rabbit! Great platform game.

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But one game that was synonymous with Christmas back in the early 90s was ... LEMMINGS!

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To be honest, looking at the games released for this winter, I find very few "christmas games" - games that really fit christmas. Hell, we're getting a wild west shooter! Hardly christmas material. I'll undoubtedly find myself saving lemmings or driving my little car over a ruler and between cereal boxes!

So what are your christmas games? Which games remind you of christmas, of winter?