The year was 1991 and me being the little shit that I was took to digging in my dad's closet looking for Playboys and other cool stuff. Around my birthday I came across a stash of two Nintendo tapes including TMNT 2 and Flight of the Intruder. Needless to say, I was pretty stoked for my birthday.
So when I opened presents a couple weeks later, to my dismay, I only received the Turtles game. Which was great and all, but all of my friends also owned that game and I had pretty much played it to death by August. Then my ungrateful mouth let it slip that what I really wanted was Flight of the Intruder. Like I even knew that game existed before seeing it in the closet. Pretty sure I saw my dad give my mom a sideways wtf glance right then.
Fast forward to Christmas and lo and behold, Santa came through with the Intruder tape! It's actually a pretty damn fun flight sim and some of my favorites to this day. That was the last year that I received a gift from Santa Claus.