As a kid, my favorite Christmases and Hannukahs involved two kinds of presents: Lego blocks and Nintendo games.
These two toys overlapped in my play life for several years, with the former eventually being replaced entirely by the latter. But for the half decade or so that spanned the middle and end of the 1980s, my desires and games were dominated by little yellow people and blowing into the nether regions of square gray cartridges.
