A Festive Dive into Christmas in Video Games

[@CaptainAstronaut]

Thanks for watching! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

[@insectostrich4407]

Merry Christmas, Captain. Hey, speaking of diversity. You probably don’t remember, but you questioned why people disliked the diversity in The Ring’s of Power. I think you miss interpreted what fans were saying. While yes you are right that some races could’ve migrated it still doesn’t explain how small, isolationist cultures like the Hobbits, Dwarves and so on could have multiple people with different skin tones.

[@lizleart]

From missing Black history month to being early to Christmas, Astro has come a long way

[@CaptainAstronaut]

I'm improving exponentially lol

[@lololordjr]

Hmmm

[@Grandmastergav86]

Why be divisive? History is history.

he didnt missed black history month because every month is black history month

[@kiricappuchin]

@REAL

[@RapidProbably]

Christmas has 2 types of celebrations, wholesome family activities and capitalism infinite money exploit.

[@RapidProbably]

also like wrapping paper?

[@mrmeatus]

Every pokemon game is a Christmas game when Delibird graces us with its presence

[@koramora]

Pay me. Merry Christmas

[@Not_Vakama_303]

Have a happy whatever the heck you celebrate guys.

[@VaskoGames]

There's a Christmas YUNAKA?! Time to download FEH right now!!!

[@CaptainAstronaut]

Down Vasko, DOWN!!

[@homecomin]

I am watching this on Christmas eve. Meaning it's almost Christmas. But almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas!

[@stampylongnoah]

1:05 On the topic of Mithra, the place where people would convene to worship said god was called a Mithraeum. So if you ever find yourself surrounded by a horde of Mythra fans, just know you've accidentally stumbled into a Mythraeum, and walk away s l o w l y . In other news, I really wish I had Xenoblade-themed wrapping paper.

[@randomrandom572]

very cool of you to put deep dive in the title and not have the video be 1+ hours long

[@SushiElemental]

Yeah it's a deep dive, not a long dive - the video did just the right amount of explaining. Out of wrapping paper. Merry ding-dong to all 🎄

[@BroadwayBrittany]

I was waiting the whole video for the Phoenix Wright mention, lol. When I think of Christmas in video games, that’s the first thing that comes to mind.

[@z4442]

“Thanksgiving at halftime” goes crazy

[@cliftonreid1198]

Also, shenmu is kinda a Christmas game, too. It takes place in December, and they decorate it around Christmas

[@davidguthriemusic]

great video!! my favorite Christmas game is VA-11 HALL-A; the whole game takes place in December and features the celebration of "Mega Christmas", an even more consumerist black hole of capitalism, perfect for the cyberpunk setting of the game! Also it's just a REALLY good game lol

[@mixiesticks]

I'm so happy to watch another Captain Astronaut video!! ☺️ Love these fun video essays, your scripting is always a treat!! Hope you have a Merry Christmas gamer! Don't forget the wrapping paper!

[@coldfanta4963]

Amidst all the holiday sales and wrapping paper, you'd think there'd be more christmas trains in games. Oh well. Another day, another sleigh!

[@shadowsofvalentia]

PALESTINIAN MAN JESUS YEAHHHH 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 ok good video. I would wrap it in wrapping paper because it is a gift

[@a-ramenartist9734]

imm a be honest every minut of this video went straight throug my brain i was too distracted by ur deer shirt

[@BleachBasket108]

The best Christmas gift is one last Astronaut video for the year ❤

[@Notester82]

Oh my gosh, I had no idea about the older Animal Crossing games' interactions with Jingle (probably because I was a New Leaf peep) and being able to trick him into giving you a bunch of special furniture, that's cursed and funny ;u; Think of all the wrapping paper he must be going through...

[@fanartist5567]

It's funny because much-maligned Forspoken also starts on/around Christmas and captures the depressing feeling of Christmas when you're poor and/or lonely perfectly -_- i feel the same way about that game as Captain feels about Arkham Origins! I love the game the characters and even the world and story and the abilities and combat are so fun

[@FelisImpurrator]

HELL YEAH. I was gonna comment just for this. Then I forgor because I had a bad joke about wrapping paper.

[@fanartist5567]

@@FelisImpurrator was it a pun that the wrapping paper was kris krumpled

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@fanartist5567 no but I asked why it was rapping

[@KnightsofGaming2016]

The true god of Christmas "Hmm... Capitalism?" *Capitalism* "I knew it" Anyways, Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

[@Rileycrabtree]

Shoutout to Diddy Kong Racing where all the music for the courses on Snowflake Mountain reference various Christmas songs.

[@UNSCMarine117]

1:49 The Christmas ham one got me.

[@lockmuertos]

Democrat humor...

[@UNSCMarine117]

@@lockmuertos I don't know. The liberal democrats are a bunch of status quo warriors so they like the Christmas ham, I mean police.

[@Pauete007]

I love it when I get the quizz answer right! Cheers Captain!

[@leolightfellow]

That Elf bowling game looks hilarious. Reminds me of how GTA 1 and 2 got their initial fan following. There's just something super-fun about doing inappropriate things in a video game. :) (Great vid, btw.)

[@squid24736]

the true god of christmas.... wrapping paper

[@TazTheYellow]

Xmas Shooting - Scramble!! is a bullet hell game where you play as Santa Claus, if "Santa Claus" were just a title given to an anime rabbit girl named Aru. Some Grinch stole her presents just as soon as she could get wrapping paper on 'em, and it's up to you to retrieve your missing presents in time for Christmas morning. It's a shorter game, but still a good time, if a *ridonkulously* difficult one. It's a spiritual sibling to QP Shooting - Dangerous!!, which I'd recommend playing first to get a feel for its systems before next Christmas.

[@murplecrabb]

Spaceman wait till you hear about Puerto Rican Christmas it starts in November and continues till February

[@iljk]

thank you for this aweosome present Captain

[@Zaieko]

Your videos make me happy :)

[@Neoxon619]

Real Talk: They should’ve ported over Arkham Origins to Switch instead of Arkham Knight. If anything, it would’ve run better on the system. It’d be a much better Switch port to cover in wrapping paper for your loved ones.

[@troystilltalking8278]

Your explanation on the origins of Christmas led to me going down an extensive online rabbit hole of the folgers inc*st commercial for 20 minutes… thank you and Merry Christmas Captain Astronaut🎄

[@Sir_PH]

And Pokemon has outbreaks of Delibird now for Christmas

[@sodapop2581]

Thank god for Halloween holding Christmas back from seeping into October

[@meta-less]

The best part about the elf bowling movie is that the villain is voiced by Tom Kenny who sings the song about how cool slavery is

[@TalysAlankil]

man i live on the 50th parallel and let me tell you we only rarely have snow at christmas. ironically we sometimes get snow in november or early december but for some reason late december? no

[@westform22]

Man my favorite part of holiday events in games is free stuff!!1!1!1!1! kibda cute when they give out rewards with presents with wrapping paper

[@capgorski]

WRAPPING PAPER that one level in Banjo Kazooie is a great Christmas themed level

[@Kitchwamon]

Your Alfred voice is killing me XD

[@possibly_a_human178]

Bayo2 is 100% the best Christmas game change my mind.

[@winky3]

Your"Ho Ho Hoe" for the Bayonetta segment intro was on point 😂

[@Feraligamr]

I'm going to start using "Thanksgiving as Halftime"

[@conductor4861]

Great vid! I didn't know there were that many games set around Christmas, and I haven't thought about Elf Bowling in years... Though it made me remember a Christmas game I like, Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star... Yes, that Hatoful Boyfriend, the pigeon dating game lol. Holiday Star is a sort of alternate universe continuation of the original, focusing on linear stories set around Christmas time rather than being a crazy branching otome. It's got a lot of charm and some fun writing but I can't recommend it if you haven't played the original since it spoils some plot twits and secrets ;) (wrapping paper!)

[@seqka711]

10 bucks says this script is from last year! ;P

[@starryslight7095]

Fans of Elite Beat Agents ...... thats right..... that depressing as frick Christmas level that comes out of nowhere, smacks you in the throat, and makes you feel like tearing up wrapping paper with your bare teeth... MAN Also a huge fan of the Japan-only Ouendan 2's third bonus level, which i happened to unlock on Christmas night 🙈 no idea what theyre saying but that song slaps. Ouendan: the rhythm game series that will make you cry once per game. Heh heh almost Christmas means it wasnt Christmas... very fun theme of video 💜

[@gersubdenis6724]

so truuuuuuuue

[@trimdesign1]

Just wanna say that I’m thankful for all this great content Mr. Spaceman, looking forward to more in the bleak wasteland that is January. Oh and sidebar: thank you for using Pursuit ~ Keep Pressing On, it’s one of my favorite pursuit themes from one of my more favorite games. Only real ones know about it so ty.

[@andreworders7305]

14:19 pretty sure that’s Christmas Town

[@GeorgeWilkins]

Thanks for the wrapping paper. 👍

[@MoreThanALoser8107]

I learned some new things about christmas including the existence of an elf bowling movie ... despite that this video is great

[@scantronbeats]

Awesome vid bud and made my Christmas season!

[@matchamochi781]

I still find it hilarious that the final boss for persona 5 is on Christmas Eve

[@lysander-the-spearman9577]

Hey Astro! It was really cool to see u in Shaefarillas’s video!

[@eazybuxafew]

In NYC. It was very much not snowy, check back in Feb

[@jarellkearney6083]

Best Christmas level in ribbon road in mario kart cause like, where else can I drive on wrapping paper

[@FarekWad]

Was really hoping you would mention the Christmas level in Elite Beat Agents

[@starryslight7095]

I was thinking of that too !!!!!!! you know our love was meant to beeeee.... the kind of love to last foreverrrr 😭😭😭

[@FarekWad]

@@starryslight7095 the best is how it just smacks you in the feels, right in the middle of this high intensity game

[@starryslight7095]

@@FarekWad I KNOWWW i said as much in my own comment, comes out of NOWHERE

[@LuciusAugustusRex]

In the Yakuza games I'm pretty sure you can use wrapping paper to beat up enemies during Christmas

[@ZobirisMage]

On christmas I use wrapping paper instead of rolling paper before I spark up

[@andreworders7305]

16:56 that’s not the original Duke Nukem, that’s Duke Nukem 3D

[@TyGuy9001]

Wrapping Paper! I’m kinda surprised you mentioned DKC 3 and not Banjo Kazooie or Diddy Kong Racing and their obvious Christmas References lol. Those games have some real Christmasy vibes in some levels.

[@EclipseWitch]

This was a fun video! I laughed at the answer to the quiz!

[@giganticmoon]

Missing Black History to celebrating Christmas early, this is what a true Space Astronaut does for a husky

[@catheriner999]

I hate christmas and wrapping paper and also hate all winter themed levels because i spend so much of the year being cold anyway, but I still watched this video so uh happy holidays mr spaceman i guess

[@Dayviono]

Shout out to Bayonetta 2 “It’s not Christmas without Caviar 😌”

[@KongoXIIV]

Wrapping Paper The best Christmas game IMO is Blue Stinger on SEGA Dreamcast. It’s set between 24/25 December, the whole island is decorated throughout the game and there’s a long section right at the start that takes you all across the entire shopping mall looking for PenPen stamps (a cameo of another Dreamcast game) with festive music playing. But then again it’s also a survival horror so could fall into the Halloween / Christmas hybrid thing. Or is it? I’ve always found this game goofy rather than scary and I’m no sure if it was intended or not.

[@TheExFatal]

Yakuza 5 mentioned!! I was expecting to see the series here, and I'm not disappointed

[@MrSpiderspider12]

Just want to point out in FF14 now there is event for another santa outfit that looks better and dyes better than the one you showcase in your video Also in old fashion FOMO you have time to grab it until December 31st

[@twilightfire93]

I still like the Starlight Robe best, but this year wasn't too bad with the outfit!

[@Jza_Dragon]

The voice of the slavery christmas song guy AND the black elf was Spongebob!

[@steelers0398]

Then there's Lobotomy Corp with a Christmas themed monster. And Limbus Company where the villains use Christmas to torture people

[@cuomostan]

u were in a scharafullsauss video which os very cool!

[@andreworders7305]

3:28 say what? The thing about November?

[@secret3828]

Wake up honey new Captain Astronaut

[@imissdtac]

I learned it is VERY possible to cheap out on wrapping paper.

[@sherbertshortkake6649]

4:50 HELP I THOUGHT THAT SAID J.K. ROWLING😭😭😭

[@TheGhostgodzilla]

Selling xmas decorations in september? I would say that's crazy, but I remember one time they started selling them in April here......

[@JustJulyo]

Happy Spendings!

[@andreworders7305]

8:43 is the music from the game?

[@musara1335]

16:20 NIGHTS MENTION RAHHHHHHHH

[@lololordjr]

Christmas NiGHTS is truly a Christmas themed game

[@jaydenredmond6702]

WRAPPING PAPER 🎁

[@double2254]

Answer to the is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Christmas or Halloween movie: It’s a November 1st movie. The movie starts on November 1st and it’s about the lead up to Christmas and inevitable catastrophe that happens every Christmas year.

[@WatashiMachineFullCycle]

Hell yeah Yakuza and Shenmue are my favourite Christmas games

[@colfdralegend]

Yakuza is my favorite Christmas game

[@ogpandamonium]

Fun fact: I was born on the winter solstice. Wrapping paper

[@thunderstar7682]

Absolutely criminal that you didn’t mention Payday 2 and its christmas level where you steal goods hidden in a mall during Christmas

[@RetroCandyArt]

wrapping paper

[@massimodalessandro108]

Wrapping Paper

[@via3600]

If people consider die hard a christmas movie does that mean the Live Action Ace Attorney Movie is too

[@christophercordero9352]

11:26 ayyooo Lafafels are actually cheeked up? I thought they were the resident pedo bait, guess the shortstack art is true then

[@HopefullyFree]

No no no, Christmas starts already end of August / beginning of September because that's the time when shops start selling the christmas-related foods again (at least here in Germany^^)

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

2:30 sigh Would people ever stop going on about churches not paying taxes? Catholic priests have to go undergo a vow of poverty ya know. 3:43 In September? Agh and I thought things had gotten bad in Ireland with Christmas stuff up even slightly before Halloween had even come.

[@Mene0]

I really dislike seasonal events like christmas themed ones. The rewards are always so bad. Also nice historical recollection at the beginning, was cool Wrapping paper

[@orlzbestm3]

Rapping Papier

[@timotheatae]

Christmas doesn't "get out of the way" 😅 The "twelve days of Christmas" START on Christmas day, concluding on January 6th with Little Christmas, or Women's Christmas, celebrated like mother's day in Ireland, and it is the main gift giving day in parts of Europe. There's 24 days of Advent, and 12 days of Christmas- with New Year's marking the midpoint of Christmas as a period.

[@timotheatae]

(also Frostyfest this time only starts during Christmas by the long definition, lol)

[@timotheatae]

While I'm here, Bayonetta 2 is also about the birth of Jesus, with Loki (Jesus, basically.) being reborn.

[@silverlyder]

Batman was a great game

[@ggbigal]

No freezeezy peak? How can you call yourself a gamer.

[@literallymalware]

I can't believe he failed to talk about the game where you kill God on Christmas Eve

[@kristenhawkins5453]

Ok 💖🔆🤪

[@HackerAtesh]

Hi

[@cashnelson2306]

I didn't click this video because there was no Yakuza in the thumbnail. 😡 ....wait a minute