10 Festive Video Games To Play During Christmas 2018

Home Alone stands aside The Santa Clause as one of the greatest Christmas-themed movie franchises of the 1990’s, and, as with anything that could possibly have been turned into a video game, there were a slew of Home Alone-themed titles on the 8 and 16 bit consoles.

Most are fairly infamous for their poor quality—as were the majority of film tie-in games—but some stood out as being… well, playable at the very least. The best of the bunch was probably the Sega Genesis adaptation of the first film, which, believe it or not, is an open world top-down title with some 2D platforming elements.

Rather than simply defend his own house from a pair of bumbling bandits, Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister is tasked with defending every house on the block. Players need to keep track of the bandit’s van and find and craft items in the five houses to make weapons to foil the intruders. In some bizarre way, Home Alone on the Genesis was one of the first survival crafting games ever released—a true trendsetter.

Though a little dated by today’s standards, there’s no reason not to scoop this one out of a bargain bin should the opportunity arise.