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Tis the season, all right—the season to exact revenge on every friend or relative who stiffed you with a present so awful that you couldn’t even regift it. Lucky you: We have your 10 tools of retribution right here. Granted, most of the gadgets, clothes, CDs, and other doodads on this list aren’t out-and-out hunks of crap. We’re sure you have lots of friends who want a $1,200 game interface controlled by physical fitness, or buds who’ve been bugging you for years for a tissue box shaped like a Dreamcast. No? We thought so.

As Seen on TV

Pro 200 Gaming System • (800) 578-2386 • $20

You’ll find 250 “brick,” “frog,” and “bee” games on this “powerful” “computer-gaming system”—and no way are these just 250 versions of Tetris. We guarantee this is the most powerful gaming console you’ll see advertised during reruns of Walker, Texas Ranger at 3 a.m.

Perfect for curling up next to a warm PC monitor on those brisk winter nights, these master works for master dorks burn the page with esoteric tips on programming real-time graphics and A.I. logarithms that only hardcore developers can appreciate. On a related note, avoid giving to your enemy if he’s a hardcore developer.

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The CG Tutorial • www.amazon.com • $45

Game Programming Gems 4 • www.amazon.com • $70

Programming Believable Characters for Computer Games • www.amazon.com • $55

Cheesy Coating

SCOTTeVEST Version 3.0 • www.scottevest.com • $130

Because hauling around your cell phone, PDA, Game Boy, iPod, copies of EGM, a GPS system, your digital camera, a sandwich, old NES cartridges, 20-sided dice, etc. in a $130 20-pocket coat is apparently easier than just stuffing it all in a backpack (or, better yet, leaving some of that crap at home), SCOTTeVEST makes the nerdiest gizmo-ready jackets this side of the Members Only era.

"Any of The Sims. They should just be called Being God Sucks. ‘My people are dying! My people are on fire! This sucks.’ Waste your time on that, why don’t you.”

Freakin’ Ridiculous

Freak Series Game Pads • www.gemini-usa.com • $25

Perhaps better suited for Halloween—or a GWAR concert—than Christmas, these horrifying monster-faced novelty controllers will make children shriek and old ladies call an exorcist. Sure, the pads work just fine, but touching that knobby coating makes us feel all gross.

Star Misguidance: I Love the ’80s’ Hal Sparks will give his enemies...

Star Misguidance: Bree Turner, from Good Girls Don’t..., will give her enemies...

"Bust A Groove [PS1]. I used to be so into that game, but now it’s become the bane of my existence because I can’t get that techno song out of my head. So I’d give that to someone so they’d get that stupid song stuck in their head, too.”

Bad Mood Music

Pac-Man Fever CD • www.bucknergarcia.com • $10

Street Fighter soundtrack • www.amazon.com • $14

Now it’s time to get nasty. Pac-Man Fever’s cornball tunes—all based on ’80s arcade hits—are so catchy, your victim will spend weeks singing ludicrous lyrics like “I think I’m going berzerk, would you like to come too? I can’t stop now—I’m addicted! I’m berzerk over you.” Follow up with the Street Fighter movie soundtrack to invoke nightmares of mullets and zoobas at the local arcade.

Corporate Uniform

Phantom Boxer Shorts and BBQ Apron

www.cafeshops.com • $25

Pac-Man Fever Hat

www.cafeshops.com • $15

Game shirts can be nifty. Delicate underthings and other random items emblazoned with the corporate logo of an unproven console company...not so much. Complete the look with a silly, microscopically printed “I’ve got Pac-Man Fever” cap, and now you’re cooking with geeks.

Sore Thumbs

Digiglove • www.inventhelp.com • $14

Maybe international superstar David Hasselhoff would look awesome wearing these digit-protecting half-gloves, but we figure everybody else would look like a bozo. Bonus meanie points if you get your giftee to wear these out in public—perhaps to the local arcade. But then you’re only trying to protect him or her from painful repetitive-stress injuries and blisters, right? How considerate.

Tissue Issuer

Dreamcast Tissue Holder • www.lik-sang.com • $9

Play a trick on your favorite Sega fanatic and present them with this Dreamcast-shaped tissue box holder. When he realizes it’s not the real thing, pop open the lid and hand him a Kleenex to dry his eyes. Wuss.

Star Misguidance: Beloved American entertainer Donny Osmond will give his enemies... “Any of the James Bond ones. I don’t like 007. I just don’t like violent games.”

Sticker Shocker

System Skins • www.decalgirl.com • $15-$25 each

The gift that keeps on misgiving. Give your victims the tackiest system stickers you can find, then get PO’d every time you visit their homes and they still haven’t applied the decorations. Eventually, guilt will win out—and they’ll be stuck with a leopard-print Xbox.

The Gift that Says, “Hey Fatty!”

The kiloWatt • www.powergridfitness.com $1,200 (Pro version)

According to the kiloWatt website, this game-based exercise machine is “a serious piece of intensity sports equipment that pushes you to your physical limits,” and “a kick-ass PS2 and Xbox controller that will make your eyeballs bleed.” A flab-busting eyeball blaster for only $1,200? We’ll take six. P