8-Bit Christmas Drinking Game Rules
8-Bit Christmas (2021) turns holiday nostalgia into a full sprint for an NES. Neil Patrick Harris plays adult Jake Doyle, who retells his 1988 Christmas story with pride, panic, and a lot of bad ideas. His sister’s “real” Cabbage Patch doll only adds fuel to the rivalry at home. The kids stay locked on one goal, even when every adult says no.
This 8-Bit Christmas drinking game makes the scramble feel even bigger. You will sip through the family scenes and drink through every new scheme, setback, and snow-soaked misstep. Keep it light, keep the pace steady, and enjoy the ride from the first Nintendo mention to the final Christmas morning payoff.
8-Bit Christmas Drinking Game Rules:
- Take a sip any time someone says “Nintendo,” “NES,” or “Entertainment System.”
- Take a sip any time the movie cuts back to adult Jake telling the story to his daughter.
- Take a sip any time the Cabbage Patch doll gets mentioned, shown, or called “real.”
- Drink any time an adult warns that video games are bad for kids (or will “rot your brain”).
- Drink any time young Jake spells out his full plan to get an NES, step by step.
- Take a sip any time Jake and his friends talk like the NES is the only gift that matters.
- Drink any time the kids try a new way to raise money (odd jobs, hustles, selling something, pooling cash).
- Drink any time Jake delivers papers, talks about his paper route, or counts earnings like it is treasure.
- Take a sip any time a store display, catalog, or toy aisle makes the NES look mythical.
- Drink any time a holiday event becomes part of the scheme (mall trip, school thing, party, church event, neighborhood gathering).
- Take a sip any time a parent pushes a “practical” present instead of the NES.
- Drink any time the neighborhood bully shows up, threatens someone, or ruins the kids’ momentum.
- Drink any time a chase, wipeout, or messy slapstick moment hits during the hunt for the console.
- Finish your drink when a big “almost got it” moment collapses at the last second (the deal goes bad, the prize slips away, or the rules change).
- Finish your drink when Christmas morning arrives and the NES payoff lands (the final reveal and reaction).
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About the Movie
- Title
- 8-Bit Christmas
- Released
- 24 Nov 2021
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genre
- Comedy
- Plot
- Jake Doyle (Neil Patrick Harris) has come home for Christmas. He tells his daughter the story of how he got a Nintendo Entertainment System on Christmas Day in 1988 and his sister got a "real" Cabbage Patch doll. Telling him that video games are bad for kids will not stop young Jake and his friends. How far will they go?
- Language
- English
