I think it was 2004 when I got a 100-bone gift card to Toys "R" Us, which I used two weeks later to buy Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for the GameBoy Advance alongside it's strategy guide... and back then, that game's big twist actually got to me because I haven't played, let alone finished, the first PS2 game at the time... Plus, that game's commercial was half of it's selling point for me...
Other than that, the year one of my games gave me his old copy of Metroid Prime was pretty damn awesome in its own right...
Other than that, the year one of my games gave me his old copy of Metroid Prime was pretty damn awesome in its own right...