The 2010 Sega8bit secret santa was a huge success. We had a total of 17 participants this year.

In the past we've had a few issues with gifts arriving late. That is now a thing of the past. With this being our 4th attempt in as many years, we seem to have it almost dialed in. 14 of 16 gifts arrived before December 25th and the 15th arrived before the new year. There was one gift that went missing but in true Sega8bit community fashion, Aypok stepped in to fill the gap and ensure that everybody had a great santa experience.

So without further ado... pictures of all all the SMS goodness:

ddevilfingers received a nicely wrapped selection of games, including Zool, Cheese Cat-astrophe, The Lion King (German version) and a Smurfs 2!		He also received some other Smurfs goodies. He has gallos_11 to thank for his awesome presents.
Estimated Prophet received these two awesome repros from ichigobankai. The games were Sukeban Deka 2 and Solomon's Key.		drrotule received these 4 great games to complete his US set. He was lucky to have grolt as a secret santa.
For stepping up and being Ian's secret santa in time of need, Aypok received Super Monaco GP from Estimated Prophet.		Tycho received this nice selection of games from his secret santa Ian. He also got a little something extra in the form of an awesome Alex Kidd keyring.
Gallos received 2 great cartridge games and 2 nice card versions of not-so-great games.		He also received some very snazzy Sega balloons so he could celebrate Xmas in style. He had chunkchenko to thank for his gifts.
After Ian didn't receive his original gifts, Aypok, with the help of Playgeneration, sent him an awesome customised home-brew game entitled Santa's Revenge.		Ichigobankai received this nice selection of games down his chimney thanks to his secret santa, theycallmeknuckles.
Maikol received these awesome Japanese versions of the Space Harrier games along with a funny/horrifying note. His secret santa was drrotule.		A great gift was had by quantum180 as he received a Mega Drive double pack and a very nice blister pack. He received his Xmas presents from ddevilfingers.
smsaholic was lucky enough to receive these 2 awesome TecToy games with stickers on and everything! He had maikol to thank.		Theycallmeknuckles woke up Xmas morning to find these 2 nice games sitting under his tree. These were left by his secret santa trashitall
grolt received the excellent game Gauntlet and a 32X game! Maybe he was naughty this year. His great pressies came from Stan.

Finally, I want to extend a big thanks to everybody who participated this year:

stan, grolt, drrotule, maikol, smsaholic, trashitall, theycallmeknuckles, ichigobankai, gallos_11, ddevilfingers, quantum180, aypok, ian, tycho, chunkchenko.

It was truly the biggest & best santa to date. Well done everybody!

• To read more about the 2010 Secret Santa event, check out the forum thread.