You just reminded me of an awesome story from when I was younger.
I went to Bioware's office years ago, when I was trying to get into this local college. Part of the pre-entry thing was researching your future career path (I wanted to make video games... who didn't at that age?), and interview people that were doing that line of work.
My cousin was (at the time) dating one of the writers there, and she managed to get him to get me a meeting with the head honchos. I got to see a GBA before it came out, even in Japan (they had one with a demo cart), I got to see them working on an original X-Box dev kit (they were trying to make fur on something work, but it came out all spikey), and I was given a tour, and got to see some early stuff they were working on (which I think was Knights of the Old Republic, though it was so basic and long ago that I can't be sure...), and finally, they gave me some free stuff.
That stuff included MDK2 for the PC. I still have it.
Autographed, too.
I miss their old office on Whyte Ave. It was cool and right above a Chapters, so you could stalk them all day while reading comics.