Video Games
Halo 3 for XBOX 360
Thursday, October 4th, 2007As you probably know by now, my boys have an XBOX 360. My oldest Lil’ Mel (11 years old) wants us to buy him Halo 3 for his 12th birthday later this month. We are still undecided on rather he’ll get it or not (for many reasons…like waiting on a report card) but I got to thinking [...]
Pokemon for GameBoy
Monday, October 1st, 2007Lil’ Mel and Lamont both have a couple of different versions of the Pokemon games for their GameBoy’s. I’m not even sure how many different “colors” there are…but they seem to play those games frequently. One of their friends plays
Video Games and Today’s Kids
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007For today’s kids, video games seem to take a high priority. Every kid I know from the ages of about 5-19 all seem to have at least one video game system. My boys have a Nintendo Cube, PlayStation 2, XBOX, XBOX 360, game boys and PSP’s. And, yeah, they want a Wii and PS3 (but [...]
PSP- Play Station Portable
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007By now most of us with children know that handheld video game systems are quite popular. As a matter of fact, I can’t name a single kid between 5 and 18 that I know personally that doesn’t have at least one. Lamont got a PSP for his tenth birthday in July and lil’ Mel got [...]
The History of Video Games
Saturday, August 18th, 20071951 – The Nimrod computer is shown at an exhibition in London England. Ralph Baer wants to make a game to play on TV. His idea is thought of as ludicrous. 1958 – “Tennis for Two” game is created on an oscilloscope by American physicist Willy Hinginbotham. 1962 – Spacewar game is completed and is [...]
Are Video Games Addicting?
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Being a little bit older, I have seen the progression of video games …. At first there was the good old fashioned pin ball machine. Kids would line up at burger joints etc just to play them. The first video game that we could play at home was “Pong”. If I’m correct it came out [...]