Sunday Brunch XLVI: Are You Game?
“Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.” -Marcus Brigstocke
1) What is your favorite board game?
The most recent board game that I really enjoyed was Scene It. I have blogged about the game. I also really enjoyed the Buffy the Vampire Slayer board game. I liked playing as the “big bad” and destroying everyone. I also enjoy Life, Clue, Sorry, and in small doses Monopoly. Mancala is a game that I had a blast playing with the kids in my class.
2) What type of games are your favorite? (IE, board, card, participatory, dice, word games) The computer or video variety. Is that a possible choice on this question? Yeah, I enjoy video games. Not sure what a participatory game is, but I don’t think I like it.
3) How many games do you own, and if possible, list them.
I own many games, most of them are in my classroom. I couldn’t even begin to list them. Well, I could, but it would be a chore.
4) Do you enjoy computer or video games? Which one is your favorite?
See answer 2. The Star Wars Episode III game was alright but the camera was terrible. My favorite that I have played recently is Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. The only bad thing about that game is it takes me forever to get through a level. I try to be really sneaky and that just takes longer. The last Nintendo game that I played and really liked was Mario Kart Double Dash. What a hoot!
5) Describe a great childhood memory of an outside game.
I have rather unfavorable memories of the earthball that we used to play with at Boy Scout camp. I remember this thing being huge of course, much larger than me, my memory could be exaggerating things a bit. I don’t remember any rules of the game, I just remember pushing the ball around, maybe trying to get it in a goal or something. One of the teenagers decided it would be cool to kick a soccer ball as hard as he could into the earthball. It was just unfortunate that kicking coincided with me running at the earthball on the other side. The soccer ball hit the earthball and thanks to Newton’s laws, the energy from the soccer ball transfered to the earthball, and hit me. With all that equal and opposite force crap, my body was sent sailing (I don’t actually remember any of this, but I’m sure that my body was flying through the air). The first thing I remember after the impact of the ball with my rag doll-like body was laying on the ground, no where near where the earthball attacked me, with all the other campers and adult like people gather around me with these panicked look on their faces. It goes without saying, I did not want to return to camp the next day. Of course, as fate would have it, my parents were out of town and I was staying at a friend’s house, so I really didn’t have a choice.
Oh, the question asked for a great childhood memory? I don’t have many of those. Maybe Red Rover… No, getting clotheslined and having my trachea close off doesn’t bring back fond memories either.
Class dismissed!
June 18th, 2005 at 12:12 pm
Surely there is a support group that can help you through those earthball memories:razz:
Yeah well - I once ran full force into a baseball bat which was wielded by a large boy spinning in a circle… whacked me right across the face. I was three. I still remember the x-rays… Many of my friends and relatives think that this cranial event explains a lot about me.:???: