Two summers ago we purchased a wii. We were stuck at home in August…feeling a little sorry that we were not going on a big vacation trip in August. We did go to the beach in June of that year, but August was looming ahead with little planned.
Notice the lack of icons. Everything you wanted to access on the computer required a code. One missed key stroke was a nightmare to fix.
My husband is the original gamer in the Musings from Me family. When I met him in 1986, he had a Commodore 64 computer. Those who only know Mac and PC may be surprised to learn that in the 80s there was another type of computer. It had a teeny tiny harddrive — 64 kilobytes of memory. You typed on a clunky keyboard attached to your TV. There was an external disk drive which held 5 1/4 disks — floppies. Anyway, my husband mostly used this computer-TV hybrid to type college papers, but he did play games. And by games I mean 80s games, like: Pong.
The wii was a complete surprise for the kids. We ran errands to Costco, the party supply shop, and swung by Best Buy. Casually wandered the aisles til we reached the wii. By this time the preteen was jumping up and down with glee.
I do not regret this purchase. We all use it for different games. We all get something different out of the wii. My son is type of kid. I get a kick out of his slashing the air with his wii mote…uh…I mean light saber. The kid gets lots of exercise jumping on and off furniture, running in place, and waving his arms around.
The tween and teen have a more relaxed approach to wii playing. No jumping up and down for them. No sirree. The teen is in her element pretending to be her Animal Crossing: City Folk
SimAnimals Africa
- Interact with exotic animals in the wild
- Journey through the jungles and savannas of Africa
- Discover wild animals’ secret abilities
- Solve challenges to unlock items, animals, and levels
- Collect unique items to receive badges
My tween had fun playing with the onscreen safari animals in SimAnimals Africa
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My favorite game to play as a child was critter in the candy.
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When I was little, I was the queen of games. I love board games, card games and yes video games. Here is some of my favorites that stand out in my mind today.
Hungry Hippos
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and for video games, the coleco vision was my favorite.
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I was a Monopoly lover.
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Besides Candy Land, I loved playing Ants in the Pants!!
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My favorite game.. hmm.. I loved Stampede for the Atari!
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Operation was always fun. I still like that game!
I loved playing Life.
Board game-wise, I liked The Game of Life. Video game-wise I loved The Legend of Zelda.
Monopoly every sunday with my brother and sister.
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My favorite game was Monopoly as a kid, corny i know!!
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I loved to play Candyland.
I freakin loved pacman and megaman!
I loved Pong as a kid. I remember Santa bringing it for us one Christmas. It got hooked up to our black and white tv. There was no cable back then but we thought it was the coolest thing. As far as a board game goes, I loved Trivial Pursuit.
I loved playing Life when I was a child. There was something so cool about those car game pieces with the pink or blue peg people!
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Monopoly was my favorite game as a kid.
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We loved playing CLUE. now it’s too easy. lol
My favorite game was Where in the world is Carman San Diego! I used to play this game for hours XD
…do they still have them? lol *thinking of playing it again*
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I loved to play was Candyland!
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My favorite game as a child was don’t break the ice. I still love that game! LOL
My favorite game was Booby Trap.
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My favorite game as a kid was building stuff with legos.
card games like rummy, and war, and board games, monoply was my fav, as it took awhile to play,
Being a teenager during the boom of video games, when you had to actually go to an arcade and pay quarters to play a game because gaming systems were too expensive for kids to own. My favorite and actually little known game was called Bubbles, the screen was the inside of a sink and you had to avoid things like hairs, razor blades etc. and my second favorite was Asteroids. Thanks for the opportunity and trip down memory lane.
I had a favorite board game when I was younger called Candyland. Please enter me.
I liked monopoly
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I loved to go to the mall and play POLE POSITION. 🙂
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I loved all Mario Bros video games. Mario Kart, Super Mario Bros, World, etc! Still do…on Wii
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My fave game was Donkey Kong!
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My fave game as a child was Candyland!
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I loved to play Rummy with my sister-the loser had to do the others chore.
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Its kinda geeky but my favorite was RISK!
I loved playing Dig Dug on my old Atari.
I didn’t really have a “game” that I loved to play, but I could play jacks all day long! I bet it has been 30 years since I have seen any! Thanks!
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me and my sis used to play sorry a lot
Growing up my favorite game was Pac man.
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My favorite game to play as a child was Candy Land.
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I always liked playing Monopoly.
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When I little I loved Candy Land then moved up to Clue.
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My favorite game to play as a kid was Sorry and my husband and I love to play it with our boys now too!
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My favorite game was Candyland! Now my daughter loves it too!!!
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My favorite game was Monopoly
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I loved Racko!
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My favorite board game was Mouse Trap and I remember having a thing that looked something like a gameboy, but all it played was Tetris.
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Candyland was a big hit at my youngest.
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I liked the Uncle Wiggley Game. It was probably made in the 50s and had big plastic rabbits for game pieces.
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We played a lot of games but I remember a long stretch of Monopoly and Life.
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My brother and I used to play this pseudo-boardgame called Goofy Golf…it was perfect. Wonder if it’s still in my parents’ basement?
A game with marbles and a homemade wooden board with grooves cut into it for the marbles to sit in. Not even sure what it was called, but I loved it! Thanks for the great contest!
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Happy Days board game was my fave. I also like Aggravation and Sorry!
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