Archive for the ‘Game Reviews’ Category

LEGO Star Wars – the best kids’ game that I know of

  These have been out for a while, so this recommendation is a little late — but as I have been telling folks about it for a while, I wanted to get this in print. The first release, LEGO Star Wars, was actually for the last generation of gaming consoles — and covered the first [...]

March 24, 2008 · Jason · One Comment
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Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer

A version of this review appeared on XBOX.COM under Xbox Dad colum “Fantatic Four – Fantastic Game” My sons are 7 and 9 — and we are routinely looking for 3-player games.  We’ve done party games like Viva Pinata : Party Animals, as well as Fuzion Frenzy2. We have games on our Nintendo GameCube and [...]

March 4, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action

A version of this review also appeared under Xbox Dad column on Xbox.com My wife and I recently unwrapped one of my Christmas presents to ourselves – the Scene It?  Lights, Camera, Action game for Xbox 360.  And the only complaint we had was that we wished we had opened it sooner. The kit comes [...]

February 29, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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Viva Pinata : Party Animals

My sons are 9 & 7, and my daughter is 3.  And between the five of us (including my wife), we have 2 Xbox360′s, an Xbox, a Wii, a GameCube, 3 Nintendo DS’s, and 2 Gameboy’s – basically everything except Sony.  And we play together — a lot. The original Viva Piñata (VP) is a [...]

January 8, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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