FReeper Canteen ~ Canteen Kids: What Internet Games Do You Play? ~ March 1, 2006

Feb. 28, 2006 | Goldstar

[Goldstar]

I would like to thank the troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world, protecting us here in America and fighting to save innocent Iraqis from the torture that they used to go through. That is why I chose to participate in the “Canteen Kids” for this week. This time, it’s about games!



I hope that you will like the games that I have found. The last one has an enormous amount of games there, with some that you can edit your own level! And if you get a chance, sign up with Neopets!

Neopets



Parker Brothers

The name "Parker Brothers" is probably familiar in most American households. People know them for at least several popular board games-- Monopoly, Risk, Clue, and Sorry. But who were the Parker Brothers?

George Parker was born in 1867 in Salem, Massachusetts, the youngest of Mr. and Mrs. George Parker's three sons. Although he wanted to be a journalist, Parker was an avid game player and even had an informal game-playing club with several of his friends. When Parker was only a teenager, he invented his first game, Banking, in which players borrowed money from a bank and attempted to make money through speculating.

One-hundred-and-sixty cards determined each player's luck. In 1883, with the encouragement of his friends and older brother, Charles, Parker decided to publish Banking. After being turned down by two Boston book publishers, he spent forty dollars having 500 sets of Banking printed. By the end of the year, he sold all but two dozen of the games and made a hundred-dollar profit.

Milton Bradley

Milton Bradley was a game pioneer, credited by many with launching the game industry in North America. But years before he invented his first game, Bradley enjoyed a successful career in lithography.

Born in Vienna, Maine, in 1836, Bradley chose a career in printing and lithography in his late teens and set about learning the trade. In 1860, he set up Massachusetts' first color lithography shop in Springfield. One of his lithographs, a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, sold especially well, until Lincoln grew a beard and rendered Bradley's beardless image out-of-date.

At about the same time Bradley's lithography business was beginning to wane, Bradley visited a friend who challenged him to a game. Although it hasn't been recorded, this was probably an imported European game using a spinner to determine how many spaces a player moves. Bradley was inspired with a new idea—he would invent a game. Bradley designed a board game called The Checkered Game of Life. The object was to obtain a happy old age instead of financial ruin and a player's luck was decided by a numbered spinner. Players moved game pieces over sixty-four squares, which could be good, bad, or neutral according to their color.

By 1861, Bradley had sold more than 45,000 copies of his game. He formed Milton Bradley and Company in 1864 to print other games and game manuals.

Real Arcade



North Pole





Disney Blast

Student Links





Surf Net Kids




These are a few of the games that my Gramma likes.

Sudoku

Word Search+

Escapa! (try to do this for 18 seconds)

Puzzles, games, trivia

Yahoo! Games

The reason why computer games are played more often than board games these days is because computers are more common.

What games do YOU like to play?

 

[StarCMC]

She's a pistol that one! LOL

[Sam the Sham]

Please unping me until Palm Sunday. I am renouncing freeping for Lent.

[Old Sarge]

Hey... doo-doo occurs..

[Howie66]

Pistol??? Sounds more like a M-60 to me....... :-)

[StarCMC]

At least once a day for most of us.

GAWD -- can you tell I live with kids?? He he eh!!

[StarCMC]

YUP!!! Definitely!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good to see you, Howie. Thank you.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good one, Grammie, good one! LOL!

[HopeandGlory]

Hello Kathy . . . I just click on this and then click "new game". . . . Good Luck . . . ;-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

wh!!

tom.....#100!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are, God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

BLESS THIS HOUSE

 Bless this house O Lord we pray; Make it safe by night and day; 
Bless these walls so firm and stout, Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall, Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove ever open to joy and love.
Bless these windows shining bright, Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there, with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within, keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we May dwell O Lord with thee. 

(Click on graphics for music)

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are, God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

BLESS THIS HOUSE

 Bless this house O Lord we pray; Make it safe by night and day; 
Bless these walls so firm and stout, Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall, Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove ever open to joy and love.
Bless these windows shining bright, Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there, with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within, keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we May dwell O Lord with thee. 

(Click on graphics for music)

[Kathy in Alaska]

One of the janitors just stopped by and said she heard it was going to be 10 below tonight. Hmmmmmm....

Gotta go find the weather report.

[StarCMC]

[SevenofNine]

Well breaking news off BBC wire look like Phillipines prez going make announcement very shortly about extending emergency laws in Phillipines

Scotman UK reporting that germans are worry that house cat got sick with bird flu now they fearing that owner could kill their kitty cats

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thanks for tonights' thread Goldstar!
Great job!
Good evening Ma!
*HUG*
Good evening Canteeners and Troops!
How's everybody tonight?
I'm in for abit..
Hugs alla round!
Ms.B

[Kathy in Alaska]

Won't let me play. I'll try at home. Thanks.

[SevenofNine]

Kathy that march in Alaska Is it?

tell me it when like 70 degree in Fairbanks AK LOL!

[StarCMC]

Thinking about you -- hoping you're ok! *HUGS!*

[StarCMC]

Hey Ms.B -- how was w***??

[HopeandGlory]

OK . . . Good Luck!!!