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a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, sold especially well, until Lincoln grew a beard and rendered Bradley's beardless image out-of-date.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?

 

[beachn4fun]

p.s. woo hoo

[Romad Wife]

Nursing some Deployment LONELY wounds! Been since the 26 of Dec without him. Still seems like a long time for him to return! But I'll make it with a Liene's in one hand and the tissue box in the other!

[beachn4fun]

LOL

Perfect, Auntie Fawnn

[beachn4fun]

Gee, I wonder where Gracie is this morning?

[MotleyGirl70]

Women see the world through a Crayola Box of Sixty Four
While Men see the world through a Box of Eight!

I love it. How true it is :) I'm going to email this one to my girlfriends.

[Romad Wife]

Can I have a bigger box?
Anyone for Uno?

[SevenofNine]

OOOH GODZILLA condolence for your losses man it was few months that director died now your Papa died

Don't worry Canteen would confort you LOL!

Don't burn us alive like you did in Tokyo we are not Perry Mason OKAY LOL!

Well report from BBC wire guess who went to Aghatarionnnnnn

DUBYAAAA BOY that surprise the news media LOL!

Now Mr President going to India rap with Indian officials

[beachn4fun]

Well, gee! That's what we're here for. We could be providing comfort for Deployment LONELY wounds.

I think I'll throw a tantrum cause you hurt my feelings by not leaning on us in your need.

Do you want to see a tantrum?

LOL

[StarCMC]

Good morning!! Glad to see you!

[Romad Wife]

Go for it!!!

I have done that and than some, LIKE getting out on the open road and letting the throttle open wide!

Heck I got brave enough to take his big bad boy of sanity out on the road!

[Romad Wife]

"Morning!"

[beachn4fun]

Why......oh..........why...........didn't Romad Wife not come to us in her time of need?

[E.G.C.]

Well, first off today is norton Update day.

Secondly we're under Red Flag Warning. It's forecast to reach into the upper 80's with very low humidities.

We're crossing our fingers for some rain this weekend.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Seven.

I sure hope the POTUS gets to see some of our troops while he's country hopping!

[beachn4fun]

Afternoon, Star

[Romad Wife]

Cool, made me laugh!
I guess it's not the delpoyment that got me had personal stuff happening up to it that made alot of the stress unbearable. But the open road helps, (until I get a sad monment comes and I have to fight the tears in the helmet)
that's sad and than I laugh!

[beachn4fun]

Sorry for your loss

RIP Godzilla's daddy

[tomkow6]

A Little Bit of "Horsey Relief"

TO GET YOU THROUGH THE DAY!!!!

The Sea Horse!

The Sea Horse is READY to take a dip!

 

[TASMANIANRED]

Morning beachy.

[beachn4fun]

IMO ......... the whole DAMN thing is stressful! You can cry whenever you want. Just come to the Canteen to do it. We have plenty of tissues

And, getting out on the open road does help.

A special thanks to you and him.