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FReeper Canteen ~ Canteen Kids: What Internet Games Do You Play? ~ March 1, 2006
Feb. 28, 2006
| Goldstar
Posted on 02/28/2006 6:17:46 PM PST by 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, its 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a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, sold especially well, until Lincoln grew a beard and rendered Bradley's beardless image out-of-date.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 ideahe 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?
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To: Goldstar
Ok that Escapa game is addictive!! I'm up to 11.053 sec. LOL
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:33:48 PM PST
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StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: GoldStarBrother
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Ok!! Hang on!!
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:34:56 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: Goldstar
"thanks for letting me do this!"
It's OUR HONOR to have you, and the other Canteen Kids,
be here and help us old fogies honor and entertain our troops!
To: StarCMC
My Gramma says ,"you will do better next time."
Hint: first go down, then up, then to the upper left hand corner and then-figure out where to go next.
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:35:46 PM PST
by
Goldstar
To: Goldstar
HEY!! I had that figured out! LOL!!!
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:37:10 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
It's a pleasure. I'm used to old fogies...
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:37:10 PM PST
by
Goldstar
To: StarCMC
OKAY... But figure out the next 'safe spot' for me, please?
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:38:08 PM PST
by
Goldstar
To: Goldstar
Smooches Brad . . . I love to play Mahjong!!! . . . ;-)
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:40:19 PM PST
by
HopeandGlory
(Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
To: HopeandGlory
Heard of it, never played it.
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:41:09 PM PST
by
Goldstar
To: Goldstar
It's a Chinese tile matching game . . . google will fine one for you!!!
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:42:41 PM PST
by
HopeandGlory
(Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
To: Goldstar
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:43:38 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:43:50 PM PST
by
Goldstar
To: HopeandGlory
Sheesh Hope . . .that should be "find" . . . LOL!!!
But
I did get the #50 . . . WooHoo!!!
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:44:07 PM PST
by
HopeandGlory
(Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
To: HopeandGlory
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:44:20 PM PST
by
Goldstar
To: StarCMC
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:44:47 PM PST
by
Goldstar
To: Goldstar
Down toward the lowerleft for a second and then sort of over to the right! LOL But you gotta work it all thru the middle too! AARRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!! Why, oh WHY did I click that link! LOL!!!!!
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:45:40 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC
*ahem*
20.75 is my new best for today. I'm still goin' for 32.
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:48:32 PM PST
by
Goldstar
To: Goldstar; Brad's Gramma
So far -- LOL!!!! But I won't let a kid beat me. Even if it IS Grammie's extra special kid!!
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:48:49 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC
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posted on
02/28/2006 6:50:21 PM PST
by
Goldstar
To: StarCMC
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02/28/2006 6:50:49 PM PST
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Goldstar
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