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a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, sold especially well, until Lincoln grew a beard and rendered Bradley's beardless image out-of-date.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

 

[redrock]

Only game I play is......"FREE REPUBLIC".

Makes for a real addictive time...(tho lately I've been going thru some withdrawals with all the hours I'm working).

However....my kids tell me that "Warblade" and some game called "Cactus Bruce and the Corporate Monkeys"...are pretty good.

redrock

[Gucho]

! Good evening and thanks for the ping.

[StarCMC]

PHBLT!!!!

[Goldstar]

20.812

[StarCMC]

18.516 ... so far....

[Goldstar]

Whu?

[Goldstar]

Not bad...

[StarCMC]

Dat, me FRiend, was a ROYAL RASPBERRY!! LOL!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Hope, for today's Pledge. Gotta love that red, white, and blue. Welcome home, AfghanMan. Thanks to you and Penguin Girl for helping keep all of us free and safe.

[Goldstar]

21.031 seconds-all time best! WORLD RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For me, anyway...

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, AZ, for the red, white, and blue.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, carlr...I guess I'm gonna have to at least look at some of these games.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, guys, for dinner. Haven't had time to eat today.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hey, Hope, I like Mahjong.....Google, huh?

[Goldstar]

Well, I need to finish studying now...Thank you, troops for protecting us here in America. It was great meeting all of you. Goodbye!

[laurenmarlowe]

Great job Goldstar! WOO HOO!

Internet games are alot of fun!

[laurenmarlowe]

Ray Charles~America The Beautiful

[HopeandGlory]

Google, was where I found the one that I play . . . it's small" . . . but, it works . . . ;-)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thanks SO MUCH everyone!!!!

He had a BALL!!! :)

[laurenmarlowe]

Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Edward, 29, from West, Texas, an explosive ordnance disposal specialist with Mobile Unit 3, Detachment 9, 8th Engineer Support Battalion counts a stack of 82 mm recoilless rifle rounds uncovered by Marines of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment during Operation Iron Fist in the Al Anbar Province, Iraq, Feb. 25. Photo by: Cpl. Mark Sixbey

Cpl. Michael C. Kissiah, Jr., 24, of Charlotte, N.C., moves through a group of eager children in Akashat, Iraq, Feb. 5, 2006. Kissiah, a civil affairs specialist with 6th Civil Affairs Group, has come to the forefront of 6th CAG’s efforts in Akashat, Iraq, in western Al Anbar Province. His duties routinely take him to the city to deliver medical supplies and food, and to catalogue the needs of the people there. Sixth CAG has been operating in Al Anbar Province since July. Photo by: Sgt. Stephen M. DeBoard

Chief Petty Officer Nestor Lazaga, 53, and his son, Petty Officer 3rd Class Mark Lazaga, 22, stand side by side at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq. The father and son were recently reunited in Iraq, however, their tours will only overlap by a month. Mark is preparing to return to Camp Pendleton, while Nestor has just arrived in country for a seven-month tour. During Mark’s deployment he did everything from conducting daily sick calls to corpsman coverage in convoys. Nestor will fill the role of leading chief petty officer of the medical aid station for Brigade Service Support Group 1, the headquarters element of the 1st Marine Logistics Group. Photo by: Lance Cpl. Stephen J. Holt

SAKRAN, Iraq - Lance Cpl. Daniel J. Petrone, a rifleman for K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, waves at a local child during a recent clearing operation Feb. 14. The Camp Pendleton, Calif.-based battalion has been in the area for more than five months conducting counter-insurgency operations and providing stability to the “Triad” area of Haqlaniyah, Barwanah and Haditha. As a part of Operation Pit Bull, Marines and Iraqi soldiers inserted into the small town via helicopter and searched each house for weapons caches and signs of insurgent activity in the area. Petrone is an Arlington Heights, Ill. native. Photo by: Cpl. Adam C. Schnell