Puzzle competition, 300 piece each, first one done wins. The 10yo won again in just under 28 minutes - she's sick:
Post proof that you're passing retro on to the kids!
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mjmjr25
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No video games but we still went retro:
Puzzle competition, 300 piece each, first one done wins. The 10yo won again in just under 28 minutes - she's sick:
Puzzle competition, 300 piece each, first one done wins. The 10yo won again in just under 28 minutes - she's sick:
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noiseredux
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what's with the laptop Mike? Were you guys cheating by looking up solutions on puzzlefaqs.com?
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mjmjr25
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I'm glad you asked. Part of the reason I lost is that I am also the youtube DJ.
I'll tell you - we are very competitive puzzlers. These 300 piecers are good for speed comps, but we generally work as a team on a 1000-1,500 piece where everything is the same picture, forming one larger picture, like every piece has a lion on it...and then each one is just shaded differently, and together they form one large lion.
The one we did on friday is a hidden path puzzle, where you have to build a proper maze. Every piece fits together, so you can't go by fit at all, only by one piece directly matching to the next.
I'll tell you - we are very competitive puzzlers. These 300 piecers are good for speed comps, but we generally work as a team on a 1000-1,500 piece where everything is the same picture, forming one larger picture, like every piece has a lion on it...and then each one is just shaded differently, and together they form one large lion.
The one we did on friday is a hidden path puzzle, where you have to build a proper maze. Every piece fits together, so you can't go by fit at all, only by one piece directly matching to the next.
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Pics from my son's birthday party this past weekend
The neighbor's grand kid crashed the party and was having fun on my new project that's playable, but not yet completely finished yet.
The neighbor's grand kid crashed the party and was having fun on my new project that's playable, but not yet completely finished yet.
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mjmjr25
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Finally the weather is improving and fired up the CRT in the garage for the first time in almost 6 months:
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Looks fun!
Can't wait to get some more pictures up. My daughter brought me my Dreamcast controller the other night, hooked it up, grabbed her own, and sat down with me on the couch. I wonder what she wanted to do...
Can't wait to get some more pictures up. My daughter brought me my Dreamcast controller the other night, hooked it up, grabbed her own, and sat down with me on the couch. I wonder what she wanted to do...
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My wife stopped into an antique store yesterday, and I took my 18-month-old son to a nearby Gamestop to look for inexpensive Wii games. My son know three nouns, "mama" ,"dada", and "truck"; so, when I pulled out a copy of Excite Truck, he was very, very excited. (He also like Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers, but I told him that his mother would probably disapprove of that game...)
I popped the game into my Wii when we got home, and I let him hold the case while I played through the tutorial. He kep yelling "truck! truck!" and pointing at the screen, and he was so excited that - unbeknownst to me - he started chewing on the case...so...now I have a copy of Excite Truck (Wii) with a chewed corner and cae art slightly damaged by baby saliva (and, to me at least, it is the most valuable game in my collection).
Now, I just have to find more "truck" games to play with my son. (I suspect that he will really dig American 18-Wheeler...)
I popped the game into my Wii when we got home, and I let him hold the case while I played through the tutorial. He kep yelling "truck! truck!" and pointing at the screen, and he was so excited that - unbeknownst to me - he started chewing on the case...so...now I have a copy of Excite Truck (Wii) with a chewed corner and cae art slightly damaged by baby saliva (and, to me at least, it is the most valuable game in my collection).
Now, I just have to find more "truck" games to play with my son. (I suspect that he will really dig American 18-Wheeler...)
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We went to the game store the other day to trade in a bunch of crap games (I felt like I was using them as a dumpster 
). Even before we got in the door, my daughter started pointing to the games and yelling "Sega!". Once we got inside, she would name off every character she knew. She found some plush toys of Mario and Sonic, but Mario was cheaper (Unfortunately).
She caries it around everywhere and makes it jump on things. It even rides her stuffed dragon's back, which I guess we've named "Yoshi".
). Even before we got in the door, my daughter started pointing to the games and yelling "Sega!". Once we got inside, she would name off every character she knew. She found some plush toys of Mario and Sonic, but Mario was cheaper (Unfortunately).
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On Memorial Day weekend we bought my son a brand new Halo Wars Gremlin kit at a yard sale, since in the past he has very much enjoyed playing Halo with me and he loves building things with Legos and the like. I suggested that we soon have a "Halo Day" where we play Halo games, listen to the soundtracks, watch Halo related media, and - of course - build the Gremlin. He loved the idea and hasn't stopped talking about it since. Finally, today is that day. He's psyched!
We're stopping just now for lunch/nap after a solid three hours or so thus far. So far we played the first level of Halo 1 (co-op) and played "shooting hide and seek" on the second level, we played about 30 minutes of Halo 2 multiplayer (he loved taking two Ghosts onto the sea and having duels), and spent about the same amount of time in Halo 3 multiplayer (where using hammers made him giggle to no end). We're also half way through the steps for assembling the Gremlin. I'll post pictures later today of the finished product.
We're stopping just now for lunch/nap after a solid three hours or so thus far. So far we played the first level of Halo 1 (co-op) and played "shooting hide and seek" on the second level, we played about 30 minutes of Halo 2 multiplayer (he loved taking two Ghosts onto the sea and having duels), and spent about the same amount of time in Halo 3 multiplayer (where using hammers made him giggle to no end). We're also half way through the steps for assembling the Gremlin. I'll post pictures later today of the finished product.