{"id":1618,"date":"2008-12-08T02:19:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T08:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2008-12-08T02:19:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T08:19:55","slug":"gamerfamily-holiday-guide-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/gamerfamily-holiday-guide-08\/","title":{"rendered":"GamerFamily Holiday Guide ’08"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\"\"<\/a>It turns out we weren’t done. My kids and wife have never been that interested in my Holiday guides but this year they wanted in. So I took out my notebook and started scribbling. What does the GamerDad family – who can choose from many, many, many games – play?<\/p>\n

HENRY (5)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Little Big Planet:<\/strong> Both kids love this genius and endlessly challenging\/creative platforming game. “They have cool worlds. I don’t like it when I don’t know what to do…” says Henry. That’s why Maggie steps in with her pink-bunny-eared Sackgirl and saves the day.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mario Party\u00a08<\/strong> (Wii and DS)<\/p>\n

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games<\/strong> (DS)<\/p>\n

SuperSmash Bros Brawl<\/strong> (Wii) – note this is rated T-Teen, which I think is absurd, but you might agree with them so just be aware of that.<\/p>\n

Guitar Hero:: World Tour<\/strong> (Wii) – Henry is out bassist.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

MAGGIE (8)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cooking Mama<\/strong> – “It teaches me to cook!” says Maggie, and her GamerMother agrees. As do I. Maggies prepared some pretty daunting dishes in real life.\u00a0(DS,Wii)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brain Quiz 3rd&4th Grade Edition<\/strong> (DS)<\/p>\n

Guitar Hero World Tour<\/strong> – Maggie is our singer (Wii)\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hannah Montana Spotlight Tour<\/strong> – (DS, Wii)<\/p>\n

All-Star Cheer Squad<\/strong> = (DS)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

GAMERMOM (our drummer)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wii Fit<\/strong> – “It’s teaching me and the kids Yoga and makes it fun. I like the hula hoop” she says. “I do too,” says I.<\/p>\n

Namco Museum<\/strong> – (Wii) “I really like the Pac-Man games”<\/p>\n

BoomBlox<\/strong> -(Wii)<\/p>\n

Rock Band 2<\/strong> – (Xbox 360)\u00a0– We play GH as a family because it has “beginner mode” – Linda prefers the music on the Rock Band so she favors this game.<\/p>\n

Personal Trainer: Cooking<\/strong> (DS)<\/p>\n

GAMERDAD (Lead Guitar)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I did this for my friends at Crispy Gamer (and a few other places where I advised them – and signed a nondisclosure agreement. Hint: The newspaper has the word Times in it and the Magazine has the word Parent in it. And it’s probably not the ones you’re thinking of.<\/p>\n

Anyway!<\/p>\n

In my article I picked: Bob the Builder – Boom Blox – Left 4 Dead – and Wii Fit<\/strong>. For the sake of argument lets say I put Guitar Hero World Tour<\/strong> in there as well. So I get five, like my family. Cool?\u00a0 Okay, since it was a great year of games, here’s an alternate five. (All are kid-safe too)<\/p>\n

Rock Band 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Civilization Revolution (DS, Xbox 360, PS3)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peggle Nights (PC)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wii Music (Wii)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ultimate Band (DS.Wii)<\/strong><\/p>\n

– and that’s barely scratching<\/strong> the surface and avoiding anything over T-Teen.<\/p>\n

Good luck and Merry Christmas from GamerDad and Family!<\/p>\n

-GD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out we weren’t done. My kids and wife have never been that interested in my Holiday guides but this year they wanted in. So I took out my notebook and started scribbling. What does the GamerDad family – who can choose from many, many, many games – play?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}