Most computer games are just glorified lego
O.K, so yesterday I'm at one of the biggest shopping centres in Cape Town and I feel drawn towards shops I would have never given a second glance before. Like 'Babies R Us', spawned off its famous bigger brother. Hayey and I are checking out the wonderous world of every thing you need for baby and twice as much stuff you don't. But as we leave I make some lame excuse about wanting to check out the real toy shop. And then it hit me. That surge of wide eyed wonder as I saw so much cool stuff . . . that I still want to play with!
But you'll be glad to know I didn't get completely carried away. I was still able to be discerning. Lego, for instance, while still the staple play stuff is getting too easy. The more they go for fancier things to build, the fancier the pieces get, so there really is no challenge. Nothing like back in the day, when you spent 50 min scraping around at the bottom of you lego box (which was big enough to bathe in) desperately trying to find the last bit of 4x2 in grey so the space ship could be complete. Now I say bugger Disney videos, that is the way to keep a kid busy - providing they don't choke on a legoman's head in the process.
But I'm posting this post because I need you to know I am not ashamed. If I were to say I'm looking forward to Tubman Jnr so I can by more toys it might seem a little selfish. But hey, I've said it. (Just for the record it needs to be said that this is really just a spin off, but all I'm saying is its a spin of to be proud about).
But the shopping trip ended with me in the computer games section (a little to big for my liking - why are there not more sets of plastic viking armour? Ahhhh, there's no school like the old school) and I picked up the CSI game to develop my problem solving lobe. And it's great fun. The first computer game that Hayley and I play together. But I came to see that the writer of Ecclesiastes was right, there is nothing new under the son. Most computer games are just glorified lego. Mind you, either way, I'm happy.
But you'll be glad to know I didn't get completely carried away. I was still able to be discerning. Lego, for instance, while still the staple play stuff is getting too easy. The more they go for fancier things to build, the fancier the pieces get, so there really is no challenge. Nothing like back in the day, when you spent 50 min scraping around at the bottom of you lego box (which was big enough to bathe in) desperately trying to find the last bit of 4x2 in grey so the space ship could be complete. Now I say bugger Disney videos, that is the way to keep a kid busy - providing they don't choke on a legoman's head in the process.
But I'm posting this post because I need you to know I am not ashamed. If I were to say I'm looking forward to Tubman Jnr so I can by more toys it might seem a little selfish. But hey, I've said it. (Just for the record it needs to be said that this is really just a spin off, but all I'm saying is its a spin of to be proud about).
But the shopping trip ended with me in the computer games section (a little to big for my liking - why are there not more sets of plastic viking armour? Ahhhh, there's no school like the old school) and I picked up the CSI game to develop my problem solving lobe. And it's great fun. The first computer game that Hayley and I play together. But I came to see that the writer of Ecclesiastes was right, there is nothing new under the son. Most computer games are just glorified lego. Mind you, either way, I'm happy.
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