Just yesterday I completed Spyro the Dragon for the first time. If you haven’t heard about Spyro, look him up. This purple dragon is amazing. He can glide, spit fire, and charge his enemies into oblivion. This game was released in 1997. If you have played it, then play it again if you haven’t beaten it in awhile. Pick up the purple dragon and kill some Gnasty Gnorc again. And if you liked the two good sequels, play those again as well.
After you play them, think about ways to make it better, if possible. Are there ways that Spyro could have been made better? Such as adding higher difficulty, or making the amount of treasure higher? Or do you think the game is perfect as it was, and should remain untouched?
The breaks over the years have gotten shorter it seems. I remember the breaks when I was younger when we had 3 weeks for winter break. Has “the man” gotten more strick, or was i just fooled into thinking it seemed longer? The breaks today are still fun, with playing in the snow and playing video games by the nice warm fire.
Some of my favorites this break have been old-school ones actually. Tetris is a fun favorite of mine, and super mario bros. has crept back into my most played. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a unique spin on the old favorite. New suits have been added, as well as bringing back the mini mario mushroom from New super Mario Brothers DS. One of my old-school favorites of all time has recently been added to the Wii’s online catalog of games. That’s right, Super Smash Bros., the original has now been made available for the low price of $10, or in wii speak, 1000 points.
New Years is slowly creeping up. Anyone have any plans that they’ve been dying to tell someone about? Anyone in some far-off exotic gettaway where no one can hear you scream? haha just kidding. Hope you guys enjoy the rest of this year. Enjoy next year as well. Bye from 2009.
OK, so I don’t know anything about RuneScape, except that everyone in Teen Tech Zone here at ICPL is talking about it all the time. Today some kid was calling his friend a “noob” and they were getting haircuts. . . in RuneScape.
So, I guess what I’m trying to say is that obviously RuneScape is awesome. These are some fun facts I learned while checking out Wikipedia:
RuneScape is the biggest free MMORPG. Yeah, I didn’t know what that meant either: “Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.”
You can kill monsters, talk to chickens and goblins, or just hang out (and get haircuts).
You can grow potatoes and marigolds, and you can even compost.
RuneScape gives away virtual party hats and santa hats around the holidays.
Yep, that pretty much exhausts my extensive knowledge of RuneScape. You can play by clicking here, or you can come in to Teen Tech Zone at ICPL on Thursdays from 3-5 and go get RuneScape haircuts with these other guys.
Ok, so, we’re doing a little teen gaming this Saturday, April 25 from 2-4. We’ll be playing Smash Bros. Brawl, Street Fighter 4, and LittleBigPlanet (YES!). There will be beverages and snackies. Good times will be had. If gaming is not your thing, you may still come. I’ll be there, probably looking a little bored, and I’d be up for chatting about Scott Westerfeld books. It’s in Meeting Room A. See you there. Visser, out!
Spring Break starts after school on Friday. Why don’t you celebrate that fact by coming to the library for a gaming extravaganza on Saturday?!?! We’ll be playing the usual suspects–Smash Bros, Mario Kart & Guitar Hero. The Xbox 360 will also be set up for Pure & Skate 2. There will be pop/soda and snackables. Gaming will be from 2-4 on Saturday, March 14 in Meeting Room A. Come and bring friends!!
We’re having our next teen gaming shindig on February 14. Yeah, I know it’s Valentine’s Day, but Valentine’s Day is lame. So, come to the library and play video games with me. We’ll be playing Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Guitar Hero, Castle Crashers (woot!), and anything else you want. It’s from 2:00-4:00, and we’ll have pop (soda) and snacks.
So, the teen gaming night was a smashing success. Thanks to the 30 or so peeps who came out and played. Everyone seemed to like LittleBigPlanet, which is good because it is awesome. Brawl was, unsurprisingly, the other big game, though I apologize for the unorganized fashion in which players rotated in and out. For the next event I’ll try to have a system in place to make it easier and/or more Wiis with Brawl in them. Speaking of the next event–it will be on a Saturday afternoon. I’ll make another post once I have the details. Also, there was an article about the gaming night in the Press Citizen. Read it!
One last thing: Watch the trailer for “9.” It looks unbelievably cool (and a little bit like LittleBigPlanet coincidentally).
Hope you all are having a great holiday season! I would like to make it even more entertaining by inviting you to the Teen Gaming – Pizza & Open Play: An Evening with Brian Visser (I really should’ve put that subtitle on the posters). It’s this Friday night (January 2) from 5:00-7:00 (maybe later). We’re going to have a couple (possibly three!) Wiis, a 360, and a PS3 going. The games? You name it (Disclaimer–naming games will not make them magically appear. We will have the essentials: Smash Bros, Mario Kart & Guitar Hero. You may bring any other game that you want to play). The pizza will be plentiful and the pop will flow like water. The times will be good. Come! Bring others!
Books? Pshaw! Video games are where it’s at, and we’re going to have video games to check out at the library. Starting Thursday, December 4 the library will have Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii games available for one-week checkout. There’s a limit of two per patron. They’re going to be shelved by the oversized CDs, which is by the regular CDs. Come and bask in the future!
So, the teen gaming night was a smashing success. Thanks to the 30 or so peeps who came out and played. Everyone seemed to like 
