Video Game Mom

My sister is turning into a real gamer these days. She loves her Nintendo DS, but she gives equal time to her laptop. She likes the idea of playing games on her laptop, because she knows she can buy any game she wants and download straight to her laptop to start playing. Now that she’s mastered that, it’s game time!

One of the latest games she bought and downloaded to her laptop is Chuzzle. She said she can’t stop playing it, because it’s so cute and adorable and fun to play. I haven’t played it before, so I decided to try it for myself.

The game Chuzzle seems to be be receiving a lot of attention. I have to admit, it is cute and seems to be somewhat irresistible with the cute little fluff balls that make different sounds and expressions, as you are trying to match them. I found myself not wanting to quit, either. 

Chuzzle is a furry little game that’s like Bejeweled, only you have a little more flexibility with the way you match the colors. When you see a giant Chuzzle, this is your chance to clear more than what you are matching, and when you see the lock, you’ll have to maneuver the other rows to match the Chuzzle.

This is a cute game, and the more I play it, the more I understand why my sister loves it so much. She’s placed the other games on the back-burner for now - Chuzzle is her favorite for now.

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I did not realize something like Farmville would be interesting and fun to play around with, but it is. The more I tend to my farm, the more fun it seems to become.

As I dig up the ground to sow my seeds for harvesting, I’m increasing in points, which is a good thing for me. When I gain a certain amount of points, I automatically level up. Leveling up allows me to unlock new items, such as animals, trees, buildings and equipment.

One of the most recent animals I unlocked was the duck. I’ve been waiting to unlock this little guy. What is funny, is that you can pet your animals, and they will make their animal noise - funny. Next is the horse … I want to unlock the horse, because a farm isn’t a farm without a horse.

Video games are such a fun way to pass time - I love ‘em! You can play just about any game almost anywhere at anytime, as I have discovered with Facebook. 

When I signed up for Facebook, I thought it was just the plain boring scenario day after day-after-day, and I caught myself wondering why I bothered signing up for it. That is … til’ I found the many games that seemed to be hidden from my view when I accidentally came across something that caught my eye, Tic Tac Toe.

I knew about FarmVille, which is fun. However, I didn’t know Tic Tac Toe was there, until I bumped into it. Now, playing Tic Tac Toe with my little girl on her magnetic doodle pad is always

fun for us - she is pretty good at it, too. Playing Tic Tac Toe on Facebook gives you the chance to play with someone on your friends list. I thought this was cool, so I tried it.

Playing Tic Tac Toe isn’t that thrilling to play, but it is interesting that it’s there to play. It is a short game that can go quickly, if you use the correct strategy. Even though Tic Tac Toe may be a bit on the boring side, it is still a nice change to see.

Hmmm … I need to browse some more to see what kind of games are available on Facebook.

When I think about and see the enormous variety of games available now, it makes me think back to the simpler games like Ms Pac Man. I can remember when I used to play this game, and how those stinkin’ enemies pestered the tough yellow female with a bow.

Eating the pellets, while chasing enemies and the many fruits was Ms Pac Man’s specialty. She was definitely in control, as she would go from this side to that side, up here and over there eating her way to rid the maze of the pellets in her path. She had to carefully dodge her enemies, as she traveled through the maze and eating her way out. The big pellets in the corners of the maze give Ms Pac Man the infinite power to go faster to eat her enemies, as she becomes invincible. Once she eats her enemies, their eyes will travel back to the middle and recreate - talk about having eyes on you!

Needless to say, the pellets do not last long, and soon her enemies will turn back and come for her. Then the race is on again. Ms Pac Man must eat all the pellets before you can complete the stage. The more fruit you eat, the higher the score, which is helpful when trying to earn extra men … so eat healthy!

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Mario Party for the Nintendo DS is the newest game for my sister. She is trying to learn new types of games for her DS, but she isn’t quite sure what to do with Mario Party.

With 14 games for her collection and $14.75 in store credit at Gamestop, my sister is enjoying her the time she is able to spend with her Nintendo DS. Even though her favorite games to play are the puzzle games, she intends on stretching herself to venture outside of her normal borders, and Mario Party DS is her second and most recent game to try. 

Mario Party DS has a numerous amount of mini games that will test your gaming, quickness, coordination and organizational skills. My sister, however, says she doesn’t know what to do much with Mario Party, but she is eagerly willing to dive in with it. Anything with Mario is fun - Mario is an all time favorite and classic for my family. We love Mario!!!

My sister is truly becoming a gamer! I am so proud of her, but I have to wonder what is next for her - I guess I will have to wait and see.

The other day, I played Boogie Bunnies for the Xbox 360. This is an adorable arcade puzzle game you where you match the colors of the bunnies. You better move quick, because these bunnies are boogien on.

You start out with a bunny who has to throw other bunnies to match by colors and help eliminate the crowd of the others marching towards him. He can move to the left, right and even on the sides to throw the bunny into the group of color. If there are two or more pink bunnies, you will need to find a pink bunny to throw into the group of pink bunnies to eliminate them and try to prevent them from advancing. During a certain time, the bunnies will perform for you and do their boogie dance, which is so cute!

Boogie bunnies is a fun game to play, and it can go on and on, depending upon your skill level. But, you have to act quick! If you don’t eliminate the bunnies in time, the bunnies coming from the back of the line will push the others forward into the water. I enjoy playing boogie bunnies, and I am sure you will, too.

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I love to play a variety of games that are fun and offer a good challenge for me. Dynomite is a game for my PC that is challenging enough and is so much fun to play. 

If you like games like Bejeweled and Luxor, you will most definitely like Dynomite. You match the eggs instead of gems in this game and have to do it before the eggs get to the bottom. There is a big foot of a dinosaur that pushes the eggs down from above, so you better match those eggs pretty fast.

One of the things I enjoy about Dynomite is the cute dinosaur that uses his slingshot to hit the colorful eggs and a pterodactyl named Whirley when he comes around. The other dinosaur will blast the eggs when you match at least three of them. The two dinosaurs work together to match them quickly.

Jewel Quest Solitaire II is a card and puzzle game you can play on your PC, which I discovered last night. Normally, I don’t play games on my computers because of the controls being the keyboard(prefer hand-held), but this one is okay — I can use my mouse.

In Jewel Quest Solitaire II, you go through different levels by matching the cards that are dealt and removing them. You find the match for each card, whether it is in sequence of order or the same (pair of 2’s, 3’s, etc.). It doesn’t matter what the suit is, as long as you match them. Once you have matched all the cards, you get the chance to match the gems you have collected, sort of like Bejeweled. I thought that was different and interesting but fun.

In my opinion, this is an easy game to play — too easy, I think. But, I also haven’t made it that far in the game, either, so it could easily change. I do like Jewel Quest Solitaire II and catch myself wanting to do one more, just one more, okay … just one more. Hours later, I realized I had way too many “one mores.”

I don’t play PC games very often for various reasons, and one of the reasons is the keyboard. I just don’t like to use the keyboard as my controller. But, there are a few games I am willing to play — Tumblebugs is one of them.

In Tumblebugs, a bad black bug gathers the colored beetles and gets behind them trying to push them into his hole. Tumble is a female beetle who runs to the aid of the innocent colored beetles being led captive to free them. This is one protective beetle!

In order to free the colored beetles, Tumble carefully looks for two beetles of the same color. When she finds two of the same color, she aims at them and shoots the same color at them, and they are freed from the bad black bug. 

Tumblebugs is a very cute game and one I don’t mind playing on my PC or laptop.There are many levels to rescue these cute little colored beetles with various power-ups to enhance your strategic rescues. This game is packed with colorful adventures you will enjoy.

Out of all the video games I have played, I can’t help but wish I still had Klax for the Sega Genesis. Klax was a load of fun and is a game that could challenge your coordination, as you had to match the colors and do so quickly.

Match the Tiles Any Way You Can

The thing I like about Klax is that you are able to arrange the tiles in any position — horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Once you match three or more tiles they would disappear, until you reached the required limit. The more combos you made in Klax, the more points you would achieve, which would help you to attain the limit quicker.

Better Hurry!

Now, Klax could be mind-straining at times, because you had to organize the tiles by their color, like you do with Bejeweled. They are on a platform  that rolls towards you — some are exponentially fast, while others are excessively slow.

You Can Do It

As the tiles begin to come towards you, you find yourself wrestling to sort through the tiles as they fall down to prevent the small area from over-filling. When that happens, it is too late — game over.

Klax is challenging in ways and is a lot of fun. It sure will make the time go by faster for you, because you will be so busy trying to keep up with organizing all those tiles.