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A Video Game Birthday

28th January, 2011 - Posted by health news - No Comments

The time of year had come to celebrate my son’s birthday. As his birthday approached, we tossed around many ideas for a party before deciding on one. We would have a video game party. The theme of the party was going to be go big or go home, and we decided we would go big.

The first thing we would need was going to be some video game platforms, and it was not going to be good enough to only have one, we would have to get a Nintendo Wii, an Xbox 360 Kinect and a Playstation move along with a variety of games for the kids to play and some televisions for them to play on.

There was no need for me to worry about how we would get the platforms for gaming and the televisions to play them on. I could not have been more wrong about that. Our home was already equipped with the Wii gaming console. I contacted a video game store and asked them if they had the systems to rent and found out they did not have the Xbox Kinect because it was to new and since the Xbox 360 Kinect release date had just passed it would be a while for them to start renting them but they did have titles available for all three of the platforms and it would just be a matter of finding a store that had the titles that I wanted. We did not let that stop us from getting all three platforms. The good things is my son knew plenty of people who have the other platforms and was able to get the platforms from them.

The other part of the gaming equation was getting the monitors to enjoy the games on. We were up to date technologically in the house and had two decent high definition televisions. For the third television we decided to go all out. The local furniture rental store had a TV that had over a six foot screen that we went ahead and rented. They did not let you rent it for a couple of days, so it stayed in our home for a month. That was just one of the things that would have to be done for the party is what I figured. My wife hated the idea, but it had to be done.

Once we had all the plans in place, the party took shape. We rented some games form the video store that included some very popular titles. We invited a bunch of my son’s friends over for the sleepover and said that they could bring anything they wanted to play on the game platforms. When we were digging through the closets we found some handheld gaming systems and some plug and play systems. We set up everything that we had that had anything to do with video games. I do not think that we were lacking in this department.

Every guest seemed to have something different to play the games with them and I was astonished at what they had. The number of accessories that these kids had for the games was amazing. Our rooms were full of guns, swords, and everything else imaginable. There was also a wide variety of games to chose from for all of the platforms. It was a good thing the party was a sleepover so the kids would have enough time to enjoy everything they had.

I was too old to go without sleep. The kid’s did. There was not much sleeping that went on. I woke up to the sounds of the games the next morning. I do not know how happy the other parents were about the lack of sleep for their children. The good news is that the party was the talk of the school the next week.