Tuesday, February 1, 2011

A Video Game Birthday

By Mike Allen


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 could turn our home into an arcade. In order to make the party memorable, we knew that it would take more than one platform played on a little television and decided to ramp up the excitement as best as we could.

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.

Getting something to play the games and the systems to play them on was fairly simple. I could not have been more wrong about that. We already had the Wii. 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. Through friends and families we were able to find the consoles that we did not have and were able to use them for the party.

We needed to add a few more screens to our home to complete the game platforms. 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. We found out that we could rent a 73 inch 3-D television and made the arrangements to do just that. They did not let you rent it for a couple of days, so it stayed in our home for a month. It made watching television that month a whole new experience for the entire family. Every man should have that big a television at least once.

We prepared the house for the onslaught of teenage gamers. My son went to the video store and was able to rent video games that everyone would like to play. 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. Our home also had other gaming consoles that we no longer used but were still able to work. We set up everything that we had that had anything to do with video games. We did not have a shortage of things for a kid to do.

As the kids arrived I was amazed at the variety of thing that they brought with them. The number of accessories that these kids had for the games was amazing. Our rooms were full of guns, swords, and everything else imaginable. And then there was the video games that the kids brought with them that was just as vast as the accessories. There was enough to keep this group of kids occupied throughout the entire night.

I was too old to go without sleep. The kid's did. They played games the entire night. As I cooked some food, they were still playing. When we returned the teenagers to their parents, I am sure that they looked very tired for the rest of the day. In the end we were able to accomplish what we wanted to.




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