http://www.youtube.com/MobileLANParty I will be streaming my reviews of games with my children on YouTube. I hope you can join me and leave feedback!

One of the games that I have been very excited about showing my children is Minecraft. I always thought of it as “video game Legos” and they enjoy playing with Legos. I first started out in Creative Mode because they can fly and build whatever they want. It took some time introducing the controls but…

Out of curiosity, I searched up Cars games because my son loves all of Lightning McQueen’s adventures. He has a playdough set, 100 or so hot wheels, and a pencil box based on the Disney movies. His obsession even reached my daughter because she begged me for some hot wheels too. She follows more traditionally…

Star Trek This is one of those base building, unit upgrading, and grinding out unless you pay kind of mobile games. My older brother is a huge Trekkie so it was a good chance to play with him. The kids loved it. They got to click buttons, upgrade star ships and blow up bad guy…

This is something that I will continue to explore to determine if there is anything we can learn by making characters. Then again there is always the moral question about predetermining genetic structure. My brothers have been raving about a game called Outward. I tried it before showing my kids, but figured that they might…

Sorry for the delay, this was going to be posted but the COVID-19 pandemic put us in quarantine. We are all safe and hope you are too! It’s no secret that my son is a battery that never runs out. Sometimes at restaurants, we do the bad parent thing that gets us all the stares….

We revisited the arcade games, not on my request but on the kids. I might have suggested that we play video games, but my daughter requested the game with the coo-coo heads. My daughter named all the ghosts and goblins “coo-coo heads.” Any villains for me are now coo-coo heads.  Well I was really progressing,…

Christmas has come and gone. My wife knows that I love video games and arcade games so she bought me an 8 bit and 16 bit arcade console. It’s amazing how little they are compared to my old NES and Atari. I have only played them with my kids. Somehow, these low graphic games are…