Consider yourself warned the bugs have been unleashed!  Our family received a copy of ATARI’s new game Centipede  Infestation a few weeks ago much to my children’s delight!

Boy2001 is the most interested in the game and has a clear grasp of what he needs to do while I sit there cluelessly getting attacked relentlessly!  I’m still working on gaming on more than one dimension and quickening my reflexes but it’s still fun to participate!

We all freak out (girls included) when the Centipede starts charging and splitting up and coming down faster!  I tried to tell the kids about going to the movie theater to play Centipede the old fashioned way but there was no time, the wasps and beetles would not leave me alone!  I found myself screaming out loud as this game is very fast and unpredictable and somehow scary – I guess the thought of all those bugs!

Boy2001 is the perfect age as this game is rated E for Everyone 10+ and he is thoroughly enjoying the game play.  There are 40 stages and seven environments to explore and rid of those pesky bugs.  Here’s a link that will open in a new window: Centipede Infestation on Amazon.  If you have a Nintendo Wii or Nintendo 3DS  be sure to check out this game ASAP!

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The first thing you’ll notice when you open the box is the hand grip piece, it’s got 4 primary colored buttons and is quite unusual looking.  It fits in the Gameboy portal of you DS Lite, it also come with an attatchment for those of you that have an older DS.  It’s very comfortable to hold onto and very easy to

The very good thing is that it’s plug and play!  At first it’s a little overwhelming to know what to play, as there are a lot of options.

What to do first? 

The tutorials are very good, but if you’re like me, you like to get right in there and play!  Learn by doing I always say.  That’s where the ‘training’ section was really good for the kids and I.   The training will let you get through the song no matter how many mistakes you make!

Another alternative for those that want to get started right away will be to do the “quickplay” option.  The only problem boy2001 had was that he didn’t like that it said “song failed”.  A little disheartening when you’ve been pouring your heart out you know, so that’s why I would suggest ‘training’ for kids until they are a little more familiar with the game.  After he got a few of those messages he lost his heart for playing a little but he’s back into it now that I got him into ‘training’.

Playing against eachother!

Choose the multi-player mode.  Decide who is going to be the host and who is going to join.  Both people need grips and games in.  We haven’t gotton up to the more devilish aspects of the multi-player mode as we keep it on easy – medium but there are ways to sabotage your opponent. 

And the winner is…

At the end of the round, the winner is declared, it doesn’t show percentages to know by how much so you better bring your A game if you want to be THE Guitar Hero on Tour! 

A nice aspect is that you get access to the other persons Guitar Hero.  So if you’ve got nearby friends, be sure you’re buying different versions of Guitar Hero for the DS and you can share the songs.  The only thing is the person may have an advantage of knowing the songs better than you because they’re practicing on them!

Guitar Hero is very fun and great for all ages once someone knows what to do that is!  Enjoy your new game and let me know what you think! 

Mom Central co-ordinated this review and sent us two games to test, great thanks.

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I was going to post in a huff, just before I hit submit, I checked out the website: http://olpc.com and saw the give 1 get 1 promotion. So I take back most of what I was about to post below.

I can’t wait to see boy2001′s face when he gets this laptop!! it has everything we have been talking about for him, wifi internet, camera, music program, long battery life and sturdy enough for a child. I know he’ll be so happy that his gift will help another child. It would have been nice to designate which country (or at least have that illusion, lol).

Very convenient to buy, they take paypal, so sell something on ebay and get that cash people. Put your money where your mouth is, all children should be able to get to information, these laptops are a step in that direction.

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I’ve been quite interested in getting boy2001 his own laptop. He’s taking computer lessons at school now and there are wonderful online resources for kids as well as programs you can buy for close to nothing to help them learn things. The problem is the cost is not very family friendly, especially if you have several kids. Not to mention laptops are fragile and can easily be broken.

The $100 laptop project seemed like a dream come true. The mission is to provide indestructable laptops at a nominal cost ($100). Unfortunately the makers want to provide these to governments around the world first and foremost and in doing so forget about those of us middle class people that would like to have our child have a laptop.

I’ve known all this for quite some time but what I didn’t know is that some of the companies I’m familiar with have helped fund this, eBay, Google, Intel, Red Hat and several more. I don’t begrudge the children in other countries receiving these, my only problem is that we are not given the opportunity to purchase these for our children. Seems like discrimination and stupid because I’m sure many Americans would pay a little more to help distribute more of these. If there is a manufacturing problem why isn’t our government or these companies helping with that? Here is a link to the article in Wikipedia on the One Laptop Per Child project.

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