Well, tomorrow is the first day of school in our county. It is here earlier than before, so technically we got ripped off this summer. Oh well. We had a great summer, but our video game time is about to be severely limited thanks to homework and mom.
Our favorite games this summer were:
So long summer and long hours playing our favorite games! What were your top games this summer? Leave a comment and let us know.
Okay, this post isn't really about the latest games or accessories, but how you find what you are looking for on the web. Let's say you want to find a site with tips on your favorite games. You go to Google and type in a few words and poof, you get pages of results. The page you really want to see may be hundreds of pages down.
Now, if you are the owner of the web site that is hundreds of pages down, how can you get it closer to the top of that haystack so people can find your shiny needle? You may need to hire a search engine marketing firm to help you reevaluate the set up of the site. You may also benefit from a new search engine Google is getting ready to debut which relies on how accessible your site is to users who are visually impaired. It combines their page rank formula with new technology that evaluates how easy your site is to navigate, resulting in higher rankings for some site. A strong search engine marketing firm can optimize your Website to ensure that your Website achieves and maintains high rankings for your keywords and in the Internet's leading search engines and directories (Google, Inktomi, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, etc.).
While we were on vacation we stopped at the gigantic Toys R Us in Times Square. That place was great! The kids were looking for a new game that they thought they might all like and they found it. We picked out Over The Hedge for PS2 and it was immediately opened when we got home.
The game is obviously based on the movie, which we've seen twice and loved. The characters are just as life like in the game. All three kids - 1 boy, 2 girls, ranging in age from 4 to 10, are loving the game, so it has great appeal and play value.
There is the basic story mode, which you have to go through in order to unlock some of the more fun features of the game - the mini-games. In order to unlock the mini games, you have to perform missions - like getting food into R.J.'s wagon for Vincent or rescuing Heather the 'Possum from "The Verminator". You can play as R.J., Verne, Hammy, or Stella. Some of the mini-games are:
I guess you could call Need for Speed Underground 2 an oldie but a goodie that made its way into our game collection over the weekend. It was released in 2003 and is much like Grand Turismo - just a light version, but it has great play value and the price was right.
Things we like about the game:
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight is one of the most realistic flight simulator games you can purchase. Test your skills flying the Wright Flyer or a Boeing 747 and everything in between. It features realistic weather, 3d terrain, interactive air traffic control and the latest graphics.
You may have to take flying lessons to master the default planes, but if you’re bored with those you can get add-on planes from various websites, like www.simviation.com, www.avsim.com, and www.flightsim.com, and www.justflight.com.
The basic way to install these is to unzip them, and put the last folder before you get to panel sound .air file ECT. in the C:/programs/Microsoft games/flight simulator 9/aircraft folder.
For scenery download the file, unzip, and then go into flight sim, go to scenery library, hit add scenery and select the folder. Then restart flight simulator and you’re ready to go.
Know of any more good add-on sites for Flight Simulator? Let us know by posting a comment.
