Best Living - Community Manager's blog

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I spent most of Valentine's Day weekend playing Wii.  I am not much of a gamer; however, in an effort to relax more, I am trying to invest more time in non-work activities.  I've started reading books which provides a wonderful escape.  Gaming enhances the reading experience by providing not only a textual experience but visuals and sounds to enhance the escape experience.  My first gaming system was an Atari 2600.  Twenty years ago a small color palette, quirky sounds and flashing graphics pasted as state of the art.  Today's gaming landscape is 3-D, high-definition and multi-sensory experience.  One surprising outcome of playing the Wii is the soreness in my upper body.  Playing Wii tennis, baseball and golf are giving me quite a workout.  Remarkable for a machine that basically alters flashes graphics and sounds.  And more importantly, I’m relaxing.

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If you have a laptop running Windows XP, I highly reccomend the value jewel case game "Atari 80 Classic Games"

Whats funny is that on the Best Buy site for that product, people are saying the game sucks, but the manufacturer clearly says the game does not function on Vista.

Also if you check around on the net and you want your Pitfall fix, you can buy the game "Activision Anthology Remix" . shouldnt set you back more then 10 bucks also.

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Thanks for the suggestions.  Right now the classic '80's games are about the only speed I can handle!