If you have ever played X Box or driving games, you probably agree that these are fun for a while. I like combining my love for muscle cars, my lightning reflexes, and the added benefit of relieving tension. Nothing like totaling a Ferrari to make your day complete.
You drive by smashing cars off the road, raging around your opponent, crashing with maximum amount of damage, and you even gets points for taking down other cars.
Enough about my carpooling, I'm talking Burnout Revenge Takedown.
There is nothing like tasting the sheer excitement of seeing parts ready to fall off your car, the hood crumpled, totaling your opponent watching the doors hanging off their hinges. It really is a tension reliever.
Take that Mr. Postman!, OH YEAH! who has the bad address now?!
Max is 8yrs old and we've plowed our way through so many levels (starting with a little rice burner..by the way, is that a racist saying or not?) the boy is driving, smashing, raging, racing around in a Fire Engine. He asked me today if it would be cool to have a Smart Car to race with. That's about as funny as a moped on the Autobahn.
So, we raced our way to high score. Call that 30+ hours of wasted time, never to be retrieved again. But hey, it's top score, so that has to count for something for Max, right?
Fast forward to his future in BUDS/CRT Navy military training:
"FNG!!!!? Are you the bottom of the barrel?!! THE ONLY EASY DAY WAS YESTERDAY, BOY! SECOND PLACE IS FIRST LOSER!!! MY GRANNY COULD HAVE RUN LAPS AROUND YOUR EXCUSE FOR A RUN....ARE YOU GOING TO RING OUT?! YOU WANNA RING OUT?! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF?!"
[insert Master Chief into face here]
"I CAN DO IT, MASTER CHIEF. SIR! When I was eight, my mom and I got top score IN A FIRE TRUCK ON BURNOUT REVENGE TAKEDOWN, SIR!"
"WELL THAT'S THE KIND OF PROGRESS I'M LOOKING FOR, FNG! AS YOU WERE!"
So maybe racing won't get him far in life, but I don't think he'll forget that he and his mom got down and dirty racing in his firetruck as we laughed and sped our crumpled fenders to the finish line.
11 comments:
i am spastically horrible at computer games (except tetris) and am holding out for as long as humanly possible to get mckid any computer games.
cant comment, to busy running to bathroom so I don't pee my pants...!
OMG....I LOVE that game! That's all I can do is crash when I play driving games. It sooooooo fun!
You're a cool mom!
Emma
Boys always love their toys.
You need to get the boy a dune buggy. They are such fun.
I have one of those racing games and I love it. It helps a lot with eye hand coordination. Mine is at least 20 years old though, I bet they have improved them.
mckay,
I limit their time on games, I force them to read dumb books, like Little Women and Anne of Green Gables....their wives will thank me.
dapoppins,
too bad you don't have a laptop.
mcbunni,
isn't that one fun?
~jennifer,
thank you. :)
krok,
Dune buggy when you can road rage in a convertible and not mess up your hair? Mr Coffee likes to play the Tom Clancy military games. (I know..shocker) I think he is addicted.
well I can see it now, rehab for moms addicted to violent video games
The thought of playing video games with my mom is hysterical.
I'm glad I'm not the only mom out there doing this stuff. I still remember the day Obi-wan, Anakin, and I made it to the end of the X-men game on Xbox. Sweat was rolling off our faces, and our hands were cramped into claw-like positions, but we did it. MAN, I loved that game. I liked being Wolverine and slashing my way through the levels, and I liked being Storm and zapping the bad guys with lightening. Ah, good times....
I agree with Jennifer. You are a cool mom. I, on the other hand, am not. I don't play games. I start screaming and stuff because I don't want to die.
My kids would love you.
Oooh, I need that game. You're right, it's fun to be a careless driver in gameworld.
I played Classic Mario Brothers with my son last night. Not much action to be had there.
(Take that you freaky wierd crab spider thing that I have to bump twice to knock out. Yah!)
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