| Ideas on how to shop for family-friendly video games
With the success of Nintendo's Wii as a family console, Sony and Microsoft are offering packages this holiday season aimed at making their own platforms more family-friendly. Microsoft is offering a new Xbox 360 Arcade Console that includes five games, a wireless controller, a high-definition multimedia interface connection to enable high-def output and 256 Mb of memory to store games and entertainment content. The five games in the bundle include Pac-Man Championship Edition, Uno, Luxor 2, Boom Boom Rocket and Feeding Frenzy. Sony is repackaging it's older, but still popular, Playstation 2 console with the SingStar bundle as a low-cost alternative for families. The bundle features a white PS2 console, the SingStar game, a controller and two microphones. SingStar is a karaoke game similar to American Idol.
SPECIALS: The Pokemon Trading Figure Game
Now we've gotta spin' em all! Discuss it in Talkback! If you're a Penny Arcade reader, you've probably learned of the Pokemon Trading Figure Game. Gabe has been hawking it for a few weeks now. In fact, that's how I first learned of the game, and I swore on my dead lizard's grave that when I saw the game on the shelves of the local comic shop, I'd give it a shot. So barely more than a week ago, that day came, and I bought everything I'd need for a two-player game. And then—and this is the magical part—I got my wife to play with me. The Pokemon Trading Figure Game (TFG) is tough to understand without actually playing it. Each player has three (or six) Pokemon, and a Trainer figure. The players lay out a map, on which the action takes place.
Moms want alternatives to "bad" dolls
Moms are hunting through toy aisles for more wholesome-looking dolls, concerned that the scantily clad Bratz dolls with their Party Palaces and Magic Make-up Studios are sending their daughters the wrong message about how they should dress and act. .
Holiday shoppers storm local stores seeking deals on nation's busiest retail day
Bundled up in coats and giggling, Mary Ann Schewe and her sister Louise Harris tried their best Friday mornng to squeeze a luggage set and two buggies full of holiday presents into the back of her Mercury Grand Marquis. "I can't buy anything else," Harris said, standing in the Target parking lot. "My son was supposed to meet us in his truck." Like thousands of other shoppers across Middle Georgia, the sisters left their homes in Jones County before dawn to take advantage of Black Friday sales. Schewe said they started at Wal-Mart at 4 a.m. and had marked items off their lists at Goody's and Old Navy in hopes that the line outside Target would get shorter as the morning wore on. She said the line of shoppers waiting to get into Target stretched all the way to Dick's Sporting Goods on the other end of Eisenhower Crossing when they first arrived.
Recreation Calendar
Deep South Sharks U9 Team Tryouts: Looking for players to complete spring roster. May not turn 10 before May 1, 2008. Practice in the Brandon/Flowood area. Will play a full tournament schedule throughout the spring and summer. Dean Davis (601) 622-1050 or wddavis@basspro.com Ultimate Baseball 13U Team Tryouts: Players needed for Central Mississippi team. Will play tournaments 2-3 weekends per month. Winter workouts required. Dennis White (662) 590-3273. For tryout info: include player's name, date of birth, address, T-shirt size, positions played and experience to ultimatebaseball@yahoo.com 10U Team Tryouts: All players must be willing to play any position. Team will practice in Rankin and Scott Counties and play 3 to 4 weekends per month. May not turn 11 before May 1, 2008. Contact Drew (601) 842-1138 or Joe (601) 278-1834 to discuss and set up a tryout.
New families added to holiday adoption list
Families continue to be added to the list of those available for adoption in the Holiday Family Adoption Program. The Holiday Family Adoption Program, a Spencer-area holiday staple, allows generous area families, businesses and service groups to share in the holiday spirit and bounty. It's easy to "adopt" a family. You can contact The Daily Reporter Monday through Friday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at 262-6610 and let us know the number of the family you wish to "adopt." Then the fun begins. You can shop for items on the wish list, wrap them up and drop them off at one of two drop off days; Saturday, December 8 or Saturday, December 15 from 8:30 a.m. until 12 noon on both days. The collection location will be the 4-H Exhibit Building at the Clay County Fairgrounds.
Christmas Wish letters arrive at The Bulletin
Christmas Wish requests are rolling in, and it looks like it's going to be a busy year. The mission of The Baxter BulletinChristmas Wish project is to make sure every child has a nice gift to open Christmas morning (clothing and/or a toy) and food for a holiday meal. Application forms are available at The Bulletin officeat 16 W. Sixth St. The deadline to submit a Wish request is 5 p.m. Nov. 2. Forms may be brought to the office or mailed to P.O. Box 1750, Mountain Home, AR 72654. Wish is unable to accept forms via fax or e-mail. .
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