Post your Favorite Online Game

[jams]

Post the link to your favorite on-line game. I am sure we could all use a little mindless down time.

[jams]

Fly the Helicopter
http://dagobah.biz/flash/copter.swf

[jams]

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html

[Ron61]

Jams,

You are just trying to make me feel bad with these games. I was never any good at video games and that Red Square one really drives me nuts. But it is fun.

Ron

[jams]

Ron,

That's because you are a digital immigrant not a digital native! See below-interesting read.

Here is a link to the entire article in PDF form.
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants -- A New Way To Look At Ourselves and Our Kids
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1 Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
By Marc Prensky
From On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001)
© 2001 Marc Prensky
It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
Today‟s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a “singularity” – an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back. This so-called “singularity” is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century.
Today‟s students – K through college – represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Today‟s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV). Computer games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives.
It is now clear that as a result of this ubiquitous environment and the sheer volume of their interaction with it, today‟s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors. These differences go far further and deeper than most educators suspect or realize. “Different kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures, “ says Dr. Bruce D. Perry of Baylor College of Medicine. As we shall see in the next installment, it is very likely that our students’ brains have physically changed – and are different from ours – as a result of how they grew up. But whether or not this is literally true, we can say with certainty that their thinking patterns have changed. I will get to how they have changed in a minute.
What should we call these “new” students of today? Some refer to them as the N-[for Net]-gen or D-[for digital]-gen. But the most useful designation I have found for them is Digital Natives. Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet.
So what does that make the rest of us? Those of us who were not born into the digital world but have, at some later point in our lives, become fascinated by and adopted many Marc Prensky Digital Natives Digital Immigrants

[Ron61]

Jams,

Now I don't feel so badly. But from a show I watched on the history channel maybe our military should think about getting some of those kids to fly their high priced remote controlled planes. They were showing them setting in some place in New York I think it was and flying them over Afghanistan. It takes an officer to fly one and an enlisted man to run the cameras and they are flying them into mountains and everything else. They have a good idea, they just need some improvements on it and some people that can handle joy sticks and remote flying. This new generation that grew up on video games and such should be great for that kind of stuff.

Ron

[wtm442]

My favorite is not online. Its a solitare game.

FreeCell. Available from 10,000 sites

My total so far is 24,851 games.

[Silverback51]

I like something I have to think about. I suck at hand/eye coordination game.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-w...on/cannon.html

[427 S/O]

I like that one silver. Thanks

[Excaliber]

NLOS, rock on!

'Call of Duty' on the internet, I'm a tank, vehicle, airplane jockey, I suck at close quarters.

[Ron61]

Silverback,

Great game. I could become addicted to that. Reminds me of the first video game I ever had back when they first came out. Main difference was it was tanks versus tanks and not nearly so sophisticated.

Ron

[Ron61]

Not to Bad.

http://www.sdweb.com/musclecars/index2.htm

Ron

[wtm442]

Just spent 20 mindles minutes shooting the enemy positions with my tank. Got to bonus round 12 before I decided to quit. I added it as a favorite ... may have to waste some more brain cells.

[427 S/O]

Silver, this is why I like it........

[Ron61]

Warren,

I like it also and made it all the way to the end of the game. It is also in my Favorites List.

Ron

[4RE KLR]

Originally Posted by Silverback51

I like something I have to think about. I suck at hand/eye coordination game.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-w...on/cannon.html

Cool game.

Lot of fun

[MChat]

Here's one I liked well enough to spend the $10 to get the extra levels/features.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/

[jams]

http://www.brandextract.com:80/catbowling/

[Ron61]

A simple puzzle to put together.

http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/people/hara/fly.swf

Ron

[Joe Wicked]

Originally Posted by MChat

Here's one I liked well enough to spend the $10 to get the extra levels/features.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/

I am hooked on this game now, but I can't seem to figure out the one named 4 balls. I need to get off this level as it is killing me not being able to figure it out.

Edit: HA HA. I got it.