Toys And Games

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Have you ever thought about why some characters from the Saturday morning cartoons are able to transition out into the greater public? It seems like every once in a while there will be a character that becomes so popular that you begin to see them everywhere. Not only are they are television but they begin showing up on the kids menu in fast food restaurants, on board games designed for children, on kids clothing and for some in full length feature films. There are many Saturday morning characters that come and go, so what makes these chosen few so special? I think it is the way they appeal to adults.

One of the more recent hit characters is Dora the explorer. This is a favorite with young girls; however there are enough supporting characters that go along with her that boys also are interested in her. Late last autumn my husband and I went to visit friends of ours that have moved to an adjoining state. It is a seven hour drive to get from our house to theirs. The man had been the best man in our wedding. He and my husband have been friends for thirty years. Our friend did not get married until he was forty five years old. He and his wife have a little girl that had just turned four at the time of our visit. She was excited to show us the Dora the explorer items that she received as birthday presents. She had received a Dora the explorer board game as well as a pair of pajamas with Dora on. She has had a very difficult time getting into a bedtime routine so her mom was hoping that the Dora the explorer pajamas would help with this. We arrived a few days after the birthday party buy there were still pieces of the ice cream birthday cake left. Of course Dora the explorer had been airbrushed onto the cake with food coloring.

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The day after we got there my friends wife and I decided to go shopping. The guys were going to stay home and watch college football. The four year old opted to stay home. We were gone for several hours, enjoying our shopping and catching up with each other. When we arrived home we found my husband babysitting the four year old. Our friend was called into work on an emergency. My husband said that he had played several games of Dora the explorer while we were gone. He was disappointed that the four year old would never let him be Dora.

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For as long as I can remember, I have always loved Star Wars games. I think that the first Star Wars game that I ever played was the classic sit down arcade x wing game. It is extremely old school from the mid-80s, I think. For the time, it is very sophisticated. Even today, the graphics are pretty impressive. It is all done in wireframe, vector graphics. You pilot an x-wing fighter, fighting against tie fighters that shoot brightly glowing balls of energy at you. Then you have to proceed to destroy the Death Star. The first time you do it, it is a thrill unlike anything you have ever felt. For me, the Star Wars movies were extremely real when I was a kid. Getting to actually play the part of Luke Skywalker was beyond my wildest dreams!

By the time I was playing the Star Wars PC games, my innocent childhood fascination with Star Wars had diminished somewhat. Don’t get me wrong, the Star Wars games were still very good. There were so many of them that I can’t keep track of all of them in my head, but I remember that many were first person shooter games. I liked going around Imperial bases, shooting soldiers with laser guns and trying to get my secret missions accomplished, but to me it didn’t compare to the thrill of piloting a rebel fighter. In many ways, the first person style of Star Wars game was exactly like Doom, Quake, and all of the other first-person shooters that have come out before and since. It was much less original, and hence less enjoyable. Nevertheless, it also lasted a little bit longer. There were so many levels that the action didn’t get monotonous.

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Since then, there have been many other Star Wars games that have come out. I remember playing one which tried to combine the features of all the Star Wars games that came before it. You would get to pilot a spaceship, race through the forest on one of those hovering scooters, and even take on Darth Vader in a light saber duel. The problem is that it was the most expensive of all of the Star Wars arcade games. It cost something like four quarters to start, and your life wouldn’t last very long. I preferred free Star Wars games that you can play on your computer for as long as you wanted, or at least the old style arcade games where each was only a quarter.

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