Christmas Eve Game Wave and family traditions |
Loading ...Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. It’s becoming a family tradition of sorts to open a present on Christmas Eve. We decided to have the kids open something the family could play together.
On the popular game systems there aren’t many games — a handful at best — that are good for the whole family to play at the same time. Enter the Game Wave which you probably haven’t heard of before. It’s likely in the electronics section at your nearest Toys R’ Us store.
The Game Wave doubles as a DVD player so you can use it to watch DVDs and comes packaged with four remotes and a trivia game for the very reasonable price of $49 USD (a special limited deal, normally $99 USD). We were all over this game system and bought four additional games ($19.99 each) to go along with it (pictured right).
Game Wave system contents
Game Wave System which plays DVDs and Game Wave games
4 Game Wave Remotes: Blue, Red, Green and Yellow
8 AAA batteries (two for each remote)
Composite cable (red, white and yellow)
S-Video cord
4 degrees: The Arc of Trivia Game Volume 1
We spent a couple hours playing this system. Sure, it’s no Wii or Xbox, heck it’s not even the SNES, but for the price it makes a good backup DVD player with the added bonus of some fun family games. They have one game: Lock 5 which is like Yahtzee, so think of this system as like board games on the TV.
Christmas traditiions
Do you have any family Christmas traditions? Do you open any presents on Christmas Eve or wait to open all until Christmas morning?
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Pingback by Got a PS3, now what? » Make You Go Hmm — December 26, 2006 @ 5:02 pm PST
I got a gift from my mom of all people, which was one of those plug and play TV games with all the old Intellivision games loaded into the controller. So you just plug the controller into the TV and you play.
Had lots of fun for the last few days. Who needs a PS3. lol
Comment by orangecrush — December 27, 2006 @ 11:14 pm PST