I’d like to buy my neice a DVD game; either Friends (yeah…she loves that show) or maybe the trivia version. She’s a very mature “almost” 14. I don’t want to give her something that she’ll rip through in a couple hours. Does anyone have experience with these? What do your kids think of them? Thanks!
If it’s something like Scene-It, an interactive DVD trivia thing, you should know that they either bend the rules on the DVD spec, or some DVD players aren’t really up to it; they don’t work in all DVD players. Mine, for instance :mad:.
Scene-it is a really fun game I think, but you have to see a lot of movies to know answers. Or know about actors. I assume your daughter REALLY likes Friends and hopefully has friends that really like Friends because it’s probably not a game you play by yourself if it’s like Scene-it. It’s more of a party game.
Heh, kids nothing. I have Harry Potter Scene-It and totally love it.
I’ll have to make a note of that. Thanks for the heads up.
I’d like to get the Turner Classics version for my dad. He’s a freak on the oldies. Yes, my niece is also a freak on Friends. She has the season sets and can quote stuff.
Don’t all little teen-age girls like Friends? I thought it was in the owner’s manual or something. At any rate, her mother likes it too, so they could play together I s’pose.
They have a new Deal or No Deal DVD game that I’m intrigued by. That might, or might not be, a fun game to play at home. I enjoy the suspense of the TV show, but don’t know how well it would translate to a home game without the million dollars at stake.
I also kind of wonder how they would structure the DVD game version of DoND so that it would have random outcomes each time. It might get redundant, so that’s another fear I have of the DVD games. I’m trying to boggle out how the DVD game would work… guess I’d just have to see it to understand it. (It might be worth it to me for the case girls and Howie Mandell alone, though. Howie just makes me crack up for some reason.)
There’s a Disney scene-it, which she might be both too young and too old for. Children’s stuff like Disney and Nickelodeon stops being cool around 14 or 15, but then becomes cool again toward the later years of high school in a post-modern, nostalgic, ironic way. At least that’s my experience, but then people at my high school were big on trying to be pretentious, ironic, and postmodern. Emphasis on “trying.” Anyway, we were watching Disney scene-it (just going through the questions and yelling out answers, not actually playing with the board and the rules) at a party when I was in high school for two or three hours one night. If she’s read the Harry Potter books, that might be a safer choice.