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If you grew up in the early to late 60s you do not forget watching Vic Morrow in the great series Combat. You were so taken by the his performance that if you were a normal kid, you wanted to be Sergeant Saunders. And you got the probability to do it too. The toy stores were stocked to the rafters with Saunders trademarked camouflaged helmet, Thompson Sub Machine Gun and hand grenades. The gun had a pull back knob that was rather realistic and the gun made rather a racket when it was shot. The grenades were equipped with the old style cap explosives that likewise made rather a bang when the grenade hit the ground correctly. Taking your equipment, you and your friends made off for the nearest woods or mazed area. You took turns hunting each other down. Because not a single soul genuinely got shot, you were gorgeous much on the honor scheme when someone snuck up behind you, started shooting and said, “you’re dead”. You were always tempted to say, “I’m just wounded” and walk off to the support station for a brief timeout until you were “healed” and ready to get back in the game. Nobody actually passed away and the games went on evermore until you merely got tired of playing or your mother called you in for dinner. It was all gorgeous harmless fun. But, it’s 40 years later and parents are marveling if they must let their kids play war games. They’re afraid that if their kids play with guns they will grow up to play with real guns. We have become so politically rectify that it has gotten to the point where you can’t even find guns in a toy store anymore. Those days are long gone. So if a kid wants to play army, he better have a very good imagination. The question is, is this right? Certainly not each kid who played with guns grew up to become a killer. An associate of mine had not only a Saunders Tommy Gun, but also a German Luger, an M1 rifle, a Colt 45 and rather a few hand grenades. He says he had to have assorted when attacking those German bunkers. Today, this kid who lived to play army, is a successful Internet vender and has never held a real gun a day in his life. The truth is, it doesn’t take a toy gun to turn a kid bad. If somebody is destined to turn to a life of crime, he’s going to do it with or without having played with toy guns. So the question of whether or not kids must be permitted to play war games is one that has to be answered by each person parent. Parents ought to make informed conclusions with regards to everything they concede or don’t concede their children to do. There is an old saying that says guns don’t kill, persons kill. That was true in the 1960s and it is true today as well. Certainly toy guns don’t kill anybody. Most helpful customer reviews 415 of 418 people found the following review helpful. I downloaded both the games that were added to the store yesterday and of the two I like Shuffled Row a lot more. I’ve had the games less than 24 hours and have already played many rounds. I was surprised to find that the game was slightly addicting, though I expect that will wear off when it’s not so new. Shuffled Row is sort of a mashup between Scrabble, Boggle, and Bananagrams, but with the twist of there being some guy standing there swiping your letters if you don’t use them fast enough. You have a sort of Scrabble tray of letters that are added one at a time and once the last one is added the first letters start dropping off. So you have to use them before they disappear off your tray. There is a progress bar that moves at the bottom of each letter so you can see when they will appear and disappear. There’s a box at the top that tells you how many more letters you have left, out of the 60 total, and a list at the bottom shows which words you’ve made and how many points you got for each one. Three letter words don’t get many points. Using more letters multiplies your word score. So four letters gets a 2x multiplier and so on. Just like in Scrabble, different letters have different point values assigned. So if you can make 5 letter or more words using high point letters you can get some good scores. The game keeps track of your highest game score and your highest word score, even between playing sessions. There’s also an option to clear out the high scores if you want to start over. There’s an option choice on the game menu that allows you to change how two of the key entries work to suit your tastes. If you need to pause the game push the Menu key. As long as the menu displays it will remain paused. You can click Continue on the menu to resume the game. I also played the other game a few times. It’s more of a sitting and pondering type of game, at least on the relaxed mode I played it on. What I like about Shuffle Row is that it’s more of a free-wheeling, by the seat of your pants type of game. It goes pretty quickly. The game is perfect for when you might have a few minutes to kill when your Kindle is handy, but not long enough to really get into reading a book. This is a single-player game, but it could easily be adapted to play against other Kindle owners if you’re sitting around together. The version I thought of was everyone gets ready at the main menu and someone says go and everyone starts the game at the same time. Whoever finishes before the others could get a 10 point bonus score. You could also add a 10 point bonus to whoever got the highest single word score. Add bonuses and the game score to see who wins that round. Oh and one last thing. It’s not really clear at first how to exit out of the game. There’s nothing on the menu. Hitting the Home key works. Shuffled Row gets two thumbs up from me as a fun addition to the Kindle. p.s. Please note that the Active Content listings for the Kindle include a drop down button so you can see which devices the product will work on. As more apps are added, some that will cost money, it will be important to make sure you can use the app you’re buying. 155 of 157 people found the following review helpful. I have to say that I liked Every Word much more than this one. With that said, it is a neat kind of game although not nearly as relaxed as Every Word. You have to be really moving your brain to make words out of the given letters before they drop. I guess what I’m happiest about is that both of these games have given me (yet another) excuse to bring my Kindle with me wherever I go. Hey, it’s a free download. So get it for your Kindle and give it a try. 64 of 69 people found the following review helpful. ***Update I see in some of the reveiws that people are mad that the games description does not tell you that it will not work on K1 or any of the apps. This is true, however the page does let you know this on the “Available on these devices” link under the price. If you click on it you will see neither the K1 or apps listed** |
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