$15 well spent.
Once a week when the kids go to bed and Amy is too busy blogging to spend any quality time with me.... I play "Sims Castaway" on PS2. There are only a few goals of the game: find the other three castaways (my wife Amy, Cindy Lauper, Bob the Sailor), get married to Amy, find all four islands, get rescued, and build a sustainable house/farm/compound.
Following the same lameness of the game Sims, "Sims Castaway" also requires your dirty dishes to be cleaned up in your hut regardless of any "real life" dishes or chores that need to be done in your regular life.
Prior to starting the game, I had to create three other castaways. Creating "Amy" was a natural first choice so Amy would not get jealous seeing my character with another computer woman. The second (non-threatening) choice of Cindy Lauper then followed. I made Cindy with a crazy big funky hat so real life Amy sees her in the game and just laughs.
Bob the Sailor started out as "Mr T" when I was creating him, but the game did not have a mohawk style haircut option. So, the SIM esentially became Mr. T without the mohawk and dressed in a prepy saiiling outfit. "Mr T the Sailor " was too awkward of a name so I just call him "Bob the Sailor".
The last part of the game to mention is that it has natural 2 minute pauses when my character has to eat, sleep or travel. These two minute breaks are just enough time to re-position my 8 month old daughter's bottle (being held up over her blanket w/her lying next to me in a bouncy seat) or just enough time to burp her. Hey... If she wants to get up at 6 am on the weekend the quality of care she gets does go down a bit (just kidding... sort of).
Sure.. the game offers no real long term gain... but it does occasionally offer a bit of downtime before fantasy football starts up. RIP Steve McNair.
Friday, June 26, 2009
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