Passionate Gamer Gifts

Why are you so hostile toward books? Um, where to start: The waste of paper, the lack of multimedia, the one-way nature of the medium. One-way? Authors stuff ideas down your throat. You can't interact with their ideas. You can't crowdsource the direction, or refine the plot or do anything active. You can't shoot anyone. Shoot? I might play a shooting app called Angry Books if the books you were destroying were cute.

No caption (A young bald eagle plays a claw game full of fish as his parent stands behind him).

I'm Bored With Educational Toys

Mixed Doubles.

"Pokemon...Pokemon...Pokemon...."

You've read the book's dust jacket. Now, play the video game!

'Come on, I dare you: I say you can't drink a whole dew drop...'

"Marco ..."

"This is our most difficult escape room. In here, you're a mother of 4 unruly children, tons of overdue bills and a lazy husband."

'Unbelievable, these guys brought a ringer.'

'She'll never look for me here.'

'This program is geared towards the youth market. You give it up to five commands and it closes down in a huff!'

Crane Game. Ball Game.

Notoriously losing pieces, the Varns could only have family game night by putting together whatever they could find. 'Checkmate!' 'You sank my Battleship!' 'You didn't say 'UNO'!

'Guess how many I ATE.'

Riverboat 4 Square Hustlers

'No, you can't play Space Invaders in it.'

"Go ahead. Fly through it. I dare you."

'It would never work out, Blackfire — our alignments are too different.'

'I'm tired of playing 'Rock, rock rock'.'

"Okay! Okay! It's a draw!"

Go Play Outside - it's so real, you kids will almost smell the virtual fresh air!

I'm tired of your games, Al. MY games? look who's talking! The guy with the role-playing hand puppets!

"My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick-boxing!"

"Mommy! Mommy! Daddy lost!"

Psychiatry. I got in touch with my inner child, and now I'm going broke buying video games!

With Grandpa it was often a game of hide and sleep.

"I'm bilingual. I can talk to parents and step parents."

'I can't talk right now. I'm discussing strategy with our financial director.'

'Well, I'll say this: when the new boss came on board, it was a real game-changer for all of us!'

I'm doing my essay on John Milton's "Paradise Lost"...the video game.

"Fancy a game of chicken?"

'Alright, just this once. One, two, three, four, five...'

"Leapfrog is the latest craze among the kids, but experts say it contribute to declining birthrates. Find out why � after the break!"

Noughts and crosses hugging and kissing.