• Robot Arena: Design and Destroy

    Saturday, August 15th, 2009

    Our 9 year old daughter loves robots. We have Lego Mindstorms and Vex robot kits, but one surprisingly good find has been Robot Arena: Design and Destroy, a PC video game that simulates BattleBots style robotic combat.
    The game is getting quite old, but it runs well on Windows XP. It does have some occasional glitches [...]

  • The Fantastic Contraption

    Thursday, August 28th, 2008

    One of our family’s favorite pastimes is solving puzzles and Fantastic Contraption captivated us from the beginning.
    The goal of the game is to move a given object into the goal, a designated box. The object starts in a workspace where you build your contraption.
    There are just so many different possible solutions that we’ve had great [...]