Three neighbor kids came over this morning while I was working from home and watching my daughter on a delayed opening day* for our schools. To give them something to do for 30 minutes until the bus came, I offered one my son’s video game systems, including an Xbox with 4 games or an a joystick with Pac-Man and a few other 1980s games built in. To my surprise, he chose Pac-Man.
Furthermore, my son got two new games for his Xbox for his birthday from my mother. They played one, a Harry Potter 4 game, for a week until his birthday party with his friend the following weekend. Since then, all his video game time has been devoted to playing the assorted 1980s video games. He has not even tried the other Xbox game (Shrek) yet.
*Our school system opens two hours late one Thursday a month to make up for lost teacher workdays under North Carolina’s law that limits the beginning and end of the school year.