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Title: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: Tortuga on January 15, 2009, 01:14:56 AM
...I'll get to try a whole bunch of new XBOX 360 games without spending a dime.  Our local public library has just started carrying 360, P3 and Wii games.  You can rent them for 7 days and they have multiple copies so you don't have to wait that long.  I'm a shameless achievement-you-know-what, so this rocks.

Does anyone else's library lend out console games?
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: vamp on January 15, 2009, 01:18:37 AM
Mine doesn't :angry: Apparently they think learning to "read" is more important. So Timmy can't read, at least he is one heck of a gamer.  ;)

In all seriousness though, thats pretty cool. Enjoy
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: Tortuga on January 15, 2009, 04:12:19 AM
So far I've reserved the following:
Star Wars: Force Unleashed
Mercenaries 2
Prince of Persia
Smackdown vs. RAW 2009
The Simpsons Game...(easiest achievement ever, literally!)
Spider-man: Web of Shadows
Mirror's Edge

There's a ton more, but this is the cream of the crop.
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: thalaw2 on January 15, 2009, 04:34:26 AM
What happens if your students see you in the library renting games?    :lol:
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: Tortuga on January 15, 2009, 05:50:57 PM
Oh, they already know about my love for XBOX-gaming.  And Slurpees.
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: detourne_me on January 22, 2009, 06:31:01 PM
wow,  that's great,  i remember how psyched i was that the local library (a few years ago in canada carried a lot of comics)

and Thalaw,  whats wrong with letting your students know you game?
my younger students and I used to play NDS all the time,  now i'm telling my middles school students about games like left 4 dead and fallout...anything to get them from playing starcraft! hahah
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: AfghanAnt on January 22, 2009, 09:01:47 PM
Where do you live?!
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: BWPS on January 22, 2009, 09:11:18 PM
That sounds like the single best thing ever. I'm jealous.
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: Figure Fan on January 23, 2009, 05:01:53 PM
Wow..to the library has given up trying to push books on kids? Haha! I'm kidding, but having video games in a library seems..odd, to say the least.

Still, a lot of video games these days have amazing stories and visuals, not to mention more interactivity.
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: JeyNyce on February 02, 2009, 02:54:52 PM
I wish that they would do that here, but I'm sorry to say that some of the kids around the neighborhood has sticky fingers
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: Gremlin on February 02, 2009, 05:33:20 PM
Quote from: detourne_me on January 22, 2009, 06:31:01 PM
wow,  that's great,  i remember how psyched i was that the local library (a few years ago in canada carried a lot of comics)

and Thalaw,  whats wrong with letting your students know you game?
my younger students and I used to play NDS all the time,  now i'm telling my middles school students about games like left 4 dead and fallout...anything to get them from playing starcraft! hahah

Hey, Starcraft would be a great educational experience.
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: JeyNyce on February 03, 2009, 11:34:43 AM
Quote from: Gremlin on February 02, 2009, 05:33:20 PM
Quote from: detourne_me on January 22, 2009, 06:31:01 PM
wow,  that's great,  i remember how psyched i was that the local library (a few years ago in canada carried a lot of comics)

and Thalaw,  whats wrong with letting your students know you game?
my younger students and I used to play NDS all the time,  now i'm telling my middles school students about games like left 4 dead and fallout...anything to get them from playing starcraft! hahah

Hey, Starcraft would be a great educational experience.

Do you know that Starcraft has been broken down to one giant calculus math problem.
Title: Re: Thanks to our local public library...
Post by: Gremlin on February 03, 2009, 10:50:46 PM
Quote from: JeyNyce on February 03, 2009, 11:34:43 AM
Quote from: Gremlin on February 02, 2009, 05:33:20 PM
Quote from: detourne_me on January 22, 2009, 06:31:01 PM
wow,  that's great,  i remember how psyched i was that the local library (a few years ago in canada carried a lot of comics)

and Thalaw,  whats wrong with letting your students know you game?
my younger students and I used to play NDS all the time,  now i'm telling my middles school students about games like left 4 dead and fallout...anything to get them from playing starcraft! hahah

Hey, Starcraft would be a great educational experience.

Do you know that Starcraft has been broken down to one giant calculus math problem.

BRING IT TO ME.