Seniors join fun at Open Play Game Day

That’s right, some of our local senior citizens come out of the woodwork (actually, they came from the Keene Senior Center) to play Nintendo Wii at our wiikly Open Play Gaming Day.

They had a raucous good time, playing the Wii Sports Bowling Game. Whenever anyone bowled a strike or picked up a tough spare the entire room knew it, perhaps even the entire downstairs knew.Now, while I might consider myself a video game veteran, these veterans of life definitely know how to bowl. In his first sitting, our Keene Senior Center friend Bill got the highest score ever achieved on our Wii Sports Resort Bowling Game – a whopping 183 points. It is a heck of a lot better than I can do on the lanes or on the Wii! One woman, Jeane, after playing the Wii during our training day (we went over to the Keene Senior Center to show them what it was about before they visited us at the library) had so much fun she went out and bought her own. She had her son set it up and now she plays regularly. Sandi, director of the senior center, said that this was perfect for seniors and that it really helped them to get up and get a little physical activity. Plus, it’s fun too. Bill even made his way over to the PS2 Dance Dance Revolution game and tried his luck on one of our mats! Apparently, the “Arrow Dance,” as he called it, was a little fast for him, but he had a great time nonetheless.

Read more about this fun time, online at the Keene Sentinel.

Stay tuned for more as Keene senior citizens take over game day and have a great time doing so.

National Gaming Day @ your library!

Keene's Knights Chess Club Visits KPL for National Gaming Day

On Saturday, Nov. 14, Heberton Hall was a place for all sorts of games and gaming. Perhaps the most unusual game was an extra large chess set provided by the Keene Knights Chess Club.

Stay tuned for more details about National Gaming Day and other gaming events at the Keene Public Library.

It’s been awhile . . .

Did you miss me?

I know you did.

Anyway, I want to let you all know that last week’s Super Smash Brother’s Brawl Tournament.

It went exceptionally well. You might have heard of a dude named “Link” who stars in a famous game. Well, he made an appearance along with some other hard-core gamers.

There was fierce competition in each of our different events. The most frustrating competition was our “All Random” Event in which all the characters and stages were randomly selected.” What? You mean I can’t be Pit?” Yes! And, everyone had a great time.

Speaking of great times, as you know we also had our Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament last week. We ate hot dogs, battled, ate more hot dogs, and battled again. It was should we say… EPIC!  Yours truly even made an appearance on the battlefront, with my absolutely incredible Library WIND Deck of Harpies! To this day it’s just EARTH shatteringly goodness. That’s a Yu-Gi-Oh! Joke. Maybe? Anyway, we handed out some cool prizes from the local hobby and comic book stores.

What? You didn’t make it. But, I told EVERONE! I even told your mom. Well, I’d really like you to stop by sometime. Hmmm… You know, tell you what I’ll do, we’ll have a whole season of game tournaments like a

• Battle of the Bands Guitar Hero World Tour,
• Dance Dance Revolution Off,
• Magic: The Gathering Tournament,
• Pokémon Tournament,
• Mario Kart Wii Tournament.

Maybe we’ll even bring back Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Yu-Gi-Oh! among others. Anything else you’d like to see, leave us some feedback here and we will check it out!

Oh and by the way, we still have our Open Play Game Day. It takes place each Thursday from 3pm-8pm, so stop by and learn the secret handshake!

And, if you don’t mind… you should come to our NATIONAL GAMING DAY @ YOUR LIBRARY!!!!!

That’s right, I decided games were too cool to just be playing by our lonesome, so I told everyone else in the country that on November 14th we are going to rock the consoles, “Scratch” it up and maybe (and I mean maybe) play some life size chess, not to mention kickin’ back and watching some cool gamer video games. It takes place Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 11am-2pm in Heberton Hall. So if you aren’t cool don’t come. Heck, you might even learn something. I know I will. For instance, I’ve always wondered, “How cool am I really?” Well once I show up, I’ll know that I’m cool. Really.

Well that about raps it up. I’m going to go rock socks off because that’s what we do at the library. Only unlike heavy metal musicians, we at the library are so incredibly more awesome because we do so silently- like ninjas.