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Top 7 Game Room Tips to Get Your Kids Off Their Phones

It’s a worldwide epidemic affecting kids from ages 5 to 99. It’s like a drug that can contribute to mental health issues. And it’s eating up too much time from our life experience. There are some treatment options we could try on our children, like military school, boot camp, or corporal punishment, but these may be a bit extreme and even illegal. 

Fortunately, Legacy Billiards and the game table industry have some illuminating choices for youth that inspire their spirit for competition, innovation and fun. With the proper urging (or incentivizing), these games can appeal to our youth. 

Here's our Top 7 Game Room Phone Disruption Hacks:

  1. Bumper Pool. Bumper Pool was a game of choice for so many of us rec center rats because it was easy to learn. It mimics many of our favorite team sports and is exciting to play. It’s enjoying a resurgence here in the 2020s and many bumper pool tables are designed to double as card tables.
  2. Foosball. Another favorite, “Foos” tables can still be found at many college parties. And millennials, Gen Zs and Alphas who binge-watch Friends can appreciate the foosball table in Joey and Chandler’s apartment. Foosball is best enjoyed as doubles matches, which allow more people to have fun. Playing doubles Foosball can also be ideal icebreakers for first dates and double dates!
  3. Air Hockey. One of the most memorable scenes from the original Bad News Bears movie is when Tatum O’Neal’s character loses a bet to biker/local troublemaker/baseball phenom Kelly Leak over a game of air hockey. If “Amanda” had won, Kelly would have to play for the Bears baseball team. Instead, she had to go to a Rolling Stones concert with Kelly – tough break! (Kelly decided to join the Bears anyway because “some a**hole” changed his mind!). In addition to being a great game for wagers, if you love games with speed that require quick reflexes, air hockey is like that favorite video game that you can jump right into and play.
  4. Table Tennis. Ping Pong is more sport than table game, testing your hand-eye coordination and your ability to slam a ball that stays on the table. Perhaps the greatest moment of elation you’ll ever experience in any sport is that ping pong serve or forehand/backhand that hits the very edge of the table and drops off in a way that’s impossible for your opponent to return. 
  5. Shuffleboard. In a basement game room that the kids have taken over, we have evidence to support the fact that shuffleboard has steered young minds away from their phones, tablets and other “vid-iot” devices, and shifted their attention to a challenging, interactive and social game experience. You can play singles, doubles and tournaments. There’s quite a rush to knocking your opponent’s puck off the board while your puck stops in scoring position. 
  6. Billiards.  Unlike the other fun table games of our glorious Gen X youth, the game of pool requires more skill and patience, as well as a more mature decorum. But there is joy in learning the game of pool, and if your kids excel at math (especially geometry), they can really enjoy applying their “mad skills” on the billiards table. And for the beginners, there are easier pool games to play like 9-ball or “last pocket” that give the newbies a better chance at winning. 
  7. Darts. We’re not talking about the electronic silliness that some people call darts. We’re talking about real darts, with bristle boards and steel tip darts (soft tips are available if you don’t trust your kids). You can play singles, doubles or teams, and there’s a variety of dart games you can play, including those you can invent yourself. And there’s millions of young Ted Lasso fans who are dying to say “barbecue sauce” as they hit the bull! 

You can’t keep your kids off the phone all day long, but you can educate them on the amazing social media opportunities when they post a big win, a winning shot or just a night of fun on their favorite table games. Legacy Billiards also offers a fine selection of furniture and accessories, like bar stools, spectator chairs, pool racks, etc. that enhance the game experience. And since there has been a decline in high school and college student drinking over the past 20 years, table games are an ideal complement to the party or get-together for youth to socialize in a constructive and enjoyable manner. 

Don’t forget – these games are fun for kids of ALL ages, especially the Gen-Xers who possess the same phone addiction! And kids of ALL ages can even have a great time playing together. 

The journey from cell phones and to a world of game table enlightenment is one game room purchase away.

Blog Provided by Don Browne - Wordsmith Extraordinaire - Game Room Enthusiast

www.wordbrowne.com

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