Let’s face it, one day our consoles are going to end up in that giant motherboard in the sky, and the portal of power that comes with the Skylanders games will lose it’s luster, and possibly an outlet to plug into. However, that doesn’t mean that those Skylanders figures are useless once that happens. Some very inventive kids came up with a great idea from the GeekDadGamer at the Wired blog.
But as I have written before it is their “Skylanders Chess” variant that holds their attention the longest. In fact I think we may have played this for longer than the main campaign in Giants.
Over time the rules have evolved and recently they took something of a leap forward. Having watched the various trailers and announcements for Swap Force they soon realized that they were going to have a spare Portal because the old one is no longer compatible (assuming we buy the new game).
Always keen to see technology put to novel uses I was please to come down stairs one morning and find that they had rigged up the portal under their Chess board. All that protruded was a wire running from the board to the front of the 360. I was intrigued.
So what exactly happened? You can find out at the Wired blog here. Trust me, it’s worth taking a look
While not working as a Database Administrator, Keith Schleicher has been associated with Gaming Trend since 2003. While his love of video games started with the Telestar Alpha (a pong console with four different games), he trule started playing video games when he received the ill-fated TI-99/4A. While the Speech Synthesizer seemed to be the height of gaming, eventually a 286 AT computer running at 8/12 Hz and a CGA monitor would be his outlet for a while. Eventually he’d graduate to 386, 486, Pentium, and Athlon systems, building some of those systems while doing some hardware reviews and attending Comdex. With the release of the Dreamcast that started his conversion to the console world. Since then he has acquired an NES, SNES, PS2, PS3, PSP, GBA-SP, DS, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Gamecube, Wii, Switch, and Oculus Quest 2. While not playing video games he enjoys bowling, reading, playing board games, listening to music, and watching movies and TV. He originally hails from Wisconsin but is now living in Michigan with his wife and sons.
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