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[Clackamas Print TO® Jeff Sorensen j|| The Clackamas Print I Question: What do airplanes, ■grandma’s house, math class, bus I rides, road trips, the Star Wars line ■and detention all have in com- I mon? There’s only one way to ■survive: hand-held games. I It seems like the hand-held ■gaming market is picking up ■steam these days, and now that I the hottest gaming gadgets are ■here, the days of bogarting the I family TV may be nearing their ■aid. ¡I But gaming on the go wasn’t I always so easy, and if Sony and I Nintendo want to make good on ■their new pint-sized platforms, it’s I important they remember where ■hand-held games came from. ■Maybe I’m getting a bit nostal- I gic. but here’s a rundown of the ■portable games that helped me I escape my early years. I The first game I took on the ■road was my LCD version of I the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I game. The year was 1992, and I my parents insisted that it’d be I tun to drive die family van down Ito Disneyland to visit Grandma I and Grandpa. Since it was a two- I day trip just to get there, I brought I along my only hand-held device I at the time. The object of the ■game was to save April O’Neil land kill the bad ninjas. I An average game lasted any- I where from two to five whole I minutes, and yet it never seemed Ito get old When driving through I Northern California farm country ■and the radio stops working, die I only comfort was in that little I LCD screen and my eight-pack of IAA batteries... an eight-pack that Basted the entire week-long trip. I Now, I don’t know what hap- I pened to me in high school, but ■math class started to bore me to ■death. My teachers felt that rep etition was the only way to learn, I which means once I developed I the concept they were trying to [push on us that week, I still had to loll most of Tuesday and then the I rest of the week before we could I move on to something new. I If I’d ever owned a Game- I Boy, I might have been able to lose myself to Tetris in 1989, [when Nintendo released it to the «American masses. My mother, I unfortunately, felt video games I were detrimental to my health, I citing my addiction to my Sega I Genesis as an example (but I I could have stopped if I wanted). I So when I discovered my TI- 83 calculator could port an exact copy of Tetris firm die old Game Boy system, I was in heaven. [Sure, I got Bs and Cs on the tests, but I could get to level 12 in 20 minutes. That skill that has served | me better than high school geom- etiy ever has. Don’t get me wrong . . . math’s important too, tat so is my hand-eye coordination, right? I These days, with an iPod [and a cell phone in my pock- let, and my D S or PSP in my [hands, hours of gaming are at my disposal anywhere, at any pime. However, it clearly hasn’t always been this way, and I don’t think I’m the only one who had to fight for my gam ing fix. I So I’d like to know what our readers had to go through to scratch that familiar itch In their thumbs back in “the ¡day.” Shoot me your story at and let me know what you guys had to do 'to survive the early years. Arts Entertainment Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005 7 Café displays local artist’s work Kimberly Maier The Clackamas Print The Everhart House Internet Café is a place you can view expensive art, drink a decent cup of joe and check your e-mail all in one stop. Susan Reagel is the local art ist who is currently showcas ing at the Everhart. Her work can be viewed and purchased at the café, located on Molalla Avenue in Oregon City. Reagel’s art consists of small landscape paintings, with an emphasis on realism and mood. She majored in art at Reed College, and grad uated in 1997. “The style varies from painting to painting.” Reagel explained about her art. “Sometimes it’s more impressionistic, sometimes more expressionistic.” Most of the paintings on exhibit at Everhart are local Oregon landscapes; many of them are of the Deschutes River. “The Deschutes River is one of my favorite places [to paint.] It has a desert landscape but it also has rivers and rocks and trees.” Reagel says she’s been painting “as long as [she’s] been alive.” If you’re interested in other places to view Reagel’s work, the artist is also showcasing at Noah’s Bagels downtown. Bring lots of money if you’re looking to buy, - the price for a 5/7 painting can cost up to $800. Reagel is new to the business side of art. “I actu ally haven’t shown much until this year. I don’t have it all down yet,” she disclosed. “Whenever I walk past a café that I can see has art on the wall, I call them up.” There are about 20 of Reagel’s landscape.paint ings on show at the Everhart Café. It’s an actual house that has been transformed into a small coffee hangout thatalso provides its customers with internet access. The theme is very old fashioned. Big lumpy couches with Afghans - yes Afghans - draped over them. Feels just like Grandma’s house! All Photos By Kimberly Maier Clackamas Print Paintings by local artist Susan Reigel, who says one of her favorite places to paint is the Deschutes River. Comedy Sportz provides entertaining antics for entire family AndyZehrung The Clackamas Print Clad in blue and red, the players at the Comedy Sportz arena gave an entertaining performance that was well worth the ticket price. Games like “Blind Line” and “Five Objects,” which called on the audience’s participation, made the experience both interactive and fun. The improv-comedy theater is definitely a great place for repeated visits. The game started off by intro ducing the players, Red Team ver sus Blue Team, each with a nick name. This is also when the two types of fouls were explained. The “Groaner Foul” is when the Andy Zehrung Clackamas Print The “referee” gets involved in a Comedy Sportz scuffle. audience can’t help but groan at a bad joke. The “Brown Bag Foul” is directed at anyone who says something profane, as the shows are family-friendly. Wearing a bag over the offender’s head kept the show PG-rated. They began with games chosen by the teams, and influenced by the audience. A game of new choice had a team engaging in an activity picked by the audience, and the referee blew his whistle to give the team a new line. Each round ended with a vote. During the first few rounds you see red and blue flyswatters flying into the air, showing support for the team that made one bust one’s gut the most. If one doesn’t spend two dollars on flyswatters, there is always the audience applause vote. During the last three rounds, both teams played at the same time. It consisted of freeze-tag or a “Da-Do-Run-Run Round” with the audience playing along. In the “Last Chance” round, reactions really mattered, as points were awarded based on whether or not the joke got laughs or not. This round asked for the audience to do duck calls at particularly bad jokes. To see the performance, one can call ahead and get advanced tickets for shows on Friday and Saturday nights. Tickets are $10 reserved,, or $12 at the door. 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