Childhood Games Becoming Entertainment for Adults
“B-I-N-G-O, and BINGO was his name-o!” It’s a childhood tune to be sure, but the popularity of Bingo has grown massively in the last few decades. From the friendly game you played as a child, to the gambling halls across the Western World, and even into the online universe, Bingo has become a phenomenan for both casual and the hardcore. Locally, Bingo Halls are filled to capacity every day, and people get so tied up into the experience, they bring their own dapper holders, and more. Shoot, these places are even using electronic Bingo boards!
Fun games you played as children have slowly but surely been hitting the mainstream, and everyone is trying to get in on the action. Online Bingo – such as the kind you can play at Tombola Bingo – is also growing in popularity, and Tombola is at the top of the pile. With over 50 years of experience, Tombola is providing different kinds of Bingo games for the gambling crowd, and by all accounts, people are diving in left right and center. It could be the £75 you get when depositing £25, or the fact that the company has both online and application based software. Either way, they are making major inroads into the Bingo world!
But it’s not just gambling that is taking over Bingo. The game is being used in a variety of ways; on a recent family trip, for example, the kids I was travelling with spent hours upon hours playing Road Trip Bingo. How does it work? It’s fairly simple actually. The kids are each given a bingo board with specific icons on them, such as a gas station, a specific road sign, or even sometimes a type of animal. When the kids see that specific item, they close the plastic plate over the space which shows they have found that item. The first to finish a full card is deemed the winner!
What’s been interesting over the past number of years is how other children’s games have been turning into entertainment for adults, but within the gambling world and even just for fun. For example, the game of Connect-4 was recently turned into a fun basketball game for kids and adults alike.
As you can see in the video above, people have created basketball connect 4 games which allows 2 players the opportunity to shoot baskets and attempt to line-up 4 of their coloured balls in a row. With this kind of innovative thinking, there is no limit to what seemingly uninteresting games can become great fun for adults.
It’s funny how we can use our imaginations to take a mundane children’s game and turn it into something incredibly fun for adults. Whether it Tombola Bingo turning a beloved kids game decades old and turning into a fun gambling phenomenon, or the people above who made Connect-4 a fun basketball game for all ages. There seems to be no limit to the things we can accomplish when we set our minds to it, and I’m interested to see how the internet changes up other great children’s games to make them appeal to a wider audience.
Are you intrigued? What game would you alter?