We’ve all got at least one video game entertainment system at home don’t we? From the oldest to the youngest we all have them and we’re all addicted to the newest, fastest, best, most awesome graphics… well you get the idea.

A new video game every couple of weeks or once a month may not sound like a lot, but the fact is that it adds up. Forty or fifty dollars per game saw us spending more on the games than we could actually afford, or justify spending and it was time to develop a new strategy for spending on the video games and choose a wiser way to decide what we did buy for the family and ourselves.

We found ourselves spending more than we cared to on our Wii games so we concentrated first on choosing the games we liked best for the Wii and what we played repeatedly over and over again. Those were the kinds of games we’d buy more of so that we’d play them longer. Oddly enough we found that some of the best games running were the Wii games that you could download and we found they were also favorites of our children too.

You can save quite a few dollars if you download games like Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2 and Super Mario World from the Wii and they will not only save you money but you’re going to spend countless hours enjoying them as much now as you did back then.

In addition to saving money downloading older games, you can try a few other things that worked for us as well. Buy your video games from among those that have the most value in the playing field. If you rent a game and find that you just can’t seem to get enough of it (ours was the new Mario World that lets you use four players at one time) then buy it.

The trick is to buy games that the entire family loves and to not buy another one until you’ve actually beaten this one. We found ourselves spending money buying games and before we’d mastered the first one, something new came out and we’d moved on.

Now we spend our time and money buying games that we can play repeatedly, that the whole family likes and that we will play until we actually beat the game. It’s cut out spending so much on the new games and has changed our habits a bit as well. We all tend to focus and work together on any particularly hard part of the game so it encourages laughter and fun at the same time it saves us a few dollars.

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