This game takes you straight into the movie. The adventure begins when the kids are “eaten” by the house. They all get separated throughout the house. You start off as the main character, DJ and go through a tutorial on how to aim at things and use your weapons (which range from water guns, water balloons, sling shots, cameras, super soakers and your usual kicking and smashing).  As you complete levels, you alternate between being DJ, Jenny, and Chowder. Your enemies? Haunted chairs, flying vases, toy air planes, steam emitting machines and my personal favorite the haunted tree branches that come out and snatch you when you’re least expecting it.  The sound effects are pretty much on.  Steam, creaking floors, rusty pipes.  Makes you feel like you’re in an old haunted house.

The Game play is average, somewhat like the Harry Potter series. One of the first things I have to say I dislike is the point of view is fish eyed. It’s a little nauseating.  The direction you’re facing is basically your aim.  When you come to a point in the game when you have to fight off a lot of enemies, sometimes you get locked onto one specific enemy and it’s hard to unlock yourself.  The level bosses are decent, nothing to hard.  One of the parts that bothered me a lot is when you are walking down a hall or trail of some sort a haunted tree bursts out of the blue through a window or wall and your instructed to rapidly hit a button, which is never the same.  Sometimes you get lucky enough to start hitting the correct button and get away and sometimes you don’t, which leads me to the “saving” areas.  Definitely not enough saving areas! You automatically save when you come to a rest room or beat a boss.  Well there are entirely too few rest rooms.

This game is definitely not for a seasoned gamer.  It is a fairly easy game but definitely not boring. You always want to see what’s coming next. One of the coolest things of the game is a secret you unlock. You get to play “Thou Art Dead”, which is a video game that one of the other characters in the movie plays.  It’s old school, very basic, a mixture of “Golden Axe” and “Ghosts and Goblins”. Very cool if you want to take a break from being snatched by a haunted tree and its branches. Highly recommended for fans of the movie and anyone not scared too easily.

Coffee varies in caffeine content drastically, even in the same coffeehouse, on the same day. Everything from roast styles to brewing methods affect the amount of caffeine you get. The lighter the roast, the more caffeine it has.
Starbucks (Grande) iced coffee, 16 oz: 190 mg. This is double-brewed. Without the ice it contains 380mg.
Starbucks brewed coffee, 16 oz: 330 mg. Brewed coffee has 50% more caffeine on average than instant coffee.
Instant coffee, 16 oz: 60-345mg
Starbucks latte, 16 oz: 150mg
Starbucks espresso, 1 oz (1 shot): 58-75mg

Tea

The longer a tea is steeped, the higher the caffeine content. If after the first steep, you add more hot water to the tea or tea bag, the tea becomes almost

entirely decaffeinated.

Starbucks Tazo chai tea latte, 16 oz: 100 mg
Regular black tea, 8 oz: 40-120 mg
Stash green tea, 18 oz: 78 mg
Snapple iced tea, 16 oz: 18 mg
12 oz Nestea: 17 mg
Decaffeinated black tea, 8 oz: 2 mg
Soft Drinks

All drinks are 12 oz servings
Mountain Dew: 54 mg
Mello Yello: 53 mg
Diet Coke: 47 mg
Tab: 47 mg
Dr Pepper: 42-44 mg
Sunkist Orange: 42 mg
Pepsi: 36-38 mg
Coke: 35 mg
A&W Cream Soda: 29 mg
Barq’s Root Beer: 23 mg
A&W Root Beer: 0 mg
7-Up: 0 mg
Sprite: 0 mg
Mug Root Beer: 0 mg
Fanta: 0 mg
Energy Drinks
No Name (formerly known as Cocaine), 8.4 oz: 280 mg
Monster Energy, 16 oz: 160 mg
Full Throttle, 16 oz: 144 mg
Enviga, 12 oz: 100 mg
No Fear, 8 oz: 83 mg
Rockstar, 8 oz: 80 mg
Red Bull, 8.3 oz: 76 mg
AMP, 8.4 oz: 74 mg
Food
Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate, 1.45 oz: 31 mg
Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar, 1.55 oz: 9mg
Ben and Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch, 8 oz: 84 mg
Haagen-Daz Coffee Ice Cream, 8 oz: 58 mg
Starbucks Coffee Ice Cream, 8 oz: 50-60 mg
Medications
No Doz, 1 Tablet: 200 mg
Excedrin Extra Strength, 2 tablets: 130 mg
Anacin Maximum Strength, 2 tablets: 64 mg
Midol Maximum Strength: 60 mg

Things get a little tricky when it comes to what has caffeine and what doesn’t. I knew Barq’s Root Beer had caffeine, but didn’t know that A&W Cream Soda has it as well. And just to confuse matters more, A&W Regular Root Beer is caffeine free. Also surprising was the caffeine content in Sunkist Orange. This list will help you keep the caffeine out of little hands (because they absolutely do not need it), and keep the buzz where it belongs — in your hectic, parental world.

This list was compiled with help from the Mayo Clinic article on caffeine content.