Attention gamers: check out our Teen Gaming Zone!
Teens ages 12 to 17 can register for a Teen Gaming Zone card to use this fun gaming area at the library. All you need is a library card and a parent or guardian’s signature. This will give you free access to check out a controller and play from a selection of games on the library’s Nintendo Switch. New games are featured every month. All Gaming Zone users are required to follow our Gaming Zone Policies.
Get your Teen Gaming Zone card at the Youth Services desk today and let the gaming begin!
Current Featured Game
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Rated E10+)
Save Hyrule – this time with Princess Zelda! After Princess Zelda was captured by Ganon, the swordsman Link stormed in to rescue her. After a fierce battle, Link appeared to defeat the villain, but was suddenly dragged down into a mysterious rift in the ground and disappeared. These strange rifts began to appear all over Hyrule, swallowing up others, including the King and his advisors. Left alone, it’s now up to Princess Zelda to save her kingdom in a brand-new adventure in the Legend of Zelda series!
Installed Games
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Rated E10+)
Discover Hyrule as never before: by making your own path, choices, and consequences. Ingenuity is the key to survival: find multiple solutions to tons of dynamic puzzles. Surprises hide around every corner: scavenge weapons, armor, plants, animals, and more. Live off the land: find weapons and armor, cook food, and brew elixirs. Utilize special technology: the in-game Sheikah Slate controls, objects and enemies in fun ways.
Mario Kart 8 (Rated E)
Hit the road with the definitive version of Mario Kart 8 and play anytime, anywhere. Race your friends or battle them in a revised battle mode for new and returning battle courses. Play locally in up to 4-player multiplayer in 1080p while playing in TV Mode. Every track of the Wii U version, including DLC, makes a glorious return. Plus, the Inklings appear at all-new guest characters, along with returning favorites, such as King Boo, Dry Bones, and Bowser Jr. Players can choose a new Smart Steering feature which makes driving and staying on the track easy for novice players and kids even at 200cc.
Minecraft (Rated E10+)
Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles. Play in creative mode with unlimited resources or mine deep into the world in survival mode, crafting weapons and armor to fend off the dangerous mobs. Play on the go in handheld or tabletop modes. Includes Super Mario Mash-Up, Natural Texture Pack, Biome Settlers Skin Pack, Battle & Beasts Skin Pack, Campfire Tales Skin Pack; Compatible with Nintendo Switch only.
Portal Companion Collection (Rated T)
Break the laws of spatial physics in the hilariously mind-bending adventures of Portal and Portal 2! Including Portal and Portal 2, the Companion Collection comes to Nintendo Switch™ with all the groundbreaking gameplay, dark humor, and exploration that earned the series hundreds of awards. In Portal, you’ll use a highly experimental portal device to solve physical puzzles and challenges. Maneuver objects–and yourself–through space to puzzle your way through the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories. Return to Aperture Laboratories in Portal 2 where you’ll once again face off with the lethally inventive, power-mad A.I. named GLaDOS. Meet an expanded cast of characters as you think your way through dangerous, never-before-seen areas of the laboratories and a wider variety of portal puzzles. Plus Portal 2 also includes a co-operative game mode with local, split-screen and online multiplayer so you and a friend can think with portals.
Tetris Effect (Rated E)
Tetris Effect: Connected is Tetris like you’ve never seen it, or heard it, or felt it before—an incredibly addictive, unique, and breathtakingly gorgeous reinvention of one of the most popular puzzle games of all time, from the people who brought you the award-winning Rez Infinite and legendary puzzle game Lumines. Music, backgrounds, sounds, special effects—everything, down to the Tetris pieces themselves, pulse, dance, shimmer, and explode in perfect sync with how you’re playing, making any of the game’s 30+ stages and 10+ modes something you’ll want to experience over and over again.
Untitled Goose Game (Rated E)
Make your way around town, from peoples’ back gardens to the high street shops to the village green, setting up pranks, stealing hats, honking a lot, and generally ruining everyone’s day. A horrible goose (that’s you). A town full of people just trying to get on with their day (you hate them). A dedicated honk button!
Gaming Zone Policy
Teen Gaming Zone Policy
- Library programs and special events will take precedent over individual patron use of gaming spaces, gaming collections, and equipment.
- One controller per person may be borrowed at a time.
- Everyone gaming will need to sign in at the Youth Services desk.
- Library owned games and gaming equipment are not allowed to leave library premises.
- Any damage that occurs to library gaming equipment, gaming collections, or gaming space will be the responsibility of the patron(s) using the items or area at the time the damage occurs.
- Replacement Costs:
Controller (each) | $26 | Lock Box | $165 |
Nintendo Switch | $300 | Power Cords | $30 |
Television | $390 |
- Parent and teen must sign the Teen Game Zone Waiver. The waiver is good for 3 months, at which time it must be filled out again.
- The gaming area will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis, in-person only. If gaming area is currently in use, patron may reserve the next available time slot. Patrons will check in at the Youth Services desk, where staff will create a reservation for them for one hour and check the controller out to them. After an hour, if there is no one waiting to use the game area, patrons may renew their reservation and borrow for an additional hour.
- Reservations will be held for 5 minutes before given to the next patron waiting.
- Controller and use of the game space can be borrowed for 1 hour, with the possibility of one extension (for a total of 2 hours) if no one is else is waiting.
- Up to 2 patrons may borrow controllers at a time, for simultaneous game play.
- All games available for play will be rated E for Everyone to T for Teen. A list of available games and their descriptions will be made available upon request.
- Gaming area will be available for patrons age 12-17 years old.
- No outside games will be allowed.
- TV and gaming console will NOT be connected to the internet for online play.
- Gamers must abide by the Library Conduct Policy while using the library space.
- Failure to follow Teen Game Zone Policy and Library Conduct Code may result in loss of gaming privileges.