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Frogger was the first game I ever played. Great reflex training!
Important NES games: Ghostbusters, Total Recall, X-Men. Get her used to disappointment early, there's a lot of it in this hobby.
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Agreed, but kids love Viva Pinata ! My daughter freaks when I play TF2 with her too! She sits in my lap and goes crazy and yells "Team Fortress" over and over !Originally Posted by gamevet
Frogger was the first game I ever played. Great reflex training!
Important NES games: Ghostbusters, Total Recall, X-Men. Get her used to disappointment early, there's a lot of it in this hobby.
Darksider
When she's old enough to handle side-scrollers, DuckTales for the NES.
the original and best
When she's in second grade, and she realizes her dad is making her play Vectrex when her friends are rocking PS4, she's gonna hate you a good 7-8 years before she's supposed to.
Let her play whatever her friends are playing...for kids I think the social aspect of gaming is as important as the personal experience. As she grows she will come to love gaming on her own and then she will see at as a bond to her parents.
I think this goes for everything parents are passionate about...be it games, religion, even the Mets. You can't force it on them...you just have to make it available.
level six laser lotus
Oh yeah, definitely... when she starts hanging out with other kids with modern systems, the 'program' is over, let her play what her friends are playing.
neurobashing
Friend of mine introduced his son to racing games early on. He even bought him a wheel, handling the transmission while his son steers. The kid loves it, and apparently is pretty good for his age.
Satoshi Kon: 1963-2010
robot boy
well, when i was young, i remember playing games like space invaders and pac-man. they were easy enough to kinda get the concept of moving left and right and trying to avoid things. donkey kong frustrated me, though. OH! i remember playing a lot of burger time at my cousins house...never got very far, though.
No handle, no identity.
remember left and right. Mario ALWAYS goes right.
/just wanted to add that.
Get the Sesame Street NES games.
Half the reason I keep all my old shit is so I can do this to my future child.
EASY: RAMPAGE Nes. You can just bust stuff up all day long and even if you die, teach her to press the button to make you grow again. Hours of smashy fun, and the monsters make fun faces. You don't have to be quick on the buttons or press anything rapidly, or react quickly, so it's a great starter game.
Also: Ice Hockey. No Brainer.
Excitebike. Kung Fu might be way too hard...but Jackal is fun even with one button.
Tetris as soon as she can understand. Pac-Man also, get one of the easier versions, there's a ton floating around.
Donkey Kong Country would appeal to kids really well, I think, and even a beginner could pass the first few stages eventually, after they learn the "jump on head" mechanic.
Last edited by Cowutopia; 08 Jan 2008 at 02:17 PM.
I knew Yoshi was going to make a thread like this some time.
I think 2-3 might be too young to properly play games although it can't hurt to try. I put Sonic on my 4-5 year old niece's PC to play. She loved it but even after a while she didn't really comprehend how to play. Often she thought she was controlling it even when it was just the demo running. Then again, thinking back to when I was that age, I grasped how to play arcade games.
The first I thought when seeing this thread is make sure it isn't all NES games. We don't need another generation thinking that's all that mattered in '80s gaming or having nostalgia dominated by it.
For simple, "one button" 8-bit games that haven't been mentioned yet: Pitfall!, Mario Bros.(original), Safari Hunt, Combat, KC's Krazy Chase, Gangster Town, Frogger, Turtles, Berzerk, Frostbite, Serpentine, Oils Well, Space Harrier, Bug Hunt, Super Pipeline, Demon Attack, Astrosmash, Girl's Garden, Mr. Do!, Rescue Mission, Dig Dug, Wild Gunman, and Jumpman Jr. came to mind.
Once she can comprehend games beyond that with multiple buttons, speed variations and such, it will open up nearly every classic action game.
True, but if the kid is showing interest in a parent's activities at a young age and isn't resisting, it doesn't hurt. My dad, being a real nature hippie, spent a lot of time with me outside teaching me the names of plants and animals. Over time I spent much more time playing video games but I still have really fond memories of the nature walks, and it still shaped me in some way.
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