Old kid's console game recommendations, please!

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Happy new year you lot... ;)

Anyone got any recommendations for old (as old as you like) console games that would be suitable for young kids 3-5 years old? Games like Sonic and Mario are proving a bit too difficult for my kids who have never used a console before.

So I'm thinking something a bit simpler, along the lines of Pong or that other one where you slide from side-to-side to destroy blocks at the top of the screen. That sort of thing. Preferably no killing involved...

Console type is not important, nor are graphics. Just fun!

Cheers!
 
How about some paper and crayons and let their imagination run riot.
When the sun shines take them outside.

Don't give them console games. They will just grow up never leaving their room, staying up till the wee hours turning into a "pale kid" from Recess.

I know, I have one of these.
 
there was some dora (possibly diego and such too) games for the wii that my eldest daughter started on, you tilted the controller instead of using the d pad that she found easier to use.

my youngest loves her ipad games, anything touch related is second nature as you dont have to relate a controller to somthing else.
 
Is this mumsnet?

Thanks to those who've offered game suggestions :) Will check out some of the wii ones. That sort of thing sounds good.

And for the record, both my kids spend probably 95% of their waking lives running around like nutters, playing with Lego, drawing, making things, playing instruments, cooking, kicking a ball around and all that stuff. There's nothing wrong whatsoever with allowing them to play a few console-based games every now and again. Not to mention the benefits they get from hand-eye coordination, concentration, focus, educational games to help them with phonetics, maths etc... We are limiting their time with these things, as we are with telly time etc.

If your kid has grown up to be a pale telly addict recluse that perhaps says more about how you brought them up than anything else...

Thanks again to those with suggestions. Feel free to go REALLY old. As in Pong old. The simpler and easier the better :)
 
mothermachine said:
Is this mumsnet?

Thanks to those who've offered game suggestions :) Will check out some of the wii ones. That sort of thing sounds good.

And for the record, both my kids spend probably 95% of their waking lives running around like nutters, playing with Lego, drawing, making things, playing instruments, cooking, kicking a ball around and all that stuff. There's nothing wrong whatsoever with allowing them to play a few console-based games every now and again. Not to mention the benefits they get from hand-eye coordination, concentration, focus, educational games to help them with phonetics, maths etc... We are limiting their time with these things, as we are with telly time etc.

If your kid has grown up to be a pale telly addict recluse that perhaps says more about how you brought them up than anything else...

Thanks again to those with suggestions. Feel free to go REALLY old. As in Pong old. The simpler and easier the better :)
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Yes ya right.

Ohhhh I'm a bad dad.....
 
tnx said:
Yes ya right.

Ohhhh I'm a bad dad.....
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Tbh that's what I thought after reading your post. My daughter enjoys playing games but she's loves playing with other kids and going out to the park etc.... Maybe you just didn't show your kid enough love?
 
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