PC Games for 6 y.o.

[Tini]

What games are your kids playing?

I have a few educational adventure type games (Freddi Fish & Spy Fox) that my sone loves.

He has also jusy finished Age of Empires 1 - a real time strategy game.

Any other sggestions that I should oook out for?

He loved these games. Is not big on the pure educational type games like "Spelling" etc.

Thnaks

 

[pgp_protector]

My 5 year old is playing the followings

On Her PC

Jumpstart Collection (Lost count, Preschool - K Level Games)
Barbie Dress up

PS1

Spyro,Wheni The Phoo, Army Men, Atari Collection, And a Few Racing Games.

 

[Entertaining_Angels]

My son is six and loves Reader Rabbit and JumpStart. He also has a Rescue Heroes game that he enjoys. I avoid the non-educational games. He has plenty of time to play them during life and right now since he enjoys educational games, that is what he gets.

 

[Tini]

My 5 year old is playing the followings

On Her PC

Jumpstart Collection (Lost count, Preschool - K Level Games)
Army Men, .

Army men - great idea!

Thanks

 

[Celticflower]

My kids like the Carmen Sandiego and the Amazon Trails games.

 

[selune]

What games are your kids playing?

I have a few educational adventure type games (Freddi Fish & Spy Fox) that my sone loves.

He has also jusy finished Age of Empires 1 - a real time strategy game.

Any other sggestions that I should oook out for?

He loved these games. Is not big on the pure educational type games like "Spelling" etc.

Thnaks

The Age of Empires has other titles in it if he likes those. There's Age of Empires 2 and Age of Mythology. I haven't played them, so I don't know the content. My kids like the older Heroes of Might and Magic series--turn based strategy. They like the Disney related Kingdom Hearts for the PS2 and the Pokemon and Zelda games for the gameboy.

 

[HeatherJay]

My kids love the JumpStart Collection for the PC. I have two girls so they also like the Barbie dress up games and those types of things.

We have a Nintendo GameCube and my 6 year old's favorites are Mario Sunshine, Mario Party 4, Mario Kartouble Dash, Animal Crossing, Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Mansion, Finding Nemo, and Pikmin. We have Harry Potter Quidditch, but that's more for me...it's a little complex for her, yet. We also have Kirby AirRide, but I can't ever play it with her because it makes me car sick, lol.

 

[Andry]

My 4 yo likes more mature games.... zoo tycoon, simcity, nascar, need 4 speed, train simulator, flight simulator, motorcross madness, and ahem.....several of my 'action' games that go bang bang (although I strictly limit his exposure to this!).

The games that we actually bought specifically for him - Tonka, Thomas, Lego series, and Blues Clues....he finds completely boring!

 

[Tini]

The tycoon games- good idea. What about the sim games - my guess is they may be a little difficult?

 

[selune]

some of the sims games are for more mature audiences. Make sure to check the ratings.

 

[Busybee]

My 4 year old daughter plays Jumpstart Kindergarten online and a few educational games on the sesame street site.

 

[Tini]

some of the sims games are for more mature audiences. Make sure to check the ratings.

I was thinking more of SimCity rather than "The Sims"?

 

[Andry]

I think SimCity is great.

My son's 4 1/2 and he just loves it. He's learnt all the things you can do to build a city, although he doesn't know how to manage it - but it's ok. He just loves the building and house and traffic moving about.

You don't have to buy the latest / newest version. The older ones, like I have - SimCity 3000, is probably around $10, which suits perfectly.

 

[selune]

Sounds good. I loved Sim City when I first played it 12 years ago. I just haven't kept up with the newer releases and knew that The Sims had some content issues.

 

[Ann M]

My kids, aged from 3 to 13 love to visit www.bigideafun.com to play games with Bob and Larry, Larryboy, and the 1-2-3 penguins. They even have a Cheeseburger game that is another version of Pacman. These are good old fashioned arcade type games that the kids love to play. The overall favourit has to be Larry's singalong, which is simply a memory game, but instead of remembering pictures, you hit the record and listen to the silly song playing.
The kids are also getting a Veggietales games cd for Christmas.