Are there any kids games out there

JudeC

JudeC

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My 8 year old daughter loves her PC games, but the selection is so limited. The last one I managed to get her was toy story, which she loved, but has now played to death.... Are there any games out there that are appropriate for young girls...

And I really don't mean like angry birds or such,

It seems all I see are really old Disney games, which are great cause they are cheap, but don't play we'll on anything newer than windows xp
 
Racing games are always good but stay away from MX games. Codemasters have a pretty cool looking F1 legends carting type game, big heads small cars and Vettels ugly face.
BT games also have plenty of mystery hidden object games that could also keep her busy I guess. They also have the sims which I played when is was young.
I also remember seeing Skylanders for PC somewhere but I'm not sure.

I can't think of much off hand without being instore to look through but IMO stick to racing, the sims, skylanders and ask a salesman to earn his bread for the day.

Nice seeing parents taking care to find games age appropriate for their kids.
Unless your like a mother I saw at BT games who said pokemon is not age appropriate for an 8 year old but CoD black ops is. In which case I totally recommend spec ops the line and dead space and hope she doesn't do target practice with her class mates.
 
She might be too young, but you simply have to get her the old classics: theme park, theme hospital, indiana jones, etc!
Zoo Tycoon.
SimTown.
Sims (until she asks you what it means to 'Woo')

The only game I ever played before AoE was Abe's Oddysee and that must've been in my pre-teen years.
(I received it as a present - a copied CD nogal!)

What about PopCapGames? Those are fun - not only for children!

Chess? To stimulate that grey matter!
 
JudeC said:
My 8 year old daughter loves her PC games, but the selection is so limited. The last one I managed to get her was toy story, which she loved, but has now played to death.... Are there any games out there that are appropriate for young girls...

And I really don't mean like angry birds or such,

It seems all I see are really old Disney games, which are great cause they are cheap, but don't play we'll on anything newer than windows xp
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For girls (I have 3) try www.girlgames.com

Should be good for her age
 
Lots of PopCap games would be very appropriate for children, I'm thinking Bejeweled, Zuma's Revenge, Bookworm, Chuzzle.

If I look at my own game library, I think the following would be appropriate for little kids:

The Maw
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Crayon Physics

That's all I can think of right now.
 
Get her a Wii or an iPad2 if you can afford it. I'm serious. Or emulate the Wii using Dolphin on the PC. All you'll technically need is the controller and the light bar. I set up a nice little Dolphin emu at one time on my PC just to play Zelda: Twilight Princess and Mario Galaxy1 and 2.

Otherwise, look, I don't want to stereotype her but there just aren't that many girls' games out there.
 
FriedPet said:
She might be too young, but you simply have to get her the old classics: theme park, theme hospital, indiana jones, etc!
Zoo Tycoon.
SimTown.
Sims (until she asks you what it means to 'Woo')

The only game I ever played before AoE was Abe's Oddysee and that must've been in my pre-teen years.
(I received it as a present - a copied CD nogal!)

What about PopCapGames? Those are fun - not only for children!

Chess? To stimulate that grey matter!
Click to expand...

My 10 yo loves Zoo Tycoon. She also enjoyed Monsters v Alien and Toy Story 3.
 
FriedPet said:
She might be too young, but you simply have to get her the old classics: theme park, theme hospital, indiana jones, etc!
Zoo Tycoon.
SimTown.
Sims (until she asks you what it means to 'Woo')

The only game I ever played before AoE was Abe's Oddysee and that must've been in my pre-teen years.
(I received it as a present - a copied CD nogal!)

What about PopCapGames? Those are fun - not only for children!

Chess? To stimulate that grey matter!
Click to expand...

Must be honest, won't let her play sims, I,m not ready to have the woohoo talk yet, toy story was good, and Kung fu panda, but they don't seem to make these games very often
 
jasong said:
Get her a Wii or an iPad2 if you can afford it. I'm serious. Or emulate the Wii using Dolphin on the PC. All you'll technically need is the controller and the light bar. I set up a nice little Dolphin emu at one time on my PC just to play Zelda: Twilight Princess and Mario Galaxy1 and 2.

Otherwise, look, I don't want to stereotype her but there just aren't that many girls' games out there.
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Thanks , have nt even heard of that, will look into it
 
What about the LeapPad console, similar to the PSP.
Also the Chinese stores are selling the old Nintendo game consoles, so the games we all grew up on are still available. The consoles usually cost like R100 - R150 with the cartridges costing about R15 each.
 
simon said:
What about the LeapPad console, similar to the PSP.
Also the Chinese stores are selling the old Nintendo game consoles, so the games we all grew up on are still available. The consoles usually cost like R100 - R150 with the cartridges costing about R15 each.
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Thanks, but trying to avoid more electronics, she has a my old laptop, and that has been fine they just don't seem to make big budget kids games, weird, I know... But the trend definitely seems to aim at the more mature markets
 
Something a little bit more mature but could still be fun for kids: Rayman Origins, Theme Hospital, Osmos, Peggle, Puzzle Quest and Bejewled.
 
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