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Stephen Brooker - 29 Sep 2003 06:41 GMT

Anybody have any good recommendations for kids games in the 4-5 year old age
group. Not worried if it's a little advanced as he's quite capable on the
computer already, so I doubt the GB will present much trouble. Looking for
things like Elmo etc with some educational value in them.

TIA

Steve.

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DeepThought - 29 Sep 2003 11:30 GMT

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> Anybody have any good recommendations for kids games in the 4-5 year
> old age group. Not worried if it's a little advanced as he's quite
> capable on the computer already, so I doubt the GB will present much
> trouble. Looking for things like Elmo etc with some educational value
> in them.

Since I don't play kiddie games, I don't have many "elmo-like" suggestions,
but one I always recommend to kids is Super Mario Advance. Unlike the other
games, it has no time limit, you can play as different characters, and you
throw veggies at enemies. No "edutainment" value, but if you want education
give them a book or send them to school, don't give them a video game
system...

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Stephen Brooker - 30 Sep 2003 03:07 GMT

> throw veggies at enemies. No "edutainment" value, but if you want education
> give them a book or send them to school, don't give them a video game
> system...

I agree totally, but then there is the "all things in moderation" train of
thought. I'm in IT and my wife also uses computers etc a lot in her field of
work, so it's only natural that my son is going to feel that all these
machines are just a natural part of life and want a turn. I can't exactly
say no, but I can at least try to get him learning his number/alphabet etc a
bit more on top of what he already does.

S.

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Ice Wipe Inc. - 29 Sep 2003 17:03 GMT

Donkey Kong Country would be a good investment. Though not a easy game, but
if the child is good at gaming he should get through it.

My little brother of 6 can mostly beat Zelda:OoT and other N64 games. Mario
Kart is another, or maybe even Pokemon Pinball.

> Anybody have any good recommendations for kids games in the 4-5 year old age
> group. Not worried if it's a little advanced as he's quite capable on the
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> Steve.

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Cool Hand - 29 Sep 2003 18:01 GMT

Pokemon Ruby or Pokemon Sapphire.

=>Anybody have any good recommendations for kids games in the 4-5 year old age
=>group. Not worried if it's a little advanced as he's quite capable on the
=>computer already, so I doubt the GB will present much trouble. Looking for
=>things like Elmo etc with some educational value in them.
=>
=>TIA
=>
=>Steve.
=>

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DeepThought - 29 Sep 2003 20:25 GMT

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> Pokemon Ruby or Pokemon Sapphire.

You're joking, right? There's no way a 4-year-old could *possibly* use
Pokemon for anything other than for the pictures. No possible way. The RP
elements, the items, the moves... it'd be a big letdown. It's hard, man.

I hate people assuming Pokemon is for kids because of the show. The games
are actually quite hard to beat.

If you want a game for younger kids with a Poke-theme, get the new Pokemon
Pinball game.

But don't even try to give kids Pokemon RPGs unless you want to be basically
playing it for them ("I can't beat him! WAHH!").

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Cool Hand - 30 Sep 2003 21:49 GMT

I wrote:
=>> Pokemon Ruby or Pokemon Sapphire.

=>You're joking, right? There's no way a 4-year-old could *possibly* use
=>Pokemon for anything other than for the pictures. No possible way. The RP
=>elements, the items, the moves... it'd be a big letdown. It's hard, man.
=>
=>I hate people assuming Pokemon is for kids because of the show. The games
=>are actually quite hard to beat.
=>
=>If you want a game for younger kids with a Poke-theme, get the new Pokemon
=>Pinball game.
=>
=>But don't even try to give kids Pokemon RPGs unless you want to be basically
=>playing it for them ("I can't beat him! WAHH!").

No it's not joking!
I have computers(10+) everywhere in my home. My kids watch me playing computer
since the day they born.
It is natural for them to assume computers are part of the house. Everything
in the house(has no danger to them) are their toys(including computers).
I don't remember when they exactly know what they were doing.
They are 6 and 8 now and they play Pokemon and YuGiOh. Now they play Pokemon
exclusively, because I join them and we can share our experience. They watch
Pokemon TV, but I don't. So they share what they saw on TV with me.

Whenever I saw or caught a new or rare Pokemon, I share it to them immediately
and they do the same(including TV Pokemon).

BTW, anyone has good ways to catch Regi-pokemons?
I am stuck with regi-ice. Don't remember how many times it got killed by me.
Attached is the save file.

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Wendy - 29 Sep 2003 21:06 GMT

> Anybody have any good recommendations for kids games in the 4-5 year old age
> group. Not worried if it's a little advanced as he's quite capable on the
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> Steve.

Gameboy Advance:
Dora the Explorer: Pirate Pig's Treasure
Sheep (European, hard to get in US)
Maya the Bee (also European)
Hamtaro - Ham-Ham Heartbreak (a lot of reading though)
I Spy Challenger (based on the I Spy books)
Piglet's Big Game

Gameboy Color: (you won't find these in the store, gamestop maybe, but most
likely online e.g. Ebay or Gamestop.com)
Elmo's 123
Elmo's ABC
Elmo in Grouchland
Blue's Clues - Alphabet Book
Winnie the Pooh - Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood
Winnie the Pooh - Tigger's Honey Safari
Arthur's Absolutely Fun Day
Catz
Dogz
Tonka Raceway
Bob the Builder - Fix It Fun
Hamtaro - Ham-Ham's Unite
Bear in the Big Blue House
Jumpstart Dino Adventure

There are many more titles appropriate for a 4 year old, but these have
educational value.

Wendy

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AndyP - 29 Sep 2003 21:48 GMT

> Anybody have any good recommendations for kids games in the 4-5 year old age
> group. Not worried if it's a little advanced as he's quite capable on the
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> Steve.

Speaking from the experience of my daughter (now aged 6 but playing games on
the GBA for well over a year), in general I'd avise you to steer clear of
the licensed games targetted to younger audiences - by this I mean stuff
such as the rugrats game, peter pan, barbie games etc, as they are usually
very poor and often quite difficult (in terms of quickly reaching a point
where it's difficult to progress).

Best games are the more open ended ones, and in my daughters case this has
included:

Pokemon games (recently completed Ruby but spent most of last Summer in
France playing Silver in the back of the car). Needs to be able to read
pretty good though.
Hamtaro.
Pinball games (Muppet pinball, pokemon pinball etc).
Mario Advance games
SSX Tricky / Aggressive Inline (or similar open ended sport games)
Kirby

And most recently Wario Ware which is the current fave!

Hope that helps.

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Ben - 22 Oct 2003 13:07 GMT

> Pokemon games (recently completed Ruby but spent most of last Summer in
> France playing Silver in the back of the car). Needs to be able to read
> pretty good though.

No, NO and NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH.

Pokemon is not a kids game, let alone one who is between 3 and 5.

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AndyP - 22 Oct 2003 18:46 GMT

> > Pokemon games (recently completed Ruby but spent most of last Summer in
> > France playing Silver in the back of the car). Needs to be able to read
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> Pokemon is not a kids game, let alone one who is between 3 and 5.

Calm down. I never said Pokemon was a kids game, I said it was a game that
my daughter of 5 enjoyed playing - there's a big difference!!!

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Stephen Brooker - 30 Sep 2003 03:07 GMT

> Anybody have any good recommendations for kids games in the 4-5 year old age
> group. Not worried if it's a little advanced as he's quite capable on the
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> Steve.

Thanks all.

S.

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