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Toddler/Pre-School Games
jerryjanis:
Leprechaun is an arcade game made specifically for little kids so that they can play for a while on a quarter. The machine itself was midget-sized. I remember playing it at the candy store and doing really really well at it. For years, I wondered why on earth I was able to play for so long on that game... That is, until I saw a picture of the cabinet and played it again in Mame:
"The game is exactly like Game Plan's Pot Of Gold except the machine is only about three and a half feet high and the difficulty factor is set for children ages three to five."
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=L&game_id=8415
Check out some of the other games by the same company. I know at least some of them are designed for little kids also:
http://www.klov.com/manuf_detail.php?manuf_id=1517&game_id=8415
REBIRTH:
--- Quote from: REBIRTH on May 12, 2004, 03:00:17 pm ---My youngest is a 3 year old girl who really likes, and is able to play for a while without dying, a game that I had never heard of until Mame. Now I hate to do this, but I can't remember the !@)*!@)#* name of the game. It is a horizontal game, and you play as a tucan bird or some type of bird. You can play as 2 players. If no one else can think of the name I'll find it tonight. It is also a very trippy game - whomever programmed it had to be on LSD or something. There are colors and shapes that make no sense to the game other than to make you lightheaded!!! :P
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I am quoting myself here... the name of the game is JJ Squawkers - my 3 year old can play pretty easily and go long enough to keep her interested, epsecially when I play 2P with her and take the brunt of the abuse.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=8211
NoBonus:
I found some sort of Penguin related game from 2000 that my daughter just loves. She especially likes the music. She also likes the Pang games quite a bit (mind you she is 1.5 years old and basically enjoys cartoon-ish games, games with techno music, and game where it makes a funny noise when she pushes the arcade control buttons or moves the joystick).
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rsoandrew:
Sure it's an old thread but I just finished the working prototype of my cab and the kids (2 and 4) want to play.
Add Ribbit to the list of potential toddler games. The 4 year old can play it pretty well. The 2 year old just jerks the hell out of the joystick.
They're playin JJ Squaker right now.
rsoandrew:
One other Ribbit feature. If you change the setup to 5 toads, it really changes it to 100 toads (00 displayed until you get killed). It does require 2 quarters though ;)
edit: must have been a mame bug. The next time we went into the game, it was 5 lives, one quarter. Oh well, 100 lives was good while it lasted.