Author Topic: Best Mame Games for Young Kids (Read 39196 times)

fixumdude · « **on:** November 12, 2004, 12:49:15 pm »

I have a 3 year old and my wife isn't very fond of him playing all of the fighting and shooting games just yet. What are some of the good non-violent games available in Mame that fun for young children (and adults)? Any recomendations for a kid's playlist?

big daddy · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2004, 01:00:48 pm »

I know it isn't the question you asked, but I have the Nintendo64 emulator on my CAB and there are 2 ELMO games for letters/numbers that my 3 year old loves. You should consider using some of the other emulators (genesis, nintendo, etc.) as it seems they are more geared towards kids games then mame is (with games like scooby doo, toy story, etc.)

Jabba · « **Reply #2 on:** November 12, 2004, 01:06:48 pm »

Not really an answer to best games for kids, but you may want to remove all the "Adult" re: t*ttie type games. I remember reading somewhere here that there was a list of these games.

johnnysmitch · « **Reply #3 on:** November 12, 2004, 01:18:36 pm »

Quote from: jabba on November 12, 2004, 01:06:48 pm

Not really an answer to best games for kids, but you may want to remove all the "Adult" re: t*ttie type games. I remember reading somewhere here that there was a list of these games.

good way to do this is to use a program called 'MCM' - Mame Content Manager; google it and you'll find it easily. It allows you to delete or rename roms by category.

Jabba · « **Reply #4 on:** November 12, 2004, 01:49:33 pm »

Thanks for the followup on this jognysmitch. I downloaded MCM and worked very well.

Cheers!

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #5 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:17:57 pm »

i had atari games as a kid...anything like that would work. nice simple games that require little in teh way of serious reflexes.

pac man
space invaders
etc etc

Mr. Dude · « **Reply #6 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:25:31 pm »

Here's a few

Liquid Kids
any of the Bubble Bobble games
any of the Puzzle Bobble games

SirPeale · « **Reply #7 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:35:19 pm »

I swear this question comes up often...someone find a big thread regarding this subject, I'll add it to the n00bie FAQ. Then, when it gets asked again we can point to the thread in question.

wj2k3 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:40:30 pm »

I am not really familiar with the CHEAT portion of MAME, but maybe there is a cheat that can make, for example, your pole position car indestructible or something... Maybe someone who is familiar with the CHEAT system can help out.

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #9 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:53:09 pm »

or just make all the dip settings to infinite lives or whatnot

fixumdude · « **Reply #10 on:** November 12, 2004, 03:06:24 pm »

Thanks for the suggestions I've gotten so far. I did try to search for children & games, and kid's games, etc. but didn't get any meaningful results....sorry if this has been asked a million times before.

Gunstar Hero · « **Reply #11 on:** November 12, 2004, 03:30:28 pm »

These are the games that my 7 year old brother and 4 year old sister played on my cab.

Tugboat
Pac-Man series (on easy with 5 men standard)
Pole Position, Turbo (or car games in general)
Vs. Excitebike
Vs. Super Mario Bros.
Afterburner, Space Harrier, TMNT, TMNT2, Simpsons (cause you can just add many quarters and get hundreds of lives)

They also seemed to really really like to watch me play Dragon's Lair and Space Ace!

The way I'd set it up is use a FE that supports several lists, then just pick through a list of games that you'd want them playing, then when the kidlets want to play, set up that list
and lock out the menus until they're done! MAMEwah works super well for that.

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #12 on:** November 12, 2004, 03:50:34 pm »

Heroes in a Half shell

Turtle power

NoOne=NBA= · « **Reply #13 on:** November 12, 2004, 04:07:32 pm »

Tempest, although hard if you really PLAY it, is good for kids.
They love spinning the spinner and firing.
My nephew started at about 4, and is actually shooting AT stuff now that he's 7.

Matt Berry · « **Reply #14 on:** November 12, 2004, 04:24:58 pm »

I would think some of the older games like asteroids, crazy climber, pacman, donkey kong, ms pacman, frogger, bubbles, joust, circus charlie, burger time, anteater, timber, zoo keeper, rootbeer tapper, portman, mario bros
Race car games- Bump n jump, Drift out, great 1000 mile rally, rally x ect.
Some killing required centipede, Mr Do, galaga, dig dug, 1941, phoenix
There are a lot more (I could have kept going) and really too many to list. Some of the games may seem a little too hard for a 3 year old but once you get them started they usually catch on pretty fast, or have a lot of fun trying

Push them a little bit and you will be surprised how fast the learn, before you know it they'll turn 4 then 5. Just make sure to have fun and don't pigeon hole them too much

missioncontrol · « **Reply #15 on:** November 12, 2004, 04:26:08 pm »

Frogger
Pacman
Mr. Do
Dig Dug
Donkey Kong
Mappy

There's six of them for you

paigeoliver · « **Reply #16 on:** November 12, 2004, 05:05:12 pm »

Uo Poko, except the cat drowns when you lose.

GGKoul · « **Reply #17 on:** November 12, 2004, 05:44:34 pm »

Quote from: Peale on November 12, 2004, 02:35:19 pm

I swear this question comes up often...someone find a big thread regarding this subject, I'll add it to the n00bie FAQ. Then, when it gets asked again we can point to the thread in question.

Peale, I've never seen this question come up. But I added this thread the the Games Sticky we have in the Everything Else section.

deoblo85 · « **Reply #18 on:** November 12, 2004, 09:28:35 pm »

pacman. galaga .frogger, all racer car games ,tempest,you could go on for days just look in the x-arcade web sight and they sell games for like 29 buck for thousands of mame games and you can take out the one you want>Or most games you can't get off the web for free! But if you want them to for sure to work buy them.

Crazy Cooter · « **Reply #19 on:** November 12, 2004, 10:18:09 pm »

I've started a list just for this purpose. It's for a slower PC running MAME 0.33ish with a vertical screen for my nieces. Hasn't passed the "Parent Test" yet, but I think it's close. I tried to minimize the Blood/Gore/Violence stuff:

APB
Arkanoid
Bump 'n Jump
Burger Time
Centipede
Congo Bongo
Crazy Balloon
Dig Dug
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong 3
Donkey Kong Jr.
Frogger
Kangaroo
Kick
Lock'n'Chase
Mappy
Mat Mania
Millipede
MotoRace USA
Mr. Do!
Ms. Pac Man
Pac Man
Q*Bert
Qix
Sinistar
Space Invaders
Tempest
Toobin'
Tron
Turtles
Up 'n Down

I'll have to check them to make sure they all run fast enough and get a layout for controls. This is just a rough list.

ragnar · « **Reply #20 on:** September 10, 2011, 11:23:21 am »

Wow, this is an old thread.

Kids tend to like games they can play for atleast a few minutes. Mine anyways. So games where they die quickly due to skill and motor skill issues are not fun.

So far .... my sons (age 6.5) favorite games are:

The Simpsons
Joust

JohnEDollar · « **Reply #21 on:** September 10, 2011, 11:57:19 am »

Some good threads on this subject can be found here:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=110192.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=106313.0

- John

fixumdude · « **Reply #22 on:** September 10, 2011, 12:27:14 pm »

Wow, this is an old thread (but still relevant). That 3 year old in the original post is about the turn 10 and has been playing things like Star Wars Battle Front II, Command & Conquer, & Madden 2012. He did enjoy Captain America & The Avengers and the Ninja Turtle Games as well as Capcom vs. Marvel (not exactly non-violent

) . Any game you can keep feeding quarters into to keep going seems to keep the younger kids interested.

TPB · « **Reply #23 on:** September 10, 2011, 02:03:35 pm »

A few more suggestions (they already be mentioned in the linked threads) :

Pooyan
Jungle King
Bomb Jack

rackoon · « **Reply #24 on:** September 10, 2011, 03:17:47 pm »

TROG! TROG! TROG! give em 30 credits and thery are good


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