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kkingsto:

My daughters 4 now, but the for the last year or so, she's been heading down here to the basement and saying "I want to play your games!".   She's a real whiz at the bowling games for one!

We got her Feeding Frenzy after seeing it in the Arcade at Pop Century at Walt Disney World and she's been playing that game for a while.   She's even an expert at the games she's found on noggin.com.   I should build her a CP so she can use real arcade stuff with these games!



TOK:

I'd say things typically start to click right around 3. My daughter is 2 and just likes slapping the buttons in Track and Field and yelling at Frogger. She's also a regular coin slot checker. My niece who is a little over 3 was doing the same thing a few months ago, but now is capable of understanding the purpose and control of Frogger though doesn't quite have the coordination to play it well.

Its funny the reaction arcade cabinets have on kids. Any kid from a year and a half up to 10 pretty much flips out when they see them.

AlanS17:


--- Quote from: TOK on November 12, 2006, 12:37:39 pm ---Its funny the reaction arcade cabinets have on kids. Any kid from a year and a half up to 10 pretty much flips out when they see them.

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... a year and a half up to 100.

NightGod:


--- Quote from: TOK on November 12, 2006, 12:37:39 pm ---Its funny the reaction arcade cabinets have on kids. Any kid from a year and a half up to 10 pretty much flips out when they see them.
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My 12 yr old daughter's friends STILL bring other friend over to my house just so they can go "See, I TOLD you her dad has an arcade machine in his house."

Stobe:

I don't know why our first instinct is to let our young'ns try MsPacman.  I can't even survive very long in that game.

I'm now letting my daughter get used to the eye-hand coordination on the old Moppet games (Laprechan, Pirates Treasure, etc.)  Very simple gameplay,  but gets her used to the concept of "avoiding bad thing/finding good thing"

Another fun thing for her is the 2player co-op type games, where I can help clear the screen so she doesn't get whacked so much.  Our favorite is The COWboys of Moon Mesa (or something like that.)

-Stobe

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