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Any games a 4 year old could play with?
Xiaou2:
Leprechaun - Was designed for kids.
As for dying, you may wish to consider enabling cheats for certain games as
well.
Kids at the arcades always did love The Simpsons.
Beat-em-ups work good cause you can just change them to freeplay for
infinite lives.
Blanka:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 ---Beat-em-ups work good cause you can just change them to freeplay for
infinite lives.
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Arcade games are meant to make money, so on all games serious skills are needed to get any further. Continue options at least give the feeling that you progress, so for kids games with continues are good. When I go myself into Kid-mode, I prefer 1944, but I doubt if the bullet hell is compatible with a brain's child. Maybe there is a Parodius kind of 1944 (as a parody of course, not with boobs).
For simple control, I think Mappy is great too, only left/right for basic functionality, and a button to open doors. On the other hand. The gay-cop-mouse is even more disturbing to a child brain than Parodius or 1944 ;).
Themewise I think Pac Man, Tetris and Arkanoid are very safe.
HanoiBoi:
Definitely Trog & Frogger
Space Invaders, if it holds her attention
Maybe Popeye & Donkey Kong.
Bagman might be difficult to get far, but she might be able to avoid the bad guys long enough to feel successful ;)
And, on a bit of a side note....for the PC (and possibly other systems), try the Pajama Sam series of games. Their really fun to play, equally fun to watch and will get your kids thinking. ;D
HanoiBoi:
--- Quote from: SlayerAlex on January 03, 2010, 12:45:13 am ---i remember some games where you look at 2 pictures and spot the differences. Like in the funny papers. I'll see if i can remember those.
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I've played them on Mega Touches when they're called Photo Hunt. If they make it for Mame, please let me know. I am starting to put together a touchscreen jukebox. If you know of Photo Hunt or similar for that, please point me in the right direction!
javeryh:
My daughter didn't start to understand games until she was almost 5. This was not due to a lack of trying on my part - we play all the time. The first games she was able to fully grasp and succeed at were Dig Dug and Galaga 3. She can get to the 3rd or 4th level in each without continuing which really gives her a sense of accomplishment. She tried Ms. Pac-man but doesn't last long - she understands the concept but doesn't have the reflexes yet to avoid the ghosts. She likes Donkey Kong (a lot since it is my favorite and I play it all the time) but she cannot clear the first level (she makes it about 2/3 of the way up). She enjoys the beat-em-ups - The Simpsons specifically - but she is continuing all the time. Games that require timing and thinking ahead are the most problematic (which is 95% of them). Arcade games were designed to make money so they are tough - especially on kids.
P.S. anyone that claims to have beaten SMB or something when they were 2 or 3 is just lying.