Games for introducing children to gaming?

[Hamish Durie]

little big planet, mario umm the new sesame game coming out or possibly the best game on this list pacman*angel chours in backround*

 

[BryceS62]

Go with Putt Putt saves the zoo its an older gam i thing it was mad back in 1999 but its good, simple fun and not a word of text every thing is spoken to the player

 

[blankedboy]

I'll jump on the Mario bandwagon, once she gets to grips with gaming you NEED to set her up with Crash Bandicoot. Preferably the third one for a newbie or the first two if she's getting good.

 

[SeaCalMaster]

In addition to seconding Mario and Kirby, I'll also drop a mention for Commander Keen. Goodbye Galaxy was always my favorite, but they're all great games. Zelda games require some amount of reading, so I would avoid those.

Question: how is her temperament in regard to violence?

 

[GrimHeaper]

Condemned 2 [im kidding do not pick this]
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I rekon Mario any really

Doubt she could do a mario rpg.

Go with Putt Putt saves the zoo its an older gam i thing it was mad back in 1999 but its good, simple fun and not a word of text every thing is spoken to the player

I played that was great fun.

 

[lemby117]

Well I got into gaming with "crash bandicoot and the wrath of cortex" which worked well for me at age three so I think it should work well.

 

[Snipers-edge]

It depends on which gaming platform you want to introduce your sister to. But in general, Pokemon or Mario would be alright.

 

[Zaeseled]

Spyro from the ye olde times of Playstation 1. Other than that, maybe go with the DS and/or Wii games, they have lots of games that are aimed at younger gamers.

 

[Trololo Punk]

Same games that i first played, Mario games.

 

[xcgillx2]

Do you have a sega genesis? the earlier sonic games would be good. Although they may be on Wii shopping channel, haven't checked though.

I agree any sonic game seems a good start or the Wii in general as they are both pretty easy to play

 

[AngryNerd]

Any Pokemon game. I know 6 year-olds who play it just fine. I would also recommend Kirby's epic yarn, because you can't die.

 

[Bajinga]

We must take into consideration that she is a girl, and the general society today. She would probably like Kirby games, as they are full of colour and are pretty intuitive. I think there was also a "Hello Kitty" game somewhere on a PS2.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Limbo.

Ok, yeah, she'll have nightmares. For teaching her how to game it would work well. It never tries to give instructions, written or otherwise, and works on very basic principles.

Or maybe the new Prince of Persia game (the cell shaded one). It's not a truly great game, but it would teach her how to control an avatar in 3D space quite well and you essentially can't die really.

I agree on limbo.

I started out with Majora's Mask and I came out fine...

Sure, i can't play MM's at night now, and I am scared to touch the damn thing every again, but fine.

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[Chibz]

Kirby SuperStar Ultra on DS. (Or Kirby Super Star on Wii Virtual Console).

Mario 1, 2 or 3. Or Doki Doki Panic.

 

[MikailCaboose]

I'll just say my first, and go with Yoshi's Island. Try to go for SNES version if you can, but if not GBA also works. NOT the DS version though.

 

[Vhite]

No child could say no to GTA.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

If you want to teach her how to control an avatar in a three dimensional environment, You can't go wrong with good old (or new, rather) Minecraft!