Archive for the ‘Games for Kids’ Category

Cooking Mama for Wii

For those of you who follow my gaming recommendations, you’ve heard lots about my two sons, ages 7 and 9 — and the games that we play together.  But there are two other gamers in my family, whose ages are 3 and 29-and-holding — and their favorite pastime right now is Cooking Mama — for [...]

March 25, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids  No Comments

LEGO Star Wars – the best kids’ game that I know of

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These have been out for a while, so this recommendation is a little late — but as I have been telling folks about it for a while, I wanted to get this in print.
The first release, LEGO Star Wars, was actually for the last generation of gaming consoles — and covered the first three movies [...]

March 24, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids  One Comment

Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer

A version of this review appeared on XBOX.COM under Xbox Dad colum “Fantatic Four – Fantastic Game”
My sons are 7 and 9 — and we are routinely looking for 3-player games. 

We’ve done party games like Viva Pinata : Party Animals, as well as Fuzion Frenzy2.
We have games on our Nintendo GameCube and Wii.
And we currently [...]

March 4, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids, Xbox Dad archive from Xbox.com  No Comments

Viva Pinata : Party Animals

My sons are 9 & 7, and my daughter is 3.  And between the five of us (including my wife), we have 2 Xbox360’s, an Xbox, a Wii, a GameCube, 3 Nintendo DS’s, and 2 Gameboy’s – basically everything except Sony.  And we play together — a lot.
The original Viva Piñata (VP) is a great [...]

January 8, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids  No Comments