What games are your kids playing?

LastWhiteSoxFanStanding · 05-31-2013, 01:04 PM

I don't have kids, but I teach and I see my students playing web games and talking about other games I have never even heard of! Use this thread to stay hip and with it or use it to share with other parents to help them get their kid that next great gift.

RomaGoth · 05-31-2013, 01:05 PM

My son will play Minecraft all day, every day if we let him. Other than that, he will sometimes play Skylanders on the Wii.

Fidatelo · 05-31-2013, 01:15 PM

My 4 year old won't put the iPad down over the last few weeks because he is addicted to Lego Batman 2.

He also has a huge fascination with Skylanders but we don't let him (or his little brother) play the game (though they have managed to amass a large collection of the figures).

Finally, on weekends they are allowed to play on the GameCube and the 4 year old loves Mario Sunshine. His little brother likes to watch, or sometimes will request to play Diddy Kong Racing on the N64 but mostly just to dance to the intro song.

QuikSand · 05-31-2013, 02:20 PM

We try to limit "screen time" pretty aggressively, but it does have its uses.

My 7y/o Elisa likes a ton of games on the iPad, including:

Ticket to Ride (adult game, but she's pretty good)
Stack the States (geography core, but with game elements)
Monster Life
Lego 4+
Toca Band
Bobo Explores light
Spider
Where's My Perry?
Lorax
Angry Birds - several varieties
Mouse Maze
Take It Easy (another adult game)

My 4 y/o Mariella plays some of the same - really loves Bobo and Lego

Both like the online games at pbskids.org

Son Ivan (4 months) is still pending, but based on current trends, we may need to get a drool cover for the iPad.

Kodos · 05-31-2013, 03:32 PM

My eight year old loves Roblox.

PadresFan104 · 05-31-2013, 03:34 PM

20 year old plays Starcraft II - Master League

16 year old plays League of Legends

Watching them play sent me back to paper and dice games... I can't keep up...

RomaGoth · 05-31-2013, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by PadresFan104

Watching them play sent me back to paper and dice games... I can't keep up...

lol

johnnyshaka · 05-31-2013, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand

We try to limit "screen time" pretty aggressively, but it does have its uses.

My 7y/o Elisa likes a ton of games on the iPad, including:

Ticket to Ride (adult game, but she's pretty good)
Stack the States (geography core, but with game elements)
Monster Life
Lego 4+
Toca Band
Bobo Explores light
Spider
Where's My Perry?
Lorax
Angry Birds - several varieties
Mouse Maze
Take It Easy (another adult game)

My 4 y/o Mariella plays some of the same - really loves Bobo and Lego

Both like the online games at pbskids.org

Son Ivan (4 months) is still pending, but based on current trends, we may need to get a drool cover for the iPad.

QS, my girls are the same age as your kids...Toca Band is fanstastic!

Swaggs · 05-31-2013, 05:08 PM

Toca Kitchen is another good one for 3-4 year olds...

finketr · 05-31-2013, 05:23 PM

my almost two year old likes "Stamp the covers ot the irrigation valves" and "daddy, take me for a walk outside, turn three steps in with 'Pick me up and carry me for a walk'".

My 3 year old nephew loves angry birds in all its variety on my brother's ipad and PS3.

Lathum · 05-31-2013, 05:35 PM

My 3 year old also loves the Ipad. HE has some game where you make cookies that he loves. He is also really into puzzles, real or on the Ipad, he is obsessed with them.

He also enjoys playing the games " lets not listen to a word Daddy says," "lets make dinner time as horrible an experience as possible for all involved" and the sequal to that " lets make bedtime as horribe an experience as possible for all involved."

and Memory, he loves that. He has a Cars version of it.

RomaGoth · 05-31-2013, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

He also enjoys playing the games " lets not listen to a word Daddy says," "lets make dinner time as horrible an experience as possible for all involved" and the sequal to that " lets make bedtime as horribe an experience as possible for all involved."

awesome

Desnudo · 05-31-2013, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

My 3 year old also loves the Ipad. HE has some game where you make cookies that he loves. He is also really into puzzles, real or on the Ipad, he is obsessed with them.

He also enjoys playing the games " lets not listen to a word Daddy says," "lets make dinner time as horrible an experience as possible for all involved" and the sequal to that " lets make bedtime as horribe an experience as possible for all involved."

and Memory, he loves that. He has a Cars version of it.

Your kid and my 2 year old like the same games. He also enjoys "jiu jitsu diaper changing"

Balldog · 05-31-2013, 08:16 PM

6 yr old is a Minecraft and Castle Crashers. 3.5 yr old likes to play both with him too

johnnyshaka · 05-31-2013, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Swaggs

Toca Kitchen is another good one for 3-4 year olds...

Yup!

Solecismic · 06-01-2013, 10:23 AM

My 10-year-old plays Minecraft non-stop. He has access to YouTube solely to watch videos of other people playing Minecraft. He has Minecraft-themed tee-shirts.

He does enjoy board games. We play a lot of Ticket to Ride, Citadels, Wyatt Earp and Scotland Yard lately.

TLK · 06-01-2013, 11:54 AM

For my 6 year old, it was Skylanders until he beat the game. After all the money we put in that game, he hasn't touched it since he beat it. Now he's playing Thrillville on the 360 and the original Roller Coaster Tycoon on the PC. He also likes the Indie Arcadecraft game from XBox live. No hope for him. Doomed to be a nerd.

JonInMiddleGA · 06-01-2013, 05:19 PM

My 15 finally got the new Sim City last night. (I tried to warn him about the less than enthusiastic response it seems to have gotten here but ... no dissuading him).

He also mentioned -- as we head into summer -- that he'd really like to get back into the tabletop stuff at some point. I've got various & sundry sports games on the 'top that he's dabbled with, problem seems to be mostly time & space these days.

PurdueBrad · 06-01-2013, 05:32 PM

My high school students talk a lot about Cards Against Humanity and enjoy playing Apples to Apples as well.

My four year old is really into Trouble (both the game and getting into it), Cars Monopoly (which is fairly inspired) and a niche game called French Toast by an educational company and, I have to admit, it's pretty cool.

tarcone · 06-02-2013, 12:52 AM

Ninja Slap. I love playing with them. Good stuff.

Tasan · 06-02-2013, 01:47 AM

My boys love Minecraft and would play it all day if I let them. The various Lego Wii games also get a lot of their limited screen time. The boys are 11 and 8. My one year old daughter likes getting toys of similar sizes to the Wii controllers and waving them around while standing in front of her brothers as they attempt to play. Fun times.

Peregrine · 06-02-2013, 02:14 AM

No kids, but my nephew seems to play Minecraft constantly.

judicial clerk · 06-02-2013, 10:05 PM

Bop it

Butter · 06-03-2013, 06:42 AM

Another vote for Minecraft.

Warhammer · 06-03-2013, 07:24 AM

11 year old computer games - Minecraft, Mount & Blade, Magicka, and NetHack
Board games - Formula De, Memoir 44, Merchant of Venus

8 year old - Magicka, Battle for Wesnoth, Fallen Enchantress, UrQuan Masters
Board Games - Summoner Wars, Formula De, Cosmic Encounter, and others,
just don't know the order of preference.

My 8 year old is much more after my own heart and prefers board games to computer games. My oldest son prefers computer games as there is more flash and less planning in the ones he likes (for Minecraft he prefers the MP servers which I don't under stand).

M GO BLUE!!! · 06-03-2013, 11:28 AM

Mine is grown, but I assume the kids are playing games like "Kick the Can" & such.

heybrad · 06-03-2013, 11:48 AM

My 14 year old son alternates between Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program.

Hoya1 · 06-03-2013, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Solecismic

My 10-year-old plays Minecraft non-stop. He has access to YouTube solely to watch videos of other people playing Minecraft.

this!!!!
my son is 8. when he's not watching youtube videos of minecraft he actually sometimes plays the game.

he does play roblox sometimes also.

on a rare occastion he'll fire up skylanders on the ps3.

Easy Mac · 06-03-2013, 12:10 PM

3.5 year old daughter loves playing the monkey pre-school games, endless alphabet, the spelling game with the rat, and the montesori games. We generally don't let her play "games" on the tablets (android) or phones (iphones). I'm sure we're horrible parents, but she gets tons of enjoyment out of the "learning" games. I know she plays games on her grandmother's phone, but once a week won't kill her.

She does love playing with legos, doing puzzles and writing, but she is an extreme perfectionist and gets insane when one of her letters/numbers is slightly off. We try to tell her they look good (which they do), but she just freaks out.

She also likes anything with swimming, bubbles, or chalk... or just running endlessly for hours at a time.

Thankfully she hasn't learned the "make daddy's life miserable at dinner, bath or bed" game yet.

Wolfpack · 06-03-2013, 09:41 PM

Both girls are into Minecraft, the younger one loves watching the videos of someone called CupQuake, which I'm not terribly crazy about. However, they're also into several light MMORPG games such as Wizard 101, Pirate 101, and Pixie Hollow. They'll also play some boardgames like Monopoly from time to time. Interestingly, though my seven-year-old has little ability to read or understand tactics, she rather likes playing Ticket to Ride on Steam, enough so that I actually bought the regular board game in the eventual hope that she'll figure out how to play the game as intended sometime soon.

05-31-2013, 01:15 PM	#3
Fidatelo Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Winnipeg, MB	My 4 year old won't put the iPad down over the last few weeks because he is addicted to Lego Batman 2. He also has a huge fascination with Skylanders but we don't let him (or his little brother) play the game (though they have managed to amass a large collection of the figures). Finally, on weekends they are allowed to play on the GameCube and the 4 year old loves Mario Sunshine. His little brother likes to watch, or sometimes will request to play Diddy Kong Racing on the N64 but mostly just to dance to the intro song. __________________ "Breakfast? Breakfast schmekfast, look at the score for God's sake. It's only the second period and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver maybe once or twice in a lifetime."

05-31-2013, 03:32 PM	#5
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	My eight year old loves Roblox. __________________ Author of The Bill Gates Challenge, as well as other groundbreaking dynasties.

05-31-2013, 03:34 PM	#6
PadresFan104 High School Varsity Join Date: May 2006	20 year old plays Starcraft II - Master League 16 year old plays League of Legends Watching them play sent me back to paper and dice games... I can't keep up... __________________ Hands-On Games YouTube Channel Hands-On Games Facebook Page Last edited by PadresFan104 : 05-31-2013 at 03:35 PM.

05-31-2013, 05:08 PM	#9
Swaggs Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000	Toca Kitchen is another good one for 3-4 year olds... __________________ DOWN WITH HATTRICK!!! The RWBL Are you reading In The Bleachers?

06-01-2013, 05:19 PM	#18
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	My 15 finally got the new Sim City last night. (I tried to warn him about the less than enthusiastic response it seems to have gotten here but ... no dissuading him). He also mentioned -- as we head into summer -- that he'd really like to get back into the tabletop stuff at some point. I've got various & sundry sports games on the 'top that he's dabbled with, problem seems to be mostly time & space these days. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

05-31-2013, 02:20 PM	#4
QuikSand lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Annapolis, Md	We try to limit "screen time" pretty aggressively, but it does have its uses. My 7y/o Elisa likes a ton of games on the iPad, including: Ticket to Ride (adult game, but she's pretty good) Stack the States (geography core, but with game elements) Monster Life Lego 4+ Toca Band Bobo Explores light Spider Where's My Perry? Lorax Angry Birds - several varieties Mouse Maze Take It Easy (another adult game) My 4 y/o Mariella plays some of the same - really loves Bobo and Lego Both like the online games at pbskids.org Son Ivan (4 months) is still pending, but based on current trends, we may need to get a drool cover for the iPad.

05-31-2013, 05:23 PM	#10
finketr College Prospect Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inland Empire, PRC	my almost two year old likes "Stamp the covers ot the irrigation valves" and "daddy, take me for a walk outside, turn three steps in with 'Pick me up and carry me for a walk'". My 3 year old nephew loves angry birds in all its variety on my brother's ipad and PS3.

05-31-2013, 05:35 PM	#11
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	My 3 year old also loves the Ipad. HE has some game where you make cookies that he loves. He is also really into puzzles, real or on the Ipad, he is obsessed with them. He also enjoys playing the games " lets not listen to a word Daddy says," "lets make dinner time as horrible an experience as possible for all involved" and the sequal to that " lets make bedtime as horribe an experience as possible for all involved." and Memory, he loves that. He has a Cars version of it.

05-31-2013, 08:16 PM	#14
Balldog Pro Rookie Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Macomb, MI	6 yr old is a Minecraft and Castle Crashers. 3.5 yr old likes to play both with him too

06-01-2013, 10:23 AM	#16
Solecismic Solecismic Software Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Canton, OH	My 10-year-old plays Minecraft non-stop. He has access to YouTube solely to watch videos of other people playing Minecraft. He has Minecraft-themed tee-shirts. He does enjoy board games. We play a lot of Ticket to Ride, Citadels, Wyatt Earp and Scotland Yard lately.

06-01-2013, 11:54 AM	#17
TLK Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Allen Park, MI	For my 6 year old, it was Skylanders until he beat the game. After all the money we put in that game, he hasn't touched it since he beat it. Now he's playing Thrillville on the 360 and the original Roller Coaster Tycoon on the PC. He also likes the Indie Arcadecraft game from XBox live. No hope for him. Doomed to be a nerd.

06-02-2013, 12:52 AM	#20
tarcone Coordinator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Pacific	Ninja Slap. I love playing with them. Good stuff. __________________ Excuses are for wusses- Spencer Lee Punting is Winning- Tory Taylor The word is Fight! Fight! Fight! For Iowa FOFC 30 Dollar Challenge Champion-OOTP '15

06-02-2013, 01:47 AM	#21
Tasan College Starter Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Houston, or there about	My boys love Minecraft and would play it all day if I let them. The various Lego Wii games also get a lot of their limited screen time. The boys are 11 and 8. My one year old daughter likes getting toys of similar sizes to the Wii controllers and waving them around while standing in front of her brothers as they attempt to play. Fun times. __________________ 2011 Golden Scribes winner for best Interactive Dynasty Last edited by Tasan : 06-02-2013 at 01:48 AM.

06-02-2013, 02:14 AM	#22
Peregrine Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Cary, NC	No kids, but my nephew seems to play Minecraft constantly. __________________ Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic, but deep down inside you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king. --Sideshow Bob

06-02-2013, 10:05 PM	#23
judicial clerk College Benchwarmer Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Portland, OR	Bop it

06-03-2013, 06:42 AM	#24
Butter Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dayton, OH	Another vote for Minecraft. __________________ My listening habits

06-03-2013, 07:24 AM	#25
Warhammer Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Dayton, OH	11 year old computer games - Minecraft, Mount & Blade, Magicka, and NetHack Board games - Formula De, Memoir 44, Merchant of Venus 8 year old - Magicka, Battle for Wesnoth, Fallen Enchantress, UrQuan Masters Board Games - Summoner Wars, Formula De, Cosmic Encounter, and others, just don't know the order of preference. My 8 year old is much more after my own heart and prefers board games to computer games. My oldest son prefers computer games as there is more flash and less planning in the ones he likes (for Minecraft he prefers the MP servers which I don't under stand).

06-03-2013, 11:28 AM	#26
M GO BLUE!!! Pro Starter Join Date: Sep 2005	Mine is grown, but I assume the kids are playing games like "Kick the Can" & such.

06-03-2013, 11:48 AM	#27
heybrad Norm!!! Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Manassas, VA	My 14 year old son alternates between Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program.

06-03-2013, 12:10 PM	#29
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	3.5 year old daughter loves playing the monkey pre-school games, endless alphabet, the spelling game with the rat, and the montesori games. We generally don't let her play "games" on the tablets (android) or phones (iphones). I'm sure we're horrible parents, but she gets tons of enjoyment out of the "learning" games. I know she plays games on her grandmother's phone, but once a week won't kill her. She does love playing with legos, doing puzzles and writing, but she is an extreme perfectionist and gets insane when one of her letters/numbers is slightly off. We try to tell her they look good (which they do), but she just freaks out. She also likes anything with swimming, bubbles, or chalk... or just running endlessly for hours at a time. Thankfully she hasn't learned the "make daddy's life miserable at dinner, bath or bed" game yet.

06-03-2013, 09:41 PM	#30
Wolfpack Pro Rookie Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Raleigh, NC	Both girls are into Minecraft, the younger one loves watching the videos of someone called CupQuake, which I'm not terribly crazy about. However, they're also into several light MMORPG games such as Wizard 101, Pirate 101, and Pixie Hollow. They'll also play some boardgames like Monopoly from time to time. Interestingly, though my seven-year-old has little ability to read or understand tactics, she rather likes playing Ticket to Ride on Steam, enough so that I actually bought the regular board game in the eventual hope that she'll figure out how to play the game as intended sometime soon.

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