Wii games for young kids?

[amheck]

Thinking about picking up a wii. We have a 3 1/2 year old. Just wondering what games and/or add-ons we should get that he can enjoy.

Thanks!
Aaron

 

[Inspector Jihad]

let the kid play with real toys like you did when you were younger...he'll have lots of video game time later on.

 

[amheck]

Well, I kinda want a wii for myself. I was thinking, if I get him a game, too, it would be better justified. 😀

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: amheck
Well, I kinda want a wii for myself. I was thinking, if I get him a game, too, it would be better justified. 😀

in that case, Resident Evil 4 😉

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: amheck
Well, I kinda want a wii for myself. I was thinking, if I get him a game, too, it would be better justified. 😀

That's thinking like a Dad! GamerDad has kid friendly game reviews. When my son was that age, I had him on th PC though, no consoles. There are FREE educational games all over the web, that also helped him develop basic computer skills simultaneously.

 

[amheck]

Oh, very cool. Thanks for the link. Well, maybe if I stick to PC games, I'll just build him a nice new C2D system instead. haha

 

[DAPUNISHER]

A kindred spirit! A dad has to have an angle, or no toys for us. 😉

 

[tatteredpotato]

If you want some Wii games though, Wii Sports and Wii Play are both great, as well as Rayman, Super Monkey Ball, and Mario Party 8.

 

[Syppion]

I'll second Mario Party 8 - while our 4 year old lacks strategy, she is able to perform the controls for all of the minigames. The down side is that a 10 turn game tends to take us about an hour, so she only gets to play 1-2 games/week. We rented monkey ball, but she lacked the finesse to play it.

She also enjoys the find mii and cow racing parts of Wii Play, and Super Mario Bros (VC).

We've found the photo channel to be very kid friendly - we load pictures the 4 yo takes (digital cam) and both like to doodle/paint on them (4 and 2 yrs old). I've read that the Wario game is kid-friendly, but haven't tried it.

Probably ~80% of our Wii on-time is us leaving the slideshow running (photo channel - up to 1,000 pictures on an SD card) while we do other things - nice way to convert a TV to a digital picture frame.

There may be more out there - especially on VC, but we don't have the time for it (we keep their Tube-time (TV + PC + Wii) to ~2 hrs/day).

As far as PC games go, we like the Blue's Clues series.