Kids friendly games, age around 6?

KyotoUK

Just about the most perfect post at the right time and I had to sign up. I have just dug out my Amiga and spent last night playing some games when I remembered I'd always wanted to get my son in to retro gaming. As I clearly don't trust a 4yo with an Amiga I thought about emulation and managed to stumble across this site. Just costed a Pi 3 b+ with a 128GB card and a NES case to sit on the tv unit.

Then I couldn't think of which games would be suitable. He is a little young for Miss World Nude 96'

Anyway that post was to say thanks.

PittStone

In this post are a few Kids Friendly Games. ;)

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18741/best-of-games-for-kids-up-to-12-years-collections-themes/3

mwshook

I have a seven year-old son. MAME co-op games are really the best for parent-child bonding. The unlimited quarters make difficulty a nonissue.

He finds MAME's King of the Monsters hilarious. It's a wrestling game with big monsters destroying the city as they battle. You can play 2 humans vs 2 computers so it's got some good co-op action.

He's obsessed with Mega Man but the NES games are too hard and he can't beat a level. So he loves Mega Man: Power Battle on MAME. 2 humans cooperatively take on Robot Masters. It's kind of like a fighting game but the 2-on-1 format is interesting. There's a sequel called Power Fighters.

Marvel vs Capcom on MAME is also popular. It has a lot of his favorite characters including Mega Man and Spider-Man. I can set my difficulty to Hard and go easy on him so he can win half the time.

I also second the suggestions for MAME cartoon character beat 'em ups like TMNT, X-Men, etc.

Clyde

A friend recommended Trog to me yesterday. Seems like a kid-friendly game, if you don't mind the mild violence (battering the cavemen*). It supports up to four players simultanously.

*edit: Oh, and you actually eat the cavemen later in the game, 😇 as you can see at 17:50 in the video.

Clyde

@Clyde Sorry for the necro, but I think this thread is a good place to collect such games for other parents.

Another cute, funny and relatively easy to play platform game is Rainbow Islands - The Story of Bubble Bobble 2. It was available on no less than 18 platforms:

quicksilver

My 4 year old loves playing hydro thunder for Dreamcast on my pi 4. The controls are very simple and the game forces you to go forward and you can't get stuck on objects in the game.

VictimRLSH

Bishi Bashi Minigame Madness (MAME 2003) is also a lot of fun, and only needs 3 buttons and the ability to recognize colors to play. It helps if you can color your buttons though.

AndersHP

@Clyde said in Kids friendly games, age around 6?:

@Clyde Sorry for the necro, but I think this thread is a good place to collect such games for other parents.

I never understood the bashing of people reviving old threads. I mean why not keep the threads alive and expanding, instead of opening something new with questions that's partially been discussed before?

I will try the Rainbow Islands game. Thanks!

To update my own thread, my daughter is now 8 and my son 4, and nothing beats the sight of them co-opping in some MAME shmup :D

Actually I find most MAME games work great with kids, since you can always toss more fictive quarters in the game :)

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barbudreadmon

@AndersHP said in Kids friendly games, age around 6?:

I never understood the bashing of people reviving old threads.

I think that's only an issue when the new question is barely related to the original question (it happens).

Clyde

@barbudreadmon said in Kids friendly games, age around 6?:

I think that's only an issue when the new question is barely related to the original question (it happens).

That, and if it's about a technical problem, the chances that the former information in the thread may be hopelessly outdated are growing with time.

WeirdH

Snow Bros, Zupapa, Bang Bang Busters, Tumblepop and Don Doko Don are great kids games on MAME. Others already mentioned Frogger and Rod Land.

Also fantastic, but a fair bit more difficult, are Kickle Cubicle, Pang (aka Buster Bros) and Solomon's Key.

Also check out Funky Jet, although it might be deemed to 'aggressive' by some (beating enemies with boxing gloves while jetpaccing around).

For kids a bit older, Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy might be fun, as well as Spinmaster.