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[ghoti_mhic_uait]

What games are good? Specifically, games for children, but adult games good, too. We're not big on violence, and two-player is good.

There should be Granny's Garden for playstation.

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[hatter.livejournal.com]

There's always Dancing Stage aka Dance Dance Revolution aka DDR aka jumping around like muppets to all sorts of music (though a bit of a jap pop bias) The soft mats aren't extraordinarily expensive, and it's a reasonable facsimile of exercise, too. PS1 versions of the software are probably pretty cheap, second hand, and both games and mats work the same for ps1 or ps2, the different iterations of the games mostly just have different songs.


the hatter

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Ico is a wonderful fairytale, but definitely for adults and older rather than younger kids. I reckon you'd love it, though; it and Rez (enormously psychaedelic, almost synaesthesia inducing, shooter/music-game/surreal experience) are probably the two games I'd recommend to any adult, but the problem is they're quite hard to get hold of - Ico is into "collectable" territory, but I think Rez got a budget reissue recently.

The rhythm-action type games are a good suggestion. Frequency is wonderful but really abstract and quite difficult; DDR is a good call - Rachel has it here if you want a look. In terms of sports games, I really enjoy the Virtua Tennis series, and they're quite easy to get into (and easy to get second-hand, VT2 in particular).

The EyeToy stuff looks fun. Fantavision, if you can get it second-hand, is a wonderful puzzle game based around setting off firework displays.

One thing worth is the "collections of old games"-type packages; either old arcade games - the Midway Arcade Treasures series are pretty good, and any violence is totally unrealistic "blow-up-the-aliens" stuff, pretty much - or the reissued MegaDrive-era packs. Of those, Sonic Mega Collection, all the original Sonic the Hedgehog games, is a good bet.

If driving games'd work, you can't go far wrong with the Gran Turismo series.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

... actually Midway Arcade Treasures 2 has the Mortal Kombat games in, and they're *totally* over the top in terms of horror-movie splatter! (Oops.)

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

I second Rez; I have been looking for copies on Ebay halfheartedly since I moved in but have now given up and ordered one off Amazon. Fantavision is cute, with its unusual control system, but I ran into a difficulty cliff at level 3...

GT2 - the PS1 version - is the most fun of the GT games. Later ones are overpolished.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Yep, we've got two mats and the game... and a living room only big enough for one mat at a time. Oops.

(Actually, I should try again now we've rearranged the furniture)