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AdventWolf on 14 December 2010
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nordlead said:
d21lewis said:

People are choosing games like Banjo or Lost Odyssey (or even the guy who said he played Zelda at age 5), I don't know about you but....at age 5, I could barely read!

I got a NES with Mario/Duck Hunt/Track Meet for my 5th birthday. The mat broke almost right away so we exchanged it for Mario/Duck Hunt and got Zelda separate.

I never said I beat the game, and don't expect a 5yo to beat the game, but they should be able to play and enjoy it and when he gets older he'll be able to beat it.

Heck, my 1y.o. son can assemble Duplo blocks (the larger Lego blocks) granted he can't build anything interesting but he loves to stack them and carry them around. Sure it is too old for his age (really for 1.5-2 yo kids), but he still enjoys it.


I stayed at my aunt 's daycare all the time from age 3-4 to 11-12. She had a NES and a Genesis set up and we played them constantly. Granted we never beat any of the games except for SMB 3, but we had a blast playing the Double Dragon games, Punchout, Contra, Kirby, plus another 30 games.

I would get pretty much any good game for a 5 year old as long as it is not insaneley difficult or too gorey. They may not be able to beat it but I'm sure they will have a blast.