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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: dfreniche on February 09, 2008, 01:08:58 PM
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Subject is right: children, not kids! My 2-year-old son loves to sit in my knees and watch me playing Hugo, Car-Vup and The Lion King on my A1200.
Can other parents out there point me some new stuff? The player is a bit bored of the same games again and again :-). Browsing through HOL / Lemon Amiga is a hard time and they are not child-tested.
Thanks.
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Bubba 'n' Stix is very colourful and likely to appeal to children, and maybe Soccer Kid.
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Yeah! Super-fast A.org response, as ever!
I'll try these two. I'm opening another tab to search for them at HOL...
Thank you!
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Get them here:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=kgwhd&meta=
Go to the first result.
Also look for Sinbad, Yo Joe, Cool Spot, Sleepwalker, Wonderdog and SuperFrog.
Edit: Link modified.
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You cant post this link here.
Games:
Troll AGA, brian the lion, qwak, rainbow island, tearaway thomas (!)...
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for kids you have all the mickey series : at the zoo, jigsaw puzzles, etc and the alphabet chase...
just have a look at the HOL database and search for educational games
link -> http://hol.abime.net/
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my daughter is only two years old but like her daddy she loves arkanoid :-D
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They are pretty terribly games, but you may find that the colourful characters in 'Chuck Rock 2' and 'Baby Joe' will appeal to your son.
Cheers,
James
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Hey! Arkanoid! The bouncing ball, destroying every brick! Thanks!
Still ashamed I didn't remembered this one by myself...
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Dear AndrewBell, thank you very much for the ideas and the support. But, I think the posting guidelines says something about piracy, and this link smells like a cave of pirates...
Maybe its time to edit your post and cancel the link before the admin do it for you?
Again, thank you for your help. But piracy it's not a (public) option, at least.
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Both my kids (7 and 11) love Lemmings while my daughter really enjoys Rainbow Islands.
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dfreniche wrote:
Maybe its time to edit your post and cancel the link before the admin do it for you?
It is my impression that KillerGorilla makes every attempt to keep his site legal. Many of the games are known to be approved for free download, for example, those by Team17. He also refuses to accept donations, and removes games where distribution causes complaints.
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Definitely ZOOL and BATTLE SQUADRON !
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My kids koved watching me play "Snoopy and Peanuts"
YouTube Snoopy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5es6ODb_c8)
A bit slow for me, but they loved it.
Plaz
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Superfrog :-)
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I havent got any kids .. im only 18
but WORMS! i loved playing that! :-D
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@dfreniche
the correct english is "kids". the word "children" is archaic and went out of fashion many years ago.
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Then accept my apologies and excuses...
I've seen Prince Of Persia. Abandoned? The greatest game of history? Can't believe it... :-)
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If this list keeps growing, you'll be able to entertain your children until they graduate from university. Having said that, I'll make a late nomination for Bubble and Squeak.
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Let's see, my girls:
My oldest (now 24) loved Rainbow Islands the best, Sword of Sodan, Shadow of the Beast, Shanghai, Arkanoid, Elf Mania & Battle Squadron but also played others . . .
My Youngest (now 21) Rainbow Islands, Pinball (F/I etc.), Lords Of War, Battle Squadron, GODS. (Big Doom fan back when . . .)
Both like and still play Rainbow Islands, Battle Squadron & Elf Mania when they come for a Daddy fix . . . :-D
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the correct english is "kids". the word "children" is archaic and went out of fashion many years ago.
Are you talking about a word or the Amiga? :-) I'm old-fashioned! I love retro-computing, why not retro-slang?
The New Oxford Dictionary in my MacBook tells me:
USAGE Kid, meaning 'child,' although widely seen in informal contexts, should, like its casual relatives mom and dad, be avoided in formal writing.
And I'm very formal :lol:
Thanks. I'll write it down and try to be more "cool" and "new-fashioned" :roflmao:
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@dfreniche
Nothing wrong with being old fashioned - bet if you had said 'kids' someone would've pulled you up and asked why you were letting young goats play on your Amiga. :-D
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I don't have any children, but I was a child myself when the Amiga was arguably in its prime. Games I remember loving from back then:
Zool 2
Cannon Fodder - hmm, maybe not appropriate depending on the age of your children :-)
PP Hammer
Lemmings 1 and 2
XTReme Racing
Nebulus - I really think your children will love this one!
Superfrog
Pinball Dreams
Pinball Fantasies
Obstickle
Megaball - you'll like this if you like Arkanoid
Many more I can't think of at the moment, and also I got many, many (many) hours of enjoyment from playing PD games downloaded from Aminet, and also from cover disks/CDs of Amiga magazines (most of which are probably also available on Aminet). You should encourage your children to look through the games on Aminet, download any they like the sound of, and try them out! Half the fun is discovering the gems. You may download 20 games and find that you don't like 15 of them, but the remaining 5 will give you lots of enjoyment.
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moto
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what about:
pang,
oscar,
dennis,
tetris or dr mario?
forgot to say i don't have kids. just neice and nephew. nephew is mad on thomas the tank engine. neice loves my little ponies etc.
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dfreniche wrote:
Hey! Arkanoid! The bouncing ball, destroying every brick! Thanks!
Still ashamed I didn't remembered this one by myself...
yes arkanoid is a great game, so simple but still so much fun :-)
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About Prince of Persia; maybe it's no too suited to kids because when people die in the game it can be a bit bloody.
Nothing to be all Jack Thompson about but maybe too much for kids aged 2 to 4.
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If you can get hold of it, the CU Amiga 21 games disk was great. I remember me and my sister playing the games on that disk for many years. The games are categorised, and include puzzles as well as action and arcade games. The games are very old now and probably don't look too good, but I'm sure your children won't mind :-)
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moto
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ZOOL rocks ....... :-D
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DaBest wrote:
ZOOL rocks ....... :-D
Agree :-D
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motorollin wrote:
If you can get hold of it, the CU Amiga 21 games disk was great. I remember me and my sister playing the games on that disk for many years. The games are categorised, and include puzzles as well as action and arcade games. The games are very old now and probably don't look too good, but I'm sure your children won't mind :-)
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moto
Hmm.. i think i have that disk here somewhere, i have to try it :-)
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the word "children" is archaic and went out of fashion many years ago.
Still very common and widely used in my part of the world. However, normally "kids" refers to the ones you posses, and "children" refers to a group not your own. "my kids", "those childern". But they're basically interchangable.
Plaz
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Actually, Kids is the informal word of Children Kid/Kids = Child/Children
kid (CHILD)
noun [C]
1 INFORMAL a child:
He took the kids to the park while I was working.
2 INFORMAL a young person:
He was only 16, just a kid really.
3 MAINLY US INFORMAL sb's kid sister/brother someone's younger sister or brother
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My almost 4 year old son loves playing Thomas the Tank Engines (the first one...). I use the trained version that gives you unlimited time, but he's getting pretty good at it. He can do the collection stages pretty well, but he hasn't gotten the hang of the races yet.
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Thank everybody. I think now I can change the games a little because I'm very bored...
My almost 4 year old son loves playing Thomas the Tank Engines (the first one...).
WOOOOOOOO! Thomas the Tank Engime! Dindn't know it even existed! My child LOVES it! I'll start searching for it ASAP in my *backup* amuled zipfiles... :lol:
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If there's *one* game that I can think of which is very suitable for children, both to look at or to play by themselves, it's Rodland (http://hol.abime.net/1271).
Colourful, a simple and catchy tune and very cute baddies :-)
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Before dashing off to school little Dana (6) has gone through her A1200 Desktop and told me to tell you these:-
Brian The Lion
Alfred The Chicken
Karate Worm
All Terrain Racing
SuperFrog
BattleChess
Ameko
Micro Machines
James Pond
Lotus Turbo Chalenge II
Jackman
Valhalla
Croak2
Virocop
BubbaNStix
Lemmings
Go-Snowy
Cool Spot
Paper Boy 1 & 2
Turrican
MegaBall
Crazy 8's
Aladdin
Bart v Space Mutants
Monopoly (statistic)
Walker
Worms
Theme Park
Fire And Ice
Big Nose The Caveman
Addams Family
Testament
:-)
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"testament"
thats a little violent no?
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Yes, it is a bit violent. But Dana says she is shooting at "Witches and Robots". She really enjoys it and I'm not going to tell her any different ;-)
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I would scout eBay for some educational software such as the Fun School range which were very good. They had some nice graphics, no blood or violence and the children learn something too! I'm hanging on to my Fun School disks for when my 6 month old boy is old enough to play them (assuming my Amiga is still operating by then!)
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I don't let 2y-old son play with my Amigas so couldn't say, however on the PC he's fasinated with NFS - MostWanted (likes to help dad with the gaspedal and/or nos button) and TrackMania Nations (very simular to 4D sportsdriving).
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Brian wrote:
I don't let 2y-old son play with my Amigas so couldn't say
Well, you did give him a keyboard at early age, if I don't remember everything wrong. ;-)
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Flashlab wrote:
About Prince of Persia; maybe it's no too suited to kids because when people die in the game it can be a bit bloody.
A bit bloody? Our poor prince could be chopped in halves, or impaled. I played it when I was 10 or 11 and let my sis do the chopper thing... too scary for me :nervous: :lol:
(But it was (is?) my favorite game)
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Hi,
@A4000_mad
Darn it, I hate when somebody steals my thunder!
but, I liked the one about the coloring book, both me and
the Children had fun with that one.
smerf
kids are goats, and when they get to be teen agers they
smell like them
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Hi,
@ Brian
Darn, let him play some real PC games like Quake IV, Doom3,
Far Cry, Crysis, Castle Wolfenstien and the Clancy series.
Quit cheating him out of real fun
smerf
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Ruff'N'Tumble (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLV8ZXPrJXI)
and
Mr. Nutz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8QAf-YYL5k)
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My 17 month old daughter loves Superfrog. :-D (So does my wife.. had to buy another 1200 just so I can check my E-mail between those 2 playing Superfrog and Bubble Bobble, neither of which I've managed to get working on her computer with uae) :roll:
My daugher playing superfrog. (http://webpages.charter.net/watertonian/sarahlyn/800x600/Sarahlyn003.jpg)
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My grandchildren had a whole raft of games on my Amiga when I lived in Glossop, but their favourites were as follows:-
Thomas The Tank Engine's Electronic Paint Box
Piles O' Tiles
Monopoly (Holger Beer's excellent version)
Thinkamania
Off You Go
I downloaded any game I could find for children, but found some of them were not very good.
As to my children - only my younger son has played Amiga games. He used to like Arkanoid and Tetris and various others, but was delighted when I got Monopoly on my 1200. In fact he wanted me to go online and see if I could find as good a version for him to use on his Gates Crate. The problem was solved when The Times newspaper advertised a free Monopoly game. As far as I am concerned the graphics are no better than Holger Beer's version, but it has lots of silly noises also. The one thing that concerned me about it was that I am hoping to get an IBook, (when I have saved up my pennies!!!) so that I can have some way of using programs which bear some resemblance to the ones used by my friends and associates, and this version is not compatible with the Mac. Still there may be one for the Mac.
Hope this helps. Only the slightly disabled versions of Off You Go and Piles O' Tiles are available online, but as the full versions were supplied free of charge to me by their creators I would be prepared to send an .lha archive of them with an email if required.
Regards Kathy
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Hi there smerf - how's your A4000?
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Kids are goats, and when they get to be teenagers they smell like them.
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I thought that was brilliant - I must tell my son that one when he comes home from work!!!
Regards Kathy
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Hi there A4000,
I'm surprised you can get Statistic Monopoly to work on the 1200. I had it on my 500+, and then when I got the 1200 I tried it on there but it was dreadfully slow. I found Holger Beer's version - called HBMonopoly - and have never looked back. You can find it by Googling Holger Beer Monopoly, which will probably get you to his website. Alternatively I think you can find the earlier version on Aminet, and he may by now have also put the later version on there. There was a bug in the earlier version, whereas the winning counter kept on and on going round the board without stopping, but now he's fixed the bug and the winner does a couple of "laps of honour" and then there are cheers and he stops. You should try it - it's brilliant. There are also alternative playing pieces, including Simpsons ones.
Regards Kathy
P.S. Holger also has an A4000
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Thomas the tank engine pinball.
Here. (http://hol.abime.net/1381/screenshot)
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Yesnaby wrote:
Hi there A4000,
I'm surprised you can get Statistic Monopoly to work on the 1200. I had it on my 500+, and then when I got the 1200 I tried it on there but it was dreadfully slow.
Well, Dana has a Blizzard 030/50 with 32megs. Never known it to run slowly although it can take a few seconds to load. I'll check out this HB version again as I must have tried the one with bugs previously :-)
EDIT - Dana now likes to play T-zer0 on her A1200 Desktop as well 8-)
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Because I'm a child i can answer this.
My favourite games are Lemmings, Clockwiser, Moonwalker and Flashback.
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to add to my list Alien Bash 2
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Hi there A4000Mad,
Quite possibly you did, as if I remember rightly it is not available on Aminet, but you have to go to Holger's site for it. You may have quite a search for it, and I remember Holger saying that he had a couple of websites, so he may have put it somewhere else. The best thing would be to type Holger Beer Monopoly game, or something like that into Google, and it may come up with the correct place. If you have any problem, as the game is free, let me know by private email and I will package it up into an .lha file and sent it as an attachment. All you will need to do then is alter the preferences to suit yourself. There were also some alternative playing pieces with the updated version, including a Simpsons set!!! I have set up a few games for myself against the Amiga and for my son and grandchildren against the Amiga and against each other.
The other thing about this version is that the original made it very easy to beat the Amiga, but now it is much more difficult. The only thing it won't do is buy up the other properties in a group once you have bought one. If Holger could make it do this it would be perfect. Nothing like getting Park Lane or Mayfair and trying desperately to land on the other one, and having the Amiga snatch it from your grasp!!!! This is all part of the fun in the real game.
Regards Kathy
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@ Yesnaby
PM sent :pint:
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Gwion wrote:
Because I'm a child i can answer this.
Logically beseen you can't, since you don't have children.
/me goes back to Vulcan
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Has everyone forgotten Magic Pockets?
My 9yo loves it!