Archive for the ‘Games for Kids’ Category

Family Game Night by Hasbro

FINALLY !! Old fashioned family games — on Xbox!! The classics — Yahtzee, Scrabble, Connect Four, Sorry, Battleship, and others… This month, on Xbox Live Marketplace Arcade, Hasbro released a really cool shell, where you will find yourself in a game room.  On the game wall, you’ll find these and other classic Hasbro games, first [...]

April 2, 2009 · Jason · No Comments
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Crash of the Titans

In my opinion, Crash is one of the less appreciated kid-gaming characters out there.  Sure, we’ve all heard of Sonic and Mario, but Crash the Bandicoot?   Why not ?! Crash of the Titans is the first Crash title that I’ve played (though my boys have played others) and I think I look forward to this [...]

March 15, 2009 · Jason · No Comments
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Dash of Destruction — Fun and Free Xbox Arcade game

Add a Dash of Giggles Another Dash of Loud Laughter Plus a Dash of “No, don’t eat my truck with your dinosaur“ That’s how you get a “Dash of Destruction” — and now you know what my house has sounded like since my sons and I downloaded this free Xbox Arcade title from the Xbox [...]

December 30, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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Viva Pinata : Trouble in Paradise

Originally published on XBOX.COM as Xbox Dad in Trouble … in Paradise Published November 17, 2008 Hello … my name is Jason Buffington and my day job is in the Windows Storage Solutions team. On nights and weekends, I play as DarkJediHunter. This year, the other Xbox Dad (Festive Turkey) has been sharing this column with [...]

November 17, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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Naruto : Rise of the Ninja

Originally Published on XBOX.COM as Xbox Dad Goes All Ninja On Us Published September 24, 2008 Hello … my name is Jason Buffington and my day job is in the Windows Storage Solutions team. On nights and weekends, I play as DarkJediHunter. This year, the other Xbox Dad (Festive Turkey) has been sharing this column [...]

September 24, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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Cooking Mama for Wii

For those of you who follow my gaming recommendations, you’ve heard lots about my two sons, ages 7 and 9 — and the games that we play together.  But there are two other gamers in my family, whose ages are 3 and 29-and-holding — and their favorite pastime right now is Cooking Mama — for [...]

March 25, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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LEGO Star Wars – the best kids’ game that I know of

  These have been out for a while, so this recommendation is a little late — but as I have been telling folks about it for a while, I wanted to get this in print. The first release, LEGO Star Wars, was actually for the last generation of gaming consoles — and covered the first [...]

March 24, 2008 · Jason · One Comment
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Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer

A version of this review appeared on XBOX.COM under Xbox Dad colum “Fantatic Four – Fantastic Game” My sons are 7 and 9 — and we are routinely looking for 3-player games.  We’ve done party games like Viva Pinata : Party Animals, as well as Fuzion Frenzy2. We have games on our Nintendo GameCube and [...]

March 4, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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Viva Pinata : Party Animals

My sons are 9 & 7, and my daughter is 3.  And between the five of us (including my wife), we have 2 Xbox360′s, an Xbox, a Wii, a GameCube, 3 Nintendo DS’s, and 2 Gameboy’s – basically everything except Sony.  And we play together — a lot. The original Viva Piñata (VP) is a [...]

January 8, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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