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Junior Brain Trainer is an educational brain-training game for elementary school-aged children. It teaches early math, reading, and English skills, and it’s like having your very own school workbook right on your Nintendo DS.
The main game features five different random exercises that teach ...
Gaming
A long time ago, I was asked to review the Leapster handheld video game system from Leapfrog. It had recently been released to target the 4-8 year old bracket and I was supposed to check out some of the educational-oriented games that worked with the system. I was pleasantly surprised to find ...
Gaming
Junior Classic Games is a selection of familiar activities for early elementary school-aged children. It’s like having your very own activity book right in your Nintendo DS.
Games on this collection include jigsaw puzzles, memory matching, rhythm, music, & sound, spot the difference, word ...
Gaming
DS
ALL PLATFORMS. Karaoke music games are well represented and since we no longer have to deal with the garbage that was “cover” songs – we have the real artists – the song list is a make or break proposition. Here’s the list for DISNEY Sing It. See if you know any of ...
Gaming
Jonas
Disney Sing It: Pop Hits
Should CoD: MW 2 be rated M? The release of this game marks a turning point in my life. An alarming amount of my mail, and a few of my questions on radio and at What They Play.com, concerned Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Now I get to give the same, or similar, answers [...]
Gaming
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
This week, on Thursday, December 3, Sega is releasing a demo version of their highly anticipated game: Bayonetta for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. The full game will be out early next year, but I got a chance to try out the demo a little early, so here’s a sneak peek on what you’ll see [...]
Gaming
Bayonetta
Since 2003, I’ve been taking a look at some of the best boardgames have to offer and serving up my recommendations to folks at this site. While video games have made great strides providing more social games, boardgames have always been an excellent way for friends or family to get together and ...
Gaming
Happy Thanksgiving to all! It’s T-Day, which means Linda and the kids are delivering meals for elderly shut-ins (yep, s’what she does, bless her). This is GamerDad’s favorite holiday because of the food, family, friends, fun and that whole heart thingie a while back. Today ...
Gaming
PC
DS
Mario
Sonic
Wii
Big news, folks! I own my very own day care center now. I’m taking care of eight kids! But they’re all from the same family! Their dad is a real tyrant, though, but he said that if I watched his children, he’d help me kidnap Princess Zelda. See, Link would always suspect Ganon, but never [...]
Gaming
Koopa
Mario
With Thanksgiving upon us and the holidays right around the corner, there’s going to be a lot of eating, serving food, waiting on people, and cleaning up after them. So why not get some practice in with the Xbox Live version of Diner Dash, based on the popular online PC game.
There’s a reason ...
Gaming
Xbox
PC
While any tried and true electronic gamer may have their holiday game lists already picked out, what if you wanted to try to expand their horizons with a gift that would move them out from in front of the screen and bring them a bit more face to face interactivity with other folks? As [...]
Gaming
Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful for the year’s bountiful harvest, and what better way to celebrate than with a Harvest Moon game? This long-running series of farming simulations just added two new members to the family: Harvest Moon: Animal Parade on Wii and Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands ...
Gaming
Wii
Harvest Moon
A reader asks, politely, about the sparsity of GamerDad coverage from GamerDad (aside from the herculean coverage from Mr. Woodham). GamerDad takes the time to explain. So, Mr. Pip, here’s the answer to that question. I suspect you won’t like it, so be warned:
It seems to me, ...
Gaming
This week, people all over the US will be sitting down with friends and family to eat a big ol’ turkey. Just in time to get you into the turkey spirit, here’s Remington’s Great American Bird Hunt for Nintendo Wii. It’s an arcade style shooting gallery game where you hunt duck, geese, and yes, ...
Gaming
The Hunt
Wii
In the original My Baby Boy/Girl game on Nintendo DS, you helped raise a virtual baby from birth to its first step. Now in the sequel, My Baby: First Steps for DS and Wii (Wii version reviewed here), you’ll be continuing on, raising your baby to help it walk with more confidence and teaching its ...
Gaming
Wii
OK everyone, it’s time to get out your safety scissors and juice boxes (mmmm…Ecto Cooler…), because in this blog, we’re all going to become little kids again for a short while. Recently I reviewed several Nick Jr. games, and it got me to thinking about other good educational games and TV shows ...
Gaming
One bad thing about business trips is that you might get to travel to a new city or country, but since you’re on the clock, you might not be able to leave the hotel or convention center. My mom just got back from a business trip to New York City, and she had never been [...]
Gaming
Nintendo
We were at a local GameStop. I had enough trade in value to buy everybody a game. I picked up Tekken 6 + special controller, Henry picked Mario & Sonic Olympic Winter Games for DS, Maggie picked My Sims Party for DS, and GamerMom? Her first chance to just BUY a game. Indulge in her [...]
Gaming
DS
EA Sports Active
Tekken 6
Mario
Sonic
The Sims
I was late to the Wii Fit party. I had heard about the peripheral, but my enjoyment of casual games didn’t quite draw me in. Fast forward six months after the game released, and I had read enough raving reviews (here and elsewhere) about the fun and exercise that can be had with [...]
