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Richie Freebird

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Number Builder and Number Chaser on the C16(+4)

 

Number Builder is a Chuckie Egg/Donkey Kong type of game that requires kids to think of numbers whilst playing its educational and fun, Seriously its a good game

 

Number Chaser is more of the same, but a racing game and for its time is also excellent, given the young ages of the kids, worth a shot, even if emued?

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I can't remember how young she was - again, probably 3 or 4 - but me and my daughter got more than our moneys worth out of Smackdown!2. Somewhere there is still a memory card with CAWs for two of the Tweenies and David Dickinson.

 

So you gave them the idea...

 

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Dyllan can play Street fighter and Mortal Combat, stick him infront of any racing game too he figures them out in seconds. For an autistic kid who was only 3 in September he's pretty good at it too. Sod the Cbeebies website.

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Dyllan can play Street fighter and Mortal Combat, stick him infront of any racing game too he figures them out in seconds. For an autistic kid who was only 3 in September he's pretty good at it too. Sod the Cbeebies website.

 

Fantastic stuff! :)

 

Which versions are we talking and on what systems?

 

I had, and still have, Maths Grand Prix. We only had 3 Atari games, that, pac man and spider man which was great fun but hard as hell as a child.

 

Spiderman is pretty good, but the other two are a fairly poor do. That Pac Man port on the 2600 is pretty dreadful in comparison to almost every other version. It was actually a prototype of the game that they just whapped out for Christmas, before it was even finished (sorry if you know all this).

 

postman pat dies if he doesn't have a cup of tea every 2 and a half minutes.

 

That is one of the best things I

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Dyllan can play Street fighter and Mortal Combat, stick him infront of any racing game too he figures them out in seconds. For an autistic kid who was only 3 in September he's pretty good at it too. Sod the Cbeebies website.

 

*Call's the social*

He loves it, I'm trying to steer him away from graphic games but he's just not as interested :/ Also don't have a lot of money to keep buying games that he might or might not like. He's a picky old scroat.

 

Street fighter he plays on my iPhone, along with Rage, Mortal Kombat he plays on the PS3.

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I had, and still have, Maths Grand Prix. We only had 3 Atari games, that, pac man and spider man which was great fun but hard as hell as a child.

 

Spiderman is pretty good, but the other two are a fairly poor do. That Pac Man port on the 2600 is pretty dreadful in comparison to almost every other version. It was actually a prototype of the game that they just whapped out for Christmas, before it was even finished (sorry if you know all this).

 

I didn't, and it's quite interesting so many thanks. As a child I was amazed at having a computer, it seemed an wonderful novelty to play it every now and then. I doubt I even really knew there were other computers on the market until I went around a mates and he had a megadrive. This then led to a request for one of these new ones, where I got a snes with Super Mario World and Road Runner, which was hard as fucking hell for some reason.

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Yeah, Pac Man and ET on the 2600 were the two highest profile games to be met with such disgust from the literally millions who bought them (and in a lot of cases bought the console just for those games) that the whole games market in the US pretty much collapsed for the duration of 1983. There wasn

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I was playing Sensible Soccer on the Amiga 1200 from age 3. I must have been playing Mortal Kombat from about age 4. The menu music shit me up and I'd end up crying. Once I got past that, I'd play it. I remember Flashback a little, Syndicate and Cannon Fodder. I was shit at most of those games. Monkey Island too.

 

It's mad how much those memories have stuck with me from such a young age...Nigel Mansell's Racing too...Brutal Football...and the anti-piracy charts where you had to match symbols up...fuck, a load of memories! The first story game I felt like I could really give a go was Final Fantasy VII when I was 7 which I was in awe of. I couldn't beat the first boss but luckily there were instructions in the back of the manual and, from then on, I got the gist. If I ever have kids, they'll be playing Zelda games from about age 7.

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