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My son wants a Wii U. grandpa wants to get him a PS4. Any thoughts? The kids are 6 year old girl and 9 year ol boy.

I have a SNES in my den and a NES in the attic.

These are where my wargaming love affair started:





I didn't have a PC at the time so I miised out on all the great wargames of that era, but as simple and gimmicky as these games were, they have a massive nostalgic pull for me.

Modern-day Nintendo? No idea [:D]

There are some great Nintendo (NES and SNES) emulators available for the PC---- FCEUX in particular is very solid.

The games themselves are easy to find, if in a somewhat legal gray area--- though my understanding is that the Nintendo corporation looks the other way as far as they are concerned.

It is a bit awkward mapping an old Nintendo controller to a say a modern XBOX one, but otherwise many of the games do hold up.

ORIGINAL: Crimguy

My son wants a Wii U. grandpa wants to get him a PS4. Any thoughts? The kids are 6 year old girl and 9 year ol boy.

My 8 YO girl and 11 YO boy love the Wii U that we got them for last Christmas, when they were 7 and 10, respectively. The PS4 is probably more versatile with lots more titles, but many of these are not for children. The WiiU has kept the promise of the Wii (we have one of those too) of being intuitive and (mostly) safe for young children.

ORIGINAL: Crimguy

My son wants a Wii U. grandpa wants to get him a PS4. Any thoughts? The kids are 6 year old girl and 9 year ol boy.

warspite1

We bought the girls a Wii one Christmas when they were 7 and 5. What a brilliant present that turned out to be. Making your own Mii's and using them in games is a cool idea too (I presume you still can?).

I would recommend the WiiU for children that age without hesitation.

I wonder if the thread starter is a spammer smart enough to get a post to stick.

I suspect so but:

a) probably sensible to give him the benefit of the doubt,

and then even if he is:

b) he has started a thread unwittingly that is of interest to some people [:)]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

I suspect so but:

a) probably sensible to give him the benefit of the doubt,

and then even if he is:

b) he has started a thread unwittingly that is of interest to some people [:)]

Indeed. [:)]

My family has several NES consoles. North & South was fun wargame in its time

Played North and South on my Amiga 500. Couldn't get the game to save. I admit it was a copy of the game.
I then realized that run and jump was not the game style for me. No idea how often I fell off the train.


Mat

My daughter has a WII a WII U and several version of the DS owning the most recent 3DS XL..she loves her DS consoles. Dragon Quest series being her favoruites..but alos lies Super Smash Brothers, Animal Crossing and some other sim type games which I can't recall the name of.