This is a retail game but its pretty cheap to pick up - Cosmic Family.
Its an edutainment game which has a gentle learning curve and is aged around 5 year olds (I had bought it for my son) although my daughter just turned 4 today and she was able to play it from 3. It has a combination of games and other little bits and pieces including a colouring book and sticker album. It wont keep them entertained for hours at a time but in short bursts its pretty good for them and even when they complete the game they can go back and replay the any game they liked.
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Just kidding, actually I would say get them started on Mario games early. DL Super Mario World, Mario 64, or pick up Mario Galaxy. I know I grew up on Super Mario Bros. at a VERY early age (my mom said when I was around 4 or so, playing the game, I would cry whenever I died, haha)
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Anything but videogames, they are too young to videogames, they need real world experieces! Go play outside, and then some few years latter show them the fantastic world of videogames with Mario and Classic Sonic The Hedgehog ^^
@MrPinguy: To a point, I agree with you. However, this simply doesn't seem to be how it works anymore, so we'd might as well give recommendations anyway. If only it was easier to guess what a child you don't know at all is capable of...
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Cookin' Mama seems to do the trick with my 3 n' 6 yr old nieces, bless 'em. 5 Spots is good too, especially if you've got a big telly, they can get in close. Boom Blox could work, although I'll need two straps attached before we went anywhere near that. Woah!
Mario Kart causes tears. Ha but then it does for adults too.
my 6 year old bro is good at like all games. when he was 5 and 4 he was too. he enjoyed like all games excppet zelda ones. he likes ones that you can just pick up and play
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It really depends on the 3-5 year old. My brother could read (to some extent, anyway) at 4, but a lot of kids can't, for example. VC has plenty of no-reading-skills-required platformers, of course, but it still becomes a matter of how complicated a game the kid can understand.
At that age, an adult should supervise the playing anyway, so it shouldn't matter. If they can't read, the adult can read for them.
Most VC platform games should be fine. They're easy to understand for anyone. Some might say they tend to be hard, but nah, they weren't considered "too hard" back in the day, and shouldn't be now, either. The kids will get better over time.
@Adamant: True, but that runs into limits as well. While I was growing up, I was a big RPG fan (not necessarily speaking of 3-5 range as I don't remember that period well at all, but many kids nowadays take WAY too long to learn to read well). That would be too much text for parental help to work well; might as well just be the parent playing the game! Light text like in a Super Mario game would probably work well in the way you describe, though.
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