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From: jfw1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (james.f.whitehead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,misc.kids
Subject: Re: Mac games for 4 and 5 year-olds
Summary: Recommend NumberMaze, Kids Time, go to Egghead, read Mac magazine ads
Keywords: Macintosh, games, kids
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Date: 1 Aug 89 17:18:50 GMT
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I can heartily recommend NumberMaze for ages 4 and up (maybe 3)
and (somewhat less heartily) Kids Time (ages 3 and up).
The Carmen Sandiego programs are aimed at 9-10 years or more,
so my kids will have to wait a few years.

To find more titles, I go to my local Egghead store and look around;
generally the mail-order places beat their prices by quite a bit.
Anyway, even though the selection isn't huge, it seems better than
one of the posters has been able to find, and it correlates well
with good reviews.
Also, go to your local library and look through MacWorld, MacUser,
MacWeek, and Compute back issues.

Still not the selection that you see for IBM and Apple II computers,
but better than you might think.

BTW, be careful about letting young kids finish - my 6 year old
managed to turn an 800K disk into an empty 400 (I re-initialized it;
thank god I happened to have bakced it up recently).
He apparently got mad (all games can be a little frustrating) and
was sloppy about shutting down.
Now my policy is that I turn the computer off.

Jim Whitehead
"So what"