First we tried UptoTen.com. We tried the Treasure Chest Race but found that getting the boat to follow the cursor was frustrating on the first try. On The Great Honey Race we only had to click on a die to make our honey bee race a butterfly. I liked the realistic bee buzz noises. Ads go off site.
Next there is Learn4good.com. Ads go off site. When presented with the categories, we chose maze. First we tried Blox Forever. It had a lot of rules, but you can get into playing the game quickly because the game only introduced one new rule per level. We found it easy to learn. It was challenging for six-year old DD but she was enjoying it immensely with my help. We were disappointed when we finished all the free levels. You can purchase more levels.
Nanny Mania was another game we played on the Learn4good site. I thought it was an original concept in a game. To play you are pretending to be a nanny and you run around a house trying to keep up with the chores, occasionally changing a baby’s diaper or giving a bottle. DD came back to play this one at a number of different times. She can do it without much help from mom.
At TheKidzpage.com, DD was immediately drawn to Easter Flip. (I don’t know why… it is summer now.) You try to get 3 Easter egg designs in a row by swapping adjacent eggs. We also tried Breakdown, an arcade style game. You use a paddle and balls to hit a wall of bricks. We tried to play Wonka’s Chocolate Pipe Madness, but unfortunately it froze up on us.
Gamerevolt.com, I felt was too grown up for DD.
Kidshub.org. We tried Donkey Kong, but the picture was uncomfortably small for play and we never could figure out how to make the little Mario move.
Freegameshype. We tried Super Mario Flash. She like it for a while and said, “I am going to keep playing until I get out of this place (level 1)”, but it was a little bit too challenging. We never could finish the first level. We can play Mario games on our Nintendo GameCube, but the keyboard controls for this online game were too difficult to master. DD then tried Kung Fu Fighter, which was too violent a game I felt for a six-year old, but I have never enjoyed watching people (even animated ones) kicking and punching each other. I got DD to switch to what I hoped would be a less violent SpongeBob Squarepants Bikini Bottom Bust Up. It was a game reminiscent of a boxing match, with rather funny sound effects. DD actually won round 2. This website had plenty of ads to take one away from the site, and definitely requires adult supervision.
When we landed on Sess.net, it unfortunately had what I would call a semi-porn banner at the top of the page, so we left it immediately.
Terragame required downloads to try their demos, and we want to avoid downloads.
Perhaps I ought to explain my position on downloads. Occasionally when I try to play a game, a message from my browser pops up that says “your security settings do not allow websites to use ActiveX controls installed on your computer.” Call me paranoid , but I will not give any website ActiveX control of my computer unless I know the website has a massive presence online (like ebay.com or google.com, for examples) or a respectable offline presence like Nick Jr or Fisher Price.
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