As one can imagine, in a household such as mine that is fraught with gaming systems, it’s a tad difficult to keep games away from our toddler. Even though we are gamers, we don’t want our son exposed to too much gaming just yet, because we’d rather he go play outside with friends. That said, it doesn’t mean that we’ve done the best job hiding gaming from him. It’s kind of hard, considering we each have iPhones and iPads, and he’s caught us playing games on our laptops more than once. So as a result, we’ve let him play games on our iPhones. After discovering that he was trying to play Age of Zombies, I had to pull the plug on what he’s allowed to access. If I catch him deviating at all, he loses the phone for awhile. His current restrictions are: Angry Birds, Flick Fishing, Fruit Ninja, and Plants v. Zombies.
As much fun as he has with those, I can tell he’s really ready to have something else of his own. Luckily for him, his birthday was coming up, providing the perfect opportunity to give him just that. A number of my friends have given their children their DSes or PSPs, but I’m not going that far. Sure, I have a 3DS now and I may not be actively using my DS, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready to let go of something I still play GBA games on. We love him very much, but we weren’t going to spend the money needed to buy him his own gaming system or even an iPod Touch. At the last minute, because why would I do anything on time, I went to Best Buy to get some ideas, and that’s where I found the MobiGo. Even better, I saw that the MobiGo had games from two of his favorite movies: Toy Story and Cars. Even better than that, it was cheaper than one of LeapFrog’s devices. SOLD.
The MobiGo wasn’t my son’s favorite gift–it’s hard to compete with a brand new Thomas the Tank Engine track set–but it is a close second. It sports both a touchscreen and buttons, so it’s like Mommy’s handheld systems and Mommy’s phone, and therefore not foreign to what he’s to used to playing. He’s played some of the educational games on the Toy Story cartridge, but this morning, he ventured into one of the platforming games. IT CRACKED ME UP.
He figured out the mechanics fairly quickly, but he would get so frustrated when Woody wouldn’t jump where he wanted him to. I heard lots of “No!” and “Aw, man!” and other angry shouts as he tried to progress. I even caught him flinging the device upwards in an attempt to get Woody to jump higher. It sounds like we definitely have a future gamer on our hands. He’ll have to make do with these educational/casual games for now until he can start earning an allowance to buy his own games…through slave labor.
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