Moms Who Have Wii, Please Come In

My 5 year old son loves MarioKarts (and so do the big kids- my husband and I). You can connect online and play against people all over the world. Right now my son is playing Mario Super Sluggers, the mario characters playing baseball. The sell the bat attachment for it. Anything Mario is always a hit.

I have the Wii and bought a couple extra games for the kids...but to be honest we still love playing the Wii sports together the most! I think the cost for the others is pretty ridiculous unless you can get them used. We have a used Winter Sports game that's a lot of fun too. I would say get things that you can all enjoy together because that is what will most likely get their attention is if you seem to enjoy it too.

We like the "carnival games" or any sonic or mario games. Mario SuperSluggers, Mario & Sonic Olympic Games, Carnival mini-golf, MarioParty 8, MarioKart Wii. These are all fun games and kid friendly. My son is 5, has had a stroke(due to an undiagnosed CHD at birth) and only uses his left hand to play Wii games. We try to get him to use both hands to play games, but I try to find games that typically only use the controller w/o the nunchuck. Good Luck!
T.

My girls 11 and 8 love the Outdoor Adventures game. They have beginner levels. It is a very active game. We all get lots of exercise playing. Includes running and jumping.

Hi D. - I have an almost 3 year old daughter who simply loves playing Wii. In fact, although we bought it for my son who was 9 when we got it, she plays it more than anyone in the house.

She does the Wii Fit (yoga, running, step, balance games, etc...and although she loves the Hula Hoop, she needs help with that because the board doesn't register her tiny hip movements!), the Wii Sport package (tennis, baseball, boxing) and Mario Kart racing.

She's independent to the extreme and really likes the whole process, starting with loading the games herself, getting herself started and navigating the screens.

I have a very energetic child, who much prefers the great outdoors, but Wii has provided a great way to keep her active on these frigid, stay-in-the-house days.

Boom Blox! Very fun!

Our family loves Carnival games for WII. It's all of the games you would find at a carnival. Pop the balloon on the clowns head, darts, flip the frog onto a lily pad, skeeball, test your strength, and lots more. I've noticed that games that are character oriented like dora, spongebob, lose their "fun" factor after awhile, they sometimes can be seen as too easy. Good luck and have fun!

My daughter is 4 and has a very small attention span...if she plays it at all, its only for a few minutes...but she likes the bowling, golf and boxing. She thinks its fun to box daddy!!! My daughter is all girl and loves princess things, but she really has fun with the action games....yours might too and they don't cost as much as the other ones.

I love Mario Kart - my daughter can play that one too (she's 4). We also have Cooking Mama, which is fun and family friendly. I am considering buying the Disney Princess Game for my daughter, and I'm getting a Wii Fit in tonight! We downloaded a game called Brain Challenge, and we all like that one. Good luck! I'm interested in hearing other responses!

we just got the wii a couple of weeks ago too! my kids had gift certificates from christmas, so i let them pick out their own. well, my daughter anyways. she is 5 also and my son just turned 3. she picked the build a bear workshop one. she really seems to like it. i think its alright. my husband wanted the mario kart so i got it for him last weekend and the kids really seem to like that one too! olivia has actually gotten pretty good at it!! also, we have the wii play (it comes with an extra remote) and there is a target practice one (like duck hunt) that my son really likes too. i think he is still too little to really understand some games as he just turned 3 not even 2 months ago! hope i was helpful!!

We love our Wii. My son is the one who's really into it. We Sports and Wii Play are really good. My friend has Carnival and likes that. Enjoy
H.

My 5 yo loves our Wii and is quite good at it. She loves the Disney Princess game and it's nice because it talks to you so she can play on her own. She also loves Mario Party 8- My personal favorite also- it's great fro the whole family. Some of the games might be challenging for the little ones, but they will grow into it. We recently got the Littlest Pet Shop, it's very fun and simple enough for them, but you have to read the directions to them the whole time!! Have Fun!

We have Wii music and have fun with that. I think you might like it. You also could have all four of you play at once.
Hope this helps,
S.

My daughter is 6 and she got the Pajama Sam game and beat that in less than a month and we got the Diego game and she beat that in 2 hours! There are still little games she can play on Diego, but it is no longer interesting, so I feel your pain! Mostly we do the sports and we got the Wii Fit and she loves those too. We got Crazy Golf for kids, but it is a bit more challenging (just make sure you set the controller to the "arcade" setting!)

My girls really enjoy the Disney Princess game. It's $20 at Toys R Us and it took them a long time to get through it all and they enjoy making new characters and going back through and playing again. You can't lose either, so they don't get frustrated with it. My youngest really gets into it.

We got the Wii system because I wanted to do Wii Fit (a separate component with balance board and other fitness games). My 6yo daughter likes the bowling, tennis, and baseball that comes with the Sport package (I think that's what Wii usually comes with). She also likes doing the Wii Fit games, yoga, balance, aerobics, etc. These include yoga poses, ski jumping, slalom ski, tightrope walking, soccer head shots, hulahoop, etc. We haven't tried them all yet.

Hi D.
Not sure if you have a Circuit City near by but I just went there today and all the games are 30% off and they still had a bunch left. You might be limited to what you can get but I bought 2 games I wanted and paid about $50 for both. As for game selection I have 3 boys so I dont think I can help you out there.