Game suggestion for an 8 year old girl - Qtek 8100

[Guest Mastiff]

I bought my eight year old daughter a Qtek 8100, and I would like suggestions for games she can play on it. On the PC she loves stuff like The Sims, Disney and other cartoon movie games, Star Wars Battlefront and Lego Star Wars. So what would you guys recommend? I know she'd love Nintendogs, but I also know that there's no way to play that on a smartphone. Or is there?

[Guest foolycooly]

if shes 8 then you shouldnt be buying her an expensive phone in the first place. go and get he a trakfone

[Guest Mastiff]

If you haven't got anything constructive to add to a thread, it's usually best to shut up! I want my kids to have an edge in computer litteracy as they grow up, which is why I keep their phones and computers up to date.

[Guest Skeese]

Aye now, calm down (you two).. check in the Games section or visit Smartphone.net ;)

[Guest jonajuna]

If you haven't got anything constructive to add to a thread, it's usually best to shut up! I want my kids to have an edge in computer litteracy as they grow up, which is why I keep their phones and computers up to date.

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My son is 8 and has a cast off palmOS PPC of mine, but no phone. Personally (though I agree its upto you what you do with your kids mastiff), I dont think any primary school child has a need or use for a mobile and if anything, it places them at potentially higher levels of risk from kiddie fiddlers doing the grooming thing or if not to that extreme, at risk of getting mugged for it.

As for games, mine likes to play the basic bubble breaker in wm5 and chess (against me as neither of us can beat the comp). This is on my PPC rather than the palm. On there he has a few more boy type games such as asteroids and other fantasy shoot 'em ups.

Looked at other kid suitable games, but on a small screen they just dont seem to appeal.

I would suggest though, if you want your kids to have a head start in computer literacy, filling up their comps with games, isnt the best way to go about it.

ps. literacy only has one 't' ;)

[Guest Mastiff]

Skeese, thanks! That place had a kind of a list that I've been looking for.

jonajuna, Sorry, english isn't my native languague. :oops: Anyway, the problems you describe are non excistent here, we live out in the sticks in Norway (think The Little House on the Prairie, only colder), and the problem here is finding the kids without taking a longer excursion, even if they're with the same friends every day. So with phones we can call them and tell them to come home instead. Also they can call us if they have hurt themselves or something like that. The nearest place where a kid risks having the phone stolen is around three hours driving from here! And they only call and send SMS to where they're allowed to, since they know that I periodically check their history.

And I disagree about the games, they learn a lot from them. Hand-eye-coordination with mouse and keyboard without looking at the keys, for instance. My ten year old son beats me to a bloody pulp in Medal of Honor! And I'm not a bad player, I have been through most good FPS games. I much prefer him doing that instead of watching TV all the time, like most of his friends does. They also learn a lot english (since very few games are in Norwegian, he likes online RPG as well). Not to mention that after having played a while at least my kids like to experiment with their computers, drawing with Paint, writing in Word and so on.

Edited March 24, 2006 by Mastiff

[Guest jonajuna]

ah! ;)

ive been to the north of finland, so i can see that where you live is probably kind of remote ;)

wouldnt disagree that a fone would be needed where you are, probably an essiential piece of kit as it goes.

again, dont disagree on the benefits of games that you mention, would suggest that most of the games that are found on PPC and phones only help for hand eye coordination..... we have a fair few games on the main pc that are much more education orientated, multiplication table role playing games for example (where you have math puzzles to complete to get to next level etc)

as for my comment on your spelling, i was only joking with you, i am far from wonderful with english wether written or spoken, and its my native tongue!! :(

glad you have found the stuff you have been looking for

[Guest Mastiff]

No problem. And my son actually plays one of those math games, something called TimezAttack, from Big Brainz, where he uses multiplication to beat up trolls! Of course he just as well plays Quake to use a BFG to beat up monsters... ;)

[Guest jakobdam]

A woman living in my apartment complex has an 8 year old daughter; we're all together quite a lot, and she's spent a lot of time playing with my phone. ;)

Now, we're from Denmark, so although she can read, she doesn't read (or rather understand) english.

This means that the most funny games for her are arcade games with as little text as possible.

Today, I've got my brand new QTek 8310, but up until now, I've had the SPV C500 which is quite similar to the QTek 8100 in functionality.

Games I suggest

- Kevtris (free Tetris-clone; the best if you take my opinion)

- Cocoto (free demo; nice graphics and good gameplay - she loves this game the most)

- DoomSPV (free Doom; we all know it, but our youngsters have yet to discover the early sprite-based "3D"-shooters)

- Flux Challenge (free demo; nice graphics, good gameplay, requires quick reactions)

- Li-Nuggz X-Mas (a free game that's quite funny for all eages - even my girlfriends' 5 year old little brother fancy it)

- SmartPairs (free game; memory game with MSN emoticons)

- Smartphony (free game; a Tetris-like game with a twist in the gameplay - try it yourself, it's quite addicting)

You can find most of the mentioned games here at Modaco by searching.

You may also want to look here for a big list of free games/applications for Windows Mobile smartphones with WM 2003/2003SE - all desciptions are in danish, but their names pretty much tells themselves...:

http://www.vildmedmobil.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7

About hitech phones and kids

I also thought that a Windows Mobile or Symbian OS based phone would be too hard to use for a kid.

But the 8 year old girl I know has already picked up quite a lot, and is even able to change the voice commands I've assigned for my applications. She's added some to the games mentioned above, actually - I never use those voice commands as I can't possibly hit her highpitched voice level without sounding ridicilous... ;)

She can navigate through the File Manager as well; start applications and/or open files...

And of course, she's learned to use the SMS/MMS and camera functionality.

Is she bright or is this normal?

Well, this is always hard to judge when you're fond of the kid; I'd say she IS bright, but I'd also say that most kids nowadays are so familiar with consoles, PCs, mobile phones, weird remote controls for TV and stereos etc., that they can use far more advanced phones than a Nokia 3310.

Edited April 1, 2006 by jakobdam

[Guest Mastiff]

Thanks! Actually my children has already found out how to start the SNES and GameBoy emulators and fire up games, so I think kids just are smarter then we think! ;)