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Title: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: AUTailgatingRules on November 16, 2017, 07:17:54 PM
The kids (7 and 5) are asking for a game console from Santa.  Any thoughts on what is the best one out there for younger kids?

Playstation
Xbox
Nintendo Switch
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Buzz Killington on November 16, 2017, 07:54:09 PM
PS4.  Get the 1TB drive console though, those games are space hogs.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: chinook on November 16, 2017, 08:00:15 PM
The kids (7 and 5) are asking for a game console from Santa.  Any thoughts on what is the best one out there for younger kids?

Playstation
Xbox
Nintendo Switch


Perhaps you should let Santa decide...
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Snaggletiger on November 16, 2017, 08:19:20 PM

Perhaps you should let Santa decide...

^^This^^  What the hell Tailgating, are you trying to play God?


Other than being a smartass, I have nothing else to offer this thread.  Atari Pong?
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: WiregrassTiger on November 16, 2017, 09:53:45 PM
Chinese checkers
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Saniflush on November 17, 2017, 07:33:46 AM

Nintendo Switch

This is the direction we are going
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: GH2001 on November 17, 2017, 07:35:36 AM
For kids isn't it a no brainier for Nintendo? The other two would seem a bit complex for kids that young.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Kaos on November 17, 2017, 07:47:08 AM
Get the PS4.  Get Call of Duty.  Get Madden.

The kids will one day grow into it.  Meantime?  Enjoy. 
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: GH2001 on November 17, 2017, 08:01:26 AM
Get the PS4.  Get Call of Duty.  Get Madden.

The kids will one day grow into it.  Meantime?  Enjoy.

Agree it's awesome. And so are those games. Xbox is too. Both great.

But for a 5 year old?
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Kaos on November 17, 2017, 08:47:17 AM
Agree it's awesome. And so are those games. Xbox is too. Both great.

But for a 5 year old?

Yeah. When I was 5 I got a potato with wheels made of tinker toys stuck in it and an old piece of rope stuck through it. And I was glad to get it. I spray painted it white and called it herbie.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: CCTAU on November 17, 2017, 09:48:58 AM
I would wait a couple of years. These things become super addictive if not stringently controlled.

Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: WiregrassTiger on November 17, 2017, 10:01:54 AM
This is the direction we are going
I was hoping you hadn’t defected to Georgia.

We beat them, while you were gone, by the way.

Roy Moore went after that cooch of the teen 40 years ago, Wes and Chizzy still haven’t come out and Dallas is still really bad.

All else pretty much the same.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Saniflush on November 17, 2017, 10:50:31 AM
I was hoping you hadn’t defected to Georgia.

We beat them, while you were gone, by the way.

Roy Moore went after that cooch of the teen 40 years ago, Wes and Chizzy still haven’t come out and Dallas is still really bad.

All else pretty much the same.

Nah, just got limited at what I could look at work.  Now that Pornhub is active again I figured this would be as well.

You still got da brain pain?
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Buzz Killington on November 17, 2017, 10:55:38 AM
Nah, just got limited at what I could look at work.  Now that Pornhub is active again I figured this would be as well.

You still got da brain pain?

Wait...you had the choice between teh pornhubs and the X and you are here?  Welcome to the X, Senator!
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Saniflush on November 17, 2017, 10:58:14 AM
Wait...you had the choice between teh pornhubs and the X and you are here?  Welcome to the X, Senator!

I'm between skeets
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Snaggletiger on November 17, 2017, 11:42:34 AM
I'm between skeets


3, 6, 9 - damn she fine
Hoping she can sock it to me one more time
Get low, get low, get low get low!
To the window, to the wall!
Til the sweat drop down my balls
Til all these bitches crawl
Til all skeet skeet motherfuckers, all skeet skeet god damn!
Til all skeet skeet motherfuckers, all skeet skeet god damn
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: WiregrassTiger on November 17, 2017, 12:18:59 PM
Nah, just got limited at what I could look at work.  Now that Pornhub is active again I figured this would be as well.

You still got da brain pain?
Surgeon released me, believe it or not.

They accidentally left some glue and in my cerebellum. If anybody ever asks you about putting glue in Your cerebellum, don’t.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Snaggletiger on November 17, 2017, 12:22:51 PM
There is something wrong with that boy's medulla oblongata.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: WiregrassTiger on November 17, 2017, 12:43:19 PM
There is something wrong with that boy's medulla oblongata.
It’s not funny to make fun of someone’s health condition.

You insensitive bitch.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Snaggletiger on November 17, 2017, 12:48:58 PM
It’s not funny to make fun of someone’s health condition.

You insensitive bitch.

Sorry. I had a brain freeze.  I just had something else on my mind and wasn't thinking straight.  Don't stroke out over it. 
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: CCTAU on November 17, 2017, 02:29:54 PM
Just get one of those old Nintendo modules that has all of the old games.(you'll play Contra with them) Start them on the Disney series. Lion King is a good one. Then when they get old enough to get a good system, they will appreciated it!

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/snes-classic-in-stock-again-today-at-walmart-heres/1100-6454950/
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: jmar on November 17, 2017, 03:36:22 PM
Sorry. I had a brain freeze.  I just had something else on my mind and wasn't thinking straight.  Don't stroke out over it.
Now he's telling WT how to behave.
He's not a 9 year old Snags.

Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: wesfau2 on November 24, 2017, 08:35:26 AM
Just get one of those old Nintendo modules that has all of the old games.(you'll play Contra with them) Start them on the Disney series. Lion King is a good one. Then when they get old enough to get a good system, they will appreciated it!

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/snes-classic-in-stock-again-today-at-walmart-heres/1100-6454950/

I was wanting the classic nes mini so bad...but really didn't want to shell out $200+ for the privilege of playing.

I'm going to try loading an emulator and some roms on my Amazon Fire.  I ordered a bluetooth nes controller and I think I'm ready to rock.

Anyone tried this setup?
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Godfather on November 30, 2017, 04:05:06 PM
I was wanting the classic nes mini so bad...but really didn't want to shell out $200+ for the privilege of playing.

I'm going to try loading an emulator and some roms on my Amazon Fire.  I ordered a bluetooth nes controller and I think I'm ready to rock.

Anyone tried this setup?

I grabbed my bluetooth and shot a wad of nes all over your mom's chest. Only setup I've tried.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Vladimir on November 30, 2017, 10:47:36 PM
I grabbed my bluetooth and shot a wad of nes all over your mom's chest. Only setup I've tried.
Once we rig Roy Moore, not have to read this profane on Internet.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Kaos on January 02, 2018, 11:33:37 AM
I have thought much about this question and believe I can now answer definitively. 

The best gaming console is the front door.  Send them out it and let them make their own games out of grass, dirt, sticks, rocks, bugs, trees, etc. 
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Snaggletiger on January 02, 2018, 11:52:12 AM
I have thought much about this question and believe I can now answer definitively. 

The best gaming console is the front door.  Send them out it and let them make their own games out of grass, dirt, sticks, rocks, bugs, trees, etc.

Correct.  Earlier last year, Snagette and I were headed to the beach for the weekend. We asked Snags Light if he wanted to ask a friend to go with him.  He was dead serious when he asked us, "What would we do?"

You're kidding, right?  Right?  It's the beach.  In his mind, it didn't make sense to pack up his Nintendo/Playstationy/X-Box thingy and tote it all the way to the beach to play it down there.  Plus, he could stare at his phone all day here at home just as well.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: chinook on January 02, 2018, 11:52:37 AM
I have thought much about this question and believe I can now answer definitively. 

The best gaming console is the front door.  Send them out it and let them make their own games out of grass, dirt, sticks, rocks, bugs, trees, etc.

balance.

our kids 10 and 12.  girl and boy.   we do not own a modern day gaming console.   i have a wii that was bought around the time our oldest was born or shortly after.

our kids don't relate to other kids.  gaming is foreign to my kids.  cell phones are another thing...our kids don't have one.  perhaps, our son is the lonely 7th grader without one.  kids heads are buried to them.  i will not say our kids are perfect as the TV can be a default to wasted time. 

my kids don't have the same neighborhood i grew up in with 2 acre lots with woods to build "ewok" forts.  lot of newer homes are built on smaller lots stripped of every living thing.  i like to say we try to balance but doesn't always happen.  parents are part of the solution, sadly many are buried in their phones. 



Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Snaggletiger on January 02, 2018, 12:16:23 PM
balance.

our kids 10 and 12.  girl and boy.   we do not own a modern day gaming console.   i have a wii that was bought around the time our oldest was born or shortly after.

our kids don't relate to other kids.  gaming is foreign to my kids.  cell phones are another thing...our kids don't have one.  perhaps, our son is the lonely 7th grader without one.  kids heads are buried to them.  i will not say our kids are perfect as the TV can be a default to wasted time. 

my kids don't have the same neighborhood i grew up in with 2 acre lots with woods to build "ewok" forts.  lot of newer homes are built on smaller lots stripped of every living thing.  i like to say we try to balance but doesn't always happen.  parents are part of the solution, sadly many are buried in their phones.

I wish we had the same willpower to enforce some kind of balance, but unfortunately, it's a little late for that.  One kid grown and out of the house and Snags Light is 17.  He's not so much into gaming anymore but his face is absolutely buried in his phone...with headphones on.  It's our fault because we've just never put our foot down about it.  Gotta' say I respect you and the Mrs. for taking that stand. 

I'll spare everyone the old, "Back in the day" speech.  Just suffice it to say that electronics weren't a part of our upbringing.  I have a ton of great memories from all the stuff we did as kids, the majority of it in the great outdoors. 
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Kaos on January 02, 2018, 01:36:53 PM
I wish we had the same willpower to enforce some kind of balance, but unfortunately, it's a little late for that.  One kid grown and out of the house and Snags Light is 17.  He's not so much into gaming anymore but his face is absolutely buried in his phone...with headphones on.  It's our fault because we've just never put our foot down about it.  Gotta' say I respect you and the Mrs. for taking that stand. 

I'll spare everyone the old, "Back in the day" speech.  Just suffice it to say that electronics weren't a part of our upbringing.  I have a ton of great memories from all the stuff we did as kids, the majority of it in the great outdoors.

Back in the day...

When I was a kid I built ramps and jumped my bike over cars, ditches and other dangers.  I once piled wood into a shallow ditch, set it on fire and jumped my bike through that.  I built "forts" out of rocks I dug up.  I climbed trees and read books and napped in the branches. I built model cars so I could blow them up with firecrackers and gasoline. I dammed creeks and caught fish, turtles and the occasional snake.  I'd leave the house early and come back in for lunch and when it got dark.  Sometimes not even then.  A couple of times I built litttle shelters in the woods/trees and slept there when my folks said it was okay. 

That's apparently over.  My kids never get dirty.  Never climb trees. Never build anything or do much of anything physical.

At the Christmas dinner table I looked around.  The ages around the table were:  27, 26, 23, 18, 17, 17, 18, 50+ and 50.  Only two of those weren't on the phone doing who knows what.  Instafacing, bookgramming, whatever.   Same thing at a bigger dinner a few days before.  Fifteen people in the room and twelve of them looking at their phones. 

You know what I want to invent?  A cloaking device.  Something I can turn on that will disable all cell phones, iPads and any of that shit to force people to put them down for an hour or so. 

Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: chinook on January 02, 2018, 01:43:25 PM
Back in the day...

When I was a kid I built ramps and jumped my bike over cars, ditches and other dangers.  I once piled wood into a shallow ditch, set it on fire and jumped my bike through that.  I built "forts" out of rocks I dug up.  I climbed trees and read books and napped in the branches. I built model cars so I could blow them up with firecrackers and gasoline. I dammed creeks and caught fish, turtles and the occasional snake.  I'd leave the house early and come back in for lunch and when it got dark.  Sometimes not even then.  A couple of times I built litttle shelters in the woods/trees and slept there when my folks said it was okay. 

That's apparently over.  My kids never get dirty.  Never climb trees. Never build anything or do much of anything physical.

At the Christmas dinner table I looked around.  The ages around the table were:  27, 26, 23, 18, 17, 17, 18, 50+ and 50.  Only two of those weren't on the phone doing who knows what.  Instafacing, bookgramming, whatever.   Same thing at a bigger dinner a few days before.  Fifteen people in the room and twelve of them looking at their phones. 

You know what I want to invent?  A cloaking device.  Something I can turn on that will disable all cell phones, iPads and any of that shit to force people to put them down for an hour or so.

it's called data limits and pulling the plug on the wifi.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: wesfau2 on January 02, 2018, 02:31:22 PM
You know what I want to invent?  A cloaking device.  Something I can turn on that will disable all cell phones, iPads and any of that shit to force people to put them down for an hour or so.

I don't know if it went anywhere, but comedy clubs were looking at something like this to forestall the leaking of a comedian's set.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: chinook on January 02, 2018, 02:52:30 PM
I don't know if it went anywhere, but comedy clubs were looking at something like this to forestall the leaking of a comedian's set.

Guess that failed...comedy on the X is golden. 
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Post by: CCTAU on January 02, 2018, 03:25:04 PM
WALL-E...
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Buzz Killington on January 04, 2018, 09:07:36 AM
Guess that failed...comedy on the X is golden.
Nobody wants to leak any of this stuff though
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: wesfau2 on January 04, 2018, 10:03:51 AM
Nobody wants to leak any of this stuff though

I wanna piss on you.  Does that count?

Drip drip drip.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: War Eagle!!! on January 04, 2018, 10:11:33 AM
Only thing that makes my life complete is to turn your face into a toilet seat.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Godfather on January 04, 2018, 10:18:31 AM
Correct.  Earlier last year, Snagette and I were headed to the beach for the weekend. We asked Snags Light if he wanted to ask a friend to go with him.  He was dead serious when he asked us, "What would we do?"

You're kidding, right?  Right?  It's the beach.  In his mind, it didn't make sense to pack up his Nintendo/Playstationy/X-Box thingy and tote it all the way to the beach to play it down there.  Plus, he could stare at his phone all day here at home just as well.
Noah can babysit him if you need.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Godfather on January 04, 2018, 10:24:35 AM
You know what I want to invent?  A cloaking device.  Something I can turn on that will disable all cell phones, iPads and any of that shit to force people to put them down for an hour or so.

It's called a cell phone jammer and unfortunately, they are illegal.

However you can build one.
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Cell-Phone-Jammer
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: chinook on January 04, 2018, 11:25:06 AM
Noah can babysit him if you need.


You really think he has the time?  Building a boat and then overseeing thousands of animals?!?!
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Post by: Snaggletiger on January 04, 2018, 11:28:36 AM

You really think he has the time?  Building a boat and then overseeing thousands of animals?!?!

 :rimshot:


On a side note, I didn't pull up the piece on the bookfaces, but what's the gas pumping deal going on up in tree-hugger country?
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: chinook on January 04, 2018, 12:11:30 PM
:rimshot:


On a side note, I didn't pull up the piece on the bookfaces, but what's the gas pumping deal going on up in tree-hugger country?

Oregon got trolled by all of America except New Jersey. 

Basically,  for folks living [or traveling through] in a county with a population of less than 40k they can now legally pump their own gas without the assistance of gas attendant; however, as with any law there are stipulations and what not...I'm not sure all of the details.  It will not affect me though when we travel east for camping I will have the pleasure of pumping my own gas.   


Here is a commentary piece...

Self Serve Click (http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2018/01/actually_oregons_ban_on_self-p.html#incart_river_home_pop)
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Godfather on January 04, 2018, 01:22:18 PM

You really think he has the time?  Building a boat and then overseeing thousands of animals?!?!
This weekend he has to wax the Lexus
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: chinook on January 04, 2018, 02:04:33 PM
This weekend he has to wax the Lexus

He's got to get it ready for the baby sitter.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Snaggletiger on January 04, 2018, 02:07:13 PM
Oregon got trolled by all of America except New Jersey. 

Basically,  for folks living [or traveling through] in a county with a population of less than 40k they can now legally pump their own gas without the assistance of gas attendant; however, as with any law there are stipulations and what not...I'm not sure all of the details.  It will not affect me though when we travel east for camping I will have the pleasure of pumping my own gas.   


Here is a commentary piece...

Self Serve Click (http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2018/01/actually_oregons_ban_on_self-p.html#incart_river_home_pop)

Feeble-handed troglodytes, the whole lot of you.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: WiregrassTiger on January 04, 2018, 02:51:33 PM
Before you know it the liberal queers will want to discourage folks from smoking while they pump gas or some other gay stuff.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: AUJarhead on January 04, 2018, 04:13:52 PM
He's got to get it ready for the baby sitter.

I hope the first thing mini-Buzz does is go to the airport to pick up some friends.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Godfather on January 04, 2018, 04:51:23 PM
Oregon got trolled by all of America except New Jersey. 

Basically,  for folks living [or traveling through] in a county with a population of less than 40k they can now legally pump their own gas without the assistance of gas attendant; however, as with any law there are stipulations and what not...I'm not sure all of the details.  It will not affect me though when we travel east for camping I will have the pleasure of pumping my own gas.   


Here is a commentary piece...

Self Serve Click (http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2018/01/actually_oregons_ban_on_self-p.html#incart_river_home_pop)
Next thing you know Nook will want his shoes shined by a man named Porterhouse.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: Snaggletiger on January 04, 2018, 04:53:46 PM
Next thing you know Nook will want his shoes shined by a man named Porterhouse.

Say, Fred, did you hear the one about the Jew, the Catholic, and the colored boy who went to heaven?
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: chinook on January 04, 2018, 04:57:38 PM
Next thing you know Nook will want his shoes Crocs shined Armor All protected by a man named Porterhouse.

Don't be silly.  Fixt.
Title: Re: What is the best Game Console For Kids
Post by: AUJarhead on January 04, 2018, 06:53:32 PM
Before you know it the liberal queers will want to discourage folks from smoking while they pump gas or some other gay stuff.

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