Welcome to GamerDad: Gaming with Children. My name is Andrew S. Bub - the GamerDad - and I've been writing about videogames, movies, and children for over 15 years now. After working as a magazine journalist, I switched gears to write about how media violence affects children, educating parents about them, and working closely with magazines, newspapers, major retailers and even politicians. GamerDad is an internationally recognized expert in this field. Games, movies and media are fun, kids and families love them, they aren't going away. So join me in cutting through the hype and lets have a real conversation about the things that matter: Video Games, Violent Media, and their supposed effect on children and families.
Welcome to GamerDad: Gaming with Children. My name is Andrew S. Bub - the GamerDad - and I've been writing about videogames, movies, and children for over 15 years now. After working as a magazine journalist, I switched gears to write about how media violence affects children, educating parents about them, and working closely with magazines, newspapers, major retailers and even politicians. GamerDad is an internationally recognized expert in this field. Games, movies and media are fun, kids and families love them, they aren't going away. So join me in cutting through the hype and lets have a real conversation about the things that matter: Video Games, Violent Media, and their supposed effect on children and families.
Fit My Dog (Switch)
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Posted on August 14th, 2024 by
First there were cats, then zoo animals, and now dogs. In Fit My Dog, you must arrange canines of varying shapes onto a bed so they can take a nap together. It reminds me of those tanogram puzzles and is available on Nintendo Switch.
Busway Islands — Puzzle (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X/S, PC, Mobile)
Posted on August 12th, 2024 by
Arrange roads and tracks so a bus and a train can make it to all their stops and reach the tunnels without crashing into each other in Busway Islands – Puzzle. It’s available on pretty much anything you can play a game on, but reviewed on Switch here.
Nintendo World Championships NES Edition Deluxe Set
Posted on August 9th, 2024 by
Recently Nintendo released Nintendo World Championships NES Edition on the Switch. It’s more or less very similar to the NES Remix games on the Wii U and 3DS, except with more of a focus on speedrunning. I was able to get the Deluxe Set, so I wanted to show off what’s in there. Plus this’ll be a little review of the game, too. I was really glad to get the Deluxe Set of this game because I attended the first Nintendo World Championships back in 1990 when it was in Dallas. I even wrote an article about it almost ten years ago, and I encourage you to follow the link and read that one, too, so you’ll know just how special that was to me. And after you’ve read that, come back here and check out what’s in the Deluxe Set of the Nintendo World Championships NES Edition!
Super Woden GP 2 (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on August 7th, 2024 by
Top down viewed racing games have always been a staple in arcades and consoles, with titles like Super Sprint, World Rally, Micro Machines, RC Pro-Am, Drift Out, and many more. And now there’s the sequel to Super Woden GP, which I reviewed a couple of years ago. The newest installment is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.
Honeyland (Switch)
Posted on August 5th, 2024 by
Help a bear get to his honey in this card based puzzle game on Switch. On each level you are presented cards with numbers and arrows on them, and when you select one, your bear will move in that many spaces and go whatever direction it dictates. If you can reach the honey, you’ll pass the level, with 30 levels in all.
Chili’s BurgerTime (PC, Mobile)
Posted on August 2nd, 2024 by
I love BurgerTime, it’s one of my favorite arcade games. It’s one of the few games that could pull me away from Pac-Man when I was a kid. Other games in the arcade that could do that were Dig Dug, Q*bert, and Pengo. So when I found out that Chili’s restaurant was doing a promotion where you could play a version of BurgerTime to promote their Big Smasher Burger, I was intrigued. You could even win a contest where if you get a high score on the game, you could win burgers for life. I also read somewhere that you could also win a full size BurgerTime arcade machine, but I’m not sure if that’s true or not. In order to win, you had to sign up for their mailing list, so I didn’t want to do that. Unfortunately, by the time you read this, the contest may be over. I wish that when restaurant chains would do promotions, they’d make them last longer. Going out to eat is so expensive anymore, that I don’t get to do it as often. So by the time I can plan to go, the promotions are usually over. But I still wanted to write an article about it anyway because I thought it was interesting and I really like BurgerTime.
RPM: Road Punk Mayhem (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on July 31st, 2024 by
This is a 2D vertically scrolling bullet hell shooter that looks like it could’ve come from the late 90s/early 2000s. But instead of piloting a spaceship, this one has a post-apocalyptic setting. Choose from three punks, each with their own skills (and possibly varying levels of sanity) as you drive a vehicle in the desert avoiding bullets and shooting down all manner of cars, motorcycles, tanks, monster trucks, and more! RPM: Road Punk Mayhem is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.
Cyber Citizen Shockman Zero (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S, PC)
Posted on July 29th, 2024 by
Cyber Citizen Shockman was a series of 2D action platformers back in the 16-bit days. They starred a pair of superhero cyborg teens (a guy and a gal) who were created by a crazy professor. They would fight intergalactic baddies with their swords and beam attacks. The first two were on the PC Engine, which was the Japanese version of the TurboGrafix-16. The third game was on the Turbo CD, and I reviewed it a couple of months ago. The last game in the series was on the Super Famicom, which is the SNES in Japan. I don’t know if the characters are the same, but they might as well be. Gameplay is kind of a mix of Power Rangers and Mega Man X. And now you can play it on modern consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here.
Willy’s Wonderland: The Game (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S)
Posted on July 26th, 2024 by
A couple of years ago, I watched this really horrible horror B-movie that was streaming only on Hulu and it was called Willy’s Wonderland. In the movie, a drifter takes a job as a janitor in a run down kids’ indoor amusement area called Willy’s Wonderland. But when the animatronic animal robots come to life in the restaurant, the janitor must fight for his life. If that sounds like a rip off of Five Night’s At Freddy’s (FNAF), it certainly is. But I think this came out a year before the FNAF movie. Either way, the movie is NOT for kids, as it’s pretty violent and has a gross and unnecessary sex scene in it. But then, FNAF isn’t for kids either but they seem to be drawn to it for some reason. As a kid, I was never really scared of the Chuck E. Cheese robot singers, but then, I was more interested in the arcade games. The funniest thing about Willy’s Wonderland is that Nicholas Cage is the star, but he has NO lines. All he does is fight robots, take breaks, and drink a soda every ten minutes. The only thing he says is sometimes after drinking a soda he’ll go, “Ahhhh!” And now you can play a game based on the movie! You’d think it would be similar to the FNAF games, but it’s actually a side scrolling beat ‘em up. It was originally on mobile devices, if that gives you an indication of the quality. But now you can play it on current consoles (reviewed on PS4 here).
Bouncy Chicken (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X/S)
Posted on July 24th, 2024 by
Help a chicken gobble up all the ears of corn by bouncing it around the barnyard. Bouncy Chicken is a single screen action game that kind of makes me think of pool, and it’s available on all current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here.
