{"id":5067,"date":"2010-09-18T13:07:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T19:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2010-09-18T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T19:07:49","slug":"5067","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/5067\/","title":{"rendered":"GameBoy Micro for 3?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/0306GameBoy.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5068 alignright\" title=\"0306GameBoy.1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/0306GameBoy.1-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>MR. KIRBY ASKS: I have a 3 year old boy and he loves to play with handheld\u00a0games. \u00a0My cell phone for one. \u00a0In your opinion, is the gameboy micro\u00a0too advanced for a 3 year old? \u00a0Are there games available for him to\u00a0play and know how to play that doesn&#8217;t require reading? \u00a0Thanks in\u00a0advance to your response.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->GAMERDAD SAYS: \u00a0I love the Gameboy Micro, just love it. I&#8217;ve never actually used mine much &#8211; because I have so many other options &#8211; but I really dig the size and convenience. I don&#8217;t recommend it for you though. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, the size is okay with supervision and the GBA does offer a handful of kiddie games and platformers (like Super Mario) but the DS also offers this and will last you longer because of all the cool DS games out there (most of which also means reading &#8211; and you have to worry about the kid losing the stylus.<\/p>\n<p>So what would I do? \u00a0I&#8217;d buy a Leapster 2. \u00a0LOTS of educational games based on licensed properties (Spidey, Disney, etc.,) and the system and software are built rugged. Even for a 3-year old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MR. KIRBY ASKS: I have a 3 year old boy and he loves to play with handheld\u00a0games. \u00a0My cell phone for one. \u00a0In your opinion, is the gameboy micro\u00a0too advanced for a 3 year old? \u00a0Are there games available for him to\u00a0play and know how to play that doesn&#8217;t require reading? \u00a0Thanks in\u00a0advance to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-askgamerdad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}