Wonder whether anyone can help a dad out with a potential Christmas present for his daughter?
My (little) girl - she's 5آ½ - has set her sights on a video games console for Christmas, and I think has decided that the GameCube has the nicest logo (she's a girl, what does she know about technical specifications?). The thing is that her old dad being a diehard PC-gamer doesn't know one end of a modern games console from any other. I'm somewhat loathe to shell out a huge wad of cash on a new X-Box or PS2, or any of the the portable consoles, and I've seen some reasonably priced GameCubes for sale on the Internet, but there doesn't seem to be many 'New' ones for sale, so I'm assuming the GameCube is approaching it's 'End-of-Life' phase (which is fine because hopefully I can pick up old games for it cheap).
All she'll want to do is play games that are suitable for a pre-teen. She unfortunately finds the PC games I have either too involved, too complex or simply rely too much on text (ie rpgs). Ideally I'd like her to be able to try a console out beforehand so she can decide if its what she really wants, but since that's unlikely I've suggested we visit somewhere like Virgin or Game and try to get a demonstration from a sales assistant.
Anyone here got any experience of kids and games consoles?
My (little) girl - she's 5آ½ - has set her sights on a video games console for Christmas, and I think has decided that the GameCube has the nicest logo (she's a girl, what does she know about technical specifications?). The thing is that her old dad being a diehard PC-gamer doesn't know one end of a modern games console from any other. I'm somewhat loathe to shell out a huge wad of cash on a new X-Box or PS2, or any of the the portable consoles, and I've seen some reasonably priced GameCubes for sale on the Internet, but there doesn't seem to be many 'New' ones for sale, so I'm assuming the GameCube is approaching it's 'End-of-Life' phase (which is fine because hopefully I can pick up old games for it cheap).
All she'll want to do is play games that are suitable for a pre-teen. She unfortunately finds the PC games I have either too involved, too complex or simply rely too much on text (ie rpgs). Ideally I'd like her to be able to try a console out beforehand so she can decide if its what she really wants, but since that's unlikely I've suggested we visit somewhere like Virgin or Game and try to get a demonstration from a sales assistant.
Anyone here got any experience of kids and games consoles?

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