Buying Video Games For Your Kids Online
A guide to buying video games for kids, online.
This guide is for an adult purchasing video games online for a younger person. If you are not already a gamer, in your initial visit to any video game retailer online you would be overwhelmed – especially if you’re new to gaming. Teens and kids with gaming addictions know their way around as it is. For the adult, the online video game store is an animated explosion. Much like the action figure section of your local Toys R Us.
First you must do your research before shopping for games online. There’s plenty of information available about video games on the web, so to reduce frustration google ‘video game information’. Alternatively you can visit the website you plan to purchase video games from, and search for games according to what system your kid(s) have. Video games systems are usually denoted by abbreviations. Here’s a helpful chart to explain what all those abbreviations mean:
Wii = Nintendo’s Wii System
PS3 = Playstation 3 System
XBOX 360 = Microsoft’s XBOX 360 System
PC = Personal Computer
PS2 = Playstation 2 System
PSP = Playstation Portable System
DS = Nintendo’s DS System
The key is to locate the system first. After locating the system it should be clear what games the store has available that work with that system. After locating the appropriate games section for the game system you are purchasing for, take a look at the rating indicated on the game’s cover (if the site offers a detailed enough picture) or in the information box. Alternatively you can go look up the ratings on the games official site. Find the official site by googling the title of the game. The ESRB gives each game a rating in an effort to allow parents to control what their children are exposed to when playing video games. Here’s a reference for the abbreviations:
C = Appropriate for Early childhood
E = Appropriate for Everyone
E 10+ = Appropriate for Everyone aged 10 and older
T = Appropriate for Teens
M = Appropriate for Mature Adults
The majority of the time, illustrations on the covers and ads of the games you are purchasing do a wonderful job of exposing what the game is about. So if you see an illustration of a man holding a gun, chances are, there is gore and violence in that game–you might not want that
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for your child. I’d recommend making a selection based on the latest childrens and action/adventure movie releases. Kids love the new animated movies definitely enjoy re-living the best scenes from the movie, in the video game. If you can’t find a game that’s built from a movie that the child likes, try to find a game that centers around a popular animated or action program, or one that can be considered educational. If you still can’t find one, point your browser to the nearest Blockbuster or Hollywood Video website. Usually they have a list of the latest releases. Use that list to compile your own list of games you would purchase for your kid(s). Then go back to the website that you intended to buy from and enter the games on your list into their search bar. If, on the other hand, you did find a game, you can purchase it at the given website.
By: John Ehimare
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If you are looking to download free games to your PSP then the fact is that you will first have to downgrade your PSP. Downgrading means we change the system firmware to an earlier version, in this case are 1.50. This particular firmware allows us to take advantage of some built and exploits in the PSP, which means we can actually download games off the Internet and play them. Now there are an abundance of sites currently on at the Internet that proclaim to have thousands if not millions of games, ready for you to download on your PSP (which by the way is a load of crap). They neglect to mention that you have to have a downgraded PSP to be able to download all these free games.Now for those who have a 1.50 PSP or who have downgraded to a 1.50, the doors are now wide open to the world of downloading free games for your PSP.
Okay, let’s just assume you have the 1.50 PSP, because really that’s what you need to download free games. From here we can do a range of things. Firstly, we can download an emulator which will allow us to play old school games. These emulators basically turn our PSP’s into Game Boy’s, Nintendo’s and Sega Master Systems in fact, you can just about get any of the earlier handheld consoles and play those games on your PSP providing you find the correct emulator. This means that there are literally thousands of games that you could download for free and play them on your PSP.
You can also download games made for the PSP, known as homebrew games. These games have been made by PSP enthusiasts who know a bit about programming and have made their very own games for the PSP community. These homebrew programmers want you to try out their games and they want you to help develop, play and make them better. Now again, there are hundreds if not thousand of these types of games available to you to download for free.
Now you’re probably asking ” what about umd games, can I download these? “, will the truth is, “yes” you can in fact download umd games as well, although only in certain situations. If you are to download a umd game off the Internet (and there are a lot to download) you should own the original umd game or else you are stealing property, which is against the law, and rightfully so. Please do not download games that you are not legally entitled to do so.
Now remember, all of this means nothing unless you have downgraded your PSP first of all, so before you can even contemplate downloading free games for the PSP you better find out how you can downgrade your PSP.
There are a stack of places on the Internet which will tell you how to downgrade your PSP. But be very careful where you get your software and your instructions on how to do the downgrade because if it all goes wrong, which is quite easy if you don’t follow instructions exactly, you will be left with a brick (brick meaning to PSP that is useless, or good for a brick).
My advice is to downgrade your PSP today, so, you too can enjoy the benefits of downloading free games for your PSP.
Terry Dunn is webmaster of http://www.PspVideoGuide.com the only resource online that shows you step by step using video how to turn your Psp into a fantastic multimedia centre.
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