As easy or hard as you care to make it - a very quick, very addictive game for all ages. Jenga meets explosives.

A gentler, simpler cousin to Sims or Harvest Moon that lets the player set their own goals. Breed hybrid flowers? Catch every type of fish? Build all the dinosaurs? Kids fish, sell fruit, and interact with the neighbors. Write letters to friends or game characters, visit the towns your friends create.

The Lego series is extremely popular with the kids. Indiana Jones was buggy, it suffered from an extreme degree of difficulty in some levels and camera angle issues. Batman is a very respectable entry into kid friendly shooters. Enemies get blasted into lego blocks and rebuilt, new characters are easy to earn and levels don't need to be perfect.

I know, a fitness program seems like a strange must have for younger kids, but the balance games are a tremendous hit around here. The ability to chart the performance of the whole family appeals as they try to 'beat' a parent at pushups or hula hooping. Some might object to the scale classifying children as too thin or obese, but body issues are a fact of life these days.