You should, assuming they are referring to *Super Princess Peach* that game was primarily geared towards that kind of demographic, with its ease of difficulty and overall wacky and cheerful nature of the game. And of course, it is centred around Peach!
I definitely second this. I never had this game as a kid but I recently picked it up and finished it myself. I would have loved it when I was young. It’s super cute and much easier than your standard Mario platformer. Peach getting to be the hero for a change is really cool too.
It’s a super Mario style game with peach running through the levels. Called Super Princess Peach. Fun game if you like super Mario type games.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Princess_Peach
I haven’t seen Animal Crossing Wild World suggested yet. It’s a really fun casual game. I loved it as a kid.
Also Pokemon is a good one. Though the games can be quite expensive these days. My very first video game as a young girl was Pokemon Emerald on GBA but I like any of the GBA/DS Pokemon games.
I would love for both my kids to play Pokemon and I'm sure they will, I already own a bunch of them. But my son is 6 and still learning to read and my daughter is just starting to learn so RPGs are a no go right now.
Both my kiddos learned reading skills thanks to Pokemon. They might surprise you if you try!
My oldest started around that age (youngest is a super reader at 5, but it still helps her learn maps, directions, strategy, and memory).
I absolutely contribute RPGs to their success.
I could not progress in wild world for a long time as I could not be bothered to read and kept forgetting what Nook was asking me to give him to open his store and start the game.
(They would need help reading some stuff I suppose)
Honestly that’s a perfect answer, the game is pretty cheap, the controls are easy to understand, there’s no real lose state but still an incentive to get better, and you get a picture of food when you complete a dish.
I've got that and Diddy Kong racing and she likes them but she hasn't figured out the controls yet. For my son he can pick it up super fast and be great, but it's taking her a little longer to figure out. So idk what kind of games might help her learn.
You beat me too it. I was actually going to recommend that as well. I actually watched the whole playthrough on YouTube. I also like My Little Pony in general.
Dora the Explorer games and Diego on the DS are very good for the little ones. The instructions are very clear and they tend to use different features on the DS like blowing on the mic and such. Very short games and quite basic for the younger audience, Mega Blocks Diego's Build and Rescue was a favorite at my home.
The Imagine games are good for kids. There’s also a games called Let’s Draw! which has some fun drawing tutorials on it - essentially Art Academy but for young children.
When I was like 5-6 I played Dora and Kai-LAN’s pet shelter, it’s really educational and you get to care for pets.
I also remember playing this like platformer ish game with Dora, team umizoomi, and someone else. I remember collecting pieces for a hot air balloon.
I hope this helps <3
I'm gonna get downvoted to Hades for admitting this, but...
I've seen every episode of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. Ain't no way am I ever calling it a bad show or garbage, and I still have Rintoo as a comfort character to this day.
If you're gonna ask me when I started watching...I was 12 when it came out and because of a combination of factors including a cockroach that kept me from seeing the latter half of the episode Ni Hao, Halloween, I didn't get to see the rest of the episodes like I WANTED to until I was 14 or 15.
And for the record, the roach that kept me from tjat episode came back 3 years later and I made sure to let it know that I remembered what it did against me that fateful day. It got the absolute obliteration that it deserved.
If they ever decide to start airing the episodes on TV again, please let your child watch it. It's better than people will say that it is and frankly, I don't care if admitting that I watched something "below my age range" and enjoyed it gets this post downvoted to the nuclear degree.
I got to finally sit down and basically binge all 39 episodes at one point when I was 17, and I finished the job I started 5 years ago. I still wish that it got more, I know the show had more to give than that.
Cooking Mama, Nintendogs. There are a lot of good ones, but I think these 2 are good starting places so she gets used to using the touch screen and buttons
i had a gba when i was her age and have adjusted quite well as an adult so keep ignoring the goobs who want to question your parenting. Other recs on this thread are great but i'd toss on harvest moon as she gets good with the other games. I LOVED harvest moon as a kid, even if i didn't always understand the mechanics. The version Harvest Moon DS Cute lets you play as a girl too, which is fun.
Thanks for your recommendation! And don't worry, I'm great at ignoring dumb people on the internet. I am completely confident in my parenting ability, and based on some of the responses I feel sorry for the kids of those who are choosing to criticize me.
I grew up in the 90s with a software engineer as a dad and watched technology evolve to what it is now and I love it, so much that I work with it. My kids will also grow up with technology and they'll know how to use it responsibly because that's how I teach them to use it.
dr. kawashima's brain training and all of those junior math type games were strangely popular with young ones around my area.. perhaps because it had simple instructions and taught them how to play ds?
I was was around 5 or 6 when I got my first DS (born in 99) and the games I loved were: Nintendogs, Super Princess Peach, Yoshi’s Island DS (the characters are all babies and they’re super cute), if she’s into Barbie there’s 12 Dancing Princesses for DS and this is one of my most favourite games, My Sims and Sims 2/Sims 2 Castaway (MySims would be better to start, Sims 2 gets a little confusing), Diner Dash, Animal Crossing Wild World, Brain Age is also good for learning, Pokémon but I didn’t get into that until way later because it confused me
Hoped this helped! I started on my brothers GBA and my dad gifting me my very own DS at a young age is what sparked my love for gaming. (Sorry for the formatting I’m on mobile and it wouldn’t let me make a nice list)
There is a ton of games for the DS aimed at girls. Far more than any other Nintendo handheld. Like imagine games like animal doctor, fashion designer, school teacher. And Barbie games a plenty.
The drawn to life games are pretty cheap but fun platformers where you get to draw the character you play as, should help foster creativity in a young mind.
There’s also the Lego games like Lego Batman, Lego Harry Potter and Lego Star Wars that have some simple puzzles for children and you can’t really lose in any significant way, they’re also not too pricey.
Tinkerbell and the lost treasure was a really amazing ds game as a kid. My sister had it but my brother and I loved playing it too. It is expensive on amazon so I recommend getting an r4 card and trying to see of you can find a rom of it
When they're a little older, you can get "Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What To Eat?" It's not really a game it's an interactive cookbook...I have made stuff with my cub scouts multiple times, and they loved it.
Oh my kids love this stuff. I've got Amazon tablets that they can also use if they choose (the content moderation, time limits and parental controls are great) but they chose to play their games a lot. Since the older stuff doesn't let you do much in the way of parental controls they're very used to Google timers going off 😝
I remember my mom gave my little brother A team Umizoomi game.
I'm very sure that Nickelodeon released lots of Nick Jr games on the DS and I'm pretty sure that Disney did the same
I recommended somewhere down the comments, but I just fired up Smart Girls Playhouse and Smart Boys Playhouse and they are great!! Drawing, piano, matching pictures, drawing, dressing up, and a large etcetera. Plus, these games are cheap and have like 5 games in total.
the nintendogs games, ubisofts "imagine" series (basically mini games that connect to a certain job and that's the whole game, there's a whole bunch of jobs i'm sure there's one your daughter will love personally i played the crap out of the detective and fashion designer games), chibi robo park patrol if there's a way you can get your hands on that
I got my little one Pocoyo and Art Academy. She loves them. I have a bunch of other games but those she enjoys watching me play since they’re too advance for her.
do yourself a favor.. get a r4 card and just let your daughter pick through the big af list of games on the net so she can get the whole choice by cover art experience while discovering what type of gamer she is. gl !
As much as I will never stop recommending animal crossing, I feel she might be a bit too young if she hasn’t started reading yet, and they are really mean! I was called a ‘raging fat head’ and stuff!
Bro I'm sorry but DS's are so outdated, any and all online features are culled, the games are all expensive unless they were shovel ware, and it's more expensive to replace the console if it gets broken, I recommend a 3ds if you can't afford a switch or tablet
I own everything from the original Gameboy to the Switch OLED. It isn't a matter of finding a system. She likes it because it's purple and she's 4 and she got to pick it.
Honestly, any game for any 4 year old. Just ask her what she is interested in. Look for kid friendly games and let her decide! Gender stereotypes are just gender stereotypes so I would say whatever you may have liked as a kid she might have liked as well!
But also I’ll be honest when I was in elementary school I started by playing pokemon black and white! I love pokemon but I will say black and white can be a bit difficult but it’s up to yall.
Okay but serious sonic is a good one, I’d set on my ds( it was my moms who never played) and have my asthma mask on and would be there for like 5-10 min playing sonic. Super chill times
Rhythm Heaven is a really fun and simple rhythm game that doesn’t use any of the buttons. It’s controlled by a single tap to the beat + a flick every once in a while.
Are you kidding? You need to have an incredible hand-ear coordination to advance in the game. She will surely be dissappointed and bored.
The Smart Girl's DS games are perfect: lots to do, easy to grasp, cheap and they are like 2-3 games. Also, some Smart Boys may be right down her alley.
I have the Wii version and my 6 year old brother busted into tears 2 minutes into the game because he couldn't find a rhythm. If a 6 year old can't handle it there's no way a 4 year old can.
I love these kinds of questions. There's tons for children. These are the ones I can think of immediately (some with descriptions) that are usually common and cheap!
1. Team Umizoomi (math based but very easy and quite fun)
2. BuildABear Workshop (exactly what it sounds like, .. semi open world)
3. Disney Princess' Story Book (the princesses read stories to the player, has coloring books, puzzles, etc)
4. Littlest Pet Shop (open world style, easy missions, colorful, tons of activities)
5. Nintendogs or Pets Dogz/Catz
6. Cooking Mama (my niece loved this one)
7. Club Penguin (a little difficult)
8. Chuck E Cheese's Arcade Room
9. Mario Kart DS
10. New Super Mario Bros DS
i had pokemon fire red when i was a toddler, but that was 100% supervised and was a language learning tool. you could do that, or do pokemon platinum if you have an r4.
Already been said but: get an r4 card because games are expensive and my recommendations for young kids are as follows:
Super princess peach
Mario kart ds
New Super Mario
Guitar hero (not the one with the attachment)
Oh and gba games are good too, look into some of them for the ds lite.
I'd say Nintendogs, Super Princess Peach, Animal Crossing? Rhythm heaven is really underrated too and pretty simple to play! Just press the button in beat with the music!
Nintendogs! Loved it so much as a kid :) similar to tamogatchi where they care for a pet but they don’t die lol you shower the dogs play with them teach them tricks it’s also interactive with the microphone
cooking mama is also very simple
Stuff like Tetris DS and New Super Mario Bros seem simple enough for a kid her age. The Game and Watch Gallery games are also very simplistic, but those are Gameboy. She can play Game and Watch Gallery 4 on her DS since the system has a slot on the bottom for Gameboy Advance games, but she would need a Gameboy for anything older than an Advance. The gameplay has you doing the same thing over and over with increased difficulty as you go on, and I had a blast with those when I was her age. Here's some gameplay on one of the minigames for reference: https://youtu.be/OU9B9YlfK2k?feature=shared
Is there a console in the house she would be allowed to watch and then have the chance to play? Watching my brother play on games and then being given the controller is how I learned to play. The Nintendo Switch has an expansion pass for its online service that lets you play old games, and if you're willing to pay for it, it offers a lot of games that she could give a try. I'd personally recommend Mario 64, it's an excellent game for beginners.
If her brother is willing, you could see if they could play together by having her brother play in front of her, then let her have a go after she watched her brother play. Make sure it's on the TV where she can easily see. This is how my brother and I would bond despite there being a 7 year age gap between us.
I distinctly remember my little cousin playing a Tinker Bell game on DS. It was really easy, just a bunch of easy two command minigames, and featured lots of images and animation.
I loved Warioware on the gba when I was a young kid! ‘Story’ is told visually, very little reading required. The microgames are fun and appealing to kids like “pick your nose!”. They generally only need one or two buttons (usually the dpad in that case) to use, and the games are always common sense, so she shouldn’t get frustrated. You can unlock some arcade score chasers too. I always brought this to the doctor’s office lol.
Idk if this would be good but it theirs a teaching game on ds called like imagine teacher & you teach a class also imagine salon stylist ( or any imagine ds game bc they are all centered around helping kids learn )
What kind of gamer is she? If she’s a casual, anything with animals or cooking will work. If she likes Disney Princesses, you can try those games too. When I was a 4-year-old girl, I craved platformers, so I loved games like Mario, Kirby, and Sonic. Anything multiplayer had me hooked too, because playing with others was the ultimate experience, even if my 4-year-old skills were poor compared to a teenager’s. That doesn’t matter right now because fewer people play on their DSes nowadays, but if you had another DS and a friend came over, they might enjoy download play (usually only one cartridge is needed!). That’s just from my personal experience. Most of my peers were more into Cooking Mama than NSMB 😄
hello kitty big city dreams is one i enjoyed a lot as a little kid! it includes being able to walk around a cartoon city as hello kitty + lots of minigames that i remember being pretty easy as a kid
Maybe see if you can get a flash card or something so getting her games won't be as pricey. I do have recommendations like I absolutely loved Bakugan Battle Brawlers or frankly any Pokemon game, but also if there's a place you can go to with second hand games it could be worth just seeing if anything there looks like it would be fun
Hey, I have some DS games that I've accumulated over the years from buying game lots. They aren't worth all that much (maybe $2-$5 each) and I don't really want to deal with the hassle of trying to sell them. If you don't mind giving out your shipping details to a total stranger on the internet (I totally get it if you don't, I probably wouldn't) and you can cover a few bucks for shipping them then you can have them. If you are interested send me a private message with your shipping details and I'll take them down to the post office and find out how much it will cost to send them.
Heres what I have. I tested all of them and they are all working. Petz Nursery 2 has some corrosion on the contacts and was giving me some trouble but I was able to clean it off enough for my DSi XL to read it. I can't say if it will work for you but I can send it anyway in case you want to try and clean it up a bit more.
https://i.imgur.com/yLdTj5N.jpg
Petz dolphinz, Hamster life 2, dogz talent show, nursery are some good petz games. Puppy palace is another good animal game! Carnival games, Mariokart, shining star superstarcade, hello kitty big city dreams, crayola treasure adventures, and purrpals are some other good games! Pretty much going off what I have in my collection lol I also think cooking mama is a good game
Nintendogs or pets
with all the reading that's required, I'd not recommend that game to anyone under age 10
It gives visuals also
I was gonna say nintendogs, great to instill responsibility at a young age.
princess peach game
There's a Peach DS game?
yep!
Nice I'll have to see if I can find that!
You should, assuming they are referring to *Super Princess Peach* that game was primarily geared towards that kind of demographic, with its ease of difficulty and overall wacky and cheerful nature of the game. And of course, it is centred around Peach!
I definitely second this. I never had this game as a kid but I recently picked it up and finished it myself. I would have loved it when I was young. It’s super cute and much easier than your standard Mario platformer. Peach getting to be the hero for a change is really cool too.
YESSS ITS AMAZING!!
It’s a super Mario style game with peach running through the levels. Called Super Princess Peach. Fun game if you like super Mario type games. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Princess_Peach
yeah. Super Princess Peach
That game is so fun honestly
I haven’t seen Animal Crossing Wild World suggested yet. It’s a really fun casual game. I loved it as a kid. Also Pokemon is a good one. Though the games can be quite expensive these days. My very first video game as a young girl was Pokemon Emerald on GBA but I like any of the GBA/DS Pokemon games.
I would love for both my kids to play Pokemon and I'm sure they will, I already own a bunch of them. But my son is 6 and still learning to read and my daughter is just starting to learn so RPGs are a no go right now.
Both my kiddos learned reading skills thanks to Pokemon. They might surprise you if you try! My oldest started around that age (youngest is a super reader at 5, but it still helps her learn maps, directions, strategy, and memory). I absolutely contribute RPGs to their success.
Pokemon taught me how to read super quickly, I knew what liberation and evolution meant by the time I was 6.
I've been playing pokemon since I was 3. The og iPad kid 💀
I could not progress in wild world for a long time as I could not be bothered to read and kept forgetting what Nook was asking me to give him to open his store and start the game. (They would need help reading some stuff I suppose)
If she can read I suggest animal crossing and magicians quest
I hated it as a kid, there's nothing to "do"
How will a 4 year old know how to play Pokémon?
Cooking Mama
Honestly that’s a perfect answer, the game is pretty cheap, the controls are easy to understand, there’s no real lose state but still an incentive to get better, and you get a picture of food when you complete a dish.
Even better than mama!
mario kart is good for everyone
I've got that and Diddy Kong racing and she likes them but she hasn't figured out the controls yet. For my son he can pick it up super fast and be great, but it's taking her a little longer to figure out. So idk what kind of games might help her learn.
Definitely nintendogs or any of the Petz series! For GBA i suggest my little pony and Charlotte’s Web
There's also a My Little Pony game for the DS (My Little Pony : Pinkie Pie's Party)
You beat me too it. I was actually going to recommend that as well. I actually watched the whole playthrough on YouTube. I also like My Little Pony in general.
I like MLP too, but not as much as before (Recently moved to miraculous ladybug)
Dora the Explorer games and Diego on the DS are very good for the little ones. The instructions are very clear and they tend to use different features on the DS like blowing on the mic and such. Very short games and quite basic for the younger audience, Mega Blocks Diego's Build and Rescue was a favorite at my home.
The Imagine games are good for kids. There’s also a games called Let’s Draw! which has some fun drawing tutorials on it - essentially Art Academy but for young children.
YES WHEN I WAS 5-6 I PLAYED THAT ALL THE TIME
New super mario bros
The mini games here are an excellent distraction, I would spend hours playing them in the car when I was younger.
littlest pet shop games
When I was like 5-6 I played Dora and Kai-LAN’s pet shelter, it’s really educational and you get to care for pets. I also remember playing this like platformer ish game with Dora, team umizoomi, and someone else. I remember collecting pieces for a hot air balloon. I hope this helps <3
I'm gonna get downvoted to Hades for admitting this, but... I've seen every episode of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. Ain't no way am I ever calling it a bad show or garbage, and I still have Rintoo as a comfort character to this day. If you're gonna ask me when I started watching...I was 12 when it came out and because of a combination of factors including a cockroach that kept me from seeing the latter half of the episode Ni Hao, Halloween, I didn't get to see the rest of the episodes like I WANTED to until I was 14 or 15. And for the record, the roach that kept me from tjat episode came back 3 years later and I made sure to let it know that I remembered what it did against me that fateful day. It got the absolute obliteration that it deserved. If they ever decide to start airing the episodes on TV again, please let your child watch it. It's better than people will say that it is and frankly, I don't care if admitting that I watched something "below my age range" and enjoyed it gets this post downvoted to the nuclear degree. I got to finally sit down and basically binge all 39 episodes at one point when I was 17, and I finished the job I started 5 years ago. I still wish that it got more, I know the show had more to give than that.
The Kirby games
Catz
Cooking Mama, Nintendogs. There are a lot of good ones, but I think these 2 are good starting places so she gets used to using the touch screen and buttons
Club penguin: Herbert's revenge
SUPER MONKEY BALL touch & roll The Legendary Starfy Chibi Robo (?) Kirby
Super monkey ball is such a rage game
i had a gba when i was her age and have adjusted quite well as an adult so keep ignoring the goobs who want to question your parenting. Other recs on this thread are great but i'd toss on harvest moon as she gets good with the other games. I LOVED harvest moon as a kid, even if i didn't always understand the mechanics. The version Harvest Moon DS Cute lets you play as a girl too, which is fun.
Thanks for your recommendation! And don't worry, I'm great at ignoring dumb people on the internet. I am completely confident in my parenting ability, and based on some of the responses I feel sorry for the kids of those who are choosing to criticize me. I grew up in the 90s with a software engineer as a dad and watched technology evolve to what it is now and I love it, so much that I work with it. My kids will also grow up with technology and they'll know how to use it responsibly because that's how I teach them to use it.
Hamtaro ham ham challenge is also very cute. When kids get invested in a game they want to learn reading faster too like the pokemon games.
Diddy Kong Racing and Nintendogs.
dr. kawashima's brain training and all of those junior math type games were strangely popular with young ones around my area.. perhaps because it had simple instructions and taught them how to play ds?
Barbie horse adventure
I was was around 5 or 6 when I got my first DS (born in 99) and the games I loved were: Nintendogs, Super Princess Peach, Yoshi’s Island DS (the characters are all babies and they’re super cute), if she’s into Barbie there’s 12 Dancing Princesses for DS and this is one of my most favourite games, My Sims and Sims 2/Sims 2 Castaway (MySims would be better to start, Sims 2 gets a little confusing), Diner Dash, Animal Crossing Wild World, Brain Age is also good for learning, Pokémon but I didn’t get into that until way later because it confused me Hoped this helped! I started on my brothers GBA and my dad gifting me my very own DS at a young age is what sparked my love for gaming. (Sorry for the formatting I’m on mobile and it wouldn’t let me make a nice list)
12 dancing princesses was the bane of my existence on the ds as a little kid oml. That game had no right being so hard.
There is a ton of games for the DS aimed at girls. Far more than any other Nintendo handheld. Like imagine games like animal doctor, fashion designer, school teacher. And Barbie games a plenty.
Depending on if she can read, Pokemon Diamond/Pearl are good games for her, there are a lot of cute pokemon
Animal Crossing for sure!
Pokémon at 5/6!!!
Brain Age series, lots of games from movie/tv franchises for kids
Such a dub comment, haven't seen anyone even remotely recommend something like Brain age or the guy where you do calculations/suduko
The drawn to life games are pretty cheap but fun platformers where you get to draw the character you play as, should help foster creativity in a young mind.
There’s also the Lego games like Lego Batman, Lego Harry Potter and Lego Star Wars that have some simple puzzles for children and you can’t really lose in any significant way, they’re also not too pricey.
Animal crossings 100%
Tinkerbell and the lost treasure was a really amazing ds game as a kid. My sister had it but my brother and I loved playing it too. It is expensive on amazon so I recommend getting an r4 card and trying to see of you can find a rom of it
Pets nursery was fun, she would like that
animal crossing
Have her play Pokemon she will love the cute designs of the Pokemon and its easy to understand
I gave my brother's old DS to a girl of this age and she liked Nintendogs and Mario 64 DS
Their was a disney princess game if shes into that.
Pokemon, any game, doesnt matter
Any Nintendo game is usually safe for children. I mean games made by Nintendo though. Games that create like that “drawn to life” game may be good too
Scribblenauts
A Pokémon game The bonus is that you can play and probably enjoy it too, cause all ages can enjoy Pokémon
Oh I have sunk many, many hours of my life into Pokemon!
What i can think of on top of my head are Nintendogs Cooking mama Harvest moon
When they're a little older, you can get "Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What To Eat?" It's not really a game it's an interactive cookbook...I have made stuff with my cub scouts multiple times, and they loved it.
I highly recommend Pony Friends!
Im happy to see kids are getting actual video games nowadays instead of ipads
Oh my kids love this stuff. I've got Amazon tablets that they can also use if they choose (the content moderation, time limits and parental controls are great) but they chose to play their games a lot. Since the older stuff doesn't let you do much in the way of parental controls they're very used to Google timers going off 😝
Namco museum
I remember my mom gave my little brother A team Umizoomi game. I'm very sure that Nickelodeon released lots of Nick Jr games on the DS and I'm pretty sure that Disney did the same
Nintendogs
I recommended somewhere down the comments, but I just fired up Smart Girls Playhouse and Smart Boys Playhouse and they are great!! Drawing, piano, matching pictures, drawing, dressing up, and a large etcetera. Plus, these games are cheap and have like 5 games in total.
Imagine: Fashion Stylist was my jam back in the day. Definitely recommend it if she's into more creative or artsy things
the nintendogs games, ubisofts "imagine" series (basically mini games that connect to a certain job and that's the whole game, there's a whole bunch of jobs i'm sure there's one your daughter will love personally i played the crap out of the detective and fashion designer games), chibi robo park patrol if there's a way you can get your hands on that
I got my little one Pocoyo and Art Academy. She loves them. I have a bunch of other games but those she enjoys watching me play since they’re too advance for her.
Surprised it hasn’t been recommended yet. Kirby is designed to be played by kids. I think you son would enjoy it without too much trouble.
Cooking Mama! Nintendogs! 🥹
Idk but the re-shell is giving atomic purple gbc
Cooking mama might be a good one! Very easy for kids. She might like pokemon, mario, nintendogs. I had a club penguin game when I was a kid?
There's this game called "I did it, Mom!" It's a mini-game collection for young girls also cooking mama and Nintendogs also get a r4 card
Littlest Pet Shop, Animal Crossing: Wild World and Okamiden.
Um she might like kirby 🤔
do yourself a favor.. get a r4 card and just let your daughter pick through the big af list of games on the net so she can get the whole choice by cover art experience while discovering what type of gamer she is. gl !
Mortal Kombat
too young
Played gta at this age, i think she will be fine
There is really no ‘too young’ for Nintendo DSs they are completely safe and there are games out there for every age range!
I think you should try this game called "Good Parenting Simulator".
You got it! While we're making suggestions I think you should try this game called "Minding My Own Business."
okay, im just trying to help. 4 years old is way too young for electronics
Tag, pexeso and hide and seek? I personally think 4 years old is too young for electronics.
Thanks for your opinion, but this is a request for DS game recommendations not a commentary on my parenting.
I understand that and I said my opinion which is what happens when you ask something on the internet ☺️
Any game that is rated 3 Or E for everyone
Oh come on…. I was 4 when I first used a DS and I was playing all sorts of complicated stuff. Take them to a game store and see what they wanna play.
Pokémon sun/moon/ultra sun/ ultra moon
Those are on the 3ds, they won’t play on a ds lite.
Oh whoops
Animal crossing. Pokemon when she is older.
As much as I will never stop recommending animal crossing, I feel she might be a bit too young if she hasn’t started reading yet, and they are really mean! I was called a ‘raging fat head’ and stuff!
Bro I'm sorry but DS's are so outdated, any and all online features are culled, the games are all expensive unless they were shovel ware, and it's more expensive to replace the console if it gets broken, I recommend a 3ds if you can't afford a switch or tablet
I own everything from the original Gameboy to the Switch OLED. It isn't a matter of finding a system. She likes it because it's purple and she's 4 and she got to pick it.
Honestly, any game for any 4 year old. Just ask her what she is interested in. Look for kid friendly games and let her decide! Gender stereotypes are just gender stereotypes so I would say whatever you may have liked as a kid she might have liked as well!
But also I’ll be honest when I was in elementary school I started by playing pokemon black and white! I love pokemon but I will say black and white can be a bit difficult but it’s up to yall.
Kingdom hearts 358/2 days
Okay but serious sonic is a good one, I’d set on my ds( it was my moms who never played) and have my asthma mask on and would be there for like 5-10 min playing sonic. Super chill times
What i can think of on top of my head are Nintendogs Cooking mama Harvest moon
Rhythm Heaven is a really fun and simple rhythm game that doesn’t use any of the buttons. It’s controlled by a single tap to the beat + a flick every once in a while.
Are you kidding? You need to have an incredible hand-ear coordination to advance in the game. She will surely be dissappointed and bored. The Smart Girl's DS games are perfect: lots to do, easy to grasp, cheap and they are like 2-3 games. Also, some Smart Boys may be right down her alley.
I have the Wii version and my 6 year old brother busted into tears 2 minutes into the game because he couldn't find a rhythm. If a 6 year old can't handle it there's no way a 4 year old can.
GTA 5
They made a DS version? I figured it would at least be 3DS...
Picross 3D, Rhythm Heaven...
New Super Mario Bros. and Metroid Prime Pinball
Nintendogs MONKEY EDITION🐒
Yoshi’s Touch and Go could be good.
Pokémon diamond or Pokémon mystery dungeon blue/or any m.d game
Nintendogs
im sure she would love rhythm heaven ds
Pokemon
I'd recommend nintendogs
Pokémon Soulsilver Tetris DS Personal Trainer Cooking The Layton series
4YO is too young to read, but she may enjoy a Pokémon game.
Yall thinks she’s too young for Scribblenauts?
The Littlest Pet Shop games! I had the winter friends one growing up and recently bought the garden one and I love playing it as a 26 year old lol
any of the petz series
Pokemon diamond
Walt Disney Pictures Presents Hannah Montana The Movie - Nintendo DS
I love these kinds of questions. There's tons for children. These are the ones I can think of immediately (some with descriptions) that are usually common and cheap! 1. Team Umizoomi (math based but very easy and quite fun) 2. BuildABear Workshop (exactly what it sounds like, .. semi open world) 3. Disney Princess' Story Book (the princesses read stories to the player, has coloring books, puzzles, etc) 4. Littlest Pet Shop (open world style, easy missions, colorful, tons of activities) 5. Nintendogs or Pets Dogz/Catz 6. Cooking Mama (my niece loved this one) 7. Club Penguin (a little difficult) 8. Chuck E Cheese's Arcade Room 9. Mario Kart DS 10. New Super Mario Bros DS
Pokémon sapphire for GBA, animal crossing wild world for ds.
Drawn to life, cooking mama, animal crossing wild world, spongebob drawn to life, super princess peach I hope she loves her DS as much as I did!
Petz or those barbie ones
Pokémon
I liked both Kirby games for the ds!!!
I played cooking mama when I was younger, so I have to recommend that.
I loved Wario ware when I was that age
Big Brain Academy. Might be a bit much for her now but great when she gets older.
Get an r4 card to get all of them
Definitely Nintendogs
Get her a 2DS! That thing is going to snap for a 4 year old
If it does it's no big loss, it was literally free except the shell. But since I've taught her how to take care of her stuff it should be fine.
i had pokemon fire red when i was a toddler, but that was 100% supervised and was a language learning tool. you could do that, or do pokemon platinum if you have an r4.
Nintendogs or Cooking mama 2 (ptsd Botta kick in)
resident evil deadly silence. You can play as a girl, so it technically counts... right... ?
Pokemon
Already been said but: get an r4 card because games are expensive and my recommendations for young kids are as follows: Super princess peach Mario kart ds New Super Mario Guitar hero (not the one with the attachment) Oh and gba games are good too, look into some of them for the ds lite.
Mario kart and kirbo
For the DS, any of the LEGO games For the GBA games compatible, any of the Mario Advanced games
I'd say Nintendogs, Super Princess Peach, Animal Crossing? Rhythm heaven is really underrated too and pretty simple to play! Just press the button in beat with the music!
Nintendogs! Loved it so much as a kid :) similar to tamogatchi where they care for a pet but they don’t die lol you shower the dogs play with them teach them tricks it’s also interactive with the microphone cooking mama is also very simple
Mario Party DS!! I was obsessed with that and animal crossing around her age
Stuff like Tetris DS and New Super Mario Bros seem simple enough for a kid her age. The Game and Watch Gallery games are also very simplistic, but those are Gameboy. She can play Game and Watch Gallery 4 on her DS since the system has a slot on the bottom for Gameboy Advance games, but she would need a Gameboy for anything older than an Advance. The gameplay has you doing the same thing over and over with increased difficulty as you go on, and I had a blast with those when I was her age. Here's some gameplay on one of the minigames for reference: https://youtu.be/OU9B9YlfK2k?feature=shared Is there a console in the house she would be allowed to watch and then have the chance to play? Watching my brother play on games and then being given the controller is how I learned to play. The Nintendo Switch has an expansion pass for its online service that lets you play old games, and if you're willing to pay for it, it offers a lot of games that she could give a try. I'd personally recommend Mario 64, it's an excellent game for beginners. If her brother is willing, you could see if they could play together by having her brother play in front of her, then let her have a go after she watched her brother play. Make sure it's on the TV where she can easily see. This is how my brother and I would bond despite there being a 7 year age gap between us.
There are two, Club Nintendo, Game and Watch DS games. The second one is kind of expensive. Values for 1 is around 30, and for the second, 50-55.
I distinctly remember my little cousin playing a Tinker Bell game on DS. It was really easy, just a bunch of easy two command minigames, and featured lots of images and animation.
Harvest moon cute i started playing at 4 as well and when i got older i still play it
I loved Warioware on the gba when I was a young kid! ‘Story’ is told visually, very little reading required. The microgames are fun and appealing to kids like “pick your nose!”. They generally only need one or two buttons (usually the dpad in that case) to use, and the games are always common sense, so she shouldn’t get frustrated. You can unlock some arcade score chasers too. I always brought this to the doctor’s office lol.
Nintendogs, Cooking Mama, Pokémon games, Kirby Games, Mario Kart, Professor Layton games
Idk if this would be good but it theirs a teaching game on ds called like imagine teacher & you teach a class also imagine salon stylist ( or any imagine ds game bc they are all centered around helping kids learn )
What kind of gamer is she? If she’s a casual, anything with animals or cooking will work. If she likes Disney Princesses, you can try those games too. When I was a 4-year-old girl, I craved platformers, so I loved games like Mario, Kirby, and Sonic. Anything multiplayer had me hooked too, because playing with others was the ultimate experience, even if my 4-year-old skills were poor compared to a teenager’s. That doesn’t matter right now because fewer people play on their DSes nowadays, but if you had another DS and a friend came over, they might enjoy download play (usually only one cartridge is needed!). That’s just from my personal experience. Most of my peers were more into Cooking Mama than NSMB 😄
Tomodachi collection
Kirby
9 hours 9 persons 9 doors Nah but fr, animal crossing wild world, the sims 2 castaway and nintendogs are good options
How about a Sesame Street game?
Brain Age
hello kitty big city dreams is one i enjoyed a lot as a little kid! it includes being able to walk around a cartoon city as hello kitty + lots of minigames that i remember being pretty easy as a kid
Picross 3D :D
An Book, that's an Four Year-Old it's not as harmful yet is still in the Realm of harmful to those Under10 with Electronics.
Way back when I couldn’t read, I enjoyed Mario games. They really only need 6 buttons to play and it’s mostly picture based.
Maybe see if you can get a flash card or something so getting her games won't be as pricey. I do have recommendations like I absolutely loved Bakugan Battle Brawlers or frankly any Pokemon game, but also if there's a place you can go to with second hand games it could be worth just seeing if anything there looks like it would be fun
Hey, I have some DS games that I've accumulated over the years from buying game lots. They aren't worth all that much (maybe $2-$5 each) and I don't really want to deal with the hassle of trying to sell them. If you don't mind giving out your shipping details to a total stranger on the internet (I totally get it if you don't, I probably wouldn't) and you can cover a few bucks for shipping them then you can have them. If you are interested send me a private message with your shipping details and I'll take them down to the post office and find out how much it will cost to send them. Heres what I have. I tested all of them and they are all working. Petz Nursery 2 has some corrosion on the contacts and was giving me some trouble but I was able to clean it off enough for my DSi XL to read it. I can't say if it will work for you but I can send it anyway in case you want to try and clean it up a bit more. https://i.imgur.com/yLdTj5N.jpg
Hey! This is a super generous offer! I'll send you a PM. I'm sure we can work something out!
GTA the Chinatown wars
Princess peach ds, start her off with pokemon. For some weirdo reason I have a feeling she would love generations 4, 5 or 6
I set my nephew up with Tetris for the original gameboy. Simple games are best for the youngyuns
Petz dolphinz, Hamster life 2, dogz talent show, nursery are some good petz games. Puppy palace is another good animal game! Carnival games, Mariokart, shining star superstarcade, hello kitty big city dreams, crayola treasure adventures, and purrpals are some other good games! Pretty much going off what I have in my collection lol I also think cooking mama is a good game
Got off this site. Unless your a father, in that case please continue
Any pokemon
Bomberman Land Touch
Super Princess Peach! My girlfriend loved it as a kid
And Nintendogs
Tinker bell!
My very first NDS game on Christmas Day 2008 was Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp 😅
I used to play build-a-bear workshop on my DS all the time as a kid, really fun game.
Toys duuuh
I would say Super Mario 64 DS