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Most people are very ignorant about video games, and know little more than what the media tells them. Which is basically, video games cause violence, video games are all made for adults not children, and you're a bad parent if you let your child play video games. All which I feel is complete BS. There are extremely offensive games out there, but you know there's an ESRB rating system. I'm sorry, but if the parent is too lazy to figure out that M means mature, that doesn't mean other gamers should suffer for their ignorance.

Now, I do belive that some games should be censored. To be broad, I'll just say everything that comes from Rockstar Games. I mean, like their Manhunt game. I saw video of it on YouTube, and it's just too realistic. Just, horrible, and I'm a horror film fan. That stuff should just not exsist. So I do feel there should be a limit. Unfortunetly in the USA if you don't play those kind of games, you're considered playing "kiddy" or "baby" games. I think that might be what other parents worry about. That there's pressure to play violent games, otherwise you won't be considered what most people call being a gamer.

I'm female, and I play all the super cutesy stuff that is from Japan. Like it's originally from Japan, and then localized and translated to English here. In Japan it's no issue if you like kiddy video games, or cutesy video games. It's like, fine, in fact there are alot of options for trading stuff in most of those games. I'm sure though, I'm far from the only Aspie on these boards who could sing the praises of why Japan is better than the USA culturally. I think the Japanese culture is more Aspie-like.

i would agree with the game rental thing renting would be better and probably cheaper.
i don't know what kinds of games he's into but many roke playing games have missions to complete but also sub stories or many items to find etc, that take a while to do.
my brother is amazing at video games, the more i see here the more i thnk he may be aspie, but he can beat a game in a day or two but the roll playing games take him abit longer, some games have different outcomes based on the choices you make in a game and i know my bro had one that had 10 different endings or something.

According to the British Board of Film Classification video game violence causes less harm to and has less influence over youngsters than violence in films or television. Joystiq reports that this was the conclusion made from the results of Playing Video Games, a 107-page study conducted as interviews with players from young to old. Sue Clark from the BBFC says:

"We have traditionally taken the view that because a game is interactive, by definition we need to be more careful. But ... one of the key conclusions of this report is that interactivity actually helps players distance reality from adult experiences in games."

http://www.joystiq.com/search/?q=bbfc

I think that any kid that is into games should be encouraged to play with games modding as well as just straight game-play. http://www.kidsprogramminglanguage.com/ is a great initiative and here's a few other places to look if your young gamers show an interest in making their own worlds.

http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/20 ... for-t.html
http://modmom.blogspot.com/2007/12/free ... -kids.html
http://www.pygame.org/tags/applications?start=24
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/exp ... amming.htm
http://www.stagecast.com/
http://www.schoolgamemaker.rupert.id.au/links.htm
http://teachcomputers.wordpress.com/cat ... ogramming/
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?t ... tstart=135

E got a DS for Christmas - it came with Nintendogs - she got upset because apparently there's no end, now way to win. This happened on another one w/ cats.
She's been getting her games at GameStop. Not a big selection there - but she doesn't play it often - she rather be curled up w/ a book.

We also have that eye exercise game - Focus something or another, and Brain Age. I love her DS and I use the eye exercise game

My son is the same way, but he will gladly play the same game over and over again. Or, go back to some old game he played in the past. He never gets tired of them and he wants to hold onto to every game he's ever purchased.

If she likes books, she might like the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney series for the DS. I got one of those games for myself. It's like playing/reading a mystery novel. It's a cute game too.

My son is like this. One thing that has kept his attention strong is Runescape. We pay for his membership (like 5 bucks a month, great incentive to do chores lol) and he loves it. He does go thru times where it gets boring for a few days after a straight 3 months, but after a bit he is back at it. This game is always challenging for him.

Lainie