What's your FAVORITE family computer game?

[Magpie]

What game do you find yourself playing, right along with your kids? At the same time, or separately, or with one person playing and other people watching... What games appeal to the whole family (or a good chunk of it, anyway?)?

Any gaming platform, any game system, even PC or internet games.

Here's our current favorites:

Minecraft! If you haven't checked this PC game out yet, it's definitely worth a look. It's like Lego on steroids, with optional zombies, and it's PC Gamer UK's Game of the Year.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/12/31/pc-gamer-uks-game-of-the-year/

My 13yo son is now spending massive amounts of time browsing architectural blueprints, and talking about possibly becoming a civil engineer when he grows up, thanks to this game. He likes to play on multiplayer servers with his friends, building co-operatively. Me, I just like building houses, in my own private little corner of the Minecraft universe.

And then there's all the games we play together on the XBox 360, in our livingroom. These include Yahtzee, Monopoly, Carcasonne (awesome strategy game in which you build medieval towns one tile at a time), Sliders, Scrabble, and more. If we skip a "family game night", my 13 and 14yos get very upset.

What games do you and your family play?

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

This might not be what you're looking for, but I go to my sister's house specifically to play Wii Bowling with my niece. We have an absolute blast! Especially when she beats me. LOL.

 

[Magpie]

This might not be what you're looking for, but I go to my sister's house specifically to play Wii Bowling with my niece. We have an absolute blast! Especially when she beats me. LOL.

Actually, that's exactly the kind of thing I had in mind!

I don't think computer games are half as socially isolating or family-disrupting as people think they are, especially now that adults are just as likely to be gamers as kids.

 

[LaraK]

Just Dance....my kids want to know how I know how to do all the dances (especially "You Can't Touch This"). They don't know their momma used to JAM in the clubs.

 

[HonnyDipp]

As a family, Wii Sports, Wii Party, Wheel of Fortune and Family Feud

with my teen son I play Call of Duty, Medal of Honor & Halo ALOT!!!

 

[lemondog]

We just got a Wii for Christmas and we have had so much fun as a family on it! Pretty much all of the sports and sports resort games are fun, but the kids especially love bowling and boxing. Right now DH is doing a workout on Biggest Loser and all 3 girls are doing it along with him.