Arcade for my daughter

I decided to introduce video games to my daughter. I have done it because she asked me, without screaming, and because I don’t want her to stay out of the — partially — understanding of a universe mistreated by adults and non-nerds. Among other things, a universe mainly attended by boys and less by girls.

Among the solutions I have explored, keeping out the emulators — games must be liked by her and not by me — I chose something that can fall back to these specifications.

• I want a subscription because I won’t pay for a single game, but I want a melting pot of choices.

• No advertising or purchasing incentives, neither before nor during the game.

• Diversity of choice and growing up among game types and complexity.

• Opportunity to play just on a TV or on mobile without she is knowing the chance (nothing that she can ask me to play at the restaurants)

• Not expensive.

My choice, after a few days of reading and testing, it was for¹ Apple Arcade. There are dozens of games—no famous titles, but nice and with no distractions.

I’ve never been a gamer; when I was young, I just played at Sensible Soccer. Twenty-five years ago. But now I can say that my daughter likes the Apple Arcade’s games; she enjoys—we enjoy—and change games when we are bored².

When we no longer want the subscription anymore, we’ll unsubscribe and go on. It will have been worth the cost. For now, enjoy!