Happy Mother’s Day 2008!

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Happy Mother’s Day 2008!

by PJ Hruschak on May 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM

gamertell pacman bikini

For all the ghosts you’ve chased away,
And collecting rare fruits every day,
For bringing dots to eat while we play,
We at Gamertell wish you a
SUPER MOTHER’S DAY!

Here are a few sites that have featured Games for Mothers types of articles:

Gamestop via Gamertell

This “mom-friendly” list is all Wii and DS games, including Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore, The Sims 2: Castaway, CSI: Hard Evidence and a few High School Musical titles.

Wired via Joystiq

This post puts some suggestions into a few categories for your particular type of mom: Empty-Nester (Uno and Harvest Moon DS Cute), Little Crazy (Bioshock and Portal), Adventure-Lover (Tomb Raider Legend and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune), Bravo Watcher (Fashion Solitaire and Cooking Mama) and Artistic (Okami and Echochrome).

Rahul Sood

The founder of VoodooPC republishes an article from CPU Magazine titled “Games for your Mom.” In it he writes about WildTangent and causal games that shoudl be easier for your mom to play, but really goes on a wild tangent and discusses the long life of PC games.

The Escapist

In this article from 2005 titled “Games even mom knowns,” the author writes about how his especially accepting mom who even helped him play game and bought him Mortal Kombat (!), helping the writer become a seemingly damn well-adjusted person. (Yay for great moms!)

BlogTalkRadio: Video Games and Gaming

In this post titled “ Moms, Sons, and Video Games,” the writers explains how she bonded with her son by playing Dungeons and Dragons Heroes, Mario Cart [sic], Age Of Empires, Haunted Mansion and Fable. See, cool moms really do play videogames.