Harry now has a computer in his room

[heidi]

It's my dad's old office one, and it runs Win 2000 (although I may update it to XP if I can find my old disk) . He's about to turn seven, and a good reader, but his computer isn't connected to the internet as a regular rule, although I have a pcmcia card so I can do it once a week for updates and stuff.

What games & software are good for his age group? He's used my computer to play online stuff a lot, under my supervision, so we haven't looked into software for a while. I'm thinking games, sciencey things, educational-stuff-that-doesn't-seem-educational, etc.

Any good recs?

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[ancarett]

Our girls get a big kick out of the Cluefinders series, particularly the reading based games:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/104-0729406-3317532?node=285153

You can get a bundle of one of the Cluefinders games with the Zoombinis -- I'd highly recommend that match up.

We also got a Lion King "Adventures in Typing" since youngest has to learn keyboarding for schools (special needs autistic, she's learning to do her work in the Kurzweil computer system) and that's helped both.