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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Seconding mathblaster and jumpstart. I've played on both, and they're awesome. I played both for a while after I was too old and advanced for 'em.

Before they made sims, EA made a ton of worldbuilder simulatar games that help kids figure out science, ecology, economics, mechanics. Games like simcity, simhelicoptor, simworld and the like. Worth a look at least.

"The Incredible Machine" is this great problem solving game where you build crazy Rube Goldberg machines to yeah, solve the problems set on each level.

The scholastic booklets that they hand out in school tend to have some decent games.