Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

Re:Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mo... by TomNomNom on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:39AM (#14635372)

My 3.5 year old loves Monument Valley. It's not something I thought he would have been capable of playing - and he does sometimes "need some help to win" - but he downloaded it himself on Kindle Fire for Kids Unlimited and just started playing it.

The Kids Unlimited thing has been great. All the apps are included in the monthly price, there's no ads, no in-app purchases, and all the games and apps are vetted to be child-safe. It's amazing to watch him download stuff and figure out how to play it without any help.

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Re:Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mo... by Baeocystin on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:01AM (#14636038)

Thanks for making me aware of it. I've been looking for something to get my 6-year-old nephew that can be set up to be kid safe, and I hadn't really thought about the Fire tablets until now. How's their durability?

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Re:Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mo... by johnwards on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:11AM (#14636094)

Rock solid. We've have had 2 fire 7's in our house for 1.5 years, in the hands of a now 8 and 6 year old and no issues. Things are covered in gunk (like how they manage the touch screen is beyond me), and they keep going.

I don't use unlimited, I've side loaded play store, set age range, enabled full parental controls on play store and on the tablet themselves... They have full control, but web is blocked etc. Play store is great, tells them they need to uninstall things to install the next game. They don't need my interaction to install X or Y now.

They did manage to download an app that let them have full access to unfiltered youtube, but we caught that pretty quick. YouTube kids is great as well.

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Re:Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mo... by Baeocystin on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:15AM (#14636114)

Sounds great. Thanks for taking the time to answer, I appreciate it!

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Re:Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mo... by TomNomNom on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:57AM (#14636375)

The durability has been really good. We've just got a regular Kindle Fire with a Kids profile on it; it's taken a real beating and shown no issues.

The Kids Edition of the tablet is more expensive, but comes with a very rugged case and a "If they break it, we'll replace it. No questions asked" guarantee for the first couple of years.

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Re:Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mo... by Baeocystin on Monday June 26, 2017 @09:19AM (#14636536)

That sounds like an ideal warranty for a young child's electronics. Thanks for responding.

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Re:Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mo... by riffraff on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:04PM (#14638903)

just mentioning this but: I broke normal kindles twice within a year or so, and got them replaced with no questions asked.

Amazon's customer service is beyond legendary.

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