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It’s nearly impossible to make a list of games to suggest to everyone for specific gift-giving holidays. When I write a holiday guide for my newspaper column, I instead suggest a few games and suggest the type of person each game (or console) will best appeal to. Top Ten lists for holidays rarely work well for everyone and, when blindly followed, leave many gift recipients under-joyed.
With silly illustrations, Yahoo! has broken down the Fatherly types into some common categories, picking one or two games each type of dad might enjoy for Father’s Day 2007.
For the full list of suggestions, check out Yahoo!. Otherwise, here’s a quick rundown and the low/highlights.
For the most part, the suggested games are the popular, standard choices for the genre. I find it surprising that the writer doesn’t think any fathers will enjoy a single role-playing, online, slashing or platform game. Also notice that the last two are games available on Yahoo!’s site (nevermind that at least one – Diner Dash – is now a PSP game as well). Also, where’s the Sci Fi Dad? I know a lot of older fathers who play nothing but sim games.
The Yahoo! list is an OK attempt but seems to miss some of the really big categories and falls back on a few somewhat insulting stereotypes.
Read [Yahoo! Video Games]
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