When a loyal video game enthusiast has a child, one of the first things they think about (apart from all of that important parenting stuff) is how they will go about introducing their new kid to video games. It can be like a science project, because making a mistake and turning them off from gaming is probably the worst scenario a gamer could ever imagine.

I'm no different. I've been slowly and carefully introducing various video games to Emerson since the moment my wife said she was old enough that they wouldn't rot her brain, or hurt her eyes, or whatever it was she said -- she's the one that researches those kind of things. 

I started with a V.Smile Baby console that had been passed down to us by my brother-in-law. The chief concern here was that it was designed more for education, and less for fun; Not exactly the ideal for a gamer. I would have considered continuing her playtime with the games, but she was already learning better with us teaching her, and they didn't exactly entrance her, so I moved on.