I have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the old 8-bit days with my kids - but yeah, the games are pretty boring after 10 minutes.<p>That said!  There are tons of great gems in the old archives.. you&#x27;ve got to find them .. we could play Chucky Egg for days on end in our household .. but we definitely had to search to find it ..<p>One thing you shouldn&#x27;t discount is the idea of giving your kids access to the 8-bit machines to learn how to program them.  This has been immensely valuable to our 8 and 5 year olds&#x27; .. they play crap games, but then right away can get access to the code, understand what it does, and learn from it.  My 8-year old spends more time reading code (BASIC) than playing games now .. and that is a delight to see.