This is not just a kids game, in addition to creating killer roller coasters, you need to budget money for marketing plans, hiring of personnel and general up keep of your park. As you play think about how your could create a business simulation along these lines or even use this game to teach basic business concepts to learners of all ages.

What can you say about the Sims. This is an updated version of a game that allows you to control your own destiny. Build a house or a castle, furnish it and make sure you get yourself to work on time and your kids to school. Great "free play" environment. Game has few set goals, you create your own game within the game.

Jellyvison, the developers of the game purposefully set out to create a computer-human interface that is realistic and fun. They call the interface the “Interactive Conversation Interface” or iCi for short and pronounce it “icky” (No, really, they do.)

This is a Real-Time Strategy game (RTSG). It allows you to control armies and legions of solders. You can learn about resource allocations, create colonies and make alliances. You can play as one of many civilizations that have existed through the ages.

This will give you a great start in the world of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Play Games (MMORPG). You can play on the PC for a while until you are ready to enter the networked world of the game. It comes with the a one month subscription to the one line game. You must play the online version to truly get a feel for the world of MMORPGs.

This new addition of a classic RTS game provides you the chance to once again run an empire, allocate resources, capture land and keep your civilization happy. If you are struggling between this and Age of Empires, this is the better choice (but only by a bit.)

The Backyard sports franchise includes many games, football, hockey, baseball. The animated players, ease of play and simple graphics show how compelling and fun a simple game can be.

Through the years, the Jumpstart series has created innovative, fun and EDUCATIONAL games for kids of all ages. Aimed primarily at K-12, the games show how educational content can be made fun and entertaining, lots to think about in designing your own training or academic games.

Why this game? If you want to see what it would be like to be inside the TV show, this game is it. It also used researched instructional design principles to ensure that learning occurs, repetition, pausing for learner interactions, immediate feedback after learner input. Yes, it is simplistic but a great example of an technology-based education that works.

Trully a classic, one of the first edutainment games. An excellent mixture of fun and education. Learn about geography in a fun and exciting way. Good example of how the memorization of facts and jargon (declarative knowledge) can be made entertaining. Use and an example for all the dry material you have to teach.

PS2 Game

This is a game which requires physical interaction. Good method of seeing how different user/computer interfaces other than a mouse and keyboard.

PS2 Game

Another unique user/computer interface. This time you actually show up on the television. You are part of the computer game. Interesting view of an interface and one that will take off in the fututre .

Nintendo

The Legend of Zelda is a classic game. One of the first games that allowed the player to explore and to save levels in the game. It has grown up a lot since it's 2D days but is still a lot of fun to play.

PS2 Game

This game allows you to drive a car. Notice the physics of the game and how realistic it appears and you play the game. Also notice the level of customization you can achieve with your car.

PS2 and XBOX Game

Yes, you can play football but pay particular attention to the "Superstar" mode that allows you to have an NFL career and is so realistic that is you are a running back, you have to block and run routes in situations where you never even get the ball.

PS2 and XBOX Game

If you can get beyond the violence and overall debauchery, the game play in this series is amazing. You really need to see how exploratory you can be in an online environment. Drive around and ignore the violence and see what happens.

The Nintendo DS is a create hand-held platform with two different screens. One for control and one for watching the action. You can even play wirelessly with friends..

This hand-held has everything. It is wireless enabled for playing with buddies, it has blue tooth capabilities, memory sticks and can play music and videos as well as games.

Microsoft's game platform that quickly became the talk of the town. Great graphics, good for playing online with friends and a large number of games make this a popular platform.

Gadget clearly aimed at young females. You control a young girl made out of pixels who shops, spends money and hangs out at the mall with friends. Showing that girls like gadgets as well as boys.

The ultimate video and music gadget. Contains the ability to playback movies, music and even training pieces. Some companies are even creating video job aids to play on the video iPods. A training tool of the future.

The famous Blackberry that allows constant connection with the outside world. These gadgets have caught on as an easy to operate, easy to use tool that has a full QWERTY keyboard and support for up to 10 different email accounts.

This is a great tool for recording podcasts. It has three levels of quality for recordings, is portable and has no moving parts. Everything is recorded to a small hard drive in the gadget. Up to eight hours.

This is one neat little gadget, an entire operational PC in the palm of your hand. A bigger screen than pocket PCs and USB connections and a nifty little keyboard make this an excellent tool for travel. I put my presentations on it and then take it to conferences. It is far lighter and easier to carry than a full sized laptop.

I have a GPS in my car and I don't know how I ever lived without it. This version has the ability to route you around traffic jams, has a handy touch screen and provides turn-by-turn instructions to guide you to your destination. A great tool for anyone who does any travel. Not flawless but impressive.

Great for making those MP4 videos that you can place onto your video iPod. The light weight of this tool makes it handy for capturing a production process or some other task on tap. You can then show the video to a co-worker or post on a server for viewing by others who need to know how to perform the process.