Recently we’ve inherited a Playstation 1 set. (It started out as a customer incentive when Peter’s dad leased a new van, travelled between Peter’s siblings until they all got newer consoles, and finally landed in our laps.) It has a pathetically small library of games, including a Winnie-the-Pooh Kindergarten game appropriate for Jon.

Do they spike these video games with crack? Jon can only use one hand, and can only manage the buttons one at a time, which is not a very effective way of moving the cursor around. But within one day of playing the game – and despite not quite having gotten the hang of it yet –Jon was hooked. He begged to play more Playstation the next day, and it has replaced his afternoon TV shows as most-favoured-thing-to-do-during-break-time (too bad, Anna Olson!)

On the upside, we now have an extremely potent punishment, should we need to use it…

But on the subject of Playstations, here’s some questions for all and sundry: Where can we get old Playstation 1 games, new or used? And does anyone know of some titles that might be good for Jon? Anything up to approximately Grade 3 level; Kindergarten level would be just dandy. Most likely educational in focus rather than arcade-style: Jon just can’t see or move fast enough for twitch games. (Unless you know of any slow-twitch ones…)