Well for an 8 year old your best bet would be to get a PSP game with a rating of 'E' for everyone. Anything with a higher rating like "teen, mature, and adult" has content you might not be wanting your 8-year-old to be exposed to.(grand theft auto of course would be an example of a game you wouldn't want an 8 year old to be playing) Here are ALL of the E or E(10) games on the market right now. It took a long time to type it out, but just about all of these below are great for kids around 8 years of age: 2006 FIFA World Cup Ape Escape Academy Ape Escape: On the Loose ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin Trails Burnout Legends Bust a Move: Deluxe Cars Crash Tag Team Racing Daxter Exit Fifa 06 Fifa Soccer Fifa Streat Frantix Frogger Helmet Chaos Go! Sudoku Gradius Collection Gretzky NHL Grezky NHL 06 Gripshift Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee Kao Challengers Lemmings Lumines Madden NFL 06 Major League Baseball 2K6 Me and My Katamari Mega Man Maverick Hunter X Mega Man Powered up Mercury Midnight Club3: DUB edition MLB MLB 06 The show MVP baseball MX vs. ATV: On the edge Namco Museaum Battle collection NBA NBA '06 NBA Ballers: Rebound NBA Live 06 NBA Street Showdown Need for speed Most wanted (maybe) Need for speed underground rivals Neopets NFL Street 2 Unleashed Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast Pac-Man world 3 Pinball Hall of Fame PoPoLoCrois PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient Puzzle Challenge: Crosswords and more! Ridge Racer Smart Bomb SpongeBob Squarepants: The Yellow Avenger SSX on Tour Street Supremecy Superman Returns: the videogame Tiger Woods Tokobot Ultimate Block Party Virtua Tennis Wipeout Pure World Series of Poker World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 World Tour Soccer Worms: Open Warfare WRC: FIA World Rally Championship Y's: The Ark of Napishtim Some examples of games definitely NOT appropriate for 8 yr old kids would be: Dead to Rights Reckoning Def Jam The GodFather Grand Theft Auto Infected Metal Gear Mortal Kombat: Unchaned Prince of Persia Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo Syphon filter Splinter Cell See a list of PSP games with ratings here: http://www.us.playstation.com/psp/games.aspx?all

Wipeout Pure is an excellent choice and is easy for an 8 year old to play. Fun too.

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