#5
Go Vacation is harder to categorise than everything else on this list, which is exactly why it sits here at five rather than higher. It is technically a resort-activities game as much as a sports game, and a few of its activities would not pass a strict sports-only filter. What keeps it relevant is that younger children do not care about genre definitions. My kids' version of a perfect gaming afternoon is being able to do water skiing for ten minutes and then switch to something completely different without loading a new game. Go Vacation is built for that. No online mode, which is fine for this audience, and the sports quality is genuinely lower than the Nintendo-first picks above it.