Family evening around the controller: Five games for kids and parents

Boo! Together with Mario's brother Luigi and a ghost dog, families can set out on a ghost hunt in Luigi's Mansion 3. — Nintendo/dpa

If you and the family like to hunt ghosts together or play football in cars, then you need to get a console like the Switch. Because when you're playing one of these video games, there's hardly anything that parents and children can't do together.

Some parents roll their eyes when their children play on the tablet or console all day. But they might do better to pick up a controller and start playing themselves. We look at five family-friendly games for the Nintendo Switch.