Video Games

Wii Play with Wii Remote
Wii Play collects nine quick and addictive games that are easy to pick up and play and hard to put away. With the intuitive controls of the Wii Remote, even the most inexperienced gamers will have no trouble mastering the controls. Every game features a multiplayer mode, so you and your friends can compete for the high score or go head to head to see who’s the best. Wii Play comes with a white Wii Remote, so your friends can join in the action. Games include:
List Price: $49.99
Amazon Price: $49.99
Used Price: $40.58
Customer Review: Basic & shareware style, fun only in multiplayer
Bipi wrote a great review. I rented this game & played only an hour alone: Shooting Range - Good physics but VERY boring, the mini game shooting on Wario Ware is MUCH better & exciting with barrels, cans, rockets coming at you, etc & much faster. Find Mii - I actually like it, good way to improve your observation skills like a Brain Age game. Table Tennis - very small movements, it’s like Pong at first, then on steroids at 40+ points/rally. The computer never fails. If want to use the remote to swing, Rockstar Table Tennis is good. Pose Me - very boring, just wrist turning & button smashing. Another maybe Brain Age game, but still very boring. Laser Hockey - small movements are key, the “puck” is sluggish at first, then super sonic when bounces off the wall. Air Hockey on Game Play is much more realistic & you hold the remote parallel the the ground as well & move it exactly with same amount of arm movement & extending arm a lot to use force as real air hockey. SECRET: hit A&B together during countdown & the sluggish C turns into regular round controller like real air hockey & physics change for the better as well. When playing against comptuer there’s a 120 second time limit. Billiards - will not help you improve your game since the camera angles are not good, though the physics seem to be real. I hated it. Fishing - found it surprisingly fun for about 20 min, then got bored of it. Very cute because of the vibration & speaker use & physics. Charge/Cow racing - fun, great idea, but only one level & it’s timed. If it had more levels this would be the one of the best games. Tanks - strategy light & very addicting even played alone & has 100 levels. Those of you say graphics aren’t great on Wii, it’s fine! IT’s not like old days where everything looks blurry & not sure what you’re seeing. Everything on here is crisp & with great detailing on textures & perfect physics.
Customer Review: Only For Super Beginners
The game is truly not a “game” at all.. it’s like an electric version of an instruction manual for the remote control. It’s really not very fun for very long. It’s amusing for about 15 minutes, maybe 20, and then it’s just… not. I ended up selling the game and keeping the remote. It’s only really meant for beginners who can’t figure out how to use the remote, in my opinion. It IS helpful in learning more about the remote, I agree, but I ended up getting this game days after I first started playing Wii, so it was a bit pointless.

Ex-Pro Optical Cable SPDIF Digital Audio Optical Cable / Lead for Playstation 3 - 1m
Ex-Pro Optical cable - Connect your optical device to optical input - Optical to Optical digital audio cable. Suitable for all optical / SPDIF output / input devices, including Xbox, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, DVD Players, TV’s, Amplifiers and more.

Vehicle Car Charger for Game Boy Advance SP/Nintendo DS
Compatible with: Game Boy Advance SP / Nintendo DS
List Price: $9.99
Used Price: $1.56
Customer Review: Great buy!
I use this charger in the car almost every day. It works great because I tend to run out of power. Now, I never do.
Customer Review: charger does the job
MY SONS THINKS ITS GREAT FOR WHEN WE GO OUT FOR THE WEEKEND HE CAN CHARGE HIS GAMEBOY UP..WITHOUT IT DYING ON HIM…

Build-A-Bear Workshop
Build-A-Bear is a Nintendo DS simulation that recreates the in-store experience. Gameplay offers a unique immersive experience, which replicates the process of shopping and creating a Bear when entering a Build-A-Bear Workshop store. The game allows you to approach the Build-A-Bear Workshop concept with the same hands-on and do it yourself formula. This level of interactivity is achieved through the use of the touch screen, wireless technology, enhanced graphics and innovative control mechanism. Choose, create and customize your own personal virtual Bear and participate in various activities with your new furry friend. Learn how to perform moves with the DS trick control, earn honey nuggets by completing challenges and buy up to 150 different clothing accessories. Spend some time in the photo studio and share your photo album and clothes collection wirelessly with your friends. Enjoy an afternoon in the backyard playground using the swing and various ball games Become a professional fashion photographer and set-up photo shoots in the Build-A-Bear photo studio Change your Bear outfits, select the zoom and camera angle, modify the backdrop and direct your character’s poses While spending time in the bathroom, help your bear clean his teeth Interact wirelessly with your friends to trade items or challenge each other in the mini games Test your skills in the dancing game by drawing the right shapes at the right time with your stylus on cue in order to hold the rhythm of the music Play dress-up and mix and match up to 150 fashion accessories Control two bears at a time with your stylus and collect honey while dodging bees Make sure you don’t pick the last seat paying musical chair
List Price: $29.99
Amazon Price: $19.99
Used Price: $12.95
Customer Review: great game for younger kids, but reading is involved
This game is kind of like Webkinz in a sense. The kids can pick which animal they want to build and can choose various rooms to go in for games or cooking, bathing, getting dressed, dancing, etc. However, there is a lot of reading that explains what the child needs to do. It’d be better if it just talked the instructions instead. As long as your child can read really well or an adult is with them to read teh instructions to them it’s a good game. I’m sure once they’ve played it many times, they figure out what to do and don’t need the directions.
Customer Review: build a bear
This game is wonderful keeps kids engaged they love it. The 4 & 7 year old love it and each want to do it at the same time. very nice NO VIOLENCE at all if your kids are younger Id say 11 and under excellent choice. Very very cute the animals come to life and you can play with them. Wonderful!!!!!!!!!

NHL 2K7 (PS3)
List Price: ?39.99
Amazon Price: ?34.98
Used Price: ?12.63
Customer Review: Hockey game that kicks puck!
Very solid game with tremendous amount of value for money. Many different modes and extras. Season and Franchise gives the game an enormous amount of longevity and you can really work hard on getting your team to the top. On the negatives and after playing it regularly for some months, unlocking certain teams is a bit more challenging that needed. Also, some of the loading sequence gets a bit dull. Menus could have been a bit more animated. Practise challenges, Fighting and injury animation during the matches always ends the same way and some randomizing of graphics would make it a bit more enduring. I miss some of the gore from Sega’s Hockey game but maybe this is because I have not unlocked 60’s and 70’s teams (one of the reasons why I still am playing the game :-))
Customer Review: NHL 2K7
I thought this game would be rubbish as was sold with my console, WHAT A MISTAKE, The game is so much fun on 2 player mode or as a single player. Well worth a look a fab all round game

Madden 2002
Madden NFL 2002 gives you authentic, detailed football action. Player face and body technologies make faces and body shapes look startlingly close to those of their real-life counterparts. Coach animations let the actual coaches roam scowling on the sidelines. Modes include Two-Minute Drill, in which you can earn points on offense or defense in a quick-hitting fast-paced game within the game; Create-a-Team, featuring customized uniforms, helmets, and stadiums; and Training, where you can learn about the X’s and O’s of football from John Madden while perfecting in-game skills.
Used Price: $5.00
Customer Review: ‘Pretty good’
i Recommend this game to everyone that wants A easy once in a while football game.This game has realy bad graphics.And it dos’nt even tell the players name. conpared to all Play Games station Madden games this one [is bad].
Customer Review: i ve seen better
…I am not impressed! it is nothing like the ps2’s football game, but it will have to do…

The Orange Box The Orange Box includes all the content of The Black Box for PC, plus the original Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One. Innovative games featured in The Orange Box include Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the second installment in Valve’s episodic trilogy advances the award-winning story, leading the player to new locations outside of City 17, as well as the pioneering type of single-player action game Portal, which rewrites the rules for how players approach and manipulate their environment, and Team Fortress 2 — an all-new version of the legendary title that spawned team based multiplayer action games with a daring new art style features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date.
Customer Review: Good Game, could have been better, but they only had 10 years.
This is a really good deal for what you get, however, you should note, to play Team Fortress 2 and the new version of Half Life, you will need a XBOX Live gold membership.
Orange box includes the old Half Life games, I am not sure why you would want to rehash that, especially since most of us probably have the original versions. Old versions seem tired, and I wonder how it kept my attention years ago. If you are even a occasional gamer, you ought to have something better to play than old first person shooters.
Team Fortress 2 is excellent if you can find a decent server to play it on. When the system goes to search there doesn’t seem to be near the variety that pops up with some other multiplayer games like WarHawk.
I am also getting tired of multiplayer releases without single player gaming on the disc. These games initially do fairly well, if you can find a good server, but try and play it in a year or two, servers will be even harder to find. 10 years of development should have been enough to give this game a single player version.
The new Half Life version is okay, but you have a feeling that you have already played it. Again, surely there is something that hasn’t been rehashed out there that an occasional gamer could better spend his time playing, perhaps BIOSHOCK or HALO 3, STRANGLEHOLD.

Xbox 360 Live 1600 Points
The Xbox Live 1,600 Points Card keeps your gaming experience updated and unique. Access content exclusive to Xbox by exchanging 1,600 points in the Xbox Live Marketplace. Try out new games with free demos and trailers and expand your games with free and premium content. Check out regularly updated and evolving online events like Game with Fame, Mystery Gamer, Xbox Live Calendar, and more.

Customer Review: Works perfectly, but don’t scratch too hard
I bought one of these cards while it was slightly on-sale, making it a bit cheaper than buying points directly through Microsoft.

It’s just a plain, plastic card with a portion that you scratch off to reveal a long key code that you enter into your XBL account.

A word of caution though. Don’t scratch it too hard because you can actually scratch off the key code lettering, which is what happened to me. Luckily, I was still able to figure out what my code was and the card didn’t go to waste.

With free shipping through my Amazon Prime account, this was easy enough and I saved a tiny bit of money.

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