Category: Gaming Gadgets

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe San Diego Union Tribune reported that thousands of people lined up across the country to purchase Halo 2, the long-awaited new Xbox game from Microsoft’s Bungie Studios. Over 6,000 stores from coast-to-coast opened at midnight to sell Halo 2 to adoring fans. CNN Money reported that Gary Cooper, an analyst…

Reading Time: 2 minutesLeapster Multimedia Learning Systemis an educational toy aimed at kids between 4 and 8 years old. There are quitea few cartridges available for this system. [ Photo: Amazon.com ] The other day I got a chance to play with the Leapster Multimedia Learning System for the first time. This is a handheld…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few weeks ago I wrote about the Toy Wishes Magazine Hot Dozen list— toys that their reviewers expect to be top sellers for the 2004 holiday season. I reported that the Bella Dancerella line of products made the list, but I pointed readers to a Bella Dancerella package that includes…

Reading Time: 2 minutesReuters reports that Toy Wishes Magazine Released its “Hot Dozen” Toy List yesterday in New York. This list is intended to forecast which toys will be the most popular during the 2004 holidays. We can safely assume that if the magazine is correct, many of them will also become hard to find…

Reading Time: 2 minutesAtari Flashback Classic Game Console,image courtesy of Atari. Atari announced the introduction of the Atari Flashback Classic Game Console, a collection of 20 classic Atari games packaged in a console with two joysticks included. Games that will be part of this collection include Adventure, Air-Sea Battle, Canyon Bomber, Centipede, and Yar’s Revenge.…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier this week, Atari announced that it would release Atari Anthology, a collection of 85 classic video games in a single package for the XBox and PlayStation 2 video game consoles. Games that will be part of this collection include Asteroids, Battlezone, Missile Command, Pong, and Breakout. Atari Anthology is expected…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy wife and I just got our Namco II: Ms Pac-Man with 5 TV Games unit, and I had to tear myself away from the Pole Position game. The first time I played it (without reading the directions), I couldn’t figure out how to make the race car I was driving…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJakks Pacific has announced a new low cost game controller called Namco II: Ms Pac-Man with 5 TV Games. This is an integrated joystick-game controller with five classic Namco arcade games: Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Pole Position, Xevious, and Mappy. It’s a followup to the Namco TV Games system that I talked…