Another pinball game...or is it?
579811
I love Metroid Prime Pinball simply because the morph ball was meant to be used in this fashion. If you like pinball and Metriod then boy are you going to be happy with this game!
2980436
This disc was purchased as one of 3 different computer games, ranging from this one at $10 shipped on up to $60. they are for a family member, who, is, pretty knowledgable about what they want to play. "Canfield" was the KEY game I /she was looking for. I don't think we got it with this so called bundle. It seemed to have only 1 or 2 basic solitaire games loaded , and the rest were to be purchased ONLINE (at their site)!!?! there might be a free "package" as they call it, but, I'll have to follow-up on that...when I have the time. Don't know if its worth it at even $4-$6 for the game disc plus shipping. One of the others I bought, was, "Pretty Good" Solitaire..more  money, but that has what it says it has, and she likes it alot! And learning new card games too. On that one the instructions are a bit tricky...though all in all its much much better. AND maybe the $62 game set is worth it for an outright 1 purchase (?!?) As to Britanica... eh(!) look around some more, is my advice.
292956
This table for Zen Pinball is probably the coolest one they've done so far.  It has a playfield rich with features, and also has a vertical playfield which goes up where the backglass would be on a real pinball machine!  There was a real machine similar to this, which was made in the late 80s.  I can't remember the exact name of it for the life of me but I believe it was released by Williams and it had a BMX racing theme or something.  If anyone remembers the machine I'm talking about, please leave a reply.

At any rate, you can't beat this table for just a couple bucks.  If you're into pinball then you will love this!  All of the other Zen Pinball titles for the PS3, and the Pinball FX 2 tables for the XBox 360, are very well done and worth buying because the cost of each table is generally under three dollars.  That's a steal!
2686260
When I bought this, there were games such as Asteroids, Space Invaders, Tempest, etc. that I had fond memories of and looked forward to playing again.  While they are here...they are what I can only assume are the "Atari" versions of the games...not the ones I remember from the Arcade!  So far, only space invaders seems similar enough to evoke the familiarity with the past I was hoping for.

Short answer, if you actually remember the Atari version and lust for them... go for it.  If you're looking for the more playable Arcade versions, skip.
3220142
YDKJ the 5th Dementia is doing it's best to take the JACK trivia games into brand new territory.  On one level it succeeds and on a few others it doesn't.  First off the greeter has changed to an annoying and sometimes befuddled schmoe with an annoying echo in his voice.  Sandy from Louder! Faster! Funnier! was perfect, cool and got down to the point.
Next you are able to skip through some of the formalities at the begining but then you can't customize your character's personality which I believe has something to do with playing over the net.  (That or it is a spacewasting novilty)  Schmitty is also back as the host.  I'll give him his credit that he does a good job, but Cookie and Nate (past hosts) shoot out jokes and beratement at rapid fire, no sweat, and don't drag out they're punchlines.  Time to bring them back.  At least the game does provide a few more barbs to fling at us which is good.
That aforementioned personality for your characters comes at two BIG prices.  RAM and space.  Unless your computer is a RAM or maybe a mhz monster, the game does have a bit of slow down but not enough to make the game unplayable.  The game also has reached another new low, question size.  At 600 it is the lowest amount ever for a Jack game!  Others have on average 800 and 1000 questions.
On the bright side, they have brought back the variable money prizes from THE RIDE.  no longer just fixed like they have been for a while, each player rings in to set a certain dollar value, which is combined to make the total prize.  $2500 to $10000 or higher dollar amounts are capable.  The game does bring two new and surprisingly good question types.  Bug Out has players ringing in on items that don't belong to a listed subject.  Right or wrong answers determine how much you steal from your opponants or how much they can rob you.  Anagram is a varient on the infamous Gibberish question.  Unscramble the phrase to have it spell a similar saying.  Sooner your're right the more you make.
To sum up this review, 5th Dementia brings in some good and some bad.  I can't blame the creaters for trying to rework the formula, but they need to scrape off some fat, put more questions back in and rework a few ideas.  5th Dementia is indeed a different Jack but it's just not King Jack.
1004682
Pinball of the Dead is a strange combination of a modern day pinball machine and the House of the Dead arcade shooter.  The graphics and design are stunning and the gameplay is good too.
There are 3 different machines to play, and they are all pretty different from each other.  Before you shoot any ball you get to shoot a zombie via roving cross hairs.  Hitting the zombie will net you some type of bonus, like multipliers or lost ball kickbacks,etc.
Within each machine (not really levels) there are the standard pinball sequences to hit like spelling out words to get big bonuses.  More interestingly though, is the House of the Dead flair.  All kinds of zombies are roaming the table.  If the ball is going slow enough the zombies can deflect the ball.  If the ball is going fast enough it squishes the zombies in a great big splat of green goo (color is configurable).
There are also special zombie battles and boss battles.  The zombie battles are engaged by squishing a bunch of zombies and then dropping the ball in a hole.  This will take you to a mini-game in which you have to squish a variety of flying/running/floating zombies.
The boss battles are even better.  By engaging the right combination of table features (hitting areas, balls in holes, etc), you can cause a boss to rear his...ugly head in the middle of the table.  Your immediate task of couse is to pound his ugly mug with the ball until he dies/goes away.
Of the 3 tables, I like the 3rd one the best (has hands for flippers) although the 2nd table has this neat pulsating heart/molecule thing that grows/changes as your ball rides the rails around it as well as a 2nd level area with extra flippers underneath the main table that see via a glass window in the main table.  The first table is good too although I seem to have difficulty getting the ball out of the bottom area and up into play.  The 2nd table is definitely the hardest to play.
Game play is good.  Flipper action is accurate as is ball motion.  NOTE: you HAVE to use "nudge" to be good at this game.  The other note is that pinball tables are vertical and the GBA (SP) screen is horizontal which makes for a bit of machine controlled scrolling.  There are plenty of times that you ball will drop between the flippers too quickly because the scrolling is not fast enough to keep up.
All in all this is an addictive game with a broad area to explore.  The unlockable elements just add to the exploration.
This is a game definitely worth owning.
2723569
Before it was released, my brother and sister bugged me for weeks to get the this Ms. Pacman joystick.  Problem is, all the reviews you read are right. The joystick is practically worthless to play Ms. Pacman.  What a crock for the title game of this 5-in-1 unit!

I am a fan of the "TV Games" and collected a number of the better "plug-n-play" controllers.  This one is good enough for Galaga and Pole Position. But Ms. Pac Man fans need not fain acceptance of this joystick.

There is already a better Ms Pac Man, and it's wireless!  Includes Pole Position, Xevious, Rally X, Bosconian, Galaga, and Mappy. [See link below.] Controller has improved, graphics seems sharper, sound is better, heck...IT EVEN SAVES YOUR HIGH SCORES.  Pole Position has improved speech, and Bosconian finally has speech it did not have in the other joystick.

The wireless is closer to five stars. More like 4.5 in my opinion. Using a total of 8 AA batteries, it's more overhead to run, but totally worth it.  The simulated arcade woodgrain is classy and the joystick design is more arcade-like.

Just spend the extra money on the new one with 7 games. Trust me, you'll never miss the other Ms. PacMan with the same 5 games.

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173623
Another game that I find it amazing that is made available in this hi-tech age we live in. As a kid, I thought this game was okay. Purpose is to remove these tiny plastic parts from the operating board. Comes with twelve parts that's to be 'professionally' removed with a pair of tweezers. Don't lose the parts and this game should last awhile. Anyone else remember the TV ad for this game way back when as the girl in pigtails reads off the instructions on the card, "Take out wrenched ankle..."? That commercial may have done more damage than Milton Bradley knows. Requires two size AA batteries.
3117003
Another good game from TT.  The game itself has locked up on us a handful of times.  Unfortunately this seems to be the way of the world now.  Games are released before they are fully tested.  SAD.
3056440
Spot It! has a neat game series that is fun and fast for pretty much all age groups. The game is normally pretty easy. Look at any two cards and find the match. There is only one! If you are faster than your friends you win the hand and move on to the next card. That's it, but it's just not as easy as it sounds and will engage anyone old enough to know how to name and match objects to grandparents!  This specific Spot It! really trips up some folks however.  It's the word version so while you do have some simple picture matching, some of the others are matching the word "green" to the color green.  That's a mental leap that does not come easy for everyone.  My younger ones seem to pick it up easily but the adults have more of a mental block to that concept-text link.  A great game and really fun!
2083260
Appears to be two different games.  When we say "enable 20 questions" Alexa will try to guess our item by asking us questions.  That game is fun.  When we say "play twenty questions" she says she is thinking of something and we have to guess.  This game is trash.  She doesn't recognize some of the number responses from us like "four" and "fifteen."  We always lose a turn if we ask for "one."  Clues from different number requests do not relate to the same answer.  It seems that she always has the same answers depending on which number clue you select.  Answers are Donald Trump, Seattle, coffee, etc.

How can there be two games with the same name?
3817195
??? It looks like it would be a enjoyable game . Maybe I will try it .
292574
This thing is basically a pinball machine played with Hot Wheels cars.  There's a hopper of cars feeding into the bottom unit, which you can aim and then fire the cars up the ramp to hit targets to get points.  If you get the cars into the right place they automatically feed back into the hopper.  Otherwise they fall down and collect on the floor on the right side of the bottom unit.

This is a loud, crazy, fast paced game.  It really takes at least two people for this to be fun, one to play and one or more to collect the fallen cars and feed them back into the hopper.  If the person playing has to stop to load their time will run out fairly quickly.  Our kids actually seemed to enjoy taking turns playing or loading.  They don't normally enjoy taking turns, but loading is fairly fun by itself because you have to move fast to gather up the cars as they fall out of the machine and get them back into the chute in the right alignment.

It's not perfect, the cars occasionally get jammed up and an adult has to fix things up, but overall our kids found this to be very very fun.
2352306
I thought, ok just another rip-off.  Then we started to use it.  Fun for the whole family.  The random number of cards it spits out adds to the game.  If you're the lucky one, it doesn't give you any!  Hopefully when the cards wear out, the machine will still be working and we'll be looking for more cards.
1065915
I played a demo of this game at a local store. It was fun, but it was hard to find the hole. You are kind of just swinging and trying to look for a hole. The ball keeps soaring into mid-air and landing in the middle of nowhere. It may be easier if you played the first version on N64. I will surely rent this game and maybe even buy it eventually, I just would like to see an instruction book (for once!).
2681018
This is a very fun game according to my husband. Although it is a gift, my husband decided it needed to be tried. He loved playing it. It is a sturdy hard plastic case and has the light and sounds you would expect from an much larger, adult like pinball game. I am eager to give this game and see the delight in my grandson's eyes.
1748754
Like the other 2 users we received a PAL version of the game.  I guess this game is not available in a NTSC version used in the US.  I did not notice the PAL in the picture when we placed it on our wishlist.  It also looks like PAL was added as a single description line, but I am confident that was not there in the past.  My son was so excited to get it and then so disappointed that it would not work, I did some research.  If you are willing to do it, you can "hack" the Wii and get this game to work.  YouTube is where I found the most help to get me started.  There are more complicated ways to do it, but I found that simply having something called Priiloader and using System Menu Hacks to enable Region Free Wii Games seems to work.  Maybe it was some of the other things that were installed to get me to that point, but the game works and my son loves it.  There is a Championship mode that has 3 types of races, so far.  The first is a race against 11 other characters where you earn stars based on your finishing position and those stars accumulate until reaching a set amount, a timed solo race where you have to finish in a certain time based on the medal, and a solo race popping balloons where there is a goal amount for different medals.  Winning a medal will unlock pictures.  Video clips that tell a story are unlocked when you level up.  There is a Party mode that allows Head-To-Head races in a split-screen with the concept being the loser would pass the remote to the next person.  There is another game, I forget the name, that allows up to 4 people to race along with other characters (12 total).  And boy does my son like changing characters.  There are 12 characters to choose from including the main characters Pocoyo, Pato, and Elly plus Loula, Sleepy Bird, Fred, Baby Spider, Baby Caterpillar, and a host of Aliens (Angry, Orange, Circus, and Green).  Each character has a choice of 2 "cars".  It is all he has wanted to do.  I took a star due to the PAL thing, but, again, if you can get it to work it is a lot of fun for young children.