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Advantages: teach a child how to look after a pet
Disadvantages: can be lost easily

There probably aren't many families with children that haven't heard of a Tamagotchi in their house. Whether they've bought them for the kids or the kids friends have one, and they have played on it, one way or another there will be a connection to one of these little toys. *What are they * Tamagotchi's are a virtual pet, living in an egg shaped brightly coloured plastic case for children to look after. When you first start playing with these ...
...be a boy or girl and you don't get to know until the egg is hatched. Next you will have to choose a name for your pet. Sounds simple enough doesn't it. But what's the appeal to kids? Last year these things were all the rage, and I ended up having to go into town on Christmas Eve when I thought I'd finished all my shopping to get one because my ten year old wanted one for Christmas and I had forgotten. *History * Tamagotchi's were invented by ... Read review

Advantages: Ties in nicely with the Neopets website
Disadvantages: If you don't play Neopets you won't know what's going on

...available. The Kougra resembles a tiger cub, the Aisha is a sort of alien cat with antennae and the Kacheek a generic cutesy cartoon...thing. Your pocket Neopet comes in a bean-shaped plastic podule about the size of the average MP3 player. Colour-coded by species - mine is green and contains a Kougra - with a picture of the pet within and an embossed Neopets badge. It's a cool-looking piece of kit, reasonably light but too large for a pocket; it ...
...seems pretty durable but I suspect the paintwork will soon get a bit scruffy from travelling in my bag. (Of course I take him to work! You wouldn't want the poor little guy to miss lunch would you?) Open it up and the first thing you notice is that the LCD screen is tiny - barely an inch square, and much of that taken up by graphics printed on the top and bottom of the screen itself. The rest of the space is filled by the various control buttons ... Read review

Advantages: Portable, can play solo.
Disadvantages: Not exactly pocket size and can only be played by one person.

The handheld monopoly is made by Hasbro. I bought mine a few years ago in Woolworths for £10. I also got pocket Yahtzee free. It was the Yahtzee that I actually wanted but I have enjoyed the Monopoly too. You can probably buy it in most good toy shops and I would imagine for much less. *~*Size*~* At approx 15cms x 10cms it's not really pocket sized, but ideal for kids in the back of cars. Or if you fancy a game and no-one else does. *~*Playing ...
...welcomed by rich Uncle PennyBags. You are then asked to chose your token from hat, dog, boot or car. You make your selection by using the forward or reverse buttons and then pressing select. It is very simple to use and easy to learn. There is no tutorial but it really isn't needed, and enough information is given in the manual anyway. Next you are asked to choose your opponents. They are 1. Diamond Jim 2. Penny Wise 3. Connie Cashola 4. Hot Shot ... Read review

Advantages: More active, movement FUN!!!!!!!!!
Disadvantages: not easy after hard day at work!

...The Nintendo Wii is a game concole that is completely different to all others and in my opinion is much better than others. As of old times all you could do was wiggle the button to make people move. But with the Nintendo Wii you can actually move the controller instead of the buttons to move players or objects. ~HISTORY~ The concole was thought up in 2001. An interview with Nintendos concol creater confirmed this as he said that there were to many ...
...to the Style crew at Nintendo its not Nintendo Wii, just Wii.The best known announcement for the name is that wii sounds like we and its symbolising that its for everyone. However some people believed that Revelotion would have been a much better name and that Wii made it sound childish. However, the name remained. ~The release and how many have been sold~ In September 2006,Info on its release date, price and stuff was given out to many places. ... Read review

Advantages: Great graphics, sound, xbox live, games
Disadvantages: none!

The Xbox 360 has got to be THE best gaming console EVER. With it's Xbox live system (more than a match for the ps3 network) it is by far much better than any other console around. The graphics on the Xbox are very, very good, especially on a HD television. Although the graphics on the ps3 are the same. The Controller has a really nice feel to it as it almost 'moulds' to your hand. Xbox live is so totally awesome, you can have loads of friends, talk ...
...what you want to say. The Xbox system notifies you whenever any of your friends come online and you can pause your game and go into your Xbox hub to talk to them or add them to the game you are playing. There is also lots of games that are exclusive to the Xbox 360 that are extremely good such as gears of war and the Halo series. Value for money is great also; you could probably pick up a brand new core console for £180. Or you could get a more ... Read review