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Advantages: A cheap way to addictive gaming
Disadvantages: Don't expect any fancy graphics

The Power Boy TV game pad consists of a green and red coloured joypad, in the PlayStation style, with a lead coming out of it. Just plug that lead into your TV, choose the correct channel and 127 classic games will be at your disposal immediately. Graphically, this belongs in a museum. Playability wise, there is enough variety of 8-bit 2 dimensional games to keep retro-gamers entertained for hours. The Game Pad plugs straight into the AV or Scart ...
...will need 3 x AA batteries (not supplied), although a 6 volt AC mains adapter would be a better long-term option (again, not supplied). All the games are one-player games, and they include such classics as Space Invaders, River Crossing, Hyper Sport, Galaxian, and yes – Tetris is also there. For £20 this would make an ideal gift for those of a certain age, who can re-live their youth through their TV with no hassle of buying a console and ... Read review

Advantages: Nostalgia!
Disadvantages: Very, very basic and not very playable!

...Well, this new game from Jakks Pacific will take you back to those heady days! The original Atari console came out around 1980, with its distinctive wood veneer finish fitting in nicely with the décor of the time. The games were available in cartridges, costing around £40 each. Bearing in mind the cost of inflation, this is quite a staggering amount. Now, Jakks Pacific have made a new version of the Atari console, which retails at just £24.99 from ...
...I can imagine that the Jakks Pacific game would have similar appeal, and it is cheap enough that you could afford to buy it just for an occasion like this, or just to play it occasionally with like-minded friends, to remind yourself of days gone by, as an antidote to the ever improving generations of computer games that today’s children are faced with. On the packaging, it says “A blast from Mum and Dad’s past” which suggests that it is being marketed ... 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

Advantages: Slique, easy to use, all around beautiful
Disadvantages: Hardly any sport games

...The reason I love the Nintendo DS is because it is a touch screen. This makes it very interactive, the different games that you get allow you to do different things on the touch screen. Such things like in Pokemon Ranger you can catch pokemon by drawing a circle around the pokemon. Or in Cooking mama 2: cooking with friends. You can use the stylus and touch screen to cut, grater, stir, break etc food. The amount of games you can play on this system ...
... A list of (some) Nintendo DS games on sale at the moment Super Mario 64 DS WarioWare: Touched Yoshi Touch & Go Pokémon Dash Kirby: Canvas Curse Nintendogs: Chihuahua & Friends Nintendogs: Dachshund & Friends Nintendogs: Lab & Friends Metroid Prime Pinball Nintendogs: Best Friends Edition Mario Kart DS Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Animal Crossing: Wild World Super Princess Peach Tetris DS Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! New ... Read review