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List price: $29.99 (that's 33% off!)
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A genuinely enjoyable little game!
Disney goes at it again!
Snowboarding with Disney, NOT SSX, BUT SWEET 4-5!
List price: $49.99 (that's 20% off!)
Used price: $7.99
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Pedal to the Metal!Pros:
+free-form gameplay
+excellent graphics
+excellent controls
+excellent sound effects
+excellent stunt system
+excellent frame-rate
+excellent level editor
+motion-blur effects
+fun missions/tasks
+fun mini games
+create your own player
+challenging gameplay
+co-op gameplay
+lots of bikes/options
+large maps
+rag-doll physics
+floaty physics
Cons:
-all race tracks locked at first
-tutorial not very helpful
-trashy rock music
freestyle metal xNOT BEEN ABLE TO PURCHASE IT MY SELF. I CAN NOT FIND IT
ANYWHERE. I HAVE LOOKED EVERYWHERE. THE SALES PEOPLE TELL
ME IT HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED! HOW IT WAS ONLY RELEASED IN
MARCH 2003!!!!
Excellent
- Side-scrolling space shooter
- Spectacular 3-D graphics ¿ the best looking Gradius Ever
- 7 expansive levels of exciting shooting action
- New Option Controls feature adds depth and gameplay
- For 1 player
List price: $29.00 (that's 5% off!)

Wishing....
Best shooter of its type for me!
This is itGradius is a side scrolling shooter, just like the shooters in the arcades 10 years ago. The main thing with Gradius is that you buy your weapons instead of picking them up. The more power ups you collect (without buying) the better the weapon.
Gradius first appeared in the Arcades, and became a HUGE hit.
It has appeared on NES, SNES, Playstaion (but Japan only, which is a real shame), and Playstation 2.) The best thing about Gradius is probably this though: It has ALWAYS stayed the same, with some exceptions:
Gradius: LifeForce (NES) added 2 players on screen.
Gradius III (SNES) added tactical weapons placement.
I remember the first time I played this series on Nintendo, and it ruled! Then came LifeForce, also for Nintendo, and it actually had 2 player mode (like both players on the screen at the same time! Yes!!) So LifeForce is actually the best game in the series in my opinion.
The second best version is Gradius III for the Super Nintendo. It didn't have 2 player, but hey: It had something cool instead: Tactical weapons placement, i.e you could choose where your weapons would be placed on your ship. You could choose an offencive or defence stance! Gradius III was thrown along with IV in the first Playstation 2 release, but was much harder, and without the original SNES music. (I can't say if this is the original music that came in the arcade version or not, because I haven't played the arcade version. But I at least like the SNES version a lot better.)
Next came a sad story: A great game, that recieved excellent ratings, didn't come to Europe or USA. Too bad about Gradius Gaiden, which only came out in Japan, a game which also had two players at the same time on screen.
The version on the Playstation 2 was a tadd more difficult, and the music was not the music I was used to on the SNES (which is far better.) On the cover it said "2 player." But that wasn't 2 player, it was only 2 players taking turns in playing. Boooh!
Gradius III & IV on the Playstation 2 was a HUGE let down.
The music was not so cute and catchy as before, far more difficult (as in impossible), and IV had actually become worse than III (III was much more durable in weapon selection.)
But, despite the let down on Playstation 2, Konami decides to give it another go, and release "V"! Yes!! I hope they pay attention to what fans have been saying. Keep the gameplay intact, try not to get ultra sorround sound crystal music (because that just isn't the good old game man), and please, if at all possible, let's see 2 players on screen (this is asking a lot, but please???!) What the news so far says though, is that the game will now have the same weapon system as on Gradius III, but with even more weapons. Yes! :)
So, ok, I gave you my rant now, hope it adds to the page, and your excitement about this new release.
And let's all hope that this new game embraces nostalgia freaks, as well as high tech new comers to shooters, and the Gradius phenomenon.

- Experience the freedom to play anywhere you want and eliminate cable clutter in your living room
- Highly reliable 2.4 GHz radio-frequency technology delivers precise control with no lag and a range of 30 feet (10 meters)
- Smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and more familiar than other controllers
- Requires 2 AA batteries (included) to achieve 50+ hours of battery life with vibration on
- Mini receiver plugs directly into console
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VERY nice.
Fantastic!!Enter the Logitech Cordless Action Controller!! This is without a doubt one of the best controllers I've ever used! The controllers is very well made. The feel of it is very natural in your hands, though slightly different than the original PS2 Dual Shock. There's a nice satin like finish that prevents alot of dirt from your hands from making the controller too slippery. There is literally no notciable lag or delay in the controller's operation. The controllers 2.4 ghz signal ensures that you won't miss any of the action. Every function of the original is reproduced faithfully. Installation is extremely simple. Plug the reciever into your PS2's controller port and simpley press the action button to get a signal. There is also a button on the reciever to make the connection if needed. The battery life (the controller takes two AA batterys) is approximatley 300 hours without the vibration mode and 50 hours with the vibration mode on. A small sacrifice to make for a great product such as this.
I really can't say enough good things about this product. It's great if you have small children in the house especially. No more worrying if they are going to trip and drag the console across the room. In fact this is such a great controller I'm considering buying a second!
Best wireless controller EVER. Heck, best PS2 controller.I guess I should elaborate since I do have 1000 words to work with, but the basic point is this controller is awesome. If you're like many people and wanted a wireless controller for your PS2 but were scared of the brick and a half sized previous Logitech controller, fear not. This is the smaller, cheaper, and better little brother of the monster wireless.
It's VERY comfortable. I'd almost say I enjoy it more than the original. While it's basically identical in size, I prefer the curves a bit more to the PS2's original harder angles. If you have some kind of silly infatuation with the Dual Shock though, it's not like you will be let down, it's a very small deviation from the standard.
And for the first time that I've experienced with a third party controller, this thing doesn't feel like plastic you'd find in most dollar-store products. It's sturdy, has weight, and the sticks and buttons feel awesome. Sticks are SLIGHTLY less rigid than the DS2, but they're more firm than the DS1 if that helps.
After 2 weeks my batteries with rumble are still working just fine, so it's not like after 10 hours this thing's asking for more juice.
Just buy this thing already, you shouldn't even be reading this far. It's the best wireless controller EVER. Yes, even better than the Wavebird since they didn't skimp on the two-way transmission - meaning this controller has rumble (don't buy Nintendo's BS about battery life, they just made it transmit one-way). Rumble is good, it passed the rez test.
D-pad is kinda disc shaped but strangely it works VERY well. If the original DS2 D-pad was 100, I'd give this in the 90s easily, which is about 50 points higher than any other 3rd party D-pad.
Like most of logitech's products, it's even licensed by Sony. But that's sony, they're followers, not leaders, though we never should've been without good wireless for this long.

- Whether you're a Sunday solver or a complete amateur, this exciting new program gives you all the crosswords you need
- Crosswords are timed & scored for extra challenge
- The program helps you when you're stumped - automatically solve letters, words or the entire puzzle
- Educational fun while building vocabulary skills
Used price: $16.99
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A ton of good puzzles for very little money!
The BEST crossword game I've ever used! Very Fun!I've played many hours and continue to try to conquer the many puzzles.
I was able to print the puzzles and bring them with me.
I recommend this over the other puzzle games out there.
Good puzzles, good price
- Adventure game set in fantasy Scandinavia
- Single-player campaign with eight missions
- Eight additional stand-alone missions plus editor to create more
- Multiple difficulty levels
- For one or more players using LAN or internet
Used price: $24.99
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Northland Funtastic!My main complaints about the game are that the women do not have enought to do and although you can group the soldiers you cannot really form them into units (as in AoE or AoM).
If you liked Settlers you will love Northland. It is pure fun to play.
Great Game in the tradition of Servcity
Best game ever!Warning: time dissappears but you won't care

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looks good
The wait is almost over!!
One Must Fall to Revive GenreOne Must Fall:Battlegrounds, in development by Panama City Beach Florida-based Diversions Entertainment, may finally be the groundbreaking game to change all that, re-igniting interest in PC fighting and introducing the world of gamers to the first ever truly multiplayer 3D internet fighting experience. For the past year and 5 months, I have enjoyed the opportunity to play this game as it has developed from a OpenGL-based "rough cut" to the more refined 85% completed Direct3D product that currently plays in a beta pool that has grown to over 400 members.
When first introduced to the One Must Fall game, the first and most striking thing to be recognized is the graphical beauty this game serves up as it pitches together 90 foot bots in gigantic arenas. From the animated fire sparkling aroudn the top of the ring in the fire pit, to the starry night sky twinkling above pharoahs fire, to the glistening beauty winking up from the frozen pierced steel planking that forms the upper structure of the iceberg, this game delivers crystal clear textures, scalable high resolution, crisp colors, beautiful original particle effects, and a robust reflections system. This Direct3D based engine demands a Transform and Lighting capable video card but is sufficiently optimized to allow even low to mid end gamers to play albeit with some lower graphical settings.
We all know that when it comes to gaming, eye candy is nice but it means nothing (particularly in a fighter) if the gameplay isnt up to par. Having already delivered the Gamespy-Hall-Of-Fame One Must Fall 2097 title in 1994 (Published by Epic Megagames), Diversions Entertainment (DE) leaves no doubts and solidly delivers. The control system allows directional movement, 4 basic strikes, jump, and evade. Moving away from the intensity based strikes of some more traditional games, OMF instead gives players the capability to execute left and right side punches as well as left and right side kicking. A single press unleashes a basic move of medium power. Adding a directional press to an attack unleashes a second tier of moves for each bot, allowing players to make quick strikes with each of the four attacks or to make strafing moves with the evade button (double tapping a direction in combination with evade allows a player to dodge in a direction to get around some attacks). Three-button-sequences such as up,down, left-punch create a whole third tier of attack options, allowing individual bots to make use of signature moves of medium to high magnitude, all these without use of the "super" energy. Each bot is additionally empowered with 2 to 3 super moves which create large swaths of individual or area damage, devestating when drawn out in close combat but requring built up energy to use.
Although berift of the long complicated move lists encompassed in a traditional console fighter such as Tekken or Soul Calibre, the OMF combo system is dynamic, relying on players stringing together series of quick, powerful move combinations in order to form multihit combos to devestate opponents. The highest combo that i have personally been witness to thus far is 16 hits, although some beta players have made claims of the ability to score as high as 20 against an opponent. This unique approach to the combo system allows beginners to jump right into combat with the intuitive controls while still allowing more advanced players to make use of memorized move sequences or "skill" combinations against opponents.
The engine powering One Must Fall:Battlegrounds is actually the crown jewel of this game, an entirely custom build by the DE development team. The modularized engine uses a java-like scripting language to set up artificial intellegence routines, game content, game movement, specific articles, and other content loaded in a DE Objects format. The engine also has been constructed to allow highly modifiable game content, recognizing third party content as just as genuine as developer created, with the server controlling what may or may not be loaded for modifications. In addition, the modularized segregation of input, output, control, and interaction functions allows games constructed with this engine to be easily ported from platform to platfom, with relatively little cross platform development time invested.
The graphical, gameplay, engine flexibility, and solid performance of this game have kept me coming back for more for over a year and 4 months, validating several years of waiting in the One Must Fall community. Players will not be disappointed when the game releases later this year, estimated for general release in the second quarter.

- Our young hero Skip is walking along, minding his own business, when the Bully Bees steal his backpack! Skip has to go on a quest to get it back!
- Explore the different areas of Bugdom and interact with other characters
- Perform mini-quests to get the clues you need, like helping Sally The Chipmunk gather acorns
- Get help defeating the enemy bugs by getting to know the Buddy Bugs
- Gorgeous graphics and fun gameplay that's sure to draw in players of all ages!
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What a great game!you can only play it once and that's it!!
It only makes you want to buy it right away to continue the game.
I searched the website for 2 months before you made the game
available, SHAME ON YOU!!!
Thanks for making it available.
terrific game for kids (and their adults) who own a MacAlong the way you'll kick acorns to find valuable clovers and extra lives, and collect powerups from the ubiquitous butterflies, who shower you pleasantly with flowers as they deposit strawberries and blueberries or arm you with "buddy bugs", who can assault the resident flies and fleas from a distance.
There is action as well as problem solving with no killing, though you do kick enemies. A wonderful Kids Mode turns most of the dastardly villains into neutral observers so that little ones can play without getting freaked out. I'd say a 5- or 6-year old could play unassisted, but our toddler loves playing the game with us and performs many of the actions. Use the arrow keys to move, the Space Bar to jump or fly (and it's really fun to be able to fly!), Control to kick, Tab to send a buddy bug out, and Option to pick up or drops objects (so you can get maps from Sally Chipmunk or complete errands for Sam the Snail). An electronic manual explains things well. The Return key lets you switch between four perspectives that vary in your distance behind Skip's shoulder. The levels are large with occasional checkpoints, but you can only save the game at the end of the level.
We've found two problems with the game that are annoying but surmountable, and will probably be fixed with a patch: the Garbage Can task of popping all the soda can tabs does not seem to work -- you have to pop them all then leave the game sitting for a while and come back in order to find the key you need; and sometimes when you are trying to jump to reach the top of the picnic basket the flowers are not solid but drop you through.
Pros: Fun, interesting, immersive environments. Flying. Volume, music and perspective controls at the keyboard so you can make immediate adjustments easily. Kids Mode tames the villains for younger players. Pleasant music. Good electronic manual. Developed on Macs for Mac users.
Cons: A couple of annoying bugs in the program. No key reassignment. Not being able to save except at the end of levels.
Caveats aside, our child has enthusiastically learned to use the arrow keys and now performs multiple key stroke maneuvers. I am an old first-person shooter player but I still find this game fun, and I've found my husband playing when he thinks we're all asleep. Fun for the whole family!
A Worthy Follow-Up to BugdomIf you're bored, or just looking for some decent, cartoonish RPG in a sea of Resident Evils, Bugdom 2 is a very good choice.

- In this game, Time Crisis veteran Richard Miller has been framed for murder, and has 48 hours to capture the real killers & clear his name
- To do that, he'll have to battle his way through a network of spies and assassins, in the superfast, superfun Time Crisis style
- Gun down enemies in a ship, on a military base, in a courtyard
- Enemies speed up & use varying techniques to challenge your skills
- New Multi-Hiding feature lets you move around to different parts of the level while shooting, for added strategy
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A Good BuySTORY 4.5/10
As Time Crisis is known for great gameplay, it is also known for crappy storylines. The story is pretty much linear: rescue the kidnapped girl and stop diaz from launching a nuclear sattelite. As the story is not that great, the voice acting is not that great either. This game is not about story, though, so do not worry about it too much, as you will grow used to the cheesy storyline and acting
SOUND AND MUSIC 8.5/10
GREAT music during gameplay. it makes me actually pause the game and listen to it. They even remixed the original Time Crisis music so it sounds a little...rock-ish. The only problem I have with the music is during the cutscenes, the music makes me want to rip my own head off, along with the person who made that music, as it is that annoying.
On a very positive note, the sound effects are astounding. The gunshots sound very real, the grunting of the men when they fall to their death makes it seem you actually are in the middle of a crisis battle, producing some fun there.
GAMEPLAY 9.5/10
The gameplay in this game is extremely fun and addicting, allowing you to play one or two players at the same time. Namco has also added a quite original and fun way to play the game: double gun mode. This mode lets you play with two guns at once (apparantly), and if your thinking, reloading is not that hard. but beware, your accuracy percentage is sure to go down quite a bit. The only thing I think they should have added on are shields for the enemy. Just one shot will kill the enemy, making it a little too easy there. In order to get a real nice challenge, I put the game mode on Very Hard. But do not worry, the game is still very fun
GRAPHICS 9/10
Extremely good graphics, as water looks like water, lasers look like lasers and so on. nothing more to say
REPLAY VALUE 10/10
This game is a very fun game, and you have different experiences each time you play different modes such as regular 1p, two-player, double gun, and mirror mode. I recommend that you get this game and play with a guncon 2, not a guncon 1
Awesome!
Awesome game!This game is different than other guncon games though. There are a ton of extras and even a fun shooting range mode. The shooting range mode shoots these 2 discus' and you gotta shoot them before they hit the ground. I played it for hours it was so fun.
The game also has a storyline of somesort with some interesting badguys and nice environments. If you actually take time to look around, you will notice that the areas are really nicely done. Time Crisis 3 is alright as well, but that is a different game. 5 star games!

- Eerie new fun-filled adventures with the Mystery, Inc. gang
- Help Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma solve the crime
- Gather clues, set traps, use disguises, and avoid scary monsters
- Based on the live action movie Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed
- Game levels based on actual movie stills and artwork
Used price: $15.00
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Great game
Well done.
Cool Game
This particular title is one that I have yet to see in any of my local stores. And I've found genuinely mixed reviews for it. Some hated it, one adored it and another said that if you could get by certain graphical issues then there was fun to be had. Finally my curiosity got the best of me. I took the plunge and ordered it through amazon.com and hoped I wasn't frittering away my cash.
I'm happy to report that DISNEY SPORTS SNOWBOARDING is a genuinely enjoyable little game, very challenging and exciting, graphically beautiful (the graphics do look a tad blocky, but that's no big deal) and fun to play.
Now I'm not in a position to tell you how well it matches up to any other snowboarding titles out there. I've never played any. Heck, I haven't even had the opportunity to play any on any consoles since I'm not a sports buff. For me, it was the Disney name that lured me to this one. So I'm afraid I'm unable to say how well it plays when compared to such-and-such. All I can tell you is that it's a fun little game.
The graphics do a great job of rendering a 3D environment considering that they're done on a GBA, and the resulting look, feel and gameplay in "race" mode as you zoom through all the various stylized environments will remind you of such go-cart games as the excellent CRASH TEAM RACING, complete with being able to use weapons and spells with your magic board to defeat and/or knock out your opponent. It's proving itself to be quite the delicious little timewaster, and I'm pleased with it. Out of all the backgrounds, I especially love the "Starlight Express" race track, it looks gorgeous.
Oh yeah, and I want to assure the author of the other comment about the game who obviously hasn't played this one yet: yes, it *does* allow you to play Chip & Dale.