Nintendo Wii Reviews

Neighborhood Games

Take a walk down memory lane to the days when you played with your friends until dark. Imagine a place where you can play all those games, where the level of competition is matched only by the sheer amount of fun. Neighborhood Games is that place, offering 24 unique twists on those popular games. No need to worry about the rain ending your fun! Create your own fully customizable, playable characters

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Disappointed
I bought because it had some great games but soon discovered it wasn’t so much fun. The games are hard to play. My children became so frustrated and game up. Even I have a hard time playing the games. I was very disappointed.

2 Stars Better Games out there
Not really 30 games- only about 12 games. Only different variations of the same game. All games utilize the same hand motions. None of the games are realistic. Save your money and buy another game.

3 Stars An okay game.
This game is an okay game. It’s a good game to rent or if you can buy it for 20 dollars or less.

The game has a lot of games. You have to unlock a lot of them, and when you finally unlock them they are basically spinoff of the games you have like Lawn Darts, will then unlock water darts. Or basketball will unlock other versions of basketball. Also, the controls are all the same no matter what the game. Which can make the games kind of seem similatr after awhile.

That being said it’s still fun, but I just feel like more could have been put into it.

3 Stars An OK family game
We bought this game when a merchant told us this was the sequal to playgorund games…it is not.

This game is fun, BUT nearly every game requires the same underhand motion. Horseshoes, shuffleboard, jarts, etc….

I liked the “idea” of having RC planes, but the planes are really difficult to control (OK impossible), and the graphics are sooooo small.

There are some cute features of this game; however, for the most part, this seems to be one of those games in the bargain bin.

3 Stars Neighborhood Games – Wii
I find some of the Neighborhood Games difficult to play and imprecise in how the remote reacts. They provide some entertainment, but a game like Carnivale Games is much tighter to control.

Buy/More Info

Popularity: 17% [?]

Today’s flamebait article relates to how fast a game gets tossed to the bargain bin at retailers. According to a study from Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, Nintendo Wii titles are the fastest to have their publisher’s price-per-unit cost dip.

Looking for when all those new upcoming Ubisoft Petz titles will be shipping to your local bargain bin? Maybe you are just interested in a quick break down of which company is shipping what and when? Get ready to mark your calanders with exact dates after the jump. 2K Play Carnival Games: Mini-Golf - Oct. 20 Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Snow Princess - Oct. 27 Go, Diego, Go!: Great Dinosaur Rescue - Oct. 27 2K Sports MLB Superstars - Nov. 10 Activision Crash: Mind Over Mutant

HD System Selector 4 consoles

Pelican’s HD System Selector is the ultimate control device for all your gaming systems and your home video setup. It lets you switch easily between your DVD, Xbox, GameCube and Playstation, just by touching a button. The HD also supports the latest technologies, with inputs for AV, S-Video, Component and Ethernet connections.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Gets the job done for not alot of mulah.
Ok, first of all the item is not as bad as some of these reviewers have written. I went out of my way to get a second one as I have NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Xbox, Xbox360, and a PS2 with a PS3 in the pipe. Both work flawlessly.

Here’s the skinny… it’s a switchbox… not a processor. It’s 20 bucks… not 120.

That said you will have about a 0.5% signal loss (about a dB in signal) going through the unit. Unless you have a really nice HD TV and know where every pixel on the screen is going to be and at what time… you’re not going to notice the loss. It does work in HD. The guy who says it doesn’t should try fiddling with his settings. If the console and TV aren’t configured correctly it will look very bad. All the box is is a physical switcher… wire for wire… and a solid one at that. I dropped mine on a concrete floor while moving and it took it smiling. The lack of completeness on the nameplates for the front is the only packaging complaint of mine. Most people that will use these are hardcore enthusiasts that will likely still have some of the older systems. At any rate… it’s worth the money. If you’re worried about signal loss then you can go ahead and buy one of the state of the art combiners and signal regenerators that will give you the best possible picture on a single mixed-down set of outputs. If you can afford the TV that would make a noticeable difference in this then you can afford to not bargain bin on your cables and switches anyways. (gold plated connectors are just an excuse to charge you more.. gold is actually a worse conductor than copper is.. worse than the alloys they use on this stuff nowdays, even… it just doesn’t corrode. If you take care of your stuff you won’t have that problem anyways.)

My only physical complaint about the unit is that it only has 3 component inputs and not 4 of them. The fourth input is composite/s-video, though, and better than most switches composite-only fourth port. I’ll be buying a third and fourth one of these to handle the mix-down of the few consoles I’m adding in the future as they do not make, currently, a 12 port component switch… which is what I need.

1 Star Poorly/cheaply made.
Mine was out of warranty and the composite video started to become flaky. Turns out the plug to the video was loose. I then found out that many of the plugs were loose. So I took mine apart and found that many of the solder points were disconnected from the mainboard of the device. Completely faulty soldering.

4 Stars Looking for a System Changer?
If you are looking for a system selector, you have found it. It is a basic system selector, and will work with basic TVs, but I fear it won’t work with high def TVs. If all that matters to you is that it is an easy way to change systems, and quality is not lost, then you have clicked on the right item. However, I cannot say whether or not it works with high def systems like the PS3. I guess you’d have to take a risk. But, what kind of person would play their PS3 on a regular TV? I know I would. Just buy this selector if you need one. OK?

4 Stars A Steal At 20 Bucks!
I’ve had this for a year and a half (I have my XBOX 360, PS2, Gamecube, and DVD player hooked up to it) and it works just fine! Don’t belive the review that it doesn’t work on HD (it’s also hooked up to my HDTV with NO compromise of picture quality at all!) It’s amazing that this works so well being the fact that the exterior of the unit is almost made entirely of plastic….the only reason why I didn’t give it 5 stars.

4 Stars Just what I needed.
The right price; does the right job. The slightest fault might be that the connections and bonus cables are not gold plated, but this wasn’t used on higher end equipment so there was no noticeable visual or audio degradation. I needed an inexpensive video selector that works with component connections and this was just what I needed. The bonus cables made it a great value too.

Buy/More Info

Popularity: 3% [?]

HD System Selector 4 consoles

Pelican’s HD System Selector is the ultimate control device for all your gaming systems and your home video setup. It lets you switch easily between your DVD, Xbox, GameCube and Playstation, just by touching a button. The HD also supports the latest technologies, with inputs for AV, S-Video, Component and Ethernet connections.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Gets the job done for not alot of mulah.
Ok, first of all the item is not as bad as some of these reviewers have written. I went out of my way to get a second one as I have NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Xbox, Xbox360, and a PS2 with a PS3 in the pipe. Both work flawlessly.

Here’s the skinny… it’s a switchbox… not a processor. It’s 20 bucks… not 120.

That said you will have about a 0.5% signal loss (about a dB in signal) going through the unit. Unless you have a really nice HD TV and know where every pixel on the screen is going to be and at what time… you’re not going to notice the loss. It does work in HD. The guy who says it doesn’t should try fiddling with his settings. If the console and TV aren’t configured correctly it will look very bad. All the box is is a physical switcher… wire for wire… and a solid one at that. I dropped mine on a concrete floor while moving and it took it smiling. The lack of completeness on the nameplates for the front is the only packaging complaint of mine. Most people that will use these are hardcore enthusiasts that will likely still have some of the older systems. At any rate… it’s worth the money. If you’re worried about signal loss then you can go ahead and buy one of the state of the art combiners and signal regenerators that will give you the best possible picture on a single mixed-down set of outputs. If you can afford the TV that would make a noticeable difference in this then you can afford to not bargain bin on your cables and switches anyways. (gold plated connectors are just an excuse to charge you more.. gold is actually a worse conductor than copper is.. worse than the alloys they use on this stuff nowdays, even… it just doesn’t corrode. If you take care of your stuff you won’t have that problem anyways.)

My only physical complaint about the unit is that it only has 3 component inputs and not 4 of them. The fourth input is composite/s-video, though, and better than most switches composite-only fourth port. I’ll be buying a third and fourth one of these to handle the mix-down of the few consoles I’m adding in the future as they do not make, currently, a 12 port component switch… which is what I need.

4 Stars Looking for a System Changer?
If you are looking for a system selector, you have found it. It is a basic system selector, and will work with basic TVs, but I fear it won’t work with high def TVs. If all that matters to you is that it is an easy way to change systems, and quality is not lost, then you have clicked on the right item. However, I cannot say whether or not it works with high def systems like the PS3. I guess you’d have to take a risk. But, what kind of person would play their PS3 on a regular TV? I know I would. Just buy this selector if you need one. OK?

4 Stars A Steal At 20 Bucks!
I’ve had this for a year and a half (I have my XBOX 360, PS2, Gamecube, and DVD player hooked up to it) and it works just fine! Don’t belive the review that it doesn’t work on HD (it’s also hooked up to my HDTV with NO compromise of picture quality at all!) It’s amazing that this works so well being the fact that the exterior of the unit is almost made entirely of plastic….the only reason why I didn’t give it 5 stars.

4 Stars Just what I needed.
The right price; does the right job. The slightest fault might be that the connections and bonus cables are not gold plated, but this wasn’t used on higher end equipment so there was no noticeable visual or audio degradation. I needed an inexpensive video selector that works with component connections and this was just what I needed. The bonus cables made it a great value too.

1 Star Poorly/cheaply made.
Mine was out of warranty and the composite video started to become flaky. Turns out the plug to the video was loose. I then found out that many of the plugs were loose. So I took mine apart and found that many of the solder points were disconnected from the mainboard of the device. Completely faulty soldering.

Buy/More Info

Popularity: 3% [?]

HD System Selector 4 consoles

Pelican’s HD System Selector is the ultimate control device for all your gaming systems and your home video setup. It lets you switch easily between your DVD, Xbox, GameCube and Playstation, just by touching a button. The HD also supports the latest technologies, with inputs for AV, S-Video, Component and Ethernet connections.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Gets the job done for not alot of mulah.
Ok, first of all the item is not as bad as some of these reviewers have written. I went out of my way to get a second one as I have NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Xbox, Xbox360, and a PS2 with a PS3 in the pipe. Both work flawlessly.

Here’s the skinny… it’s a switchbox… not a processor. It’s 20 bucks… not 120.

That said you will have about a 0.5% signal loss (about a dB in signal) going through the unit. Unless you have a really nice HD TV and know where every pixel on the screen is going to be and at what time… you’re not going to notice the loss. It does work in HD. The guy who says it doesn’t should try fiddling with his settings. If the console and TV aren’t configured correctly it will look very bad. All the box is is a physical switcher… wire for wire… and a solid one at that. I dropped mine on a concrete floor while moving and it took it smiling. The lack of completeness on the nameplates for the front is the only packaging complaint of mine. Most people that will use these are hardcore enthusiasts that will likely still have some of the older systems. At any rate… it’s worth the money. If you’re worried about signal loss then you can go ahead and buy one of the state of the art combiners and signal regenerators that will give you the best possible picture on a single mixed-down set of outputs. If you can afford the TV that would make a noticeable difference in this then you can afford to not bargain bin on your cables and switches anyways. (gold plated connectors are just an excuse to charge you more.. gold is actually a worse conductor than copper is.. worse than the alloys they use on this stuff nowdays, even… it just doesn’t corrode. If you take care of your stuff you won’t have that problem anyways.)

My only physical complaint about the unit is that it only has 3 component inputs and not 4 of them. The fourth input is composite/s-video, though, and better than most switches composite-only fourth port. I’ll be buying a third and fourth one of these to handle the mix-down of the few consoles I’m adding in the future as they do not make, currently, a 12 port component switch… which is what I need.

4 Stars Looking for a System Changer?
If you are looking for a system selector, you have found it. It is a basic system selector, and will work with basic TVs, but I fear it won’t work with high def TVs. If all that matters to you is that it is an easy way to change systems, and quality is not lost, then you have clicked on the right item. However, I cannot say whether or not it works with high def systems like the PS3. I guess you’d have to take a risk. But, what kind of person would play their PS3 on a regular TV? I know I would. Just buy this selector if you need one. OK?

4 Stars Just what I needed.
The right price; does the right job. The slightest fault might be that the connections and bonus cables are not gold plated, but this wasn’t used on higher end equipment so there was no noticeable visual or audio degradation. I needed an inexpensive video selector that works with component connections and this was just what I needed. The bonus cables made it a great value too.

1 Star Poorly/cheaply made.
Mine was out of warranty and the composite video started to become flaky. Turns out the plug to the video was loose. I then found out that many of the plugs were loose. So I took mine apart and found that many of the solder points were disconnected from the mainboard of the device. Completely faulty soldering.

4 Stars A Steal At 20 Bucks!
I’ve had this for a year and a half (I have my XBOX 360, PS2, Gamecube, and DVD player hooked up to it) and it works just fine! Don’t belive the review that it doesn’t work on HD (it’s also hooked up to my HDTV with NO compromise of picture quality at all!) It’s amazing that this works so well being the fact that the exterior of the unit is almost made entirely of plastic….the only reason why I didn’t give it 5 stars.

Buy/More Info

Popularity: 5% [?]

HD System Selector 4 consoles

Pelican’s HD System Selector is the ultimate control device for all your gaming systems and your home video setup. It lets you switch easily between your DVD, Xbox, GameCube and Playstation, just by touching a button. The HD also supports the latest technologies, with inputs for AV, S-Video, Component and Ethernet connections.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Gets the job done for not alot of mulah.
Ok, first of all the item is not as bad as some of these reviewers have written. I went out of my way to get a second one as I have NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Xbox, Xbox360, and a PS2 with a PS3 in the pipe. Both work flawlessly.

Here’s the skinny… it’s a switchbox… not a processor. It’s 20 bucks… not 120.

That said you will have about a 0.5% signal loss (about a dB in signal) going through the unit. Unless you have a really nice HD TV and know where every pixel on the screen is going to be and at what time… you’re not going to notice the loss. It does work in HD. The guy who says it doesn’t should try fiddling with his settings. If the console and TV aren’t configured correctly it will look very bad. All the box is is a physical switcher… wire for wire… and a solid one at that. I dropped mine on a concrete floor while moving and it took it smiling. The lack of completeness on the nameplates for the front is the only packaging complaint of mine. Most people that will use these are hardcore enthusiasts that will likely still have some of the older systems. At any rate… it’s worth the money. If you’re worried about signal loss then you can go ahead and buy one of the state of the art combiners and signal regenerators that will give you the best possible picture on a single mixed-down set of outputs. If you can afford the TV that would make a noticeable difference in this then you can afford to not bargain bin on your cables and switches anyways. (gold plated connectors are just an excuse to charge you more.. gold is actually a worse conductor than copper is.. worse than the alloys they use on this stuff nowdays, even… it just doesn’t corrode. If you take care of your stuff you won’t have that problem anyways.)

My only physical complaint about the unit is that it only has 3 component inputs and not 4 of them. The fourth input is composite/s-video, though, and better than most switches composite-only fourth port. I’ll be buying a third and fourth one of these to handle the mix-down of the few consoles I’m adding in the future as they do not make, currently, a 12 port component switch… which is what I need.

4 Stars Just what I needed.
The right price; does the right job. The slightest fault might be that the connections and bonus cables are not gold plated, but this wasn’t used on higher end equipment so there was no noticeable visual or audio degradation. I needed an inexpensive video selector that works with component connections and this was just what I needed. The bonus cables made it a great value too.

4 Stars A Steal At 20 Bucks!
I’ve had this for a year and a half (I have my XBOX 360, PS2, Gamecube, and DVD player hooked up to it) and it works just fine! Don’t belive the review that it doesn’t work on HD (it’s also hooked up to my HDTV with NO compromise of picture quality at all!) It’s amazing that this works so well being the fact that the exterior of the unit is almost made entirely of plastic….the only reason why I didn’t give it 5 stars.

1 Star Poorly/cheaply made.
Mine was out of warranty and the composite video started to become flaky. Turns out the plug to the video was loose. I then found out that many of the plugs were loose. So I took mine apart and found that many of the solder points were disconnected from the mainboard of the device. Completely faulty soldering.

4 Stars Looking for a System Changer?
If you are looking for a system selector, you have found it. It is a basic system selector, and will work with basic TVs, but I fear it won’t work with high def TVs. If all that matters to you is that it is an easy way to change systems, and quality is not lost, then you have clicked on the right item. However, I cannot say whether or not it works with high def systems like the PS3. I guess you’d have to take a risk. But, what kind of person would play their PS3 on a regular TV? I know I would. Just buy this selector if you need one. OK?

Buy/More Info

Popularity: 3% [?]