The latest trend going through the game industry sees developers playing the nostalgia card. Rather than merely cashing in on the latest Hollywood blockbusters, gamers have seen their favorite movies from year’s past given the digital treatment. The possibilities seem endless — swim the ocean in search of unaware swimmers in Jaws, carry out mob [...]
Arctic Tale game
Dec. 3, 2007 Leave a Comment
Based on the National Geographic documentary, Arctic Tale allows you to fight for survival as three different polar animals. The film dramatically follows the paths of a mother walrus and her calf and a polar bear and her cubs. This Nintendo DS game allows you to utilize four survival attributes through 24 levels, several mini-game [...]
Dr. Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas, the video game
Dec. 3, 2007 Leave a Comment
Time to turn the tables and let the mean one win. It’s your turn to steal Christmas in How The Grinch Stole Christmas for Nintendo DS. You play the mean green one using stealth through a variety of puzzles and challenges, using scenes from the movie adaptation of the popular children’s book. This is another [...]
Zoo Hospital
Dec. 3, 2007 Leave a Comment
Zoo Hospital is a plot-driven collection of mini-games that makes you a summer intern at your aunt’s zoo The adventures unfold as you learn how to treat 40 kinds of animals including mammals, reptiles and birds. It’s your job to diagnose and treat the creatures and return them to their habitats healthy and well-adjusted. Features: [...]
The Aly & AJ Adventure
Dec. 2, 2007 Leave a Comment
Bubblegum pop princesses Aly and AJ Michalka make their video game debut on one of what appears to be hundreds of Nintendo DS games launching this holiday season. The Aly and AJ Adventure is a collection of 15 minigames that take you throughout London, Tokyo, New York and Hollywood, including a dance-off multiplayer mode. The [...]
Fish Tycoon DS port
Nov. 26, 2007 1 Comment
Fish Tycoon is another one of those tycoon simulation games where your job is to make money by raising, building, birthing or otherwise developing animals, people or infrastructure. This Majesco title stretches the capabilities of the Nintendo DS touchscreen. There are more than 750 different varieties of fish you can raise and sell using genetic [...]
Worms: Open Warfare 2
Nov. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Written by Brian Szabelski The Worms series of games has long been loved for its multiplayer chaos and cartoonish violence, but when it moved to the Nintendo DS, it seemed to lose a step. The first portable version of Worms was met with poor reviews due to a number of problems. This time around, things [...]
Zendoku
July 25, 2007 Leave a Comment
Zendoku is another attempt to bring Sudoku’s addictive logic to the video gaming world. It’s a valiant effort with cute, DBZ-like martial arts characters and kitschy symbols instead of numbers on the game board. The graphics aren’t great, however, and the storyline is boring and repetitive. The game tries to suck you in with different [...]
New York Times Crosswords
July 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
If you like crossword puzzles, you can take them with you anywhere you go on the Nintendo DS. There are seven levels of difficulty in the New York Times Crosswords from Majesco. The game allows competition or cooperative modes in the multi player games. The single players can compete on certain difficulty levels to unlock [...]
Toon-Doku
May 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Play Sudoku with pictures instead of numbers. This Game for the DS was designed for those don’t like to see numbers. The game of Sudoku is played with icons for each of the numbers. This is aimed at a younger audience that will enjoy changing the pictures, and even drawing their own pictures to use [...]
