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A Wonderland of Wacky Gaming Gadgets

When we predicted that 2009 would be a year of innovation for the video game business, who knew it would start by pushing the boundaries of silliness?

Posted 1.15.09 at 3:22 pm 2 Comments

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DDRGame

Scott Steinberg

Given Nintendo's fondness for officially reissuing classic games on updated formats, they won't like DDRGame beating them to the punch with its own portable NES player. It does fulfill a real need, however. But so does software emulation that already lets Nintendo games run on portables such as laptops and iPhones (with equally dubious legality). And the emulating gadgets also hold hundreds of games without requiring an oversized carry-on. ($50, ddrgame.com)

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bkdude

01/15/09 at 7:53 pm

I'm glad I don't "actively" play console games anymore... that market is just going down the toilet...

Meh. Someone will buy it, but I'd rather save my pennies.

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strangeboi63

02/17/09 at 2:37 pm

In reference to Scott Steinberg's,
"Still, marketing hygienic play to an audience that lounges around all day in Fruit of the Looms and Red Bull-stained t-shirts seems like a stretch." I'm more than offended. I am a graduate student of cognitive science and an avid gamer. I find your article HIGHLY uneducated. The average purchaser of video games is now over the age of 25, college educated, and could tell you these items are no more than novelties.

And all I can say to bkdude as for the future of gaming, think Lois Van Ahn meets Cliff Blezinski if I have anything to do with it!

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