Gaming Gadgets
USB Riff Rocker
April 10, 2009
What is it?
The Riff Rocker is essentially a USB controller for a game. You plug the little rocker into a free USB socket, download the two games off the Riff Rocker website, and then thrash your little fingers off.
The downloadable games come with the usual 3 difficulty settings and are based around the guitar heroes-esc format of “press the correct coloured button in time with the on screen prompt”.
Continue reading »Cheap Nintendo Wii?
September 8, 2008
Nintendo produce a great new console and then name it after bodily function, yep that would be the Nintendo Wii!?
We giggled at this brave new name when we first heard it and sniggered at Nintendo’s marketing manager’s line of “every house should have a Wii”, but now this name holds no childish comical connotations for us as it has made such a big splash in the games console market.
The Nintendo Wii is like no other console that has made it to market and “in theory” should be ‘poo’. The graphics are last generation, it has little to no connectivity compared to rivals and it does not even double up as a DVD player. But despite these small flaws this stylish little box of magic is by far the most fun console available to buy.
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