Those are some impressive reviews
Be very careful when thinking about buying this! Previously bought for daughter and upon setting up the informational card within advertising game/s available. The camera works 50% of the time picking up body movements. Upon daughter losing interest within a few hours and viewing demos along with enclosed card she wanted other games. Those weren’t available to download and likely either never uploaded or already removed from server availability. That said the device itself is discontinued and no longer supported through manufacturer. Game availability is very limited and fairly high priced for such graphic quality. Its just practical to buy a newer NES emulator which has many games preloaded rather than ever initiating such possible headaches derived from this obsolete rubbish.
Agreed with above.
My parents gave my kids one of these for Christmas. It took me a bit, but I finally decided to fire it up with them today.
The camera is awful. It’s finicky and disconnects with the slightest sneeze.
The game that came with it which requires the light bar from the controller flat out didn’t work. The camera barely could pick it up, and it would jump/not register making the game experience awful.
My 5 year olds lost interest in about a total of 30 minutes.
I would not recommend this.
Bought this along with 2 games. Console would not read physical games even after factory resetting. It would freeze for a second and act like it’s about to add the game to the home menu / library then it decides not to.
I agree with the other reviews that the camera is subpar when it comes to tracking. The system I received was likely a decade old as there was a flyer/advertisement that a new game “was coming soon”, dated for December 2014 which correlates to the other post that the product is discontinued… Probably a reseller or LeapFrog themselves trying to offload their stock before completely shutting down the servers for this (speculation of course).
Even with the issues I’m willing to give it another shot if Woot has any to replace my unit with… It’s not like I am buying a $500 Xbox. For the price of a higher end board game I’d rather my kids try this out and being a little more active than staring at their tablets all day even with the quirks.
What I found a bit funny though was the game cartridges themselves appear to be a mini-SD Card glued to a larger piece of plastic. I don’t think even LeapFrog anticipated this to last as they couldn’t put in the effort to design their own cartridges.
No games available for this to download. It’s not even worth the $20 really.