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NFL GameDay 2001 (Sony; for PlayStation) If you know your football, you'll find the details in NFL GameDay 2001 amazing. Sony uses 17 Pro Bowl players and all 31 NFL […]

Star Wars: Yoda's Challenge (Lucas Learning) PC and Mac Weesa say yusa gonna like this CD. It's fun and makes you use your brain. The best games are Queen Amidala's […]

Played by Peter S. Medina Palmdale, CA USA on the PC. The Folia, front the very hot and humid planet Herba IV, conquered the known universe (Earth included) during humanity's […]

The arrival of a new baseball season brings several impressive new video games: * MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2K9 (Xbox 360) Take 300 new player animations. Add new announcers. Throw in [...]

Nintendo for Wii This is the crowning achievement in an already bizarre series of games. Two-thirds 2D platformer and one-third 3D role-playing game, Super Paper Mario deftly jumps across all […]

TrackMania United is not just a racing game--it's a game that incorporates both racing and puzzle elements. Even without its seriously inventive style of jumping-looping-spinning driving, the game would still […]

Activision for PS2. Wii Xbox 360, DS, Game Boy Advance, PSP, PC Rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and Older Shrek is back, and so is all the weirdness that makes […]

There was a time when artists drew cartoons by hand. Now they are created by computers--just like the art in video games. So when you play the new Teenage Mutant [...]

SSX BLUR EA Sports for Wii This game exclusively for Wii brings a new bag of skiing and snowboarding tricks to the SSX series, one of the most successful extreme [...]

POKEMON DIAMOND/POKEMON PEARL Nintendo for DS The latest additions to the Pokemon family take the games into new territory. The pocket monsters thrive on the bigger screens and processing power [...]

They are the old men of gaming. Introduced in 181. Frogger. Mario and Donkey Kong have been lighting up screens for a quarter of a century. Now they're more popular […]

You've shredded snow, raced cars and saved the Earth from aliens and asteroids. What could possibly be left? Board games. Remember Monopoly, Battleship, chess and checkers? They're all in video-game […]

BUENA VISTA FOR GAME BOY ADVANCE Ryan, a lion cub at the New York City Zoo, is accidentally released into the wild. Samson, Ryan's father, travels across town, ocean and […]

Three-dimensional characters play this game, rather than the old flat guys. That's reason enough to give Backyard a try. Mini-games bring extra playing time. And having nine different arenas doesn't […]

NASCAR racers battle for points each week. You do the same in this game. Your driver can improve his car, sponsors and off-track cruisers by earning points. The season mode […]

Sega is a bargain at $19.95, but don't think this game is stingy on fun. NBA 2K5 features the full-court NBA action plus a street version of the game. Training […]

EA's hockey series is simply the best. Take the Free4All mode in this version. It's like a half-court hockey game. If you have one, two or three friends, you can […]

Duel Masters, the card game based on the Cartoon Network television show, features 139 cards from both the starter set and three expansion packs. Five new monsters add to the […]

In the first Pikmin game, Space Man Olimar needed help because he was stranded on a strange planet. He had to repair his ship with help from some creatures called […]

EA FOR GAMECUBE, PC, PS2 and XBOX Can you handle the pressure? Take your best shot while your controller rumbles, pulsing along with the sound of a heartbeat. That's just […]

There simply isn't a more consistent series of sports-themed games out there than Backyard Sports. The newest, nicest edition yet comes from the baseball world. Some games have a hard […]

How cool is farming? Very cool if you give this computer game a chance. The new simulation to hit the computer world brings the same type of play as games […]

THO FOR PS2 The Lowdown: There's no end in sight with this train. Moving from car to car and challenging to challenge provides a smooth ride down the rails in […]

Drive Krabby Patty-shaped car while chasing a peanut on a unicycle. Only in the world of SpongeBob do crazy things like that happen. But that's exactly what you'll get in […]

Even if you've never played golf, this game could hook you. Rather than just allowing you to play different golf courses, this game adds a story line and gives you […]

989 FOR PS2 The Lowdown: The Olympics are over, But you can still enjoy the Games. The archery, track and field events and the equestrian jumping are challengers you'll want […]

The Lowdoen: Sonic once again brings his trademark high-speed jumping, runninq and flipping to the GBA. If you liked the first two GBA Sonics, then you'll love this one. New […]

The Lowdown: Before there was GameCube, there was Nintendo 64. Before that, there was the Super Nintendo. Before that, there was the Cube's great-grand father, the NES. Now there is […]

A TREND EMERGING from the past five years is the party game. Party games are designed for one to four players at a time. If you don't have four humans, […]

Racing games have been popular lately. Here are the best: No. 5: NASCAR Thunder 2004 Help the team. Beat the rivals. This one brought people and personalities to racing games. […]

Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight MICROSOFT FOR PC It's part game, part history lesson with plenty of amazing challenges. Go back in time and re-create Wilbur and Orville [...]

* If you have more than one system, buy EA sports games on the same console. A new feature allows you to create an EA Sports Big. You are rewarded [...]

(Nintendo; for Game Boy Advance) Kirby hasn't been around as long as Frogger, but he's still an old-timer who never wears out his welcome. Kirby is a big, pink puffball […]

(Infogrames; for PS2) This version of Superman soars as the popular cartoon is superbly translated into a sweet video game, All of Superman's powers, including X-ray vision, heat rays and […]

BURNOUT 2: POINT OF IMPACT (Acclaim; for PS2) The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of Burnout is the nasty crashes. Smack your wheels into a bus or […]

BUY IT Worth every penny. BORROW IT Fun, but don't spend money on it. BAG IT You'll be sorry. Metroid Fusion (Nintendo; for Game Boy Advance) Metroid continues to be […]

TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR, 2003 (EA; for GameCube, PS2, Xbox and PC) Designed for the competitive video garner, Tiger Woods uses analog controls (the joystick levers) for the club swing, […]

Play dozens of games with an e-Reader and Game Boy Advance. Paper trading cards slide through the e-Reader and load that game into the system. The e-Reader is $39.95; game […]

SpiderMan (Activision; for GameCube) Follow the story of last summer's blockbuster movie as you sling the webs uncover secrets and send the bad guys packing. Donald Duck Goin' "Quackers" (Ubi […]

Matchbox rescue rigs (THQ; FOR PC) Capture sharks in an underwater sub. Rebuild broken bridges in a repair truck. Rescue stranded adventurers in a hovercraft. Rescue Rigs features a series […]

Madden 2002 (Electronic Arts; for PC, PlayStation 2) Attention, football fans: This game is as close as you can come without having to wear pads. Frequency (Sony; for PlayStation 2) […]

Meet Hoigle and Moigle Floigan, two oddly matched brothers on a mission to save their junkyard from evil Baron Malodorous. The older is Hoigle--short, skinny and quick-witted. Moigle is his […]

Paperboy (Midway; for N64 and Game Boy Color) The old-school newspaper delivery game has made a giant leap from Atari to the Nintendo 64 with great 3D graphics and 25 […]

A YEAR AGO, INADEQUATE demand blasted several computer game companies into the void. Survivors realized that to attract new customers, they would have to make better games. Many did. And […]