Arcade Zone

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Fully 3D arcade with 5 visually distinct themed environments - Arcade, Egyptian, Aztec, Haunted, and Pirate. Create and customize your character and play through all the games to unlock the Arcade Master Zone for a face-off with the resident arcade legend
• ?Classic retro video games? incorporated in each zone: Freeway, Atlantis, Megamania, and Kaboom! Beat the retro games and earn old-school patches.
• Earn tickets to play games, win tokens and prizes! Over 150 crazy prizes to win - from Chinese finger traps and hover-crafts to stuffed animals and electronics
• Gameplay uses motion-sensing Wii Remote to capture all the fun of arcade games! Shoot basketballs and air hockey pucks, swing hammers, fire cannonballs at pirate ships, and much more
• 3 Modes included: Single Player, 1-4 Player Quickplay, 1-4 Player Arcade Tournament

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001UW9Z6M
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 4.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,367 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #17 in Video Games > Wii > Puzzle

Product Description

Arcade Zone features all your favorite arcade games and more: Skee Ball, claw machine and Whack-a-Mole as well as addictive new arcade experiences like Cyclone, Colorama and Spin-n-Win. Score big to earn tickets and take your winnings to the prize counter to exchange them for cool gifts from candy and finger traps to large stuffed animals and electronics. Use your prizes to buy entry to previously locked areas of the arcade where you can play brand new machines. Take on challenges against the colorful resident arcade champions to become a local arcade legend. It's all your favorites in one package, and all the action of the arcade right in your living room.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sorry, it's just not that good..., September 11, 2009

By 

MGoldie "Video Game, Comic Book, DVD Collector!" (Near Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Arcade Zone (Video Game)

Got this game yesterday and it looked promising.

Had 3 friends over to play and let me say, I was a bit embarrassed by this game. While this is no means a complete review, I can tell you from my initial experience with it, I don't know how much I'll be returning to the game. The controls were terrible for most of the mini-games we tried. The Skee-ball was almost impossible to control and more often than not we ended up not scoring points at all because the ball would barely go up the alley. Other games were also hard to control and the instructions on how the games are played were not helpful. There are annoying voice overs that I wish you could turn off (and maybe you can in a setting, I didn't look). There is a lot of content in the game and at $30, it's not bad so that is the reason I didn't give it a one star rating. However, if all the games were as bad and hard to control as the ones I played so far, I don't see myself returning to this game much more again. I was thinking maybe I should have played a bit more to review this game, but my initial impression did NOT make me (or my friends) want to stick around for very long with it. I only wish I had rented it rather than spending about $30 on it. At least maybe I can save a few others who are on the fence about this game from making the mistake I did.

As an aside, I know it gets a bad rep by "hardcore gamers" but stick with Carnival Games for Wii if you want to see a much better version of a game similar to this.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No options for this game, September 13, 2009

By 

Guillermo Leal (Dayton, OH) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Arcade Zone (Video Game)

I actually only got this game because it included Kaboom!, and old arcade game that my family enjoyed back in the Atari era... Much to my disappointment, however, there are no options to just play Kaboom (or for that matter, any of the other games) by itself, the player must first earn enough points on some other useless games before Kaboom is "unlocked" for that player to be able to play it.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You need to be patient to play, November 27, 2009

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M. Middlesex "Maria" (NJ) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Arcade Zone (Video Game)

It spends a long time loading and as said in earlier reviews you can't directly select a game so the menus aren't clear as to what games are available. Just poorly designed and linked together. Maybe worth $10 and good to keep kids busy.