Toy Shop

by Majesco

Product Features

• Use the Stylus to control everything from moving characters to making toys
• Play mini games to create over 30 new and fun toys for your store
• Run your shop for 3 years with each year divided into 4 months that represent the 4 seasons that include Valentines Day and Christmas
• Unlock new and bigger store locations as you earn more money selling toys
• Choose your style of play whether its complete control of all operations or just creating toys

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0013B5NCK
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,447 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

When their grandfather passed away, Mel and Mark were left in charge of his toy shop with thecondition that if they couldn¿t make it successful within three years, it would be donated to the city. It¿s up to you to help the two make toys, satisfy demanding customers, explore the city, and ultimately return their grandfather¿s toy shop back to the booming business it once was!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Game, May 27, 2008

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SW "Wick" - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Toy Shop (Video Game)

I bought this game at the store because I thought it looked fun. The front cover is well done and really draws you right in. I was also expecting something like MySims or maybe Animal Crossing, except a business setting.

The graphics are really bad! I mean, it looks like they didn't even finish it. The grass looks weird, and the camera view moves on it's own. It is even hard to move the people. Mostly you see the top of their heads. You can go talking to people but they say stupid things to you like, "Such nice weather." That is it. Nothing.

Did I say the GRAPHICS ARE TERRIBLE??? I mean, when you buy a game you expect it to have good graphics. This looks like THEY DIDN'T EVEN WORK ON IT. They probably know how terrible this game is, how bad the graphics are, how there is no point to it at all. A game gone wrong that they have to sell because they will lose out on money if they don't!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars HORRIBLE GAME!, May 20, 2008

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C. Rogers (Bridgeport Michigan) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Toy Shop (Video Game)

This game falls short of what you expect. Even when you make the toys, the stupid little character will fail and you will lose the money used to buy the materials. I played this game for 10 minutes and it went right onto Ebay. STUPID game. May be good for younger players, but I am a 22 year old gamer. I love games like Cake Mania, Mah Jong, Word Jong and The Sims, so I thought this would be a good addition. I was wrong.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice potential, but disappointing, June 11, 2008

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Laura M. Parkinson "scribbler" (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Toy Shop (Video Game)

While I wanted to like and support this game due to it being a niche product and something different from the norm, in the end it all comes down to how fun and well-crafted it is. And in the end, it isn't very much of either.

This game seemed to have a lot of potential, taking something from the Tycoon type games, where you have to create and sell a product, manage your funds, and so on, plus taking something from Harvest Moon type games where you add a more human element, talking to neighbors and trying to befriend people.

Where it falls down is how well these are implemented - in this case, poorly. While it's a bit interesting at the start to try to learn the ropes and manage your funds to keep from going bankrupt, and also a bit fun to find and unlock the various toy types, soon enough the game devolves into a boring grindfest of pressing the four directions on the D-Pad of the DS to try to make toys as quickly as possible, and pretty much nothing else. You can occasionally go out into the town to talk to people, but barring a very few, fairly obvious interactions where you get specific new toy blueprints, the people say the very same things day in, day out, and none of them are really interesting. The number of individual NPCs is very limited, and there's not really much to do in the end besides... make toys, in a very boring badly implemented mini-game.

So while I really wanted to enjoy this game a lot, and I think it had some potential and some grains of fun buried underneath, I wouldn't suggest it for everyone, or even most people. Maybe if they try to *really* polish it hard and release a sequel there can be something there worth playing, but for now, I'd give it a pass.