Ping Pals ds

Pros: Great fun for tweens-teens who love to play games and text-message

Cons: Enjoyed it for a maximum of 5 hours. Gets boring after a while

The Bottom Line: Wouldn't recommend it for someone over 14. Would be great to keep kids busy.

Review: Collect, Trade, Play! If you had been a fan of Tamagotchi, Gigapets or Neopets, and is a fan of Nintendogs... and is very patient with everyday-play games, this is one of the games for you. You start off with creating an avatar of your choice (boy ...

Pros: Colored ink, avatars

Cons: Lame gameplay, multiplayer; a knock-off of Pictochat

The Bottom Line: Unless you're the kind of person who pays for free things, stay away from this game.

Review: If you read the title thinking that this game is a good one, you thought wrong. Ping Pals is essentially the embedded program Pictochat (on the DS's main menu), except you can use avatars and "upgrade" it with clothes. In addition to text and doodling, ...

Pros: Avatars

Cons: Everything is already embedded in the DS before this game.

The Bottom Line: Do NOT buy this. It is a waste of money.

Review: OK, maybe I'm a little cynical but why on earth would anyone pay for a game that's already embedded in the game system? Maybe, the users that haven't used pictochat don't know about it. Or maybe the users happen to like the avatars that come with ...