Articles by Raymond J. Brighton
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Pipe Mania DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Most people -- particularly the crowd that would probably gravitate toward something like Pipe Mania -- have played games like this before. The explosion in popularity of casual games and portal web sites has meant that the familiar Pipe Dream-esque gameplay idea of laying pipe...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download My SAT Coach DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
The Nintendo DS has become more than a handheld game system. Numerous titles have released that are not games, but rather software applications. My SAT Coach is the latest in these DS tools. It's not a brain game, but rather an interactive guidebook for passing...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Dinosaur King DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
For some, strange and entirely unknown reason, Dinosaur King and I are kindred spirits. Maybe it's the fun everyone remembers as kids looking at dinosaur books and wishing - much like I did so many years ago - that they had a pet raptor in...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Away: Shuffle Dungeon DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
How many hours have gamers spent delving into dungeons, hacking/slashing monsters, and collecting treasure? Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi decided it was time to shuffle things up a bit and came up with Away: Shuffle Dungeon, a dungeon crawler with a twist. Download Away: Shuffle...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download FIFA Soccer 09 DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
At this point, it's safe to assume that FIFA Soccer 09 is a good, solid game of soccer, at least by Nintendo DS standards. It's been one of the most consistent and consistently good titles of all the EA Sports franchises on the handheld, and...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Brain Quest: Grades 3 & 4 DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Brain Quest: Grades 3 & 4 and Brain Quest: Grades 5 & 6 takes the same trivia game that's been around for over a decade, and crams it into your Nintendo DS in a pretty good educational game, as long as you like playing by...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Mechanic Master DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Mechanic Master is a good, solid game on the Nintendo DS that fills the void of not having The Incredible Machine on the handheld. The sloppy visuals are a good clue that someone else can do a better job at the same style of game...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Brain Quest: Grades 5 & 6 DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Brain Quest: Grades 3 & 4 and Brain Quest: Grades 5 & 6 takes the same trivia game that's been around for over a decade, and crams it into your Nintendo DS in a pretty good educational game, as long as you like playing by...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download The Wonder Pets! Save the Animals! DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Save the Animals marks the Wonder Pets' first outing on the DS. Developer Black Lantern Studios, Inc. has worked on several Dora and Diego games (also Nickelodeon properties), so an educational Wonder Pets game for DS should be a walk in the park right? Well,...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Ener-G: Gym Rockets DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
When looking through the shelves of games at your local dealer, how often do your eyes lock on a gymnastics game? Unless the cover features the epically glorious moustache of gymnastics coaching legend Bela Karolyi, probably never. Well, next time you're at the ol' mom...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Tak: Mojo Mistake DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Thankfully, the introduction of the Virtual Console as well as retro titles like New Super Mario Bros. have managed to keep 2D platforming alive, but new titles in the genre are becoming increasingly rare. Enter Tak: Mojo Mistake, a brand new 2D platformer for the...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Defendin' de Penguin DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
The DS has seen its share of real-time strategy titles. Defendin' de Penguin, from Crave Entertainment and Brain Toys, claims to be the first designed with children under 12 in mind. It may sound good in theory, but this game makes you wonder if there's...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Pass the Pigs DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
What do you get when you combine dice throwing with America's most diversely edible barnyard animal? Why, Pass the Pigs of course, a game where you roll pigs for points. Instead of traditional cubical dice, the player throws two pig shaped die. The unique shapes...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Snow Princess DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Let's get something out of the way right off the bat: if your child enjoys Dora the Explorer, they will probably enjoy Dora Saves the Snow Princess, by 2K Play and Black Lantern Studios. If they don't like the show, or are over the age...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Hotel For Dogs DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Normally the summer months are the time for quickly produced games based on family friendly films. But many often forget that the early months of the year see a number of kids films that don't have the power to compete in the big leagues. And...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Jumble Madness DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Crossword puzzles. Sudoku puzzles. And now, Jumble Madness marks the holy trinity of the "what's free in newspapers is now on a DS cartridge" category. This one's a little different, though: it's actually a licensed product that uses intellectual property for its content. The game's...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Hello Kitty Daily DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Hello Kitty Daily is such a worthless piece of software that it doesn't even deserve a proper snarky introductory paragraph from me. It claims to be a PDA (Personal DS Assistant) but the entire thing contains fewer features than your average cellphone. It uses the...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Big Bang Mini DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
The first great (2D) DS shooter of the year is here. Like last year's excellent Space Invaders Extreme, Big Bang Mini is another psychedelic shooter with fantastic visuals and simple, solid gameplay. It comes by way of French developer Arkedo Studio, maker of 2007's Nervous...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Inkheart DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Finally some company got it right. They made a Nintendo DS game based on a movie starring Brendan Fraser and they actually got his likeness in there. After those last two games I was afraid we were all doomed to never accurately see Mr. Fraser's...
Nintendo DSi Center - Download Pony Friends: Mini-Breeds Edition DSi Games For Free! -
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Raymond J. Brighton
Pony Friends: Mini-Breeds Edition is a newly remixed version of an Eidos-published virtual pet design, and you can only buy it at GameStop. Because it's an "edition" of a game and not the original game itself, this level of exclusivity seems most similar to that...
