Would you purchase a product that billed itself as educational but contained a shooting game? What if you didn’t know a company was including a shooting game with a device you were purchasing?
I received a sample of VTech’s newest product, the MobiGo ($59.99) and the Touch & Learn Game Pack cartridge that comes standard with the device. Falling within the target demographic (ages 3-8), almost 4 year old Captain Computer was thrilled to get his hands on such a cool looking device. While a bit big for his little hands, the touch screen and QWERTY keyboard are nice features. The included cartridge comes with 6 games and I was a little taken aback to find a game called The Shooting Gallery on an educational toy.
The Shooting Gallery is a game that requires kids to “shoot” at ducks with letters on their backs by finding the corresponding letter on the keyboard. When a child taps the game to begin, it starts by saying “ready, aim, fire.” Images of guns shooting at the ducks are part of the game.
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Did you not notice that they are shooting with a water gun not bullets.
i wanna know if i can just buy the game from you?
I was a little taken aback that you had a problem with an educational game called shooting gallery. If we take the nasty word ‘shoot’ out and replace it with ‘love’, would that be better? My son has a MobiGo2 and the horrible ‘shooting gallery’ game – and he is correctly spelling a huge number of words and he’s not even 3 years old yet. County Fairs have ‘shooting’ games, and amusement parks have ‘shooting’ games. My question is, what are you afraid of? Will your child grow up to be an unscrupulous killer of ducks – by ‘shooting’ them?
With real and valid concerns that need addressed, this one is simply a diversion from what’s important.
Let’s go on and get rock star to make a version of GTA or saints row for the mobigo2 and give this reviewer something to really gasp about. I mean if you want a real shooting game we could try for a call of duty port?