I'll never forget the first time I saw Sonic the Hedgehog. A kid at my church had a Sega Game Gear, and as I watched him play over his shoulder, this little blue streak flew around the screen at speeds my Mario-playing imagination couldn't grasp. I later owned a Game Gear with the same game, as well as a Sega Genesis with multiple Sonic games, but Sonic just hasn't been the same since he went 3-D, and I've always longed for another 2-D Sonic game release.  read more »

Many Star Wars games have I seen in my 800 years of life, and not very good were most of them. But start as younglings Jedi must if master the ways of the force they will, so release a Clone Wars (based on the Cartoon Network movie and series) educational game for the Didj Leapfrog has. Intended for grades 1-3 this action platformer is, and math skills it teaches.  read more »

When Mario Kart released for the SNES, it created a new genre and changed the video game industry. Since then, many Kart racers have come and gone, but none (with the possible exception of Crash Team Racing for Playstation) have competed with the Mario Kart series, all of which have been excellent. Now, LeapFrog has entered the race with a Kart racer for the Didj, aptly named Didji Racing Tiki Tropics, a spelling game for grades 1-3.  read more »

Dale and Teresa are back without pumpkins.  read more »

Super Chicks is a classic example of a game kids love and parents don't understand.

Using either your Didji or one of the included Super Chicks characters, you move your hero around an open-ended world, meet new people (who have a limited number of phrases among them), and come to the rescue when needed. Most of the game, you find yourself simply wandering from place to place.  read more »

Nancy Drew was a teenager in 1930 and remains young and hip today. Well, she's not Miss Popular, but she has friends who love to text her and talk about boys, clothes, and all kinds of girly things, but Nancy is often too busy for those things, because she's too busy solving mysteries. Now on Leapfrog's new Didj handheld, Nancy has appeared again to solve her latest case and accessorize it along the way!  read more »

For years, Leapfrog practically owned the child video game market with the Leapster, and they recently followed-up with the Leapster2, but we faced a crisis in our house: Hannah is now 7, getting old to make a Leapster2 worthwhile, as she's at the top of its age range. So to keep her in Leapfrog products, the next step is the new Didj, as in, "Didja see Leapfrog's new game system?"

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