Technical characteristics
Material: plastic
Color: white
Built -in games: 60 pcs.
Processor discharge: 16 bits
Connection to TV: There is
Console power: from the network 220 V
Joystic power: 3 AAA Battery
Charging from the network: There is
Console size: 18.3×6.2×22 cm
Console weight: 355 g
Joystility weight: 63 g
Game together: Supported
Vibration: There is
Additionally: baseball bat, 2 tennis rackets, 2 ping pounds, golf club; Monosvuk
Price for August 2011: 1800 rubles
In the spring of this year, Defender, a manufacturer of microchips, keyboards and acoustics, introduced a new console – Sharky TVMate. This family-oriented console costs no more than a disc for any other modern prefix and looks like Nintendo WII.
The similarity intensifies as you meet the game of the prefix – in Favor interactive and sports entertainment, such as Bowling, tennis and darts. However, for all similarity, the price of TVMate is nine times lower than the price of WII: today the market value of the “television friend” is 1800 rubles. How so?
Only "Dandy" is cheaper
From the first glance at TVMate, it becomes clear from whom they took an example in Defender when creating a device. It is not without reason that the prefix is positioned as an affordable alternative to expensive consoles (we are talking about a sweet couple PS3 And Xbox 360 ) And as an economical solution for a family that is looking for one universal game immediately for both children and adults.
There is no doubt about the console's accessibility. But just about the quality? At a price in the area of $ 50, it is difficult to count on an acceptable assembly level, but in the case of Sharky Tvmate, everything turned out to be in order.
The slogan of the console – “Just connect it to the TV and play!". This is true, nothing needs to be tuned. In the box with the prefix are two gamepads, two cables, instructions and additional nozzles for controllers. Even a preschooler to deal with this farm in a state-the console has only two nests for connecting a network adapter and AV-cable.
Before starting the game session, each of the joysticks will have to charge three AAA batteries, after which you can safely press the ON/OFF button. By the way, the prefix, like the ancient NES, has only two buttons, one of which is responsible for turning on, and the second – for the exit from the game and the transition to the main menu. In order to play comfortably, it is enough to follow the two basic principles of TVMate: firstly, there should not be any interference between the IR attire and the gamepad, and secondly, you should not move away from the prefix by more than three meters.
Not a cheese, but a "friend"
The main menu returns us during the NES 399-B-1 pirate cartridges, which worked on the no less pirate prefixes “SCOMO” and “Kenga”. No settings and subprograms here. Everything that the console offers is available in the root menu: 11 sports games with the support of vibrogen wrestlers and additional accessories (plastic baseball bits, golf clubs, two tennis missiles and two ping pounds) and 49 arcade mini-games with a bright , generous 16-bit level graphics of 1995.
Both categories of games are divided into two sections. At some strange whim of sports disciplines are endowed with miniature icons, and the remaining 49 https://sister-site.org/fruity-chance-casino/ games are made in the form of a bare list. He carefully copies the lists of games from ancient cartridges, except that the grammatical mistakes that the Chinese have never skimped, less.
A selection of Arcad not only arouses nostalgia for childhood, but also satisfies the demand of the widest public – from 3 to 15 years. Russian "television" clearly moved forward compared to NES and Mega Drive 2 , Offering a truly extensive gamer, to get to know the veterans of the industry, it took two whole evenings!
Be healthy, arcades!
The instructions recommend using the prefix for children from 5 years old, but, in our opinion, even for children of this age, wireless remote controls are not suitable. They look like Wii Remote, which means they are easy to drop or, worse, inadvertently throw them into the TV. Not to mention someone by chance to hit! Even despite the strap that fixes the remote control on the wrist, it is often difficult for children to keep objects during the enthusiastic game.
The location of the controllers buttons is copied, again, from the WII-Pultiki, but with small changes in the shape and, of course, the location of the keys. We did not have any complaints about the joysticks – perhaps a little little hands are a little, but the scheme duplicates the old Joystics NES, on which the cross was on the left, the action buttons on the right, and between them, in the middle, rested “Start” and “Select”. And, unlike NES-turning, our remote controls have ON/OFF levers that help save batteries, an additional exit button and four action buttons-“A”, “B”, “X”, “Y”.
It is not clear that 11 sports games require holding the joystick in an upright position, like a TV control panel, and the remaining mini-games recognize the joystick in a horizontal position. Because of this, there is a confusion with a cross: it turns out that in one game one button designated upward movement, and in the other suddenly became a command “to the left”.
Gamery
Details about all 60 games can be read on the official Sharky website, where videos from each game are posted along with annotations. We will note the most liked. Among sports games, this is a "fishing", very similar to one of the AR-IGR Nintendo 3DS : During fishing, it is necessary to throw a fishing rod into the water with a remote control, adjust its position in the pond and compete with the hook of fish in the stress of endurance. Classic sports disciplines are also well made-of course, local tennis and ping-pongs in terms of response, flexibility and credibility are very inferior to games from the Wii Sports kit, but they will bring some pleasure to the neophytes.
Baseball and golf turned out well. Baseball imitates all the stages of the game – to beat off the ball, feed and run to the base. For a mini-golf, a campaign is stored with different courts connected in the manner of islands from the classical game “Perestroika” (and a special club also includes in the kit). In almost all sports disciplines, our opponents are pups, very similar to the Avatars MII and Xbox 360. And if there are no opponents, we ourselves dance or throw balls into the basket, playing for the navel.
As in the case of the patented Nintendo and Microsoft characters, TVMate bundles are distinguished by a defiantly large head. Therefore, the local boxing, where it is proposed to compete with a peps in a cap, capable of up to five times after each knockdown, looks especially comical. But the game allows you to take the remote control in each hand and we will weer the enemy of Huki alternately on the left, then on the right side.
Fans of musical rhythm-game type Rock Band And Guitarhero , Perhaps the local game “Dancing” will be appreciated – instead of guitar notes, arrows fall from top to bottom, and we need to press them in a timely manner, waved by a gaming remote control.
Thus, the main idea of TVMate is in the variety of existing entertainment. Of course, they do not compete with full -fledged collections of the type WII Play or PS Move Heroes , But let me: each of these collections costs about the same as the TVMate console with all its game.
Defender Sharky Tvmate is unlikely to buy a person who already has WII, PS3 or Xbox 360. But these people are already not the target audience of the console – Defender created it for children, for caring parents playing in the company with children, or for families of incidents without children, but with a lively memory of the times in the company NES and other ancient platforms.
TVMate reminded us of another Defender console, Multimix magic , Tested in the "Iron shop" earlier. They even coincide some mini-games! As in the case of Multimix Magic, the Sharky prefix may turn out to be a real power engineer for retro -income for thirty or their low -age offspring. As you know, video games all ages are submissive! And TVMate simply proves that a successful device does not have to cost expensive.
Pros:
Super -minute price
You can play together
Suitable for children from 5 years old
Cons:
there is no way to install or buy new games
AV-cable uses only one sound channel
Joystick nozzles are purely decorative