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Scribblenauts |  | From: Warner Bros
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $20.00
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Seller: J. Barnhill's Used Books
Rating:  167 reviews
Sales Rank: 174
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: action_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: 1000109938
Model: 883929085613
UPC: 883929085613
EAN: 0883929085613
ASIN: B002B1TDV8
Publication Date: August 31, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Play the entire game in a sandbox style right on the title screen. | | • | Innovative side scrolling action where objects spelled out to solve spatial puzzles become real and combinable in-game and can be reused. | | • | Over 30,000 items are available to help you and your imagination collect Starites. | | • | 220 levels of single player, pick-up and play fun. | | • | Share levels you create with the level editor via Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection. |
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Product Description
Scribblenauts DS
Amazon.com Product Description
Scribblenauts is a unique single player side-scrolling action game for the Nintendo DS that challenges players to solve spatially oriented puzzles like no game before it. In it players use an in-game notepad/keyboard, as well as the touch screen and stylus of the Nintendo DS, to conjure up solutions to the obstacles placed in the path of the game's hero. Solutions are manifested in the form of literally thousands of items--many very unexpected--that are called up and take on a life of their own, resulting in puzzle-solving that is limited only by the player's imagination. 
Get creative in collecting Starites.
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Based around 2D side-scrolling action and word play, the premise of Scribblenauts is simple; quite literally, anything you write, you can use and reuse in the game. Players use the DS' touch-screen and the in-game notepad/keyboard to help their character, Maxwell, as he moves throughout 220 increasingly difficult levels on his never-ending quest for the star-like "Starites." But it is not as easy as reaching up and plucking a Starite. Attaining them requires Maxwell to solve spatially oriented puzzles. To do this players describe objects via the notepad/keyboard, which in turn appear on the game screen and facilitate the starite making its way to Maxwell. There are literally thousands of items in the game, both utilitarian like ladders, ropes, cars and buses, to the outlandish items, such as invisibility cloaks, pirates and black holes. There are time limits on levels, as well as a limitation to the number of items that can be used per level. But regardless of these restrictions, the game is all about experimentation, imagination and endless replay value as players open their minds to the nearly limitless possibilities that are sure to make Scribblenauts unlike any side-scrolling platformer they have ever played. Key Features - Create Your Own Interactive Experience - Objects you write down in the game are only limited by your imagination.
- Everyone Can Play - Scribblenauts features all-ages pick-up-and-play fun for everyone.
- Touch-screen Controls - Easy to pick up and play on Nintendo DS. If you can tap, you can play.
- Unlimited Replay Value - Use less objects to increase your score, or experiment with different objects for endless replay value. Write anything; solve everything.
- Playground Mode - Play the entire game in a sandbox style right on the title screen.
- Create and Share - Share levels you create with the level editor via your Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection.
- Innovative New Title from Leading Developer - 5th Cell, the creator of the Drawn to Life franchise and Lock's Quest, has experience creating high-quality, innovative DS games.
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Spell it & use it.
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Thousands of objects.
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Track levels & stats.
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Object combining.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 167
 Great game - with ultra-promising sequel to come! July 29, 2010
Media DJ-X (Detroit, MI USA)
If your kids are playing video games, Scribblenauts should be at the top of your list, along w/Drawn to Life, Little Big Planet and the like. Scribblenauts is not perfect - but it is ambitious, original, creative and a positive contributor to a kid's noodle. If you don't have it already, though, consider waiting for Super Scribblenauts - it should have everything this one has and then some, with a high probability that any shortcomings within the original will have been worked out.
 Great game! July 22, 2010
Kayla
This is such a fun game! I find myself playing for way longer than I should.
my son loves this game July 21, 2010
M.S. (WV)
My son is eight years old and he loves this game. It really does help him with spelling and he uses his imagination when playing this game. Warning: you may hear the following quite often for a while when your child first gets this game: "Mom, how do you spell...?"
The All-Time-Favorite for our now 6 & 10 year old and their friends ! July 9, 2010
busy_mom2000 (Florida)
My children received their DS this past Christmas, and after thorough game reviews, my husband and I opted for this one, thinking it would be fun AND educational. Boy were we right !!! This game has proven itself over and over again. I am not going to go into game details here, as there are plenty of those in the other reviews as well as the video clips.
Moreover, I just want to emphasize that if you are remotely thinking of getting this game for a child (or maybe even for yourself!), think no more about it: buy it!
This game not only gets your child to think and use their imagination, but gets them to S-P-E-L-L. And that is a biggy! Usually our 4th grader and Kindergartner would sit in front of the DS playing the game together, and the older one would do all the writing. But on the rare occasion, when the older one was not home (e.g. at a party etc.), our younger one would get out the DS, start playing the game, and ask my husband or myself to spell whatever objects she was summoning up (e.g. "Mom, how do you spell 'shark'?"). Through repetition she needed to ask us less and less (granted she was also progressing in her Kindergarten level and thus learning how to spell more and more). I really believe her above-level reading and writing skills stem partly from playing this game.
As I was saying, our kids usually play this game together (we only have one copy of this game between the two of them), something that is not too common for them, given the age-difference. But they have a blast coming up with different solutions for the various levels, often going back to re-play games with different ideas. And for us as parents it is fun to watch our older one respecting and usually approving of the ideas that our younger one comes up with.
As the months since our children received their DS have passed, we have collected a number of fun games (Professor Layton, Mario, etc.). But this one continues to be our children's favorite. If we go on road trips, we usually let each of our kids choose 2 games to take along (so as not to loose or forget any, if we bring too many along): I have yet to see a trip that Scribblenauts is not part of!
In fact, the game has been so much of a hit with our kids, that we have gifted it to others with similar success, and most of our neighbors and friends have ended up buying this game, because their kids played it at our house, and would come home begging them to buy it (this is the only game our kids refuse to lend out to their friends, in case they might get the urge to play it, while it was at a friend's house!).
Wow - this review has turned out to be much longer than anticipated - but I am just that thrilled about this game! Would I buy it again? Absolutely (and I have, to give as a gift). And I know I will be one of the first to buy the sequel - hoping it will be as big of a success with my kids, as this one has been. Besides: it will come just in time for my then 1st grader to learn all about adjectives ;-)
Good Game... July 7, 2010
So I bought this game because all my friends had it and it looked fun so I bought it...
After I got it I turned on my DS and put it in. My first impression was that it was an amazing game, there was almost anything I could think of! When I would type in a word it would appear right there! One of the most helpful things in the game was when I would spell a word wrong it would bring up a mini version of spell check. The only thing that would make it better is instead of using the stylus to move, to use the directional pad or the xyba buttons.
Hope this helps! :)
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