Product Description

Special joystick lets you double the fun with your V.Smile Learning System -- now two players can play! Joystick features: liFour flashing buttons that light-up the action liLarge "enter" button that's perfect for small hands and easily switches from right-handed to left-handed liDirectional stick liHelp button liExit button liLearning fun button liStrong, sturdy construction liCable included for hooking up to V.Smile Learning System pbV.Smile Learning System sold separately.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38530 in Toys & Games
• Brand: VTech
• Model: 80-91000
• Released on: 2006-06-12
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.87" h x 7.87" w x 4.50" l, 1.10 pounds

Features

• Two players add to the fun with an additional joystick for the V.Smile TV Learning system.
• Help button, quick exit button, extra large directional joystick and enter button for small hands.
• Switch for left or right-handed players.

From the Manufacturer
Two players add to the fun with an additional joystick for the V.Smile TV Learning system.

Customer Reviews

Not necessary
I bought the second joystick so my children, 2 and 5, could take turns playing. It has proven not necessary. You only need one joystick at a time and the game tells you when it is player one's or player two's turn.

Good Joystick
This joystick is well-designed and great for little kids. The colored buttons flash when you're supposed to use them, the main button is big enough so that even very yound kids can be successful using it, and the cord is really long so you can sit anywhere. Even though my three kids are all right-handed I think it's cool that the stick can be reversed for left-handed kids.

One reviewer mentioned the second joystick isn't necessary for two player games. I agree that it shouldn't be necessary but it actually is necessary in the games we've played. Instead of two players playing at the same time, they take turns (this is how 2-player games work in The Lion King and Alphabet Park Adventure). The fact is that the players can't simply pass the same joystick back and forth. The second joystick is required.

I would have liked it if the V.Smile system and the joystick were designed like other gaming systems, whereby if you yank on the controller it will easily detach from the system before the console falls off of, say, a shelf or a tv. That would have been a good feature for a game designed for young kids.

2 players= 2 joysticks
I read one of the earlier reviews that suggested not to get the second joystick, but I ended up buying it anyway. I am so glad I did for several reasons:
1. you cannot select 2 players w/o having a second controller
plugged in.
2. not having to pull one child off the system to allow the other child to have a turn.
We have almost every game for this system, and now both children can enjoy it:)