Parents' Guide to

Game Wave

By Jinny Gudmundsen, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 10+

System encourages families to play together.

Game Game Wave 2006
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LittleOlivia
LittleOlivia Parent of 9-year-old
July 30, 2009
age 12+

Family Oriented? Not our family!

I don't know what family this is supposed to be oriented towards, but it isn't ours! The trivia game told my 9 year old daughter "You Suck" when she got an answer wrong. Really family oriented!

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Too much swearing
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What’s It About?

Zapit Games is entering the market of interactive DVD games by offering a new twist to family game playing: a new DVD gaming system called GAME WAVE. The Game Wave system is a DVD player with four unique remotes and comes packaged with the software trivia game 4 Degrees: The Arc of Trivia, Vol. 1; families can purchase two additional remotes ($28), and Zapit Games has released four additional games to play on the Game Wave system, each retailing for $28. With the Game Wave system, family members can compete head-to-head. For example, when playing 4 Degrees: The Arc of Trivia, Vol. 1, all players compete to answer the same question; the system registers how quickly a player answers.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say: (1):
Kids say: Not yet rated

In addition to being a DVD gaming system, the Game Wave is a regular DVD player. Because the system costs $110, it will appeal most to families looking to pick up a first or second DVD player. We found that the "Open/Close" button on this system was less responsive than typical DVD players; families purchasing the Game Wave will need to be patient and may have to push the button multiple times to insert DVDs into the system.

Twenty years ago families would congregate around a board game to play trivia games. Nowadays, with kids weaned on technology, board games seem tame. Game Wave's combination of music, videos, narration, and multimedia breathes life into trivia games in a way that this new generation can embrace.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about which category of questions they like the best and why. Do parents have an unfair advantage in this type of trivia game?

Game Details

  • Platform: Game Wave
  • Available online?: Not available online
  • Publisher: ZAPIT Games
  • Release date: July 19, 2006
  • Genre: Party
  • ESRB rating: NR
  • Last updated: November 4, 2015

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