XaviXPORT

[Zadoc]

Howcome this console isn't in the DB?

[digitalpress]

It's being worked on. You should see that stuff in there within the next few weeks.

Aren't those little peripherals that come with the games cool as hell?

[Zadoc]

It's being worked on. You should see that stuff in there within the next few weeks.

Aren't those little peripherals that come with the games cool as hell?

Hell yeah they are. Not expensive, either.

[Snapple]

They have XaviX Bowling at Epcot Center. I kid you not.

It was in a building with some hands-on science stuff for kids. Then off to the side, they had a Xavix set up with a tv. It was roped off so that people could form an actual line. There was a XaviX attendant. His entire job was to show people how to handle a XaviX bowling ball.

A Japanese couple even asked me to take a picture of them while they were bowling.

[DeputyMoniker]

I just discovered this thing. Is it any fun? It looks a little lame.

[Daft Punk]

I played it at toys r us when it first came out. It's like a bootleg WII.

[Steve W]

Actually, the XavixPort came out around 2004, if I remember correctly. Possibly earlier. It was designed by a group of ex-Nintendo engineers, too. (I have a conspiracy theory that Nintendo had a secret connection to it, to test the waters for motion sensitive controls.) I've got Bowling, Tennis, and Boxing. By far, the most fun one is Bowling. It's bucketloads of fun. The aiming isn't as accurate as the bowling game in Wii Sports, but that's compensated for with the extra games available. There's a puzzle type game, where blocks fall from the ceiling and you have to bowl them out of the way before they stack up too high, and there's a shooting gallery type game that's really good.

One peripheral I want to get for the Xavix is the bathroom scale. There's a $150 scale and cartridge combo that measures your body fat, designs workouts for you, and some other healthy stuff. I want to pick it up eventually just for the fact that it's a scale designed for a videogame console, which is pretty wacky. And the fact that it's going to be hard to find in the future because not a lot of people are going to blow that kind of cash on a game peripheral when you can buy a $30 bathroom scale instead means it's going to be pretty scarce. And plus, my bathroom scale's broken and I need a new one.

[DeputyMoniker]

That isn't the Jackie Chan package is it?