Today brings a healthy dose of pinball to your handhelds, and if you have a 3DS you should choose to spend the extra $2 and buy Zen Pinball 3D. It sounds stupid, but it really is a pretty decent pinball game as it’s proven on many other platforms. We’ve got another Carmen Sandiego math game, and I was all prepared to make fun of Hip Hop King Rytmik Edition because of the incredibly stupid name (Whoops, guess I just did) but it actually looks like a pretty powerful piece of synth software. I personally use the Korg DS-10 synth when I want to play one on the go with my DS, but it looks pretty interesting.
3DS eShop
Zen Pinball 3D – 1-4 players, $6.99
Zen Pinball for Nintendo 3DS brings an incredible stereoscopic 3D experience to the acclaimed video game pinball series for the first time ever.
Featuring four beautifully crafted, original tables, Zen Pinball features the most advanced ball physics in a video pinball game to date, online leader boards ranking you against other players, in-game friend challenges, interactive 3D models, and more!
3DS eShop/DSiWare
101 Pinball World – 1 player, $4.99/500 points
Get ready for fast-paced pinball action with a twist!
Complete special objectives to earn fun bonuses as you shoot your ball through pipes, up ramps and around mind-blowing obstacles. Choose from 2 game modes, Quick Play and Random, and blast through over 100 fun tables on 4 exciting worlds filled with eye-popping details. Be a pinball wiz in Wizard World, go on a galactic adventure in Alien Spaceship, enjoy a spooky trip through Halloween and become a buccaneer in Pirate’s Bay. Rack up enough points to top the High Scores and you’ll be the pinball champ.
Hip Hop King Rhytmik Edition – 1 player, $7.99/800 points
Hip Hop King is an application for creating rhythmical and melodic themes and for composing whole songs.
Its user interface blends the fast and well-arranged interface of classic drum machines with flexible pattern interface of popular trackers and with modern sound library. It contains more than 170 carefully selected sound samples of drums, percussions, bass, melodic instruments and gramophone scratches.With Hip Hop King you can quickly and easily create the basic building stone – an audio clip. It consists of musical notations for up to four instruments that you may transpose, select their location in the stereo field, and modify their volume, reverse, shuffle (rhythm twist) and polyphony (with extended polyphony handling), chorus/widening stereo effect and echo. You may arbitrarily combine up to 128 such clips in four tracks and create complex pieces of music.
Hip Hop King is not only for playing with sounds; in the hands of a skilful musician it can become a serious musical instrument – surprisingly powerful pocket music station. For the best musical experience we recommend connecting headphones or quality speaker system. You’ll become the Hip Hop King of the party in no time…
Carmen Sandiego Adventure in Math: The Case of the Crumbling Cathedral – 1 player, 600 points
Bad news, detective! There’s trouble in Moscow, Russia. St Basil’s Cathedral has disintegrated! All that’s left is a giant pile of sand.
The Chief wants ACME’s best agent on this case, and that means you, detective. Get to Moscow fast and find out what’s going on before any more monuments turn into giant sand castles.Carmen Sandiego is back and only you can foil her V.I.L.E plans. Travel the globe, solve brain-twisting math puzzles, and catch the villain behind the Crumbling Cathedral.Crack the case of the Crumbling Cathedral in single-player Story Mode. Perfect your math skills in single-player Practice Mode. Challenge your friends and family to solve math puzzles against the clock in Multiplayer Mode.In Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math, you practice your math skills and use them to fight crime. Ideal for grades 4–5, math topics include arithmetic, logic puzzles, fractions and much more!
