Air Hockey-e

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Game Description

A free e-Reader game card. Air Hockey-e is not just a simple Pong clone as one would first expect from a freebie. Nintendo really recreated the "arcade" game, with small round bumpers as your controls, small open goals with a surrounding perimeter of safety boards, and full access to your side of the game board left to right and from front to back. Like the real game of Air Hockey, you can create a real mess for yourself by losing your cool -- it's quite easy to send the puck backwards or bank it into the corner of the net while trying for a save that probably wasn't necessary in the first place. The AI is also designed to be more like a player and to provide more challenge -- the first few points, he plays leisurely and takes risk towards center 'ice', but in the final few rounds as you play to 10 points, the AI literally jitters with anticipation in the back of the rink, playing safe and yet sending returns with force.