No Small Feat for New MiniMote

December 30, 2010 Patrick Hickey Jr. Video Game Reviews, Video Games 0

For serious gamers, your controller is everything. You don’t like when other people use it or even touch it. If possible, you’d prefer they didn’t even look at it. As a matter of fact, if you had your way, you’d make sure you had an extra one for company to use, especially smaller children, just to avoid the entire dilemma in the first place.

With that being said, Snakebyte USA has made a wiimote that is perfect for small children and even gamers with small hands, without reducing the ease and quality of the standard wiimote. Continuing to make top of the line third-party peripherals, Snakebyte’s Minimote is a must own for any wii-owning family with small children.

Coming in two different colors, blue or red, the design is sleek and roughly 25 percent smaller. It’s a bit lighter than your average wiimote as well, but it’s ultimately perfect for kids who want to get in the game. Unlike some of the other third party controllers out there that are geared towards children, Snakebyte’s MiniMote isn’t made of softer material or made to look any different. With all the buttons in essentially all the same places, kids playing won’t feel like they’ve got anything different in their hands. Most likely, they’ll be even happier to play, considering the cool colors the controller comes in.

With an easy sync button as well, it’s a small task to get them right into the game. With a good vibration and a solid speaker on it as well, casual gamers won’t be able to tell the difference while playing. That fact alone makes this peripheral a success and one worth picking up.

The product’s only flaw is that unlike the Snakebyte premium controller, it doesn’t have built-in support for the Wii-Motion Plus. However, the attachment attaches just fine with the MiniMote and plays perfectly. A testament to the product’s overall size, with the Motion-Plus attached, the unit is just slightly bigger than the standard first party wiimote.

Overall, with a cool design and near-flawless execution, Snakebyte’s MiniMote is worth every penny and is recommended for any house that features gamers under the age of ten.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13861 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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