Night-vision goggles and buck-hunting rifles: You know, for kids!

Sheepishly preparing to hunt innocent virtual deer.

(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)

Toys just aren’t the same as when I was young, when a Rubik’s Cube and a Greedo action figure were enough to get me through a Sunday. Jakks Pacific, makers of many a plug-and-play retro-gaming peripheral and children’s toy, has some new wrinkles up its sleeve for the holidays, and we got a chance to get our hands on some of the new stuff in the CNET office.

On the more controversial side, Jakks’ new product in their direct-to-TV plug-and-play games line is a low-cost all-in-one version of Big Buck Hunter Pro. In case you’ve been away from bars for a while, the popular arcade game is a rifle-shooter light-gun game involving hunting for deer. This home edition, unlike PC and console games before it, consists just of the plastic shotgun–which has the game software built-in–and a wireless IR bar that sits atop the TV like the Wii’s sensor bar. But is this something you’d want in your home?…

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