Namco Bandai’s QuickSpot goes gold

Namco Bandai announced today that their fun brain teaser (yes, there is such a thing), QuickSpot, has just gone gold and is now prepped to boggle the minds of DS users all over North America. For those not in the know, the game’s main objective is for you to be able to spot the differences between two seemingly similar pictures via the handheld’s touch screen and microphone.

The game sports loads of exciting features, so make it easy on your eyes, here’s how we’ll do this:

• Single Player modes: 
• Rapid Play – the main game mode which has five levels with 10 stages each spot the differences in 10 seconds or less to advance to the next stage.
• Focus Play – contains 140 unique pictures with 10 differences for the player to spot
• Brain Activity – Test your intuition, concentration, recognition and other activities to see how your brain measures up.
• Today’s Fortune – gives the player her/his Health, Study, Romance, and Money fortune for the day.
• Multiplayer modes:
• Time Bomb – spot the difference and pass a single DS around to your friends before the time bomb explodes
• Scramble Mode – using Wi-Fi and a single DS Card, annoy and disrupt your friendÂ’s game by changing the color of their screen, filling it with frogs, etc.
• Download Play – players can compete against each other on multiple Nintendo DS.

Makoto Iwai, EVP and COO of Namco Bandai Games America Inc., says, “Quickspot offers players an addictive experience…Whether you play individually or as part of a group, QuickSpot will test recognition and concentration skills to the extreme.” Rated E10+ by the ESRB, QuickSpot is set to hit store shelves on March 13 with an attached price tag of  US$ 19.99.

Namco Bandai announced today that their fun brain teaser (yes, there is such a thing), QuickSpot, has just gone gold and is now prepped to boggle the minds of DS users all over North America. For those not in the know, the game’s main objective is for you to be able to spot the differences between two seemingly similar pictures via the handheld’s touch screen and microphone.

The game sports loads of exciting features, so make it easy on your eyes, here’s how we’ll do this:

• Single Player modes: 
• Rapid Play – the main game mode which has five levels with 10 stages each spot the differences in 10 seconds or less to advance to the next stage.
• Focus Play – contains 140 unique pictures with 10 differences for the player to spot
• Brain Activity – Test your intuition, concentration, recognition and other activities to see how your brain measures up.
• Today’s Fortune – gives the player her/his Health, Study, Romance, and Money fortune for the day.
• Multiplayer modes:
• Time Bomb – spot the difference and pass a single DS around to your friends before the time bomb explodes
• Scramble Mode – using Wi-Fi and a single DS Card, annoy and disrupt your friendÂ’s game by changing the color of their screen, filling it with frogs, etc.
• Download Play – players can compete against each other on multiple Nintendo DS.

Makoto Iwai, EVP and COO of Namco Bandai Games America Inc., says, “Quickspot offers players an addictive experience…Whether you play individually or as part of a group, QuickSpot will test recognition and concentration skills to the extreme.” Rated E10+ by the ESRB, QuickSpot is set to hit store shelves on March 13 with an attached price tag of  US$ 19.99.