Waste of Money
I bought this last christmas, for my 2 1/2 year old. I was very exicited about it, But what a joke, half the time it does not work, the graphics are horrible. The games are hard to figure out for kids in the 3 year old age group. My 5 year old niece also had a hard time with it. The kids get frustred while playing a game and graphics just black out. I would not recomand this toy to anyone. I have since bought leapfrog products way better.

Vsmile TV Learning System Pink
This is our 3 system the first one that was out the handheld and now the pink. The first 2 were junk. We've had this for a year now and it's still working frankly I can't believe it. My daughter loves the note pad and microphone. Vsmile products are buy at your own risk.

I THOUGHT THE MACHINE WAS DEAD***THE GAMES WERE JUST DUSTY!
I purchased the V tech smile game and machine about 4 years ago. After 2 years it just quit. It wouldn't power on, it was just dead.

Recently I decided to purchase a second one as we have over 10 games. The machine worked for an hour and then it quit, again there was no power. In frustration I returned it to the store for a new one and the machine quit again after a few minutes of game play.

In all situations the systym would not turn on again after we changed games. I took a game cartridge and pushed it down to expose the hardware and I blew my breath on it several times. I inserted the game again, unpluged and repluged the cord and it worked again.

Sooooooooo what I realized was that my games were dusty and wouldn't play in the machine. I quickly blew on all the games and then every one of them worked. I got out my 4 year old game systym, plugged it back in and put in a new game that I had blown the dust off and it worked. The entire problem of the machine acting like it was dead was because the game cartridges were dusty!!!!! We do have to unplug and plug in the game systym to get it working again.

I have read that many people have trouble with the machine just dying without warning. I think if you just blow the dust off the games, unplug and plug the cord back in, then your machine will work again.

Big relief to me as we really enjoy the learning aspects of this game.

go with leap frog products instead
The joystick on this toy is impossible! Even just choosing your options is a pain because the joystick is too sensitive and it skips to the last option without stopping in between. I am a huge gamer and the games on the v smile are too hard to play because the joystick is way too sensitive and you constantly overshoot the spot you're aiming at. It has been a huge disappointment for my daughter.

HERE WE GO AGAIN..............
Well, I have to say that this toy is very educational and my 3 1/2 year old loves it very much. She has learned alot from it also. I purchased this game for her for Christmas of 06 and here we are having to decide what to do next. It quit working....will not power up and when I do get it to come on it will not stay on. So, do I buy anyone because we have so many games? HELP!!!