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By Kristen Ryan, About.com Guide to Toys

Jakks Pacific In The News

Thursday March 10, 2005
spidermanTvGame1.jpgThe latest offerings from Jakks Pacific Inc are its plug and play TV Games which are the current rage. Jakks has many popular licenses which it uses for its TV Games like Spongebob, Batman, Star Wars and more. Among the latest from Jakks are the Mortal Kombat TV Games which include the classic fighting game and four other arcade style games. You can connect 2 controllers via the built in link port, and fight with your opponent. The Star Wars TV Games include the classic 1980's Star Wars arcade game as well as a new game based on the upcoming Star Wars episode - The Revenge Of The Sith. Along with these two winners, is another popular theme, Batman TV Games. Here Batman fans battle the evil forces with the aid of their weapons, vehicles and skills to save Gotham City. For the young ones, there are titles like Spongebob, Jimmy Neutron, Fairly Oddparents, and Rocket Power TV Games all lined up. We can look forward to the next step in the world of TV Games - Wireless TV Games very soon. In the meantime, Jakks Pacific is in a spot of trouble, it is being sued by WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, the TV Entertainment giant. WWE claims that Jakks Pacific bribed one of its executives and gained an exclusive license for its products.
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