My Shooting Watch arrived! It’s turned out to be a great desk toy — it’s an excellent pastime for extremely short waits, like when I’m uploading an image or reopening Firefox.

My high score is up to a mere 127 (12.7 shot). I need to do my finger exercises! But that’s a lot better than I could do on the Capsule Shooting Watch, because the buttons are a lot more responsive (and don’t miss inputs). That’s not too surprising, since the Capsule Shooting Watch cost three dollars and came from a plastic egg. I actually think the buttons are nicer than the DS Lite buttons, which gives the Shooting Watch the edge over Shooting Watch DS (though SWDS has extra stuff like a shop and leaderboards).

The Shooting Watch has two mysterious “secret” features, which I don’t know how to access. Maybe I’ll unlock something by hitting 16 shots/second? Even without bonus features, this thing has turned out to be more fun than I expected.

Since I seem to have turned this into a review, I’ll go ahead and give the Shooting Watch a score of… 109? Because that’s the score it just gave me. My arm is tired.

Did anyone else preorder one of these doodads? If so, or if you have Shooting Watch DS, what’s your rate?

tags / hudson / shooting watch / takahashi meijin / jc