Required playing from the week in video games.

The "Wii Nerf Sports Pack" turns your wussy Wiimote into real NERF gear. It makes us wish that foam dart-shooting was an actual option in the game. Or maybe the radical NERF slingshot.

Also in stores this week:
-- "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night," "Frogger" and "Super Contra" are all on "Konami Classics Volume 1." Speaking of which, why hasn't there been a "Contra" movie? "Commando" meets "Alien" -- it's a no-brainer.
-- "Artist Colony" gives "The Sims" / "Farmville"-treatment to the world of temperamental artistes and pretentious hangers-on. So, gaming, art snobs is an underserved demographic or something?
-- "The Search for Amelia Earhart" is a virtual quest to find the missing aviator. It is not, in fact, a search for the one person who saw the recent Earhart biopic starring Hilary Swank.