V.Pad

The V.Pad is a seventh-generation educational handheld game console produced and released by VTech. Titles are available on cartridges. The graphics are primarily sprite-based. Like it's other V.Smile variants, the console is often sold bundled with a particular game. The V.Pad also features the ability for multiple V.Pad consoles to directly interact with each other over Wi-Fi within a short range without the need to connect to an existing wireless network.

Games
The majority of educational games offered for the V.Pad involve licensed characters popular with children in the target age group of 3 to 7 such as Scooby-Doo, Bob the Builder, Baby Looney Tunes, Barney, Geo's World, and SpongeBob SquarePants. CGI-animated characters from movies also found their way to the V.Pad, including Ratatouille, Finding Nemo and Cars. Vtech also offers traditional characters in games such as Soccer, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Three Little Pigs.

The game cartridges are labeled for the intended age of players. Two major categories are Little Friends (Ages 4–6) and Young Masters (Ages 6–8). The educational content and difficulty of gameplay is age appropriate. For example, in Baby Looney Tunes: Musical Adventures (Ages 4–6), Bugs will not fall from the edge of a platform if the child makes a mistake when moving him. Instead he will get up on his tip-toes and appear unbalanced. However, games like Geo's World: Let's Go to Greeny City offer more challenging educational and action-based gameplay.

List of games
Main article: List of V.Pad games

Criticism
The console has been panned by critics for being a "cheap educational ripoff of the Nintendo DS". Video game and technology critics are also quick to discount Vtech's consoles, citing the lack of professionally developed games, as VTech consoles have no major third party video game publishers aside from Disney Interactive.