Net Jet
Overview
 
Net Jet is a Windows PC
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

-based game system
Video game console
A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game...

 introduced by Hasbro
Hasbro
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 (under the Tiger Electronics
Tiger Electronics
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 brand) in 2007. The game system is a controller
Game controller
A game controller is a device used with games or entertainment systems used to control a playable character or object, or otherwise provide input in a computer game. A controller is typically connected to a game console or computer by means of a wire, cord or nowadays, by means of wireless connection...

 that is similar in design to a PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
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 gamepad. The Net Jet controller is plugged into the USB
Universal Serial Bus
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 port in a computer
Personal computer
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, and automatically starts up and downloads games via a required Internet connection. A dozen featured games could be played on a trial basis, or unlocked via plug in "game keys" (which are essentially jumper blocks
Jumper (computing)
In electronics and particularly computing, a jumper is a short length of conductor used to close a break in or bypass part of an electrical circuit...

).

Net Jet support officially ended December 31, 2009.
Unlike other self-contained game systems that fit entirely in a controller, the Net Jet itself can not play games on its own.
Quotations

Well, their poster child doesn't know it yet, but she's into me.

I guess I'll see you around...'same bat time' or whatever.

[to Janet] Remember when you got drunk and nearly got the chancellor of Bulgaria killed? I covered for you!

[to Lucy] I'm here because I feel more like me when I'm with you, than I do when I'm with me.

I think love should be irresistible, like a drug, you know? I think when it happens you should just not be able to help yourself. I just - I wanted... more. Dominique: You're not as boring as I thought. But you're not as bright, either.

Mr Phipps: You are a perfect liar.

Scud: Knock 'em dead... but not really.

Janet: Have you seen my gun?

They're crime-fighting hotties with killer bodies.

 
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