We travel every year from michigan to florida with our five children ages 4 months, 2 years, 4 years, 7 years, and 11 years old. We are busy when we travel so we wanted a toy that would keep them busy for a few hours. We also own the vsmile home t.v. one with 10 games so we thought this would be the best buy with out a lot of extra costs of games, being we already owned the games. So it was a little pricy but well worth it at the end of our trip. the kids handed it back and forth throughout the 4 flights. We love the fact that you just flip the keys and now it can be played by a left hander, our middle child is left handed so that helps him to play at the same speed as the other rightys. The batteries lasted the entire trip and that was more than we expected, i do wish they would come with rechargeable but their is a cord that you can plug in to play as long as your attached to the wall!