Viper by GLD Products Neptune Electronic Soft Tip Dart Board with Cabinet

We are very happy with this dart board. It has large digital display, looks great and works great. Holds four sets of darts, which is very handy. We also bought the battery operated light to go above it and highly recommend doing that. You won’t be sorry.

I have owned 3 cheap boards and thought they were all the same until my wife got me this one. The speaker is very clear and understandable and it is not the same old soundtrack all the cheap ones have. The darts stay in, we have played dozens of games the last few days and had only a few bounce-outs. The red LEDs make it very easy for everyone to see their score and know who is next. The cabinet, while not hardwood, is well-made and solid. The hardware was all in the correct location and assembled correctly. Came double-boxed and undamaged. It keeps track of each throw and the total of each turn and knows if you accidentally hit a tile when removing your darts and does not double score, then changes to the next player automatically if you don't hit the button. It is the correct size 15.5 inches. made by Viper right here in the USA. Instructions for mounting could be better. I recommend using the 4 mounting holes, not just the center hanger because it's so heavy. But here's the trick hang it from the center hanger, level it, and then drill the pilot hole for the 4 permanent screws, then take it down and add the anchors then hang it back up on the center screw and screw in the other 4. This way you don't need 2 people which we had but found it hard to hold while making the marks for the screws because its heavy. The best part is with all the space around the board plus the doors we have not hit the walls with this board and it covers most of the holes from the old board. lol The light was not included. We purchased that separately!

Got the Viper Neptune with cabinet for a good sale price. The board performs as designed, the auto-scoring works well, the computer voice is easy to understand, and every different game has enough play options that it seems you will never run out of new/different games to play. After playing with it for a few weeks, there are a few minor negatives for me (none of which are a reason to not buy this game, but I think should be mentioned): 1) Hanging it was a bit of a pain. If you do the two vertical wall screws (into a stud), getting the cabinet onto the screws blind is a challenge, even with two people, and I never did get the screws the right amount in/out of the wall for the cabinet to hang tight against the wall. After many tries, I finally just got it hung on the screws "good enough" and added shims to make it tight. Would have been so much easier if the board could be easily removed from the cabinet, then put back into the cabinet after the cabinet was mounted on the wall. 2) The volume settings on the computer voice are all very loud. Ok for parties with music, but in a quiet room, I keep wishing for one or two more lower settings. 3) This is probably only a beginner dart thrower problem, but any dart that is outside of the scoring circle is rejected with force (usually after bending the tip of the dart). Personally, I would rather have the darts stick in the grid that is all around the scoring circle so I don't have to chase them down every time. 4) The first time I tried the "computer opponent" for fun, on the "beginner" setting, in a game of 301 w/double in/out, the "beginner" computer opponent scored double 20 on first throw, triple 20 on second throw. It went out on the third round of throws, throwing a double as soon as its score was within double-out range. Maybe on settings higher than "beginner" it goes out even sooner, on the second round, but the computer opponent doesn't seem to be much use as a practice opponent for anyone other than pro players who can thrown doubles/triples at will. 5) Seems to be a LOT of bounce outs that score. Maybe it's just normal for E-darts machines, but a lot of darts end up on the floor after registering a score.

Some have posted here about how this dartboard is made of poor quality laminated cardboard or whatever. Honestly, that kind of gripe is a REAL stretch with this board. It looks great, and is also surprisingly flush to the wall so it doesn't take up too much real estate. I got this board for my father as a birthday present for his game room and it looks great. Don't let some one tell you otherwise just because it's not made out of Pure Mahogany with fashioned silver inlets. I mean seriously. When expanded outward the board also looks great. And also, the pictures do do the board justice. It's truly a very pretty color and is a wonderful addition to anyone's home, garage or game room. Someone will be jealous when they see it. My gripes are that it changes between players far too quickly, I think it's on an even faster pattern than being at a bar by a hair (and of course we're not at a bar) and also the bounce out really should register on the playing surface with a board this big and square. I know so few if any home boards do this, but because of the area and size of all the computer equipment this really should have been the board to break that mold since it would have been easy to do. But since no other board does that that I know of I still won't deduct stars. My hope is that Neptune 2.0 will finally do this. Also and this is important, the A/C power input is NOT where the instruction booklet says it is. I can't believe no one has brought this up on reviews yet. The actual power port is on the LOWER LEFT of the wood finish around 7:00 clock time, while the instruction booklet tells you it's on the upper right reverse side of the board. We actually called the manufacturer because we were wondering if ours had an unfinished back or something. HOPEFULLY GLD, the manufacturer of this equipment will change that misprint very soon. Other than that play away!! Hopefully all these things will help you out with your purchase.

More fun than we thought. Everyone wants to play darts at parties. Works well and keeps score without a hitch.

This rating is for the Company its self as I can't really rate the product yet because we haven't opened it. Here is my story, I ordered this product as a Christmas gift for my husband and when it arrived we thought it odd that it came in 2 boxes. We were guessing maybe 1 box was the electronic board & the 2nd the cabinet doors. After opening both boxes it was clear that we had received our order twice. I quickly got online to see if I had accidentally ordered 2 and I had not, so I sent a request to Amazon asking them to call me to verify the details of my order and they also agreed that I ordered & paid for only 1 dart board, so I asked them to place contact the seller for a return lable & I would send the extra board back. Amazon sent Dart Brokers an email to contact me about the return label and to my surprise the owner of Dart Brokers personally called me the next day to thank us for our honesty. He said had I not alerted them to the error they would have never known that my address was accidentally copied & pasted over another customers' shipping label and that customer would have never gotten their order. To say thank you he told us to keep the extra board! P.S. I have no worries about the product once we do open it for Christmas as our best friends bought the same board a few months ago for her husbands birthday and we play it weekly at thier house (which is why my husband asked for 1 too).

So far so good. Install was simple. I did order new darts as the ones that come with it are ok to learn or for kids to throw.

This was a gift to a family member. The dart board is fun to use, but the error codes are difficult to resolve. We almost returned it because the electronics did not work. After repeated attempts to correct the error codes, we finally found the correct sequences to get it to work. So, five stars for the fun of the board minus one for the irritation. Now, the darts are simply abysmal. They fall apart at every throw. It is no fun to play with these darts. You need extra people around just to put the darts back together during play, but on the bright side the flying pieces turned into a new game of find the parts. Do yourself a favor and buy different darts.

Wäre die Rückabwicklung nach Spanien nicht so umständlich und teuer (wer weiß ob man den Betrag zurückerstattet bekommt) ging das Ding zurück. Schlecht verarbeitet und schlecht verpackt.Bedienung und Spielbarkeit sind in Ordnung. Ich würde die Viper nicht mehr kaufen.

The fun of darts without having to keep score!! LOTS OF GAMES!!!! We are still learning! Guests love it!

We were disappointed that it didn't come with a UK power plug, despite being despatched to a UK address - and there was no obvious mention that it would be an American plug. My husband really likes his present though and bought more darts for it. It's rather loud though and either he can't find, or doesn't want to find, the volume control!

Nice boad, works well, no damage, not a real high quality board, but for the cost a all around good board

IT looks good on the computer but it has flaws.the twin doors do not close properly. The darts are too fragile .I am frequently repairing them as they fall apart after a throw.The darts tend not to stick to the board.The manuel warns not too throw them too hardso they tend not to stay on the board.The add implied that the casing was /doors are solid wood.They,re either press wood or laminate/So I would recommend this product to no one.I,ve lost faith in shopping at Amazon.ca. Regretfully GS.