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I Love This Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I ordered Ultimate Card Games because I enjoy playing solitaire but I have not played even one of the many solitaire games because I absolutely cannot stop playing Spades. I'm sure the others, such as canasta, hearts, many different solitaire games, gin rummy, poker, blackjack, are just as addicting but I cannot stop playing Spades! Thanks, Amazon, for having this new video game in stock since no one in my town including Toys R Us or Wally World seems to even know about it.

a gamer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

For all those people waiting for this game please be patient. This game is worth waiting for. Don't worry about the postponements. They did the same thing with the Ultimate Brain Games. And that turned out to be one of the best titles for Gameboy in a very long time. Enjoy all when it FINALLY comes out.

It's great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a perfect addition to my gameboy collection. I stayed up until midnight last night playing canasta. I haven't played it since I was a kid but it came back to me. I love having solitaire available on my gameboy also. With this, tetris and snood I'm set for plane trips and waiting rooms.

occasional card player

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

if you like playing cards or just occasionally then this is the game for you it has all the great games on it it's got alot of games on it for the money. it will keep you busy for hours and alot of fun.

best cards game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

anybody who like cards games this is one of the best.canasta,spades,heart and about any cards games you can play.it even keep track of how many wins you have and your highest score and lowest score for each game.

Pitiful trash

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: June 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

*Pitiful*. The "brain" behind this software, in the Gin Rummy option, is *horrible*. *Frequently*, my hands are not optimally parsed. For example, one time I had 5-6-7-8 of clubs, two other 8's, and four-of-a-kind of some other denomination ... a *gin* hand! *But* the program *insisted* upon putting the 8 of clubs into the 5-6-7 run, instead of with the other two 8's, and wouldn't allow me to knock, telling me that I had 16 in deadwood. Another time I had K-Q-J-10 of hearts, two other 10's, and 6 in "deadwood" in the remaining four cards. When the AI opponent knocked with 8, I should have scored an undercut, but, instead, my 10 of hearts was grouped with the K-Q-J, instead of with the other two 10's, leaving me losing by 18! This sort of thing has happened to me about every 5 to 8 hands. I'd *never* recommend this game to *anyone*: it's *trash* which shouldn't have been published without minimal testing. Shame on Telegames for releasing this game and shame on Nintendo for approving Telegame's release of this game.

What's the holdup?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: February 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The release date of this game continues to get extended. Now it is held up until March 2004 and I've been watching for this since about October 2003. What's wrong? This is the first game title to spark my interest in a long time. We haven't seen a good hand-held card game collection since the Solitaire games for Game Boy (which was not in color, either, so you couldn't tell the card suits apart).

Fun, despite a programming ** bug ** in Draw Poker

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've been enjoying playing the Draw Poker game, which is the main reason I wanted this cartridge. Poker is a betting game, and this game has all the fun of check-raising and betting All-In.

This is where I've found a bug... If some of the players go All-In and some players fold, then if the All-In players have any hand, the pot is divided up, instead of the winning hand taking all the pot. Sometimes the pot is split, sometimes the better hand wins the pot (correct), and sometimes the better hand just wins the antes.

Set the betting limit to $20,000 (menu/Rules), and go All-In and draw and make a hand (pair, two pair, trips, etc), and if you get any callers, you'll see what I mean. Play a couple of hands like this. I think one of the criteria for this split pot bug error is that one of the players has to fold.

I wrote Telegames about this, and this is the response I got: "We regret any inconvenience that this situation has caused, but hope that you will still enjoy the many games and features that we have been able to pack into Ultimate Card Games."

Not really an acceptable response, so minus 2 stars.

Also, would have been nice to have Texas Hold'Em Poker. Maybe version 2?

Don't buy it for the Solitaire

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge solitaire fan and I bought this just for Klondike. The game only lets you go through the deck twice and then you LOSE! WHAT is this!!! Instead of letting you select different cards/backgrounds/music it should have given you more options for your actual game! After wasting thirty bucks on this I gave it to my sister and went back to my old gameboy two color cartridge.

Also, it seems like they could have made the cards a little bigger and had less background. Have the makers seen the latest reasearch on the number of adults playing video games? Also that the adults preferred games are card and puzzle games? You guys need to MAXIMIZE the size for aging eyes!

P.S. I am 46 and have my own Gameboy Advance SP and love it!

Ultimate card games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i bought it for my husband. He really likes to play cribbage. and he can take it with him on trips. thanks for the hours of entertainment. I like to play crazy eights and poker on it.

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