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Hoyle Backgammon
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User
... I had to find a way to get back to Hoyle, it's realistic, personal and even a little funny (like the characters we suit ourselves with). The CD was very easy to install, the contents were more than I expected because I received a bonus backgammon for my Palm Handheld. Good choice.
Hoyle Board Games on Wine
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User
If you install wine on your linux machine then Hoyle Board Games will run fine, see appdb.winehq.org for furter details...
Installation Problems
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User
A previous reviewer said it was tough to install on iMac OsX. that's the problem I'm having. I get an error message that say 1008:9,-5000. Can anyone help me out?
This is an excellent compilation of board games.
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User
This CD more than lives up to its promise. There are so many games you could spend years getting to them. The checkers game is impressive because it is 3 dimensional, not like the mechanistic shareware programs you thought were good. The characters you play against add a lot to the games too.
GAMES, GAMES AND MORE GAMES!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User
THIS CD IS SO MUCH FUN. IT IS THE ONLY GAME I HAVE FOUND WHERE PACHISI IS FEATURED. I HAVE FUN PLAYING ONLINE OR OFFLINE WITH THIS GAME AND I ESPECIALLY LOVE THE FACEMAKER FEATURE!
Another great Hoyle release
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 9 / 13
Date: October 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User
If you have purchased the other games in the Hoyle series, even previous versions, you know these games are high quality. If you've never purchased these games, you need to do so. Great games, played against fun characters, with different levels of difficulty and a book both taylored to help you learn the games. I wish they'd expanded the number of characters in the latest releases, but they kept my old favorites (Harley and Robin) so I can't complain too much. Facemaker features in the new releases allow you to create your own character - if you have a previous version without Facemaker, I'd suggest upgrading.
hoyle boardgames
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 7 / 8
Date: October 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User
the new Hoyle Board Games have inproved over the last two years with inproved grafices and have made it hard to stop playing the meny of the games. We have to have a computer for each person in my home so that everyone is able to have time to play the game they enjoy.
Lots of fun but tough to load on mac OS X
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 7 / 7
Date: June 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User
This is a great collection of old fashioned games. I can't get into those complicated software games that require hundreds of hours just to learn but this is easy and challenging. The only problem is that it took hours to figure out how to load it into an OS X system on Mac. I had to call Apple as it didn't do it automatically. Once in, it was great but - ouch!- what a headache!
Hoyle Board Games Fun!!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 15 / 19
Date: January 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User
If you remember Battle Ships you will love Battling Ships on this game cd. And the grafics for Mahjong is awsome. I even got my husband to play Chinese Checkers! These are the games we played as children. Now we can play as an adult. Try it you will love it!!
Over commercialised and CD Dongle
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 19 / 23
Date: December 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User
The game play is alright, graphics don't have to be fancy for board games. My problem with the whole Hoyle game line is the Annoyance screens for their other game packages when you quit.
I can see this being in a Demo, but was really mad when it was there in game that I purchased. Another Anoyance is the CD dongle. Character speech files are kept on the CD, you have to have the CD in to hear it. There is also an annoying delay that freezes game play When the cd spins up when a character speaks
the games play just like the board versions but it could have been designed better and without the annoyance advertisements
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