Mum's Monday: Nintendo DS, 42 All-Time Classics, Games, Game

42 games with a modern twist, where you don’t necessarily need to know how to set up the games as this does it for you. There are some games I haven’t heard off, so don’t know how to play them. There are some interesting games where I have learnt how to play them. There is no limit to how many times you play these games but the only negative is that the points system only goes up to how many you win out of 999 times you play.

On the first page there are Basic Card Games, including Spit, which I have played and with this and some other games you can set your own challengers, I will mention later on other challengers on other games. With Spit, if you set it on Hard you have to be quicker to match and get rid of the cards. Also on this page there is Memory where you have to find pairs and remember where the cards to match are. I have also played I Doubt it and Sevens but haven’t played them so much opting for games that more interest me.

The next page there are Intermediate Card Games, including Hearts, which I play quite a bit, you can set the game up how you want for bonus points and other custom ways. I have played other games on this page including Rummy and Blackjack, but again I play the games that I find enjoyable.

On the next page there are Advanced Card Games, including Five Card Draw and Texas Hold’Em. I haven’t played hardly any of these, but there are enough of the other games so not to need to play the games if you don’t want to or until you are inspired to check them out.

The next page there are Basic Board Games including Checkers and Dots and Boxes. I have played some of these and have learnt how to play them through playing them.

On the next page there are Advanced Board Games including Chess and Ludo. I have only played Ludo once out of the five games on this page. I have heard of chess but cannot see myself learning how to play it even with the help from this game, but that is just me.

On the next page there are Variety Games all four I enjoy and they are Soda Shake, Dominoes, Koi-Koi and Word Balloon. With the Soda Shake you have to shake a bottle using the stick pen moving it backwards and forwards over the graphics of the bottle of fizzy drink. This game is good and it doesn’t let you get away with only doing it gently as it gets fizzier and about to pop. With the Koi-Koi game, this is a game I have learnt through playing it and it is a challenge to remember the groups of cards you need to collect. The game Word Balloon is another name for Hangman, I have it set up with the background of the game being played with pen and paper. I think it adds to the realism of it for fun.

On the next page there is Action Games with Bowling, where you can custom to send a stone round ball to knock over the skittles, but I have it set on normal. There is also Darts where you have highest score, where you play ten darts and highest score wins, with this I like I said earlier challenge myself that I play five darts and whatever my score I try and match it, double it with the next five like if I score ninety with the first five I aim for one hundred and eighty when I have played ten darts. Also with the darts there is a game by the name Standard Cricket, I am not sure why the name. this is where you have to throw the darts and fill the grid from three fifteens to three bullseyes, the total of twenty-one boxes to fill. The challenge I set myself is to fill the grid with less than twenty-one turns. You can also score over a thousand, which I have, until the other player or game setting fills the boxes you have and closes the scoring. With the standard darts game 501 to 0, I have set it up so I don’t need to get a double to finish the game. For example, if I go down to one I could potentially score either a bullseye or treble twenty. This is easy but relaxing. There is also Billiards, I should have read the rules of this game, once I had I realise I could have won a lot more than I have and it would have been a better playing experience for me. The games Balance and Takeover are fun to play. Takeover can be annoying if you amass a high score only for the game to knock you counter off the board but you can do the same to them so all equal.

On the next and last page there are Single Player Games, including Solitaire and Mahjong Solitaire. It is good to play these games without having to set out the cards before you play, you can just simply play.