PalmOne P10914U Games Essentials Card Reviews

• Lots of Fun and a Good Deal, Too!

  
  By A2M33FZFD3LYMH on 2003-09-02
  One of my favorite computer games is Shanghai: Second Dynasty. The version on this card is obviously derived form that version of Shanghai. It really looks beautiful with the green embossed tiger and dragon background. I miss the cool music and the fortune cookie, but you can't have everything. I would try putting together some nice Chinese music on mp3's to play in the background, if mp3's didn't use so much RAM. (As an aside, I appreciate that Activision and Landware don't call it Mah Jong. This is NOT Mah Jong! Stop calling this type of game Mah Jong!!! Mah Jong is completely different.) I tried SimCity and it seems to be fairly close to the full computer version, but I haven't really used it very much, yet. The Atum game is very addictive. It can also be very frustrating when it gives you a long string of the same atum. I have had a bit of difficulty using the backgammon game. It doesn't seem to work in a very intuitive way. The checkers is fine - if checkers is your thing - it works pretty much like I expected. I can't say how smart it is, since I'm not an expert. The chess is pretty basic. I bought a more specialized separate chess game that has a lot more features, but it cost half the price of this whole card. I'm not much for slot machines, poker or blackjack, so I won't comment on those. Ricochet is a very cool looking brick breaking game. It is very nicely done. The only thing I don't like is that the background is almost as dark colored as the bricks, so sometimes the bricks are hard to see and I'm using a Tungsten T that has a pretty nice screen. 9-Ball is a fairly decent pinball game. Pinball is the one type of game that just doesn't work well on a Palm. I've tried all the versions I can find and 9-ball is one of the best. But, that's not saying much. I guess the computing power required for really good pinball is still too much for Palm machines. Strangely, though, the Billiards game does work well. Surprisingly well! And it actually has good sound effects! Not bad! Okay. So, all together that's 12 games. Several really good ones, a couple so-so. I guess it's not such a bad deal. What I realy like is that it doesn't use up my precious RAM. Figuring in the value of a small SD card, the Palm Game Essentials Card is actually a pretty good deal!
  
  

• Really Fun Bunch of Games!

  
  By A3OVECIE4PVUDF on 2004-02-26
  I love a lot of the games on this card...I didn't expect to be hooked...but I am...I thought Atum was dorky when I saw it but I've spent many a late night connecting the little molecules...Checkers is fun but the Zire 71 I've been using it on chokes in any level higher than level 1 - it takes the computer awhile to compute its move in levels 2-5. I've enjoyed Mah Jong although the tiles are a little hard to read and some look alike and I've read elsewhere it isn't real Mah Jong, but I don't know the difference. :-) The casino games I've played briefly but they aren't as much fun. Pool is nice but you quickly learn to beat the Palm, even on more difficult levels. And of course, SimCity is cool and it is pretty expansive. I've never played it on a regular computer before, but it was really detailed (in my opinion) and was pretty fast....All in all, I think the card will keep you happily occupied during long waits at the bank, post office, and airports...
  
  

• limited reliability, not so much fun

  
  By A2IKE4R4WZGVHJ on 2005-11-23
  I bought this card more then a year ago. Overall I'm not impressed, and wouldn't buy it again. First of all, in ~30% of cases it crashes my Tungsten E. Secondly, the games are not that much fun. SimCity is EXTREMELY limited and not enjoyable to play at all. Honestly, I have more fun playing games I've downloaded for free. Final annoyance - the card is slimmer then a regular SD so it slides off easily from the slots of the hardcase making it easy to lose
  
  

• Do not purchase if you own a Tungsten T5

  
  By A23PIOC1EN0MRZ on 2005-08-15
  I purchased the gamecard for use with my Tungsten T5. When I tried to access the games, the only game I could play is SimCity. The other games say they are demo games only and that you have to register and purchase them individually. I contacted the manufacturer of the gamecard via e-mail to try to get the registration codes to unlock the games. Three weeks later they responded to tell me that the gamecard is not compatible with the T5 and that I should try to return it. So now I have one game, SimCity. There is not a warning that the card will not work with the PalmOne Tungsten T5 --buyer beware.
  
  

• 4 games not T5 compatible. Others are fun...

  
  By A2WXGAATXB6WCY on 2005-09-17
  On the plus side, it's a great value for the games that do work on the T5. SimCity alone is probably worth the price.
  
  On the down side, although Amazon claims it's compatible with the "Tungsten Series" that was probably written before the T5 came out. Four of the games appear to act as "trial" versions, although it's impossible to enter the registration codes. See (...) for an explanation.
  
  Even with only 4 working games past the trial period, it's a good buy. Just know you're not getting what's advertised if you have a T5.
  
  
• 512MB Cruzer Micro Drive
  By AZEQ9PEULUFEW on 2005-01-25
  I bought this 512MB Micro drive here for price and his rating. True to his word, I received the drive in record time and it functions great. I would recommend this seller to everyone. I look forward to future purchases. Thanks!
  
  
• Some good titles
  By A1S8M4I32ZF0OR on 2004-06-03
  It's a pretty good card. All of the titles are fairly easy to learn how to play.
  
  
• Not too impressed.
  By A2WZU7SJICWM73 on 2005-08-09
  I only like about two of the games on this card. Ricochet is the most intertaining. I am still trying to figure out how to play SimCity.
  
  
• Mostly trial versions...
  By A38AHEAEVRUSC1 on 2007-03-05
  I have read the reviews here and no one seems to point out that seven of the games are only trial version that need to be paid for again in order to use them more than 15 or thirty days. I was so P!$$&@ when I found this out! One of the reasons I bought the game was because I enjoyed the trial version of shanghai. Of course the version I just got was also a trail so it would not work! The other games seem fine but if I pay for twelve games and NOWHERE does it state that some games are trials I should get twelve games!
  
  
  
• A great game collection for an affordable price
  By A2SFT2A1RB5KY on 2007-01-16
  I bought this card mainly for SimCity on my Zire 71. First of all, SimCity works surprisingly well, including the animations, just like the original version on my old Mac. And the full manual is downloadable for free from the developers.
  
  My children have played the other games on my Palm and they work well, too.
  
  

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