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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $18.28
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New (44) Used (13) Collectible (2) from $18.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 350
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: ntr p atde
Model: 45496735555
UPC: 045496735555
EAN: 0045496735555
ASIN: B000FW64ZS
Release Date: October 9, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.
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 Decent games, poor design September 20, 2008
Some of these games are a good deal of fun, there are simple bowling, darts, and other games, and a good number of card games. Forty games will give you some things you like. Clubhouse Games will definitely kill many hours for you. However, the AI for the card games is nothing to write home about, and some games cannot be played at all until you get to them in "Stamp" mode.
Ah, Stamp Mode. Stamp is a sort of career mode, in which you must play pre-selected games in order. Winning gets you past a game, lose and you have to play two or three times. You start with games you played as a three year old, and move on to the ones which can kill hours for you all by yourself. Old Maid is merely pointless, the skill in real life of deducing where your friend is holding the Maid can't be recreated on a DS. But these can be got through if you just play for a while. Then there is "I Doubt It". The game is not only pointless, it goes on forever. It's like War, only more annoying. Plus, eventually, War ends! I Doubt It isn't the War and Peace of card games, it's the In Search of the Remembrance of Lost Time of card games.
So odds are you won't be playing the games you access through Stamp Mode. Career mode is is usually a good game extender, here it's pointless. A Pogo-like career (with game choices) would have made the lesser games interesting. Maybe you will enjoy "Stamp".
I Doubt It.
 Club House Games is worth having September 15, 2008
This is a nice easy game to have, and especially nice to play games with others without getting out all the cards and boards. Think of the storage space you can free up! I agree with all the other reviews, and do wonder why some games are locked. It is forcing me to play them all, but then again, why?
Welcome to hours of fun August 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Club House games is a great little DS game. In the one game there are plenty of games to keep you occupied and playing for hours. Play locally with one game card or go online and play with friends or strangers. Really the single player experience here will work whether you're commuting on the bus or just lying on your couch at home bored. There are 42 games in this purchase, you can't go wrong and you'll be playing it over and over with plenty of replay value. Great for those nights that you can't sleep!
Just what I needed July 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I work for a security company, and I often find myself in the middle of nowhere with nothing to look at and nobody to talk to. This makes falling asleep a serious risk, as in a risk to my employment and potentially a risk to the people and property I'm protecting. How do I avoid this problem? Playing games like this.
Clubhouse Games has over card games, board games, puzzle games, bowling , billiards, darts, and my personal favorite, shake the bottle, which I'm going to play against my niece the next time I see her. I can and have played this game for hours on end. You can change the look of each game, the rules of each game, and how many players you play against in each game. As you play, you unlock new surprises.
It was worth every penny to buy this game.
Great variety, but . . . July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's great to have a big collection of mostly traditional games with all the convenience of the DS. There's sure to be something here for everybody.
On the downside, there are sure to be some games you'll rarely, if ever, bother with. First off, some of them are kids' games and won't be much fun if you're older than six or so. At the other extreme, some are brain-taxing games (e.g., checkers, chess, shogi), and many people will pass those by. Those who don't pass them by will also likely be disappointed, as the AI is much too weak for even a good novice player.
If you're planning to play these games with other people, in the same room or online, it may be a great buy. It'll be fairly easy to find something everybody considers fun; and the game play will be just like any board or card game, only quicker and neater.
But if you're a single-player gamer like me, Clubhouse Games may not be the best choice. There are some pleasant diversions in the mix -- games that are good for passing a bit of time -- but the challenge is lacking in some games, and others just don't feel right without other human players.
I ended up buying Chessmaster, since the Clubhouse Games version of chess is pitifully weak and a little slow and awkward. I also bought Solitaire Overload, for a greater variety of card games for one. Now that I have those, I rarely come back to Clubhouse Games.
I'd like to enjoy a game of backgammon now and then, but the Clubhouse Games version does not have a doubling-cube feature, which limits the strategic challenge of that game.
I also like checkers (draughts), but besides the weak AI, the Clubhouse Games version of checkers is faulty: it allows (actually forces) a man to jump out of the king row upon being kinged. That's contrary to the standard rules of checkers.
So, the variety is there, but quantity doesn't make up for lack of quality. In my view, this is just a promising collection of what turn out to be mostly so-so games.
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