Parker Brothers Classic Card Games

Reviewed by Sharon Mehl
Published by Hasbro Interactive

Age Group: Age 8 and Up, Adults
Type: Board and Card Games
Price: $20

Description:

Parker Brothers Classic Card Games is an entertaining way to play cards against the computer, via modem or over the internet with friends. Would you like to play a game of Gin Rummy, Free Parking, or perhaps Hearts? Additional games include Spades, RACKO, Rook, Cribbage, Mille Bornes, and Solitaire.

Features:

  • 9 Classic Card Games
  • features variations of select games
  • 4 difficulty levels
  • choice of 9 different characters
  • pleasant jazzy music
  • animated tutorials
  • game instructional manual
  • optional modem, LAN, internet play
  • DirectX 6.0 included

Technical Aspects:

Installation was smooth. The graphics and animation work like they should!

Report and Conclusions:

This set of games are a lot of fun! If I left the computer alone at any point, I would find my 10-year-old son engrossed in a game of Cribbage, Free Parking, or Mille Bornes. He has attached Post-A-Notes to my computer with the words "New Cribbage Record!" and the scores prominently displayed. Yes, I think you could say that he enjoys the games!

The choices as a female character were somewhat limited. You could choose to be a child, a bodacious babe, or a gray-haired lady that eats her dog's biscuits. The men on the other hand, had 6 choices of characters.

Believe it or not, playing Parker Brothers Classic Card Games made me want to go to our game closet and pull out the (gasp!) old-fashioned card games and start playing with them. The nice feature about the computer version, is that my 3-year-old won't wrinkle up those cards and my 5-year-old won't be showing ME how to play 52 card pickup!





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