42 All-Time Classics - Nintendo DS - DE

This game offers 42 (mostly) well-known games, including 18 card games, 12 board games, 4 “variety games”, 5 “action” games and 3 single-player games; however, some of the games need to be unlocked before you can play them. Each game has options that create further ways to play. All games are played using the DS touchscreen. The card games include, for example, Memory, Blackjack, Rummy and two poker variants (Five Card Draw and Texas Hold 'Em); the board games include Chinese Chequers, Backgammon, Chess and Ludo. There are also DS interpretations of bowling, darts and billiards (9-Ball). For single-player games there are three options: free play (you can play any unlocked game as you like), stamp mode (you play through the games in order, collecting stamps as you go) and mission mode (you play a series of missions within the games). Multiplayer games can be played with players nearby or “worldwide” via a Wi-Fi connection (up to 8 players). The Japanese version of the game contains seven different games that were changed in the international version. The various games in the Japanese version include Goninkan, Bozumekuri, Sugoroku, Size Game, Last One, Mini Golf and Napoleon (this version of Napoleon differs from the international version). Texas Hold 'Em, Dots and Boxes, Grid Attack, Ludo, Dominoes, Escape and Mahjong Solitaire are the games that replaced these in the international version.