PalmOne PalmPak Games Card (m125, m130, i705 & m500 series)
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of PalmOne PalmPak Games Card (m125, m130, i705 & m500 series)
Customer Review: Great Compilaton of Games
Summary: 5 Stars
The majority of the games are absolutely great. There are few that are dated, but the card is definately worth the price. Great way to pass the time.Customer Review: My Games
Summary: 5 Stars
I love my games. It makes long car rides shorter. I like the variety. I never get bored.Customer Review: Perfectly adequate - I'm now a gambling fool
Summary: 4 Stars
I was surprised at the number of negative reviews here for this Game Pak - I just received it as a gift and have been playing the games frequently over the last few days, and I'm pretty satisfied. The card installed and ran the games flawlessly, and the games themselves are simple but highly addictive and entertaining. (Apparently there is a memory leak in Zap!2016, but I'll admit I haven't played that one enough to notice. Hey, I have a slot machine to beat here.)Let's face it - the Palm is not a high-end gaming platform, and even m505 owners should not expect a stupendous experience. The best games for this size screen are the simplest ones. Klondike is the same as always, with slightly nicer graphics but no scoring. Chroma is a nice three-in-one package of chess, checkers, and backgammon (great for 2-person games on long trips), Vegas Slots and Blackjack are faithful reproductions of their real-life counterparts and SimCity is very basic but contains the essence of the original (I imagine this one is much better in color).
I had none of the technical difficulties of the other reviewers, and I have no problem with the fact that this card is a) only 10% full, and b) thirty bucks. A collection of games like this probably pays the developers a small fraction of the retail price, and we should be supporting people like them if we want better games in the future. I wish they could find a way to selectively unlock the SD card though, so the saved games would also live in there and the memory footprint of the whole pak (er, minus the patches) would be zero.
Bottom line: It's a fine price to pay for a collection of fun, good-looking games. Not perfect, but still very much worth it.
Customer Review: Some fun stuff on this card
Summary: 4 Stars
My favorite games on this card are Chroma's Backgammon, Checkers, and Chess. Slightly buggy in that I think the computer cheated once or twice with illegal moves, but that's rare. The pinball game is okay, though I worry about wearing out my buttons and there is only one playing board. The slot machine is too mindless to be very entertaining, and blackjack is only a little better. Bubblet is very cool -- FreeCell fans should like this one, and maybe other people too. Klondike is a good implementation. Sim City is okay but I haven't played enough to figure out the point (if there is one). Zap!2016 is a nice arcade style game, but diffucult to see on the monochome display. More games would have been nice.Customer Review: It does what it says.
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this card to be easy to use. Other then the fact that it is tiny and I am always afraid of losing it, it makes things easy. The games are easy to access, takes no time to load it, and I dont have to worry about things like registering, download errors, or that it might make my palm crash. I had no technical problems. Of course, not all of the games were great and Sim City can get a little overwhelming with only the small palm window to look through, but overall I am impressed.