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Bicycle Totally Cool Card Games
When it comes to card games, Expert Software covers the gamut, having put out PC card games that focus on only variations of one type, as with their Bicycle Pinochle, and those that focus on multiple versions of multiple types of card games, as with this title, Bicycle Totally Cool Card Games.
In Bicycle Totally Cool Card Games, players have the option of choosing from old favorites, such as blackjack, bridge, cribbage, two different hearts games, three pinochle games, ten poker games, four rummy games, forty solitaire games and two spades games, or from some of the lesser-known card games, such as whist and euchre. For kids interested in whiling away their youth and vigor in front of a computer screen, Expert Software has included a Kids Corner section that features four long-play games: old maid, war, go fish, and crazy eights.
Regardless of their age, players are dealt a number of options for facilitating their card-playing experience. Cards come in three different sizes for easier viewing (there's also a magnify feature), and on-screen hints, game rules, and a strategy guide help stack the deck in the player's favor. Players can select from ten different animated portraits, and each portrait comes with a sound theme for in-game sequences, such as when a hand is won. For instance, if a player chooses the clown portrait, a circus whistle will sound if that player wins a hand.
Bicycle Totally Cool Card Games also features fifteen card backs and fourteen themes to choose from, which help personalize the experience. Also, if players are more in the mood for a little Mozart than for the synthetic game tunes included, they can pop in their own audio CDs and let them rip. From within the different games themselves, players have access to a number of options. They can view the running scores for that particular session, save or load games, visit the bank for a loan, or adjust the parameters of the game, such as scoring and wild-card options. Online play and chat functions are available as well (the game even simulates table chat among the different CPU competitors during single-player sessions).
With a point-and-click interface and minimal system requirements, this title does its best to shuffle together the conveniences of the PC with the fun a deck of good, old-fashioned playing cards can bring. Whether you're a card fanatic looking to perfect your strategies, or just an idle corporate employee looking to make the "most" of company time, Bicycle Totally Cool Card Games offers a variety of ways to satisfy all your card-playing cravings.
For Windows (32-bit Systems) [*Please review compatibility/platform sections]
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