PalmOne P10914U Games Essentials Card

by Palm

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000095SLZ
• Item model number: P10914U
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 14, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Escape the real world. Build your own world! On hold or in line, make time fly building your own city with the world renowned SimCity. Or choose to get lost in everything from pinball to mah-jongg, poker to billiards, Richochet to Atum, chess to backgammon. Twelve highly popular, high quality games optimized for your Palm handheld. Just plug 'n PLAY! Model Compatibility
Tungsten Series, Zire 71, m500 Series, m130, m125, i705

Product Description

Palm Computing P10914U Game Essentials Expansion Card

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Fun and a Good Deal, Too!, September 1, 2003

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Fredric Pierce (Huntington Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PalmOne P10914U Games Essentials Card (Office Product)

One of my favorite computer games is Shanghai: Second Dynasty. The version on this card is obviously derived form that version of Shanghai. It really looks beautiful with the green embossed tiger and dragon background. I miss the cool music and the fortune cookie, but you can't have everything. I would try putting together some nice Chinese music on mp3's to play in the background, if mp3's didn't use so much RAM. (As an aside, I appreciate that Activision and Landware don't call it Mah Jong. This is NOT Mah Jong! Stop calling this type of game Mah Jong!!! Mah Jong is completely different.) I tried SimCity and it seems to be fairly close to the full computer version, but I haven't really used it very much, yet. The Atum game is very addictive. It can also be very frustrating when it gives you a long string of the same atum. I have had a bit of difficulty using the backgammon game. It doesn't seem to work in a very intuitive way. The checkers is fine - if checkers is your thing - it works pretty much like I expected. I can't say how smart it is, since I'm not an expert. The chess is pretty basic. I bought a more specialized separate chess game that has a lot more features, but it cost half the price of this whole card. I'm not much for slot machines, poker or blackjack, so I won't comment on those. Ricochet is a very cool looking brick breaking game. It is very nicely done. The only thing I don't like is that the background is almost as dark colored as the bricks, so sometimes the bricks are hard to see and I'm using a Tungsten T that has a pretty nice screen. 9-Ball is a fairly decent pinball game. Pinball is the one type of game that just doesn't work well on a Palm. I've tried all the versions I can find and 9-ball is one of the best. But, that's not saying much. I guess the computing power required for really good pinball is still too much for Palm machines. Strangely, though, the Billiards game does work well. Surprisingly well! And it actually has good sound effects! Not bad! Okay. So, all together that's 12 games. Several really good ones, a couple so-so. I guess it's not such a bad deal. What I realy like is that it doesn't use up my precious RAM. Figuring in the value of a small SD card, the Palm Game Essentials Card is actually a pretty good deal!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Fun Bunch of Games!, February 25, 2004

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Katharina Woodworth "aquafemina" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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I love a lot of the games on this card...I didn't expect to be hooked...but I am...I thought Atum was dorky when I saw it but I've spent many a late night connecting the little molecules...Checkers is fun but the Zire 71 I've been using it on chokes in any level higher than level 1 - it takes the computer awhile to compute its move in levels 2-5. I've enjoyed Mah Jong although the tiles are a little hard to read and some look alike and I've read elsewhere it isn't real Mah Jong, but I don't know the difference. :-) The casino games I've played briefly but they aren't as much fun. Pool is nice but you quickly learn to beat the Palm, even on more difficult levels. And of course, SimCity is cool and it is pretty expansive. I've never played it on a regular computer before, but it was really detailed (in my opinion) and was pretty fast....All in all, I think the card will keep you happily occupied during long waits at the bank, post office, and airports...

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4 games not T5 compatible. Others are fun..., September 17, 2005

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Daniel B. Widdis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PalmOne P10914U Games Essentials Card (Office Product)

On the plus side, it's a great value for the games that do work on the T5. SimCity alone is probably worth the price.

On the down side, although Amazon claims it's compatible with the "Tungsten Series" that was probably written before the T5 came out. Four of the games appear to act as "trial" versions, although it's impossible to enter the registration codes. See (...) for an explanation.

Even with only 4 working games past the trial period, it's a good buy. Just know you're not getting what's advertised if you have a T5.