PalmOne P10914U Games Essentials Card

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within 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 is a pioneer in the field of mobile and wireless Internet solutions and a leading provider of handheld computers. Based on the Palm OS platform, Palm's handheld solutions let people carry and access their most critical information wherever they go. Palm handhelds address the needs of individuals, enterprises and educational institutions through hardware add-on options and Palm OS based application solutions.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Fun and a Good Deal, Too!, September 2, 2003

By	Fredric Pierce (Huntington Beach, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not purchase if you own a Tungsten T5, August 15, 2005

By	Stephanie H. Stephens - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased the gamecard for use with my Tungsten T5. When I tried to access the games, the only game I could play is SimCity. The other games say they are demo games only and that you have to register and purchase them individually. I contacted the manufacturer of the gamecard via e-mail to try to get the registration codes to unlock the games. Three weeks later they responded to tell me that the gamecard is not compatible with the T5 and that I should try to return it. So now I have one game, SimCity. There is not a warning that the card will not work with the PalmOne Tungsten T5 --buyer beware.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Fun Bunch of Games!, February 26, 2004

By	Katharina Woodworth "aquafemina" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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...