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Quick and Good Board Games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Learn and enjoy a variety of board games. Lots of options and characters to play with and against. This is an old MSN Bicycle Game, not too complicated and a good quick way to relax.

bicycle board games

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game has great graphics but cheats like no body's business. Just when you are ahead the computer will make you loose. It will always roll whatever number on the dice it needs and you can bet the bank you won't. It also has some minor problems that cause some irratation. The old man will say gross things if you are playing as the little girl. I felt the need to turn off the sound it was so gross.

Cheats like a son of a gun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are great, but the game cheats. It is amazing, you are close to winning and all of a sudden it starts rolling double sixes, while you get double ones (in Batgammon)

Full of Bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: April 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm sorry I had to give this game even one star. This game package is so full of programming bugs that it is ridiculous. Don't waste your money. Go buy another game package.

Great games - but addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought the Bicycle Board Games after a friend of mine let my grandsons play the "sink the ships" game. I have found that I am enjoying the MaJong game tremendously - but it can get you hooked!

Excellent product!

Good selection, but Backgammon weak

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This package contains a good selection of popular board games. The graphics are good, if unexciting. The same applies to the music and sound effects. The controls are simple and intuitive, and there are tutorials for all the games. Installation was straightforward.

The opponent characters are annoying and repetitive, but they can be turned off or muted. An online option would have been nice, but the game never pretended to have one. For me, the biggest problem is the weakness of the backgammon game.

Backgammon is the only game in this selection that I am very experienced at. I've never played in a tournament, but I've been playing on-and-off for most of my life, both in real life, online, and against computer opponents. I consider myself quite a strong player. While I did not buy this package specifically to play Backgammon, the quality of its game was obviously important to me. Unfortunately, you would have to be a very weak player to find it much of a challenge on the highest skill level, 'Expert'. If I played ten games at this level and only won eight, I would think I was having a very bad day. The two supposedly lower skill levels seem to play exactly the same; if you selected the 'Random' skill level option, You would not be able to tell which level you were playing against on a given game. This is a fatal problem, and the graphics and sound simply can't make up for it. If only some of the resources dedicated to the opponent characters were used to improve the opponent AI! There are a large number of superior backgammon games on the market. I would recommend Quick (formerly Geert's) Backgammon, a very small (about 480k installed), no-frills programme that plays a decent game. The graphics and sound are very basic, the controls are not very intuitive (but easy enough to learn), and it would probably still not be enough of a challenge for a very advanced player; but when it comes to gameplay, it beats Bicycle's version hands down.

The other games are fun enough at my skill level, hence the relatively favourable score I've given the package overall. I don't know if I would feel the same if I was more experienced with any of them. I am not familiar enough with similar board games compendiums to recommend any alternatives.

Rating on Chess Only

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The chess game has 3 levels of play including a "random" selection on which level the game plays at. Thing is I haven't noticed a bit of difference in the level of play and the programming is really bad. The game will make the same moves over and over. Another thing, if I can beat any chess game at "Expert" the game is really really bad. Too bad the CD itself wasn't good for something.

A Bug In The Soup

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I own several Bicycle Game programs, and I have found flaws in each. The first is called "Bicycle Card Collection," and the Cribbage Program freezes in the middle of play. Then you must resort to Ctrl. Alt. delete to get out of the program all together. While playing Gin Rummy, after the deck runs out, another deck appears, and you the player have no control over the discard cards. This program is by Microsoft.

Next there is the Bicycle Board games. Dominoes does not function properly. When lying down a tile, at a certain point in the game the program skips, then lays downs several tiles in sucession, and leaves a gap on the playing board, then allows tiles to be laid just anywhere.

Next there is Hoyle Board Games which operates well, though not according to the rules. There appears to be a flaw in each game. At a certain point they seem to just break down.

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