The online card games aren't bad; if one is hankering for low risk, easy to navigate Texas Hold 'Em at 3am, then this is the game you pick up.
And, seeing it at Target (for the first time) as a rerelease, or a million seller, or whatever Nintendo is marketing it as, will hopefully bolster it's online numbers.
I don't remember much hooplah when it first came out, but to those who didn't pick it up the first time may grab it now.

My only concern is that I still feel ruffied, and left in the gutter after my game of bridge.
I don't know how to play, but passing it in stamp mode made me feel mysteriously violated once again.
PS - I forgot how much I'd liked backgammon as a kid!

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I wish more people played Shogi. :(

I've never connected to anyone looking for a game of Shogi on Wi-fi. It always times out w/o finding any players.

Anyway, fantastic game (now cheaper) IMO. Clubhouse Games is the only game I have played on Nintendo Wifi, because Action Replay cheaters can't use infinite lives, see-though wall cheats, infinite blue shells, etc. in checkers, chess, koi koi, etc.

I highly recommend this game.

Peace.

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This is the must have game for long plane trips. It's also a great game to get non-gamers into playing with a DS. As another poster said - it includes some games that aren't too common. Buy it!

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This was one of the first games I bought when I got my DS, and it's the only one I still play. I still can't understand that wacko Japanese card game, but I'll play backgammon for days at a time. I love Phoenix Write, but in terms of hours spent playing, Club House Games has lapped all four Ace Attorney games about a dozen times. In fact, if you divide the price by the re-playability, you'd find that this cartridge is practically free.

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This is the only DS game I still own and refuse to sell. It has the best replayability out of any other DS title out there. What is great about the game is that if you don't know how to play a game, the rules are included it.

I also like how it keeps a clock on the top right hand corner of the top screen at all times. A subtle but very nice feature. Also the built in chat to this game is just as good as PictoChat if not better in its own ways.

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Not only does this game have a lot of great games I played as a kid, but I learned how to play a few new ones as well. In fact, I play Koi-Koi more than any other game and I had never heard of it before I got Clubhouse Games.

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VERY good title and you can usually find it cheap! I like the dart game best.

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You can change the rules? I'm gonna hafta check into that when I get back to my DS!

I enjoyed working my way through "stamp mode." If nothing else, it familiarized me with all the games and got me playing some I might not have picked otherwise.

I think chess *is* a fine on-the-go choice, given that the AI is so pitiful that even a patzer like me can beat it every time in a blitz game.

My only complaints are (1) too many kids' games; (2) too weak an AI for games like chess and checkers; (3) checkers has a nonstandard rule where a man can jump out of the king row upon being kinged; and (4) no doubling cube in backgammon--and too weak an AI there too.

Solve those problems, and maybe add Chinese chess and Go (and Nine Men's Morris and Mancala and . . .), and Clubhouse Games will be my ideal DS game.

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I gladly paid $35 for this when it was first released. This is a true no-brainer for any DS owner. Single-card download play alone makes it a bargain at $35, a steal at $20.

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