Monopoly/Boggle/Yahtzee/Battleship | 
| From: Atari Inc.
Buy Used: $29.99
Used (4) from $29.99
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 12213
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: Board Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
MPN: 27020
Model: 27020
UPC: 742725270206
EAN: 0742725270206
ASIN: B000BQYRQG
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Monopoly/Boggle/Yahtzee/Battleship is collection of the hit board games that so many enjoyed as kids. Try your finance and negotiation skills in Monopoly, see how good you are with words in Boggle, roll the dice and hit the high numbers in Yahtzee and use your critical thinking to sink your friend's Battleship.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Terrible April 5, 2007
Secret Squirrel
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The developers have gone out of their way to make these games ugly and unpleasant to play.
* Boggle - ugly, doesn't know some basic words
* Yahtzee - ugly, but okay
* Battleship - ugly, tedious, clumsy
* Monopoly - okay
For example, when I say Boggle is ugly, I mean because they are using a 3D engine to render the cubes, and the letter forms do not look good in this mode - all mis-shapen. They should have used nice clean 2D graphics with aliasing to improve the apparent resolution.
Trust me, save your money.
 Too buggy December 16, 2006
Robert Levandowski Jr. (Kingston, NY, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
These games could be fun, but the cartridge is riddled with bugs. For instance, as you race to select letters in Boggle, about one in five of your stylus taps will be mis-registered, screwing up the word. You have to slow down, which misses the entire point of the game. This is the only DS game I've played that has any trouble telling where you've tapped.
There are similar interface, gameplay, and AI glitches in all four games.
Don't bother with this one -- your money is better spent elsewhere.
 Bad AI, but still fun to play. November 30, 2006
Maber (Texas)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It does have all four games together, which is really nice. I could play each for hours. The Yahtzee AI isn't that bad, and I love the different games you can play in Boggle (my favorite is the seek game, where it gives you a list and you have to find the words...talk about expanding your vocabulary!) It is missing a lot of words, as another reviewer mentioned; I tried getting something like "sat" once and it claimed it didn't exist.
The monopoly AI is ridiculously obnoxious, though. It's as if they didn't even program it to understand the point of the game. If I've got all the greens, for instance, another player might try to trade me $100 for one of my greens. Or worse, if they've got all but one green and I've got the last one, they might try to trade me $100 for the last one! Like I'm an idiot. But they'll make those kinds of trades with each other, so if you're playing against 4 AI, it's really like you're playing against a team of three, because if any one of them gets any combination of monopolies, they will trade until the colors are together. But if YOU want to buy a property from them, forget $100. You'd better be prepared to shell out several properties and several thousand dollars to get anything. So it's kind of obnoxious, but still fun.
There's a reason it's out of print..... October 3, 2006
J. Giles (Farr West, Utah United States)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a decent game, though I can't believe people are trying to sell this for the amount they are. Let's list the good point... notice, singular, not plural.
1) It's got Monopoly, Boggle, battleship, and Yahtzee....
Now for the bad:
1) No save feature
2) limited gameplay without two copies of the game for multiplayer
3) Boggle is missing so many words that it's overly frustrating to play
4) Monopoly is near impossible to play due to the lack of a save feature
5) It's out of print, so the real price of $20 which nearly makes it worth getting is gone.
Bottom line is, don't waste your money and spend over the original $20 that this game cost. It's simply not worth the time or money to get a decent $20 title. Wait till either another printing of the game, or a better version is released.
Hope this helps some of you who think this must be the greatest game out there.
Monopoly is Okay The others or "B" side games September 20, 2006
GEORGE E. NEWMAN (West Hartford, CT)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game set is extremely overpriced at $69... Monopoly is fun but not particularly challenging. I can not seem to lose. The AI players make stupid trades with Me and also with each other. They can not look ahead. When they do get a monopoly, it takes them too long to develop the property so it is rarely a threat to your game. I find this unchallenging. The programmers need to make the AI players more capricious.
For example, I can always buy any railroad (no matter how many I already own) for under $320.00 Owning all four railroads with three other AI players really pays off.
I have also found a programming glitch. There have been many games where debts of my AI players have be "paid" by selling off MY houses. I may have hotels on the Virgina group and on of the AI has 2 houses on the Pennsylvania group. They are close to the end of funds and it lands on one of my hotels. Suddenly the AI's player is NOT bankrupt, the AI player's houses remain in tact, but my hotels disapear and go to a few houses.
This alone is rather frustrating. I assume that the programmers know about this but who knows?
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