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| From: Midway Games Ltd
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 216
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.7 x 0.8
MPN: NTR P AO8P
EAN: 5037930140105
ASIN: B000NVUJNY
Release Date: July 5, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
Excellent for casual gamers September 23, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Just a very quick one to say this is brilliant for people who dont play games that often. Very easy to pick up and play, though the presentation is a bit flawed. Its easy enough to navigate though.
Most of the games are decent, especially the Word Search one, which my Mum and I have found devastatingly addictive, despite the Americanisms.
These Americanisms are impossible to ignore in the wheel of fortune style game though, with constant references to old American TV and sports stars. Its by far the worst game of the bunch. One of the categories you pick is called 'people' and you have to guesse who the 'celebrity' is. Some of the answers are just obsured though. After a while of trying to guesse one of the answers it turned out to be 'Your next door Neighbour', which Im afraid, is awful.
Overall though, the rest of the games are pretty good and would be great on the train etc.
 Oh so boring!!!!!!!!!! August 7, 2007
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
OK, the displays are colourful and slick and the music does not make your teeth ache BUT once you have done a game, thats it! No further levels or challenges just see if you can beat your previous score. The trivia game is heavily USA based so it is just pot luck if you get something right. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
 Fun for all the family July 29, 2007
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
We love this selection of games, my daughter who is 8yrs old can manage most of the games herself and is totally ingrossed (great for long drives!).
Daddy and daughter love Hot Hoops where you can shot as many baskets as possible in a set time.
I love the word games and skill games
we both like the Cards games.
We also have the DS 42 all times classics, we feel this set is much more suitable for children to manage and the graphics far more exciting with vibrant clear colours.
I agree with a few gripes from others, we would have liked to been able to play via the wireless without having to buy another card and word games a little american.
 Great fun with brill variety, but it's technically flawed. July 22, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love the idea of carts being loaded with several (or many) games. The "42 in 1" title is a great example of a quality collection. This particular title offers 23 different games. Some are great (Mahki, 5 Star General, Pick up 6), many fair and some poor (Trivia Quiz, Word Search) with too much Americanisms.
Because of the strong American slant on a few games, I've knocked off a star. The other star is lost because of the poor display. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what I mean. The buttons are colourful enough, but the "black" backgrounds are dark grey throughout. This gives the impression of poor contrast with (almost) every title! I know the DS can produce very true black and so I know this is actually a programming issue. Even the many internet screenshots show the backgrounds as a dark grey rather than black, you can test this in MS Paint! Odd, but true.
Anyhow. The cartridge certainly offers very good value for money, even after you ignore the few duff games. It's very easy to navigate with concise instructions for every game included. Not perfect, but I'm still pleased with my purchase.
Look beyond the poor graphics & this one's a gem! July 17, 2007
34 out of 36 found this review helpful
If you're thinking of buying this game then brace yourself - because this is as rough and ready as they come. The menus resemble a Geocities homepage from 1998: poor frames, chunky buttons, too much colour and not enough information. You half expect to stumble upon that "Under Construction" icon of a man with a spade. There's no "look beyond" here, either: some of the in-game graphics would shame an IT class playing with Paint - For the first time. The better ones are functional. The best you can say is that you can make out the details without having to squint in more than a handful of cases.(Lose 1 star immediately!)
This DS collection of 23 puzzle, card, trivia, and word games are already tried and tested as decent casual experiences for players who don't normally play videogames, and they certainly translate well on the Nintendo DS. Not every game's a winner, and not every game is easy to understand right out of the gate. The good: Crystal Balls is a cool Puyo Pop variation that uses colors and numbers. And Five Star Generals and Pick Up Six takes Yahtzee and changes things up so as not to infringe on copyrights. But then you've got confusing duds like Artifact, an odd Othello like game with rules that are bogglingly weird and hard to understand without a few rounds of trial and error.
TouchMaster supports the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, but it's for posting high scores and seeing how well you rank against other players who've also uploaded their scores. Midway will also host tournaments which players can participate in, but the interface is absolutely the pits - you can never see in the game when a tournament is taking place, other than going into each game, clicking on "Tournament" and logging in. There's no option to simply log in to see which games have a tournament going on.
The other oddity is the fact that you need two copies of TouchMaster to play the games that support two players on two different systems. I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that the card and puzzle games, with their simplistic imagery, are too big to be transferred to another Nintendo DS system using Download Play, so for that alone Touchmaster loses another star!
All in all, TouchMaster's a decent collection of condensed, casual mini-games. Some are better than others, but none are tremendously terrible. It's, at the very least, a nice compilation for the quick pick-up-and-play experience.
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