Clubhouse Games (だれでもアソビ大全, Daredemo Asobi Taizen^?), 42 All-Time Classics in Europe ^[1], is a compilation video game consisting of card, board, and parlor games developed by Agenda and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan on November 3, 2005, in Europe on September 29, 2006, in North America on October 9, 2006, and in Australia on October 26, 2006. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1000x897, 648 KB)Clubhouse Games box This image is cover art for a computer or video game, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the games publisher or developer. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 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Clubhouse Games is a localization of the original Japanese release. Some of the games included in Clubhouse Games are not the same as those included in Daredemo Asobi Taizen. This version of the game was released in Japan under the title Wi-Fi Taiou: International Daredemo Asobi Taizen (Wi-Fi対応世界のだれでもアソビ大全, Wi-Fi Taiou: International Daredemo Asobi Taizen^?) and contains all of the games from the English version, as well as support for the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. It was released April 19, 2007. Localization can mean any of the following: Generally, localization is the determination of the locality (position) of an object. ... Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection logo Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is an online service run by Nintendo to facilitate free Internet play in compatible Nintendo DS and Wii games. ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... 2007 2007 in games 2006 in video gaming 2008 in video gaming Notable events of 2007 in video gaming. ...

Gameplay

Free Play

In Free Play mode, the player may choose any of the 42 games available to play. Clubhouse Games divides its 42 games up into eight categories. These are the categories and the titles found in each:

• Card games: Old Maid, Spit, I Doubt It, Sevens, Memory, Pig, Blackjack, Hearts, President, Rummy, Seven Bridge, Last Card, Last Card Plus, Five Card Draw, Texas hold 'em, Nap, Spades and Contract Bridge.

• Board games: Chinese checkers, Checkers, Dots and Boxes, Hasami shogi, Turncoat, Connect Five, Grid Attack, Backgammon, Chess, Shogi, Field Tactics and Ludo.

• Variety games: Soda Shake, Dominoes, Koi-Koi and Word Balloon.

• Action games: Bowling, Darts, Billiards, Balance and Takeover.

• Single player games: Solitaire, Escape and Mahjong solitaire.

Old Maid is a card game for two or more players, closely related to Chase the Ace. ... Spit, also known as Speed or (in the UK) Slam or Slams, is a card game for two players in which the aim is to get rid of your cards as fast as possible. ... This article is about the card game. ... Sevens is a card game, also sometimes known as Fan Tan (but nothing to do with the board game of that name), or Parliament. ... Variously themed cards are available for children of all age groups. ... It has been suggested that Pig (card game) be merged into this article or section. ... Blackjack, The face cards (Jack, Queen, and King) and the ten count as 10 points, and the Ace counts as 1 or 11. ... Hearts is a trick-taking card game normally played by four players but it can be modified for other numbers of players. ... President (also popularly known as Presidents and Assholes, Asshole, Scum, Bastard, Ps and As, Presidents and Eejits, Rich man, Poor man, El Presidente, Sheep, Dictator, Gummybears or Revolution) is a card game for 3 or more in which players race to get rid of all their cards. ... Rummy is a generic term for card games of the same family as gin rummy. ... Crazy Eights is a card game for two or more players. ... A game of Texas holdem, currently the most popular form of poker, in progress. ... Texas hold em involves community cards available to all players (pictured here on the left). ... Napoleon or Nap is a trick taking game in which players receive five cards each; whoever bids the highest number of tricks chooses trumps and tries to win at least that many. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance (the relative proportions depend on the variant played). ... Chinese checkers Chinese checkers (or chequers) is a board game that can be played by two to six people. ... starting position on a 10×10 draughts board Draughts, also known as checkers, is a group of mental sport board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemys pieces. ... Dots and Boxes (also known as Boxes, Squares, Paddocks, Square-it, Dots and Dashes, Dots, or, simply, the Dot Game) is a pencil and paper game for two players (or sometimes, more than two). ... Hasami shogi (はさみ将棋 hasami shōgi or “sandwiching chess”) is a variant of shogi (Japanese chess). ... Reversi and Othello are names for an abstract strategy board game which involves play by two parties on an eight-by-eight square grid with pieces that have two distinct sides. ... Gomoku, go-moku, or gobang (Japanese: 五目並べ, Gomoku Narabe, five points), or in English Connect Five (also spelled Connect 5 or Connect5) is an abstract strategy board game. ... pencil and paper game version The game Battleship is a guessing game played by two people. ... Backgammon is a board game for two players in which pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. ... Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ... Shogi ), or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. ... This article is about the board game. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Hot Potato can refer to: Hot Potato (game) is a childrens game that involves players quickly tossing a small object such as a beanbag to each other while music plays. ... This article is about dominoes in general. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two players. ... A bowler releases the ball. ... A standard dart board. ... A correct nine ball rack Nine ball is a contemporary variation of pocket billiards, with historical beginnings rooted in the United States and traceable to the 1920s. ... Modern seesaws have springs for safer play. ... Klondike is a solitaire card game often known purely by the name of Solitaire. ... FORGET-ME-NOT level Klotski is a computer puzzle game, first seen in this form in a Microsoft Windows 3. ... A Shanghai solitaire in Dragon formation. The same solitaire, with free tiles highlighted. ...

Stamp

Stamp Mode is a single-player mode that has three levels of difficulty. Players receive 1-3 stamps depending on how they place in the games. Several games in the "Free Play" mode are locked until the player plays them in Stamp Mode. After completing the first "easy" level of Stamp Mode, normal and hard modes are unlocked. Beating the normal level unlocks the "stamp" section in the chat window; finishing hard gives you a new color to use in the chat window and one last "stamp".

Mission

Mission Mode is a single-player mode that features 30 missions to accomplish. Some missions include beating the "Memory" card game under three minutes, bowling three strikes in a row, or getting 200 points in Darts. When the player successfully completes one mission, he or she unlocks another icon. When all 30 missions have been completed, the player unlocks the "Pop" set of music.

Multiplayer

A player may send over a demo of a game by using the "gift" option. He or she can set the difficulty of the CPU. It is similar to the DS Download Station demo; the receiving player may play the game as many times as they want, but once he or she turns the Nintendo DS off, the game is erased. DS Download Stations is an in store demo service launched by Nintendo in early 2006. ...

Clubhouse Games supports the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service. An upcoming version of the Japanese vesion will also feature Nintendo WFC support as well. With strangers, players may send pre-selected messages (such as "Good game!" and "Acck!") and emoticons. Like all other WFC games, it uses a friends list and friend codes. Against friends, players can draw out messages (similar to Pictochat). Out of the 42 games, only Old Maid, Spit, I Doubt It, Pig, and the three "Single Player Games" are not playable over WFC. Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection logo Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is an online service run by Nintendo to facilitate free Internet play in compatible Nintendo DS and Wii games. ... An emoticon (pronounced (IPA) ) is a small piece of specialized ASCII art (usually two to five characters, always on a single line) used in text messages as informal markup to indicate emotions and attitudes that would be conveyed by body language in face-to-face communications. ... PictoChat screenshot PictoChat is a communication utility for the Nintendo DS. It is used to chat with up to fifteen other people connected wirelessly through a system-to-system Wi-Fi connection. ...

Version differences

The 42 games included in Daredemo Asobi Taizen are similar to the games included in Clubhouse Games, but there are some differences. The original Japanese version lacks the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service and the aesthetics of many games have been changed. The games Goninkan, Bozumekuri, Sugoroku, Size Game, Last One, Mini Golf and Napoleon (a Japanese card game, unrelated to the British card game Nap) are exclusive to Daredemo Asobi Taizen. Texas Hold 'Em, Dots and Boxes, Grid Attack, Ludo, Dominoes, Escape and Mahjong Solitaire are exclusive to the international version. Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection logo Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is an online service run by Nintendo to facilitate free Internet play in compatible Nintendo DS and Wii games. ... Sugoroku (双六) refers to two different forms of Japanese board game, one similar to western backgammon and the other similar to western Snakes and Ladders. ... Miniature golf, also known as mini-golf, crazy golf or Putt-Putt, is a game modelled after the sport of golf. ...

Rumble Pak

The game is compatible with the Nintendo DS Rumble Pak. If the Rumble Pak is inserted, the Nintendo DS will vibrate when it is the player's turn on the game. A Nintendo 64 gamepad with the Rumble Pak attached. ...

Reception

Clubhouse Games currently has an aggregate ranking of 82.1% on Game Rankings ^[2]. Many reviewers praised the game for its diverse selection, simple interface, tweakable rules, and easily accessible rules. The portable, pick-up-and-play mentality was also praised ^[3]. Game Rankings is a website which keeps track of video game reviews from other sites, and combines them to present an average rating for each game. ...

Much of the game's criticism comes from the limitations on card games. Both GameSpot and GameSpy complained that Texas Hold 'em allowed players to bet in negative chip totals and did not offer no-limit playing.^[4][5] Also noted was that the Blackjack options to "split" cards and buy insurance were not in this series. Texas hold em involves community cards available to all players (pictured here on the left). ...

Stamp and Mission Modes were greeted warily. IGN noted that having to unlock some games through Stamp mode went against the "pick-up-and-play mentality" of the game collection, while GameSpy went further in calling it a "cheap way" to get players to play every game.^{[3] [4]}

Marketing

Before the release of the game, the games Darts and Turncoat were included in the Series 3 DS Download Station. In Europe, it was the first game to use PEGI's "Gambling" disclaimer. DS Download Stations is an in store demo service launched by Nintendo in early 2006. ... PEGIs logo Pan European Game Information, or more commonly PEGI, is a European system for rating the content of computer and video games, and other entertainment software. ...

Chess glitches

Several glitches have been found in chess. These are accompanied by the game scores that allow for reproduction and thus verification of the glitches. Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ...

• Castling glitch: if a player castles kingside and then moves his king, the opposing king can no longer castle kingside. [2]
• The castling glitch can also happen even without the other player castling first. The exact cause is as of yet unknown. [3]
• En passant glitch: it seems that en passant is not an option when your King is in check, even though it may be a legal move. This can lead to the game ended prematurely on a checkmate when there actually isn't one. [4]

Initial position of kings and rooks Black has castled kingside (O-O), and White has castled queenside (O-O-O) Castling is a special move in the game of chess involving the king and either of the original rooks of the same color. ... Initial position of kings and rooks Black has castled kingside (O-O), and White has castled queenside (O-O-O) Castling is a special move in the game of chess involving the king and either of the original rooks of the same color. ... ġĠ ġ Εý ŚÝ ¼Ћ This article is about the chess move en passant. For other uses, see En passant (disambiguation). ... ġĠ ġ Εý ŚÝ ¼Ћ This article is about the chess move en passant. For other uses, see En passant (disambiguation). ... Checkmate (frequently shortened to mate) is a situation in chess (and in other boardgames of the chaturanga family) in which one players king is under attack and there is no way to meet that threat; it is a check from which there is no escape. ...

References

October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

External links

• Clubhouse Games Wi-Fi hub
• Clubhouse Games official site
• Wi-Fi Taiou: International Daredemo Asobi Taizen Website
• Clubhouse Games at IGN
• Clubhouse Games at N-sider
• Daredemo Asobi Taizen Translation Page: Courtesy of DualScreenRadio