Hoyle Card Games 2008 [OLD VERSION] | ![Hoyle Card Games 2008 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nznhu3FsL._SL500_.jpg)
| From: Encore Software
List Price: $19.99
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Seller: Starlight Digital
Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 87
Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac
Media: DVD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0.1
MPN: 14290
Model: 14290
UPC: 705381142904
EAN: 0705381142904
ASIN: B000TKH6H6
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Platform: Windows | | • | For Ages: Adults | | • | Comes In: Box |
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Product Description
55 New Miami Solitaire Games Included 
Step up to the best deal in town and test your skill. Shuffle the cards and dealyourself in to the greatest card games of all time. HOYLE drops you right intothe action with over 150 classic games, official rules, tips andstrategies. From classic games like Cribbage to new favorites like online TexasHold'Em, HOYLE Card Games 2008 has something for everyone.
Play against a cast of animated characters, or play against yourself. HOYLE Face Creator lets you design the perfect character. Choose fromhundreds of hairstyles, clothes, and unique facial features to customize yourown high roller.
- Black Mamba - New Video Poker Machine
- Blackjack
- Bridge
- Canasta
- Circus Tent = New Video Poker Machine
- Crazy Eights
- Cribbage
- Dragonfly - New Video Poker Machine
- Euchre
- Gin Rummy
- Hearts - New Video Poker Machine
- Poker
- Spades
- Texas Hold'Em - New Video Poker Machine
- Video Poker
- War
- and many more!
- All games are based on the official rules from HOYLE, the authority for over 200 years
- Create your own character with Face Creator, customizing everything from facial features to clothes
- Interactive computer opponents with multiple skill levels to challenge everybody
- Play together on the same computer and challenge your friends and family for bragging rights or play solo with 55 different solitaire games included
- Over 75 card games in
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 89
 Good, but... November 21, 2009
tachi1 (Miami, FL United States)
This is the 2008 version which means that it will run in Vista 64-bit (probably also in Windows 7, but I'll get back to you on that one). It will also run on Mac.
That's it as far as changes go. All the faults and all the virtues of my previous 2005 version are EXACTLY the same. If it wasn't that this version didn't crash my new computer I never would have known it was different.
The interface is identical. It has the exact same players; the exact same options for faces, cards, navigation, environment, speed, music, speech, and reward points. It has the same instructions--not a good thing since the instructions (for those games for which instructions are even available) are pretty lame.
It even has the same annoying quirks.70% of the time, the game I play is Canasta. There is one particular game, in which I am dealt a starting hand with four 5's and two K's that I get at least once in every session. I know the first two rounds by heart. This proves to me that nothing has been done to the games themselves in 2006, 2007, or this version 2008.
Having vented all this, I still enjoy playing card games and this is an entertaining and varied assortment of games and the program (as long as it's compatible with your computer) works well. WARNING: On my previous computer (XP Pro with 4 GB RAM) it was a bit of a resource hog and I could only have this one program open or everything would crawl down to a halt. Now, with a much more powerful system, it doesn't seem to be as much of a problem.
Before turning off my computer at night, this is the first step in my nightly decompression routine. It also keeps me entertained on long phone waits while listening over-and-over to boring music "your call is important to us..."
Neat Card Game November 6, 2009
Ronald D. Sutton
Good price and excellent program. Product was delivered very well protected. I can strongly recommend this product.
 Much better than 2009 version October 21, 2009
TDM (Florida, USA)
Get this version over the newer 2009, the cards are large where in the newer version the cards are so small that they are hard to read. It has many fun card games, great graphics, good animation and
you came use facemaker to choose what look you would like to make for youself that day, or use one of their's or one you saved.
 Poor customer service October 5, 2009
Gina Earles
I installed this product on one computer, then replaced that computer with a new one. When I went to install this product on the new computer, I did not have the serial code any more, even though I have the original disk. The company will not give me a new code unless I pay $10. The software isn't even worth that.
Buy the OLD ONE! September 30, 2009
Stanley G. Landis (Chicago area)
Holye was great. In the past you could install this on your kids computers and you didn't need the disk to play. Hoyle has sold out the familyman. Everyone of your kids will now need a separate disk. Keep opening your pocket book now families or AVOID THIS VERSION. Buy the old ones.
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