E3 2005: Telegames' Lineup @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on May 12, 2005

News: A company with a long line of "Ultimate" games.

Telegames has announced their E3 slate of GBA and DS titles. Enjoy:

Ultimate Card Games for DS:

Includes all these games in a single purchase: Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Cribbage, Canasta, Bridge, Go Fish!, Crazy 8's, BlackJack, Video Poker (5 different versions), 5-Card Draw Poker, 7-Card Stud Poker, Texas Hold'em Poker (7 different versions), Pinochle, Solitaire (15 different versions), Whist, and Gin Rummy. Available November.

Ultimate Brain Games for DS:

Includes all these games: Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Mahjong Solitaire, Mahjong Multiplayer,
Sink the Ships, Four-in-a-Row, Dominoes, Reversi, and Go. Available December.

Additional features for each DS product:

3-D "Person Creator" instead of just a "Face Creator".

Play in animated 3-D environments with real 3-D people.

Game Tutorials in addition to on-screen Help, Rules, and How to Play information.

Maximizes DS capabilities for using high resolution 3-D graphics, Touch Screen, and Voice Recognition with both Wi-Fi and LAN multi-player wireless play.

Ultimate Pocket Games for GBA:

9 outstanding games: Blockout, Pool, Racing, Hextris, 3D Ping Pong, Aquagems, Laser Run, Dogfight, and Pinball. Available November.

Ultimate Puzzle Games for GBA:

1001 different puzzles including Crosswords, Kriss-Kross, Number Jig, Backwords, Wordsearch, Codebreakers, Cryptics, and many more. Available October.

Ultimate Arcade Games for GBA:

12 different reflex-testing arcade games: ThunderBlade, Galaxy Hero, FlipSide, ChipBot, Merchant Galactic, MilkRun, GridLock, Rubes Cubes, BeeKeeper, Asteroid Mine, Highway 51, and Treasure Hunter. Available September.

Additional features for each GBA product:

2 player linked gameplay with only 1 Game Pak.

"Game copy" feature allows a sharing of games by downloading them to other GBAs for unlinked, independent play. It's even easier than sharing music files... and it's FREE!

Almost 1 hour of in-game music... just like a music CD!

On-screen "How to play" instructions.

Save the game status, player statistics, and other options for later.

PC-style menus allow easy and intuitive configuration of all options.