While there are a good variety of games, there are a good number of duds in the mix.
You start the game by making a profile for yourself. There are only a small number of character icons to pick from and just as few background colors, but it's a very minor detail. When you finally get to play, you'll find the games broken into 3 different groups (Classics, Games Room, and Bonus Games). Playing any of the games will award you points you can use to buy new profile icons, hard mode for the classics games, and most importantly more games.
Even though the title claims 100 games, it's really only 60. I can only imagine the remaining 40 games refer to the different difficulty setting in the classic games. You start the game with the following games.
15 Classics Games
- Backgammon
- Bridge
- Blackjack
- Texas Hold'em Poker
- Hearts
- Chinese Checkers
- Draughts (Checkers)
- Flip Flop (Othello)
- Go
- Straight 5
- Rummy
- Chess
- Dominoes
- De-code (Mastermind)
- Mancala
15 Games Room Games
- Jackpot (Slot Machine)
- Paddle Play (Pong)
- Kakuro
- Straight 4
- Table Hockey
- Sudoku
- Solitaire
- Bowling
- Battlefield (Battleships)
- Roulette
- Tic Tac Toe
- Classic Mines
- Rush 3 (Bejeweled)
- Shapes (The wooden block puzzle where you try to make the shape with the different wood pieces)
10 Bonus Games
- Dicey (Bejeweled like game, match 3 dice in a row horizontally or vertically)
- Beanstalk (Throw the bean into the basket)
- Code Winder (Snake like game, eat the colored balls in the order it tells you to)
- Tentacle (Stop the growing white arms by putting a black piece in front of them)
- Tri-match (Match 3 of a kind in a triangle)
- Crown Fall (Avoid the falling pieces)
- Bi-Contract (Tetris like game, match 3 of a kind in a row or column)
- Heart Hunt (Capture the Hearts while avoiding the clubs, spades, and diamonds floating around)
- Dance Floor (Tap the board where the cards appear)
- Three Throw (Find the missing card in the pattern)
As you collect enough points, you can start to buy the following 20 bonus games.
- Chip Smash (Shoot a colored ball and try to make sets of 3 or more)
- Pip Shot (Shoot the yellow pieces and not the red pieces as they move across the screen)
- Dot Link (Snake game with dominos, eat a domino that matches the snakes head)
- Code Play (Basically a word search but with colored patterns instead of words)
- Trap Around (Circle the black pieces and not the white pieces as they move around the screen)
- Off-Center (keep all the pieces away from the center)
- 4+1 (Drag the pairs together to make 5)
- Pentagone (Shoot the colored balls and make groups of 5 on the track)
- Crackjack (Memory game. Flip the cards over to make a total of 21)
- Trick Track (Find the designated card)
- Horse Shoot (Shoot the rook with a canon as it moves around the chess board)
- Royal Rush (Tap the pieces as they move to the bottom of the screen)
- Dot Fall (Catch the green dominos and avoid the red dominos as the fall)
- Paddle Flip (Bounce the balls off the paddle, but only the ones of the opposite color)
- Trap Suit (Sort the suits into cages before time runs out)
- Bet Set Go (Quickly throw the correct amount of poker chips into the pot)
- Tap Dance (Quickly tap the spawning pieces)
- Dish Dash (Stop the pieces from reaching the other side by tapping them)
- Spinner (Spin the wheel and collect the dropping colors on their side of the wheel)
- Hide n Seek (Find the suit mixed in with all the other suits)
The Bonus games, which take up half the total games, are all quick survival games. That wouldn't be much of a problem if you could actually survive any real length of time. Most of the games get so hard so fast, you'll be happy if you last more than a minute. Also, the targets are usually very small and moving fairly fast, making a hard game even harder, often to the point you don't want to play the game a second time. As for the rest of the games, the controls are easy to pick up and very responsive. The only real trouble comes with the card games. The cards are stacked so closely on top of each other, that it is often hard to pick up the one card you want.
The game does include a multiplayer mode, which should make this into the perfect family night game. Unfortunately, that isn't the case. To play multiplayer, each player needs their own copy of the game. There is a mode that allows multiplayer play using a single DS, but anyone that's ever tried playing games that way knows how frustrating and slow it is. Also, very few of the games actually are multiplayer, and the ones that are aren't really family night games.
One redeeming feature of the game is the tutorial system. For all the Classic games, a full tutorial as available to teach you the basics of the game, as well as tips and strategies to become a master player. This is very helpful to try to learn a new game, or even to get tips on a game you already know.
In the end, it's a decent collection of games and for the $19.99 price, it's not bad. Unfortunately, it doesn't live up to its 100 game title, and if you're looking for a family night game, you might want to look into finding a copy of "clubhouse games" instead.