51 Worldwide Games invites us to re-enjoy and discover a large number of classic games adapting them to the video game format. Cards, dice, chips and boards of all kinds gathered in the same cartridge. A tribute to the classic video game, although with some additions typical of video games.
- All games included in 51 Worldwide Games
- What traditional games does 51 Worldwide Games include?
- Are all games equally good and fun?
- What does each game hold for us?
- How does 51 Worldwide Games multiplayer work?
- Is 51 Games similar to any other Nintendo Party games?
- Do we recommend buying 51 Worldwide Games?
Nintendo is characterized as the company that develops the best video games to enjoy with the family and once again proves it with a new product … or perhaps not so new. The new proposal receives the title of ’51 Worldwide Games ‘ and is a compilation of classic games adapted to the possibilities offered by electronic entertainment. After having tried all the games, we went on to analyze the work as a whole, as it has been conceived by the Japanese company.
All games included in 51 Worldwide Games
’51 Worldwide Games’ collects a total of 51 different titles , but there are nuances that should be mentioned. First of all, there are games that offer various modes. For the most part, these modalities are nothing more than games with more rounds or points, as is the case with Blackjack, but in other more modern ones such as Car Races (Scalextric) we have different circuits, for example. Additionally, the compilation also includes a piano mode in which using the touch screen we can simulate playing this instrument.
The full list of games is as follows:
Chess
Backgammon
Tank battle
Billiards
Black Jack
Bowling
Boxing
Baseball
Car races
Carrom
Pig tail
Connect 6
Squares
Four in a row
Curling
Secret code
Ladies
Chinese checkers
Darts
Domino
Football
Generate it
Go-moku
Golf
War
Hanafuda
Hex
Air hockey
The hare and the dogs
Ludo
Japanese mahjong
Solitaire mahjong
Mancala
Minishogi
Windmill
Couples
Fishing
President
Renegade
Sliding path
Shogi
Seven
Spider solitaire
Klondike Solitaire
Takoyaki
Tanks by equipment
Tennis
Texas hold’em
Target shooting
Velocity
Last letter
What traditional games does 51 Worldwide Games include?
The truth is that ’51 Worldwide Games’ not only has a large number of games, but also an immense variety. But there are also a few absences from well-known games. In some cases, similar games have been chosen, such as Ludo (almost the same as Parcheesi) or Last letter (similar to Uno). Even so, games such as marbles (semi-replaced by Carrom ), the goose, as well as various Spanish deck games (brisca, broom, chinchón…) are missing.
Are all games equally good and fun?
When you see a game in the store that collects multiple mini- games or traditional games , the first thing that comes to your mind is: surely many of them will be very simple, short and / or boring. But seeing the Nintendo logo on the cover is a guarantee and, having played all the games, we can confirm that the average quality is high and that there is not too much “padding”.
As it is a very broad work, we will divide the games into several groups. On the one hand, we find several very elaborate and high-quality games , such as Darts and Bowling, which make good use of movement control, or Tank Battle, Connect 6 or Target Shooting, among others. . On the other hand, there are also a few games that have much less weight in the compilation; For example, Golf and Boxing, with a gameplay typical of the NES times, or the card games Guerra and Tokoyaki, which are purely random.
However, the largest group is that of games that simply make a 1: 1 conversion of a traditional game of a certain complexity (Hanafuda, Chess, Texas Hold’em Poker, Dominoes …) or that convert and / or reinvent a game with some levels of quality more than acceptable (Air-hockey, Billiards, Fishing, Carrom …). In this last group we could say that it is around 60% of the games .
The Nintendo logo on the cover is a guarantee of quality and after having played all the games we can corroborate it
What does each game hold for us?
In ’51 Worldwide Games’ there are a series of challenges and difficulties (normal, difficult, expert, impossible) to overcome. For each challenge overcome, we will win different trophies (bronze, silver, gold and cup) that in turn will allow us to unlock some additions, such as being able to use Nintendo cards in the different card games. Some games use motion controls or the Nintendo Switch touch screen (optional, except for the piano, it is possible to play them all in desktop mode).
In addition, with the passage of the games ’51 Worldwide Games’ tells us curiosities sometimes related to the origins of each game. Before the start of each game, in an introductory way, several characters are narrating the keys to us. This introduction is not always very accurate in that they sometimes speak with similes and make jokes that can be more confusing than they help us understand the game. Fortunately, the games also have a small digital guide that is much more sober and understandable ; as well as we can resort to clues that sometimes they offer us in games if we press a button.
How does 51 Worldwide Games multiplayer work?
Yes, ’51 Worldwide Games’ has a multiplayer mode for 2 to 4 players in most of its games. We can play all of them from the same console using the Joy-Con controllers or the Nintendo Switch Pro controller. In addition, you can also play using our smartphone through an APP. Another option that allows us some games is to play in “tatami mode”; That is, putting together several Nintendo Switch consoles in portable mode without Joy-Con, to simulate a longer screen. In addition to local multiplayer, there is also the possibility of playing online, upon payment of the subscription to Nintendo Switch Online.
But despite being a game very focused on multiplayer mode, ’51 Worldwide Games’ also offers a mode against the CPU in each and every one of the games, being possible to enjoy it fully without depending on any other person or Internet connection .
We can play online, upon payment of the subscription to Nintendo Switch Online
Is 51 Games similar to any other Nintendo Party games?
In concept and design, ’51 Worldwide Games’ is a video game different from all the titles that the Japanese company had published so far. Despite this, in some aspects there is a certain reuse of work already done in the past. First of all, the Bowling game is very similar to Wii Sports , even its challenges are very similar. A pity that the same was not done with Golf, Boxing, Tennis and Baseball, which are, but with a different playability.
On the other hand, the design of the menus reminds us a lot of those of Nintendo Labo, probably its design was commissioned by the same internal team. And finally, it is inevitable to remember that some of the classic games were marketed by Nintendo itself in its pre-video game era, such as the Hanafuda cards , Go-moku or Japanese Mahjong.
Do we recommend buying 51 Worldwide Games?
’51 Worldwide Games’ is one of the most prominent games within the party genre . Nintendo’s work pays tribute to a type of entertainment with thousands of years of history; offering the best and most popular non-electronic games. For families, this will be one of the most recommended products for this Christmas.
And we are not talking only about entertainment, ’51 Worldwide Games’ contains logic, memory, reflexes, precision, technical handling games … and to this we must add all the curiosities that they are telling us as well as the fact of bringing together very popular classic games. Thanks to this video game, many young people (and not so young) will discover games that are part of the history of entertainment and that without such proposals, they could fall into oblivion. In short, ’51 Worldwide Games’ is a very complete and varied game, with a teaching component that makes it part of universal culture
