That keeps it simple and gives nice variety to play. You can design your own character's screen appearance by selecting facial shapes, eyes and eyewear, hair and hats. Games selected from these spots have appropriate folksy and high tech backgrounds. Games can also be started quickly from the command menu. There is a wide range of customization including the rate at which computer opponents play their hands, and how talkative they are.
Game animations add a lot of fun.
Fish jumping around a fishing hole in Go Fish, animated tanks in War, and the troll passed around in Old Maid are entertaining for the younger crowd, while the computer characters' dialogue amuses the rest of us. If you just want to play and not listen, dialogue and background music can be turned off. Insert the CD, press the Install button and a Wizard handles the rest. There is a message to say that the games can be run in future with or without the CD - if the CD is not used then character speech and many of the animations would be missing. The Read Me includes troubleshooting information.