UNO

UNO!

1971's take that card game UNO sits, at the time of writing, as the 19003rd best game on Board Game Geek, a site created by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts. 19 thousand people have given it a rating of 0-10, with the algorithm to average them all out declaring it's a 5.4/10.

To be fair to UNO, it's more of a family game. BGG ranks them too. UNO is ranked as the 1,950th best family game. Its time has come and gone. You can do far better than UNO if you're looking for a simple card game these days.

But we're here to play video games that you mustn't ignore, and in 2006, UNO hit the Xbox Live Arcade, and apparently blew everybody's minds.

Clubhouse Games

42 All-Time Classics

I'm a gamer of all kinds. Video games, obviously, but also board and especially card games. If only there was a game that, for example, brought 42 all-time classic pub and parlour games into one portable, multiplayer package. Something like Clubhouse Games for the Nintendo DS.

Card games, board games, even action games find a home here, in a package that introduces modern gamers to stalwarts of the tabletop. When times are you tough, and you don't know how to distract yourself, why not see what Clubhouse Games has to offer?

SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters' Clash

SHUFFLE PILE

When I first skim read information for this game, I thought it would be one that I'd probably have a hard time finding in order to play in the first place. It's a Neo Geo Pocket Color title, a handheld that I've never seen in my life. In my experiences, you either had a Game Boy Color to play Pokémon or you didn't. There was no Neo Geo round our way.

The Neo Geo Pocket Color itself had such a hard run competing against Nintendo devices that the number of games available for it wouldn't even fill a top 100 list, but, according to this 1001 list, there is a title that simply must be played, and it is SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters' Clash.

Take a bunch of SNK characters, a bunch of Capcom characters, make them into a Magic: The Gathering-style card game... oh we're going to be all up and down on this one, I can feel it.