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It's 5:20 p.m., and you have started the long trek home in the commuter van. Boredom starts to set in, and you wonder what you can do to relieve this feeling. The light bulb suddenly pops on above your head. You have the Travel Collection on your PDA. The next thing you know, you are at your destination. Does the Travel Collection help to relieve those times of boredom? Read on to find out.
The Travel Collection is a compilation of six games. In this pack you get Chess, Checkers, Reversi (Othello), Tic-Tac-Toe, Four in a Row, and Dots. 
Installation begins with an EXE file on your PC. The game installs quickly and works properly on storage cards.
I have one word for the graphics: Wow! These are perhaps the best graphics I have ever seen on a QVGA device. They are very smooth with almost none of the boxiness that I am used to seeing. This is what I would like to see in every game that is designed for the PDA. 
Just when you think you have seen it all, you tap on the game name and realize that you can change skins. That's right: Skins! You have the ability to change the field you play on. Preloaded for you are a stone background, grassy field, wood grain, and the standard boards for each game. Also, Four in a Row has metal rails, and Dots has island and sheet metal backgrounds. Each game comes with different playing pieces as well. In chess and checkers, you can pick fantasy characters. In Reversi, you can choose from pirates, stars and stripes, smilies one and two, flames, and ying yang one and two. Four in a row has flame pieces. With Dots, you can change the type of boxes made to stars and stripes. 
Jaybot created the sounds for the Travel Collection, and it shows. In Dots, it sounds exactly like you are using a pencil to draw the lines. In checkers, you can hear the pieces jumping and moving across the board realistically. In four in a Row, you hear a ringing bell to acknowledge you have won. With Reversi, if you make a wrong move, you get the buzzer. When you tap on a square in Tic-Tac-Toe, it sounds like a laser blast is creating each x or o. Very nice! The music is fantastic also. I found myself nodding my head and tapping my toes to the music.
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