Place your bets!
This is the Odyssey's version of Roulette and it isn't the relatively fun kind of Roulette where you use guns and risk killing yourself.
The game uses a gameboard with a Roulette betting table on it. It uses what everyone calls "poker chips". Since there is no poker game on the Odyssey, we'll just call them chips. There's also a big wad of cash to use. The game involves the BANKER handing a controller to a blindfolded or eyes-closed player, and having them "flip" the knobs on the controller. He can hand it to them upside down, sideways, whatever. The point is, the "flipping" serves to "randomize" the controller. The BANKER then presses the reset button and a player spot is supposed to appear on the screen. More often than not, however, it appears off screen and the process must be attempted again. The spot is supposed to enter from the right side and settle somewhere on the Überlay's picture of a roulette wheel. Then, a chart is consulted to determine the winning number. It just does not work often enough. Too often, we're like: "Where's the damn spot? Oh tanj, it's off screen again." The whole thing is a bad idea for a game on a system that has no randomization capability.
Roulette, in my opinion, is an example of "filling the box" so the marketing department can justify selling the product at a higher price point. Despite its pretty Überlay, Roulette is the most wretched attempt at fun that we've yet to see on the Odyssey. We hates it. We hates it so much that I'm taking away 1.25 points that the Odyssey has previously earned, just to punish it for this pathetic insult to the consumer.
The Score: Ultraman: 5, Odyssey: 1.75
EDIT: A voiced opinion has expressed disapproval in my removing of points. I figured for fun I would do it differently, instead of adding points to Ultraman, I would take points from Odyssey. Instead, I will restore the points to Odyssey, but Ultraman gets the point for this game.
The revised Score: Ultraman: 6, Odyssey 3.00
(by the way, if I didn't like the system, I wouldn't be devoting all this time to it. )
Tomorrow will be States, this time for sure!
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