None more Blackjack
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Dick and Jane (above, on the box cover) still can't bring themselves to touch this infernal contraption.
They continue to sit there, unmoving, staring in disbelief at the atrocities that were committed in the name of Consumer Electronics.
This is no worse a game of Blackjack then that found on the Fairchild VES, except for the part where the black and white graphics make you appreciate the fact that the real world is polychromatic.
An interesting thing about this Blackjack, in the context of the "era", is that this version uses TWO 52-card decks and reshuffles them when there are 21 cards or less left in the dealer's deck. The Fairchild VES version only uses ONE 52-card deck and reshuffles if there are 16 cards or less. I have no idea how this variation affects the playing of the game or the calculating of the odds, but occasionally I like to take you behind the scenes, just to see you smile!
This game is "winnable" if you break the bank at 999 (dollars? francs? mesetas? who cares? it's pretend!). What makes this game far less exciting, than say, playing Blackjack on a Louisiana "river"-boat, is that, if you lose the game, (ie, run out of your "money"), you need only "reset" the game to play again. *sigh* Without any true risk, a gambling game just doesn't appeal to me. I decided to remedy that by increasing the risk!From now on, whenever I go "BUST" in a gambling videogame . . . BEFORE I restart the game with a fresh supply of money . . . I have to pawn something. Preferably an object which a close friend or family member holds dear. It doesn't have to be anything worth more than, say, $20, because the risk isn't the "money" so much as it is the "reaction" of the close friend or family member when they can't find their "precious" collectible. Moments like that are priceless. For everything else . . . well, you know the rest.
Next entry we have "Fun" with numbers. This is, apparently, a usage of the word "fun" of which I am previously unaware. (Apologies to the estate of the late DNA for the butchering of his well-penned line.)
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