Blackjack (NES)

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Blackjack
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Platform: NES
Year: 1992
Developer: Odyssey Software
This page is for NES release of Blackjack. For other games in the series see Blackjack.

Blackjack is an unlicensed game developed by Odyssey Software and published by American Video Entertainment. The game is just basic blackjack, but with some configurations such as how much money it takes to win the game, and palate-swapping the card colors.

Screenshots

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The game's title screen.

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The main menu.

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Getting a blackjack.


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Music

The game has a short soundtrack. Instead of composing original music, the game's composer Mike Smith, copied Billy Joel's Root Beer Rag to the NES. It's a decent conversion that lasts over 3 minutes before looping. However, this is the song you'll hear throughout most of the game, though you have the option to turn music and/or sounds off. The Victory music was also re-arranged and used in Maxi 15 (NES). To compose the music, Mike wrote MIDI files on his keyboard and the MIDI files were converted to Odyssey's sound driver by George Rucker.

Recording

# Title ComposerArrangerProgrammer Length Listen Download
01 Root Beer Rag Billy JoelMike SmithGeorge Rucker 3:56
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02 Game Over Mike SmithMike SmithGeorge Rucker 0:04
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03 Victory Mike SmithMike SmithGeorge Rucker 0:26
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Credits

Though Art and George are credited for music and sound, Art said that he was only the audio director, and told Mike what kind of music he wanted in the game, so it was probably his decision to include Root Beer Rag. George Rucker programmed the Odyssey sound driver.

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Game Rip

Format

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Ripping NES music is an arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site. The music was recorded in VirtuaNSF.

The VGZ files were logged in both MESS VGM Mod during gameplay and NSFs converted to VGZ using NEZPlay VGM Mod. The title music was trimmed to loop properly.

Audio Devices

The game uses the RP2A03 to play music and sound effects. The DPCM channel is not used.

Releases

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Blackjack - NES.jpg
Title: Blackjack
Platform: NES
Released: 1992-??-??
Publisher: American Video Entertainment