I had the same idea about the card
games-
Your cards are shown on your VMU,
while your onscreen character(s)
show the action- rejoicing or
crying- in seven card stud and such,
have your face cards onscreen and
your down cards on vmu.

Whatever happened to the parlor
games we were supposed to get
around first-quarter 2000?
--- In DreamcastBrowsers@y..., "insidious_plots" <insidious_plots@y...> wrote:
>
> btw, speaking of online games, we would KILL for an online casino game...
> i am so ready to clean the floor with some people in poker...
>
> and a good 4-player double hold em poker... man, i might never sleep again...
>
> blackjack... spanish 21...
>
>
> and, you know, online or not, they could have made great use from the vmu for
a great multi-player poker game...
> casino games are always against the house...
>
> i want YOUR money...
>
> an online casino game would be very easy to pull off... it is sort of the
essence of all rpg's... reduced to it's bare minimum... it would be a gambling
online multi-player rpg sort of thing... you start a character (account) and
you can make money and level up in each game... they could have just built the
frickin' online feature into ceasar's palace or hoyle casino... i haven't
played hoyle, but, cp is already set up that way and it would have been
PERFECT... i have spent more time in a casino than i have spent playing games
on the dreamcast...
> i'm ready to go online...
> once you have played for money, playing for virtual money is easy... see, i
know i could play for money on a pc, but, if i want to play for money, i go to a
casino... i want a "no consequences casino" with players from around the
world... just for the fun of the games...
>
>
> speaking of the vmu, i am again led to say, man, the vmu was under-used... i
don't know who owns virtua tennis here, but, man, the game is played on your vmu
screen!! you are kinda' busy playing, but, if you look at your vmu while you
are playing, there is the game you are playing in miniature... frickin' cool,
but frickin' useless...
>
> i know your plays are on the vmu screen on nfl2kx, but every other use of it i
know of is useless or just added info... like seaman and sonic...
> i love the idea of using your own private screen for private info... it just
makes sense... fur fighters fluff match (think cartoon version of quake), you
have your ammo and score or something, but you can also have that info on the tv
screen where it is much easier to see...
>
> man, the things they can do with the gamecube using gba's as controllers...
imagine the intricacies a game that FULLY used the screen and the individual
gba's could have... it could be amazing... but, i will not be surprised with
they make minimal to no use of it like game developers did with the vmu...
>
>
>
> anyway...