I've never really been attracted to competitive gambling, like Happy Families and Poker, partly because there's too much ego involved, partly because it's not particularly interesting visually (indoor sunglasses), and thirdly because no-one ever seems to get particularly excited about winning at it. Also, there's not much novelty in the win - you get money, probably ultimately spent on hamburgers or sunglasses or a car. It doesn't even really appear in an interesting way - it doesn't appear from a big metal chute or pouring from a hole in a huge electronic face (what?), it's already packaged up in a case, meekly attempting to channel some rubbish gangster 'transaction'. Woo.
Where are the building sized slot machines and roulette wheels I was promised by the video games of my youth? If everyone were forced to spend a few days a year living almost entirely by decisions made by a roulette wheel (dictating the outcomes of such quandraries as "What will we talk about?" "How much is that?" and "How DOES my wife look?"), it'd not only throw open any number of alternative routes through life not usually considered, but also highlight just how lucky we are to be able to decide things for ourselves. Yes, yes. I know - deeeeeep.
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