The term ‘Joker’ has its origins in the germanic spelling of Euchre (Juker or Juckerspiel). Around 1860 the Joker card evolved in Euchre to replace the blank card being used as the ‘best bower’ or highest trump card.
DID YOU KNOW The card game ‘Hearts’ aka Rickety Kate in Australia shares some similarities and is the closest established game to BAM! Both are trick-taking games. It’s also known as Black Lady, Black Maria or Black Widow which is a reference to the Queen of Clubs aka ‘Calamity Jane’ and has a 13 point […]
DID YOU KNOW In an earlier post we talked about the origins of Tetris. The first version of Tetris was a text-based computer game using square brackets [ ] to make up a block.
Ever wondered how to change your avatar profile image? To see BAM! high scores on the Google Play Leaderboard you need to create a Google Play Gamer ID. Each Gamer ID is automatically assigned one (of 40) avatar images. Don’t like your avatar?
DID YOU KNOW Donkey Kong was originally set to be a Popeye video game? Mario was Popeye, Pauline was Olive Oyl and Donkey Kong was Bluto. Japanese video game designer and producer Shigeru Miyamoto was unable to acquire the licence for the Popeye franchise so decided to stick with the three-way love triangle and Popeye became ‘Jumpman’ […]
