I thought there was something fishy about the "Cyber-opponent" feature on my new electronic dartboard. The board is a Halex Aipha #64302, which is a great board, but the manufacturers seem to have screwed up the programming on the Cyber-opponent feature. My final game of cricket last night provided the proof.
I was frustrated all week. I thought my "opponent" was getting way too many lucky shots in games. For example, the computer would throw three misses, and then the next throw, it'd nail a triple 16, a triple 20, and a bull's eye. From the "beginner" level. I'm sorry, but no "beginner" throws a trio of bounce-outs on one turn and then suddenly turns into world champion Martin "Wolfie" Adams on the next turn. I kept screaming at the board that it was cheating.
Well, last night, we were playing a very close game of no-score cricket. I was two shots away from winning -- I needed to hit a 15 and one more bull. My cyber-opponent hadn't hit any bull's eyes and needed to nail three to win the game. So it throws its first dart, and the computer proclaims, "TRIPLE! BULL'S EYE! WINNER!"
Okay, a lucky shot is one thing, but...THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TRIPLE BULL'S EYE!!! As far as I know, there has never been a triple bull's eye on any dart board in the history of the game. I'm tempted to write a letter to Halex and tell them that if they're going to program the computer to screw people over, they should at least have programmed it to take two darts to hit a double and a single bull, rather than this magic "triple bull's eye" with a single dart. What's it gonna do next, hit a quintuple 20? And who programmed this thing anyway, the Warren Commission?
I was frustrated all week. I thought my "opponent" was getting way too many lucky shots in games. For example, the computer would throw three misses, and then the next throw, it'd nail a triple 16, a triple 20, and a bull's eye. From the "beginner" level. I'm sorry, but no "beginner" throws a trio of bounce-outs on one turn and then suddenly turns into world champion Martin "Wolfie" Adams on the next turn. I kept screaming at the board that it was cheating.
Well, last night, we were playing a very close game of no-score cricket. I was two shots away from winning -- I needed to hit a 15 and one more bull. My cyber-opponent hadn't hit any bull's eyes and needed to nail three to win the game. So it throws its first dart, and the computer proclaims, "TRIPLE! BULL'S EYE! WINNER!"
Okay, a lucky shot is one thing, but...THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TRIPLE BULL'S EYE!!! As far as I know, there has never been a triple bull's eye on any dart board in the history of the game. I'm tempted to write a letter to Halex and tell them that if they're going to program the computer to screw people over, they should at least have programmed it to take two darts to hit a double and a single bull, rather than this magic "triple bull's eye" with a single dart. What's it gonna do next, hit a quintuple 20? And who programmed this thing anyway, the Warren Commission?
