Blackwood convention Blackwood convention In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a popular bidding convention that was developed by Easley Blackwood. It is used to explore the partnership's possession of aces, kings and in some variants, the queen of trumps, to judge more precisely whether slam is likely to be a good contract. Two versions of Blackwood are common: "standard" Blackwood, developed by Easley in 1933, and "Roman Key Card" Blackwood ("RKC" or "RKCB"), named for the Italian team which invented it. Standard Blackwood enables one partner to count partnership aces and kings in general. Key card variants
F-Zero (video game) mid-1990s. "BS F-Zero Grand Prix" contained a new track along with the original 15 tracks from the SNES game and four different playable vehicles. According to "Nintendo Power", the game was under consideration for a North American release via Game Pak. IGN states "BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2" features one new league containing five tracks, a Grand Prix and a Practice mode. Although the "F-Zero" franchise made the transition to 3D graphics on the Nintendo 64 with the release of "F-Zero X" in 1998, Mode 7 graphical effects continued to be used for the Game Boy Advance (GBA) installments ""