Updated: Tue, 2006-11-21 14:09
In Seoul, you're never without an RPS opponent:
I'd be quite interested to know when these first appeared. They've been around for several years -- I think they date back to the late 90's, which would almost correspond to the brief Japanese RPS boom.
From an RPS history point of view, it's interesting that 'scissors' is the new style scissors rather than the first-finger-and-thumb style. The machines are definitely made in and for Korea, though, so I suppose this is another nail in the coffin of the old style gesture.
Technologically, of course, the game is presumably rigged but brief experimentation shows it's not rigged very heavily -- that is, over the course of my life I am ahead by 10 won against these devices.
I'd be quite interested to know when these first appeared. They've been around for several years -- I think they date back to the late 90's, which would almost correspond to the brief Japanese RPS boom.
From an RPS history point of view, it's interesting that 'scissors' is the new style scissors rather than the first-finger-and-thumb style. The machines are definitely made in and for Korea, though, so I suppose this is another nail in the coffin of the old style gesture.
Technologically, of course, the game is presumably rigged but brief experimentation shows it's not rigged very heavily -- that is, over the course of my life I am ahead by 10 won against these devices.