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Another batch of card games. Decent graphics and nice variety.

Graphics: 4 Sound: 2 Replay Value: 3 Notes: 1-player Screen Shots

A collection of four classic card games—Hearts, Gin Rummy, Rummy, and Crazy Eights—Royal Dealer offers a fun way to pass the time. It's rather surprising that no true solitaire games are here–they're all games with computer opponents. The graphics are nice, the sound sparse. One neat idea would have been to support two, three, or four player modes (for the ECS). And, once the IntelliNet EtherNet expansion module is available ;) you will be able to play network Hearts, too.

A total of five Royal Dealer box variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0910	1982	U.S.A.	Trayless pocket; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0910	1982	Hong Kong	Plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0510-G1	1982	Hong Kong	French-Canadian; plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada on back; was there a previous version?
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0410	1982	Hong Kong	International version
	Intellivision Inc.	5303	1982	Singapore	Standard Intellivision, Inc. box

A total of six Royal Dealer manual variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0920	1982	U.S.A.	Includes correction notice; blue and black artwork
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0920	1982	Hong Kong	Red and black artwork
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0720	1982	Hong Kong	French-Canadian; blue and black artwork
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0121	1982	Hong Kong	German; blue and black artwork; includes German correction slip
	Mattel Electronics	PC-5303-0920	1982	U.S.A.	PlayCable version; red and black artwork; retains the 'buggy' instructions about rearranging cards in your hand
	Intellivision Inc.	5303-0920-G1	None	U.S.A.	Staple along top edge; haven't located a Mattel version of this manual yet—presumably it would be the corrected version, not requiring the separately included correction notice

Supplemental Materials

The following supplemental materials have been found for Royal Dealer.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0070	1982	U.S.A.	Correction notice to mask bug in the game
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0070	None	Hong Kong	Correction notice to mask bug in the game; surprisingly different than the U.S.A. version - note that there is no copyright at all
	Mattel Electronics	5303-0122	None	Hong Kong	German translation of the correction slip that covers up a game bug; take a look at the content here
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	5303-0???	None	Hong Kong	French translation of the correction slip that covers up a game bug

Here we see the changes in the manual. Does anyone out there have a rev. G1 Royal Dealer manual from Mattel?

Some other small graphical changes appeared, too. They appear to be simple layout bugs.

A total of two Royal Dealer overlay variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	5303-4289	1982	U.S.A.
	Intellivision Productions	N/A	2014	U.S.A.	Part of the Supplemental Overlay Pack for Intellivision Flashback

A total of four Royal Dealer label variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	1982	U.S.A.	Origin lower left; © M.I. 1982 right of origin; ™ upper right; smaller label, rounded corners; purple background rather than green as other Gaming Network releases
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	1982	Hong Kong	Origin lower left; © M.I. 1982 right of origin; ™ upper right, very small font; larger label, square corners; purple background rather than green as other Gaming Network releases
Image not available.	Intellivision Inc.	N/A	1982	U.S.A.	Origin lower right; © I.I. 1982 to left of origin; ™ small, centered vertically on right edge; smaller label, rounded corners; submitted by Hankster
	Intellivision Inc.	N/A	1982	Singapore	Origin lower right; © I.I. 1982 to left of origin; ™ small, centered vertically on right edge; smaller label, rounded corners

	Title screen for Royal Dealer.
	Nice enough for the kind of card games in Royal Dealer. They don't have any tells, though, that I remember.

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