Kabu 091b Demo

Kabu 091b Demo is a 1994 demo of a Japanese card game by Atsushi Morisato, distributed through Info-Mac. The player and computer compete to build a hand whose card total comes as close as possible to nine without going over, using a non-standard counting system unique to the kabu tradition.

How a hand plays out

At the start of a round the player is dealt five cards while the computer takes one. The player picks one of their five as the playing card; additional cards are then dealt up to that selection, after which the computer asks whether to draw a third card.

Aiming for nine

The objective is to make your cards' total higher than the opponent's while staying as close to nine as possible. Card values follow the kabu rules rather than standard Western card arithmetic.

Demo release

This is the 0.91b demo build of Kabu, submitted to the Info-Mac moderators in June 1994 as a BinHex 4.0 archive in the game/crd (cards) category.

Author

Kabu was developed by Atsushi Morisato (morisato@che.ncsu.edu) for classic Mac OS.