History of Bridge Companion

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Work Cited

The Games Machines. N.p.: Google Booksn.d.

Frank, Ian. Search and Planning Under Incomplete Information: A Study Using Bridge Card Play. London: Springer-Verlag London Limitedn.d.

Reynolds, Anthony. Bridge Builder: Handbook : for Use with the BBC Bridge Companion. N.p.: Unicard, 1985.

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I'd have to disagree with your comment that this is a console 'created by a national government', it really isn't in any meaningful way.

The BBC is absolutely not a state broadcaster by any means, this is a frequent mistake, it's a public broadcaster funded by a mandatory licence fee levied by the government (from which money also goes to other commercial broadcasters).

On top of that, 'BBC Enterprises' is the BBCs commercial arm, which was/is free to enter into commercial partnerships (such as the former 2entertain) and make commercial decisions and/or take financial risks. It does stand out as somewhat of an oddity amongst their usual output of DVDs, recordings, books and magazines* but should not be confused with the BBC Micro project where the BBC and government influence is more arguable.

*Most of these have since been sold off with BBC Enterprises only effectively licencing content and/or other properties.