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The Boeing 777/767s are the most recent additions to Continental's fleet and the world's newest jetliners. These state-of-the-art aircraft raise the standard for international travel and include an interactive Personal Entertainment System for each passenger.

The system consists of a monitor and a handset that serves as both an entertainment function control and a telephone. In the BusinessFirst/First Class cabin, the monitor is located in the armrest console and the handset is in the armrest. In the main cabin, the monitor is located in the seat back in front of you with the handset located in the armrest. You have the option to choose among ten video games.

Available Video Games

Black Jack
This card game positions the player against the "Dealer." The object of the game is to beat the Dealer by getting to 21 without going over. One card of the Dealer's hand is displayed, and one is hidden. This gives the player clues as to what the Dealer's hand is, and this clue may play an important part in the player's strategy. The system plays the Dealer's hand in accordance with generally accepted rules of blackjack - the Dealer must take a "HT" if his card total is 16 or less, and the Dealer must "STAND" if his card total is 17 or higher. If the Dealer "BUSTS," or loses, the game is over, and the player wins. If neither the Dealer nor the player "BUSTS," and the player's card total is closer to 21 than the Dealer's, the player wins. Ties are "pushes" and the bet is returned to the player's total. Losses are automatically deducted.

Poker
This is a game in which the player wins by drawing the highest hand of five cards as displayed in the win table - from a pair of jacks (lowest winning combination) to a royal flush (the A, K, Q, J and 10 or the same suit - highest winning combination.) All wins are highlighted and added to the player's total. Losses are automatically deducted.

Invasion
Players must stop the alien invasion. Like the classic arcade game, swarms of aliens appear on the screen and attempt to invade your planet. The player must move their ship left or right and fire missiles to destroy the pesky invaders. Once all ships on the level are destroyed, a bigger swarm of menacing aliens will appear to challenge you.

Chess
Play your pawns, knights and bishops right, or else it'll be checkmate! Your playing pieces are White, and your opponent's pieces, played by the computer, are Black. You start by moving one of your White pieces. Play then continues by alternating between Black and White. You must always move one of your pieces during your turn. You may not move your piece to a square already occupied by one of your pieces. However, you may capture one of your opponent's pieces by placing your piece on the square that is occupied by your opponent's piece. To win, "Checkmate" your opponent's King.

Solitaire
Sometimes you need time to think, ponder, and challenge yourself! Solitaire gives you the opportunity to stimulate your gray matter visually, as you attempt to bring all your cards 'home' to the same suit. Use all the cards in the deck to build up the four suit stacks. To free up cards that you need to build the suit stacks, sort them in the row stacks. You'll need thinking and strategy to complete this game.

Elephant Memory
Bubba the Elephant has dropped all of his pictures! You must help him pick them up, but in pairs only. For each pair picked up, Bubba will get a peanut, and Bubba just loves those peanuts! Select and turn a card to see which animal is on its back. Then try to find its match and the two of them will disappear, allowing you to see a part of the image hidden by all the cards. Make a mistake and the cards will turn back. So you will have to use your memory skills to win.

Bzzz
You control BZZZ, the busy bee, and have to pick all the flowers in the area.Watch out for Burp the frog, Plop the fish, and Flip the bird! They will try to catch you and stop you from getting those flowers! There are many levels to discover. Use the left, right, up or down arrow buttons to make Bzzz flies around. Eat all the flowers to go to the next level. Don't touch any of the other creatures or you will lose energy. Lose too much energy and you'll lose a life.

Cave Crunch
Eat all the fruits in one level to go to the next one. Walk on the fruits to eat them, and grab a powerful club to smash all the wild creatures that are after you. You can also try to steal the piece of meat from the sabertooths or the precious egg from the mighty pterodactyl's nest. If you do so, you'll gain 3 times more points, but beware of the wrath of these fierce animals.

Caveman
You have to move the stones in the allowed directions to make your way to the exit hole. You can also gather maces and use them to destroy stones. There are three kinds of mammoths that run in the maze: a green one which is only there to bug you, a yellow one which can move stones and a red one that is running after youand can kill you. You can kill any mammoth by squeezing them with the stones.

Hang Man
Try to guess a hidden word by selecting a letter of the alphabet from the screen. If the letter is in the word, it will be displayed in its appropriate place in the word. If the letter occurs more than once in the word, all letters will be displayed. If you guess a letter that is not in the word, a part of the cowboy will be displayed in the Hangman's noose. If you guess 6 incorrect letters, the entire cowboy will be displayed and hanged.