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Las
Vegas Video Poker
1986 Mastertronic
Programmed
by Brandon Don Masteller
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text of the present article comes from the review published
in the seventeenth issue of the British C64 magazine ZZAP!64
(street date: July 21st, 1986). |
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VIDEO POKER
Entertainment
USA (Mastertronic), £1.99 cass, keys only
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Forget having to enter those smokey and violent gambling
casinos just to play a decent game of poker. Now you
can stay at home and sit in a comfy chair in front of
your Commodore, and have a good game without fear of
losing five inches off your wallet or having your legs
broken because you can't pay off your debts. What this
program does is turn your favourite computer info a
poker machine, similar to the sort of gambling machine
you might find in your local arcade.
At
the start of a game you are asked what sort of coins
you would like to gamble with -- nickels, dimes, quarters
or dollars. It makes no difference what you gamble with,
because you are always given twenty coins.
You
are then asked to bet up to five coins. Once you've
placed your bet, five cards slide down from the top
of the screen and turn themselves face up. After casting
a beady eye over them you can decide which cards to
keep, and which to discard. Pressing the corresponding
number on the keyboard 'holds' a card.
When
you are happy with your selection, pressing the space
bar discards the unwanted cards and brings the new ones
into view. If that hand is a winner then you are awarded
'money', the amount depending upon how much of a stake
you laid down in the first place. The game then returns
beck to the betting phase and continues until you lose
all your money.
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Video
Poker is dull. There is no excitement in the
gambling whatsoever, because you can't relate
to the money sprites as being real cash. To be
fair, the graphics and sound are promising, but
the game is plain -- nay, 'tis mega-mindless,
boring, one hundred percent crud. If this is gambling
then it is best left in Las Vegas, as it certainly
hasn't caught on in Ludlow.
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Presentation
80%
Nicely laid out and very easy to use.
Graphics
39%
Colourful cards and machine, but
that's all there is.
Sound
70%
Pleasant Rob Hubbard ditty on the
title screen, and the sound effects are quite
imaginative.
Hookability
18%
Play it once . . .
Lastability
9%
. . . and it won't darken your
64's RAM again.
Value
For Money 15%
If you want a gambling game then
Vegas Jackpot is the same price and more
exciting.
Overall
11%
A terminally boring piece of software.
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Htmlized
by Dimitris
Kiminas (7 Oct 2007)
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