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When stepping into a modern online casino, there are hundreds of games to choose from: futuristic slot machines, blackjack games with innovative (weird) rules, and video pokers with overly ambitious graphics. However, most people interested in casino games look for the standard variations – the ones we are familiar with – and not the new games littering the Web today. If you view casino games from that angle, Casino Fever, released on Amiga in 1988, is in many aspects as good as any modern virtual casino.
Casino Fever is made up of four separate games: roulette, poker, blackjack and craps. Let’s examine the games one by one.
Roulette: The Roulette game is the American version, which means that there are two zeros and consequently larger house advantage. One good thing about this game is that it teaches, or at least taught, players the actual odds for winning a specific type of wager.
Poker: This game is in fact video poker and not poker as we know it. You play five-card draw against a fixed payout schedule, which is not the most fascinating type of the game. But still, in Vegas players are sitting hunch-backed over these machines day out and day in.
Craps: This is my favorite game in Casino Fever. Craps is always the most exiting game in any type of casino and here one can make sucker bets without risking any real money.
Blackjack: Blackjack is in fact one of the most complicated game for players. One’s decisions really matter for the outcome. Casino Fever taught me the basic blackjack blackjack strategy and optimal play.
Graphics and Sounds
It would be an exaggeration to claim that Casino Fever takes advantage of the power of the Amiga 500. The graphics were dated even when the game was released 20 years ago. It is more like a C64 game five years too late. The sound effects are quite annoying and you must turn them off to stand playing the game for longer than a couple of minutes.
However, when looking in the rear-view mirror, this game resembles many of the modern online casinos you find today – just in a less attractive package. The games and rules are basically the same. But who wants to gamble without putting money on the line? That becomes quite boring after a while, and when you learned to master the four games in Casino Fever, you probably never played it again.
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Reviewed for Lemon Amiga, 2009-03-05
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If you decide to go out there make sure you do your best dude, because when you are up against the gods då hjälper dig ingen gud.
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