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I believe this one was previously missing from all archives so here's the tape file: http://www.atarimani...poker_1995.html

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[Tin_Lunchbox]

www.atarimania.com, on Sat Feb 4, 2012 6:31 AM, said:

I believe this one was previously missing from all archives so here's the tape file: http://www.atarimani...poker_1995.html

How awful to do a Draw Poker in text mode (without even changing the default colors or using a modified font) on the graphically great Atari 8-bit. Presumably the actually play mechanics would have been solid. It's always seemed ironic to me that Avalon Hill would often market poor and primitive games in those wonderful boxes.

[bbking67]

Many of Avalon Hill's games were weak graphically (or completely text)... but it is funny that they used the default colours.

I think they wrote them completely in BASIC with easy portability to other platforms in mind.

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Even more insulting: this game is in the Arcade Pak series! Guess you had to be Avalon Hill to get away with it!

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