Multimedia Celebrity Poker Explained

Multimedia Celebrity Poker
Developer:New World Computing
Publisher:New World Computing
Designer:Jon Van Caneghem
Released:1995
Modes:Single-player
Platforms:Windows 3.x

Multimedia Celebrity Poker is a 1995 poker video game developed and published by New World Computing.

Gameplay and concept

Multimedia Celebrity Poker is a simulation of the card game poker, in which the player competes with celebrities Joe Piscopo, Morgan Fairchild and Jonathan Frakes. The actors are presented via full-motion video.

Reception

Multimedia Celebrity Poker won a negative review from PC Gamer US, whose writer Michael Wolf called it "just a poker sim with a gimmick" that "wears off as quickly as the video starts repeating itself".[1] Donald St. John of Electronic Entertainment found the game "not good at all".[2] Computer Gaming Worlds Alan Emrich was more positive, writing, "As a purely entertaining experience, which is clearly what New World had in mind for this product, it succeeds, but with considerable limitations."

References

  1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/19961221184004/http://www.nuke.com/compent/reviews/augarc/celeb/celeb.htm . See Morgan and Raise Joe... . August 1995 . Snyder, Frank . Chapman, Ted . Kaiafas, Tasos . . December 21, 1996 . dead .
  2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/19961113214246/http://www.pcgamesmag.com/games/Oct95/poker1095.html . Multimedia Celebrity Poker . St. John, Donald . October 1995 . . November 13, 1996 . dead .