Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance

Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance is an early example of the adult computer-game genre, taking ordinary poker and adding a rather more provocative incentive to win. The card game itself is uncomplicated, relying on familiar poker rules, betting decisions and the eternal question of whether your opponent is bluffing. The presentation is simple by modern standards, but that simplicity gives the game an unmistakable period character. There is no sprawling campaign, no elaborate progression system and certainly no need for a graphics card capable of rendering a forest in real time. Strip Poker: A Sizzling Game of Chance is essentially a novelty poker game, but it is also a small piece of PC history, illustrating how developers experimented with adult entertainment almost from the beginning of home computing. It is cheeky, uncomplicated and very much a product of its era.