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Strip Poker
Roughly, the history of strip poker games on the computer can be divided into four periods. The first starts not long after the birth of home computer systems, its main system is the Commodore 64, its most famous example Artworx. Due to the nature of their platforms, the visual satisfaction these games could offer was limited, and the attraction was mainly the general idea. Thanks to the active fan communities for these old platforms, the games are usually well documented and available.
The second period starts in the late eighties and centers vaguely on the Amiga, loosely, because strip poker games never seem to have been very popular on this platform. But in in this period, the Amiga simply had the best graphics, and sooner or later the games wound up there. An outstanding example is Teenage Queen; like the others, it is little more than a slideshow, but one featuring art instead of color photographs.
The third period was relatively short. It started when color Macs with CD-ROM drives had become numerous enough that it made economical sense to develop games for them. They featured live actors and full motion video and are nowadays mostly forgotten. For a while, this site was the only one on the whole web where you could still read about Digital Video Productions' Poker Party!
The fourth period is everything since. On the professional side, strip poker has simply become another form of "adult entertainment". On the amateur side, there were a few freeware and shareware games in the late 90s, but except for Mick's Strip Poker, which had a certain charm, nothing to get excited about. But looking at Video Strip Poker, times might be changing again.
Though it may seem strange, strip poker and erotic games in general were especially popular on the 8-bit platforms, and especially on the Commodore 64.
In 1986, Artworx Strip Poker was ported to the Amiga; the next year, Hollywood Poker came out. Strip Poker moved to the 16-bit platforms. Every strip poker game of this era was available for the Amiga, though strip poker never seems to have been all that popular on this platform.
In the early 90s, higher screen resolutions (SVGA on the PC) and the CD-ROM medium changed the character of the erotic games. For a while, Mac/Windows CDs were quite popular. Only few of them were strip poker games, adventure-style entertainment like CyberDreams was more common. While strip poker had previously been near-entirely a European genre (with the Artworx series the only exception), most of these games now came from the US.
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Similar to Tetris-style games, strip poker games are rather international and often come from countries otherwise not very big in video game production.
One of the biggest platforms for strip poker games was the Commodore 64. Except for the short phase of Quicktime games, the Apple Macintosh is underrepresented, in spite of a general interest for erotic entertainment in the Mac community. I was astonished that I couldn't find a single strip poker game for black & white Macs! On the box of Artworx Strip Poker a Macintosh version is mentioned, but I could not verify its existence.
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