The History of Stripper Poker
Stripper Poker was created by Brad Hinchliffe, owner of IMAC
(Interactive Media Application Consultants), an advertising and
web design company in Applecross, Western Australia. In 1999, he
sold it to another company. Till it went down in 2004, the game
was still mentioned on the IMAC website with the following
description:
Stripper Poker is obviously a strip poker game.
Stripper Poker uses artificial intelligence to simulate playing
a real opponent. The realism of Stripper Poker's game play is uncanny.
You really do feel as though you are playing a real person.
Stripper Poker established itself as the most popular
Strip Poker game available on the Internet. Apart from becoming
the #1 Internet download from Australia (no small feat), the
Stripper Poker pages where listed in the top 50 visited websites
for Australia.
The new owners distributed it under a free AVS. In 2003, the
Stripper Poker website was updated to a flashier design. It also got
rather annoying background music. In 2008 or 2009 the website went
down. It is probably no longer possible to get the full version.
You can only
download a demo with one opponent, restricted to displaying
three pictures.
The Most Advanced Strip Poker for DOS
Stripper Poker is not the last (Mick's Strip
Poker came later), but certainly the most advanced strip poker for DOS. It features
HighColor graphics, music, speech,
animations, and AI opponents with distinct personalities as well
as the option to play poker machine style.
On the whole, Stripper Poker is mainly interesting as a DOS game,
where it clearly outshines the competition. No other strip poker
game offers so much on so little space (the shareware version takes
up about 2MB harddrive space). Apart from that, it offers little
Poker Party or
RealGirls Strip Poker
do not offer as well.
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