Multimedia Celebrity Poker
{{Short description|1995 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Multimedia Celebrity Poker
|image = Multimedia Celebrity Poker cover.jpg
|developer = New World Computing
|publisher= New World Computing
|designer = Jon Van Caneghem
|engine =
|released = 1995
|genre =
|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
{{Video game reviews
| PCGUS = 58%{{cite journal | author=Wolf, Michael | title=Reviews; Multimedia Celebrity Poker | date=September 1995 | journal=PC Gamer US | volume=2 | number=9 | page=98 }}
| CGW = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite magazine | author=Emrich, Alan | title=Give The Actors A Hand | date=September 1995 | issue=134 | magazine=Computer Gaming World | pages=226, 228 }}
| rev1 = Computer Game Review
| rev2 = Electronic Entertainment
}}
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".{{cite web | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19961221184004/http://www.nuke.com/compent/reviews/augarc/celeb/celeb.htm | url=http://www.nuke.com/compent/reviews/augarc/celeb/celeb.htm | title=See Morgan and Raise Joe... | date=August 1995 | author1=Snyder, Frank | author2=Chapman, Ted | author3=Kaiafas, Tasos | work=Computer Game Review | archivedate=December 21, 1996 | url-status=dead }} Donald St. John of Electronic Entertainment found the game "not good at all".{{cite web | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19961113214246/http://www.pcgamesmag.com/games/Oct95/poker1095.html | url=http://www.pcgamesmag.com/games/Oct95/poker1095.html | title=Multimedia Celebrity Poker | author=St. John, Donald | date=October 1995 | work=Electronic Entertainment | archivedate=November 13, 1996 | url-status=dead }} Computer Gaming World{{'}}s 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."
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References
External links
- {{MobyGames|/multimedia-celebrity-poker}}
{{New World Computing}}
Category:Full motion video based games
Category:Single-player video games
Category:Video games based on real people