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

| rev1Score = 83/87/78

| rev2 = Electronic Entertainment

| rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}

}}

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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