Slots and Cards

Slots and Cards menu screen #1 Slots and Cards menu screen #2
Slots and Cards menu screens 1 & 2
Slots and Cards menu screen #3 Slots and Cards Bar Slot machine game screen
Slots and Cards menu screen 3 & Bar Slot machine game screen
Slots and Cards regular Slots game screen Slots and Cards 3 Payline slot machine game screen
Slots and Cards regular and 3 Payline slot machine game screens
Slots and Cards 5 Payline slot machine game screen Slots and Cards video Poker game screen
Slots and Cards 5 Payline and Video Poker game screens
Slots and Cards Joker Poker game screen Slots and Cards High/Low Poker game screen
Slots and Cards Joker Poker and High/Low Poker game screens
Slots and Cards Blackjack game screen Slots and Cards Keno game screen
Slots and Cards Blackjack and Keno game screens

Slots and Cards is a complete set of Las Vegas style video games - many Slot machines, several video Poker machines, Blackjack and Keno are the games that you can play. It was quite a large game, taking 3 full disks, and was Coco 3/RGB monitor only. I think this game got bounced around quite a bit before it was released...the graphics on some of the slot machine shapes are identical to Tom Mix's Fruit-Multibars Slot Machine, as are the sound routines and bounce routines. However, the company back then was listed as White Cloud Software, and it was released 3 years earlier, in 1986. The instruction manual for it from MicroDeal (yes, the same MicroDeal that was famous for selling both original and Coco ports of Dragon games in England) contains references to both the Nimbus Software company, and to Michtron, so perhaps Microdeal bought out Michtron (formerly Computer Shack), and then bought the rights to this extended version of the earlier Tom Mix game (Michtron, Microdeal US, and Tom Mix are all from Michigan)? I am pretty sure that this is the case, as the copyright is listed as "1986, 1989"; the first of which matches the original Tom Mix release.
At any rate, this was a much more complete game, filling 3 disks with all the different variations, of which not all are represented above in screenshots. The nice thing is that the game kept track of your money even between games and disk swaps, during a single game session. This game was also cross platform, and was available for the IBM PC (and clones) for CGA, EGA or Tandy 1000 graphics modes.

Title: Slots and Cards

Author: Doug and Kevin Leany (Nimbus Enterprises)

Publisher: MicroDeal

Released: 1989 (original Tom Mix version was 1986)

Requires: Color Computer 3, 128K RAM, RGB Monitor (for proper colors), disk only, joystick optional.

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