The Gambler
Aboard a Mississippi paddle steamer bound for New Orleans you enter the main stateroom. A honky-tonk piano is playing and your attention is drawn to a tall stranger dressed in high Southern style. He deftly shuffles a pack of cards and one glance at the steel hard eyes and the mean mouth tells you this is THE GAMBLER, the best poker player on the river. He throws you a challenging glance. Will you take the challenge and play the Gambler? The cards are shuffled and the game is ready to commence . . .
Transcribed from the cassette inlay.1984 · Copyright 1984 on the disk loading screen; advertised October 1984
The only Mountain Valley release that is not an adventure.
Play it
The disk image is under “From the archive” below. It runs in VICE, which is free for Windows, macOS and Linux, or on a THEC64. House rules are displayed on the screen. Press F to fold. Press RETURN after entering the amount of your bet. To turn the music on or off, press M before pressing P to play. This may be done at the start of each hand.
How it plays
House rules are displayed on the screen. Press F to fold. Press RETURN after entering the amount of your bet. To turn the music on or off, press M before pressing P to play. This may be done at the start of each hand.
Screens
Earlier cover
A second, unbordered cover design for this title, and most likely the packaging it had before October 1984. That autumn Mountain Valley told dealers it had “completely redesigned and upgraded” its cover artwork, and the list of titles it sent out with the October offer shows every game in the bordered design at the top of this page. Only titles already in the range have a design like this one: the two released with the redesign, Himalayan Odyssey and The Volcano of Raka-Tua, do not. The letters are in the archive.
From the archive
- Cassette inlay the original blurb and instructions, as printed
- Disk image (.d64) 171 KB — for VICE or any C64 emulator
