Poker Game
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Poker Game is a generically titled Mac shareware poker entry from the classic Mac OS era, one of dozens of small poker simulations distributed through compilations and shareware archives during the 1990s alongside better-known titles like Freeverse's Imagine Poker and Todd Ouzts's PowerPOKER.
Gameplay
Single-player video-poker- or draw-poker-style hands against the computer, with the standard hierarchy of pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, straight flush and royal flush driving payouts or hand-resolution scoring.
Development and release
The title's generic name suggests an individual-developer shareware release rather than a commercial product. No Macintosh Garden curator page, MobyGames entry, or Wikipedia article surfaces under this exact title; the entry exists in the catalog as a placeholder for one of many small Mac poker shareware programs that circulated through user-group disks and online archives.
Reception and legacy
Without a distinct curator presence, Poker Game stands in for the broad category of unattributed casino-card shareware that filled out Mac shareware libraries before retail card-game suites like Hoyle Casino consolidated the genre.
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