Amiga Game Review Of The New Strip Poker Game – Dream Girls

Dream Girls was released earlier this year, and while I was genuinely excited about it, it never quite reached the kind of status a strip poker game should have achieved…

It must have been nearly 20 years since we last saw a game like this on the Amiga. Even if the market for such a title on our beloved machine is undeniably small, I still felt a surprising amount of excitement building up for this one :p

HAM8, 75 Pictures, HDD Support, Animated Girls

Poker Nights: Teresa Personally is a port of the 1993 PC version. Some might remember that the game also appeared on the Amiga in 1994, but unfortunately there was no English release, and it didn’t really take advantage of the Amiga hardware. As a result, the PC version felt superior, and the Amiga version was quickly forgotten — which was rather unfair, considering the Amiga could have handled this game with ease.

This new edition, titled Dream Girls – Poker Nights, introduces several improvements over the old Amiga release. Most notably, it adds three new opponents, each with distinct personalities and different skill levels.

The game now features a total of 75 images in HAM6 format. There are also animated strip sequences that add a bit of extra spice to the experience.

I’m not entirely certain, but as far as I can remember, the game was always hard drive installable. However, it’s listed as a new feature for Dream Girls.

There’s also a new logo and title screen, along with several Workbench icons in various sizes — a small but welcome touch that will surely please many Amiga users.

This version is available in both English and German, which is great to see. The original Amiga release was German-only, aside from an unofficial Polish version.

If poker isn’t your strong suit, a trainer mode is included. That said, I personally found the game surprisingly easy, so using cheats never even crossed my mind.

AmiGameJam 2021

Dream Girls runs on any Amiga with 1MB of Chip RAM and Kickstart 2.0 or higher — which, I would assume, most users have by now.

The game is also easy to run under emulation. It performed very well on my Pegasos using UAE, where quite a few other games tend to run below par.

Dream Girls Amiga port was part of the AmiGameJam 2021 project (see all entries here).

The game also comes with a Jewel Case standardised cover that you can print out yourself, it is available as pictures but also inside a . PDF file.

TWO OTHER GAMES ARE AVAILABLE, REQUEST AN AMIGA VERSION RIGHT NOW

The game is free, but sadly there’s no physical big box edition available. That’s a real shame, because it would most certainly have looked absolutely stunning on my top shelf 😉

The developers have also mentioned that if there’s enough interest, they might consider porting the two other Poker Nights titles — Tropical Heat and Backdoor Club — to the Amiga as well.

Consider this my official request already :p

FINAL VERDICT…

Delivering a final verdict on this one isn’t entirely straightforward. Had this been released in the early ’90s, it would undoubtedly have made a lot of people very happy. Today, however, I’m not entirely convinced there’s a huge market for games like this anymore. Most of us are older now — many with partners, families, and far less time for pixelated strip poker nights.

That said, as a curiosity and as an updated version of a previously released title, this is most certainly a welcome addition. It looks better, plays better, and includes features that arguably should have been present in the original release. For that alone, it earns its place.

I genuinely hope the developers continue this trend and bring the other two titles over as well — finally giving us what should have been done in the first place by VTO back in the day.

Direct Download for OCS/ECS and AGA versions can be found here!

Video below, NB: naughty naughty.