| $100 Reward for lost C64 game [message #143546] |
Mon, 01 January 2007 22:11  |
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Originally posted by: jnagle
Hello,
I posted this on Lemon64 and comp.sys.cbm, please forgive me for
cross-posting, but I wanted to make sure as many C64 afficianados see
this as possible.
My brother and I wrote a game called "No Joker Poker" back in the
1980's. Our memory of the details seems to be fading a bit...but we
purchased an ad in a magazine (which we believe strongly was "Compute's
Gazette") sometime between 1983 and 1986. We sold a grand total of 10
copies. Our own copies and all our magazines were lost in a house
fire.
We are trying to find a copy of the magazine with our ad in it, which
would have mentioned the name "No Joker Poker", and the address was
Gilbert WV. Our 'company' was 'Interdimensional Software'.
ALSO, we are offering a **$100 reward for a working disk image** of the
game. The theory is that at least one (and probably more) of our 10
customers was a bootlegger and the game may have made its way out into
the wild. I've checked all the major game repositories I could find,
and so far no good. I'm hoping it will be in someone's private
collection.
It is possible that the game name got mangled into "Joker Poker" or
"Video Poker" as it got passed around.
All the card graphics were sprites, doubled in both width and height.
The title screen showed a cartoon joker, with a NO symbol (circle with
a strike across it). There is music playing in the background while
you play the game.
Any help finding the ad and/or the game would be greatly appreciated.
-John
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| Re: $100 Reward for lost C64 game [message #143574 is a reply to message #143546] |
Sun, 14 January 2007 00:50  |
conan
Messages: 3
Registered: January 2005
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I have a copy of every Compute Gazette. I will take a look for the ad.
Don
On Jan 1, 10:11 pm, jna...@nagleresearch.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I posted this on Lemon64 and comp.sys.cbm, please forgive me for
> cross-posting, but I wanted to make sure as many C64 afficianados see
> this as possible.
>
> My brother and I wrote a game called "No Joker Poker" back in the
> 1980's. Our memory of the details seems to be fading a bit...but we
> purchased an ad in a magazine (which we believe strongly was "Compute's
> Gazette") sometime between 1983 and 1986. We sold a grand total of 10
> copies. Our own copies and all our magazines were lost in a house
> fire.
>
> We are trying to find a copy of the magazine with our ad in it, which
> would have mentioned the name "No Joker Poker", and the address was
> Gilbert WV. Our 'company' was 'Interdimensional Software'.
>
> ALSO, we are offering a **$100 reward for a working disk image** of the
> game. The theory is that at least one (and probably more) of our 10
> customers was a bootlegger and the game may have made its way out into
> the wild. I've checked all the major game repositories I could find,
> and so far no good. I'm hoping it will be in someone's private
> collection.
>
> It is possible that the game name got mangled into "Joker Poker" or
> "Video Poker" as it got passed around.
>
> All the card graphics were sprites, doubled in both width and height.
> The title screen showed a cartoon joker, with a NO symbol (circle with
> a strike across it). There is music playing in the background while
> you play the game.
>
> Any help finding the ad and/or the game would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -John
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| Re: $100 Reward for lost C64 game [message #144376 is a reply to message #143546] |
Sat, 17 March 2007 22:05 |
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Originally posted by: nlcw
Hi,
After doing some searching, I found a few poker games on www.gamebase64.com
I found 2 games called joker poker the link are:
http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=11806&d=18&h=0
and
http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=11805&d=18&h=0
and also a game called poker 256 (which was published in compute!'s 1984
magazine, the link is:
http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=5794&d=18&h=0
or why not go through the entire list of poker games (72 found) on
gamebase64, the link for these 72 results are:
http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?f=0&t=2&s=poker &searchSubmit=Go%21&d=18&h=1&a=0
Good Luck!,
nlcw.
<jnagle@nagleresearch.com> wrote in message
news:1167707510.010746.201820@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I posted this on Lemon64 and comp.sys.cbm, please forgive me for
> cross-posting, but I wanted to make sure as many C64 afficianados see
> this as possible.
>
> My brother and I wrote a game called "No Joker Poker" back in the
> 1980's. Our memory of the details seems to be fading a bit...but we
> purchased an ad in a magazine (which we believe strongly was "Compute's
> Gazette") sometime between 1983 and 1986. We sold a grand total of 10
> copies. Our own copies and all our magazines were lost in a house
> fire.
>
> We are trying to find a copy of the magazine with our ad in it, which
> would have mentioned the name "No Joker Poker", and the address was
> Gilbert WV. Our 'company' was 'Interdimensional Software'.
>
> ALSO, we are offering a **$100 reward for a working disk image** of the
> game. The theory is that at least one (and probably more) of our 10
> customers was a bootlegger and the game may have made its way out into
> the wild. I've checked all the major game repositories I could find,
> and so far no good. I'm hoping it will be in someone's private
> collection.
>
> It is possible that the game name got mangled into "Joker Poker" or
> "Video Poker" as it got passed around.
>
> All the card graphics were sprites, doubled in both width and height.
> The title screen showed a cartoon joker, with a NO symbol (circle with
> a strike across it). There is music playing in the background while
> you play the game.
>
> Any help finding the ad and/or the game would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -John
>
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