Card Sharks
Card Shark is a a game about playing cards where the player can select from three different games: poker, hearts and blackjack. Poker is additionally divided into five card draw poker, seven stud poker and…
Card Sharks is a card & board game developed by Accolade, released 31 December 1988 on Commodore C64/128/MAX.
What Card Sharks is
Card Sharks is a card & board game game developed by Accolade and released in 1988. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Card Shark is a a game about playing cards where the player can select from three different games: poker, hearts and blackjack. Poker is additionally divided into five card draw poker, seven stud poker and hold'em poker. He can play as up to three players from six available opponents featuring such characters as Michail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher. The aim is simple: the players start with a set amount of money each and the one who takes all the opponent's money wins.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Card Sharks holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 66% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1988 averaged 71, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Card Sharks launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad and Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
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