''Samantha Fox Strip Poker '' is a 1986

erotic video game Sexual content has been found in video games since the early days of the industry, and games featuring sexual content can be found on most platforms and can be of any video game genre. The inclusion of sex in games has been subject to vary ...

developed by Software Communications and published by

Martech Martech Games was an early video game publisher based in Pevensey Bay between 1982 and 1989. It published a number of successful video games for the emerging home computer games marketplace, including BBC Micro, BBC Model B, ZX81, Sinclair ZX81, Z ...

. It was published on the

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Amstrad CPC The Amstrad CPC (short for ''Colour Personal Computer'') is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sin ...

BBC Micro The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers in the 1980s for the BBC Computer Literacy Project. Designed with an emphas ...

, MSX, and

ZX Spectrum The ZX Spectrum () is an 8-bit computing, 8-bit home computer that was developed by Sinclair Research. It was released in the United Kingdom on 23 April 1982, and became Britain's best-selling microcomputer. Referred to during development as t ...

. It is one of the first erotic video games to include a real human being. It is part of a theme of erotic games where players complete difficult tasks and are rewarded with nudity.

Gameplay

The players plays 5-card or 7-card stud poker against British model and singer

Samantha Fox Samantha Karen Fox (born 15 April 1966) is an English pop singer and former glamour model from East London. She rose to public attention aged 16, when her mother entered her photographs in an amateur modelling contest run by ''The Sunday Peopl ...

. Winning hands results in her taking off her clothes until she is topless.

Development

The video game was programmed by Wolfgang Smith, with the graphics edited by Malcolm Smith. The author of the music is

Rob Hubbard Rob Hubbard (born 1955 in Kingston upon Hull, England) is a British composer best known for his musical and programming work for microcomputers of the 1980s, such as the Commodore 64. Early life Hubbard first started playing music at age seve ...

, credited with the name John York. The music includes a cover of "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin and "The Stripper" by David Rose.

Reception

ZZap!64 ''Zzap!64'' was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64 (C64). It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd and later by Europress Impact. The magazine ...

'' felt the music was well-suited to the style of game. ''Commodore Format'' magazine thought that the idea of anybody using the game as a way to experience titillating content was depressing due to the required amount of effort from the player. Uvejuegos thought the game was a prime example of how strange the 1980s were. Spiegel placed the game within the sub-genre of early pixelated digi-ladies of dubious beauty, along with Artworx's ''

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'' (1984).

References

External links

World of Spectrum

Happy Computer

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