''Poker Face Paul'' is a series of four

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that simulates various

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games, all released in 1994. The individual games are ''Poker Face Paul's

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Development

''Blackjack'' and ''Solitaire'' were developed by

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, with both games taking twenty-five days each to be completed.

Reception

In their July 1994 issue ''GamePro'' reviewed all of the ''Poker Face Paul'' games except ''Gin''. They gave ''Poker'' a mostly negative review and outright panned both ''Blackjack'' and ''Solitaire'', remarking that all three games suffer from poor graphics and sounds, and that aside from ''Poker'' they offer less fun than can be had by playing the game with a real deck of cards, which also cost far less than a Game Gear cartridge.

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