Vegas Dreams

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Vegas Dreams was a video game produced for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was released in 1988. It allowed players to indulge in simulated gambling from the safety of their homes.

Vegas Dreams began with graphics showing the player (or one of the players) arriving at Las Vegas by airplane, where they could spend up to 700 dollars on four games: keno, blackjack, roulette or slot machines. Between rounds of play at the normal casino games, there were randomly occurring social interactions. These social interactions were really compulsory slot machine games with random results: sometimes the unidentified black man is a pickpocket, other times he's just down on his luck, and will reward you for your kindness down the road. This game may have been the only pro-polygamy title on the NES; it allowed you to date and marry as many women as you cared to.

Many of the casino games had odd rules as well. The roulette wheel seemed to hit 0 and 00 far more often than chance should allow, and blackjack is played with an infinite number of decks, allowing for strange hands where the player holds four copies of the exact same card.^{[citation needed]}

In theory, Vegas Dreams included a password save feature. But, the passwords 26 characters long and consisted of a random series of letters, numbers and symbols making them notoriously difficult to record correctly. Even worse, game-generated passwords did not seem to work (although some cheat code passwords did), so saved games could never be continued.

It is possible to win the game by earning over ten million dollars.

[edit] Japanese version

Its Japanese cousin, Viva Las Vegas is a Japan-only Famicom version of the North American NES release of Vegas Dreams. Unlike Vegas Dreams, this game has slightly stronger language and people are mentioning about using tobacco cigarettes. Otherwise, this game is entirely in English and the general game play is the same as its North American cousin.