Vegas Dream

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Vegas Dream
Developer(s)	HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)	Hal (North American release), Epic Sony Record (Japanese release)
Platform(s)	NES
Release date	^NA March 1990 ^JP September 30, 1988
Genre(s)	Casino
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	n/a (not rated)
Media	Cartridge
Input methods	NES controller

Vegas Dream is a video game produced for the Nintendo Entertainment System and developed by HAL Laboratory that was released in 1988. It allowed players to indulge in virtual gambling from the safety of their homes.

Vegas Dream 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. Vegas Dream also allowed you to date and marry as many women as you cared to.

Vegas Dream included a password save feature, but the passwords were 26 characters long and consisted of letters, numbers and symbols making them difficult to record correctly. Game-generated passwords also did not seem to work (although some cheat code passwords did), so some saved games could never be continued.

It is possible to win the game by earning over ten million dollars. Vegas Dream's spiritual sequel is Vegas Stakes^{[citation needed]} which was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Both games had these factors in common:

a goal of winning $10,000,000
a rags to riches story
people to talk to in the casino
the most popular casino games
pickpockets to steal 50% of the player's money

[edit] Japanese version

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