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pIO- Section (Dip Arizona Baila Star Tucson, Monday, April 281997 Gamble the night away at the virtual casino By Mitch Gltman lit IIJl 1W The Arizona Daily Star If you want to have a casino experience but you don't want to make the trip to Las Vegas or your nearby reservation casinos, you could try some recently released casino gambling computer games. soothing whirring, clicking sound and the images spin with a motion that fools the eye. The roulette wheel is less impressive. It's fairly small and it doesn't make any sound. In the Navigation view, where you pick a game to play, the rooms are all dressed up and you hear the mild ringing and chatter of the gambling hall.

You don't see any people, though. In the games, you do see the dealers' or fellow players' arms reach out for cards or chips. "Hit," "Hit me," "I'm busted," a fellow blackjack player says. HE IE All three are on CD-ROM. One makes extensive use of the Internet.

Luckily, in these virtual casi INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HXHimiCOMHECB nos, the wagers are virtual as well. Golden Nugget. Windows available now, PlayStation in 1 i i late summer. $50. K-A (kids to adults).

Virgin Interactive Entertainment. www.vie.com The only other time you see people is with an optional mystery movie that ovelavs an 714-833-8710. This game takes you 3 element of by limo into the garish intrigue to the confines of the Golden Nugget Hotel usual gambling routine. As 45 minutes of in Las Vegas. Choose from roulette, baccarat, keno, black jack, craps, three vari eties of poker (7-card stud, Texas Lowering the stakes sharply, however, is the lack of a multi-player component.

interBet. Windows. $45. interBet. www.interbetcasi-no.com 800-687-1966.

The whole gist of this gambling program is its multiplayer component. You could play interBet solo, but you could also play it on the Internet in any of 55 casinos where you can enter into games with any one else online with the software at the time. There are 16 different game tables per casino with seven seats per table, and Mark Ross, president of interBet said there should soon be games going on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Play blackjack, pirates poker, craps, keno, take it down, pai hold-em, pai gow poker) and assorted types of slot machine. film with live actors mixes into the action, your task is to recover the stolen "Chaos Chip," a computer processor that's like the ultimate card counter.

First you have to win enough money to get yourself into a high-stakes poker game. The sheer gameplay has addiction potential. It's easy to change your bet and place your chips and call your cards. Thanks to the random nature of the games, you could go on and on giving yourself a decent gambling simu The deal is that Golden Nugget is supposed to be realistic, and to a large extent it is. The slot machines have a very real feel, if you can get past not being able to yank on the lever, instead you mouseclick on a button to spin.

The device makes a lation. TUCSON'S LARGEST New Technologies tii'V7 New ProductServices MHTtNMr Top HG Bestvselling video games gow poker, slots, roulette and video poker. You can either purchase the commercial CD-ROM or download over the World Wide Web a free beta version that only allows you to play 20 hands before you get disconnected online. Since the beta version is an 8.7 megabyte download, you could be online forever just trying to get the game. i InterBet also tries to give the true sights and sounds of a casino.

Dealers rotate every 15. minutes, and cocktail servers visit occasionally. InterBet Corp. is gearing up to expand its environment for real gambling but, with online gambling being a gray area at this point in the United States, for now the Web site says, "Coming wagers for those countries where internet gaming is allowed (sorry. US Citizens speak to your legislators!) Avery Cardoza's Casino: The Complete Casino Experience Professional Gambling Tutor.

Windows. $40. Cardoza Entertainment. www.cardozaent.com 800-577-WINS. Created by professional gambler Avery Cardoza, this gambling software not only presents a play casino, it comes with a 160-page strategy book and an "Ask the Expert" feature that tenders tips as you go along.

The games are one, two, four and six-deck blackjack, 17 video poker machines, 40 slot machines and craps, rouJette and keno. Sample screenshots of the 3-D lobby and tables are quite colorful Avery Cardoza's Casino can take up to three players at a time. NetworkingExposure tsqjxOO MAY 2-3 AT THS T.C.C. PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE SOUTHERN ARIZONA VISITORS CENTER APRIL 30, 1997 7:1 5 PM WARD ONE COUNCIL OFFICE 940 W. ALAMEDA STREET TUCSON, AZ Line Space Architects, Inc.

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