Home Computing Weekly
4th October 1983
The first thing that hits you about this program is the suave packaging. It comes in a neat presentation box similar to that used for some video tapes. The cover features a very impressive playboy character who appears to a mix of 007 and The Saint. In fact, when the program is loading you are informed that the game Baccarat was played in the James Bond film, Casino Royale.
The cover states: "Baccarat is a card game normally played by the rich and famous in the elegant atmosphere of the most exclusive casinos of the world." So it may be, but not being either rich or famous, I cannot verify that.
The game is a variation of the game 21 but here the target score is only nine. Picture cards count as zero.
It proved very difficult to load and some human intervention was needed, loading each section of Basic and machine code one at a time. Excellent graphics and an attempt at speech. What a bet is accepted the Dragon calls "Banco" in a quite convincing voice.
I will not go into the rules of the game here, but it's very much a game of chance and does leave you feeling like a spectator with very little choice and almost no skill involved.
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