Original Release: Games Express, 1994, PC Engine CD
Another “gamble to earn stripping” game from Games Express, this one featuring slots, and leveraging the power of CD-ROM for animated strip sequences and voice acting
CD Pachisuro Bishōjo Gambler (PC Engine Super CD, 1994, Games Express)
Where to Buy: eBay
How to Emulate: PC Engine CD Emulation Guide
Review by: Master-B
Very similar to Games Express’ other 1994 gambling-stripping release, this one takes place in a slot parlor instead of a house o’ pachinko. We open each game being laughed at condescendingly by the hot slot attendant lady for some reason, then we’re off to the games with a budget of $500. The object is to win enough to pay five ladies to strip off for us.
Instead of moving around the little pachinko parlor, in this one you use a somewhat confusing menu system to access the games. There are only five types of slots, but there are like a dozen machines for each one. What’s the point of that? Well, apparently they have hot and cold cycles that change as the game moves on. I think the four bars displayed for each give you a clue about this, but I have no idea what they mean. Anyway, every game is a three-reel with a three credit max per spin, so you’re looking at some real grinding here to get a bankroll fat enough to impress the Japanime girls.
The five girls can be accessed at any time off a menu, you simply pay them increasing amounts for increasing nekkitness. I think you need at least $2100 to get all of one girl’s pics … the catch is that the price seems to increase for ALL of them (after the initial $100 “introduction”) after each new purchase, so I’m guessing it takes well into the tens of thousands to catch ’em all. Unlike the pachinko game, they actually do get their boobies out and such after a couple payments tho.
The pachinko game had a trick in that some of the games had a “sweet spot” you could abuse for slow but pretty much endless credits … there seems to be a trick here too, at least from my rudimentary explorations. One of the menu options recommends three slots to you, at least one of which might currently be hot. The tipoff is if it almost immediately starts handing out wins and goes into “Big Chance” mode, whereupon you’ll have a very long win streak that earns you a few hundred bucks. It’ll go cold eventually though, usually right after “Big Chance” ends.
The game has a really nice look and decent audio (complete with voice acting), and the animated stripping is a step up from prior peepshow games, I just wish it was more fun to play. With some different casino games, maybe more of an RPG aspect, this would be a real winner. As is there isn’t much to it but guessing around for the current “hot slot,” which isn’t fun at all.
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Original soundtrack (I like the random Sailor Moon enki on the title screen)
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