1986 Martech Games (UK)
by Chris Fayers
By 1985 there was already another poker stripping game named with the simpler straightforward name of just Animated Strip Poker. It featured a simpler image of a girl always on screen and mostly in the same pose, accompanied by a lamp head character.
Samantha Fox first ascent to the Speccy would change that a bit, now you would have full screen images, rendered out of real life Sam pictures.
The card game itself was secondary, no one bought this game in the thought of playing a game of poker, the one's who did must have felt a bit disappointed.
Thankfully for those, there was a second card game on the tape's B-side called 7 Card Stud which was a much more proper poker game.
The idea of stripping naked a girl, is always a winner in a world dominated my male users. So Sam Fox Strip Poker would always be a commercial success and can be no denying that Martech was trying to milk up a few cents out Samantha Fox's fame (did I make a pun, there?).
Anyway, my first encounter with the game was rather disappointing. That first picture, boy, was it ugly. Why the hat? It didn't even look like a woman. And besides, being a lad I wasn't any good as a poker player, I didn't even understood it properly, so I couldn't get past the second picture.
Still, over the years I came back trying to beat up Sam at her own game.
When I finally did, I was an already grown man and lots of dirty books and pictures had already passed my hands (oh, come on). But mostly disappointed because the pictures are really uninteresting besides one or two and not all that rewarding.
The game is still a classic, together with Animated Strip Poker, not for the card game itself but because of the erotic content quite unusual at the time.
