Hard Rock Casino (Mac)

Hard Rock Casino incorporates music and graphics to simulate a casino experience. It is a safe way for a beginner to become familiar with 8 common casino games and how to bet in a risk free environment before the next trip to Vegas. It is also has plenty of challenges to keep an advanced player's interest. Play Keno, Baccarat, Poker, Craps, Black Jack, Slots, Roulette or Video Poker starting out in the 50's era as a character of your choice. You get the full era benefit including clothes and music. There are six rounds to play in a game and each round takes the player into new decade with the accompanying attire and tunes and into higher stakes and more options to play. The image below is a game table from the entry level of the 50's decade.

The "HELP" section contains information about the program and what options are available to the player up to and including playing online. Each game has a good set of instructions. However, if just beginning, the instructions will probably have to be reread several times before the game can be played with much skill. That is the advantage of learning the basics from this program. The cash is imaginary.

Hard Rock Casino requires OS X, 64 MB of RAM and 50 MB of free HD space. The program also includes a free Palm version as a bonus.


A waste of money   January 17, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Before buying this software, you should consider placing a twenty-dollar bill on a non-flammable surface and igniting it. After about ten minutes you'll realize that the programmers for this product must have been under the age of twelve. Any one over that age would not have to time left in life to wait for the game to proceed. Slow, illogical, repeated "are you sure you want to do that?" windows, opponents without the slightest skill (and no options for altering them). I could go on for another hour or two, but this program isn't worth any more of my time.