It was my sophomore year in high school when I first played
King of Casino. It was fun, but I was a youngster. I wanted games where I could shoot up the screen, pull off roundhouse kicks, or run through stages collecting coins or rings. I allowed
King of Casino to escape me. Ah, the impetuousness of youth.
It was a couple years ago, that I reunited with
King of Casino and had a much deeper respect for the kind of game it is (thanks in part to these forums). Just this morning, 25 years after first popping it into my Turbo-Grafx 16 and two years after reacquiring it, I finished
King of Casino to completion.
Reaching $10 million is the easy part; the Championship Round after hitting $10M is where the real challenge lies. Repeatedly stacking your chips on '0' and '00' at the roulette table won't work here since each casino game is played in sets of three (six for slots) against four CPU opponents at each casino. I am in no way exaggerating when I say the Championship Round in
King of Casino is one of the hardest challenges I've faced on any game I ever played.
And after what seemed like endless attempts, I won by the skin of my teeth in a play off with CPU #4 ($11,000 to $9,000).
I have so much newfound respect and admiration for
King of Casino. The money wasn't real, but dammit, the competition was!