Casino Royale

No James Bond connection here, this Casino Royale is a themed collection of over sixty shareware games. The setup process installs a game browser into a folder on the users hard drive, by default this is named c:/GalaxyAA, and the browser either runs the games from the CD in a separate window or installs them onto the hard drive (the ones that need installing are marked with a '**'). Though many of the games come from one developer, Ultisoft, they are stand-alone games which means the credits won in one game are not transferred to another.

The compilation presents differently depending on the operating system, the game browser offers all games when run in a Windows environment but under Win 3.x fewer games are offered.

The games are grouped info four sections and are listed in the order in which they appear in the game browser which means that some games will appear twice as they have separate Windows 3.1 & Windows 95 versions:

• Slots Games: There are twenty-one games in this group, all games are by Ultisoft unless otherwise stated.;
  • Double Dynamite Video Slots Win 3.1 & Windows
  • Extreme Slots Win 3.1 & Windows
  • Jackpot Slots (v1.3) Win 3.1 & Windows
  • **Cherry Delight Video Slots Win 3.1 & Windows
  • **Double Dynamite Video Slots Windows
  • Extreme Slots Windows
  • Jackpot Slots Windows
  • Lucky Stars Video Slots Windows
  • Tropical Paradise Slots Windows
  • Wild 7 Slots, this game contains a more-or-less functioning Wild 7 Slots plus two other functionally restricted games Joker Slots and Casino Slots Windows
  • **Wild Wizard Slots Windows
  • **Bonus Wheel Slots Win 3.1 & Windows
  • Cherry Delight Video Slots Windows
  • **Las Vegas Slots V 1.2 from Timothy L. Hirtle Win 3.1 & Windows
  • **Las Vegas Slots Pro V 2.3 from Timothy L. Hirtle, graphically this is virtually identical to the previous game however in this game registered users can play up to twenty-four lines per spin. Win 3.1 & Windows
  • Niki'S Slots V 1.2 from Canadian Joe Salisbury Win 3.1 & Windows
  • Tropical Paradise Slots, yes this is another duplicate, it's listed as both Paradise Video Slots and Tropical Paradise Slots Win 3.1 & Windows
  • **Super Slots V 2.6 from Timothy L. Hirtle Win 3.1 & Windows
  • Trix Slots from TrixWare Industries Win 3.1 & Windows
  • Wild 7 Slots, another duplicate with the same three game option Wild Seven Slots, Joker Slots and Casino Slots, however this is the Windows 3.1 version.
  • Diversions Slots from Diversions Software, probably the most graphically refined of all the slots games.Win 3.1 & Windows
• Table Games: Just nine games in this group. All games are available in Win 3.1 & Windows apart from Players Choice Keno which is Windows only
  • Deluxe Roulette V1.3, a 32-bit game from Marzio Di Biasi
  • Craps! from CT Software who were based in Elk Grove, Illinois.
  • Super Craps. by Chris Peterson of Arlington, Texas. This is offered in both Windows & Windows 3.1 environments but only installs and runs under Windows 3.1, oddly there's a zipped version of Boxcars Casino in there too
  • WinCraps from Cloud City Software. Another game that the browser offeres in both Windows & Windows 3.1 environments but which only installs and runs under Windows 3.1
  • Players Choice Keno version 1.1 from Ron Dombrowski Windows
  • Dice Game a version of Craps by T. J. Allen
  • Bingo version 1.0 by Michael A. Maners
  • WinGO! version 1.30 by Rob Dolan
  • Roulette Version 1.0aS from Pyramid Software Development
• Card Games: Twenty eight games here, they are;
  • Noisy Video Poker And Blackjack, the Windows 95 version, from Ultimate Software
  • **Lucky Stars Video Slots from Ultisoft Windows
  • Real Video Blackjack from Ultimate Software Windows
  • Real Video Poker from Ultimate Software Windows
  • **Turbo Video Poker for Windows 95 from James Toliver Windows
  • Acey Deucy from Lampron Software Win 3.x & Windows
  • Noisy Video Poker And Blackjack, from Ultimate Software. Win 3.x & Windows
  • **BlackJack Professor from Hawaiian company LVC Software Win 3.x & Windows
  • Black Jack Tracker: The game browser offers this title in both Win 3.x & Windows environments but it will only install under Win 3.x. This is not a game it is a blackjack simulator used to evaluate different strategies over a large number of hands.
  • **Video Baccarat for Windows from company Bitwise Software International Win 3.x & Windows
  • Bounty! from Jeffrey Allen Blanchard, this contains four games; Five Card Draw, Blackjack, Keno and Acey Deucy. Win 3.x & Windows
  • **Solator Casino This game is offered in both Win 3.x & Windows environments but it will only install under Win 3.x. It offers Poker, Black jack, Pai Gow, Cribbage and Acey Ducey
• All the following Casino Vérité games are all from QFIT:
  • **Casino Vérité: Blackjack, winner of several awards apparently. Win 3.x & Windows
  • **Casino Vérité: Pai Gow Poker. Win 3.x & Windows
  • **Casino Vérité Strategy Selection Tool: This is not a game, it is a list of strategies for card games and a tool to help a player find those most appropriate to their skills
  • **Casino Vérité: Video Poker Win 3.x & Windows
  • Deluxe Poker from Marzio Di Biasi. Win 3.x & Windows
  • Funpok Video Poker Win 3.x
  • Funpok Video Poker, a second entry for the same game - this is the Windows 95 version
  • Higher-Lower from Roseling Software. Windows
  • Lucky Stars Video Slots from Ultisoft, another duplicate but this is the version runs from the CD. Win 3.x & Windows
  • Real Video Blackjack from Ultisoft. Win 3.x & Windows
  • Real Video Poker from Ultisoft, this game offers Jacks Or Better; Joker Wild; and Deuces Wild poker variants. Win 3.x & Windows
  • **Steven's Casino Royale, here you'll find Black Jack, Poker and Craps. Developed by Steven W. Lucey. Win 3.x & Windows
  • **Smoke 'Em Poker v1.9, the first freeware game, well technically it's 'beerware' - "If you like it, have a beer", in the compilation so far
  • **Turbo Video Poker from Jim Toliver. Win 3.x & Windows
  • **Let It Ride for 95 from Silverdisc Software. Windows
  • PaiGow Poker Lite from Douglas Ford Enterprises . Win 3.x & Windows* Misc Games: A catch-all group of games that don't quite fit into the other groupings, although there are some slot machine type games here;
  • Home Stretch from Ultimate Software.

Again, there are two versions of the same horse race betting game, one for Windows and one for Win 3.x

All the following Slots of Trivia games are from Ultisoft.

Slots of Trivia and Slots of Trivia: General Knowledge are identical, they've just been given different names in the browser's game list

All three Slots of Trivia games appear twice in the game browser list, once as Slots of Trivia... and again as 95 Slots of Trivia... because there are separate versions for Windows 3.x & Windows 95

• **Slots of Trivia
• **Slots of Trivia: General Knowledge
• **Slots of Trivia: Sports

The final game is A Day At The Races from Latticework Software (Windows).