American Dream

American Dream

released on Sep 23, 1989

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American Dream

released on Sep 23, 1989

The player must earn money in order to become the wealthiest gambler in the world. The game, set in New York City, is considered a spin-off from the Pachio-kun franchise. Al Capone has a cameo role in this game even though he lived about one thousand miles to the west (Chicago) in real life. Roads, taxis and automobiles are not portrayed in the game. However, a black limousine that escorts the player from the air force base to the final casino is portrayed as driving on grass. This is in direct opposition to the real New York City where the majority of the surface is concrete (either as roads, parking lots, or as foundations for the buildings). Only parks and some older residential districts use grass in their design in the real world. Buildings are either shown as dilapidated tenements, shiny towers, or as flashy casinos.


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Points for the satire of America (you can buy a gun to protect yourself from muggers but if you go to jail you have to pay $100k bail) and the dragon-quest-y world map with 'random encounters with gambling minigame enemies' but this is just a slot machine game at the core. The odds are stacked in your favor but in my half hour with it it still takes forever to build up enough money to reach the next stage (of higher stakes slots lol).

Maybe there's something to be said about how 'grinding slots to reach the next stage of betting amounts' kind of mimics grinding in RPGs

Or more distinctly, the process of tweeting and trying to amass followers. ha ha.. ha..