A port of Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal is based on the TV game show of the same name. It puts one contest against a banker. At the start of the game, the player choose one of the 26 briefcases. They contain prize money ranging from $.01 to $1,000,000. The different amounts are shown on a game board. Each round the player has to open a number of the remaining briefcases which are then marked on the board (six in the first round, five in the second, four in the third). Based on the remaining amount of money, the banker offers the player a deal, a certain amount of money, based on odds. The player can choose to accept the deal when large sums are gone, or decide to go through. After the third round the briefcase is opened and if it contains a higher sum than what the banker offered, the player has made a great deal.
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... Oui j'ai complété ça mdr. Ca m'a pris 3 heures. En vrai j'aime bien les jeux de hasards, et j'l'ai pris car j'aimais le jeu télévisé. J'm'attendais à rien, franchement, et c'est ce qu'il faut pour jouer au jeu DS
For what it's worth, it perfectly translates the level of engagement the show provides, which is none. Except at least those people are winning real money, the stakes here are so low they're endangering vampires in the earth's core. It's boring as sin, and it doesn't even have the courtesy to look nice. The game looks like shit, which is remarkable for something so simple. Even the music and sound effects are grating.
And despite all that, this game manages to crawl even lower. It doesn't even fucking work. The numbers aren't random, they're in predetermined sets, which becomes obvious if you for unknown reasons play the game more than once. They couldn't even get this remarkably simple concept right. Even the audience is broken, cheering and crying out in dismay at the incorrect times.
This game had one extremely simple, boring job, and it couldn't even do that. And it retailed for 30 entire dollars. 45 dollars today if you adjust for inflation. Every time you find yourself in awe of how fantastic video games are, how far they've come as a medium, remember the deal or no deals lurking in the depths, and keep yourself humble.