Many years before the internet was invented, most Canadians grew up with video games such as SEGA and ATARI, but nobody could imagine that 20 years later we would find ourselves playing video poker online.

One of the best known games of the late 70’s was called CASINO. In CASINO, players got to choose between three card games: Blackjack, Stud poker and poker solitaire. With the exception of poker solitaire, each game had a dealer and gambling was done by pushing a button.

There were two kinds of blackjack: the first was for two players, and had hands-splitting, and the second enabled up to 4 players but with no splitting. There were also a number of versions, depending of the definitions. If the leftmost switch was set to “A”, the computer would automatically shuffle after 34 cards, and if it was set to “B”, then shuffle would take place after each card.

But if the rightmost switch is set to “A”, the dealer would stay after obtaining 17 and “B” would remain if he had obtained over 18.

In the first game, players can draw the maximum number of cards, around 3 to 8 hits and in the second game three hits.

In stud poker, the computer, playing the dealer, would issue and card to every player. Before the first card is dealt, and after each consecutive hand, up to five cards, every player had to either bet or fold. If the difficulty level on the left was set to “A”, then the first card would be placed on the table faced either up or down.

Things were different for poker solitaire games back when this technology was first introduced in Canada. There was no betting and no dealer. The goal was to arrange the card so they form the best 12 poker hands out of 25 cards, with 5 columns, 5 rows and two diagonals.

All of these games can now be found on famous casino online websites in the form of CASINO VIDEO games or other casino games that have been beloved for generations.