Old New Stock #7: Gold Rush

In 1990 Experience Soft was trying to find a way into the then booming and semi-professional MSX scene. What better way to do so by coding a game and sell its rights to MSX Club Magazine. Check the 32th edition on page 25 (27 in the PDF file) to read the article about the slot machine game Amazing Cash.

Once they solidified their position in the world of MSX software producers they changed their name to Vivid. Under this name they made a successor of Amazing Cash. The name of this slot machine leaves nothing to the imagination: Gold Rush.

There is not a lot to tell about slot machines since everybody knows about them and what they're capable of: they are addictive and take your money. The big advantage of Gold Rush is that it doesn't take your money but it can be addictive nonetheless. We would kindly thank Edwin Weijdema of Vivid to allow us to share this golden oldie with the rest of the world. The enthousiasm he showed while we, pure strangers, proposed this Old New Stock release of their game was great. He helped us as much as he could and remembered quite a lot in depth details on how it was made and protected. Louthrax removed the copy protection based on an original disk provided by Hamlet and so a very clean copy can be (re)played by everybody who missed it or wants to give it a spin out of retro romantic feelings... Or the addiction ;)

The game is partly Dutch, but that won't keep anyone from playing Gold Rush.

Relevant link: Gold Rush