Medal City

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Medal City

Developer: Sega CS1

Genre: Table

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP ▼ (Game Toshokan)	1991	SUBsub

Medal City (メダルシティ) is a card game for the Sega Mega Drive, released exclusively in Japan in 1991 via the Sega Game Toshokan service.

Gameplay

Game select

Medal City is a collection of three single-player gambling games: poker, blackjack, and slots. The player starts with 30 medals to gamble on any of the games. The goal is to earn 100,000 medals to see the ending; conversely, losing all medals results in a game over.

At the start of any game, the player can set the bet using the D-Pad and confirming with . Bets must be a minimum of 1 medal and a maximum of 99 medals for poker and blackjack and 5 medals for slots. The player can exit any game (between rounds, when the game is asked for the bet) by pressing START and return to the game select screen. This screen also gives a password that remembers how many medals have been earned when continuing later.

Games

	Poker
	This game is a version of video poker. The goal is to make the most valuable poker hand possible. After making a bet, the player is dealt five cards and can mark cards "Draw" or "Hold" by selecting the card with and and toggling it with . Then the player can deal the new cards with , which replaces the cards marked "Draw" with random ones from the deck. The game then decides the payout depending on the resulting hand. The amount that each hand is worth is shown in the top-left corner of the screen, which is multiplied by the number of medals bet to determine the player's winnings. The Joker is a wildcard that can substitute for any other card in making a hand.
	Blackjack
	The goal of blackjack is to get as close to 21 as possible without going over, while the dealer tries to do the same. Numbered cards are worth their face value, face cards are worth 10 points, and Aces are worth either 1 or 11 points (whichever is larger without causing the player to go over 21). On each hand, the player is dealt out a single card. The dealer is dealt out multiple cards (with one face up so the player can see it and the others face down), as the game already determines all of the dealer's moves in advance. The player places a bet at this point, then decides whether to stand with or hit with . The game allows the player to continue hitting even after going over 21. Once the player chooses to stand, the dealer's cards are turned over, and the game determines the winner.
	Slots
	The slot machine has three reels that spin when the player pulls the lever with . The goal is to stop the reels by pressing once for each reel to line up three symbols on any of the three rows of the slot machine. Matching two 7s also pays out a small amount. The amount won for each match is shown on the right side of the screen. The player can bet 1 (for the middle row), 2 (adds the top row), 3 (adds the bottom row), 4 (adds one diagonal), or 5 (adds the other diagonal) medals. The winnings are multiplied by the number of medals bet (with the winnings additionally doubled when betting on all five lines).