‘Cover Girl Poker’
[aka: ‘Cover Girl Strip Poker’]

[MULTI] [UK] [MAGAZINE] [1992]

Tabloid magazine Daily Sport worked with Emotional Pictures in the development of Cover Girl Strip Poker in that models who have appeared in Daily Sport appear in the game: famous UK page 3 model Maria Whittaker, Amanda Godden, Minnie Champ (credited in-game as ‘Ginny Champ’),Donna Ewin, Trine Michelsen, Sofia Bratlund, Signe Andersen, and a woman credited only as 'Jane’. Cover Girl Strip Poker was exhibited at the Arets Amiga Expo in Copenhagen, Denmark in March 1992, and Trine Michelsen promoted the game at Emotional Pictures’ booth while dressed in lingerie, singing karaoke with attendees.

Danish gaming magazine Det Nye COMputer interviewed Trine Michelsen, who stated that she was not informed what the video footage and photos were for, and that other models were never paid for their work; she stated that she was paid 1000 Danish krone (equivalent to around US$265 in 1992), and that “It was not at all clear what it would be for, and I did it as a favor [for someone I knew]. Apparently some of the other models weren’t paid at all.” COMputer briefly interviewed Kenneth Bernholm, the CEO of InterActive Vision A/S, the parent company of Emotional Pictures, to ask how much the models were paid, and Bernholm stated that “You can ask, but you won’t get an answer”. Cover Girl Strip Poker has a disclaimer explicitly stating that the game is “Not manufactured, distributed or endorsed by any of the models appearing in the product”; Amiga Power questioned the legality of this disclaimer.

(…)To promote the release of Cover Girl Poker, The Sales Curve ran a contest asking the question “What is the weekend equivalent of the Daily Sport?”; ten randomly selected entrants who mailed in the correct answer of “Sunday Sport” received an apron with inflatable breasts attached. ~Wikipedia