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Manufacturer: VMX Studio
Release: Nov. 15, 2002
Type: Casino (18 tables)
Players: 1
9-BALL on the VMX.
VMX Casino
Eighteen casino tables for the VMX, and one stack of chips that every one of them plays from.
18 tables: blackjack, 9-ball, sic bo, roulette, video poker, slots, craps, baccarat and ten more.
One chip bank. The VMX itself keeps your chips, so chips won at one table can be staked at any other. A new VMX starts with 100.
Broke? Once a day, sitting down with fewer than 25 chips tops your stash back up to 25.
Straight odds. Every result is drawn first; the cards, the wheel and the reels only land on it.
Chip leaderboard: VMX World shows your stash, the most you ever held, and sends it with your scores. (Online boards in development.)
The cashier: trade chips for money in your Xbox games. (In development.)
Chips are play money: they can't be bought, and nothing real can be won with them.
VMX Casino Demo
This feature requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 and Internet Explorer 5.01 or later. This page runs it in your browser instead (WebAssembly). Nothing is downloaded or installed. The demo plays from 100 demo chips that every table shares. They reset when you reload the page, and the chips in the full simulator are never read or changed.
Click the VMX to play with the keyboard.
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| The VMX simulator, with its menus and saves, is on the home page.
Blackjack and Hookers
Blackjack on the fishing dock. Bet 5 to 50 of your bait, hit or stay, and land a
big one before the dealer does. Blackjack pays 3 to 2.
9-Ball
Pool against the computer. Stake some chips on the rack, hit the lowest ball first and sink the 9 to win
double. Line the shot up from above, then get down low behind the cue to play it.
Sic Bo
Three dice under the shaker cup. Bet big or small, odd or even, a total, a single number or a triple,
up to 20 chips a bet, then lift the cup.
All 18 tables
The web demo lets you try 3 tables; the rest will be available on VMX WORLD.
Table
The bets
Blackjack and Hookers
5-50 a hand; blackjack pays 3:2
9-Ball
0-50 a rack, against the computer; win the rack, double your stake
Video Poker
1-5; Jacks or Better, full pay; royal flush 4000 at 5 chips
Roulette
up to 50 a bet; even money, dozens, single numbers at 35:1
Slots
1-3; three VMX chips at 3 chips is the 3000 jackpot
Hi-Lo
1-10; call higher or lower, collect when you like
Casino War
1-20, tie bet 0-10; go to war or surrender
Baccarat
Player, Banker or Tie, 0-20 each; eight decks
3 Card Poker
ante 1-10 and pair plus 0-10; play or fold
Red Dog
1-20; the spread pays up to 5:1, three of a kind 11:1; raise once
Let It Ride
three bets of 1-10; pull two back as the cards turn
Craps
pass, don't pass, free odds to 3x, field, any 7, any craps
Sic Bo
small, big, totals, triples and single dice
Chuck-a-Luck
a face from 1 to 6, or low and high, in a flipping birdcage
Keno
1-10 spots, 20 of 80 drawn
Big Six
a 54-segment money wheel, up to 40:1
Scratch
tickets at 1, 2 and 5, scratched with a coin
Frog Race
4 to 6 frogs a race, posted odds
The chip bank
Chips are universal. So a
stash built slowly at video poker can be risked at roulette, and every table runs from the same pile.
The chip leaderboard
Your stash is a score of its own, CASINO CHIPS: the chips you hold now, the most you ever held, and the chips you have cashed
out. VMX World lists it with your other scores, and the VMX can send it by phone with CALL.
The online score service is in development.
The cashier (in development)
VMX World's cashier will turn chips into currency in your Xbox games, each game at its own rate. Cashing out spends the chips. It’s one way so be careful!
This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 5.5 or later at 800 x 600 or higher.
The demos also run in any current browser.
Get VMX
The VMX isn't for sale yet. We're looking for a partner to build it, with a Kickstarter as the backup.
Xbox Live launched Nov. 15, 2002. VMX scores go online from VMX World, or by phone from the VMX itself.
(Score service in development.)
About this page
A fan concept: what an Xbox memory unit with a screen might have looked like on launch day of
Xbox Live. Made by fans, with our own art. Not a Microsoft page.
