Changes: Dare, Bluff or Die (Found 1994 PC Game)

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Ultra Drives - Dare, Bluff, or Die 2014-04-28 17-43-05 — A now-defunct website that offered the game for just one dollar.

Motherlode, Inc. logo from the back cover of Golden Immortal.

According to the very few websites mentioning its existence, Dare, Bluff, or Die: A Role Playing History of the Wild West is an interactive movie released for IBM PC in 1994. So far, no further description of the game, its content, or its plot are available. Two games database websites (namely allgame.com and GameTrailers) give information about the release date as well as the publisher, but nothing more can be found.

It is unclear whether the publisher, Motherlode, Inc., is also responsible for the development of the game or not; here, again, very little is known about this company: Motherlode, in 1991, published a PC conversion of the game Golden Immortal (which is, by the way, one of the first CD-ROM game ever but also one of the rarest and most obscure video games nowadays) and was located, according to allgame, in Las Cruces (New Mexico). Although this information may be accurate, Motherlode, Inc. doesn't exist in the State of New Mexico corporations database.

Despite the great lack of information about Dare, Bluff or Die, there is evidence that it does exist: the (now defunct) website ultradrives.com had been selling a copy up until August 2010 (the product details page can be accessed through Wayback Machine, but the cover is missing now) and another copy showed up on eBay in 2012 (however, the action page has since been deleted).

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+[[File:Ultra_Drives_-_Dare,_Bluff,_or_Die_2014-04-28_17-43-05.png|thumb|300px|A now-defunct website that offered the game for just one dollar.]]
-<p class="title">[[File:Ultra_Drives_-_Dare,_Bluff,_or_Die_2014-04-28_17-43-05.png|thumb|358px|A now-defunct website selling this game for 1$(!)]]According to the very few websites mentioning its existence, '''Dare, Bluff, or Die: A Role Playing History of the Wild West '''is an interactive movie released for IBM PC in 1994. So far no further description of the game, its content nor its plot is available. Two games database websites (namely [http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=21588 allgame.com] and [http://www.gametrailers.com/games/zlr0ix/dare--bluff--or-die--a-role-playing-history-of-the-wild-west GameTrailers]) give information about the release date as well as the publisher, but nothing more can be found.</p>
-[[File:Motherlode_logo.png|thumb|229px|Motherlode, Inc. logo from the back cover of Golden Immortal]]
+[[File:Motherlode_logo.png|frame|Motherlode, Inc. logo from the back cover of ''Golden Immortal''.]]
+According to the very few websites mentioning its existence, '''''Dare, Bluff, or Die: A Role Playing History of the Wild West''''' is an interactive movie released for IBM PC in 1994. So far, no further description of the game, its content, or its plot are available. Two games database websites (namely [http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=21588 allgame.com] and [http://www.gametrailers.com/games/zlr0ix/dare--bluff--or-die--a-role-playing-history-of-the-wild-west GameTrailers]) give information about the release date as well as the publisher, but nothing more can be found.
-<p class="title">It is unclear whether the publisher, ''Motherlode, Inc.'', is also responsible for the developement of the game or not; here again, very little is known about this company: Motherlode published in 1991 a PC conversion of the game ''Golden Immortal ''(which is, by the way, one of the first CD-ROM game ever but also one of the rarest and most obscure video games nowadays), and was located, according to allgame, in Las Cruces (New Mexico). Although this information can be accurate, Motherlode, Inc. doesn't exist in the State of New Mexico corporations database.</p>
+It is unclear whether the publisher, Motherlode, Inc., is also responsible for the development of the game or not; here, again, very little is known about this company: Motherlode, in 1991, published a PC conversion of the game ''Golden Immortal'' (which is, by the way, one of the first CD-ROM game ever but also one of the rarest and most obscure video games nowadays) and was located, according to allgame, in Las Cruces (New Mexico). Although this information may be accurate, Motherlode, Inc. doesn't exist in the State of New Mexico corporations database.
-<p class="title">Despite the great lack of information about Dare, Bluff or Die, there is evidence that it ''does ''exist: the (now defunct) website ultradrives.com had been selling a copy until August 2010 (the product details page can be accessed through Wayback Machine, but the cover is missing now) and another copy showed up on eBay in 2012 (however, the action page has been deleted since). Will this curious CD-ROM surface again ?</p>
+Despite the great lack of information about ''Dare, Bluff or Die'', there is evidence that it ''does'' exist: the (now defunct) website ultradrives.com had been selling a copy up until August 2010 (the product details page can be accessed through Wayback Machine, but the cover is missing now) and another copy showed up on eBay in 2012 (however, the action page has since been deleted).
 [[Category:Lost Video Games]]