Dare, Bluff or Die (Found 1994 PC Game)

Screenshot from the archived ultradrives.com listing.

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. Several games database websites (namely allgame.com and GameTrailers) give information about the release date as well as the publisher, but not a lot 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.com, 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 listed a copy for sale in 2008, for just one dollar (said listing can be accessed today via the Wayback Machine; unfortunately, unlike the actual listing, the cover image was not archived). The item remained listed up until mid-to-late 2010, when it was assumingly sold. Additionally, a copy of the game appeared on eBay in 2012, but was either sold or removed (the circumstances of the auction's ending are not made clear). Until another copy of this game shows up for sale and someone is willing to purchase and rip it, this game will continue mystifying seekers of the rare and obscure.