Vegas Stakes (SNES)

Vegas Stakes
Also known as: Las Vegas Dream (JP) Developers: HAL Laboratory, Dice Publishers: Nintendo (US/EU), Imagineer (JP) Platform: SNES Released in JP: September 10, 1993 Released in US: May 1993 Released in EU: October 1993 This game has unused text. This game has regional differences. This game has a Data Crystal page

Now you too can use a SNES mouse to gamble virtual money. Yay?

Followed up in the west by a Game Boy cousin. Then in Japan by the little-known Las Vegas Dream 2 for PlayStation.

Unused Text

At 68000 (US version) is some mysterious text.

HYAKUTAROU
SERA LADY
DI MEOLA
JEAN ALESI

Regional Differences

The Japanese version has differences from international versions.

• An additional multiplayer "Party Mode".
• More animated title logo. HAL Laboratory's name isn't shortened.
• Font and menu changes, such as a larger English alphabet and a background graphic for the "How many players?" message.
• The game over screen.

Japanese	International

Staff Roll

Japanese version:

 Executive Producer

  Satoru Iwata

  Takayuki Kamikura



 Producer

  Akihiro Saito

  Syuhei Iida



 Director

  Takashi Ambe




 Graphic Designer

  Taihei Yamanaka

  Satoshi Ohno

  Takashi Ambe

  Akihiro Saito

  Seiji Maruyama



 Programmer

  Norihiro Oda


  Jun Mukai

  Tsuyoshi Yamamoto



 Music Composer

  Kimitaka Matsumae



 Special Thanks to

  Syoichi Iida

  Seiji Tashiro

  Masahiro Uramoto

  Takashi Matsuda

  Koichiro Sakurai

  Atsushi Oosuga

  Shingo Tsuda

  Makoto Kanai

  Seika Abe

  Satoshi Mitsuhara

  Tetsuya Notoya

  Mika Nakamura

  David D'Heilly

  Satoshi Ikeda

  Masao Horiguchi

  Nobumasa Nakamura

  Akihiko Koseki





  Las Vegas Dream
  ©1993 HAL Laboratory,Inc.

  Special Thanks to
  Dice Co;Ltd.

US version:

   Executive Producer

       Satoru Iwata


      Producer

        Akihiro Saito


       Director

         Takashi Ambe



          Graphic Designer

           Taihei Yamanaka

          Satoshi Ohno

         Takashi Ambe

        Akihiro Saito

         Seiji Maruyama



   Programmer

          Jun Mukai

       Norihiro Oda

        Tsuyoshi Yamamoto


            Music Composer

          Kimitaka Matsumae


            Special Thanks to

                Phil Sandhop

               Yuka Nakata

          Takehiro Izushi

             Hiro Yamada

          Makoto Kanai

          Seika Abe

       Tetsuya Notoya

         Mika Nakamura

       David D'Heilly

    Satoshi Ikeda

       Masao Horiguchi

      Akihiko Koseki





      Vegas Stakes
      ©1993 HAL/Nintendo

      Licensed from
      HAL Laboratory,Inc.
      to Nintendo

      Special Thanks to
      Dice Co; Ltd.

• The Japanese version has the roles in pink text and the staff names in white text. The USA version uses many different colors.
• The Japanese version has the credit roles one space from the left of the screen, whereas the USA version has the text slightly centered, but is almost written in a 'zigzag' shape.
• Takayuki Kamikura, an executive producer for the Japanese version's publisher Imagineer, was removed in the USA version.
• Syuhei Iida, a producer for the Japanese version's publisher, Imagineer, was removed in the USA version.
• In the programming credit, the order goes; Norihiro Oda, Jun Mukai, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto. In the USA version, it goes; Jun Mukai, Norihiro Oda, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto.
• In the special thanks credit, Syoichi Iida, Seiji Tashiro, Masahiro Uramoto, Takashi Matsuda, Koichiro Sakurai, Atsushi Oosuga, Shingo Tsuda, Satoshi Mitsuhara, and Nobumasa Nakamura were removed in the USA version. The USA version credits Phil Sandhop, Yuka Nakata, Takehiro Izushi, and Hiro Yamada. The rest of the names in the staff list are shared between the two versions.
• The copyright text at the end uses the respective names of the games' titles.
• The copyright text credits "HAL Laboratory,Inc." in the Japanese version, and "HAL/Nintendo" in the USA version.
• The USA version adds this text to the copyright, "Licensed from HAL Laboratory,Inc. to Nintendo".
• The "Dice Co.,Ltd." text in the Japanese version was fixed to have a space between the ".," and "Ltd." in the USA version.