[6][31] Upon starting the game, the player is prompted to select a language;[23] Cover Girl Strip Poker has releases in Danish, Swedish, English, French, German and Italian.

[6] Tabloid magazine Daily Sport worked with Emotional Pictures in the development of Cover Girl Strip Poker[26][5] in that models who have appeared in Daily Sport appear in the game: famous UK page 3 model Maria Whittaker,[7][20][33] Amanda Godden,[20][21][6] Minnie Champ[20][36] (credited in-game as 'Ginny Champ'),[21] Donna Ewin,[15][37] Trine Michelsen,[15][21][6] Sofia Bratlund,[15] Signe Andersen, and a woman credited only as 'Jane'.

[1][6] 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[38] while dressed in lingerie, singing karaoke with attendees.

[13] Due to standards for sexual content as set by The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment and the Video Standards Council, the CDTV version of Cover Girl Strip Poker was labelled with a BBFC 18 certificate;[35] French gaming magazine Joystick speculated that On-Line Entertainment, the publisher of the European[b] CDTV version, was intentionally seeking a mature rating for the game for the sake of publicitity.

[18][19] According to Computer and Video Games magazine, ports of Cover Girl Poker were planned for the Atari ST and ZX Spectrum,[37] but these were never released.

[28] 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.

[13][26][46] The DOS version of Cover Girl Strip Poker was published by The Sales Curve in Italy,[20] and was released on 5+1⁄4" and 3+1⁄2" floppy disks.

[4] An upgraded CD-ROM DOS version of Cover Girl Strip Poker was released in Europe[b] in 1993, and was published by On-Line Entertainment;[7] it cost £34.99 at launch.

[8] In Germany, the CD-ROM DOS version of Cover Girl Strip Poker was developed by Leisure Soft and published by Storm.

[23][6] The CDTV version of Cover Girl Strip Poker was published in Denmark by InterActive Vision A/S, the parent company of Emotional Pictures;[27] it cost 395 Danish krone in 1991.

[16] Several reviews furthermore called Strip Poker 'sad',[10][13][18] with Amiga Power summarising it as "A sad game, made even sadder by the fact that you could probably buy a couple of porno mags for the same price!

"[13] Many reviews criticized Cover Girl Strip Poker as 'overpriced', with those that did stating that one could buy 'several pornographic magazines with stronger sexual content' for the same price as the game.

called it a "sexist concept" and bluntly stated that "If some sexually frustrated dickhead wants to waste twelve quid on this tripe that's his problem".

[23] In an article by Amiga Computing strongly condemning the rise of digital pornography, Cover Girl Strip Poker was given as an example of a game that while "perfectly legal", is "thankfully largely absent from the commercial software [market]".

"[42] Many reviews praised the inclusion of UK page 3 girl Maria Whittaker;[54] Serbian computer magazine Svet Kompjutera called her "particularly spellbinding".

PC Player summarised the overall design of the CD-ROM version of Cover Girl Strip Poker as "so disastrously bad that it's impressive.