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02.16.14
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The high school girls will kiss, model bikinis and moan when players stroke
their chests with a stylus, but sex and nudity are out of the question.
screen and into the real world, so
the virtual girlfriends are practically at their lovers’ sides. Players can take snapshots of themselves with their arms around
their girlfriends, thanks to augmented reality stickers that superimpose images on photos.
Several years ago, Konami even
partnered with hotels at Japan’s
Atami resort town to let players rent rooms for themselves
and their consoles. The promotion offered a real world analog to
a virtual LovePlus date in which
players take their girlfriends on
a weekend getaway to the seaside town. More than 1,500 men
whisked their LovePlus cartridges
to Atami during the first month
of the campaign, The Wall Street
Journal reported in 2010.
And why not? Committed play-