Live Magazine February Issue February 2014 | Page 64

RETRO BLASTS FROM THE PAST! Earlier on in this issue we’ve taken no amazing sound effects, nope this a look at sex in video games. We’ve was purely type and read. The game asked our industry experts their was later ported to the PC by Gary thoughts, we’ve even interviewed Al Thompson in the early 90s and was Lowe who created the original Lei- featured on the collectors edition of [email protected] sure Suit Larry game, but what about Leisure Suit Larry called Leisure Suit other older formats and games… did Larry’s Greatest Hits and Misses. they ever cross the line from mild innuendo and flashes of skin to some- Staying in the early 80s a Japanese thing a bit naughtier? Well yes they couple released Night Life, which did and so here’s a look back at the was the first Japanese erotic game good old days of gaming featuring and was marketed as an educational piece of software aimed at helpthe oldest of human pastimes. ing couples enjoy their sex life… Back in the early 80s a text based hmmm. It wasn’t until the CD-ROM adventure game called Softporn Ad- came along that adult video games venture was produced for the Ap- featured clips that showed a bit more ple II computer. Created by Charles then cartoon style graphics. While game play by making adventure style games like the Leisure Suit Larry games or poker based games that were based on the classic poker rules and featured a variety of attractive opponents. One such game on the Amiga, Teenage Queen, did not feature photo style graphics but instead went for a highly artistic drawn by artist Jocelyn Valais and featured a look that was very different to the rest of the poker games available at the time. The game was released on the Amiga, Amstrad and a DOS port too, The 90s also saw the Gals Panic series which featured a puzzle style “SO IT WOULD SEEM SEX IN GAMES HAS BEEN AROUND ALMOST AS LONG AS GRAPHICS IN GAMING.” Benton, the game had you typing your way through an adventure that featured adult situations described on the screen in text. No graphics, many of these “games” were nothing more then opportunities to show nakedness and more, we also saw some games that tried to include of game play and resulted in nine sequels. In 1992 and interactive romance by the name of Dokyusei was released and was more of a