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- Subject: Re: cyberpunk at the arcades
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- From: Macbeth@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu (Macbeth)
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:54:08 GMT
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- In article <92328.002601AHACC@ASUACAD.BITNET> <AHACC@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
- >Subject: Re: cyberpunk at the arcades
- >From: <AHACC@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- >Date: Monday, 23 Nov 1992 00:26:01 MST
-
- >Jason says:
- >=========================================================================
- >It's the trend. Look at television and movies. They are steadily
- >heading towards more and more violence (sex, too, I predict pornographic
- >video games within 5 years), and that violence is spilling over
- >=========================================================================
-
- > As several people have mentioned, "pornographic" video games
- >are already here. If the adultish games like Leisure Suit Larry aren't
- >explicit enough, try some of the shareware stuff like Simusex, an
- >early attempt at VR sex. A lot of explicitly sexual elements are
- >already included in many of the arcade games with which we are familiar.
-
- Now, now, now, Simusex is by far NOT VR! Not just because you are supposed
- to get horny while watching stupid animations of a woman performing felatio
- to this "floating" penis, does not mean it is VR. It is this form of usage
- of the word VR (Virtual Reality) which makes it so difficult to explain.
- Now, if someone came out with a method to stimulate your neurons and your
- nerves in such a manner that you can actually "feel" a sexual act, then,
- yes, we could call it VR.
-
- > This, however is far from a new trend. Way, way back, right after
- >the release of the early arcade game pioneers Pong and Space Invaders
- >(of which some of you may have heard ...) a guy in Califoria began
- >marketing a game called "Erogenous Zone." While the distribution of
- >the game was pretty much limited to California and fewer than 200 machines
- >were produced, this was certainly the first foray of explicit sex in
- >the video arcade. The two-player game pitted one person, controlling
- >a fleet of sperm, against an adversary guarding an egg with a tube of
- >spermicide.
- >---
- > -Devlyn Syde
- > <AHACC@ASUACAD>
- > <AHACC@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU>
-
- Not only that, there were various "home-brew" programs with a similar idea.
- For example, a fellow student at the university programmed a game, somewhere
- in the 80s, in Basic which is called "Emission Impossible." The player is a
- little sperm that has to wiggle its way through spermicide infested
- colonies, through the vagina, to the ovum and thus fertilize the egg.
- Although the idea is very "sexually" motivated, it is not an idea that has
- not been used before, for example with games such as Star Gate (1984). Maybe
- we need another Freud to tell us how sexual King's Quest is.
-
- Greetings,
-
- Macbeth
-