Flash websites made porn gaming more prominent than it ever had been in the West. That started changing a bit at the turn of the millennium.
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Because these titles were direct-order software, they could be released on PC without being rated by the ESRB – just not consoles, which have historically stayed away from adult titles. Smaller games were often distributed through direct order in adult magazines, and were largely variations on pre-existing games like strip poker or Tetris. FMV titles like Voyeur attempted to toe the line, offering taboo subjects like incest and BDSM up, but showed nothing in the way of explicit sex and nudity. Point being, sex was often a surefire way to earn that dreaded AO writing, and most games avoided it. (So… it’s fine to blow someone’s head off, but not having your “head” blown off? Weird.) Bloody brutality was fine, but showing a boob? A butt? A – gasp – vagina?! That was enough to get your game slapped with an “AO” (Adults Only) rating, meaning that it couldn’t be sold at any retailer. Regardless, the outcome of ugly legal battles, increased regulation of video games, and the creation of a strictly enforced rating system was that developers were scared of what they could and couldn’t do. Blood and guts that caused outrage just look like MS Paint splatters now, and even the most “extreme” FMV titles don’t even pass the late night “Skin-e-max” sniff test. The games that were causing all this controversy look, ironically, like kids’ stuff today.
Of course, looking back on it now, this was an extreme reaction. Newspapers and cable news outlets alike proclaimed, from mount on high, that games were going to corrupt an entire generation and lead to widespread moral degeneracy. You see, between a little fighting game that rhymes with “Portal Wombat” and a cheesy FMV (Full Motion Video) title that sounds like “Fright Rap,” American politicians were scared that video games were going to make children commit crimes, steal from their parents, and worship Satan.
That isn’t to say we didn’t get any – it’s just that the American government made it much harder for aspiring devs to “get to the good stuff,” so to speak, in the early ‘90s. While Japanese audiences got to bask in the glory of the ‘80s and ‘90s eroge boom, Western porn fans were left high and dry for many, many years. But while we covered a lot of ground overseas, we didn’t spend much time elsewhere! Last time, we walked you through the history of porn games in Japan – how they came to be, their rise to fame, and how they reshaped anime culture for good.
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