I remember when I first started playing video games again after a long hiatus. That was in the PS2 days, and one of those games was God of War. I was shocked that in addition to allowing increasingly ridiculous amounts of ultra violence into gaming, it was now apparently OK to also whip out titties.

It's understandable. My generation was one of the first to grow up with video games, and now that they're all adults they deal with more adult themes. That's why you can't have a crime drama, hack and slash, or science fiction adventure without a strip club or prostitution minigame these days.

Actually, as it turns out, if I'd wanted to see gratuitous sex in video games, my real problem was I should have been born earlier. Way, way earlier.

Lover Boy In 1983 there was a company named Global Corporation Tokyo and they made a single arcade game called Lover Boy. It's essentially a Pac-Man clone, but instead of an anthropomorphic circle with a taste for ectoplasm you play a nude rapist armed only with a fedora and an impressive boner. Your job is to wander the maze chasing four girls who will scream "Help me!" when you get close and avoided being caught by the policeman or the dog.

If you manage to catch the girls, you are treated to a scene like the one above where you are supposed to rape so good that she enjoys it and doesn't want to get away. What little information that can be found of this game points to it probably being the sort of thing you'd find in an adult bookstore, and thankfully not a regular arcade. Still, it's sort of impressive that it accurately predicted both Rapelay and terrible men in fedoras 30 years early.

Gigolo People say that game developers don't reach out enough to women, and that just ignores a lot of history. Consider Playaround, who took over making horny Atari 2600 games from Mystique. Playaround said, "By God, we're making terrible games that objectify women in a highly sexualized manner and that is unfair. It must be stopped!"

Their solution? For every game that had a male protagonist they made a port with a different name starring a female antagonist. That's right, a cheap porn peddler beat Mass Effect to the punch.

Of course, in the case the punch is games like Gigolo. It's a memory game where you watch men go into different houses, and then if you enter the right house you get several seconds of cowgirl action. For this you make money. If you wanted to play a guy, the game was called Cat House Blues, but regardless you were looking at a kind of true, if terrible equality in gaming the likes of which is rarely seen in the supposedly more enlightened times.

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