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Adult video games
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Adult computer and video games are video games which have significant sexual content (like adult movies), and are therefore intended for an adult audience. There exists a wide variety of adult games, though many lack mainstream appeal and represent a niche category.
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In console gaming, the genre can be seen as early as the Atari 2600, such as Custer's Revenge. In PCs, the genre can be first seen in adult text adventures, and later with graphical adventures, including one of the most recognized and mainstream adult adventure game series, Leisure Suit Larry. Arcade games have received few adult entries in North America.
With CD-ROM and multimedia based games in the 1990s, most adult games featured video clips with limited interactivity. Both pre-rendered and realtime 3D graphics were also used. While most games could be considered nothing more than pornography, some attempted to include actual story and plot. This can be seen in some games with less explicit content, equal to an R or PG-13 rated movie.
Modern console publishers often have policies against depictions of nudity and explicit sexuality, particularly Sony with its PlayStation brand of consoles. Some titles featuring nudity, such as BMX XXX and Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude for the PlayStation 2 were censored, while versions on the Xbox and gamecube were not.
A new generation of adult social games has emerged that bring multiple users together in sexual environments. Examples include Red Light Center, Singles: Flirt Up Your Life and Playboy: The Mansion.
Adult games may take the form of bootlegs, circumventing mainstream publishers who may have policies against such games. Patches or hacks to mainstream non-adult games may add sexual and pornographic themes, mostly for humor, especially when sexuality was never intended in the original game. Examples include the Tomb Raider computer games, and ROM hacks for console emulators.
The Internet has allowed adult games to receive wider availability and recognition, including amateur games in Flash or Java.
Games that use nudity and partial nudity while not being considered adult games include Fear Effect, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, God of War and others that maintain an R or PG-13 level of content. Nudity may be removed in localized versions, such as the Japanese version of God of War. Nudity may be removed for specific systems, such as Sony consoles and handhelds which have an anti-nudity policy.
In Japan, adult games have received greater popularity and appeal, similar to the adult manga and doujinshi market. Games are often heavy on CG artwork or 3D graphics, and all manner of sexual niches have been represented in both mainstream and amateur markets. Many of these titles are in the form of dating sims, and are available for the PC and as DVD games. Some of these titles have been localized by companies such as J-list; not all have been successful, such as Megatech, which went bankrupt in the 90's. A few titles have been unofficially translated.
Console games in Japan have often included partial nudity, or have adult games ported to console systems with nudity and sexual situations removed. These games are popular on console systems known for their graphical capability, including the Sega Saturn and PC-FX, as well as the Sony PlayStation. In arcades, adult games are also more prevalent, especially computer mahjong.
See also: H-game
Due to the small audience for games rated Adults Only, there are few adult video games available. Of the thousands of video games created across all consoles, they account for less than 1% of the market share. Developers consider this fan base, knowing that they will sell more games if they can get a Mature (ESRB) rating. Still fewer "Adults Only" titles are particularly famous. Adult video games seem to sell far better when marketed for personal computers (where such content is closer to the norm, as on, e.g., the internet) than for consoles.
- Miss World '96 Nude
- Miss Mister World '96 Nude
- Boong-Ga Boong-Ga
- Fantasia
- SUPER Lup Lup Puzzle
- Bachelor Party (Atari 2600)
- Beat Em and Eat Em
- Burning Desire
- Custer's Revenge
- Gigolo
- Bubble Bath Babes
- Hot Slots
- Peekaboo Poker
- Strip Fighter 2
- The Yakyuken Special
- Gals Panic series
- AV Girl Mahjong - Import
- Blonde Justice
- Coven
- Endlessly
- Girl Special Janken Ken Po - Import
- Immortal Desires
- Jan Ken Paradise - Import
- Love Bites
- Mind Teazzer
- Neuro Dancer
- Penthouse Interactive: Virtual Photo Shoot Vol. 1 - Import
- Plumbers Don't Wear Ties
- Sex
- Super Models Go Wild
- Super Mahjong P. IV - Import
- Super Nova - Import
- Twinkle Knights - Import
- Virtual Cameraman Part 1 - Import
- Virtual Cameraman Part 2 - Import
- Virtual Cameraman Part 3 - Import
- Virtual Cameraman Part 4 - Import
- Virtual Cameraman Part 5 - Import
- Gals Panic series
- MacFoxes
- MacPlaymate II
- simGangster
- 3D SexVilla
- 3D Slut
- 7 Sins
- Active Dolls
- Airline 69
- All Nude Nikki
- Artificial Girl 1 & 2
- Bikini Karate Babes
- Bliss (game)
- Blue Heat
- Chasing Stacy
- Days Of Oblivion 1 & 2
- Digital Strip Poker
- DreamStripper
- Egirl
- Ghostly Desires
- Ibiz Extreme Beach Soccer
- Ibiz Extreme Beach Volleyball
- Intersexx\xion
- Latex-The Game
- Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
- Lovechess-Greek Era
- Lovechess-Egypt Era
- Lula 3D
- Mojo Master Game
- Penthouse Interactive
- Pornstar 3D
- Playboy-The Mansion
- Private Dancer 3D
- Roger Ramrod
- Sexy Sudoku
- Singles: Flirt up your life
- Singles 2: Triple Trouble
- Snow Drop
- Somavision
- Space Sirens 1 & 2
- Strip Kittens
- Video Strip Poker
- VirtuaGirl 2
- Virtually Jenna
- X-Change
- Wet-The Sexy Empire
- Porn-Pong
- Uuh Aah
- Naughty America: The Game
- Red Light Center
- Second Life