If you’re old enough to remember the early days of PC gaming, you won’t have missed the ubiquitous magazine advertising for “sexy” games like the notorious Custer’s Revenge, even if you never played them (as most did not). Recently PC Magazine ran a game-by-game retrospective on some of those titles, along with some interesting history:

Many of these explicit titles were developed by Mystique, an offshoot of porn film studio, Caballero Control Corporation. In Mystique’s two-or-so years of existence, it published several “X-rated” games under the “Swedish Erotica” banner (though the titles were all created in the U.S.). As the completely predictable (and surely sought-after) furor erupted, Atari ended up suing Mystique to block the production of its digital debauchery.

But then came the video game crash of 1983 and Mystique went under. The games, however, enjoyed a few additional years of novelty existence when the rights were purchased by a new company, Playaround, which also created gender-switched versions of the original Mystique titles.

Are the games any good? Eh, not really. And while the basic blocky graphics of the era were a natural barrier to anything being too explicit, some of the concepts are just downright gross, even by the standards of today’s porn-on-demand culture.

Youngsters these days, they don’t know how good they got it…

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