What It Is: Hold your horses: the raciest thing about
Softporn Adventure is probably its cover--though it warns players that it's for
adults only, the game is probably a PG-13 at best. Nevertheless, bootleg copies
spread like wildfire, and the 1981 Apple II text adventure game challenging a
loser to seduce three women became a major hit. According to On-Line Systems
(later known as Sierra) founder Ken Williams, the game sold 25,000 copies. To
put it in perspective, Apple had sold 100,000 Apple II computers by the time
the game came out--that would be like an easily bootlegged Xbox 360 game
selling 10 million copies today. You can play it for free here.
Why It Is Neato: According to a 1981 interview with Time magazine, On-Line supposedly had a
version for straight women in development.
Why Else It Is Neato: If the text-based game
seems familiar, you might be a Leisure Suit Larry fan. Yep, the first ever
Larry game, Leisure Suit Larry in the
Land of the Lounge Lizards, is basically a complete copy of Softporn Adventure with added graphics.
Maitopurkki - Fri. Jul. 16, 2010 at 08:20:03 AM
No love for 16-bit awesomeness?
What about games like Chrono Trigger? Secret of Mana? Super Metroid?
Gamebyte.com - Thu. Jul. 15, 2010 at 03:20:38 PM
False
The game is good, I'll give it that. And probably from the years 1990-2000, it was the omst played, and best game for that time period. But when people get on and still talk mad crap in that game, you gotta give them a reality check. "Come on dude, play me a game that's come out within this decade, and then we'll talk." No offense, but when anyone with an onboard 16 MB video card can play it, you know it's not graphic-heavy. Gameplay wise, it was fun, and I've spent thousands of hours probably playing it. But in this day and age, it's just not that good anymore. Today, as games are measured by graphics and gameplay, that ranks very low in both categories. The reason it's still around, and the reason I still have it installed on a couple desktops from around the year 2000, is because, like I said, you don't even have to have a graphics card to play the game. And in that case, I'd almost rather play Combat Arms, which is way more customizable, as well as deeper gameplay. You can only keep a game alive so long. Maybe, CS and the other games in it's "package," at the time (Team Fortress, Deathmatch, Day of Defeat), would make it the best SERIES of all time (probably only the Call of Duty series rivals it), but I don't think CS gets the title "Best Game of All Time"
Murat Dikici - Thu. Jul. 15, 2010 at 05:47:08 AM
Nice idea
Haha, it is a nice idea. It is a real life game huh :)
Niloy Pervin - Wed. Jun. 30, 2010 at 03:57:23 PM
No God of War?
Why wasn't any of the God of War games on this list?
erbkaiser - Mon. Jun. 7, 2010 at 06:06:13 AM
Dune II - House Ordos /is/ by Herbert
"Sorely missed developer Westwood Studios took a risk by breaking Frank Herbert's Duneiverse canon." -- not completely, since House Ordos was taken from the Herbert-penned 'Dune Encyclopedia'. Westwood placed them on Arrakis though, and used the wrong crest. And Herbet later disowned the Encyclopedia.
Thomas Harrison - Tue. May. 25, 2010 at 07:02:54 AM
Back in college (when i was cool)
We used to call this game Bar Fight: The Video Game. Most of the enemies deployed on the screen from a single door or hatch. All you really had to do was jump them as they were coming out the door and never let them get a hit in. See? Just like a real bar fight.