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In my family, our first computer was a 386, and I wasn't allowed to touch it. Only memory I have of that one is watching mom play Space Quest II and King's Quest III in glorious green monochrome.
A friend of my moms set up our second computer. A 25 mhz 486 sx with 4MB of ram and a 400 MB hard drive. She offloaded a decent haul of copied games onto it for us which kept me entertained for quite some time. One of those games was Wolfenstein 3D. Not an "adult" game, persay, but my mom's friend didn't realize she had installed a modded version of it. It was a surprise to discover nude women behind bars and some rooms having a seamless looping wallpaper of cocks in asses. My parents deleted that one, but ended up allowing me to play Leisure Suit Larry 1 a bit later. I think they thought the questions at the beginning would keep me out. They didn't.
LSL might have been my first adult game, but I don't count LSL games as "adult", or pornographic. Based strictly on the content, they're PG-13 at best. "Crude" might be the word, but they're not porn. The one real sex scene in the game has a big bouncing CENSORED bar over it.
Once the library in town got dial-up Internet and computers to access it, I was there with a stack of floppies to access Home of the Underdogs and other similar sites. It was this way that I discovered my first genuinely adult game,
Keep in mind, I had no concept of what "hentai" was at this point. Sure, there was porn. I found plenty of that in my parent's closet in a box my dad had tucked away on the upper shelf. Duke Nukem 3D had some fascinating animations, like strippers with nipple tassels, and a geisha that flashed her tits when you gave her money. Hell, I barely knew what anime was. I had a VHS tape of Little Nemo that I used to watch when I was younger, and my little sister liked Kiki's delivery service. Mentally though these were slotted into the same mental space as any other cartoon. "Anime" was not an important distinction to me at the time.
I didn't know what I was getting into with True Love. I just knew there would be naked involved, and that was something I was interested in. I found I actually enjoyed reading through the story, even when hours could pass without seeing so much as a nipple. In the past I liked reading anyway, and I enjoyed Choose Your Own Adventure books. This was like an illustrated CYOA book with tits and pussy. I was a happy kid for sure.
Of course True Love sparked a hunger for more. Before long I also got Three Sisters Story, GLORIA, Nocturnal Illusion, Runaway City, Paradise Heights, and Season of Sakura. A few other games like Queen of Tenshindo and Marble Cooking were interesting, but couldn't hold my attention for very long, the former being a simple Rock Paper Scissors game and the latter a simple block pushing puzzle.
I found some western adult games too, but these were almost universally terrible featuring 256 color images of porn stars tucked behind a poorly implemented strip poker game or awful and boring "Sex simulation". To me the Japanese were masters of the craft of pornographic gaming, while the only people in the west attempting it were the efforts of horny amateurs in their basements. Exceptions would include a few works of interactive fiction, of which I've read some good ones.
So that's how my descent into degeneracy started. A handful of 3.5" floppy disks and a single-minded desire to see some drawn puss.
A friend of my moms set up our second computer. A 25 mhz 486 sx with 4MB of ram and a 400 MB hard drive. She offloaded a decent haul of copied games onto it for us which kept me entertained for quite some time. One of those games was Wolfenstein 3D. Not an "adult" game, persay, but my mom's friend didn't realize she had installed a modded version of it. It was a surprise to discover nude women behind bars and some rooms having a seamless looping wallpaper of cocks in asses. My parents deleted that one, but ended up allowing me to play Leisure Suit Larry 1 a bit later. I think they thought the questions at the beginning would keep me out. They didn't.
LSL might have been my first adult game, but I don't count LSL games as "adult", or pornographic. Based strictly on the content, they're PG-13 at best. "Crude" might be the word, but they're not porn. The one real sex scene in the game has a big bouncing CENSORED bar over it.
Once the library in town got dial-up Internet and computers to access it, I was there with a stack of floppies to access Home of the Underdogs and other similar sites. It was this way that I discovered my first genuinely adult game,
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. It was too big to fit on a floppy, and for this kind of game I had taken to using PKZip to split the file into multiple, smaller files so I could spread it out across multiple floppies. I felt like I was getting away with a serious crime downloading this game. I remember looking over my shoulder constantly in case the librarian came around while the file downloaded. I managed though, and got on my bike to pedal my new treasure home.Keep in mind, I had no concept of what "hentai" was at this point. Sure, there was porn. I found plenty of that in my parent's closet in a box my dad had tucked away on the upper shelf. Duke Nukem 3D had some fascinating animations, like strippers with nipple tassels, and a geisha that flashed her tits when you gave her money. Hell, I barely knew what anime was. I had a VHS tape of Little Nemo that I used to watch when I was younger, and my little sister liked Kiki's delivery service. Mentally though these were slotted into the same mental space as any other cartoon. "Anime" was not an important distinction to me at the time.
I didn't know what I was getting into with True Love. I just knew there would be naked involved, and that was something I was interested in. I found I actually enjoyed reading through the story, even when hours could pass without seeing so much as a nipple. In the past I liked reading anyway, and I enjoyed Choose Your Own Adventure books. This was like an illustrated CYOA book with tits and pussy. I was a happy kid for sure.
Of course True Love sparked a hunger for more. Before long I also got Three Sisters Story, GLORIA, Nocturnal Illusion, Runaway City, Paradise Heights, and Season of Sakura. A few other games like Queen of Tenshindo and Marble Cooking were interesting, but couldn't hold my attention for very long, the former being a simple Rock Paper Scissors game and the latter a simple block pushing puzzle.
I found some western adult games too, but these were almost universally terrible featuring 256 color images of porn stars tucked behind a poorly implemented strip poker game or awful and boring "Sex simulation". To me the Japanese were masters of the craft of pornographic gaming, while the only people in the west attempting it were the efforts of horny amateurs in their basements. Exceptions would include a few works of interactive fiction, of which I've read some good ones.
So that's how my descent into degeneracy started. A handful of 3.5" floppy disks and a single-minded desire to see some drawn puss.
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