Softporn Adventure
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Softporn Adventure was a comedic, adult-oriented text adventure game produced for the Apple II in 1981. The game was created by Chuck Benton and released by Sierra On-Line. It was ported to MS-DOS for the PC in 1991. It has also been converted to Z-code and can thus be played on a Z-Machine emulator; such emulators are available for just about every platform.
In the game, the player (playing a down-on-his-luck party animal) is required to obtain certain items that will allow him to win the affections of a series of beautiful (and sometimes not-so-beautiful) women.
Although tame even by 1980s standards, the game was nonetheless controversial for its racy content, and it was also widely bootlegged and distributed among high schoolers.
Years later, Softporn Adventure inspired the Leisure Suit Larry series of adult-oriented videogames, and the first entry in that series, 1987's Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, was a nearly direct graphical adaptation of Softporn Adventure.
[edit] Trivia
- This is the only game Sierra Entertainment has published that does not have graphics.
- The photo accompanying TIME’s first-ever story on computer games was of the Softporn Adventure game box.
- The cover of Softporn included a photo of Kings Quest creator Roberta Williams in a hot-tub apparently nude. However, when the game was included in the Leisure Suit Larry collection, "Greatest Hits and Misses" the photo of the cover had Larry creator Al Lowe's head superimposed over Williams'.
- The game was ported over to the IBM PC version in 1991 by designer Gary Thompson.
