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Punch

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The Local Girls of PCEFX.com
« on: June 24, 2016, 12:39:17 PM »
I honestly still don't believe these were actually available in any form during the 90's. These games, I mean:



This is nuts. Assuming they aren't just CD+G discs, I cannot believe that a company went to the trouble of reverse engineering TTi games to do a bait and switch scam (lol $89 for a poor slideshow). Maybe someone leaked the documentation to them? Wasn't manufacturing Duo discs complicated (in the HU7 docs it mentions HD arrays as a disk emulator and mastering via magnetic tapes)?

Who is Excite Software Corp.? A mail-order only company (where did they advertise)? A TTi employee trying to earn extra on the side? Someone with too much time on his hands?

It honestly feels like this is a proto-homebrew that was made post 1995, but I'll let the older members answer my questions.

SignOfZeta

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« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2016, 12:44:21 PM »
Not CD-Gs. Not fake. And, if you compare to other porn software, not expensive either.


How they actually got made is something I'm very interested in myself too though.

Joe Redifer

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« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2016, 03:09:23 PM »
Why is Bikini Girls way more expensive? The girls on the other two games are also in bikinis.

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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2016, 02:16:26 AM »
Who was this product for? I looked up a play through if you can call it that. Pretty sure prono tapes would have been much cheaper. I would love to find out the history of these "games",  but I'm sure they were made by a fly by night company.

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The Local Girls of PCEFX.com
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2016, 02:58:58 AM »
Who was this product for? I looked up a play through if you can call it that. Pretty sure prono tapes would have been much cheaper. I would love to find out the history of these "games",  but I'm sure they were made by a fly by night company.

This is what I have been wondering since I first learned they existed (late 90's).

I understand lo-fi computer porn (digitized photos)... it is convenient. Even if it was lo-fi.

But... were the DUO titles targeted at desperate, horny DUO owners who had no confidence and were quintessential dorks?

:)

Yup, they were targeting ALL TurboGrafx-CD and DUO owners.
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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2016, 07:02:31 AM »
I'm glad I didn't have a duo back then other wise this would have been another drunken titty mistake.

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« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2016, 07:30:36 AM »
I think the cost over a porno tape is due to the novelty aspect of playing a nudie video game.  This added a premium, for what was essentially access to something relatively new at the time.  I remember playing strip poker and Stroker on my friend's dad's computer and being entertained for hours.

You also have to remember that access to porn pre-2000 was entirely different.  Since it is hard to turn your head in any direction in 2016 without seeing a cum shot, you have to remember it wasn't always that way.  Even as recently as the mid 90s I remember being a middle schooler on a hunt for good porn.  Everyone had that friend who had a dad with magazines or videos, or would secretly watch late night Cinemax, or scrambled Spice Network.  Those were the days.

SignOfZeta

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« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2016, 02:58:01 PM »
A CD-ROM full of porn for $100 was not uncommon back then. Porno VHS was cheap as hell ($7-30 per tape during that time) but you do have to consider that there was a time when people actually paid for software. Many PC CDROMs had pricing like this.

As to the origin...this is a wild theory, but these are all Hawaii. Hawaii is the halfway point between the US and Japan (more or less). It seems possible that the programming "skill" could have come from either direction.

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« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2016, 04:08:40 PM »
How much did those porno 3DO titles sell for when they came out? I only ever saw them (and computer porn discs) in news segments in TV.
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« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2016, 07:19:39 PM »
My real problem with it is the fact that they are literally just slideshows. No dialogue options or any interactivity. It kinda defeats the whole point of it. How often do copies of these games come up for sale nowadays? I'd never heard of these before now.

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« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2016, 11:55:52 PM »
My real problem with it is the fact that they are literally just slideshows. No dialogue options or any interactivity. It kinda defeats the whole point of it. How often do copies of these games come up for sale nowadays? I'd never heard of these before now.

Raison D'être:
An automatic slideshow is perfect when you are aggressively manipulating your joystick.




Alternate Universe:
I agree—if these titles were actually digital comics/interactive entertainment, then they would be far more interesting. Sure, the novelty value may wear thin quickly, but it wouldn't be nearly as boring as a slideshow.

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Re: The Local Girls of PCEFX.com
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2016, 12:09:07 AM »



Why is the last one $150?

Are any of the pictures recycled/reused across all three titles?

Do we have any confirmed testimonies of these titles actually being sold in retail shops?

I don't remember ever seeing these titles, ever. Mail-order/retail...never saw them, ever.


THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
Would a retail chain (like, say, Software Etc.) have carried a title like this? Present evidence for and against.

No way ToysRUs and kindred chains would carry this title.




DISCLAIMER: Now, I don't actually think that some enigmatic, rinky-dink publisher like Excite Software would actually be in a position to get its product into national chains...but it is fun to think about the policies of these chains.
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SignOfZeta

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« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2016, 01:23:58 AM »
Yeah, I can't remember when I first heard of these, probably on this forum. However that's true of a lot of things.

Did TZD sell them? I can't remember. I had all the catalogs mailed to me back in the day.

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« Reply #13 on: June 26, 2016, 05:48:10 AM »
Another thought, is most of this stuff is pretty softcore compared to what's available online today. You're essentially looking at 240p GIF images of babes, with pixellation due to the limited pallet. I imagine much of it would be bikini shots, possibly bare chest shots if you're really lucky. Compared to actual games like Strip Fighter, where there is reward for playing, you're just looking at non-explicit softcore nudity or possibly even tamer PG-13 shots of woment in bikinis, at much lower resolution than say you would find in a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. With instant HD gratification for free on the internet, I imagine it would be hard to get off to any of it, and just watching a slide show would IMO be boring. I bet anyone buying this today as a collector would probably put it in their Duo, watch it one time, be like "Mmmm-kayy..." and take the disc out to place on a shelf, never to be inserted again.

I own a number of "adult" oriented video games, Beat Em and Custer's for Atari, and a repro with all three Panesian titles on NES, as well as Famicom Soap Panic and AV Pachinko from Hacker International. I've also got a sealed Strip Fighter II on the way; can't wait to pop the shrink wrap on it. To me the allure of "adult" titles for retro systems is the sheer cheesiness of the gameplay as well as the pixellated graphics in the money shots. It can be quite comical, especially to imagine that some poor kid, or kid's parent somewhere in some place in time actually tried to fap holding a joystick in one hand and a manstick in the other.

Sitting through a borderline PG-13 to softcore slide show would do nothing for me. In fact it would not surprise me to learn that a recent mainstream flick like DeadPool had more tit shots in it than these vintage slideshows. No comic relief of crudely drawn strippers during gameplay intermission because there is no gameplay. In fact crudely drawn 8-bit pr0n is far more hilareous than 16-bit digitized photos of real centerfolds simply because how non-erotic it is. So realism in 16-bit or 32-bit CD systems won't have the same effect. With palletization and low 240p resolution, it really hits a low point in the uncanny valley.
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Re: The Local Girls of PCEFX.com
« Reply #14 on: June 26, 2016, 06:49:21 AM »
Speak for yourself. Strip Fighter II is absolute boner Kryptonite for me personally. Anti-erotic. It would be like jerking off to episodes of Super Jail.

"How hard it gets my dick" was probably not the issue to begin with. At this point in time you could buy porn depicting anything imaginable on (tens of thousands of) VHS and also some LD, stuff taped off cable, etc. Maybe it's just for people who like to see ladies in bikinis in their Duo. A couple of years ago I bought a karaoke CD from one of my favorite rap groups, Doomtree, just because I wanted to see shitty graphics of them on my Duo even though I've see them live, as a group or individually, probably 20 times.