We all remember the days when video games came on cartridges and the characters were little sprites. Well, most of us thirty and older do. Before the full motion video days of Night Trap and the polygon renderings of Cybermorph on the Atari Jaguar, little Mario (Super Mario Bros), Simon (Castlevania), and Ryu (Ninja Gaiden) strutted their stuff in all their pixelated glory. Barely recognizeable as human, these characters were often rendered as maybe two or three separate images which were rapidly rotated to give the illusion of movement.

Nowadays, with the glorious offerings from Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft, all of which have mammoth computing power and games built into discs with multiple gigabytes of storage, if you want sex, it isn’t hard to find. Right there, in full 3-dimensional glory. DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball is a good example. There are others more risque, dating back to the early days of FMV, but I’d like to point you all to an article that pays homage to the pioneers of sex in video games.

Sexual Moments in Video Game History, from i-mockery.