| Leather Goddesses Of Phobos | Steve Meretzky / Infocom | 1986 | |
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This first comic "adult" adventure from Infocom was billed as being "a racy, space age spoof with 'scratch n sniff ' clues, for adults!" It can be played in 3 different modes, from 'tame' to 'lewd' (you have to type in your age when you select one) but, by today's standards, it's not very lewd at all, just very funny. You can also choose the gender of your character, and the descriptions of your 'activities' later in the game will vary accordingly. As the game begins, you find yourself in a grimy neon-laden bar, the social hub of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Suddenly you see a flash of brilliant green light, and then some slimy tentacled aliens appear and grab you, and you faint. You awaken exactly 7.3 hours later, to find yourself wearing a brass loincloth and lying in a large cell with a soft, cushiony floor. When you eventually do get out, you discover to your horror that you have actually been abducted by a race of leather-clad Amazon women from the Martian Moon of Phobos, for a few more 'tests' before they finalize their plans to invade and sexually enslave all of Earth. Full of suggestive sexual innuendos (Mae West style) and outrageous humor (try everything: the answers you receive are hysterical), this bawdy but harmless game is a delight to play and sure to bring a smile to your face. You will travel from Phobos (using a very cool teleportation device) to the Martian desert, the jungles of Venus, and even Cleveland, doing such things along the way as evading a man-eating Venus flytrap, steering a barge down a Martian canal to the ice-capped southern Hemisphere, getting turned into a gorilla, and spending an hour in a Sultan's harem with one of his wives. A Solid Gold edition released in 1988 included Infocom's "InvisiClues" hints as an in-game feature, the game engine ("Z machine") was updated to version 5 (which features a more versatile parser), and most bugs squashed. | ||
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