Sexual Culture of the DOS Era

You constantly vote for me to add new games to our server.
The problem is that there's no point in uploading things
that are already abundant on the internet. I specialize in
exceptional and useful items that have at least influenced
global IT culture. Today, I want to talk about games that
almost everyone has forgotten. Yet, these games were
installed on nearly every, if not every, IBM PC I encountered
during the DOS era, from school classrooms to
office spaces. As you might have guessed, I'm referring to
erotic and pornographic games. In the mid-1990s, these games
could rival Doom and Quake in terms of popularity. There
weren't actually as many pornographic and erotic games as
one might think. However, they were popular due to the lack
of access to online pornography. Not everyone had modems to
visit BBS or the Internet. Therefore, the most popular means
of commucation was the standard floppy disk. All these games
available for download in the "Other games" section include:
Centerford Squares, Camm Man, Foreplay, Jo Guest, Lady Love,
Mozaik, Penthouse EJ, Porno Pipe, Porno Tetris, Puzzle X,
Sex Xonix, Sex Tetris, Sexx Puzzle, Sex Simulator, Sokoban
Sex, X Spider, Strip Poker 1-3, Strip Poker CGA, Teresa,
Vida X, and X Rock. There were also games with video files
the size of a CD, but they required a lot of resources, so
they didn't gain widespread popularity. In those times, when
the President of the United States had dozens of mistresses
and the radical left hadn't invented 160 genders and anal
masturbation as a form of protest, such games were part of
the overall conservative heterosexual culture.
Conventionally, these games can be divided into just two
types: logic games and role-playing quests. The logic games
were made quite well, so it cannot be said that they were
poorly written. A few games were the undisputed leaders in
promoting the ideas of heterosexual masturbation. I assure
you, they will be found on any old computer untouched since
the 90s. The most popular was the animated Porno Tetris. It
fit on a floppy disk and could replace a VHS tape of
pornography. Both guys and girls copied it. Its predecessor,
Sex Tetris, was also popular but on 286 computers, and it is
remembered for that. Office spaces at that time were like a
plague, taken over by games like Strip Poker, Sex Xonix, and
Lady Love. Middle management, sex-suppressed by urban
environments and bureaucratic routine, often tried to
undress lascivious ladies on three or four computers
simultaneously to see the coveted hidden delights. I assure
you, the scene was comical. A line of computers with running
Strip Poker, with a company employee yearning for
pornography darting between them like a chess player in the
evenings. To introduce young people to the pleasures of
sexual life, the following role-playing games were created:
Vida X, Teresa, Foreplay, and Sex Simulator. While this
quest's taught the art of arousing a non-frigid woman of
clearly easy virtue, something like Sex Simulator ironically
showed the most popular sexual positions. Ultimately, all of
this utilized CGA/EGA/VGA graphics, which added a certain
inadequate exoticism to these programs. Overall, despite
their limited quantity and graphic quality, these games were
an important element of sexual life in the 90s when access
to pornographic content was difficult. Such games filled the
vacuum, providing users with the opportunity to explore
their sexuality in an interactive multimedia form. And this
was for the first time in history! Logic and role-playing
games like Strip Poker or Sex Simulator not only entertained
but also educated people, creating a space for
experimentation and self-expression. Therefore, I view
erotic and pornographic games for DOS as a cultural
phenomenon that reflects not only individual desires but
also broader sexual trends. These games shaped not just new
norms of digital sexuality; they formed a new porn industry.
Yep! However, they have been forgotten in the process of IT
development, something that self-proclaimed retro bloggers
on YouTube are even unaware of.