Sex: Atari Porn Games

Sex: Atari Porn Games

The main adult game developer for Atari was Mystique, a spinoff of an American film pornographer. Mystique released a number of porn games for the system in 1982. The games were all labeled as "Swedish Erotica" but this was just marketing -- they were home grown here in the USA. The games were sold as adult entertainment, not as games, and would only have been available at adult specialty shops, video stores, and the like. Each box sported an all-caps warning: "NOT FOR SALE TO MINORS."

The best known title is certainly Custer's Revenge, because it was also the most offensive. In the game, the player pilots a naked "Custer" with cowboy hat and enormous, erect penis across a field of flying arrows in order to rape a Native American woman tied to a post. There's not much more to say about this one.