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Comment by kjaftaedi | Hacker News Reader

Pretty much every computer magazine from the mid-late 80s onward had lewd software ads in the back.

Alas, I was too young to cleverly find a way to purchase these without my parents finding out, and was never able to locate a BBS that hosted this type of content.

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My uncle had Leisure Suit Larry on his computer and I remember playing it simply for the fun of the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry

As long as you were able to get Larry a "date". It gets a little dark if you don't...

I remember Quest for Glory 2 from Sierra Games had a sequence where you could purchase X-Ray glasses and you could wear them to see Zayishah, one of the central characters, naked in the game (rather pixelated it must be said).

IIRC Larry didn't get much more than a mildly risque hot tub shot and some heavily censored humping. Didn't it have a black bar that bounced up and down or something like that? It was a comedy game first and porn game a distant second.

Yeah it was pretty bland in that way.

The scene at the end was a little bit better but not much.

I remember getting kicked out of Leisure Suit Larry because it asked "age verification" questions in a time before I could just use Google.

https://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.ht...

"Ken sent me"

I had not thought about these ads in forever, but when I saw the ad in the article I had a somewhat Pavlovian response.

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