In some of the early erotic games, the erotic content is meaningfully integrated into a thoughtful and mature storyline, though others often used it as simply an excuse for pornography. Early eroge usually had simplistic stories and extreme sexual content, such as rape and lolicon.

Like with Koei, several other now-famous Japanese companies such as Enix, Square and Nihon Falcom also released erotic adult games for the PC-8801 computer in the early 1980s before they became mainstream. On the other hand, some writers, like Naoki Miyamoto, considered the Yakyūken (1981) produced for Sharp MZ computers by Hudson Soft to be the first Japanese adult game.

It became a hit, helping Koei become a major software company. That same year, Koei released another erotic title, Danchi Tsuma no Yuwaku ( Seduction of the Condominium Wife), which was an early role-playing adventure game with colour graphics, owing to the eight-color palette of the NEC PC-8001 computer. In 1982, Japan's Koei, founded by husband-and-wife team Yoichi and Keiko Erikawa (and later known for strategy video games), released the first erotic computer game with sexually explicit graphics, Night Life, an early graphic adventure game for the NEC PC-8801. ( March 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īn eroge ( エロゲ or エロゲー, erogē pronounced a portmanteau of erotic game エロチックゲーム, erochikku gēmu) is a Japanese genre of erotic video game. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.

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