One such game had the main character’s goal be to capture and rape an escaping woman. Some eroge went very far in terms of sexual content. You can imagine, though, that as eroge became more popular, they included more nudity and sex, but also incorporated more advanced game features, like roleplaying with a story-telling aspect.Īs some eroge garnered more attention, though, they were were noticed by the Japanese government. The first credited eroge was not intended to be more than an explicit guide for a couple’s sexual relations. In the beginning these games were no more than pixelated images of sexual scenes. As a result, the first eroge was developed for a computer.Įroge at that time were not of a visual novel format as they are today. Rivals in computer hardware competed in the market by making specific software that worked on their own devices. They were first developed on the computer as a way to get ahead in the game of technology. If you already couldn’t tell from the Wikipedia definition or the title, “eroge” refers to games containing explicit sexual content. They’re definitely related to each other, and eroge came first, so I’ll speak about it first. Not playing eroge but they look suspiciousīelieve it or not, while I was researching these other games, I traced their history back and compared timelines.
