It started out with complaints over the violence but with the GTA: San Andreas “Hot Coffee” mod the cries for the game to be banned reached fever pitch. Most recently the GTA series has been the main target of moral outrage. The more recent efforts have included nudity but it is cartoon style and the poor quality of the game is more worthy of vitriol than the nudity is. The Leisure Suit Larry series always springs to mind but the early releases there were actually free of nudity, they just suggested it a lot. Sexy games have traditionally been pretty rotten. It came on around 100 CD ROMs and allowed you to steer your way through a series of cut scenes with the odd saucy scene thrown in. Then there was the age of the video footage (Full Motion Video or FMV) games like Phantasmagoria. They would often use an actual photo and slowly reveal the nude model beneath if you won at cards. The first games to feature proper nudity were Strip Poker simulators. Both those games quite rightly took more flack for their violent content and racism than they did for the nudity. Looking back at games like Custer’s Revenge or the ridiculous Chiller now, the blocky pink nude bodies are laughably crude. There have been games with nudity since the beginning but it was so crudely done and so rare that it escaped much attention.
It is only relatively recently that developers have been able to include nudity and sex that bears any relation to the real thing in their games but it is still incredibly tame when compared to TV or movie sex.
Whenever it does pop up there are scores of ignorant detractors trying to drum up support for censorship. While violence has always been prevalent in games, sex and nudity has been relatively rare. Nowadays it seems the videogames industry is top of their hit list.
They decried the violence and sex and questioned the impact it might have on impressionable youth. For a long time moral crusaders expressed horror at various movies.
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